The YELLOW SUBMARINE

I forgot to make the pre-lab on Experiment number 8. Eight is an even numbered experiment and it should be placed on the yellow colored experiment notebook (odd numbered experiments should be placed on pink notebooks). I really thought that I simply LEFT it at my study table, so I just wrote in a yellow paper and fortunately, our lab teacher just accepted it.

When I got home around quarter to nine, I was in a state of shock when I learned the truth about the existence of my yellow lab report notebook - IT WAS GONE - gone with the wind. It just disappeared in midair. Wait. WAIT. Just give me a few seconds to recall all those vivid memories starting yesterday, 10.20 am.

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January 16, 2008. Wednesday. It was our Chem Lab period and our teacher distributed the yellow notebooks. I just placed it in my pink transparent folder. Then after that, I was so busy and preoccupied with our seventh experiment. Then we ate Lunch at the Manang Lydia's and I was still holding on it until we went to the CSM library to review on our Chem 17 Lab. In a few hours we will be having an exam on Chem 17 Lab. So we went inside, placed my bag and folders on the shelf, since they're prohibited inside the library (hanggang shelf lang sila). Since we had already submitted the pink lab report notebook (the odd-numbered exercise), we can only review in our yellow notebook (even numbered exercise). So, I have my yellow notebook, my chem lec notebook and my outline for the exam. I just remembered that I placed it under my notebook. We stayed there for almost two hours and after that we packed our things and off we went to the classroom to take the exam.

WAIT. There's a great possibility that I LEFT it in the LIBRARY.

Or did I left it at the Laboratory? Or in the classroom where I took the exam (it's the same classroom where we held classes on our Chemistry Lec) Fuck. If only that I had the power to fly (which I could possibly NOT) to the library to search for that cheap-looking yet precious lab reports of mine. I mean IT'S A BIG DEAL TO ME. Kung mawawala raw iyan, automatic zero ka na sa LAB exercise na yun. Each exercise is worth ten points and possibly I could LOSE a BIG 30 points. OH MY GOD. It's not that I'm a grade conscious person or what, it's the group's effort that matters MOST in this issue. It would be rather POINTLESS and USELESS. Crap.

One thing for sure, I believe that I left it at the LIBRARY. And I'm fervently hoping that I could still find my missing lab report notebook. I wish there was this good student of UP who possess good common sense that s/he will report this to the librarian and the librarian would just keep it. I wish it's still in good condition. I wish it's in a safe place, not in a cockroach-infested trash bin.

Three things that I might consider to justify the loss of my yellow notebook:

- I would plead to my lab teacher that I will REPEAT EXPERIMENT 2, 4 and 6 ALONE, without the help of others.

(the first justification might be the silliest of the three), so here's number 2:

- Make a comprehensive reports of experiment 2, 4 and 6 (SAME FORMAT on making SCIENTIFIC PAPERS). Of course, it should be hand written.

(that would be good, if she'll consider that one.)

and the last but not the least:

- ACCEPT THE FACT that

I'm.a.twotime.bummerhead.whothinks.he'snot.thedumbest.assholeintheworld.and. suffersfromtheterrifyingwrathofKARMA.

Oh God. If only hindi ako sumagot ng pabalang kay mama last SATURDAY and hindi ako naging MEAN sa mama at sa kapatid ko, malamang, 'di to mangyayari.

KARMA sucks big time if you did something bad. REALLY BAD.

I do believe in KARMA. I just sometimes believe in MAGIC. I wish that I could find it in the library tomorrow. I still had 7 hours 'til my first class. Today's FRIDAY the eighteenth and I'm gonna be eighteen in the next eight months.

WHAT'S WITH EIGHT, BY THE WAY?!

So HELP me GOD.