{"id":14,"date":"2006-09-23T02:28:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T06:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/2006\/09\/23\/my-farewell-party\/"},"modified":"2006-09-23T02:29:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T06:29:55","slug":"my-farewell-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/2006\/09\/23\/my-farewell-party\/","title":{"rendered":"My Farewell Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has always been a &#8216;tradition&#8217; in the King Lab to host a farewell party to send off any outgoing research fellows. My turn finally came today.\u00a0So, Dr King suggested we hold a pizza party and the event was kindly organized by Christian, my supervisor.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures of the event:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/84\/250248729_d0b16b3489.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(L-R) Matsu (standing, a Japanese postdoctoral fellow who&#8217;s been very nice to me) , Yukio (a very nice Japanese postdoc cum opthalmologist, who&#8217;s been encouraging me to go to graduate school), Jan a fellow\u00a0student from North Germany, me and Christian (my supervisor and mentor; a Danish cardiologist who&#8217;s a postdoctoral fellow)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/82\/250252260_1ab4a21c27.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(L-R) Lindsey (sits directly across me in Lab), Dahlia, Maeno (he&#8217;s a Japanese postdoc, who&#8217;s also an endocrinologist), Pedro (a footie-crazy Portuguese postdoc). Nice bunch of\u00a0people they are.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/94\/250252265_d934a434e4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr King (seated far left), the principal investigator and Research Director of the Center. I owe it solely\u00a0to him for my stint in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/86\/250252267_82d153d919.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christian, on how I&#8217;ve been a nuisance to him for the past 2.5 months. Nah, just kidding. He gave a short but very moving speech. I am honored to have him as my mentor, teacher and friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/90\/250252270_cc3dfe7180.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Me, with that silly grin<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/90\/250252272_cab12b56a3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Me, deep in thought. No, actually, I&#8217;m deep in munching my pizza.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/97\/250259855_2ecd40f732.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m giving a short farewell speech, which was basically to\u00a0everyone about how I&#8217;m leaving the lab with a heavy heart. That I&#8217;m heading back to Cambridge, UK after this. To which Dr King jokingly said,&#8217;Haha, that sounds boring. Malaysia would be more fun, right?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/52\/250259857_f9c70d7086.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christian gets bored with my talk and decides to drink his water. haha.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my ever so helpful lab manager, I-Hsien, for taking these pictures!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has always been a &#8216;tradition&#8217; in the King Lab to host a farewell party to send off any outgoing research fellows. My turn finally came today.\u00a0So, Dr King suggested we hold a pizza party and the event was kindly organized by Christian, my supervisor. 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