Grad trip... *ing*

Ok, so it was a misunderstanding. I got all emo for nothing. (and my mom got all happy for nothing.) Fen had told me xl has some problems and MAY not be going which I took to be WILL not be going hence my emo post. But now things have been cleared up. So that's that. Let's keep our fingers crossed that no 突发状况 will arise between now and when we are finally physically in Taiwan.

Graduation trip (?)

Our group of friends had planned on visiting Taiwan after graduation. How great it is that we can graduate together even though not all are doing year 4. Although my mom was against it, at some point it seemed that we would still be able to go. However, recently this trip had been plagued by many problems. A new situation arises after the previous was solved. Somehow I feel that the outcome will be negative... Or perhaps I'm meant to spend that period looking for jobs... :P

To my dear chem folks, if you are reading this,I'm not complaining about anyone. I know that it's nobody's fault. Just feel kind of 无奈.

11.45pm: well at least one person is happy. My mom. She said I'm destined not to go. Lol

Mad World

All around me are familiar faces Worn out places Worn out faces Bright and early for the daily races Going no where Going no where And the tears are filling up their glasses No expression No expression And in my head I want to drown my sorrow No tomorrow No tomorrow And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had And I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take When people run in circles It's a very, very... mad world... mad world... Children waiting for the day they feel good Happy birthday Happy birthday Made to feel the way that every child should Sit and listen Sit and listen Went to school and I was very nervous No one knew me No one knew me Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson Look right through me Look right through me And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had And I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take When people run in circles It's a very, very... mad world... mad world...

dream

I just dreamt that I got married in a church. Weird.

Sherlock Holmes

(from wikipedia) Though initially their relationship was little more than one between casual acquaintances sharing a set of rooms, Holmes and Watson ultimately become the best of friends, almost like brothers. By the time they shared "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs", Holmes was so attached to his friend that he nearly lost his composure at the thought that Watson had been fatally shot. Watson wrote, "It was worth a wound—it was worth many wounds—to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation."

For the ninety-nine bad things that happen to me, hopefully once I will be lucky.

Today is that lucky day. I really can't believe I managed to do an external calibration at one go in 2 hours without having to redo the analysis, without having to rerun the calibration, without having to keep aligning the graphite tube.

But after my calculations, my joy soon turned into dread. This is my third time comparing external calibration and standard addition using chicken muscle, and my SA results are consistently half that of EC. Mind, SA is supposed to be more accurate.

My THIRD time. Could it really be that I did something wrong? Something that my mentor wasn't able to identify and thus resort to asking me to repeat and repeat?

Well, I consulted another graduate student, and it turned out that I had made a mistake in my calculations. See, I added 2g of sample solution to 2g of acid and measured the absorbance, so the actual concentration has actually been diluted by half. I can't believe he made me repeat the experiments for nothing!

But oh well... at least there is no major problem...

my progress report

Only one word to describe it. Disastrous. It went about as bad as it could have gone. My slides moved according to my rehearsed timing, out of control. Lyl looked like she was sleeping, which peeved me a lot, but then she wasn't. She's like the crocodile pretending to be a log, waiting to pounce and catch the deer unaware. The q and a was wayyyy too horrible. Aww I dont want to think about it. I had spent such a long time preparing the slides for blank correction, mass fractionation correction and whatever shit, but what did they ask? How does hydrogen peroxide digest meat? (I should have thought if that, really... Coming from an organic chemist)how does feed affect the sr analysis? To be fair, their questions weren't that unexpected... It's just... a very very sad day for me and coupled with the gloomy weather I just want to waste away on my bed, but no I'm stuck in sch in the horrible formal wear bcos I have lecture later at 6. Wth