今天我遇到坏人了

Wish I was joking. Ha ha.

What a sucky day.

Today is The Day. The day on which I had planned to finish evaporating my sample, running it through the column and doing external calibration. I had prepared my stuff for so long, and had come to school EVERY SINGLE FREAKIN day of the recess week. I'd planned to finish everything today so I don't freakin have to go to school again.

Of course things don't go so smoothly for me.

I'd secured the booking of all the instruments I need. BUT phD student S needs to use the balance today. Even though she had booked it on Tue and Thur. So after some negotiation (like I have any choice) I agreed to let her use it in the afternoon while I'm running the column. She'd messaged me thanks, and I'd replied no problem, though in my mind I was thinking, you gave me so many problems.

The main thing is, I had booked the flame and graphite AAS in the afternoon and evening slots. Yah, I was even prepared to stay till night. BUT S started using the graphite in the afternoon, and when I asked her about it, she said her run would only end at 8pm, and suggested that I run my samples tomorrow. I gave her the okay face, but inside I was thinking WHAT THE FUCK! (Yes, I swear a lot inside) Freakin asshole, do you not understand what it means to book something? It means that person needs it. What's the point of having a booking system when you don't stick to it? I was seriously damn pissed.

So I need to go back to school tomorrow. Yah. And I'd already prepared my standards, and I need to leave them and my sample overnight, which seriously affects the accuracy of my results. If I need to redo the whole damn thing again because of that stupid bitch... it's just disgusting.

And squeezing onto crowded trains and buses did not help improve my sucky mood.

日有所思，夜有所梦

The mind is an amazing thing.

This morning, I dreamt that I had a Chinese test but I'd completely forgotten about it. I didn't study at all. Which I think is because I kept playing Westward IV during the long weekend and didn't complete what I was planning to clear during that short break. Anyway, in my dream, I went to the toilet before the start of the test, and when I returned to the classroom slightly late, guess who's inside (other than the students, of course)?

Mr Lim, my primary school Chinese teacher, and, ahem, my supervisor. Looking stern.

Holy shit.

I was reeling from shock when I woke up. How on earth did he enter my dream?

Scary.

And I usually take the lift at S15 when I go to the lab, but today I alighted at the stop opposite university hall and took the lift at S12.

And guess who I saw again?

Bingo.

Had lunch with Priyanka today. Finally... Haven't seen her in like two years? Watching her eat Indian food reminded me of how we used to have dinner together at KE VII...

It was my free day today (Thursday), but of course I still went to school. Although I'd booked the instruments and stuff my mentor didn't want me to do YET another run (I've done nothing but graphite furnace AAS since school started!). He's hoping that the results would be good enough for the professor. And I sure hope they are, cos I also don't know what went wrong. The prof once asked if I did blank correction (at that time I 'd given him a blank look), yet today LJ did without blank correction for external calibration eventually. I'm confused...

Really tired...

Trying to listen to my instrumental analysis webcast, since it'll only be up for one week (dunno what the prof is thinking...).

It's such a torture listening to him mumble into the microphone. And breathing a lot of air into it. And it's so darn soft!

I can't believe I've only covered 11 minutes.

66 more minutes to go.

By the way I'm back to perfecting my external calibration and standard addition AGAIN. For the FOURTH time. Sigh...

Some random thoughts about tv... Lab is down for air-con maintenance, so essentially I'll just be doing my readings today. Until 6.

So anyway, I was watching "Unriddle". It was so heavily criticized, but knowing Singaporeans who just love to complain, I decided to watch it for myself. I started watching from that clown abducting kids story, so I missed the part about Yuze disappearing. That story was sad. Well, the next story was even sadder. I think all the actors in this show are great. Actors who rarely get the chance to be the main lead, but work hard silently. 章增翔 (can't remember his new name)，黄炯耀，陈泰铭，王昱清。。。and 陈弘宇 was such a convincing 骆忠孝。His calm façade masks the insecurity and cruelty that he hides within. Especially the scene after he reads the fake letter that Yaxuan supposedly left him and held the letter to his chest. I was really really touched when I watched that. I also liked how his face instantly changed when Xiaoman revealed that the letter was fake. I thought it was really cruel, but then again, was it not cruel of him to take away the lives of so many innocent young girls?

And then there's this long-running line about Yuze's disappearance and how the former band of brothers are killed one after another. I'd originally thought the police (陈泰铭） was the murderer, because he keeps emphasising how he can't afford to lose what he has, but after he couldn't bring himself to kill Xiaolang yesterday... I don't think it's him anymore. AND Xiaolang said it was Zhang Yuze who shot him. AND the security guard saw Yuze at the scene where Four-eye's wife was forced to jump off the building. So I guess it's not really that impossible that he's a bad guy...

BUT THEN there are still 4 more episodes to go, and I really don't think they'll reveal the ending so early on. So I'm thinking that there must be more than meets the eye. Hmm... my guess will be Dewei then. He might not be as dumb as he seems. He was the one who recounted Xiaolang's account of what happened 15 years ago to Xiaoman, but Xiaolang later denied having said anything. So he might have lied, though Xiaoman doubted that he could have come up with such a fancy story. What's his motive, though? Framing Yuze so that he could win the heart of Xiaoman seems a bit far-stretched. Maybe he's the son of Chai or something... To seek revenge for his father...

Haha, I'm thinking too much...

I'm really tired.

Just waiting for time to pass… Until when I can finally go home. Not that I hate it here; I’m just really really tired. Is there something wrong with me, being this tired after 6.5 hours of sleep? I don’t know.My lab techniques have always been pretty bad, and I’m terribly slow. Still am, but I think I’m slowly improving. I mean, today’s the second time I’ve done a standard addition of strontium using the graphite furnace. The readings were not good though; the graph is not linear. So I’d have to redo the experiment. This is my second attempt already. Actually when something goes wrong, I’m totally lost. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to troubleshoot. And I’m kind of worried, cos I’m still not very familiar with operating the GFAAS, especially the aligning part. These past few days LJ has been helping me to set up the instrument while I prepared the solutions. So when it’s finally time for me to do it on own…

We’ll see.

Saw Ping Sen in school today. He asked how my FYP was and commented that I look ‘憔悴’. I'd like to think that he means I've lost weight, but really I think he's just referring to the dark circles under my eyes. -_-

Anyway, here's my timetable:

	1400	1500	1600	1700	1800	1900	2000
mon	LSM1102-B	LSM1102-B	LSM1102-B	LSM1102-B
tue
wed		CM4242-T	LSM1102-L	LSM1102-L	LSM1102-T
thur
fri	CM4242-L	CM4242-L			CM4211-L	CM4211-L	CM4211-T

Any time that is not labelled means I'm in lab. So you can imagine how thrilled I am.