HF...

...as in hydrofluoric acid.

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Exposure to hydrofluoric acid can produce harmful health effects that may not be immediately apparent.

Inhalation:
Severely corrosive to the respiratory tract. May cause sore throat, coughing, labored breathing and lung congestion/inflammation.
Ingestion:
Corrosive. May cause sore throat, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, severe burns of the digestive tract, and kidney dysfunction.
Skin Contact:
Corrosive to the skin. Skin contact causes serious skin burns which may not be immediately apparent or painful. Symptoms may be delayed 8 hours or longer. The fluoride ion readily penetrates the skin causing destruction of deep tissue layers and even bone. <----- eto daw talaga ang scary, malamang.
Eye Contact:
Corrosive to the eyes. Symptoms of redness, pain, blurred vision, and permanent eye damage may occur.
Chronic Exposure:
Intake of more than 6 mg of fluorine per day may result in fluorosis, bone and joint damage. Hypocalcemia and hypomagnesemia can occur from absorption of fluoride ion into blood stream.

Source: http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/H3994.htm
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At work, we occasionally deal with hydrofluoric acid. (Occasionally, as in twice to thrice a week) At dahil mabangis si HF, we've got to be in our full-battle gears when working with this dangerous acid.

Tipong kamukha ko na si Marvin the Martian...pink nga lang. Ahahay!














(Ahem, di naman pala magkamukha... :D )



HF, just don't kill me too soon, aryt? Yay.

Gupit nang gupit

It's barely been two months since I last had my haircut. (My first time in a salon ALONE, and even telling the hairdresser to just cut it short (shorter than my then already short hair) however she sees fit. It's your lucky day! And that was it. (I feel like I'm writing a mathematical equation with too much parentheses. Awwwww...I miss math...! Really, why do I have to put parentheses all over my paragraph?! Just let it pass...I just feel like putting them everywhere.) Ang gulo ng mgaparenthesis!!!)

Enough of the parentheses. Today, I was in high spirits to have my hair cut...errr, not exactly a new one. It's more or less the same haircut as the last one, except that this one's at a different salon. Lately, I just get tired of my hair --- gives me headache when I'm in the lab. I don't want to grow my hair at all (dude, stay as you are...haha).

Thinking about it now, I actually had my hair cut thrice since April of 2008. It seems like I've been doing a lot of things way too impulsive lately.

All work and no play makes Raph a dull girl

What a life! Never-ending strings attached to acads. Huh, for what? The love of studying? Crap.

When will I ever breathe the freshest of airs? Funny how, days ago, I ranted over not having anything to do and yet now STILL rant over having no time for play, eh? Ano ba talaga?!...I guess it's human nature --- d*mn human nature.

On second thought, it's not totally an all-work-and-no-play for me at all. See, I still find time to spend my precious time here. It's just annoying how my eyes hurt from reading (and sleeping? hmmm...) yet I can't afford to concede defeat against this hurting...I have to finish my thing before going to bed. No more ranting and raving for now. For that, oyasuminasai.

Money talks after grad

My first paycheck for the first 9 days of work. It's not much, keri lang. :)

U.P. @ 100 finds its way to me

Finally, finally!! I got them by "accident" when I had a three-day training (or was it a part-time job?) at Ate Hydie's travel agency. Actually, they really saved these two for me. Weeee! Buti na lang di ko binili yung binebenta ng school na worth Php1,000 (1,500 na yata ngayon) for four UNCUT 100-peso bills. Huh, who cares if the ones they're selling are uncut? Meron naman palang nagci-circulate sa public! Sorry naman...I know, fund-raising it is for U.P. nating mahal (...at MAHAL na ring mag-aral sa U.P. these days)!

My looking forward

Just before last week, I was too busy couch potato-ing at home for more than a month or so. Save for the times I was “leaf-lifting” through the pages of my chemistry books, reviewers, and previous notes. My daily routine’s as simple as waking up at 8am, taking a bath, pigging out, watching TV, web surfing, studying, and whatnots at home. During those weeks, I used to go out of the house only AT MOST twice a week. Take that very literally, as in I didn’t get to go out of our main door for days. It’s not that I can’t, but I just opted not to. Home’s fine. I only do go out for unavoidable circumstances: 1.) during our “compulsory” exams at the review center once every two weeks, 2.) when I run out of food in the fridge, and 3.) during “emergencies” such as my application for the board exam. For that, I missed looking forward to some things.

During my undergrad years, I used to look forward to a lot of things -- the first day of classes, the LAST day of classes, the upcoming exams (Naks! Looking forward to take the exams? Don’t buy it), the suspension of classes (whether due to bad weather, rallies, unexpected holidays, blah, blah, blah), the time to end each class, the end of the day, the weekends…haaaayyy. But days at home…I seem to look forward to almost nothing at all. Ah, at the very least, I do look forward to little stuff like watching shows I was engrossed in – The Tyra Banks Show, Ambush Makeover, and some local shows. I never had the chance to look forward to the weekends anymore. In fact, I can hardly notice the day of the week or the date of the month!

Unfortunately, and FORTUNATELY, my lazing came to an end on a Monday last week. Opportunityknocked on my door and I whole-heartedly let it in. And I’m rejoicing that at last I’ll be looking forward to some things again! Things like when it’s time to go home after a hard day’s work, the free Ikot ride in school on Tuesdays, my paycheck, and the weekends! Yeehuh!

Butterflies all over my stomach

It's 5am and I'm having butterflies all over my stomach. Today's my last exam for my BS Chem degree...hopefully. I'm having all sorts of jittery feelings and I can't help but "blog" it.

I'm still anxious as ever towards graduation day! Am I gonna make it? Though uncertainty strikes, I still wanna believe that I'm gonna make it. It feels like 10 years already even though it has barely been two weeks. I just started to realize for real that I really really need to graduate! It really scares me...