Back to School...

After having a 3-month break, most people would have no mood to go back to college, especially when you have some difficult subjects to follow & also, when you have to deal with some types of people. For me, I'm unusually quite excited to start this new semester. Maybe its because of my age factor that made me think so. I'm old. No more time should be lost...

Well, the new semester, as usual for every year 1 semester 2, would be tougher than the previous one. I had to take 7 subjects. First, there is this stupid Malaysian Studies that I had to repeat thanks to my laziness two years ago. Well, this time, my attendance had improved compared to 2 years ago. The lecturer this time is Ms. Wee, a Johorean. I've heard many comments about her, most of them coming from one of my best friend, & I find what my best friend told me to be quite true.

Next, is General Psychology. It should be an interesting subject, but the lectures were boring. All we had was presentation, presentation, presentation, & presentation. Then we have this English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP), which is conducted by Mr. Raj. It should be an english course with relations to the pharmacy profession. Nothing much I can comment here as I find it to be dry.

Core subjects are the ones that are giving me the headache. Microbiology is my least feared subject as it is not really that difficult & I had some basic foundation before coming into AIMST. However, the foundation was not strong enough, so I still had to worry about this. This subject is coordinated by Dr. Girija Kumari, a.k.a. the Witch (if I had not known her & had seen her by the roadside, I would have thought that she works as the road-sweeper amah). Another Kumari (last sem physiology was by Dr. Nagaraja Kumari). Typical Indian accent she had in her spoken English, shaking her head left & right, until I also 'pening' following her head swaying here & there. Other lecturers include Prof. Hacharan Singh Sidhu a.k.a. Harry Porter lecturer (he looks like Prof. Snape), Dr. P.K. Rajesh a.k.a. Keadilan or anti-humans (his initials are PKR, & he seems to be siding the microorganisms all the time, calling humans stupid), & Dr. Vijayalakshmi a.k.a. Amah (she's long winded, but she's kind & good).

Pharmaceutical Inorganic Chemistry should actually interest me as it is a subject chemistry-based, but not in this case. Why? Because the lecturer, Mr. Sundram, makes it so terribly dry. I dread every lecture of this subject. No offence, but everytime I hear the lecturer's name, Sundram, I would think of underwear. It's just my honest experience, I have nothing against him.

Biochemistry... OMG... I should tremble listening to this subject's name. Sue Zin had her experiences with this subject. I do not like the name of this subject either, but still, I had to take it. There are too many lecturers for me to account for in this subject but there is this Datin Dr. Tham Sock Ying (Aunty Tham), a very dedicated aunty... I mean lecturer... She is a good lecturer, but she does have her mood swings (aunty ma...). Then comes Dr. Ong Kim Kok (King Kong) whose lectures are like an author introducing his works/books. Deviation from the topics do happen in his lectures mostly to his family. Others are like Dr. Diwakar & Dr. Shakila, Dr. Ravi & dunno who else la...

The last subject is Introduction to Computer Science & Statistics. Statistics... the name rings a bell. It reminds me of Biostatistics for Pharmacy, 2 years ago, one of the black chapters in my life. It started off with Biostatistics by Dr. Babuji (egg-tummied Babuji, last time there was an egg-headed Nelson), then later continued by some miss something for computer science. Many of my classmates mistook this subject for Computer Statistics even after the egg-tummied lecturer told the class that we are actually doing Biostatistics.

Those were the subjects & lecturers for this semester. What is more annoying is that, there was a selection of new class committee, & as usual, they followed the tradition of drawing lots. Mei Mei & Alex were drawn to be the one responsible for photocopying, Bernice for treasury. Liang Fatt switched with Alex for some reasons, & off all people, I ended up as the class representative.

Striking lottery or 4D were also not as accurate as this. This is the joke of the millenium. Desmond Tan Ghim Wei, the class representative for Batch 3 Pharmacy Degree Students.If I were to be the class rep, the class would be disorganised. I would not make a good class rep. I was not happy with it & I brought it up to the class to elect a new class representative but to no avail. What to do? Be as IRresponsible as I can lo...