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Dance to the silent song it sings
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So my life can fall in place
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Showing posts with label pharmacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pharmacy. Show all posts

Thursday, April 7, 2011

so finally...

after four long, sleepless, stressful yet fun-filled, productive and didactic years I am now done with you BS Pharmacy!

I am happy, who wont be! but in the midst of ecstasy, there's sadness. we are leaving. we wont be in the same classroom for about twelve hours five days a week anymore. its about time for the real life, the real world. :|

thats why now im nostalgic but ill keep it brief. :|

so finally i am graduating...

Four years ago, the first time I stepped on the corridors of 2nd floor in the Main Building, I said to myself "Geez, this will be my home for four long years. can i do this?"
each day I leave my house, I pack light and bring only the essentials but that Monday morning was different. I brought every bit I can: bag, pen, paper, pencil, sharpener, crayons [yeah, I remember bringing this], scissors, extra uniform [I still dont now why I brought this, but yes, I did], handkerchief, money, food, water, courage, positivity, extra smiles, extra patience, humor, my shallow English vocabulary and common sense [just in case]. That day, I guess, I was ready for whatever or whoever.
and so there was I, as what most freshmen look, totally lost and don't have any clue of where to go, when i finally found our classroom [room 21~something. i forgot]. it was cold inside, a little silent and awkward. it was my first time to enter a room where I do not know anyone. I was frightened.  Should I speak in English or Tagalog? should I talk to them first or will I wait until they speak to me? Is it okay to sit where ever i want to? Will there be anybody here who is going to be a long term friend? I was nauseous.

Weeks passed by and the environment became ordinary and soothing, I realized that time, I was HOME. I gained friends, been introduced to many different past-time activities, brought to alot of leisure places and built my study habits [dont deny it, we all have study habits!]

Claire, Pam and Shen (she transferred at La Salle after our second year) were my first friends who then became my housemates, then Rama, Rona and Cyndrill's group merged with us and then Neil and Laurie came in. They became my friends. Long-term friends. Never did I thought that I would be blessed with such friends who were in the journey with me through good times and bad. They are one of the few reasons why I survived and enjoyed my college life.


Being in UST Faculty of Pharmacy, I experienced most of my firsts, some of which I would never thought I'd experience in my lifetime. It was my  first time to be at school for at least thirteen solid hours and  still have alot of homework, reports, and take-home stuffs to be done! I could still vividly remember those sleepless nights when we would have reports the next day and quiz in every subject (most of which is a 5unit course) and assignments and thesis experiments and/or deadlines and classes starts at 7 am. Those were the reasons why we endure sleepless nights which gives us, well specifically me, alot of huge eye bags. It was my first time to have those kind of big, red, swollen eyes which wants to close but dont have the right to because the professor in front who is frantically lecturing appears to be frightening. It was also my first time to experience sleeping for a maximum of 6 hours (during weekdays) and when times get worse, we are spared with two hours of sleep. I also had the chance to travel to alot new places for both research and leisure. It was my first time to walk along the corridor sometimes to have at least the chance to see my crush (you know-who), learned to drink till [we] drop, learned how to correctly puff a cigarette, go to school with a hang-over, review in a beerhouse for a final exam, go home during the wee hours (or not at all), eat alone, kill time, study inside the library, appreciate silence, long free hours and fresh air, use facebook as source of review material, watch a UAAP Game in Araneta and Phil.Sports Complex, see the Master of the Dominican Order, see alot of Pyromusicals for free, MY NAME TO BE PUT IN A TIME CAPSULE and alot more!

Now we are leaving...
[It is time to face the reality which our university prepared us for.]
Even if our journey as pharmacy students seemed to be miserable and looks like it sucks, truth is, it doesnt! Four years was a fun ride! We may not have much time to hang-out in every place we want to, we still had one hell of a college experience which we will never forget for the rest of our lives.
While you are in some place chilling, we are in the Laboratory learning and laughing our lungs out because of an experiment done and funny ways how we manipulated the results for it to be POSITIVE! :))
While you are in the club partying, we are in our rooms chilling  on one table with our friends who wont get drunk with alcohol but will act and look exactly the same as your drunk friend because of different mind-boggling pages after pages of pharmacology stuffs.
And while you are dismissed early from class, we are still in the same room enjoying the company of our beloved classmates until the darkness creeps across the corners of our university.
Simple memories are what we remember for the longest time and these memories are built mostly in the company of friends and/or classmates in a peaceful place.

