short-talk:

I'm loving Papaya Juice.


I had my Soil Investigation fieldwork done on Monday. And it's fun. Thoroughly fun.


Each group of six is assigned to conduct a site investigation near Swinburne area and classify the soil of a site by using a hand auger. With the given hand auger, we are required to drill three boreholes to a depth of 1.2m-1.5m deep and collect the sample.


Sounds very simple yea?



After drilling to a certain depth, the soil beneath will be taken out from the borehole and intelligibly being categorized. And the classification includes the strength, colour, particle size, moisture condition, plasticity and so on. Complicated.


Probably the description may seem a bit straightforward whereas the process of penetrating through the hard soil and getting the disturbed soil are actually horrible and arduous. Prior to my actual trying, my initial thought of this whole digging process would be interesting and easy. But when we started to push auger's head towards the unbreakable ground and start rotating it ...


...everything changed.


It's so hard!




With the combo strength of 5 strong guys plus one macho lady in a group rotating and forcing the auger to bore a hole in, we could only manage to reach 0.50 m, which is obviously far from the minimum requirement of 1.2m.


0.50 m??!!! that's terrible.


By the way, if you haven't know, our soil group name is GeoLaLa. o.O Don't ask me why and don't laugh. Even i, personally have no idea why on earth that we choose GeoLaLa as our group name out of the millions and millions of good names to plump for. GeoLaLa??!!


Perhaps, creativity, uniqueness and childishness of a group name will bring extra umph to the spirit during fieldwork. And yes, it's proven practically. Even though, we only managed to drill half metre down, we did not give up easily. We persevered.**push to the max**


Go GeoLaLa!


It's not easy. The ground is so stubborn and impenetrable. The soils are like rocks. We are not bulls laaa....


Out of the blue, someone came out with this weird and ungodly brilliant idea from nowhere. I was amazed not because of the instantaneous idea, but owing to the cause that i was the guinea pig for this try out.


Take a closer look and please don't get scared off.



Anyway, even with my 54 kg vertical body weight added straight down on the auger's force, it could only manage to drill down the extra few centimeters. Wasted my energy. See how nowadays, even guys are so desperate and wanted to take advantage on me publicly. lol...


Don't **cher*** ... i was not the only one that was deceived by these two guys but somehow both of them managed to swindle my another friend in ....



Once again, with all of heart, strength, mind and soul...




Perhaps what i can suggest is, my group leader to treat everyone of us a can of REVIVE. Who knows it might aid a little bit in our strength.




I enjoyed the soil investigation heaps. At least i have fun with my group members.





Not this kind of fun, of course.. =P