[Have some fun:P]Urban Dic_Chelsea

"Huh? Ugh... "

When trying to get contact with friends, sometimes, for us New comers... It's da*n difficult to catch the slangs... Yeah, I am talking about slangs... It's usually not formal, not required THAT much in writing,,, but def. needed for daily life!... Email, texting, chit chat... I mean, gals, get a life! (instead of sticking to the computer all days... Lol)

So that's why I decided to open a new post for... urban words! Let's have some fun here~ I will keep updating words I came cross either in texting, books, conversations, emails, or any sources:P

*The format would be: 

e.g. 

Steven 

Sexy, Cool, Swave and Sophisticated

"Your Such A Steven!"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Steven

[Daily Ranting]You don't want to be stuck there_Chelsea

Stuck by Madamepsychosis by creative commmons from Flickr

Later today I went to a seminar by a professor from School of Pharmacology, about the potential of developing vege-product/diet/food into chemoprevention tools for cancers. It sounded fancy to me at first. But then as the talk went on, I found several interesting yet dismayed points:

1. "Prove it to me!"
As an observer, I was sitting there silently yet ranting in my mind: well, you said it's working, but... show me the evidence... or at least something, something to get me willing enough to take it. They were stuck in the process of getting funding from every corner: NIH, industry, private sector..., but still struggling with getting enough to afford the clinical trials. One of the key problem (and obvious too) is, since it's a prevention medicine, how could you prove it, while the whole purpose is to get something "not happening" (think about the story of condom in terms of HIV infection). Therefore, if I am a potential customer, what's your selling point? "It's gonna do good to your health!" Well, how about I just adopt more fresh vege and fruits, and less sugar? Anyway both approaches are not provable.

[MISC] Career and/or Relationship_Chelsea

Interracial Marble Relationship 3by  William J Serson licensed by creative commmons from Flickr

While we are looking for potential labs to work for during postdoc fellow period, I can't help but thinking of the similarity between "career" and "personal relationship".

1. Key:

Both are very essential parts of any human beings;

2. Uncertainties:

When you are going to move on, say graduating from school, or break up with your ex, you are facing the uncertainties of the future. Hope is not a strategy, but to the person clinging to it, hope feels very real. Hope doesn't help. You gotta go and find out who are there in the pool. You gotta to take on the risks of possibly "not suitable" "miserable" next period of time. 

[MISC]When you are old_Chelsea

Old lady by fsendel licensed by creative commmons from Flickr

Hola~

Just found this fine piece by William Butler Yeats. 1865. So beautiful. Savor it:)

When You are Old

When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;