Thursday, August 14, 2008 Y
ARRGH!!! HATE PPDA.
Sian la. First, physical pharm is alr a big headache. Wat with phase diagrams. And it doesnt help tt the Prof Gigi's voice sounds too similar to a lullaby. I was halfway in dreamland liao. Then she is still chanting away. And the lect notes..no matter how i read it, i still cant understand. Trying soooo hard to keep awake la.
Then next was PPDA. I was very determined to listen and not fall asleep. To the extent tt i took out my contacts rite there and then so tt my eyes wun be so dry and feel like closing. All was ok.....until i realised that the prof had a very weird (russian?) accent. First, his voice was very low tt kind. Then he's not making an effort to speak up. Plus his accent. And all his words are in chunks. He paused inappropriately and trip over his sentences. Doesnt help that all the chem functional groups are in some alien language. So no matter how he pronounces the functional grps, no one knows if he's saying them correctly or nt. And the numbering. OMG. Got numbers got letters. Got number inside, number outside. And there's so many thousands of functional grps. Rings some more. HATE RINGS. Join here join there, got O, N, S.....etc. How on earth can someone rmb everything?? Purines, pyrimidines, vitamins, pyridines, nucleic acids....etc...all those structures have come back to haunt me.....HAIZ.
Going to get diabetes soon. I was eating sweets like there's no tml to stay awake in physical pharm. Physio and anatomy are ok....why cant physical pharm and PPDA be like them?????
Anatomy was interesting. First we went to the anatomy hall to look at the cadavers. Ermmm....not as bad as i imagined it to be. At least there's no blood. Looks like juz skin and bone and all the impt organs. The cadaver i looked at was a guy. And the prof flipped open the sternum (i think) like opening a pot cover!! Ewww....then he was showing us the anatomical position, veins, artery, nerves....etc. After that we went to anatomy hall. Cool. There were lots of stuff there. Sectioned brains, organs, embryos, foteuses...etc. Was amazed at the pregnancy part. Geraldine said that after seeing all these will we realise that each of us is a miracle. She said that she once read a book that each of us is a champion. Coz out of all those millions of sperms, only one will fertilise the egg. Which is a very tiny probabilty. And i saw all those deformed babies also. Anything could go wrong at any stage so we shld all be glad that we are born healthy and stop complaining abt fats, pimples, height, weight, beauty, shuai-ness....etc. Oh ya....and after seeing the bodies, i suddenly feel an overwhelming sense of sadness for the people lying there. Its like...ya they are dead. But to lie there and be examined by so many ppl...to be so devoided of dignity. Its juz all there for ppl to see lo. Hmm...like Geraldine said, maybe i am thinking too much.
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