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I have this lab test that I really dislike to do. It's called Molecular Weight Distribution test, one of the 10(?) tests I do for my lab sessions. Don't ask me what it's all about because I am not too sure myself.

First thing I do is collect wastewater from the BAC columns 2 and 3, then filter the samples through 0.6 micron filter paper ( I THINK). Then I proceed to this room at the back of the lab and filter some more the wastewater samples through 100kDa, 10kDa, and 1Kda membranes, which take around 5 min, 15 min, and 1 hr respectively for the water to trickle down. Then I gather the samples again and proceed to another room and do the NPOC test for the filtered samples. The steps in between are also so meticulous to avoid contamination and inaccuracies in the data.

I dislike it mainly because of the 1 hour wait for the 1kDa membrane before proceeding to the next step, and I have to do that for both the BAC2 and BAC3 samples. I would rather do something that's you kn0w, continuous, so you could just get it done and over with already.

This is also the reason why I'm here at the computer cluster, blogging. Usually there are other things I can concurrently do with that test, but not today. Why? Coz it's liddat, lor.

Maybe after I graduate and get out of Singapore I will stop blogging in Singlish.

Yesterday I sms-ed Sundeep and thanked him for all the help he gave me for Transportation Plannning last sem, because my grade turned out OK. It's one of those subjects with scary lecture notes (hello mathematical programming), and a seemingly out-of-this-world project. But I'm glad every semester I have people around to help me with stuff. Like Rotana had been the sem before that haha. Yeba!

Oops I have to get back to the lab now.