Research direction/s?

Stayed in the lab today to finish up some work. Had 2 simultaneous yum cha session yesterday. Lol. The first one was a farewell yum cha in school for a Beijing lab mate who will be returning to Beijing after his 3 months stint here. The second one was with the Canadians in the Commonwealth restaurant near Jordan. This one was really good and it still taste this good after so many months. Its signature dish "this is not a spring roll" still fascinates me (and the Canadians even more).

Oscar, one of my senior who graduated last year and is currently doing her postdoc in Japan now, came back to campus last night. We had a short talk and he gave me some ideas on what is hot now. Sad to say, according to his and Xin Hao, traditional organic chemistry is no longer hot as most of what needs to be discovered has already been discovered. Somehow a small corner of my heart tells me that there must be something out there that has not been discovered. It's time for me to sit down and work thing s out and see what is the field that I should go into in this area. However, I am being heavily burdened by the cyclic peptide project. Whenever I think of it, I don't feel like doing anything. It's not healthy and if this goes on, I'll be wasting 2 years here.

School pace for the next one month or so will accelerate. Mid-term for Bioanalytical Chemistry is coming and I gotta do something about it. Ivan, a primary and high school friend of mine, will be coming to HK for holiday this Friday and he'll be bunking into my room. I'll be bringing him around as and when I have the time. There is a short Spring break coming and I'll be going to Inner Mongolia for a short holiday. I was considering between Tibet and Inner Mongolia; chose the latter in the end due to budget constraint. I think it'll be a wonderful trip as I'll be seeing some of China's most beautiful scenaries such as the vast grassland and desert.