insane stupidity.

omg i just discovered an email i typed 3 years ago to my chem teacher and realised how stupid/ignorant i was. brrh.

"I found out that chlorophyll can give up electrons to carbon dioxide (WTF - i understood reduction in the wrong sense T_T) when the electrons are 'excited' by light energy.

1. However, can the quantised electrons be given up to the anode as well? (WTF - what a quantum leap of faith...)

2. Also, does acetone or ethanol conduct electricity? (WTF)

3. Assuming that chlorophyll is an electrically neutral entity, then, if it is molten, will it conduct electricity just like the way molten sodium chloride conducts electricity? (WTF)"

yes, go on, laugh.

anyway, on a lighter note, yesterday was pretty fun! dunno if you guys know, but i applied to university of dundee (please tell me if you know anyone else who's applying there... apparently there are 6 to 7 others from hc, all applying to do life science/medicine/dentistry... wow. anyway, that's THE place if you guys wanna do cancer biology, and a*star does have a tie-up with dundee for post-grads to do their phd theses there, so no worries :P), so the international liaison officer came to singapore to talk to the applicants (yeah, maybe i'm just trying to sound important, haha) and mine was the night before, at her hotel cafe/bar. so, she was talking about my choice (mathematical biology, zomg... and she was persuading me to switch to a 3-year honours programme [honours is a must at dundee] cos it's harder to get in, compared to the 4-year one -.- ) and bombarding my parents and myself with loads of details about the university, the course and medicine in the uk (fact: dundee is about 20 000 pounds cheaper than cambridge).

admittedly, i put dundee down cos of a few reasons (not in increasing degrees of compulsion) : 1. i have friends there, 2. dundee is the only place in the uk with something related to bio, not entirely bio and has a good reputation in the teaching of bio, 3. scotland (and dundee, in particular) is a nice place with sunny cool weather and cosiness all around! i think few people develop intense love for a country, after spending just 3 weeks there, but scotland is really a place that can change that. add to that the spirited sales pitch made by the officer, few can resist the allure of education in the highlands :P

partially persuaded and hungry for dinner, we took the discussion offline and went to have dinner at hock lam (yeah, the beef noodles at purvis street! dunno if you guys actually know where it is... we can go there for supper the next time!). it was pretty amusing/daunting to entertain a caucasian at anything but a restaurant (my dad wanted to bring her to taste local food and i thought it was a bad-and-good idea... confucian ethics and general etiquette forbade me from saying anything negative), but it turned out decent, if not, very well - the food, the sounds, the temperature at night, the puffs of cigarette mist from the neighbouring table, the cautious dipping of the meat into the colloid of tangy spice, the relentless struggle between Chopstick and Meatball, the talking that was going round the table. i guess the continuous conversation saved the evening (trust me, there wasn't more than five seconds of silence) and made it an interesting and stimulating tuesday night for me - not just absorbing all the information about dundee and the university, but also observing and noting how things got around and ended on a saccharine note (random but somewhat related: maybe the success of a business conversation is really dependent on your ability to tap on your knowledge of the world and the person you're talking to and your reception to new ideas put forth by the other person... nice.).

nearing the end le, just 4 more exams for most of us... mcq galore! cya guys soon :D