today, school sucked. like most days, it was long, boring, and horrible. the only difference was that today ended at 4 with a bang (ie bio SPA) and also i discovered that 6 days from now i will be taking 3 papers in a row- physics SPA and GP common test papers 1 and 2. this means roughly 5 hours of continuous mental exertion; that’s 5 more than what you should have to do in an entire week. plus today i also had to put up with markwang’s non-stop suanning about me being a cow, looking like a guppy, and liking certain unfortunate male specimens. life is so unfair.

also, because i owe my most notable physics spa screw-up (ie the one that won the Pulleys Anonymous award) to a lack of prior information on the exam question, i have decided that that will never happen again. it also helps that i have my mom’s blessing on this, she who has urged me to “keep updated” with speculations on test questions which are Coming Attractions. which is why I was thoroughly informed on the bio SPA i had to do today.

as such, i spent half of today worrying about whether i should use potato cubes of uniform thickness or potato discs of negligible thickness, or potato strips of different lengths, or “potato stock” as half the guys in my class were in favour of. however, seeing that a food blender is probably not on the list of Common Items to be Found in the Biology Lab (on that front i must say pulleys do have an advantage, because surely they’re common items in the physics labs!) i decided against the option of creating catalase soup from potato chunks and water. in fact i wasn’t sure if the guys were just pulling my leg because they wanted to see write “mash the potato, then mix with one part water and blend well” in my a level report, so i decided to just do it the safe way and chop up little potato cubes. in the end i think miss hor said we could make “certain assumptions” about the availability of catalase solution, which btw i think is a load of bullshit because nobody i know carries a test-tube of 1.0 m catalase solution (aq) around in their pockets. they shouldn’t be allowed to use catalase solution! that’s cheating!

i bet nobody will listen to me.