Friday, June 27, 2008

White wine and karaoke

So I didn't do too much today at the lab. We lost our football game to Professor Wang's group in a PK shootout after scoring 2 goals at the end of regulation to tie the game. I went to the weekly seminar this afternoon. One student's talk didn't contain much chemistry and the other had good chemistry but not the best English. Prof. Shi took the group to dinner tonight to celebrate the pending marriage of one of the grad students. We had some Chinese white wine, which is really spicy and very strong (52% by vol. or 104 proof). Let's just say I'm still feeling the effects of it several hrs afterward. So each one of us made individual toasts to the groom-to-be and downed a shot of wine. Then we had another round of toasts (and another shot of wine) toward the end of dinner. Then we went to a karaoke place afterward and most of the group can sing pretty well. I tried to sing the Beatles "Can't Buy Me Love" (their 5th of 27 #1's). The karaoke machine threw off my timing and I didn't do a great job of singing it, but I still got a round of applause afterwards.

1 comment:

Elizabeth J. Neal said...

One student's talk didn't contain much chemistry and the other had good chemistry Karaoke but not the best English. Prof. Shi took the group to dinner tonight to celebrate the pending marriage of one of the grad students. We had some Chinese white wine, which is really spicy and very strong (52% by vol. or 104 proof).