hello, i'm bored, tired and cranky. plus, channel 5 has stopped showing 7th heaven, which means that i am also being deprived of my dose of sunday morning soap. not to mention barry-watson ogling, and the simon guy who used be really wimpy but has now become quite cute. only too bad he's probably younger than me and i don't date younger guys.

oh, something amusing that happened during friday's chem prac. which is unusual because practicals by definition are not meant to be amusing; they are meant to convert normal people into nerds at the expense of immeasurable amounts of braincells and social life. anyway. on friday we got to do this prac which involved electrolysis, which means that we got to make our very own electrochemical cell and use it to electroplate stuff! *gasp!* and, while my classmates were showing off their copper-plated RJ badges (which i have to say look more funky than the normal one, though the funkiness of a school badge is possibly limited by the fact that it is a school badge and therefore finitely funkifiable) i had a brainwave! and that brainwave was: copper plate my earring! luckily i happened to have an extra earring in my wallet, and it was the silver stud which looks like a cross from tic-tac-toe. more importantly, it is lucky that i don't particularly like it. because what happened was that i proceeded to copper-plate it, and voila! i ended up with this brownish ear stud with unidentifiable partially-oxidised green deposits spotted all over it. so i panicked and thought, 'how fugly, i'd never wear that', and proceeded to leave it in the electrolyte even longer, until the brown colouration turned copper-PINK, and the green shit turned into even BRIGHTER green shit. so that was quite pissifying, but i thought that since it's already done, i might as well go the whole way and bake it too, so that the copper stuff doesn't come off all over the place. and then, when i happily removed the earring from the incubator a few minutes later, erica, my dearestest friend, was like 'omg did you just copper plate your earring?? did you know that copper is like reactive???' and then like gerald and xiang wei had a field day laughing till their stomachs hurt, because apparently it's really funny when your classmate copper plates her earring and can't use it anymore. :( like, how the hell am i supposed to know that copper will react with my ear??? i'm not a friggin scientist!

it's a good thing i didn't really like that earring.