College taught me alot of things about life besides the nerdy part.
How to be independent is my favorite of them all. Im living for four years [and counting] in a place where there is no rules and no one to control me. I can basically do whatever i want to: ruin my life or do something to make it amazing to live in.

 Here I am, a day from having by bachelor's degree, proved something to everyone. :)

 I will definitely miss our University especially the Faculty of Pharmacy (2nd floor of Main Building).

*plus my college crush. :)) [well, he'll always be my crush even after college]


Its been a pleasure living in the grounds of the Royal Pontifical Catholic University of Sto. Tomas where the presence of God is forever felt, good friends is just a blink away, love is always in the atmosphere and peace is everywhere.

Maningat, Maria Eda I.
Seat No: 28 (oftentimes)
1F . 2F . 3F . 4E Pharmacy
UST Faculty of Pharmacy
 


Thursday, March 11, 2010

Team Miracle's Success

This morning at 9:30 am
Tuesday, 11th day of March,
we defended our Thesis Proposal for our Technical Writing Subject...

and it was alot BETTER that what we have expected from ourselves!

we call our group Team Miracle. Why and How?
On day one, when our president grouped us for this thesis/research, we never expected that we'd be grouped together; Pam, Francis, Laurie, Claire and I.
The three of us can almost be described as happy-go-lucky students because we party alot, drink every weekends and most of the time are too lazy to do school works. Claire is the only not-so-lazy person so she was really nervous about our group. She was so worried that we'd never finish, or that's we'd fall apart in the middle of doing it, or that we'd let her do all the research, typing, editing and almost everything.
That was a Tuesday night when all we did was to think and convince our president to regroup us but nothing happened. It was almost midnight when we finished discussing, arguing and admitting that we'd really be groupmates altogether.
We let go and let things happen, so we promised ourselves that we'd be doing the works fair-and-square.
One evening, when we were thinking about our title, while we were searching the internet about fun, interesting yet scientific stuffs, I stumbled upon a word which spells "MIRACLE". So i thought, since everyone of us, in our group, loves cramming, its just be good to call ourselves TEam MIRACLE.

Team Miracle - is a group of 5 cool, hot and clever college students struggling to finish their "thesis" as part of the requirements for their TW subject.

our group's name itself united us together. We were so fond of it that we created a Fan Page for it in Facebook who's fans can be counted with you fingers and toes. Hahaha LoL! Well, the main purpose of the Fan Page is to have a place where we can upload as many pictures of us, while doing the thesis. :D
click this and become one of our fans! LoL

Every time there is a paper to be passed for this Thesis Proposal, we do it the fast way- CRAMMING: Do Everything the Night Before.
The cycle is that we go to Laurie's Dorm, call their dorm guard and let him buy our dinner, facebook for about an hour and then when one gets sleepy at pasimpleng hihiga sa likuran namin, that's only the time when all of us be stimulated to be serious and do the researching, typing and editing, that will be around 9pm,plus there's he facebooking/admiring/youtube video viewing in the middle of the researching and reading part so most of the time, we end up at around 11pm-midnight. Sometimes, we do things alot faster than normal because we have exams in a lot of subjects pa the next day so we lessen the Facebooking period.

The First task was to submit a title together with objectives and problems and then back it up with abstracts or journal articles.
Our first five topics were all rejected. :D the funny thing about it, and also the reason why we accepted it was going to be rejected was that 4 out of 5 were about either about ALCOHOL or NICOTINE. Only one is the really thesis-type topic which was i guess accepted but we only needed to change one of our plant source. my favorite topic there was about Acetylcystein's effect on drug-induced hang-overs. hahaha LoL.
So we researched a little bit more and ended up with real Thesis-type topics and in that batch of topics where some were approved and others were rejected, we chose what we wanted to focus our study about.

