i shall get away from icy tower for a bit. i started playing it and the next thing i knew was, the sky went dark and i totally missed the process (when i'm sitting right next to the window -.-) gosh, just shows how addictive icy tower is, just like bejeweled last year. (:

lab in the morning. cost me 2 hours to get to ntu as usual. but oh well, i had my times magazine to keep me company so it wasn't all that bad (: there goes the usual stuff: dissolving, liquid-liquid extraction, drying with magnesium sulphate, with dessicator, with suction pump, with rotary evaporator (haha so many ways of obtaining solute from solution lol). then comes the widely used thin layer chromatography (first time i got the name right, cos i'd been think the abbreviation was TRC all along and couldn't piece together the full name :p). minh phuong kept breaking the TLC plates. to the point that when she needed the lecturer to sign her out, she waved to him and he thought she broke something again and immediately went to bring a broom and dustpan over. LOL. blacklisted :x but it's her first time. i broke so many of my previous mentor's glassware. i hoped he didn't have to pay too much for it! :x haha :) it was scheduled to end at 3pm but we amazingly finished at 12noon. of course, at a price. our yields were pretty low because in our speed, we spilled some of the sample. minh phuong spilled almost all. her table was like white with dried-up sample LOL. hahaha! ok i shouldn't laugh, cos i destroyed my entire sample on my first day at ntu last year ：x anyway, 12 is still way too early! lol. so huangcheng, here i come (:

黄城夜韵 was great (: haha took dewei's ticket without his permission. i still don't know why he couldn't make it at the last minute though. shall ask him when i see him on monday. anyway, big thanks. i just realised how much i missed out on last year. it's really good. aside from a few typical scenes of soap operas, i think the plot was sufficiently complex. i can't imagine 17/18-year-olds piecing together such intertwining yet logical and easy-to-follow plotlines. this requires an incredible amount of experience and skill! kudos people!

especially loved the way they presented 别无选择, how the "gods" and mortals acted were on the same stage, though they. it was nicely organised and unconfusing (: my favourite plot was still the 代价 that beehoon told us about last year, and were deliberating over how to end the story properly. no spoilers here, so yea, i'm not telling you the decided ending (: i found it vaguely familiar when the play first started and then got really intrigued when i recalled the storyline. (y) the actors and actresses were good. plus the theme 命运 was really thought-provoking. i think it's worth the watch (: