Making me nervous

Most of the time I will be blogging about the progress of my review...

Today we met our professor for Inorganic Chemistry. An old lady who was a former professor of our Gen Chem and Organic Chem professor who is already on his fifties, so just imagine how old she is. She looks like a typical grandmother. She even requested for a microphine because her voice is a bit weak due to old age.

When the class started, she announced that she has our class list and she will be calling names for recitation. I panicked because I haven't really studied that much. I was praying and hoping that I would get to answer an easy question. God Loves me so much. I was asked to write the balanced chemical equation for the combustion of methane. It was pretty easy compared to others who were asked for definition of terms. One of our classmate cut the class. Maybe she didn't want to be called or she didn't like her manner of teaching. Because honestly it was very slow for a review. Most of her questions coukd be found on textbooks. A friend of mine who graduated from UP wasn't really thrilled with the recitation. She said it wasn't effective.

I'm not really looking forward to our Inorganic Class next week. I don't like recitation. It's humiliating when you don't know the answer. But I won't have to attend it on monday because we'll be having our surveillance audit for ISO that day. So my presence is much needed in the office. If I will be called again next time and wouldn't be able to answer i'll be posting it here no matter how embarassing it may be.

A new old book

Review classes are at a very fast pace. We finished General Chemistry in just 3 classes. I'm actually a little worried and stressed right now because I haven't really catched up yet. Now we are in Organic Chemistry. By the way, we have the same professor in gen chem and organic. He's actually very very good and very very intelligent. He's the only professor who made me understand the concept of hybridization. I never appreciate that topic, but now I do because of him.

Organic is very different from all the subjects that we will be taking up. The three others are somewhat interconnected. This one needs a lot of understanding and memorization. I have to take memo plus gold in order to grasp everything. My organic chem book by Morrison and Boyd is already old. It's actually so old (I bought it second hand) that the pages were already torn. So I asked my father to buy me a new one. They do not publish this book anymore so what they bought is again a second hand but its condition is much better than my first one. I started reading it and I have to say it's a bit difficult to understand. I need more reference for this subject.

See the name of the previous owner?

Tomorrow we'll have Inorganic Chemistry and I haven't done my problem set for that one yet. Will do after this...

Pre-simulation exam at Brains

May 9 was the official start of my review at Brains review center. They gave us a pre-simulation exam to check if we could still remember the lessons we had in chemistry. Most of the people who took the exam were fresh graduates meaning chemistry lessons are still fresh in their minds unlike us who are working. The exam was scheduled for two days. Yesterday and today. The subjects we had yesterday were Organic Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. Grabe, toxic ang organic. I totally forgot everything kaya mega hula na lang. I never had the chance to review for this subject unlike inorganic, mas marami akong nasagutan kasi this is what I've reviewed so far. Today we had Analytical and Physical Chemistry. Nakakabilib ung mga classmates ko. I don't know if they are really that good or nanghuhula din kaya ang aga natapos. Marami din yatang calculations kaya I think it's a bit impossible to finish in such a short time.

Anyway, I hope hindi zero ang score ko. That's so embarassing kahit sabihin pa na nagwowork kami. The results will be given this wednesday but i'm not sure if i'll attend, orientation lang kasi.

I'll be posting the results of my exams as embarassing as it may be. For motivation na rin siguro para mas sipagin pa ko magreview.

Pyrolympics '08

The 2008 Pyrolympics will be held all saturdays of this month at the San Miguel by the Bay. It was supposed to be held last february-march but they somehow changed the date. The reason? I don't exactly know. Last year I was only able to watch one. Syempre the day when team Philippines was included. The experience was spectacular, it's worth the sweat and the walk from MOA to macapagal.

Today is the first saturday of the event. The organizers were very strict. You need to have reservations at one of the restaurants in order for you to get near the place or get a good view of the fireworks display. If your going to just eat you won't be allowed either. Since BF's family's resto is along San Miguel by the Bay, they get to watch the fireworks for free. But the downside of it, they don't know what to expect when it comes to their sales since they have to charge their customers extra amount for the event. Because they(customers) will watch the event, they might be staying a little longer which means the place will be full even if everyone is already finished eating. BF is pressured. I bid him goodbye around 3:30 PM so he could help with the preparations in the resto. Hopefully, the event will boost their sales not the other way around. My friends and I were planning to watch on the last day because that will be our only free schedule. Ask ko si BF if we could get in for free..

Can't Find the Perfect Shoes..

It's only a few days before the start of my board review. We are not allowed to wear open toe shoes, sandals or flip flops, etc. Most of my footwear are flipflops and sandals. I have rubbershoes but it's too bulky to wear with jeans. So my hunt for the perfect sneakers is on. Since there is no work yesterday and there is a sale at SM MOA, BF and I went there to see if I could find the perfect one that would suit my taste. We searched and searched. We even checked out the kids section *LOL*. There were nice sneakers but they were so expensive! Our search was unsuccessful and it worries me. Then I remember that I still have this old girbaud sneakers. It's still in good condition because I seldom use it. I guess I have to use this for the moment until I find the PERFECT SHOES...

If anyone could give me a tip on where to find cute, comfy and affordable sneakers please PM me at tetsky02@gmail.com..I would really appreciate it..