The Second Task was to do a Matrix for the Review of Related Literature.
we researched in the Library's Online Databases (SCIENCE DIRECT and PRO-QUEST) everything we needed for the paper and then sent the links to our email addresses. The not-so-good part was that we never knew that night that those links can not be opened outside the University grounds, that we still need to connect to the University's Internet server to be able to acquire the full article. It was already around 9:30pm when we realized this super mega huge problem, so we decided that we will come early to school na lang in the morning to get those articles from the library na lang. The next morning, another not-so-good part happened again, Pam arrived at around 8:30 na (we have QC1 class at 9am) and she forgot the titles of the articles we needed to download pa. :D LoL! all we did was to laugh it off, some were disappointed but all in all, it was okay. we still have time, 8 hours at most because the papers should be passed at 5pm, after Pharmacology make-up class. So we downloaded the articles using the library's computers and then printed it out (during lunch break). We ate late lunch na lang during PharCare i guess (2:00-3:00pm) . The MIRACULOUS part was that we finished the MAtrix thing before 5pm!! How? well, during those minuets when Sir Ivan Tanodra was discussing his stuff about pharmacology, we did the matrix! hahaha.. Pam, Claire, LAurie and I divided the works, one person per article. By the time Sir Gavino Ivan was done with his discussion, we were at the back shutting Laurie's Mac Book na.. hahahahaha!

The Third Task was to do the entire Chapter 1.
I already forgot how we were able to come up with a Chapter 1 that Tuesday morning, basta all i remembered was that I di my part (Backgroud of the Study/Introduction) in a computer shop full of cute guys shouting bad words at each other while playing DOTA. and then Claire compiled it and printed it at around 6:30 am that same Tuesday morning when we were to submit it. :D

The Fourth Task was to do Chapter2.
Again, we divided the parts of chapter 2 among ourselves. We did "something similar" with editing at Laurie's place, (they lang pala. natulog lang kasi ako sa likuran nila habang ginagawa yung kung ano man yun. LoL) Ginawa ko lang yung part ko pag kauwi dito sa dorm. I could still vividly remember that Monday night, just last Monday night when all i was granted was around 2 and a half hours of sleep because i still waited for Francis' part to be emailed and then i still edited the entire thing with Pam's snore as my background music. And we still have quizzes for all of our subjects that day: Tuesday. i slept at around 4am that Tuesday morning. I had real fun that night! :)

And the LAst task was to Defend our Thesis Proposal
Again, we did the entire preparation only the night before, it was a Wednesday night at Laurie's dormroom. They did the power point preparation while I prepared myself for my Laboratory examination: CBC night at UST Hospital.
The slides were't finished yet by 7am and our defense will be AT 9:30 AM and i still dont have a formal clothing to wear and pam just left their home at Pasig! hahahhaa..
Cramming..
one hour before defense, our slides are still lacking its components and we were all really pressured. LoL
30minuets before our defense, we still dont have a hard copy of our Thesis Papers for the Panelists and Pam is still not around.
Francis did a Miracle and printed, the fastest he could, those Papers for the Panelists and then Pam arrived and 5 minuets before our turn to defend what we have done, we put on some sort of formal clothing. actually, mukha nga kaming mag paparty sa bar. LoL. hahaha

During the Defense, it wasnt perfect yet it wasnt a disaster.
Our Thesis is FEASIBLE! it is "DOABLE" sir Jay Jazul said.

some of our classmates told us that we had the second to the highest grade that morning, while others said we had the Highest score. I dont know. I/We dont care.
ALL WE CARE ABOUT IS THAT OUR THESIS PROPOSAL IS DONE AND IT IS FEASIBLE FOR Fouth Year!
hahaha

What A MIRACLE!

I wrote this something to remind me/us that one day, we did something incredible WITHOUT ASKING ANYBODY'S help.
We did a Thesis Paper with the most we can do. And defended it in the best way be can.
(kahit na nang loloko lang talaga si Francis nang sinabi nyang magbibigay kami ng something sa mga manufacturing laboratory para malaman ang importance ng SoyBean Oil as Table Lubricant. hahaha
at Nanloloko lang din siya nung sinabi niyang meron kaming basis/standard na plant material na pag cocompare-an ng gagawin naming SoyBean Oil Extract as Tablet LUbricant. hahaha LOL! :D)

Sometimes, we just have to believe in ourselves that we can do something over what we think we are only capable of because maybe, just maybe, this gamble will help us know even more of ourselves and learn that we still could stretch ourselves from what we are, what we have and what we are capable of doing today for the better and for the future.
Thesis Writing is not just about having a witty cranium, I / We learned based on what we have experienced that Thesis Writing as also about Team Work, great Imagination and alot of Inspiration (from facebook espacially. hahahab LoL!)

Now that Thesis is done, only the Alcohol, good memories and tighter friendship bond will hold us together.



