Saturday, August 16, 2008
Just a gentle reminder to my sloth-like self:
1) Physics WS (Thank you Miss Chua for the extension)
2) 4 Chinese article reviews
3) 1 LUNWEN (Grossly overdue)
4) Biography reviews (Desmond, Samuel, Zijian, Chomz, Xiaodong)
5) Graphs Homework
6) Plants WS
7) Geog WS? (Would Yaphb still accept it?)
8) Studying for Physics, Chem and possibly Math.
9) Preparing for Week 10 DEBATES
10) Failure of a preliminary research paper
11) French Homework and CONTROLE
To reply Kevin:
Project's Day turned out to be much more of a horror than it should have been, but a little better than the original "no results" show. Jun Jie dared to call me and say "There's nothing on the plates". I should have slapped him because those few words reduced by productivity rate by approximately 400%. True, there were no results. FOR ONLY THE -3, -2 AND -1 PLATES! The -4 serial dilution plate had bacteria! I discovered that at 4pm after lamenting and taking absorbance levels for 2 hours when I could have done so in 15 minutes. So in 1 hour we counted the bacteria colonies which happened to be less than 1mm wide in diameter each on the bacteria plates with the smallest number counted being 872. Of course, there was the plotting of graphs and amending of procedure which we rushed. And obviously we didn't have enough time for further improvements, data analysis and discussion. So the last few parts of our powerpoint was very slipshod. We ran to SC2 only to have Yip Cheng Wai threatening to disqualify us for being 5 minutes late. And the even sadder thing was that the maggot flatulence group presented before us, causing the inevitable juxtapose of powerpoint and presentation quality of us against them. Furthermore, Junjie stammered and paused a lot when presenting INTRO, VARIABLES, OBJECTIVES AND GOT THE RATIONALE WRONG. I would have done the entire presentation myself if not for the required "team coordination" that gives points. Jiaxun was fine with the procedure but overly pedantic until the extent of boring. I made a few mistakes here and there too with my explaining and uncoordinated help with the slides from my team mates. Worse, Sandra was also judging. It ended rather anti-climatically with Sandra asking surprisingly easy questions like "How did you decide to use electric currents" and "What are the applications of your project". In short, we failed terribly.
Bright side, debates is turning out to be better than I expected. Thanks to yongzhi! Thanks for the help! Now, my teammates, let us advance towards our rightful victory, leaving the path behind ablaze with the residue of our ebullient glory.
And yes, even if one of you is stuck in Sabah (Have fun!)
Or the fact that the ONLY other one can barely enunciate or tear his eyes away from a script.
But fret not! There's always faith and hope! Universally applicable lies disguised as solutions that are your answers to any problem!
Onward to MUN sabbatical! Helmed by SuniJaya! MUHAHAHA!
Dark Memories[5:59 PM]
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