time for some life (or live, whichever you prefer; both are true) updates

today i went to the national taiwan university in a feeble attempt to add some substance to my gray matter. waking up at 6:45 in the cold (more about the cold later) winter's morning was not exactly my favorite way to begin a week. meeting up with my guy cousin for the first time in 4 years tho, was. =D for the first time in my short span of life i got to ride on the back of a bicycle - if you could call balancing on the two metal rungs riding, that is.

first lesson of the day saw me sitting for 15 minutes in an empty classroom, save another guy who sought elysium in room 504 with all his chemistry textbooks. realizing that no one else would be entering the classroom, i decided to scoot over to the library for some way to kill time. and that scooting over nearly had me killed.

for one thing, the weather was bloody cold. and before you all dismiss my 'cold' for something terribly lukewarm, believe me, it was COLD. 7 degrees IS cold. and it is even colder considering that i wasn't well-clothed, so to speak. so dragging my chattering jaw and spasmodically shivering body over the 400km unsheltered walkway was pure, undisputed hell. i literally looked like this when i got to the library. -> =S

fortunately i was able to catch the 2nd lesson of the day => statistical analysis. i had absolutely no inkling of what the ancient lecturer was going on and on about. all those funny E signs and what have you. BUT i must say that i felt pretty proud, being able to translate EVERYTHING he said into english.

and for the second half of the day, things got interesting. we had histology lesson, and today's peachy topic was HISTOLOGY OF THE MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM. unfortunately, when you do histology, nothing get's vaguely romantic or erotic, because they strip everything down to enzymes, and as far as i know, enzymes aren't especially sexy or charming molecules. and i found out today that the real difference in males and females lay in the 'few extra enzymes' that separates testosterone production and estrogen production. now that makes existence a whole lot more mundane, don't you think?

the lecturer made everything so funny though, and if i was given the chance, i would have signed up for histology IMMEDIATELY. no second thoughts. plus, although the lesson was conducted in mandarin, the textbook was ENGLISH. (and so are the exams, i am told) and while people around me were busy trying to figure out what in the world was 'epidydermis' and 'vas deferens', i was happily scribbling pages of notes that i thought made me look very knowledgeable. =) AND we learnt meitosis and meiosis too! hehehe and guess what? i know everything (everything taught today, that is) wahahahahaha.

okie dokies, i probably shouldn't write anymore because this is starting to sound like a very lousy post =)

i really wanna talk about the rum pa pa pum though, but i guess that will have to wait. and the rum pa pa pum is going to be really interesting - i promise.

that's all for now then.

time to take a deep breath.