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| Hi everyone-- here's a quick update on what has happened:
Because I did a module in Africa, I get to take the last one off, and hence, I have no more classes.
This is a list of stuff I need to do:
1) Finish my Masters Application to MOE
2) Finish my Ugandan Lab report
3) Study for the examinations in April
4) Finish my dissection report.
To my fellow colleagues in biology, it was an honour to have studied along side you all.
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| I just finished another and a final week of dissections. My lab coat smells of fish, and it is covered with cuttlefish ink, fish guts and blood. Here are some photographs.
Fish teeth
Cuttlefish egg
Nematode parasites in the dogfish
Cuttlefish brain
San was kind enough to aid me in cooking on Wednesday for my friends, Yaoyao, Deryck, Angela and Jackin. I invited Kasia and her boyfriend too, but they both were ill that day.
I also went swimming in England for the first time in Ethos (Imperial College gym). Thanks to Yaoyao, Deryck, Angela, Jackin, Guo Heng and Laure (the new French girl in class), I was finally persuaded to do so. We entered the steam room too, but I felt the heat (or rather, the steam was unbearable!).
Unforgivable #5
Some had said he was a gift from God, some said he came form a meteor from the sky. The real answer was that Comos had come from something more humble. In an effort to create a supersoldier to justify his position in the Freedom Fighters, Pim created Comos from biological molecules instead, lying that he found the superhuman from an Amish family.
"You created him?" asked Richards and Vivo exclaimed together in disbelief. No wonder all methods, such as DNA mutagens, viral weapons and microwave bombs could not work on him.
"You actually created life? I thought that was biologically impossible," Richards, himself a physicist finished their thoughts.
Pim shook his head, explaining that he modified life. He had taken an embryo, modified it using proteins, instead of DNA as information carriers. He added many biological systems to the embryo to create a powerful being, one which was capable of storing and releaseing huge amounts of energy.
Richards listened to the molecules involved and then realised he had a plan to defeat Comos. Pim was useful afterall.
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| It was just a dream, I awoke upset. It was a dream where you are given your heart's desire, but when you awake, you are embarassed by its implications. That cannot be what I desired. It is wrong and insensitive.
I dissected my dogfish today and its guts spilled over. It was heavily infected and the stomach disintegrated in my glove. Hopefully we get to draw a good diagram.
Unforgivable #4
Instead of being led to a city district, or an urbanised neighbourhood, Vivo was led to a farmhouse in the countryside. Surely a medical scientist such as Pim could not have abandoned a life of technology and ease for a farm?
Vivo approached to knock on the door, but Richards halted her. He pointed to a smaller door, no a even much smaller door, where a mouse could bearly fit through. For a moment Vivo thought she needed to drink a shrinking potion to enter, just like Alice in Wonderland, but Richards simply tapped to mouse door with the end of his foot. Suddenly, the illusion of the house was destroyed-- Vivo blinked, and she was in the middle of a metallic basement.
"I know what you enquire of me, and my answer is no," Professor Pim remarked, even before Richards or Vivo could start. On the way to Pim's residence, Vivo found out that Pim was dishonourably discharged from the original lineup of the Freedom Fighters as he was an alcoholic and a wife-beater. Surely he was not the hope she was looking for.
Vivo pleaded Pim to reveal any known weakness about Comos, but he shook his head, explaining that he had none. Richards gestured for the young adventurer to leave but she was persisant.
"Do you know at least why he turned on us?"
Pim hesistated, and then nodded slowly. He then started to shed light on the mystery.
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| I have been cutting up dead fish and cuttlefish for practicals, and I expect to do more of the same the following week. And I do smell like fish.
    
Mission Week is finallly over, and I pray many will come to know Jesus more and more.
Unforgivable #3
It almost felt like yesterday. Comos and the Freedom Fighters had just knocked down a giant robot. It tried to recover, but Comos crushed its head with a single fist, revealing all its circuitry. Not only did the Freedom Fighters managed to save the day, they did it in front of a cheering crowd too.
Comos was the perfect superhuman. Not only did was he the strongest being on earth, he was also good-looking. He smiled for the cameras as the reporters snapped photographs of him. Despite contributing most to the team, he insisted that it was the enitre squad that brought the assailant down.
"He must be some kind of pervert-- why else would he wear his briefs on the outside?"
