Thanks Keming for having so much faith in me till this day; it's very touching to hear that. I'm flattened when you mentioned to me that I am the only friend you envisioned to be a PhD holder. I may disappoint you eventually as this dream may not be realized due to factors of life. Throughout the years, I realized that I prefer to "wow" at others' discoveries rather than doing it myself.

Dr. Lu told us a lame joke over Bioorganic Chemistry class yesterday evening. He said duing SNIC conference last december, a french prof. said that chemists are the most hardworking people. He gave the scenario of a chemist, a lawyer and an accountant going for hike and got lost in the forest. They met this genie and they were asked whether they'll like to have a mistress or a wife? The accountant said he wants a mistress and the lawyer said he wanted a wife. The chemist wanted both. The reason being, if he has both, he can tell his wife that he is meeting his mistress and his mistress that he is meeting his wife; this allows him to sneak back to the lab to work o_O

Kinda pissed off today. First it was Prof. Hor's secretary who made it sound like he is really doing me a super favour by helping me to write the reference letter and asked me not to bug her too often as she claimed that she and Prof. Hor are already in the loop of this issue. She said that he was very busy and I am not the only one asking him to write. Yah right; when they need help, who is the one helping them?

This was followed by Bioinorganic lecture. Dr. John is kinda bias against Organic and kept joking and insulting the field. He even when on by saying that 90% of organic chemistry nothing but by electrophile interacting with nucleophile. He challenged to find him an example of an electrophile attacking each other. I felt like telling him that Inorganic Chemistry is nothing but a series of unrelated reactions that contain exceptions more than the norm.