Reflector

Oh guess what happened?

Lecture ended at 3.45pm thereabouts. I went to the science bus stop to take 95 home. Okie.. A2 and a couple of buses passed by. After a while, one 95 passed by, loaded with passengers. Fine…maybe I’ll take BTC home instead since it’s impossible to get up 95 at this hour.. So I hopped onto the next A2 which came and went to PGP. Sat at the PGP bus stop to wait for BTC. It was about 4.15, the bus should come soon right? Waited, waited…for almost half an hour, where was the bus?? Finally gave up and hopped onto the next A2 which came (mistook it for an A1). Went around the whole campus, passed by BTC. !@#@!#!!!! Ok… fine. Went all the way to central library bus stop and saw 95 leaving in front of me. OK! FINE!! Took to the bus stop just before science bus stop. Waited for 95, got on it. It was past 5pm!

I took 1 whole bloody hour to get out of campus! ROAR!!!!

Got home at around 5.30pm. A car would have been nice. During the ride around the campus, I saw gazillions of suzuki swifts parked or driving happily around. Rah!!!  

Well, I did meet quite a few people and talked to them. BUT STILL…….

Today’s the first time in 3 months that I didn’t attend saturday service because it was my grandmother’s birthday dinner. Actually wanted to rush down from expo after service like I did in another similar incident, but my mum said I couldn’t reach after 7. Sigh.. I caught the first 20 minutes of the sermon online before I had to leave the house.

It’ll be good when I recover. Then I can exercise again… not that I was regular before but, a little is better than nothing. Endorphins… hahaha

Had a rather fun, albeit disasterous pharmacy law dispensing practical today hahaha. We made emulsifying ointment and pessaries (go check the dictionary if you don’t know what it is).

It was at the last 3 hours of a 8am-5pm day without a break. By God’s grace, my brain was still functioning and I still had plenty of energy. Well, for one, I nearly burnt my hand on hot steam while heating over a water bath and spilled wax liquid all over my partner’s bench and on the floor. It solidified and the aunty had a hard time cleaning it up using hot water to melt it off the floor. Then I had to weigh everything all over again and heat the stuff over the water bath.

The bench was a total mess. I used 4 packets of tissue paper just cleaning apparatus and wiping stuff. Didn’t help that the group B person who used my bench didn’t clean the apparatus properly so the beakers and casserole were dirty with wax and oily substances.

While weighing the glycerol, I spilled it all over my electronic balance. I dropped solids and other liquids onto it as well. Poor balance. Of course I tried cleaning it, but who knows how much damage I did to it. Oh and I weighed out glycerol 3 times because first, I cleaned my beaker of glycerol mistakenly thinking it had water in it instead. Then after weighing it out again, I realised I used the wrong beaker: supposed to use a ligher beaker. Ok, then I got it right the 3rd time

Well I finished early because hey, I’m efficient And I improvised without knowing it. Actually we were supposed to evaporate the mixture of glycerol, gelatin and water to the correct volume, but I was blur, so I just weighed another beaker and poured the mixture into it to weigh. Apparently, from what I heard from my other friends, the evaporating process took a long long time…heee..

Ah, my pessaries turned out quite beautifully and my ointment was nice and creamy. Oh the ointment is actually quite useful because after taking a whole lot of time washing my apparatus, my finger which got burnt felt like nothing bad happened to it. Cool…

After I finished, I just helped the people around me haha. Cut their paper, remove their pessaries from the mould, wash apparatus… Pharmacy practicals are actually quite fun. It’s like cooking: just follow the instructions and you get your product. However, I think the people who use our products will suffer adverse side effects, looking at the way we do things :P

Some people were quite negative, kept saying they won’t finish and stuff like that but hey, just do just do. Pastor taught us never to give up: we can be struck down but not destroyed. Pauline said many times, that God is a positive God. So yep, definitely can finish if you just keep doing, don’t stress It’s just a practical. And it’s fun!

Life’s not bad. I just need to wait til next wednesday to sort some things out, maybe talk to pauline or something but it’s okie, life’s still fine. Hahaha.

Think maybe I should stay in school more often. Definitely more productive there. I don’t just go to the bed and sleep whenever I feel tired or sleepy.

I just bought a whole lot of books from Attributes. I’ve about 6 books to read now. Might buy another one next weekend. Currently on the book Shine by the Newsboys. It looked cool on the shelf, had a red cover with a cool design and pages which were jagged and not smooth at the edges. So I picked it up and read a bit and just decided to buy it. They’re really sincere in the book and I like its spirit. A really good read.

Guitar playing is not bad. I’m improving. Still can’t switch to bar chords in a song very well. I’ll still pause for a while, but at least my bar chords can be heard relatively distinctly. It’s fun…I just play the guitar for an hour and not even know it until my fingers become numb.

Fell sick on monday, but I’m recovering well. Drank starfruit juice with salt, honey water, ate healthier food and prayed. Yep.

I don’t know why I’m blogging. This entry’s so unproductive haha. Normal. Ah well, normal’s good