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Monday, March 31st, 2008
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12:33 am - Design blues
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Words don't lie. Or rather, MSN nicks don't lie. If more than 4 people are whining about the same thing, then it's really quite possible that Design project II is a bitch too.
Ha ha... done for the week. My weekend only started on sunday 2pm. That's like, after working non stop on the thing everyday since last monday. I just wish the profs will enter our comp labs and *SEE* the hordes of CBE year 4 ppl camping there all day just to finish up the latest design report.
Like I said, we're not even mechanical engineers. Why must we know abt mechanical integrity of our plant, steel types and engineering drawings?
Yup, between FYP and Design Project, my last semester of studying is becoming memorable in the wrong sort of way.
current mood:  alright, i guess
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| Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
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3:56 pm - Forever Your Pain, part 2
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Post-worthy thing to blog about.
And it doesn't help that when it's a good thing that happened, I'll try to do something more *productive* like say, typing out my fyp report or some more *entertaining* like gaming on my ps2.
But whenever it's something bad, then it's really blog-worthy.
So forgive me if I'm being really bitchy, cause life's a bitch as well so I'm not the first bitch that existed.
( So it was another FYP meeting on another rainy day )
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| Thursday, March 13th, 2008
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3:19 pm - FYP: Forever Your Pain
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Alright so my Final Year project involves testing out polymers and seeing their interaction with recombinant proteins. Since it's a bio lab, my experiments takes three days to produce results.
So far for this week the only day where I haven't been to the lab is Monday. At the rate my prof wants results, I've submitted to the fact that we aren't just FYP students, in fact just call us FYP slaves and be done with it.
Sorry, but it's really not my fault that that's the way the world functions, and a couple of procedures need overnight incubation time. Just today, after getting fresh results from the lab, she asks me to do Bradford assay. That's about okay, but then she says something to the effect of "You better continue doing experiments each week, and I don't care whether you've got other obligations such as a FYP first draft due next week, or term paper to hand up on tomorrow. Since you have weekends, why not write your report then?"
Oh, so much for humane treatment of students. But wait, we're slaves, so that about explains it. Slaves don't have any say and just say yes. Yes, I'll do more work. Yes, I'll even do work on weekends and every other time all the time.
For a short explanation of what Bradford does, it basically measures total protein concentration in whatever solution you feed to the machine. Before taking readings, you have to calibrate the machine first, which takes about one afternoon to do. (And perhaps one night planning out the protocol to calibrate the machine) And due to the almighty ways that the world functions, even if I can calibrate the machine tomorrow AND feed my samples to it, my samples would have been sitting around doing nothing for 2 days. Now I won't be surprised if something goes wrong cause something degraded/decayed in my protein solutions.
Damn, why can't she just tell me earlier she wanted a Bradford so I could just calibrate the machine earlier?
She's been asking for results since Tuesday, where I've started my first day of experiment. The fact that I can deliver results on Thursday already shows I'm not slacking in the least right?
I've been keeping a record of all the experiments that I've been doing since this semester started, and so far I've been quite consistent doing one experiment per week except for two weeks. (Yes including my recess break which was virtually not a break at all.) Yet after all this time I haven't seemed to catch up with the rest of her FYP students.
Like, crud. Somehow a part of me regrets not doing FYP since recess break during last semester, but then another part doesn't regret it since it was after all, for the sake of my sanity and exam results.
Makes you wonder whether she's saying that I'm lagging behind just to force me to work more.
Sigh. I can almost imagine her ultimate move. "Alright, why not you just repeat your experiments just to see how reproducible the results are. Perhaps you can get some error bars too while you're doing that." (Note: To generate error bars, at least 3 experiments must be performed)
GAWD NO. But then what comes out of my mouth will just be another yes.
current mood:  annoyed
current music: Give me Novocaine, Green Day
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| Sunday, March 9th, 2008
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10:15 am
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Currently crazy over Green Day cause their songs are about the only that makes sense these days.
Now I just came along this hilarious song, great for stress relief and the like.
Gawd it was released in 1997, 11 years ago. Yeah, I'm getting old so fuck you. XD
The Grouch by Green Day
I was a young boy that had big plans.
Now I'm just another shitty old man.
I don't have fun and I hate everything.
The world owes me, so fuck you.
Glory days don't mean shit to me.
I drank a six pack of apathy.
Life's a bitch and so am I.
The world owes me, so fuck you.
Wasted youth and a fistful of ideals.
I had a young and optimisitic point of view.
Wasted youth and a fistful of ideals.
I had a young and optimisitic point of view.
I've decomposed, yet my gut's getting fat.
Oh my god I'm turning old like my dad.
I'm always rude.
I've got a bad attitude.
The world owes me, so fuck you.
The wife's a nag and the kid's fucking up.
I don't have sex `cause I can't get it up.
I'm just a grouch sitting on the couch.
