Block N

moving seemed to have always been a part of my life;
from a convent primary school, i moved to a more prestigious secondary school located in the heart of kl.
from new zealand in my first year undergrad, i moved to melbourne to complete my engineering course.
from a material engineer who sat on the first floor of bulding 8 in Agilent, i took up the process engineer role and moved office to the second floor.

..just as i thought how much i hated the hassle of moving, i need to move again.
the uni decided to build a new building for us engineering research people.
Block N.
A new colourless (all other buildings are colour-coded) building located in another far end, just next to where they put Datuk Kong. Yes, that isolated.














the entrance


apparently, not everyone has to move, since the new office space is very much smaller, and may not be able to accomodate for all of us. unfortunately, the new labs are there, and those who spend nearly 90% of their lives in the labs, will have to move there.















chemical "wet lab"

you can of course opt not to move, but risk getting sunburnt and exhaustion from having to walk 10 minutes from the current office building.. so, yes, moving is compulsary for me. the plus point of this atrocious moving thing is that we no longer have to share laboratories with the undergraduates and find your glasswares missing or used by those irresponsible kids..being new labs, they are of course 1) more impressive, 2) neater, and 3) cleaner. well, for now anyway.




















in case u needed a shower..




















in case you felt like changing your hairstyle and maybe get it permed out

However, i'm quite glad that my 1.5 years have already glided through, and am just left with my other 1.5 years **hopefully** because frankly, i'm not as enthusiastic of moving into this new building as the others, maybe. the impressiveness of the lab is definitely outcasted by the overall building design, and its isolated location. the "comfortable" feeling of an office is belittled by the metal ceilings, and window views that look out into the dark and eerie oil palms..



















welcome to prison break season 6.

you know you are in the peak of your PhD program when..

you don't just hear people talking about conferences, you want to write a paper to attend it.

you finally know what you are aiming for, and what your project title means.

you have to rush for your project results because you wasted your previous year trying to figure out what your project title means.

you are spending all your time to achieve significant results for a conference paper publication dateline which is always just around the corner.

you start talking to yourself, telling yourself what you should do and what you shouldn't do, making up a multi-people discussion with yourself and maybe your computer.

you start working in the wee hours of the night, and prefer to camp in your office.

you are well known to the security people, because you need them to unlock and lock the labs for you when you have to work after 5pm.

you have a wet bath towel draped across your office chair, because that is the only place you can hang it.

you don't really bother clearing or tidying up your messy office cubicle, because it will only be messed up again.

you go to uni on weekends and not feeling weird about it. in fact, you enjoy the peacefulness and how much more work you can get done on that day.















you have nothing better to do than take crappy photos of where you are, while waiting for your desired results to be churned out...