monday
there was black out during maths lecture, but somehow, the visualiser was not affected. so teacher could still carry on teaching as he was using the visualiser. it seems like watching a movie.
the china people came. there's 2 of them in my class. luckily it didn't rain again while we were in the container classroom having gp. there was voting for the class exco. obviously i didn't get the role. i shall try harder to get into cca exco.
had sectionals in the afternoon. i was made to play 1st clar. didn't like it but no choice. the notes are freaking high and a lot of running notes. 2nd and 3rd also have a lot of running notes but lesser and lower range. that's why i chose to play 2nd.
had section dinner. only 5people went out of 7. ate macs at serene centre. everyone ordered fillet-o-fish. took bus to orchard and mrt-ed home.
tuesday
chem practical was crap. found out during bio lecture that i was one of the 3 person chosen to go to imcb from wed to fri. it's so unexpected. it was when i decided that i don't want to go, i was chosen. i didn't want to miss lessons at first. bio lecture as usual was full of crap in the beginning. chem lecture is always better, but i always feel like falling asleep during chem, cause i'm tired and the teacher's voice is very soothing. econs was blahblahblah.
the good thing about going to imcb is that i don't have to hand up my chem practical on wed. just hope that the teacher don't kill me.
wednesday
got to wake up 1.5hrs later than usual. mrt-ed to bouna vista. took the shuttle bus to proteos building. waited at the entrance. it made me remember of last year. after 30minutes or so of waiting, finally got our entry pass and attended a safety briefing.
went back to the lab for an introduction to the workshop by a guy called ron. there's another guy called ronnie.
practiced using the micropipette than up to the zebrafish facility to collect our zebrafish embryo.
lunch-ed at the foodcourt at matrix building. i love the jelly there.
played some games while waiting for everyone to come back as we didn't have the password to the computer. quite fun, but we have to keep our volume down to prevent complains.
separated the embryos into petri dishes. i was made to do everything as my partner scared that she will destroy the embryos. had to poke the chorion (the shell of the embryo) under the microscope. i killed a few while doing so. add lithium chloride. incubate. wash. incubate.
the fun part was going to the zebrafish facility to separate the male and the female fish. took a long time at it cause there was some that looks neither male nor female when they are actually one of it.
relased at 5pm. tired.
thursday
got to report there later. so ate macs in the morning and reached there at 8.30am. did some homework. only 1 maths question and started using the computer.
got to remove the chorion of the embryo, it's jsut basically an outer layer surrounding the fish. i killed some in the process. went to watch the fish mate. they are taking very long. slacked from 11am onwards, occasionally looking in the microscope.
left at 4.30pm.
did some homework at night. studied a little.
friday
reached there at 8.30am again. did maths tutorial.
i'm broke after spending a lot of money yesterday on food. have just enough left for lunch. look at the fish. used the computer till it's time to take photos. lunch-ed and back for more computer. it's totally boring except for some time when i went to look under the microscope.
had presentation, which was interesting as we all presented on different things. i presented only a slide.
went back to the lab to kill the fish with bleach. so cruel. we put the fish under the microscope and add bleach to watch it die. we are so inhuman. i just watched while others kill it.
got our photos and a certificate! talked a while with the instructors. than left at 4pm. isn't really that early as compared to last year.
tried doing chemistry tutorial on gases. i don't know how to do even after reading the notes. this is bad.
saturday
went for band. found out that they thought new topics for chem bio maths. chem and bio is difficult. i'm so going to die.
there's band camp during the march holidays for 3days. i was put in the food committee to help with the ordering of the food. they make j1s do the job. this is so bad.
sunday
found a good caterer from my sis but have to wait for her friend to reply.
watched west side story during piano lesson.
