My Science Practical

I don't actually know why but I have a bad habit of delaying everything as much as I can. I don't even study till my mom has told me a not so few times. All my posts are written some time after I want to coz I don't sit when I can.

On Sunday, I had my science practicals. And I am going to write about it now. Two days later. They went pretty good. I didn't have much difficulty in any of them. First was my physics practical. Not all students have the same practicals. Half the batch has one and the other half one. It is not selected randomly but in roll numbers. So I got the experiment of plotting a temperature-time graph of water as it cools down and the boy with the next roll number got the experiment of finding the density of a material. Mine was pretty easy. Then next in biology, I had to make a stained slide of onion peel cells and identify the given slide. The slide was parenchymatous tissue. But the boy next to me got the cheek cell experiment and had to write, draw and identify the given specimen which was a fish. This time too I got the easy one. Then the last practical, chemistry I got the heating of lead nitrate, decomposition experiment whereas my friend got the double displacement experiment of mixing barium chloride and sodium sulphate. Again I got the easy one. I also got all the easy viva questions. I hope to do get full marks in the practicals.

One thing I forgot is the scene in the chemistry lab when I was writing down the experiment. All the boys near me, well almost three feet apart were asking for my help. Among them a few had different experiments. And I helped them. I don't cheat but if I don't help them I won't be able to write the next exam.

The Past Three Days

Since a few days i haven't been regularly updating my blog. The main reason I don't have much to blog about and I am a bit busy with studying (yes I sometimes do that sort of things) for my exams which are trying to make sure I don't survive this year. On Wednesday I ate Al-Baik for dinner. It is a very special kind of broasted chicken unique to Jeddah, Makkah and Madina. The special thing about it is it is very tasty as a result it always has a lot of rush in the restaurant. They have got enough staff working to speed up the process but the traffic in the area is also very high which neutralizes their speed. We took our parcel in 15 minutes but returned home about half an hour later. I even took some pictures when I was eating.



The picture above shows a large/family pack which contains the whole chicken in eight pieces. They also sell a smaller pack with half a chicken in four pieces. You also get two buns and four garlic sauce packs. I couldn't take any pics while eating as the only thing you can think of while eating Al-Baik is eating more of it.



Then on Thursday and Friday I and my fasted as it was the ninth and tenth of Muharram, respectively. On thursday after Iftaar we went to Jeddah for a small party by our cousins. It was actually a birthday celebration of the son of another of my cousins.

And today was my maths practical exam. It was pretty easy. In my set of questions was a choice between proving that the area of a parallelogram is equal to base multiplied by height by paper cutting and pasting or I had to prove the mid-point theorem by a similar method. The mid-point theorem was common to all the sets of question papers (there were a total of for sets). I solved the one of area of a parallelogram. In the viva I gave all the three answers correct. I hope to get full marks in it.

Tomorrow is my science practical exam which includes physics, chemistry and biology. I have studied for it too but I will be revising for it in a short time.

Not Gone With The Year

I know its been about two weeks since the new year started but thats not a problem for me. Many people say that when the year goes all worries and stuff like that go with it. I believe that is nonsense. Complete nonsense. Because the year may have gone but has left all its worries with us. I mean the exams come in February or March. So we have got to get busy. Start studying all the time and things like that. Most of the boys in my class are usually studying and doing nothing else but that. I must be the only one coming online these days. I don't have much difficulty in any subject. But still exams are exams. Moreover it is a board exam so any type of questions can come from anywhere. We have to thoroughly revise the text book, the sample papers and the guides. So what the use of a year going. The actual year starts in March.

In the past few days

Its been more than a week since I wrote a post. It was because my DSL connection had expired. But now I am back online. In the past few days nothing special has happened. My exams are going to start. I have practicals on Saturday and Sunday, then from 13th february the regular exams. The good thing is I have got enough time to revise between the exams.

Once one of my cousins told me that I should blog about what I think instead of what I do. So thats what I am gonna do from now on.