You know you never realise how out of touch you are from studying after a 9 month hiatus until you attempt your first piece of worksheet on conversions and then you spend HOURS doing it and then checking it. HOURS. SEVEN questions, HOURS. I'm rusty.

1mol= 1000 mmol
1mmol = 1000 umol
1umol = 1000 nmol
1 nmol = 1000pmol

1 mol = 1 x 10^3 mmol = 1 x 10^6 umol = 1 x 10^9 nmol = 1 x 10^12 pmol

1L = 1000ml = 1dm^3
1ml = 1000ul

1g = 1000mg
1mg = 1000ug

1M = 1000 mmol/dm^3
= 1000mmol/L
= 1000mmol/1000ml

Must remember that. Must remember that. MUST REMEMBER THAT.

Anyway, my timetable's now 80% fixed.

I have practicals and tutorials for organic chemistry on odd weeks on Thursdays and Mondays respectively. For biochemistry, I have practicals on the Fridays of odd weeks and tutorials on the Wednesdays of even weeks. For molecular genetics, I have practicals on every even week (I think), that's on Mondays. Now I'm just left with general physiology.

My first day of school was not-so-uneventful. My organic chemistry lecturer is Scottish with a heavy accent. Add that with the low volume and I couldn't comprehend what he was saying 60% of the time. When he did hold the mic close to his lips and spoke into the mic, I had an epiphany and understood what he was saying. Must make it a point to sit closer to the front next time. And come in 10mins before the lecture, the lecturer seems to start the lecture before the stipulated time of 10am. The good thing is that he ends early too. At least for the first lecture.

I'm going to school later for 3 hours, I'm travelling 4 hours to spent 3 hours in school. Great. I'll be in campus from 4-7pm. But today I have my molecular genetics lecture and tutorial. This will be interesting. I just spent last night (after the conversions exercise) going through my genetics notes (which has a grand total of 7 pages and 1 paragraph on prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In junior college, eukaryotes alone took up 20pages and I didn't learn much about prokaryotes). I'm proud of myself for making the effort to read through it and digest a pretty significant (to me, I mean I can remember the axial filaments, pili, flagella, frimbriae, glyocalyx, erm, somewhat!) portion of it. It's not perfect but I reckon it's a start.

So far, I've tugged home reference books for biochemistry and organic chemistry (which almost killed me yesterday carrying them home). Today, I shall get my lab coat (cool!! But expensive). Maybe tomorrow I'll get my molecular genetics reference book, so should I get it today? I'll see. Must take the application form for the university's book shop's member card.

Onto other news, my father got hospitalised again. One year ago, he was sent to the nearest hospital in the wee hours of the morning due to a heart attack. That occured just before my preliminary examinations. Yesterday morning, he was sent there, to the same hospital, for a suspected heart attack. Cardiologists are still running tests but he's going to be discharged today as he's cleared most of the tests but they have no idea what's going on (like they did a year ago, they took 12 hours to diagnose last year). I wonder how many scares must he have before he learns that he's got to quit smoking. One scare during the heart attack last year, another one last year during his angioplasty when there was a hiccup during the procedure and now, this one. My family doctor predicted that if he doesn't quit, within a year, he'll go through a bypass and a year after that, he'll be gone. So far, he's been pretty accurate. In a freaky kind of way. A couple of weeks he warned my father that a heart attack was imminent if he stopped taking medicine to control his cholesterol level, my father got the heart attack. Anyway, the thing is he's coming home today (I'm not close to my father, in case you're wondering).

Alright, I need to get ready to go to school. Lol. Kinda early but I'm awfully good at bumming around.