Listening to matchbox20 - 3 a.m

im the sucker of the day.

im going to whine. starting from now.

this morning at 830, i went into the lab and started the supermachine (maybe not that super anymore) and the QC failed.

the shit in this is that the supermachine flagged it as a pass because the parameters set were of a wider range i guess.

i only realised that it went out of 2SD when i went to validate the results in the workstation (note: time wasted).

QC fail = no way i can run samples.

the QC failing was the first thing that went wrong in my day as the ultimate suay zeng (hokkien).

so.. i got to re-run the QC and get the results in.

but suay-ly, i used up the last bit of the QC material in my last run. i wasnt so worried then because i can always take another bottle out of the fridge to use it.

but suay-ly, all that was left in the boxes were the focus and the calibrators.

which meant that what i was looking for (pos control) was in the cold room.

which meant that i got to wait for a while before i can use it.

so i just sat there while waiting for the QC to be ready while watching helplessely as my rack piled up with samples that i cant run.

frustration.

then i asked around to see whether i can just run the pos QC alone since the neg qc has passed.

everyone said can so i did just that.

and the pos QC passed the second time round.

but the neg control failed.

apparently i cant run one without the other.

and the machine wont start unless i get rid of the flag.

which means i got to run everything all over again. and watch super helplessely as more samples were piled up.

when i finally got the machine started, it was already 11.

imagine 2 and a 1/2 hours gone trying to start the machine.

cleared the samples until i got crossed eye before i went for lunch.

thought that was the end of my suay-ness? i wish.

went down to staff canteen to buy lunch for myself and a friend. i bought her lunch and was about to pay when i realised that i didnt have a single cent in my wallet.

imagine how embarrassing that was.

luckily the lady was nice enough to ask me to take the packet first and pay later.

so i decided to go to the lobby (first floor) to draw money instead of going back to my locker (3rd floor). canteen is at the basement.

and i was queuing up at the atm and it decided to stop dispensing cash when it was almost my turn.

wtf.

so needless to say i got to go back to my locker to get the money and down to the basement to pay and then back to the lounge to eat my lunch.

wtf.

after lunch, printers run out of paper when i wanted to use them, the photocopy machine jammed big time ( i removed the paper in 3 parts after trying for eternity), the ice packs for test kits melted because i forgot to change them in the morning mayhem, i poured urine on my hands (this happens everyday though) for infinite times..

blah blah.

very wtf right?

luckily dinner with gwen went well. i think its the only thing that went right today.