The use of Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil Specifically Soybean Oil as Tablet Lubricant

(i revise daw namin, dapat daw
"The Use of Soybean Oil as Tablet Lubricant"
na lang)

ÜÜÜ



Cac, Christine Claire
Carreon. Laurie Moreen
Mallari, Pamela Ann Mae
Maningat, Maria Eda
Ty, Francis Adrian




thanks, i really enjoyed that One Semester of working with your guys.
buti na lang masyadong tight ang friendship natin kaya hindi tayo nag fall apart.

I ♥ You!
:)
XOXO
-eda

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Paboritong quotable quotes today


1.
Exam ka ba? nauubos kasi oras ko kakatitig sayo.
(nakita ko yan sa desk ko nakasulat ng blue pen kanina habang pharmacognosy). inagaw ang atensyon ko.
totoo naman kasi diba. lalo na kapag problem solving ang exam. lalo na yung mga tipo ng problem na nakakapamroblema talagang isolve. lalo na yang Compleximetry at Redox sa Lab. kahit paano pa balibaliktarin yung mga numbers na given, di talaga..parang mali yung percent purity kasi sobra sa 100%. o kaya yung edta, sobrang laki ng parts per million na parts per billion na ang kinalalabasan. sabay LoL na lang at katok sa scientific calculator praying na may magic ito at ibigay ang tamang computation.
isa pa yang practical exam sa pharmacognosy. in a matter or seconds dapat masagot mo ang tanong kundi tutunog na ang bell ni kuya glen at say goodbye ka na sa one point. suuuper pasalamat na ang mga nakaka atleast ten mistakes. halleluia! pero wala naman kaming choice kundi sumagot lang ng sumagot ng mga words na parang out of this world. sabay LoL na lang ulit at maririnig mo na ang "ring"..ring"... :D
pero may twist ang practical exam ng inyong lingkod kanina dahil habang nasa station number 17 ako, 10 seconds pa lang ang nakalilipas, habang iniimagine ko ang itsura ng reviewer ko nang nakadungaw sa bintana ng FLR Lab4 at biglang dumaan yung ultimate crush ko this semester! Natulala ako sakanya sabay labas ng thought na "honeycomb of beeswax". palagay ko yun yung tamang sagot so sinulat ko na "ring".."ring"... sabi ng timer ni kuya Glen. good bye station 17 na.


2. Oohh my GoOood! Daga?
(hulaan kung sino ang nagsabi!) haha :p
meron tumatakbong mga salita sa imagination ko pero di ko na lang sasabihin, baka bukas lang o next week singko na pala, automatically, ang grade ko.. LoL!
blind item muna. kunwari hindi siya kilala ng mga ka year level ko.
sorry boss. nagvavlag lang. :p



nakakawala ng pagod yung mga nakikita at naririnig ko.
masaya naman pala yung Pharmacy na course.
:)

nakakapagod lang talaga minsan.

sabi nila, palagi na lang daw kami nagrereklamo sa mga bagay.
sabi ko naman, okay lang mag reklamo kahit wala na ring dahilan ang nirereklamo, hindi naman bumabagsak and besides, sumusunod pa rin naman kami kasi as if naman may choice kami. LoL

kaya namin ito.
2011 gagradweyt kami

special mention sa mga ka group ko sa "thesis"
tawag namin sa group namin:
TEAM MIRACLE


XOXO
-e

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

some things i'll miss for two weeks of vacation

1. dapitan night life
who would not miss that crazy night around dapitan?
not only do i miss the sweet alcohol from Tapsi, Da Pit and 330mL
but also
that dead tired feeling when i walk our from our campus dizzy, having stinging headache and the sensation of being tortured (which always haunt me and reminds of an extended laboratory work at FLR Lab4 because of pharmacognosy)
and also that
disappointed feeling after you see that colorful test papers of yours, week after your exam week with not so nice scores
and the
24/7 computer shops which become battle ground for computer games addict, refuge for those who were locked our of their dormitory because they did not come home before curfew and home for those who simply like to surf the net, facebook all night long and chat unstoppably.
plus
the newly opened Starbucks coffee a the ground floor of Pacific Suites which becomes the habitat of bookworms and nerd people at midnight
as well as those
27/7 tapsihan especially along Asturias. they rock the night when one is hungry and at the same time nagtitipid! :D
whle wendy's is open 24/7 too for those hindi nagtitipid! :D
(and their washroom is open too, so for those drunk people wandering arond dapitan at night, straighten up your walk and go to the fourth floor of Wendy's, its for free!) XD
also the
Seven11 and Ministop which sells the most luscious cigarettes when all the bangketa's are already closed.

