"The day I learnt the hidden meanings behind projects : Part 1...."

It's 12:49am now, Saturday. School started last Monday and by far this is one of the, if not worst week ever for this entire school year. After the 2 weeks holidays which is basically wasted by my sheer laziness, I really had a ..stressful week. =(

The tiredness kills! After sleeping roughly about 10-12 hours average everyday during the holidays, n u only get about 4-5 hours sleep during weekdays, it's terrible!!!
Felt extremly tired. And sleepy. And restless. =/ ARgh.. Don't think i learnt anything new this week at all, except not to do work last minute.

N PLEASE, never ever do a project last minute.
You'll regret it for life.
Especially if it's those that is supposed to be important and every other group is having such great progress with it.
Never ever!
I went over to chrisanne's place on Thursday to START our project. The due date is on Friday btw.. Kim could not go, what's the surprise? Had to cancel my Accounts tuition too.. So anyway, got over there. Things looked good in the beginning.. As in .. u could see that this will be such a great day to do a project, spirits are high, both of us looked happy. So ok, chrisanne asked me to wait for 5 mins coz she was on the phone which turned out to be about 10..
But i didn't mind! I was very tired that time too, just woke up from my nap , changed and when over. So i sat down, closed my eyes for a while and rested wearing my Bergaya Gap Cap. Sat, and thought.
As my mind begins to think about the project, it's weird cause outside i'm having this great spirit and motivation that i'm gonna complete the cool looking project. But as i think, all i see is failure, frustration and disappointment.

So got started with the project. Let's see.. this is what happened. It all started from 7...... =( Very, tiring.


Thursday, 17th June 2004...

6.30pm-7.00pm - Got disturbed from nap, looked at the clock and yelled.. omg it's late...quickly got prepared and left home for chrisanne's house!



7:00pm-7:10pm - Arrived at chrisanne's house.. Was asked to wait 5 mins and i took another 10 minutes nap~

10 minutes gone

7:10pm-7:45pm - Spirits were high, wanted to start.. Chrisanne checked the useless boxes i brought, talked a little to me... n went to check the corn flour from the kitchen and shouted as all she saw was corn flakes. "OMG! DUMB DELIVERY MAN! ARGH!!!!!!" No, she did not say that. I did, in me!

45 minutes gone


7:45pm-8:20pm - Maid called the man , i clearly heard she said that duno what uncle gonna send it personally..we waited..and waited...and waited...

1 hour 20 minutes gone


8:20pm-9:00pm - Chrisanne was frustrated why the 'uncle' has not arrived yet. Went to ask maid... now ms.maid said the uncle not coming. OMG! WASTED TIME LIKE HELL!!! Was figuring out ways to get to the shop ourselves, considering Vincent or anne's parents... Finally anne's parents took us to the very nearby shop..

2 hours gone


9:00pm-9:30pm - Went to the shop got 'corn flour'... i really remembered the mother saying tapioca flour...but chrisanne insisted it was corn.. bought it, took it back.. mother got angry... tried making, couldnt work......father went to shop with sister..and got it....

2 hours 30 minutes gone

9:30pm-10:15pm - Began starch making ,and oops..somewher before or after this there's the dinner that took some time too..i forgot when.. anyway, began making the starch, first try couldnt work, then tried again differnt style..got the sticky thing... was fun, wasted summore time thinking of testing the egg on water only first, bla bla bla, wasted time coz we could not aim properly with the test object.... finally called vincent over.. bla bla bla, we just rushed and put water on starch... formed a very nice bottom starch layer and top water layer....

3 hours and 15 minutes gone

10:15pm-10:30pm - vincent tried and broke 2 eggs from top floor..finally went in and didnt break, was a bit happy but i wasnt really.. coz i think it is a little too plain and wont be approved. chrisanne was looking frustrated and angry and said that it might not work, bla bla, craps, saying we will be the only group to fail, and she said she's not coming to school cause she got medical checkup and she passed me the starch to bring home. Somehow, i felt that medical checkup wasnt the main reason. Oh well...

3 hours and 30 minutes for one thing that only requires half an hour to do. Wow, great.

10:30pm-11.15pm - Got home and arrived home, asked dad for his opinions and ways to make it look more... 'complicated' and 'scientific'....

11.15pm-12.15am - Washed up and dad suggested many things and we spent quite some time talking bout it..finally ended up with putting a cloth in the center with a hole and it's hard to explain over here.. So i started on that part with help from a few people and got it done! now for the legs to hold it....

12.15am-12.45am - Mum came home and helped find something for the legs, finally just decided to use 4 chopsticks. Was fun! the thing looked nice, the starch looks perfect. everything was great. I stopped project.

12.45am-1.15am - Packed up, walked around, got my stuff ready. And slept.




Friday...project day.. big boxes, creative design poured in the class. Every group i say really did quite well and i was feeling a little small coz mine was just a pail~ To cut the story short, I did it. We did it. The 3 eggs didnt break! Was so extremely happy after facing so many problems. And we did it.

Will update more about the final test on the egg catcher n the emotions that came thru.... Part 2.. stay tuned!
For now,

-n-