I'll See You Soon, Adulthood

Today, I received my last scholarship allowance (of err my entire life?)!!!!

I am now left with only a few meters away from the ‘adulthood-starting-line’. I can already see the signboard from far.

I couldn’t describe the feeling when my friend told me it was going to be our last allowance, but I could tell you that it wasn’t the most joyful moment of my life.

Not that I was depending 100% on the allowance (coz apparently I still had to ask for extra from my parents), but it’s a sign that I’m reaching the end of my ‘carefree-student-life’ where it is okay to ask money anytime of the month.

And I’m  about to enter another new phase of life, where you are entitled to :

1) Have responsibility of your own bills

2) Manage your own spending within the salary range (which would be incredibly hard to do!!)

3) Wake up bright and early every morning as you’re going to have a 8am ‘class’ everyday!

I spent my entire day, trying to  make sense out of it and  I was  stumbled with all the questions in my head until I realized that this is part of life, it’s a process of growing up. For what it’s worth, I’d brave myself , take up this challenge and embrace it. Come what may.

I’ll see you soon, adulthood.. *ehem*

Don't Play God

Movie Review : Splice (2009)

Have u watched this movie ‘SPLICE’ ?  The movie is directed by Vincenzo Natali and  I would say that it’s a good combo of science-ficition-horror.

I found this movie sooo interesting and the way he review the characters are so realistic and engaging. I cried out of horror in the end of the movie, okay?

The film was about this young scientist couple; Elsa and Clive who worked for this pharmaceutical company. They were hired to splice the DNA of different animals to create incredible new hybrid animals which produced useful by-products like proteins, for example.

The interesting part was when Elsa (the wife) decided to create a new hybrid lifeform with bits of human DNA. Her husband, Clive didn’t agree with her crazy idea, but followed anyhow.

The experiment succeeded and the creature turned out to be more human than they expected. Oh, except that this creature had a stinger and a different form of legs.

It’s kinda creepy right?

The creature grew up and Elsa who had formed a maternal bond named her ‘Dren’ (Nerd, backwards). The ‘childless’ Elsa played a role of Dren’s mother and dressed her up like a baby-girl. She even gave Dren her favourite doll when she was younger.

The baby-Dren

Dren was kept in one of the rooms in the lab. As their lab becomes exceedingly crowded, and Dren has grown to become a teenager, they decided to move Dren into Elsa’s old farm house before Dren got discovered.

Dren and Elsa at Elsa’s old farm house

Elsa who realized the changes in Dren as a teenager, taught Dren about the girly stuff like make-ups and jeweleries.

The teenager-Dren

Meanwhile, Dren has become more rebellious and violent towards Elsa. She has evolved to become an omnivour with retractable wings coming out from her back.

Wings yo!

The climax of the story was when Dren seduced Clive and they had an intercourse. Elsa came home during the sexual encounter and she had a heated argument with Clive. Clive felt cheated to find out that Elsa’s DNA was used in creating Dren.

Dren and Clive (Elsa’s husband) getting intimate

Deciding to deal with Dren, they went back to the farm, only to discover her body in the water tank, apparently dead. They burnt Dren’s body and was more than shocked to find Dren alive. Dren was actually in coma as the body was changing into a MALE!

The male-Dren became more violent (duhhh); Dren killed Clive and raped Elsa. However, Dren was dead after being smashed with a boulder of rock by Elsa.

At the end of the movie, Elsa was shown pregnant of Dren’s baby.

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Interesting, no? If there’s one lesson I’ve learnt from the movie is that, we human can’t play God. We are not the creator. Elsa and Clive created a new life form and that act has eventually backfired them.

Even with the top-notch technologies and scientists who know chromosomes and DNA from the back of their hand- we could not beat the power of God. I’m definitely not against technologies (I loveeeeee technologies), but there are certain things technologies couldn’t do – one of it is creating a new life form.

Let’s just leave that to God.

It's Not Just a Job

So you went to kindergarten, and the teacher started asking you what you want to be when you grow up. Your 5year-old classmates started rising their hands, and answered ‘doctor’, ‘engineer’,'scientist’, ‘astronaut’ and all other top-notch jobs.

Oh man, the pressure was officially on! That’s it, I had to find my dream job in 5 quick seconds before my kindergarten teacher started to judge me for being less ambitious than others. So, I raised up my hand and told her I wanted to be a doctor. I know, lame right? Not that I ended up being one. Pfftt.

But not long after I was in primary years, I changed my ambition to engineer for what reason- I’ve forgotten. There was also this one phase where I wanted to become a lawyer just because I won this story-telling competition. I could talk to myself in front of the mirror for hours. I remembered my sister rolling her eyes everytime she passed by my room, obviously annoyed. Haha. Don’t blame the kid for having a dream.

Then I went to high school where I couldn’t care less about what I was going to do in future. For all I know, I had fun and I was busy exploring other things. U know the high school stuff. Being in a clique, busy hating the discipline teachers, busy tryna fool the senior prefects. Oh, I went to all girls school, so I was totally free from any ‘boys’ drama. Thank God for that.

So now here I am, in my last two months of my formal tertiary education. Occupied with all ‘geologist’ stuff. Thesis, field-tripssss (which I learnt to love), labworks, presentations and all other final year thingy I’m sure all of u are familiar with. I never thought of taking up this course. Whatttttt? Geology?!!

If you should know I wasn’t really an outdoor person. Going in the jungle, staying out in the sun tryna figure out the geological structure of the rock, camping out for 8hours by the river doing river sampling, hiking up the hill to see the boundary of the formations (Alright, I should stop before I bore you with all the geological terms) – is sooo not my thing. At least not in the list of things I would enjoy doing.

After 3 years of being in a love-hate relationship with this course, I suprised myself when I realized that I’ve come to a term with all these stuffs and learnt to embrace them. After all, let’s face it, this is gonna be my job and hating your job is like hating yourself.

List of things I’d never forget to bring along whenever I went to the field :

1) Heaps of water supply

2) Sunscreen

3) Vaseline

4) Did I mention sunscreen?

5) Towels

6) Blackberry/Ipod/Camera

7) Shades (the one that cover half of your face)

8 ) Hand sanitizer

9) Insect repellent

10) Hat (that have a radius of 1m from your head)

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Our 8hours river sampling session that turned out to be a lil camping trip. Not that I was psych, but enough for us to stay out of boredom.

We noticed this lost cute lil creature, released it back to wood. I know you couldn’t thanked us enough, Mr Tortoise (or not? I’m not sure of its name)

 

What you do is not just a job, it’s who you are! So, do it your way, whatever life brings you!! *flips hair*