Had my first Natural Product Chemistry tutorial yesterday. It was kinda crappy; for the first part, Prof. Harrison gave us 6 natural products and asked if they obey the isoprene rules. For the second part, he gave us the following:
Moral of the story: Arrow pushing is important in organic chemistry. If you have the fundamentals and intuition, you will not have much problems with all areas related to organic chemistry.

The rest of the day was spent completing my Honours proposal and went to NUH High School to let Prof. Lai vet it. He was kinda busy and so I just left it there and called him in the evening to see if it's ok. He told me it's ok and go ahead with the experimental work. Let's pray that my ideas can work and the stuff I made will show some promoising luminescence property.

MOE replied me and told me to ahead with Graduate School application first. Whether they will approve the 2 years Masters I intend to pursue will be on a case to case basis. I guess they are result oriented and this will mean I have to do well in my Honours year.

Prof. Wu replied my email and he sounded pretty positive in wanting to accept me into his group. At the end of the day, MOE may not want to release me for graduate studies. Well, that'll be a year later and just hope that things will turn out well.

I received a surprising email this morning from Dr. Toh and he asked me whether I'll like to give a presentation for the upcoming Science Faculty Open House on 110306 and 120306. It'll be half an hour and I'm suppose to talk about my SEP, UROPS and Honours experience o_O *stress* I'll look for him next week for more details.

My HK room mate Bronze had a pretty long chat with me online 2 nights ago. He told me that he was forced to move out of our room because my original room mate swooped room with another person from another hall. Bronze was kinda pissed off and he moved into a room which smells of mothballs. He's allergic to it due to G6PD deficiency; in the end, he managed to change to another room and he has to use the dettol I left behind to clean it up for 3 times! Poor Bronze.