Back to school... again

Today was the first day of the period after Mid-Term Break... i'm just ahead of schedule by returning to hall at 1650 when i should have done so at 1830, so i'll blog awhile.

0700. Woke up, felt like i'm being dragged from dreamland. Bathed. Brushed teeth. Put on hair gel for the first time in NUS. Pity though, it didn't work cos i just dabbed a little. Haha... Went down for breakfast with the Malaysian scholars plus constance. Set off pretty early, around 0740, which was remarkable, to avoid being niaoed by Ho ting fei.

0800. Ho ting fei (HTF, hoo the f***???) 's lecture on Respiratory Physiology. Boring as usual. next.

1000. Lab test. Screwed up pretty bad, identified only one group outta two. Did all the other tests but were negative - i got nitro, which was pretty easy to deduce cos it was yellow and weakly acidic... and the other one i couldn't prove it was a ketone!!! arrgghhh. Did the 2,4 DNPH test FIVE times, 4 in methanol and 1 in aqueous. stil can't get.
alcohol? no. can't oxidise. neither can i do esterification.
acid? no. failed NaHCO3 test.
phenol? no. failed FeCl3 test (well maybe, i only did it once).
amine? no. failed 5% HCl solubility test.
conjugate salt of a amine? no, failed aqueous solubility test.
then i was thinking, last thing is carbonyl, but no aldehyde, cos can't oxidise... muz be ketone.

as a result: got screwed up observations and results and conclusions that doesn't seem to make sense at all.

casualties: dropped a test-tube into water bath, broke a test-tube, stained a test tube.

1200. Lunch with junice, farveez, niron, jing wen, and (oops forgot to ask her name!!! omg). Sat down and talked about alotsa stuff, but the stuff on sri lanka politics was particularly striking... by farveez.

1320. went to LT, sat with the guys while waiting for prof Ho to come along. most of the gals did their tutorial 2, whereas the guys were talking cock, surfing net.. (ok the gals were quite active with their laptops too...) then soon at around 1430 a card game begin between alvin and zhi wei and 2 gals... thing was, the gals started it... omg!!! hardcore cardsharpers.

~1500. junice came along and announced that prof ho would be extending his hols. which was good kinda for us, now that i can type this shit and most of the class can go home 1 hr earlier.
Prof Chui came and then started Tutorial 2, which was a mess!! for me. realised that my previous attempts on the tutorial was quite lacklustre as compared to Yi Jiang's, who was sitting next to me... haha which means i'm in deep shit for these topics. Heavy annotations accompanied my answers, together with big red crosses. And i dunno how those dudes managed to find such answers about how sp2 is more electronegative than sp3 becos of s-orbital being more spherical and blah.

1615. released from tutorial. went back to hall, typing this shit.

1715. sleep till god knows when. probably dinner time.