Day Six: Pain

Day Six. 

My whole body's in pain. Clearly, trekking and hiking... not for me! I just wanted to lie in bed the whole day but, of course, I couldn't. I had to go back to the lab and grind my 16 grams of dehulled mungbean seeds.

Before dehulling:

After dehulling:

Grinding mungbeans using a mortar and pestle, for me, is more difficult than dehulling using a scalpel. I spent about three hours grinding and I hated every minute of it. Good arm exercise though, try it!

Short post. Tired. Wanna go back to bed. Whole body still hurts from yesterday's adventure. Arms, back, legs, feet. Ouch. Can someone lend me a wheelchair?

Oh, and I so can't wait for this week's episodes of American Idol. Adam Lambert as mentor and he will also be performing on results night! Something to look forward to , eh? :D

Day Five: Slipped Again. And Again. And Again.

WHEW! One word. Adventure. Haha. Let's start from the beginning.


There's been a slight change of plans. No lab today. Took care of registration matters.


1. Got my Form 5 and my classcard. Now registered for Summer 2010. 1 unit. Thesis. And, thanks to TFE (tuition fee exemption) I didn't pay a cent (usually, during regular sems I pay P45.50).

2. Invited friends for Slurpee.

3. Followed some touring new freshmen for 5 minutes.

4. Ran into chem friends who were about to go sampling way, way over there and went with them :) 

So we all went "trekking" and uhm... I don't have to tell you how many times I slipped off rocks. I'm not the athletic kind, obviously, and I was wearing a not-a-trekking-skirt skirt which added to the fun of it all. I could feel my knees shaking as I took my steps. But thanks to the PATIENCE and moral support of my friends, I survived! YEAH! 'Twas a good and fun experience for me. Hmmm... maybe I should start doing things like this, you know, to burn out excess calories! Good workout, I'd say.

Now I am in serious need of a bath and am dead tired. I plan to relax by dehulling more mungs. With the help of my sister, I now have more than 200 pieces of dehulled beans. Yey.