BlackOut

a little chemistry joke, related to my chem exam today. if you don't take chem better don't read, you prob. won't get the joke anyway.

(anyway it's not really a joke)

so yea, for the first time in dunno how many years i had a blackout during the exam. okay, so it was a sub blackout but still it was scary. for the first 30 mins of the paper, the first question seemed like greek to me. i could not comprehend it, neither was i able to answer it. yes, it was that bad, and that was only the first question. luckily, i managed to answer most of the remaining questions after 30 mins. trust me, it was darn scary. i was just sitting there and looking at the sea of people around me, it was like being lost in the vast ocean, the feeling of helplessness, that no one can come to save me even if i call out for help.

okay, so here's the 'joke'...

you know for chem you have to draw those silly molecules and name the molecule. yea, they asked for nh3 (ammonia) and ph3 (phosphine) and ammonia's solubility in water. somehow or other, silly me took the proton number found in the periodic table to be the number of outer electrons there is! so i drew water with 2 double bonds and 2 lone pairs and ammonia and phosphine with an extra lone pair. like, darn it, i thought i'd lost enough marks as it is. and later in paper 2, there was this question to label the lone pairs, stupidly i labelled 2 lone pairs on nitrogen. -slaps forehead-

oh ya, as for my first question for the first paper? i left it totally blank. just didn't have the generosity of time to go back to it. so it's like first foolscap of paper was blank. the teacher marking it must be widely amazed at my generosity in throwing away marks. worst still, it was a tutorial question i'd done before.

-shakes head-

and to think of it... chem was my best paper out of all. i think i'd be able to just pass gp (screwed it up again...), math is a definite f (i never did so little quesitons in an exam before) and chinese (like it always it, horrendous).

i can just wish for the best but the picture i've painted from the few of my papers is indeed quite bleak.