am slightly happier now that i've burned a cd of soothing oldies to accompany my mugging.

this morning was traumatizing.

i even came up with a song as a soundtrack:
-sing to the tune of Tomorrow-

the sun won't come up tomorrow!
cuz we we flunked our prelim practicaaals,
now we're dead.

the sun won't come up tomorrow
you can say goodbye to rjc,
there's no hope~

chorus:
we've flunked it!
its all screwed!
why didn't it
change colour?
there was nothing
that we could do!

we kept shaking the thing
stupid test tube
why the hell was it stiiiill bluue?
dumb enzyyymes

we've flunked it!
its all screwed!
why didn't it
change colour?
we'll spend first three months....
slacking awaaaaaaaay

*sighs*

what happened was that we were supposed to time the duration that the different concentrations of enzymes digested the iodine-stained starch solution.

sounds easy enough right?

oho but 10 minutes passed and still NO decolourization at all. in the next 30 minutes, only /some/of us had one test tube decolourizing and geez if that that too half an hour, what about the double triple and quadryple dilutions?? huh huh?

we were all in a silent frenzy, furiously shaking the test-tubes. we asked the teachers in wide-eyed panicky tones why it was taking so long? is this supposed to happen? and she just gave me this benign look and told me to the next experiment.

augh.

the unlucky one re-did this experiment over and over thinking they mixed up the solutions and had no time to do the rest of the paper because they were to caught up in their uh, frenzy.

near the end of the practical, i was so frazzled [like others] and knocked down several containers of liquid, thereby soiling my paper. augh. bio practicals are supposed to be EASY.

later on, amid the panicky exclamations of everybody who were on the same shift as us, a teacher finally came to explain What Had Gone Wrong.

the enzymes had been in the refrigerator and when it was time for us to use it, the bloody protein things had NOT WARMED UP TO USABLE TEMPERATURE.

am not happy. it was uber disastrous. i walked out of the bloody lab stunned.