For the love of Chemistry

I actually had my first Chemistry lecture today, so let me just give a quick description of how it went. It is particularly interesting to note that Chemistry was my worst subject in RI, but yet I persisted in taking it in classical stupid-boy fashion.

Here are my Chemistry credentials:
- All Chem CTs, except the last one, scoring below 40%
- Always doing with smart people for Chemistry projects, thus resulting in high CA in Sec 3
- My overall result for Sec 3 Chemistry was 50%, don't ask me why
- Never passed a Class Common Test
- Cannot do mole concept even with textbook next to me
- I titrate using a filter funnel and a beaker. Only.
- Failed almost every SPA test, if not all.

So I had to walk into LT2 with apprehension, perhaps a little excitement after leaving Chemistry untouched for two months and a little more. The lecture basically started with the school values, which was dumb considering that isn't the Chemistry teacher's job. She's like damn Mdm Leong, if any of you can even remember that old hag who teachers Lower Sec Science. By the way, she's the nicest old hag I ever know.

Well we were treated to lots of Winnie the Pooh pictures, evidently her favourite cartoon (wtf), as she says. Then she came up with a list of rules in lectures, what with punctuality, proper attire, respect, no doing tutorials during lectures, pay attention etc. Haha after reading the amazingly long list, I realised that she left something out. Something which I loved to do in my four years in RI and which still appeals to me now.

SLEEPING IN CLASS!

Now they didn't say I couldn't do that! On top of that, the lecturer also mentioned that a Chemistry rep has to be appointed from each class, who will do lots of bullshit such as collecting notes, corresponding with the teachers, etc. Well I thought I was possibly the worst guy to ask, for I'm as lazy as can be, much as I love Chemistry.

Thankfully, the lecturer saved me again by saying that the Chem rep needs not to be good in Chem, he just needs to love the subject!! I think my passion for Chemistry is as fierce as the combustion of petrols (see, I know some Chemistry), so that job is mine. No one is going to take my place, okay. I AM GOING TO BE THE CHEMISTRY REP. Plus my love for the other subjects means I'm effectively going to be Maths rep, Chem rep, Econs rep and French rep for my class. Damn, I just love to serve others.

Who needs thinker, leader, pioneer when you have a servant to slog everything out for you? Service gives me great satisfaction. So I really think I'm going to volunteer to be the Chemistry rep.

Anyway, we had a little quiz after that, which I think I should not get a complete zero as long as at least one answer is D. Don't think my luck can be that bad right? Anyway, this was done using probability, one of Chandy's strong points (he has plenty), so I bet I won't do as badly for this as I did for my French. The worst case scenario is scoring one out of ten, then I'll look bloody pathetic.

Still, who says you need to be good in Chemistry? Not like this is going to be graded anyway (like gay RP), and not like it's going to affect my chances of being Chem rep. After all, I collected the scripts after they were all finished (it's not easy to NOT finish the paper), so perhaps it's just my destiny to be Chem rep.

That position is so going to be mine. I love Chemistry.