The World From My Eyes

I was doing research for my pharmacodebate assignment and what I found was deadly SHOCKING!! I might exaggerate things a little but I just want to express my feelings right now. Do any of you know of the name Merck?? Well they are actually among the biggest pharmaceutical company in the world with many products currently on the market. In 1999 they release a drug name Vioxx on the market which was used to treat osteoarthritis. The drug was good as it reduce injury in the gut but was later on withdrawn from the market due to cardiovascular effect. The topic for my assignment was ‘withdrawal of the coxib drugs demonstrates that the hurdles for new drug registration are too low’ and I’m on the against team. When I was looking for info on why they withdrawn the drugs, I found that it was because the patients who took the drugs have increase risk of cardiovascular effect. But the effect was not that significant if you use the drugs for less than 18 months. If you use the drug

Today my holiday officially ends and tomorrow I have to go to classes again. It has been a hell of a week and I didn't get much rest. To be honest I've been waking up earlier than when my classes are on. Basically I've been stressing myself this week with many assignments and work. My IMB experiment has started but things haven't been going well with it and colleagues are pressuring me for the biological result as they want to publish the findings. It is a pressure when people keep asking you for the results when you can't even get the desired amount of cell density correct and the cells don't look happy.    The other thing I'm stressing about is my chemistry structure determination assignment. I have waste a total of 4 hours this week in the chemistry lab doing that assignment. The problem is that everytime I refine my structure all the atoms are gone. How on earth am I going to solve my structure if I don't have atoms to assign t

I just got back from Melbourne 2 days ago. This is my first easter outside Brisbane and first time travelling alone (bunyi cam loner giler kan). Well it wasn't the best time in my life (as I enjoyed NZ more) but I did enjoyed every second of it. Though there are some hardship in the beginning but I managed to overcome it. I was on my way to the Gold Coast on Saturday morning when Jetstar texted me saying that my flight has been delayed to 6.45pm and I was supposed to fly at 3.25pm, 3 hours delay. I want to go back home but I was already half way there and I though that I will try my luck for an earlier flight. When I got at the airport, the flight before mine was fully booked which means that I can't get on an earlier flight and have 4 hours to kill before my flight was due. It was the longest 4 hours in my life, I called Hani and talked to her for an hour and played with my DS till the battery run out. Then I realised that I didn't bring the charger for my

Finally I can have a break from uni and work..today is the start of easter holiday for a week. I was suppose to be productive today but in the end I just laze around watching taiwanese drama. How productive was that?? Tomorrow I will be flying down to Melbourne till the 15th of April. So, no update till then but I will update as soon as I'm back from Melbourne. After I'm back from Melbourne tons of assignments and studying need to be done plus lab work as well. So for the coming 5 days I just want to relax , distress and enjoy myself. Good night.  Till then~

Just want to share with you guys that patience could be very rewarding. I do some casual tutoring during the semester. Basically I teach 1st year students chemistry, its just introductory chemistry which is the same standard as high school chemistry. So really really basic stuff. The kids that took this course never done any chemistry before in their life. Think again when you were in high school learning chem for your 1st time. Everything seems so alien to you. I guess that's what those kids would feel. My role is not to teach them but to assist them in their learning by giving them worksheets and practice questions related to their lectures. This week we went through lewis structure with them. It was soo hard explaining to them the simple stuff when you have a deeper knowledge in that area. Sometimes when we know too much its hard to go back to the basic. So my partner was explaining to them the steps to get lewis structure for a compound and these kids just

Without realizing it, we already stepping into the fourth month of the year 2009 indicating that a quarter of the year has already gone. How time flies.. Next week is my last week of class before the easter holiday. I really cant wait for the holiday, not only I can rest and take a deep breath from what I've been going through for the past month. It's also a time to catch up with my studies. Half of the time in the lecture halls I don't even know what am I learning. Besides that, this year I got a long easter holiday as the week after the holiday is the third year free teaching week. Every semester third year student have this free teaching week as previous years students complaint that they do not have enough time to study and do their assignments as the workload is huge during third year. So,the uni has kindly gave third year this special no class week. By the way this easter I'll be going to Melbourne. Faiz, get ready to be a good tourist g