My last ever mock examinations got over on April 30th. No more exams from the school anymore.. just those friggin' important ones from the Edexcel board, lol.. the ones that decide my fate ( Read more... )

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Our Chemistry teacher gave our Chemistry exam papers back to us today, to check them for any correction mistakes etc., so we could beg/fight for some more marks ( Read more... )

Thursday was Confiscate-My-Camera-Phone Day, sponsored by Mr D'Souza and Mr Paul. They barged into our Chemistry class/lab while we were carrying out some experiments. Most of us were. We were already in a hurry, as it were, because we were short on time and there were many tests left to do on the silly compounds ( Read more... )

A really peculiar custom among South-east Asians is calling every man from the older generation 'uncle' and every woman from the older generation 'aunty', despite the absence of a blood relation. Like, I call Arjun's father 'Sanjay Uncle', but he's not really my uncle, as such. It can be anybody, though, not just your parents' friends. It can be ( Read more... )

My chemistry teacher wants me to be polished. I dunno what she means by that ( Read more... )

I finally re-did my titration today, after I had failed at a previous attempt.

I got my "concurrent" readings, which is to say that I got two consecutive measurements of the titre volume which are within 0.2 ml of each other.

But all this came at a price, of course:

1. I was trying to get one my weighing bottles open and I cut my left index finger ( Read more... )

So today we learnt about cleavage in Chemistry. Apparently, salt crystals have cleavage. I think I'd better stay the heck away from table salt ( Read more... )

So it began ( Read more... )