Finally, your irresponsible IC on the last day :)

Haha sorry for the delay of the posts we should put on after we go back to Singapore. I bet SOMEONE has forgotten about it, haha, but since I shall continue to see him every chemistry lecture, I could think of better ways to tease him face to face:)
It is hard to believe that more than one month has passed since we started our journey to UK. I could still feel the sense of joy when we arrived at Heathrow Airport--it just seemed to happen yesterday. On the last day of the trip, since I was one of the "early birds", I had time to explore Heathrow Airport. Though we all carried huge luggages, Yi Ting, Tao Tao and me managed to take the cool shutter train to Terminal Five, the newest terminal. It was very spacious and it looked quite different from other older terminals, but I would say it is only reaching the standard of Changi Airport :) Since there were many shops like my all-time-favourite Mark&Spencer, we did some last-minute shopping. I had heavy cold so I could not really taste anything, but I could still feel the cream in the delicious milk :) Like the seniors predicted in Cambridge, I miss UK's milk and diary products dearly.
The weeks after we safely arrived home seem to fly by, however I could still feel the impact of UK trip on my daily life. I tend to search for gloves and goggles whenevr I enter the chemistry lab, and I feel quite disappointed that I am only handling low concerntration HCl instead of doing ultra water-sensitive Aldol reaction in dry ice (-78 degrees). I yearn for my own kitchen when I have to put up with hostel's food, as I truly enjoyed the time we had in our little kitchen in Jellicoe, as Pan Tao, Peijun, Yi Ting and me take turns to boil water, cut cabbage, make spegetti and steam egg. Yesterday I went for chemistry Olympiad training, and surprisingly it was on NMR, the experiment technique we dealt with almost every single day. I remember how confused we were when Dr Ganesan introduced us to the complicated graphs on the first day--it just didn't make much sense to us, all the peaks and numbers. As I listened to the teacher carefully I finally began to appreciate the technique and learn to interpret the information there, but how simple the diagrammes in the most difficult chem o questions look when they are compared to that generated by our products?
Our lives will continue after the UK trip. Promos, tests, projects--we are almost drowned inside the hectic life here. However I will always appreciate the sunny days we had in Southampton, United Kingdom. The days when we learned and had plenty of fun. The days when we reached out to our dreams of being scientists, and enjoyed every second of it.
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