Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Over the past month a lot has happened - or at least, a lot has been going on. School has really taken over full force, and I've just been running around from place to place, my mind constantly thinking about thesis; about social work and politics; about having to clear my huge list of things to do.

And during these stressful times the memory of songs from my younger days really takes me back to my simpler past, when the burden of responsibility hadn't quite gotten so heavy...I just want to escape, through MasterChef, through mystery fiction, through indulgence in my old dreams. Ah, unfulfilled dreams....my not-so-secret love for science keeps re-emerging with that familiar sense of fondness. A dream that is no longer deemed as central to my life, but still an unfulfilled dream nonetheless. Growing up is truly a gradual process.. I cherish the sweet memories but I realise that it's inescapable - with greater knowledge of truth and love comes greater burden and responsibility.

Yesterday, I got the closest I've been in 4 years to carrying out a chemistry experiment. We took a little bottle of HCl and dropped it onto various rock samples to find out which were bioclastic limestones; those with CO3(2-) in them would react to produce CO2 and that strange smelling CaCl2 salt.
...It fizzzzed so beautifully. HAHA.
No regrets taking Planet Earth whatsoever. It's only gonna get more exciting!

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I yearn to be a scientist in a white lab coat in a lab on my own playing with chemicals
I yearn to wear geeky specs and read geeky articles
While eating a waffle
With a cup of Spinelli coffee always in front of me
Wheee

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