Observations from the deck : The world runs around like an AC current

The world runs around like an AC current.

Has it ever occured to you about that?

Firstly let us define, what is an AC current. An AC current is also known as an alternating current, which most electrical appliances run on when plugged into the sockets.

Now it deviates between negative and positive currents flowing through the wires at an extremely fast rate. The world itself has its ups and downs, deviating from one end to the other, and the world is getting faster. Perhaps it would come to a point when it is so fast that it comes to a stop. Kind of saying like you're so out you're actually in.

The AC current is generated by magnets going around a coil. Similarily, the world rotates around the axis, which can include the north and the south pole.

If you're not too careful, you'll get a nasty jolt.

The world continues spinning, like the AC current.

But ah well, observations on the deck may not hold true to some, but thats the way I see it.

Check this out

A written check does not have to be on an officially printed form.

A legal check can, and has been, written on just about anything.

The rules are simple.

The amount must be written both numerically and spelled out in longhand, and the name of the bank and thepayee must appear, as well as the signature of the person drafting the check.

Checks have been written on napkins, T-shirts, and rocks.

A birthday cake with the proper information written in icing was cashed in at one bank.

The largest check (size-wise) to be cashed was a 70 foot by 30 foot check written by an English company and presented to a television station fund-raising event for $19,000.

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Sometimes when it rains

Sometimes it feels like its raining
The kind of rain that makes you want to let it run down your face when you cry.
So no one would see your tears.
But sometimes its just the rain.
Because you can't cry.
Because its too hard to cry.
Its so much easier not to.
You just want to walk down the streets in the rain.
Cause the Earth is crying as well.
Feeling your pain.
And you can't speak of your pain.
Because few know it.
You just want to cry,
Just sit and watch the rain go past you.
But its too hard to cry...
So the Earth cries for you...
And you cry on the inside...
For you and for the Earth...


Yes I'm depressed and its a pain I won't speak of. Those who know it, you know why. Don't tell anyone else.

Advice on chemistry

Refering to my reply to the replies on on my teachers blog (See link, click on title)

So here's my advice on chemistry:

Important Advice when learning chemistry:

1) Get your concepts right from the start. (very important)

2) If you have any questions, regardless of how funny it seems, question the teacher until they want to die >:D ie. Why is carbon black and dull but diamonds can be polished until its shiny and clear?

3) Use analogy to understand the concepts. Ie, why van der Waals forces stronger in longer molecules. I give you 4 basket balls (representing branched molecules), when I ask you to seperate them, its very easy. However when I give you 4 sheets of paper, and ask you to seperate them, its not so easy. Cause area of contact is larger.

4) Borrow your chemprodigy friend's work and copy not-blindly, relate the answers to the questions. If you don't know what he's doing and he won't explain, or if he explains and you don't understand, go find someone else whose explaination is powerful. Or find some way to steal the materials you need to carry out the experient (use at own risk)

5) Let testtube cool before dumping it in cold water to cool faster.

Not-so-important-but-valuable-if-you-want-to-live advice:

1) Any sulphide + Any Acid = not good. According to someone who did that, the whole school stank of rotten eggs for a week.

2) If your friend has a track record of breaking stuff due to overheating them so they shatter or setting worksheets on fire or burning metal (especially magnesium), stay about 5 tables away and dont look. First reaction is to duck under the table.

3) Keep lighters away from pyromanics.

4) Stay out of the line of fire from the test tube mouth when its boiling. That means looking directly into the tube too

5) Watch how you're holding the test tube and do not multitask unless you're very sure. Acid in your pencil box is not a good thing, alkali is fine though soapy.

6) Do not attempt to find out how hot anything can get with your hands. Do not try it on your friends either though its funny. Or put out anything thats on fire with your bare hands.

1,2,4,5 are based on observations.
3 & 6 are based on hypothesis.