The world owes me, so fuck you.
current mood:  amused
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| Monday, February 25th, 2008
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8:53 pm
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Ah, when FYP results are bad, time to give life the third finger.
Currently in love with Green Day songs, somehow they're more funny than My Chemical Rommance. Some of their old songs are just plain bratty. And even a song about drag queen wannabes is funny.
First punk rock song I ever heard accompanied by trumpet and trombone riffs. O.o Amazing.
King for a Day by Green Day
Started at the age of 4.
My mother went to the grocery store.
Went sneaking throught her bedroom door to find something in a size 4.
Sugar and spice and everything nice wasn't made for only girls.
GI Joe in panty hose is making room for the one and only.
King for a day, princess by dawn.
King for a day in a leather thong.
King for a day, princess by dawn.
Just wait 'til all the guys get a load of me.
My daddy threw me in therapy.
He thinks I'm not a real man.
Who put the drag in the drag queen.
Don't knock it until you tried it
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| Sunday, February 17th, 2008
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10:03 am
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Attended the Hall 11 production's drama which was in DBS theatre yesterday, for which my friend was the script writer (woo hoo). The whole play was in Chinese, though being Singaporean in context there was also Singlish, Hokkien and the usual short forms like "sem" "DOTA" and of course "noob".
This girl at the row behind was asking "What's Dota?". Me feels that's just cute.
( General synopsis of the play )
The acting was quite alright, most funny was the scene with the gay and the unwilling guy. Slapstick always makes you happy.
Have 2 quiz next week. But the silver lining is that my best friend is back from Aust and we'll be going PS to eat sushi and watch Sweeney Todd together. We'll also be decking out in our gothic punk casual wear, all the more reason for photo taking XD.
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| Thursday, February 14th, 2008
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2:22 pm - My 10 cents worth on Valentine's Day
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It's Vincent Valentine's Day. Or Vincent's Valentines Day. =3
In the game, he gets called Mr Valentine a lot. Maybe it's cause he looks senior-ish, after so many years of moping around over dead scientist that isn't quite dead due to Jenova cells Lucrecia.
She just reeks of Aeris-rip-off, doesn't it? Cloud has Aeris to mope over, Vincent has Lucrecia. They even have similar hair, just different ribbons; one hair is braided, the other not. Because of Sephiroth, both ended up in a dead or not-so-dead state.
Wonder if they'll make a Cloud version of Dirge. I mean, he already has Fenhir and a 6-piece sword First Tsuguri.
What's more, with the World Rescue Organisation calling him MISTER STRIFE, the game's set to sell. *evil laughter*
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| Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
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1:53 am
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Awesome song. Awesome. awesome.
"Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" by Greenday
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
and I'm the only one and I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah
I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone
Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everything's alright
Check my vital signs
To know I'm still alive and I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Ah-ah, Aaah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ah
I walk alone
I walk a...
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a...
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone...
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| Monday, January 14th, 2008
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8:16 pm
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Hum, this must be major lag, cause after a full 4 months I finally gotten off my lazy bum and installed my tablet.
Wonder what was the trigger. Maybe it's the drawing that I drew on my lecture notes today. I *really* haven't been drawing lately, kinda makes me feel ashamed of myself as an artist, but then again, I don't really care.
Meh, there'a always a side of me that doesn't care. Life is just a journey through time, and whether or not you see certain things as important or not is just up to you.
And now, off to experiment on my drawing skills with a stylus... ^^
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| Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
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4:59 pm - General life update
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Made the most stupid error in my FYP-ing history. I forgot to add water to dilute the concentration of this buffer to the correct amount, and was happily adding it to other things before I realised I forgot to add water to get the correct volume.
Meh, there goes another portion of the expensive ingredients. (Most sadly, the DTT. It seems to be the most expensive of all the stuff I add.) Sort of the modern alchemist mixing them up, but not quite.
Lab-stuff aside, suddenly gained the urge to level a *female* wizard instead of a male one. I just decided I couldn't stand the ah-kwa move that male high wizards do when they cast spell, and quite simply, the female sprite for high wizard looks better.
Ah ha, so that's 99+ 53 levels down the drain since my male wiz is rather highly levelled. (99 levels to rebirth, 53 levels as high novice and high mage) What's more, I am SERIOUSLY considering getting some protection against those archer classes who like to take pot shots at me just cause I have low hp.
But for all the sacrifices of life and love, I guess I'm much more willing to sacrifice 15 bucks for the remaining three books of Vampire Knight. I just *had* to have the hardcopies so that I don't have to switch on my comp and navigate around just to see Kaname's face. He's the kind of character that grows more murky and sinister the more you probe into the story. Sort of like the vampire royalty version of Raito of Deathnote. Or maybe the vampire version of My boyfriend is a Prince.
I guess I'll have to spend tomorrow again in lab, just cause of this fess up today. (What's morte it's supposedly my 3rd attempt on this control experiment, yet I still can't seem to get it right. pif)
Ah, shit happens. What to do? >.
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