[i think its safe naman to walk around dapitan at night because i see some security guard and barangay tanod watching the area)



2. 4th floor's Open Sandwich
this is the most awesome food inside the Main building of the University of Santo Tomas!!!
why?
because when your stomach is already grunting and your intestines are already eating and digesting each other but you do not have enough time to eat (because either you are going to do your assignments, laboratory manual or report pa or you you just robbed a couple of minuets in between classes) just go up to the top most floor of the oldest building in Asia and there you'll find the BigMan frying the coolest food for your starving stomach:
OPEN SANDWICH!
50Pesos.
busog ka na!
(egg, your choice kung paano i ffry, footlong hotdog, a pair of sandwich)





3. Dorm/condo/apartment - Life
there are two things i miss about living independently in Manila

ONE: you can do what ever you want to. you have the choice.

you get to choose to either ruin your life,
drink alcohol every night, ignore your professors as frequently as you want to, puff cigarette every other minuet, not attend your classes all day long, fail exams, fail your subjects, fail your course and be kicked out of your university
OR you get the choice to be nerdy, read book all day long inside the library, loose friends, ace your exams, perfect your quizzes, forget about social life, get 1.0 in your class cards, be magna cumlaude, become a loner eating by himself in a fancy restaurant.
OR you get the choice to be cool and stay at school and have goals in life. attend class as long as there are scheduled classes, you may be late sometimes sa first class in the morning, not get perfect scores all the time yet get perfect scores some times, go online and surf the internet after class, then read and study in the library or in your home after internet, puff a few cigarettes, hang out with friends (who will become your life-ling colleague), go out with barkada every weekends or every time you're free, not forget about advance reading, do reports and assignment ahead of time (para makaHang-ut or gimmick pa rin kahit super tight na ng schedule :D), drink liquor sometimes, do not sleep if it's already 4am and you just finished reviewing and your exam is seven or eight in the morning (promise, you wont wake up na! unless there's a concerned roommate). finish your course without an F in your class cards, graduate in time (sige, graduate cum laude or graduate magne cumlaude!) XD

TWO: you have the freedom to be suuuuper tamad all day long. wake up late in the morning (if there are no classes). eat whenever you want to (eat all day or not eat because you are soo lazy to get up form bed). get to be infront of the computer as long as you can (maybe until your eyes are bloody red already). watch your ants travel around the walls of your kitchen.


4. Professors
who wont miss them?
when they laugh at you right after they give loads and loads of requirements, reports, assignments and you have one week to figure out how to be able to pass them in time.
when they come inside your freezing classroom with a bundle of test papers with problems to be solved which you aren't ready yet to answer
when they schedule a quiz which happens to be in the same day with your other subjects' quizzes
when they assign you a report which you have no clue what is it about
when then call you to recite the entire Kreb's Cycle or when they call you to answer their on-the-spot question which you happened to not know because you have not reached that page for advance reading.
when they keep rejecting your thesis proposals
when they chuckle after they give you your answer sheet in your exam
when they tell you, "kaya nyo yan. tsaga lang"
when they consider your schedule and show some love and move scheduled exams
when they pass you in their subjects
when they talk to you, like kabarkada and advice you what to do to be able to hold on the the remaining weeks of the semester.
when they smile at you and show them they cared for you and for the rest of his students



5. Pharmacology + Pharmacognosy

who would not miss the traumatic life in FLR Lab 4 every MWF 10-12am?
two weeks will be our break from Pharmacognosy. two weeks will feel like heaven on earth!
because when the classes resume, there ill be a FESTIVAL of QUIZZES for us, again.
another almost 150 scientific names to memorize.
biologicals.
chapters and chapters of quizzes..
practical tests..
laboratory works..
every meeting overtime Lecture hours..
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Pharmacology!
my favorite subject.
why?
because of two things..
1. it's challenging and kinda hard o understand so you need your
2. professor to explain it to you and roll his cute eyes in front of the class.

i dont know if i will hate or love my classmates when they tease me everytime i recite in front of the class. XD
i like pharmacology.
alot :D


two weeks of Vacation..
two weeks of nothing.

except of course if I will choose to read and study in advance for Pharmacology and for our Festival of Quizzes in Pharmacognosy
and if i will choose that choice, umm, Christmas Day will be like Byernes Santo!
:D