The last time I wrote a blog post was too long ago. I was using this service called Qzone.
I was a kid, mumbling about nothing, in Chinese.
To give you a glimpse Qzone:
I never went back and read what I wrote - afraid I would be overwhelmed by the level stupidity. But to be fair, I think I wrote well, at least in Chinese.
Why this?
So why do I come back to blogging? Have I got too much time to kill?
NOOOOO! On the contrary, my time is VERY valuable. I look to accomplish a lot in this year and time is not on my side.
I came back because I believe I have something valuable to say. Firstly, I would like to share my experience as a Chemistry undergrad, and my perspectives of scientific research. I also would like to keep track of this wonderful placement year I am having at UCB Celltech, keeping notes about the drug-discovery pipeline I have been exposed to. Of course, UCB, nothing confidential will be published, I promise. I would like to especially write about cheminformatics, which sadly isn’t at all emphasised in my undergraduate studies.
I aim to explain what were once esoteric concepts to me or present interesting literatures I have encountered at the level of a science undergrad. Also I would like to point to some resources I found to be useful.
So what’s in this for me? Well, manifold really. For one, I think writing blogs can definitely improve my writing skill and speed. Those papers ain’t gonna write themselves.
Anything else?
YES!!!!!! As you can see this blog is hosted on GitHub, using Jekyll, which is a new tool I am learning to use, along with other funky stuffs I am or planning to work on, (text scrappers, plugins, open sourced projects, etc).
I have taken far far far too many online courses. It is time to put those knowledge to test. I enjoy science, I enjoy technology. Atoms + Bits = The Way Forward.
So
So, I hope I will keep up, well, who knows…
I would like to leave you with this, which I signatured at the end of every blog post I had on Qzone, when I was that little kid:
