Thank you God!!!

FYP oral presentation - DONE!!!

WOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!

And you know what??!!!!

It was better than I expected!!!

When I handed out to my examiner and to my supervisor the printed powerpoint slides of my presentation, my examiner said "Wow, you did a lot of work. Very impressive!"

In my head I was like, WOOOOOOOW!!! Really ah???? I think it is the ONLY time that a professor told me such nice words:) But the thing that came out of my mouth was : "Well I hope I could explain the results well." And then I started the presentation.

There were some hiccups here and there. Like, why the organic nitrogen increased in the effluent. I gave an explanation that I really thought made sense, but apparently the concept was wrong. Then my supervisor asked me how to compute the organic nitrogen values. Then I fumbled! I told them to wait for a while as I refer to my notes. Then I muttered: "The equation is in the excel sheets.." (stupid answer). After what seemed like an eternity, I told them, "Wait, let me organize my thoughts first". Then my supervisor said: "What, you still have to refer to your notes for the computation?"

And then...AND THEN!!! Suddenly a miracle happened and it was like there's a ray of sunlight passing through my very clouded thoughts which revealed the answer. Then I said very thoughtfully:

(Ehem, ehem) "TN = TKN + nitrates + nitrites. TKN = ammonia + organic N. From the ion chromatography test, you get the values of nitrates, nitrites, and ammonia. And then you have the TN value from another test. You just subtract the nitrates+nitrites+ammonia from the TN value then you get the organic nitrogen."

Then the whole time they were staring at me and nodding their heads in agreement.

WHOOOAAAA what a moment in my life. hahahahahhaha:)

And then what else...yeah there were still some more pogi points but the point is, it really was better than I expected! They were kind toooo!!!! No scathing remarks whatsoever!!!! Even from my supervisor.

I really liked the examiner. She's a female professor, so you know...motherly figure and all. I thought she would be tough but she was very kind when asking questions, and I really had to think on my feet while answering her questions. But the thing is, she thought the answers made sense and that's grrrreeeeaaaaaatttt!!!

Wow Lord thank you so much for the miracles today. Even for waking me up! I slept at 6:15 am today to polish the presentation, and I set my alarm to 6:45 am coz my presentation is at 9 am, and I thought of eating breakfast and calling John among other things. But I overslept!!! And the alarm clock didn't work! I woke up in a jolt at 7:45 am, and I heard laughter in my head when I woke up. Don't laugh but I believe the angels woke me up so I won't be late, and I had JUST ENOUGH time to do all the things I had to do...including getting dressed up of course, kneeling down to pray before leaving the room, calling John, eating yoghurt, and printing my powerpoint slides!

I only had 1 1/2 hours of sleep but I am feeling hyper! And I have to work later too 1-5pm. IT'S OKAY!!!!:)

All the glory and honor belongs to you Lord. :)

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALWAYS BEING WITH ME, really, throughout this whole NUS journey...even when I pushed you away and thought I was all alone carrying all my problems. Thank you for the people you used to bless me too. My family, and of course my John!!! And my friends!!!!

JOSEPH!!! Thank you sooooooooooooo much for EVERYTHING too!!! For lending me your matric card and you computer lab, being my meal buddy, study buddy, and loan shark...hahahhahahahaha joke....NGA PALA I HAVE TO PAY FOR THE VACATION STAY NA as in right now, so I'll have to end this post na.

Yaaaaaaaaayyy!!! Ivy let's go house hunting na!!!!!

Yiheeee.:)