I passed my NMR test this afternoon! Hmm this means I'll be able to use the NMR machine from tomorrow onwards. This is pretty exciting as I have always been wanted to run NMR on my own, instead of troubling my postgraduates.

I guess last weekend and the beginning of this week has been an interesting period for both Emily and I as we brought Alice and her mom around Singapore. It's interesting to bring our foreign friends around Singapore and even happier to see that they enjoyed the trip and liked the clean and green feature of our country.

Both of them arrive in the late afternoon on Sunday; Zhijie, Emily and I went to fetch them from the airport and brought them to YWCA where they will be staying for the next few days.

Dinner was at Lau Pat Sat and we had a wonderful spread of local food which includes nasi brani, satay, bbq stingray, po pia, roti prata etc.

For the next few days, we brought them around Singapore to visit some great attractions which include the Night Safari, Fort Canning Park, Singapore River, Chinatown, Orchard Road, Esplanade, Merlion etc. In addition, Alice also visited Biopolis and NUS; she added quite a couple of books to her collections too.

We hope they have enjoyed themselves for the past 4 days and we have enjoyed ourselves too. Singapore is a mere 3.5 hours flight away from HK and we can visit one another so long as time permits. So when will be the next time we catch up again? In Singapore or HK or when the burly hurly's done? :p The last thingy was wrote in just to make it sounds like Macbeth.