in Turkey, wives are allowed to divorce their husbands if they don't bring home the right quota of coffee beans

well that was eons ago.. amazing what u learn in Pharmacology.. did ya know that Armenia was the first country to accept Christianity? and how did i know this? apparently brewing beer and monasteries have a lot in common..

can't believe it's September of year 2005.. time has gone by so fast in the last 2 years.. and soon a lot of v good friends will be gone.. well the fact at least is i won't be able to see them as frequently as i have for the last three years.. i'm not too depressed.. or rather i just don't want to.. i know i've met heaps of great ppl in uni and Cutting Edge, but still the bonds are just p strong that it'll be hard to get over.. u know how hard it is to believe that someone u see and know so well is gone at first.. of coz u get used to it but the first time is always p hard.. and so is the buildup to that fateful departure..

and as time goes by its Ferrari-pace ways, u age at the same time.. suddenly ppl u knew, or at least see often are suddenly in the shoes u were once in.. i was chatting via webcam to this Malaysian girl who now lives in the UK last night.. i know their family p well coz Natasha's grandmother, when she was still living, lived behind our house in KL.. anyway it was the first time in 3 years i'd seen her and she grown up so much.. she's a teenager for crying out loud! i think she's 15? somewhere around that age.. so we just chatted.. felt nostalgic.. was kinda sad thinking of the life i used to live.. as a teenager at the other end of the spectrum.. u know with ur school friends.. u were still eons away from a university degree..

i love but somehow hate these nostalgic moods.. hate? well because it becomes a bit hard to read ur Garfield books and think that the last time u flipped through u were in another part of the world, with another set of worries.. perhaps Malaysian Geography - or should i say Geografi Malaysia - instead of bacteriophages..

not surprisingly after that chat, i started to think maybe after i graduate at the end of next year, i should go somewhere new.. perhaps the UK is the best start.. just a tour.. should start saving up.. maybe not go flatting is the first start.. or sell the car once i graduate ;) i mean i prob would be elsewhere apart from Dunedin..

anyway no time to reminise.. should study for Genetics test which is next Monday..