How my nick came about...
Once upon a time, in a tiny island far far away, there was this little boy sitting in the school Food and Nutrition Lab lying on the table drooling, half sleeping half listerning to his teacher Mrs. Quek teaching.
Mrs. Quek: haemoglobin... Four subunit globular oxygen carrying protein of the erythrocytes of vertebrates and some invertebrates. It is a conjugated protein containing four haem groups and globin.
me: (in my half sleep brain thinking) omfg... what the hell is this... Mrs. Quek, plz stop teaching b4 everyone going to fall asleep in class... (the fact was... everyone is lying on the table half asleep like me)
Mrs. Quek: There are two alpha and two beta chains (very similar to myoglobin) in adult humans, the haem moiety (an iron containing substituted porphyrin) is firmly held in a nonpolar crevice in each peptide chain.
me: (in my half sleep mode, i took a pencil and wrote down some note in my textbook... hemogoblin=4 sub molecule of hormones carring oxygen.......2 alpha 2 beta...)
Mrs. Quek: There are four globin polypeptide chains, designated alpha, beta, gamma, delta in the adult. Each is composed of several hundred amino acids.
By the time she finish talking the bell rang...
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2 weeks later... During a class test...
Q4: Describe in detail the term haemoglobin<15>
me: wa siao liao... 15 marks need to write essay liao... at least 30 lines... (me think abit then write) Hemogoblin is the 4 sub molecule of hormones that carry...........bla bla bla.........
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1 week later... getting back test paper...
Mrs. Quek: class, today i got sumthing to share with the class... This boy here, in my 23 years of teaching is the first to give me a heart attack when marking paper... (then she wrote the question and my anwser of Q4. to the class on the white board...the whole class laugh...) In my 23 years of teaching, YOU are the first who have the guts to spell Hemogoblin when Haemoglobin is written on the test paper, on the question itself... You go write haemoglobin 1,000 times then hand in tomorrow!
me: kk...
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me forever remember its haemoglobin not hemogoblin liao...
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few month later... O'level Coursework(coursework 60% written test 40% or opposite i forget) question... similar question came out... then this time i make sure i check at least 10 times its haemoglobin not hemogoblin b4 i submit my coursework.
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Receiving O level result...
English C6
Chinese B4
Maths B3
Science (phy/chem) B3
Geography/social studies C6
Food and Nutrition A1
... The only A1 is because of the mistake that i cannot forget forever and ever... Thus, I use Hemogoblin as my nick to remember all this...
