Satu Malam yang Panjang



We were working for our CH E 464 process design course since 7 pm last night. And now it's 5 am in the morning and we are still at Fenske Lab together with other people. It was fine initially as me, Saeed, Zeeshan and Charlie were working using Microsoft Visio to draw the process flow diagram or PFD. Process flow diagram is essential a rough blueprint for the actual production plant which we will produce for the final technical report. This is one of the things which we need to include in Assisgnment 3 and it is due on this Friday afternoon.

Since we've been working like dogs since 7 pm, we decided to take a break and had pizzas at the lounge. As usual we started to talk about the professors in Chemical Engineering department, the possibility for PSU to go private instead of public school, crappy stuffs about Prof. Nedwick and his weird and harsh grading system etc. By the time we finished eating pizza and languished our hunger, we came back to the lab. As I plugged in my USB cable to download the digital pictures from my Kodak Dc 5000 digital camera, the screen just went blank. It only gives "no signal" sign.

Oh shit!! What happened??

So Jay, who is another classmate in our CH E 464 class, suggested us to change the monitor. And so we did.



Apparently, that didn't work either. I was about to kick the shit out of this PC. Urghhh..that's why I hate use PC - it constantly irritates me! Then I tried to shake the video card hoping the signal would suddenly pop back at the screen..unfortunately it was just another useless and depressing try.



Finally after getting consensus from Saeed and Charlie, I decided to reset the computer and logged in to another PC. Thank god we saved the file onto network drive so we managed to pull the original file and continued working on that file. Alhough we had to do it all over (well, not exactly all over again, it was just partially of all over again), we were sooooo glad not to spend another 5 hours to draw and included the details of our production plant. And now, we just finished doing the PFD at 5 am in the morning at Fenske Lab. Once again, my group from Asia Pacific Chemical (our group name) managed to go through the night and we are sure that tonight will not be the last night for us working in this cold lab.