Tuesday, July 15, 2008

When Carelessness Meets Misfortune

Mis..
Lab scenario
- pipettes 36 (test) tubes of solutions, each requiring 2-3 different volumes of different chemicals.
- ran out of one solution; some donkey used all without refilling (not me)
- left lab to prepare new batch of missing chemical
- entire analysis invalid after incubation of >30 minutes because one of the chemicals were photosensitive (light sensitive) in the tubes, guess it degraded even when wrapped with aluminium foil.

Maka, most of day's lab work gone to waste -_- I even skipped class to "finish" that
(I even got confused on the exits to the different sides of the buildings from the lab, ensuing a Shen of Shock)

fortune..
By the way, regarding the last post, Shen proposed that perhaps in the past when the notes were named, the minor scale (sound) was more popular than the major scale that's more mainstream today, hence the rearrangement of the C note in the beginning of the keyboard (to accommodate Cmajor, the natural major scale) rather than A (which is the natural minor scale) today. This would also give us a hint on why it's always CDEFG(and then back to)AB nowadays, rather than ABCDEFG, which is more alphabetically correct. So maybe in the past it WAS ABCDEFG, but I guess it changed because of the more popular sound, without the note names changing that is. Clever girl, Shen, 10 points for u =D

*Just a (plausible) hypothesis*

By the way, thanks for all that Music theory-discussion that wasted your time =D


Meets Carelessness

And then, some brilliant donkey somehow brilliantly left his laptop in the lab, though it's pretty safe since it's locked before people leave it. UNLESS some internal arsehole decides to make profit.

Bittersweet moment of receiving my Mr. 375SGD delay (guitar) pedal from Jin today, parted with most of my case and still owe him about half of what it costs. That blardy pedal is hard to use alright, took me some hours with testing and reading the manual just to coax out some.. acceptable sounds =) but it's not bad, though the sound is obviously more digitalized after coming through that pedal :s too bad, not rich enough to get an analog delay ($$$$$ - does not degrade sound).

Sparks practices tomorrow night at 8 (how ungodly), minus our temporarily-on-hiatus member, Michy the Fishy. I shall proceed to practice what I haven't been practicing but really should have been practicing now (was too engrossed figuring how to use the pedal) bah~ Molecular biology lab tomorrow morning too... no lab menu manuals provided T_T boo hoo~
I must sound random today.

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