Once In A Blue Moon

…by the charismatic guy in uni who gives me a good impression the first time we met and clicked with me right on the spot.

If you are still guessing which guy that is, WAKE UP!!! Apparently you don’t know me well enough that I do NOT like to publisize my personal matter on the blogs. What do you think you can find out-that I like this guy?that we are in a relationship? or that  we break up?

If so, you are stopping by the WRONG place. Kindly hit any key on your keyboard to EJECT YOURSELF out of here. =P haha.

Sonnet 18 (My version)

(p/s: Sorry Mr. Shakespeare for ‘borrowing’ your masterpiece-I need this satirical piece of mine to convey my thoughts on those sensor-attached people who can’t stop speculating!!!)

Shall I compare thee to a paparazzi?

Thou art less sensor-attached and more temperate:

Paparazzi do blow my darling heart away,

and my sunshine hath all too short a date:

Sometimes too violent your tongue wag,

And often are your words distorted;

And every time to time I move on,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;

But thy transient statement ‘He is a nice guy but at times people misread his intentions’ shall NOT REMAIN,

Nor shall the THOUGHTS thou own;

For I am one who believes in elegant female practice,

When in eternal line to time TRUTH growest:

So long as men can THINK and hearts can FEEL,

So long lives this and this gives SOLACE to me.

p/s to the person who said that (I have nothing against you ya^_^) and other people who think the same way: I am NOT that DUMB to misread signs for TWO freaking, dragging years. Let’s not talk about it since I have moved on. Do not try to THICKEN the Berlin Wall between him and I that he has built

To read the original beautiful poem(Sonnet 18), kindly click HERE.

OK, back to the point. So what made my heart skip a beat?

It is nothing but the horrible monster-DISPENSING CLASS TEST!!

And I thought it wouldn’t be that tough since there are only 2 notes, a list of hard latin terms and some calculations that we need to know.

I was WRONG.

If you want us to answer so many ‘SHORT answer questions’ in 6o minutes, whereby all the questions carry a total of 100 marks, don’t you think it is so hard to accomplish??

I was doing the so-thought last question-how to weigh saccharin sodium (say 15 mg) since the least weighable amount of substance that the balance can weigh is MORE than that (say 100mg).

I know it is something like you make MORE of the required medication, i.e. you weigh 100 mg of saccharin sodium, and then you have to scale up other ingredients in the formula. The thing is, I was trying to organise my trains of thoughts and I don’t know what made me FLIP the page (Thank God) and I found another 2 freaking questions (which many people OVERLOOKED) with 20 freaking marks!!!

When i saw one question askign for the labelling of the medication, I turned back and BANG, I realised that in the previous question I GOT MY FORMULA WRONG because I was making a 30 ml emulsion and NOT 200 ml!!!

Mitte 200 ml Soft Paraffin Emulsion BP

Signa 30 ml

COME on, i knew what those means! mitte= send, signa=direction

Those words are Latin terms, by the way. I was just done with my  correction when the lecturer, fondly called by us as MARIO (because he looks like the short stumpy cute video game character that collect points by eating mushroom), said, ‘PENS DOWN’

I can tell you, I have never had that kind of heartbeat before, as far as I can remember. I haven’t even written the label and the frustrating thing is I KNOW WHAT TO WRITE!!!

So I ignored and continue writing-the last question on the labelling. The ADVANTAGE of being the LAST person in the class list is, I am sitting at the LAST seat in the row. ^_^

So when I was done, there wasn’s enough time to organise my thoughts on that saccharin sodium aka dilution question. So for a freaking 10-mark question, I wrote a mere few words- USE a CLASS A BALANCE.

This is because we have 3 classes of balance, each with its minimum weighable amount. But I know this answer is wrong for that question coz those sadistic lecturers do not just give you 10 marks for writing 5 words for a 10-mark question.

What to do? NOT  enough time ok!!

Thank God for letting me realise that I did my scaling-down wrongly at the last minute!! ^_^ If not I think I would be kicking or slapping myself for letting my WHOLE EFFORT gone done the drain; and that question cost 10 marks also!!

The irony thing is, we have to gain 100 marks to get a mere 10% that is calculated in our finals. So I only beat you by 1 pathetic percent if I get 10 marks more than you. Now everyone feels better because we have the finals 70% practical to work for-and we had better NOT screw it up like a number of our seniors!!

Looks like I really have to study for drug metabolism tests on monday =_=

Have fun with enzymes, cofactors, phase I and II metabolism, my friends!

www: CHECK the number of pages in the exams papers BEFORE you begin, even if your lecturer like MARIO forgets to tell u!!!

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