23rd july -
Went for supper with Jun Wen, Xiao Jiao, Alvin & Yu Zhuang at Hong Kong cafe. Then Alvin drove us to Henderson Waves. I never heard of this highway before till that day. It is known as the tallest highway in Singapore. Cool! Then we walked to Mount Faber before we headed home. It was 5am in the morning when i reached home.
On the way back, i was sleeping in Alvin's car & the other 3 were still very active. Xiao Jiao called me the Drowsy Queen. Everytime we had a night event in hostel, i'm the 1st one to sleep. HAHA. i wasn't good at playing cards so always slept while playing.
Wow, i've got forensic science as my new sem elective. Excited like mad.
I'm learning Electronics for Biomedical Eng, Biomolecular Eng 2, BioFluid Systems, Biomaterials, Mechanisms of Materials & Forensic Science this sem. Most bio subjects! Wow cool. I must clear my brain of nonsence to exchange for more bio info.
And don laugh.. I accidentally applied 1 more elective. "Introduction to Psychology". Haha. Blur me. Got to drop it. Yes, logically i shld drop forensic science cos i learnt Psychology in my poly b4. But i wanna learn being a CSI. Cool! i hope i wont vomit at the sight of the gross pics of murder. I'm so so lucky. Forensic science has so many students on the waiting list & yet the system chose me. Praise God!
I'm quite sad that Jun Wen got into a different class as me. He got into the class of the best combination. Can go class late & end class early. Lesser breaks in between. We wanted to choose the same elective, Traditional Chinese Medicine, but didnt manage to. 1 of my lessons clashes with this elective.
School has started for 3 days. And i wasnt so used to sleeping early during the sch hols. So my 1st day of sch was bad. Half of the time, my eyelids became so heavy. I have tried not to drink coffee. And so.. as a result, i was dozing off.
And the moment i tried to close my eyes for that few secs, i will either feel a poke on my hand or a 'shoo shoo' in my ear! Jun Wen!!!!!!! He said i wasn't supposed to sleep in school. When i awoke and looked at him with that want to kill him face, he laughed and pointed at the screen.
And i believe he wasn't paying attention as well. He was copying my drawings on my lecture notes. Occasionally he flashed me a funny face. Why cant i sleep when u aren't paying attention too? Haha.
And i have to do tutorials with jun wen every week. i asked him whether i can copy from him his tutorials. He said no. Or i do 2 subjects & he do 2 then we exchange. He also said no. Oh Kill me please! Not that i don want to do, but i have no time and no energy. I'm so tired after sch! He would shoo me up if i ever fall asleep while doing homework. Oh No! i'm going to be in deep shit.
I hope this motivation will make me have better grades. I would try to do every tutorial this sem. Now that i have a tutor, i have no excuse not to learn more.
My last sem grades slipped. 1st sem i got 1 A, 3 Bs and 1 D. 2nd sem i got 3 Bs and 2 Cs. B for Spanish, Material Science & Organic Chem. C for Maths & Anatomy. My GPA fell from 3.32/5 to 3.23/5. I aimed for all Bs. But it's okay. I try harder. :) Hoping to improve a little this sem. I believe i will hold a lighter heart to sch each day. Less stressed & happier. Seeing his wide smile is making me alot happier.
Just had my first forensic science lesson. Jun Wen was kind enough to accompany me for this 3 hrs lecture. It interests me alot. I was listening throughout. I got to know about how forensic scientists investigate the crime scene using evidences.
Some murder cases:
Buck Ruxton and the Jigsaw Murders
This Indian doctor murdered his wife & maid. He cut off all distinguishing features on the bodies. These features are birthmarks, scars, faces and ends of their fingers. He then cut them up into pieces and wrapped them up in newspapers before he threw them into the river.
However, the corpses were washed ashore on the banks of the river few days later. So the forensic scientists reassembled them but couldnt find anything on them to identify them. The evidence is the newspaper. It was a local edition printed exclusively for Morecombe in England. Morecombe police has reports of two women missing: Mrs Ruxton and her maid.
The bodies had to be firmly identified. Forensic Science always has new problems. So an invention of new tactics to address a new situation has to be made. In the past, there weren't any DNA matches. They thought of an idea. That is to find photographs of the two women and also photograph the skull from the same angle. Their face shapes matched the skulls.
Murder or suicide?
In Bukit Merah, there was a boy lying on the tracks of the MRT train. It was thought that he commited suicide. However, if the boy was alive on the tracks before the train run him over, his heart would have come under pressure & his blood vessels would splash out all their contents. There should be lots of blood around the area. But there wasn't as much blood. The forensic scientist come to a conclusion which the boy was murdered before he was put onto the track. It turned out to be a robbery over $5.
What is the charge?
An undergrad disposed her baby after giving birth. If the baby was dead after she threw it into the rubbish chute, she would be found guilty of murder. But it was found out that the baby was premature. It was a still birth. The baby was dead before she threw it away. So the charge became illegally disposing dead body instead of murder. She was given a stern warning instead of being hung.
And the limits of forensic science was ...
'The act does not make a person guilty unless the mind is guilty.'
Forensic science is only useful to determine what guilty action takes place, but it is not useful to determine a guilty mind. Fo example, if u rob a bank accidentally, it is not of a guilty mind. (But most of time, no one will rob a bank without a guilty intention.) No intention to kill becomes manslaughter which carries less charges.
One example of a guilty action without a guilty mind:
Dick Cheney, the Vice-President of USA likes to go quail hunting with his friends. However one day, he saw the bushes moving & thought it was a quail. Without much thought, he shot at the bush & injure Frank Whittington.
He didnt wanted to injure Frank. He thought Frank was a quail. haha! So he was let off & was scolded by George Bush. HAHAHA.
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