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whyyyy! of all times. why must i be sooo unlucky -whines- i was already in quite a horrible mood last night coz of the following many many reasons. this week was quite horrible for me. and now this had to come and make my life worse.

1) it was a friday and i have not even started much on my lab report (due on monday) coz i had been out almost the ENTIRE week. tues - watch movie with household. wed - watch chelsea lose at stamford bridge. thurs - fiddling with the geopursuit thing. fri - nice buffet dinner at millenium gloucester. rarrr. ok fine it's my fault for slacking around so much during the week. but i told myself never mind i still got the weekends to work on my lab report. and now this! of all times the stupid journals choose not to work today. i dunno how i'm gonna be able to submit my lab report on monday. gah =(

2) it was friday and i somehow decided to chiong and redo abit of my last experiment (of which the report is due on monday) so that i can at least get smth to submit for NMR IR etc. so i started to multi-task (doing two experiments simultaneously) and i finally managed to get product (stupid rotary evaporator) at like 4.30pm? NMR tubes supposed to be submitted by 4.30pm so i hurriedly started making my NMR sample and while i was doing it along comes the PhD student to take the two racks away. though he wasn't nice enough to wait for me at least he said he can still do it for me if i rush it and bring it to the RCS building where the machines were. and so that's what i did. ran from chem building to RCS and lucky i managed to catch him in time. i hate rushing. seriously. i rather watch my bus drive away than run after it =p checked my NMR at 10.30pm last night and thankfully it was ok. if not i'm so dead coz that means no NMR to submit with report on monday.

3) i had my first glass cut in the chem lab this week as well. considering it's my 3rd year already and it's the first time i got cut by glassware i guess it's already quite good =p the stupid manometer tap was somehow stuck so i tried to turn it abit harder and the whole thing just broke in my hand. i was wearing gloves yah and i got poked abit but it didn't feel like anything so i thought it was ok. until my blue gloves started turning red then i realised i got cut =p at least it's small and not major. and no chemicals went in so everything's still fine..

4) my cinnamyl alcohol product somehow refused to heat up and distill over yesterday. i dunno why. my stupid oil bath was like so freaking hot already (about 150 degrees?) and the thermometer was only at 30 degrees. and it was like that for more than an hour? as i have been telling tom the past 5 weeks - patience is the key to doing chemistry experiments. but gah yesterday i was convinced that cheating and doing stuff through the easier way out is sometimes better =p haojun came along and helped me with the heat gun and some of the product oil managed to come off. thanks yah? if not i'd prob have just given up and break the whole distillation setup or smth =p astee's patience is running out and there's still 5 more weeks of inorganic lab to go. oh well.

5) i have lost weight. and no this is not smth to be happy about =p i suddenly discovered in the toilet yesterday that i can see my rib cage and hip bone. which is damn disgusting! the last time i could see them was like back in singapore before i even came to london. and everyone says i was too skinny then =p so after showering i decided to go to the kitchen and weigh myself and i realised i lost about 3kg since i came here? rarr i think i know the reason why - missing lunches. excluding weekends i only eat lunch once a week which i agree is very unhealthy but i've got no choice. i've got labs AND german to deal with so it's quite hard to find time to eat. but i really can't stand the state i'm in now so i guess i'd just try to squeeze in some time for lunch. some more benny's going home soon so no more huge dinners. oh well hopefully i'd put some weight back on eventually =p

6) i'm sick. recently developed a sore throat dunno from where. maybe it's the virus that's been going around the house =p so welcome to the club astee =p this reminds me of first year lorh. but first year was so much worse so i'm quite thankful now. i had a very bad stomachache yesterday before german too. maybe it's just my body telling me that i should eat smth =p ahhh i hope i dun fall really really sick coz that sucks. shall try to drink more water and look after myself if not mummy will worry and start complaining =p

ok i think that's all i am going to blog. seems like labs are like one of my greatest woes =p haha i still love chem it's just getting to me =p and last week i missed 5 hours of lectures which i guess is much better compared to 6 hours during the previous week =p it's really very bad lorh. once you start ponning it's quite hard to stop. i've told myself that long ago to prevent myself from skipping lectures. but some friday a few weeks back i succumbed so now i've been consistently ponning quite often liao oh well. out of the 11 modules we have for exams i haven't really been attending 3. which means i need to self-study 3 modules i hope that will be ok =p milo shaffer, john de mello and joachim steinke's courses hmm. one org one inorg and one phys haha at least it's quite spread out =p rarrr. time for me to go back to my lab report already. take care!