science in our daily lives

ok i am bored from studying..in view of the exam season now..i suddenly had the inspiration to post this..hahaha

before anyone continues reading, please just take this post light heartedly..i mean no offence but just as a small stress-relieving joke

ever wondered how is learning all these science/knowledge useful in our daily lives?

i can come up with some examples actually.

let's first start with nucleophilic substitutions, Sn1 and Sn2. in both cases, to get attached to your target of choice, ie the substrate, you must ensure that either 1: the leaving group is gone like in the case of Sn1 (ie. single) or 2: the leaving group is going like in the case of Sn2 (ie. breaking up)..then next is the stereochemical factors..the substituents (ie. friends/cliques/family?) must not be in your way..if not the bonding will never occur between you and the substrate..quite true right?

ever heard of heisenberg uncertainty principle? i'm not a physics student..but in general, the concept of it is that the product of displacement and momentum is greater or equal to a constant (Planck's constant/2 if im not wrong), but the more you are certain of 1 of the parameters, the higher is the uncertainty of the other parameter. think of it this way, how fast you proceed in a relationship is analogous to the momentum..and how long you will be/had been together is analogous to the displacement. ok..now..the displacement can be measured simply by the numbers of days/weeks/months/years/whatever have passed since you guys got together, and the speed can be measured by hmm..gut feeling? so case 1, you know how fast you are going, but you will never know how long you will last. case 2, you know how long you have lasted, but you do not know how fast you went. can be proven by these few statements: "we had been together for xx months (a certain displacement), don't you think we should bring our relationship to the next level (an uncertain momentum)?" "we had only known each other for xx months (a certain displacement), perhaps we should take things slowe (uncertain momentum)." the statements can continue..but you get my point.

thermodynamics and kinetics, the two theories that have to go hand in hand in nature. thermodynamics determine whether a reaction is favaroble, kinetics determine how fast it proceeds. our behaviour/movement can be described as brownian motion, we're all actually moving in random movements relative to each other. anyone who has done a bit of science will have learnt that for 2 molecules to react, the reaction muz be favorable..meaning the end product must be stable. they must be able to exert some form of attraction on each other..like electrostatic attraction..so that the probability of the random motions that will cause them to collide will increase. and collision must occur in the right orientation. with all the thermodynamics in place, next will be the kinetics. the reaction should be able to proceed if all the barriers, like energy barriers, are not in place. if not, a catalyst can always be used. ponder over this, sounds like humans making new friends?

hahaha ok i think i've typed enough rubbish for today

very weird series of dreams

ok i need to write this down before i forget the details

i just woke up..and i had a BIZARRE string of dreams throughout the entire night

started off with the first dream..this one i don't exactly remember the details, as it is the first dream..happened like 6 hours ago..but the gist of it is that i was at this counter paying for something? if i not wrong i was buying/borrowing manga..yea..ok so anyway there was a cute cashier..somehow her i/c was on the table, i commented that she don't look like her in her i/c, somehow her i/c ended up in a comic i was reading, then someone commented that maybe she used her i/c as a bookmark..lol i woke up and was like ok wth..i remember her name was quite unique..but i cant figure out now..in chinese there were 5 characters..hurr hurr

went back to sleep again, and this time a long second dream started..began with me going to school..was nearly late so i just shoved everything into my bag and left for school..met X (identities covered to protect privacy..hahaha) on the bus..then started talking and yea..just crapping around..after that realised i forgot to bring extra clothes to stay in school..when we alighted from the bus suddenly X goes out of the picture..but yea called back home to check if anyone was home so that they could help me send my clothes to school..hahaha

then i woke up in reality..to check the time..1040hrs..and went back to sleep again..this time a last dream started..i don't remember how it began..but i was in this "alternate universe" classroom whereby some theft has occurred, and they were trying to find out who did it..then i was up at the whiteboard writing things in WHITE CHALK..lol..don't ask me why..and of the words i wrote..i can vividly recall that i wrote 2 words wrong..the words "fang1 fa3 (method)" i wrote as "fang4 (put) fa3 (hair)"..lol..i mean wth i don't think my chinese is that bad to write this type of words out..but ok anyway after that i think i just got pissed with the way the class was handling things and just left the classroom..hahaha..sounds pretty much like me in the real life..oh well anyway after that scene i saw X and another guy in the corridor/another classroom..don't recall..then yea i think they were supposed to dance for something..but the guy left for some unknown reason..hmm..so i went over and asked for her hand to dance..you know..bow, look down on the floor, raise your left hand out..and hope she holds it..and yea she held it then we began dancing for the school festival..hahahha..think i have been watching too much anime

hmm..but as a side note..the last part of the dream..was very..very..similar to something that happened a few years ago..hmm..

2 more days to finals

ah..2 more days to the start of exams..and i just started my studying today..didn't realise i had so much to study for maths..sian

had been playing Star Ocean: First Departure on my psp since last week..lol..completed it on Sunday..realised that Ilia looked/sounded a bit like my eccentric twin..hahaha! but the game had a boring ending..i thought at least my main character would develop some romance with some of the side characters..disappointing man..

oh well..time to put my psp aside again until another decent game that's worth my time is released

it's the small things..

i guess it's really the small things that matter..a simple message from her can send my heart fluttering..

just watched the latest episode of toaru majutsu no index, inside it was stated that the human brain can store up to 140 years worth of memories, that is, with perfect memorization. i do not have perfect memorization, or for that matter, i have quite a poor memory..i hate memorizing stuffs..but little acts like such just gets embedded easily into part of the 140yr archives..

perhaps its due to the irregularities of such occurrences that creates an euphoria when it happens..as the saying goes..you will only appreciate things after you've lost them..

maybe next time..my thesis should be on the effect of endorphins and enkephalins on human memory

looking around..guess im still a mouse

start of a new month

ahh..been getting on-and-off fevers for the past 2 weeks..feels damn *!)#&*^$*

had a barrage of tests in the past few weeks..from maths to biochem then physics..and its finally over! now only left 4 exam papers..burp

somehow i feel there's..something..not quite in place..i just don't have the..feeling..when i do papers..its just weird..i cant seem to do papers as fast as i used to as well..must be the 2 years of decomposition..

oh well..another month before i fly off again!