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Saturday, February 04, 2006 @ 11:53 PM
school report 23490578 7 chps of organic chem? honestly i'd rather read like 10 chps of chinese, at least i know it's alright if i screw the test up, since it has become a formality for me as a student. but when you have dr rahman breathing down your neck, the only alphabets you need to know are 'A', 'B' & 'C'. the rest are invalid, as decreed by the rahman man himself. chem is not like phy at all. in phy, you have the luxury of using one formula for many chps, and at most you'll need to take note of your units. chem, freakin' however, you'll have to memorise chunk loads of reactions just for one type of organic compound. carbonyl compounds for eg, you have fehling's soln for aliphatic aldehydes and tollen's reagent for aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes. what abt that iodoform's test that keeps appearing in my phenols and carbonyl notes? why couldnt some real freakin' smart arse spend his days in his cosy research lab and come up with this ONE soln/reagent that tests for ALL organic compounds. the ULTIMATE soln. yes, i can just imagine it. just add the soln to your organic compound and analyze it just by seeing the colour of ppt produced. heck, it might even work in all sort of conditions, need not for what 'cold, 10-20 degrees' or 'heat and distill'. but i guess they wanted a distinct difference between chem and phy. yea, i can see the difference alright, in my grades that is. the disparity is more than distinct, it's worlds apart. on a different tangent, valentine's day is around the corner. i was reminded not by all the tv ads coming up or special v'day offers at XXX shop. (when i say XXX, it's not what you're thinking of. then again, it's only reasonable that XXX shops do have v'day offers too.) rather, it's my bro's secret v'day plan. yes, he's been plotting to get a gift for his classmate on this occassion since that one SK ad in the newspapers caught his attention. i havent got the details, but he's been resorting to packing food to school in order to save up, and it's been like a month already. damn, he makes me seem so insignificant. i have half the mind to get myself a box of chocs from ntuc on v'day itself on my way home, to keep whatever is left of my ego intact before my bro's SK gift takes it all away. hopefully my ego doesnt grow bigger than my budget. 'i'd rather suffer misery than regret. at least i didnt have a choice.' - Eric Li |