Indeed I has a slow start at home, the weekend was kind to me i.e no interruptions like the last one. But as soon as I got back to campus, there was no rest for me weary bones. Every weekday of this week I has to wake up at latest by 8AM, which is not routine since all my normal classes all start at 9 or 10 in the morn. Monday was the most fun day, even though I had to get up even more early to meet the 7.45 meet-up time. The workshop about problem-solving was only fun as I came face-to-face with a German dude who speaks relatively good English, albeit his accent does protrude a lot, especially the K's, the W's ad the V's. Typically, germans have very anal problem-solving steps that even involve thanking everyone. It's the industry's way, I suppose. It was fun, especially that group presentation thingie, but I feel sorry for not being picked to present for the group.

However, the week went downhill from there as not only do I have to meet assignment deadlines, there were new assignments. If these just revolves around doing some exercise by yourself then it'll be fine, but instead I was grouped with large groups (one of them have 15 members per group, that lazy lecturer), and we were expected to somehow collaborate and finish it right after CNY, which was impossible to say the least as communication would be a big problem. The assignment are certainly less than last semester (total of 21 assignments), but the difficulty level has gone up very considerably.

On top of that, the designated lab this week is the toughest series of experiments. Our group faced the challenge of finding the time in one week to accomplish what normally needed three weeks to finish. The fact that there's a week-long break in between didn't help matters (not that I don't want the break, mind you), because the latex formulation cannot last for three weeks. Hence, the compounding, curing, dipping, drying, cutting and testing had to be done at a extra high pace. One which I find sometimes only myself doing, as some mornings are extra cruel and not conducive to waking up. It was done finally, but I felt that I had done more than 60% of the work. I can't blame my member for going home earlier than me, but still...it's tiring and drains my spirit. Once this is done, I think I can breath one very deep breath of relief.

Hold that *phew* for now