random ramblings

a look at the modules:
i have 3 labs this sem!! how shack.

pr2104 pharm analysis is quite simple. so far. very much like a-level chemistry and physics loosely strung together. two funny lecturers (ok, funny as in lame) lecturers Dr Koh and Dr Chan. although their lectures are damn boring and their pracs are qian pon (worthwhile of deliberately skipping), it is one topic which i can understand and find their practical easy to do (whats so difficult about following BP?)

pr2105 pharm microbiology is probably the mod i will get C for this sem. i can't understand what i'm doing in the prac, i think i'm gonna fail the prac test... staining, looking under the microscope, drawing, serial dilution, melting agar... all these seem mere procedures that i just follow blindly without giving much in-depth consideration. theory is pretty technical... also boring. although prof chan lai wah is very kind. but getting lamer in her jokes. =p

pr3107 pharm prac II is the module that had gotten everyone sitting up in the upright position. lecturer (?) david woo is notorious amongst last year's pre-reg students as being one of the toughest testers for pre-reg around. and now he's come to test us... he hails from (unity?) pharmacy and apparently lifts his notes from the textbook which he encourages us to read before lesson (friday), gives us the tutorial questions (friday) and teaches us during next monday. lilian wong is still ok. i think... since david's been such a sob that he's practically taking all the flak that we can probably hurl at him. accent's a problem too, but i can see he's adjusting gradually to the asian student mentality. still, this is one guy you don't wanna play cards in front of (you can do that with dr eric chan though). the stuff they teach is interesting, but very heavy. gotta stock up soon.

i still think david woo isn't that bad. there are worse people out there esp in army. i should say that he is reasonable. but during tutorials he will act the customer from hell who will nail your sorry ass for everything. "i insist on having a ear drop". "how do u teach your customer to instill eye drops?" but i admit it's quite good training since prob we're gonna face customers from hell and beyond next time and by that time you're already half-dead from deflecting all the darn arrows.

lsm2101 metabolism and regulation is taught by 3 different professors, none of which i remember the names. one for carbo, one for fat, one for protein and probably nucleic acids. crazy!!! very dry. memorizing work. enough.

pp2106 pharmacology I is taught by a lecturer, a former pharmacist who was once the chairman of nusps. quite a nice guy, but really needs to have more tact when he lectures and not treat the class like a jc class. or medical school class. his experiments are nice and slack, everything's provided for, no set up, no mixing of solutions, just press button, inject and observe. how cool is that!