Life has been so hectic and tiring that i barely snap any photograph this year. I used to take millions of photographs with my lovely sbu and mbs friends during secondary school time. Maybe i'm growing *ahem more mature that i don't take silly photo anymore. Or maybe there isn't many camera-ready friends, like Lindsay C, to take pictures with.
Well, what made me start clicking away is that my tutor in IMU will be leaving for UK soon. He has always been very supportive in terms of academic and students' personal problems. We relates our problems and unsatisfactories to him and he always made us think from another point of view. Besides, he is one of the most interesting pharmaceutics lecturer that i have ever met. The subject itself is very, very dry and factual but he manages to gather our interests by relating to products in the market. Other lecturers are like dictators and we are 'supposed' to absorb everything like a sponge during lectures. I personally don't think it is the right way to learn.
5 of us with Mr Khalid, our tutor
Then, for extemporaneous dispensing, i made my sixth product: suppositories this week. Suppository is a dosage form intended for rectal use only. Mine didn't turn out well as they melt almost immediately after i removed them from the mould :( Some even got broken into halves. It was so disappointing that only 1 out of 5 suppositories was considerably normal. I'm so jealous of my benchmate who managed to get all 5 perfect suppositories. According to the lecturer, who is also my tutor, it was because i overheated the cocoa butter base and it turned into an unstable polymorph. That's why my suppositories are so soft and cacat!
My failed suppositories
My professional-looking benchmates
Finally, i managed to get a satisfactory one
Here it is, my one and only normal looking one
Next, we also got to play around with different form of inhalers, namely handihaler, accuhaler, metred-dose inhaler, diskhaler, etc. Those inhalers provided are actually 'dummies' with placebo, medication with no active ingredient. Not to forget that some of us also got to try nicotine chewing gum, which is used for smoking cessation. My friend claimed that the more you chew, the more peppery feeling you will get and it is definitely not pleasant taking it.
"Ok, this is how you use a handihaler. First, you open the dust cap by pressing......
I shall end my post with a picture of my friend and i with the work of art of my b107 seniors in conjuction with the 52nd National Day as well as their Malaysian Studies project. Both the kolam and klcc are magnificent!!!
In case you all can't see clearly, the girl in pink/lilac top is me :P
