Chemistry Guide.

I'm kinda LAME for today.
LAME, as in I couldn't really walk properly.
Think my calf muscle happily knotted itself up, due to what reason I don't know.
So there was no way I could make it to that frigging school of mine.

& I really ought to stop slacking & start working hard,
which means more mugging & less solitaire showdowns. ):

Chem prac's tomorrow.
When tested with aqueous sodium hydroxide,
No reaction -- Ammonium ion
White ppt -- Zinc / lead(II) / aluminium ion (soluble in excess) OR Calcium ion (insoluble in excess)
Blue ppt -- Copper (II) ion
Dirty green ppt -- Iron (II) ion
Reddish-brown ppt -- Iron (III) ion

When tested with aqueous ammonia,
No reaction -- Ammonium / Calcium ion
White ppt -- Lead (II) / Aluminium ion (soluble in excess) OR Zinc ion (insoluble in excess)
Blue ppt -- Copper (II) ion
Dirty green ppt -- Iron (II) ion
Reddish-brown ppt -- Iron (III) ion

To test for nitrates, add dilute sodium hydroxide. Add aluminium powder. Warm, & test for gas.
If ammonia gas is produced, there will be a pungent smell & it will turn red litmus paper blue.

To test for carbonates, add HCl & test for carbon dioxide by bubbling the gas into limewater.
(I like this 'cause it's like the easiest. Hee.)

To test for chlorides, add dilute nitric acid. Then add aqueous silver nitrate. A white ppt (silver chloride) should form.

To test for iodides, add dilute nitric acid. Then add aqueous silver nitrate. A yellow ppt should be formed.

To form for sulphates, add HCl followed by aqueous barium chloride. A white ppt (barium sulphate) should form.

Yaye. I shall not drone on about the Testing Gases part. Haha.
Lalala, & yes,
To Mr Rubbish:
My slurpee, cookies & BBQ chicken wings! Lol. (:

Last thing:
I can't wait for Wednesday's training, even though it's like the last training before open water nationals this Sunday. Mmm. ><

This lovely bunch of people.

:LAST WEEKEND:





















I'm lazy to even type.
Visuals convey better than words do(:

I LOVE THIS BUNCH OF PEOPLE.

Pouring out the contents of my heart...

I need to catch up on my work!
I have this bad feeling that I'm lagging far far behind others.
Full of question marks in Physics & Chemistry lessons.

Going for some swim at SP tomorrow with WS to help raise funds.
I'm praying hard that tomorrow will be a nice day for me.
I wouldn't want my mood to swing till the extreme end again.

I miss onewhole. I really do.
I miss the times
when we really had truckloads of fun,
when we would go for training together,
when we would go study at Macs/library together,
when we would make conference calls late into the night,
when I felt we were really "the best of friends",
when that closest quarter would miss me when he was away for camp.

But now, it's really gone.
The friendliness, the closeness, the laughter, the smses, the calls, the outings, the company.

I'm not a social butterfly.
& I don't need a huge circle of friends.
Just having a few who are close to my heart is enough.

Yeah, & thank you Huabin for listening to me that day.
I really appreciate that. (=


13 years & counting... (:

Will update about NUS invitationals some other day...
Goodnight to the last strawberry in my bowl. You're going down my stomach tonight.

After-effects?

The effects from that dreadful Sunday have mostly worn off.
(I hope.)
Then I can really enjoy training tomorrow.
I don't want to be sulking like some irritating idiot at training.
& I think doing that would be unfair to people around me.

So yeah, if nothing goes wrong between tonight & tomorrow evening,
you should be able to see Xiaoying all smiles at Toapayoh pool. (=

asdfkljgbnli.

I felt tiny, unimportant, pissed, annoyed, lonely, grouchy today.
I wasn't even sure what happened to me today.
Mood swings? PMS-ing?
asdfkljgbnli.

At times, I asked myself what I was actually annoyed at.
But the answer appeared to be: Nothing.
Even if there was, I didn't really know what was exactly pissing me off.

I was irritated by my wounds that just can't seem to stay close and heal properly.
I was irritated by my stupidly dry hair.
I was irritated by how things turned out today.
I was irritated by someone's actions.
I was irritated by the way someone talked to others.

And suddenly I thought,
Where exactly are all my friends?

Evaporating into the surrounding air might help me now.
I just want to be shut out from my mind,
from the thoughts I'm having now,
about him..
about her..
But they just keep coming back into this almost-bursting mind of mine.
Ugh.

SHIT YOU.

TOMORROW.

1 MORE DAY.

Tomorrow's the day.
Surprisingly, I'm still rather calm & unaffected in a way.
But once night falls,
trust me, my jitters will be back.
& maybe my tears too.

I want a Mars bar before my race tomorrow!
Anybody who wants to be that kind soul?
Hahaha.
I promise I'll swim my 100% if i see one.

Nono, 120%!

The countdown...

2 MORE DAYS.


I need more C O N F I D E N C E .

Wallpaper.

MY CURRENT DESKTOP WALLPAPER
& looking at this certainly brightens up my day!
I love this bunch of people.