"I think he's a psycho-- look at his ugly smile."
Admist the loud noises, he picked up whispers of dissent. Although he kept smiling, he was upset in the inside.
"See I told you they love you," grinned Vivo, as she hugged Comos in celebration.
How times have changed. Comos now scanned the earth for resistance, and he found it. From space, he crashed down to the Elect Cemetery, breaking several tombstones in the process. Before one of the resistance superhero's could react, he was vapourised by a flash beam from Comos eyes. Richards, the leader of the resisitance ordered the team to fall back and re-group at Hideout Nova.
Comos fired a beam at him, but Richards teleported away. Comos realised then that the technologist had given his team teleporting devices. One by one, the resistance vanished, without bothering to engage Comos in combat. Still, the new villain managed to kill two more members before they could escape.
Richards now found himself in the sewers of Gloriata, miles away from where he was before. His skin was singed from the heat of Comos's beams, but he was alive. He cupped his face with his hands. All his ideas to beat Comos ended in failure. He had met in cemetery to discuss new plans, but one of team blurted out Comos's name by accident. Suddenly, a sound distracted him. Richards was not alone and turned to see the tip of an arrow aimed at his face.
"My gosh, Richards-- the leader of the Resistance and the Four!" Vivo exclaimed. Richards recognised his fellow adventurer and shook his head, informing Vivo that the Four no long existsed. His wife and two friends among the first killed when Comos turned evil.
Accepting her apology, Richards also expressed shock that some of the Freedom Fighters had survived. Vivo nodded, stating that she was late for the gathering, and was spared the bloodshed as she arrived much later than Comos. Vivo then told her what she had discovered, and proposed that the ex-medic of the Freedom Fighters, Pim could turn the tide against Richards. To her surprise, Richards was not hopeful.
"I can find him, but you will see why Pim is useless." Richards ended.
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| It's a bad first few weeks for me. I wonder if it is all adding up.
I feel broken, frustrated and overlooked. However, I have no time for such feelings. I got work to do.
Mission Week is next week, and I am busy preparing. In addition, I have a week-long of laboratory practicals next week.
My friend Jenny has finally returned to Hong Kong after a short stay in UK. She will be sorely missed.
Unforgivable #2
Kate motioned for Vivo to be silent. Comos was watching and hearing for dissenters. If he had heard Vivo, she would be vapourised in a second. Gesturing for her to follow, Kate walked into the bedroom and pulled open a trap door to reveal a lead-lined bomb shelter. Here, she explained, they would be invisible to Comos's X-ray vision.
Still shaken, Kate explained Comos approached her a few weeks ago, asking her to marry him. They had been going out for a few years, and he wanted to take their relationship to the next level. She turned him down, and he left. Then a few days ago, there was a major earthquake in Gloriata caused by Comos. And only her building was spared.
"At first, I thought he spared me to force me to be with him or perish-- but he never came. I realised he left me for revenge. So that I would see the consequence of my rejection of him," Kate tearfully finished. Vvio shook her head, reminding that the culprit was Comos, not Kate in anyway.
Clearing her tears, Kate insisted that there was no way to defeat Comos. Vivo refused to believe Kate. Kate was Comos girlfriend for nearly six years-- surely Comos would have revealed a weakness! Shaking her head, Kate explained that it was not that Comos did not reveal much to her. He was simply unbeatable.
Vivo sat down in defeat. Was the world going to live under the fear of one man? She knocked over a photograph frame. It dipicted Comos and his original teammates in the first Freedom Warriors line-up. Some of them had retired, some of them, killed in action during their super heroics. Most of them were killed by Comos barely a week ago. However, there was one she did not recoginise.
"That's James Pim-- he was one of founders of the Freedom Warriors of the group," Kate remarked. "He was the doctor of their group." Before Kate could finish, Vivo rushed off to find James, disappearing into the darkness.
Meanwhile, high above the sky, Comos marvelled at the destruction he caused. He had just sank a small island country as its leaders condemmed his actions. He watched carefully as the last hill of the island get swallowed up by the surrounding waters. Suddenly, he convulsed with disgust. How could he commit such a sin? He was once the world's greatest superhero-- how did he turn so bad?
He then remembered why he changed. The whole world was at fault. They all deserved it.
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