some words about the new sem

ok.. week 4. more or less settled into the sem (i hope)

lets take a look at the modules:

PR2101 - Dosage form design: taught by prof chan lai wah and dr rachel ee. only seen the latter so far once, in the very first lecture, where she showed us some pics of her holidaying as an intro, and seeing that we were not interested, promptly dropped the niceties and gave us The Project, which was to send everyone into a mad frenzy searching over stuff. personally, i think this is an attempt to rip us off on our money in the name of "self-directed learning". however prof chan is very amusing at times during the lecture, so far the best lecturer, that can keep everyone awake at 8am during tues and fris.

PR2102: pharm law: boring. no choice, since it's an integral part of the rules that we have to keep to, have to study it like the others did. taught by this old lady called amy tan (correct? whatever) who was an inspector from dunno where, but big enough to tell us the rules. computer illiterate. i have a feeling this will end up like pharm prac I where we played cards during lecture. no - can't be decadent any more.
ALWAYS miss the first part of lecture due to coming from arts lecture (tues) or from tutorial (fri). grrr.
project group: yays! got cuiqin, siok ting, yi xuan, pei rong inside my group, as well as bingxun and yuantai. what could be better?

PR2103: pharmacostatistics: even more boring, sometimes incomprehensible, to the point of being ridiculous. another fei4 module if u ask me, like science of music. so far we've been thought a-level stats by a hongkong lecturer, prof eli chan, who half of the time i can't understand what he's speaking, and the other half i can't see what the hell is written on his notes cos all his notes are typed out in Microsoft Word and the bugger doesn't have any way of bookmarking them or something, he scrolls. Yes, use that familiar mousewheel and rev it up like a F1 racer, reaching speeds of up to 6-10 slides per scroll.

a familiar scene would be, for example, he's teaching all the way to page 13 then he suddenly wants us to go back to page 2, then he will scroll all the way back to page 2 with lightning speed using the mousewheel, overshoots, and scrolls forward, while everybody is like going "wtf?!?", speaks of the reference for about 5 seconds, then before anyone has any sense of whats going on, scroll back to page 13. it's no wonder some people just get lost during the "teleport" process.
his project is impossible. it's a full 5k word research paper on how to infer some academic report which who the hell here knows what language that is written in.

gek2022: samurai, geisha, yakuza as self or other: nice module about japan, something i've always been interested in, ever since they rose to infamy about 60 years ago. debunked many myths about the samurai (however they still commit suicide by stabbing themselves like the films, kill bill 2 style) and their values of loyalty, courage, etc. haven't done geisha yet but oh my god, the readings are like rivers of words that fill pages and pages, till the point that i'm lagging behind some weeks, and the lecturer, simon avenell, talks with such speed that it's very hard for you to concentrate and write, hence the webcast (which i'm supposed to do now). he's very interesting though. suspect cons has a crush on him! haha... exam questions are very thought-provoking too, something i've always lacked. despite that, the content is extremely interesting, and myself, yeelian and constance always look forward to this lecture on tuesdays (although that would mean one more reading to read...).
project is about stereotypes. considering the wide nature of the project, should be managable.

ec1301: principles of economics: ok i should have taken this before mkt1003: principles of marketing, cos then it will provide a clearer picture, and i know i'm gonna get chopped by all those people who took econs during JC and are sitting in the LT msning for daring to challenge them. the lecturer, connie chung, is pseudo-interesting, u know, what she says is interesting but she doesn't really put it across in an interesting tone, unlike doreen kum of mkt1003 fame. i think the microphone in LT8 needs to be level-upped, several decibels higher. and she has lousy time management, dragging the lecture at 0.8x webcast speed then rushing us at 2.0x webcast speed in the last 15 minutes of the lecture. but ok la the subject is somewhat like mathematics... very easy to understand.
best of all, there's no project! =)
oh yeah.. btw the china girl who taught us during tutorial.. i think she can match eli chan in terms of un-understandability and de-pronouncation. what the hell is she talking about? and she goes through tutorial, stating all the facts, but never says explicitly the answer, so one guy has to "so, may i know what's the answer?" sometimes she thinks before she says something, poor thing. however i'd better not ask her to converse in mandarin, before she says something really shen1 ao4 and the class is really poor thing. haha.

so far, it's quite a relatively slack sem (compared to last sem), with more projects and more work focused on each module. haiz... get on with it.