I'm in a good mood,
& have decided to be a good girl today.
So I shall skip my nap & go do my work now.
I'm serious.
Sleeping all day isn't gonna help me in making meaning out of my
Math
Chem
Physics
Bio
English
notes.

I gotta help .


On a random note,
my phone's kinda quiet today.
Hmm.
Haha, nevermind. =D

ABC

ABC ):

Aah ****, I have a big fat ugly ABC on my leg.

Abrasion + Bruise + Cut.

I want to swim freely on Saturday,
without any pain,
without any wound,
without any injury,
without any worries.

Will I be able to break my own record? .. Will I?
Hmm, I'm a lil' doubtful..

A lot of people had this blur, I-want-to-go-back-to-sleep look this morning.


I am no exception.
So, should I sleep early tonight?
Yes, I think I should.
I'll go finish up my work & head for my pillow.
GOODNIGHT & BYEBYE MONDAY.

I almost forgot to do my daily countdown!
No wonder my page looks a lil' empty (without the apples)
Hee.

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5 days to go!

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Pardon me, I'm still laughing at this sms I received just now.
It's sweet luh, I must admit.
But it just cracks me up.
Hahaha.
Blehh, I'm not gonna share.
But yeah, a big thank-you to that person.

TODAY WAS A H-A-P-P-Y DAY !

Last night, I stayed up till 3.30am for god knows what reason.
& I watched the first 28 minutes of the Germany-Portugal match with my father.
& then this morning, obviously I couldn't wake up luh.
Ended up heading to Harbourfront all alone.
But at Harbourfront, the situation changed.
I'm not gonna go into details.
Those who know will know..
& those who don't, BOO & TOO BAD to you.
Haha.

I think the sand seems to have some grudge against me these few weeks.
Since last week, it's been giving me abrasions & cuts as and when it feels like.
Ugh damn painful luh.
1 on my elbow & the other on the back of my leg.
Grrr, I have 2 more big fat ugly scars to my collection now.

Okay, grumbles aside for now.
WS built a fortress at Palawan today.
Everyone was really
digging, piling, flattening...
digging, piling, flattening...
(Occasionally, there were sand wars.
Childish people started throwing sand at each other.
Hmm I wonder who. Lol!)
Anyway, the fortress was really cute.
After that, we buried SiXuan in the huge trench-like hole.
& then they did Taupoooooook!
Hee, I love watching people play Taupoooooook!
Yeaps, & we all had a good laugh.

Yaye, & to add on to Xiaoying's list of Reasons Why Today Was A Happy Day,
I received:

• 3 Ferrero Rochers from Calvin
• a box of Strawberry-&-Chocolate Pocky sticks from Mr Kwa
  (I think that box's quite expensive. But it's already almost half empty. Hee.)
• & an additional Subway Double-choc cookie from :) !

Therefore, today's really a H-A-P-P-Y day.

But we'll still have to face the reality once all the fun has dissipated into thin air.
My fav day of the week's gone (& in case you didn't know, it's Sunday. Haha.)
& Monday's coming. In fact, it's already here.

I'm gonna get infected by the World Cup fever just before it's over! So I've decided to catch the final match this morning! Another hour to tahan.
& then it'll be back to school to catch up with all the lessons I've missed for the past 2 weeks.

Italy or France?
I know my father, Justin, Ellis, :), Kelvin & a lot others are supporting Italy.
I guess I'll just wait till I spot a hot player on the field
& support his team. Heh.

Yaye, I helped Anges to buy a pair of earrings today.
& got another pair for myself.
Minhui bought too.

Nothing much to talk about for today.
Or rather yesterday...
Since it's already Sunday.

Anyway, I asked that person where he got that French phrase from.
& he said his French dictionary gave him that idea.
Hahahaha.
So cute. (Although it was a lil' lame.) :)

Beach training in a few hours!
Whee, so excited.
Actually I'm not excited about the training part la.
But just because I've decided to wear my I LOVE CHOCOLATE tee!
YAYE.
I love it more than anything else.


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Count the number of apples.

6 more days!

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I received this in an sms
& that person didn't want to tell me what it means.
Wanted to ask my friends who take French
but they're all offline.

So very conveniently, I tried www.dictionary.com.
So very conveniently, I typed in Je manque tu & clicked Search.
& guess what www.dictionary.com asked me?

Did you mean Jam nut?

Haha, this totally cracked me up luh.
Well, then I moved on to using online translators.
This was getting quite fun actually.
It's starting to feel like some hunting-for-clues-&-finding-a-treaure game.
Oh yes, it's called a treasure hunt. Lol!

Online translators are super efficient.
I just typed in my phrase, clicked Translate
& the translated phrase just pops out the next moment.
& they can translate...
from English to German
from English to French
from English to Portuguese
from English to Spanish
from English to Russian
from French to English
from French to Spanish
from French to German
from Italian to Russian
Blah blah blah.
(I'll take ages to finish typing the whole list.
But you get the idea, don't you?)

I'm fascinated with online translators.

Now I know what it means. :)

& I realised I haven't eaten an apple for days.
I know why I had been so stressed lately...
Maybe it's one of my withdrawal symptoms!
lol.

It's already the 8th now. Exactly 7 days till the C day arrives.