Finally, I’ve started my internship programme in NAMRU-2 Jakarta. I am enjoying working there. The workers are very nice, friendly, and skillful.
I was taught how to extract RNA from viruses on my first day followed by RT-PCR and semi nested PCR on the second day. Although I failed in my first attempt, I got my result for dengue virus detection today.
Hope I can finish my internship programme well.
Still 84.0 kg.
I went to Australia 3 weeks ago. I visited some cities there, but I got the impression that Australia was not as friendly as Singapore. The prices were also too high for me, although most items were made in China.
Seriously, I didn’t quite enjoy going to Australia. I wasn’t keen with the place and atmosphere there. The shops closed at 5 or 6 pm. Couldn’t do any exploring while I was there. Many problems also arose during my trip. My sister’s bag got taken by another tour group, and several unpleasant things did happen.
Sometimes, I thought that if I had been dead it would’ve been much better than living.
One of the unpleasant things I underwent there was being in a theme park for 3 days. Imagine… 3 days. Most of my friends know how I hate theme park. A certain group of people did mock me since I didn’t want to ride the roller coaster. Well, of course I have my own reason. I just can’t stand being in a fast rides with to many ups and downs, they make me sick and want to throw up. But no, no, they just said that I was just scared. Well, I just reminded myself that evil could appear in many forms.
Another bad thing happened while I was in Movie World theme park. Before we were dropped from the bus, we had decided to meet up at 4.30. And so at 4.00 I was watching a comedy show on the street inside movie world when a phone call came in. I rejected that call since it could be very costly to answer a phone in a foreign county with Indonesian SIM card. I was enjoying the show until 4.15 when, suddenly, my younger sister sent me an sms saying that my mother was furious. I hurried myself to the meeting place and found my family waiting. I was scolded eventhough the meeting time was supposed to be 4.30. How was I supposed to know? Yet, I was still scolded.
And so, I said to myself that I was tired of trying to please other people. To tell you the truth, I was never happy for myself. I’ve always been trying to make everyone happy, whether it is my parents, sisters, friends, foes. I’m tired of all that. Everyone keeps demanding more and more. I just can’t stand it anymore.
Well, there were also some good parts. I managed to take the picture of the beautiful Sydney Opera House, I watched some koalas, kangaroos, wombats, and penguins, what else? There’s nothing much to see or to do there.
I am 84.0 kg.
