Sunday, August 27, 2006

Personal
Spent the entire day reading from Miss Ng's 7 sources... like it is of any use, I know them liao, lol, I just read for fun, to get them in my brain better. Haiz, the stupid lead colour stuff and the thiosulphate stuff, it is sick man. Oh and some other stuffs. I am 70% to my recovery. It is useless for me to say out everything here, I know information would not be gotten across. In person is still the best, hope I have a chance. I can never recover fully if the last question is not answered. But you guys can be sure you will be meeting a happy, intellectual Gemini helping you in class very soon. :) Anyway, enough of this shit. Here's another hilarious Chem practical incident.

Joke of the Day
Students were to investigate with science experiments on properties of different alcohols: The residue of each test was tipped down the sinks, which were grouped in threes. There were no U-bends, but each group of sinks emptied into a singlebox, which overflowed into the mains sewers. Presumably this was intended to retain things like droplets of mercury, which was not banned from use when I was 16. During the session, my bunsen went out, so I re-lit it with a splint lit from the teacher's bunsen. For safety's sake (!) I dropped the burning splint into the sink, intending to extinguish it with water, instead of waving it around in the alcohol fumes. A small blue flame disappeared down the plug hole. Hum, thinks I, I wonder where that's going? I opened the cupboard beneath the sink, only to find the drain box, full of alcohol, a roaring mass of flame. Shutting the doors, I called out, "Er, Sir...?" just as the inch-thick wooden lids blew off the adjacent un-used sinks. Fortunately, the back-blast extinguished the flames under the cupboard, so the box only sagged slightly.

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