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It has been quite a while since I last updated my blog. The reason? As usual - BUSY! I need to submit my dissertation in a week time to my project supervisor. Talking about Sam, I have such enormous gratitude towards him. He never failed to praise me when I got so little to show him, this made me so embarrassed! I realised that finite element modelling is a tricky one, and I keep getting stuck, my process was slow... very slow. Sam understood my unavoidable delay. I have spent so much time, doing everything I could possibly think of, to achieve the results comparable to the experiment. It was tricky... very tricky. As the days passed, the demon battling inside me, warned me " YOU would never finish your project successful :( "

Yesterday, I met Sam and was stunned by his outfit. He was wearing suit. The last time I saw him in suit was last year in one of his lecture and the students (guys) whistled as he walked down to the stage. Hahaha. Normally, he dressed in T-shirt and jeans. He must be meeting someone important today. Recently, we have auditors in our school. Two days ago, he changed our meeting because he had a TV interview. Hmmm... Hee...

Back to yesterday, Sam sat with me for over an hour, looking at the models and trying to make sense of everything. I felt touched and dumbed at the same time. He was explaining to me about some mechanical concepts, my goodness... I DON'T UNDERSTAND AT ALL! I hope that somehow, a miracle would happen and I would get my expected modelling results. Sam said, if I could get it works properly, I might be the one person to achieve this! WOW!!! I have a feeling that Sam is looking forward to my dissertation!

All right, project aside. What have I been doing lately? Well, I got this book from a hospital library 'Knife to the Heart'. A broken love story? No, I was trying to get some books for the heart transplant and artificial heart. As I picked up this book, I was thinking 'it is going to be another dry topic'. However, this is the most amazing science book I have ever read! It is about the history of transplants and the stories of surgeons and patients. It features some pictures, some were great because they lived, some were upsetting because they died. The pictures of cute little babies who died after heart transplants pierced into my heart especially the one with the eyes that tell you his story. Then, I felt insane when I learnt that baboon hearts were transplanted into babies and when the brain of a monkey is taken out and placed into another. Insane! REALLY INSANE!

Unfortunately, I only manage to finish the second chapter (due to time constraints) before I had to return it :( I would recommend this book to anyone, it is so easy to read and understand.

OK, what is next? This time round, I missed food from home. The feeling was much stronger than when I first came to UK. Check out what I had.

Glutinous rice balls - sesame (my favourite flavour)

Squid dumplings smell nice but taste was disappointing. I missed dumplings from Crystal Jade!

Substitute beef balls noodles with Swedish meat balls and pasta. So pathetic!