Transition state = high energy, PV = nRT

Today on Facebook, my college batchmate posted a link to her new blog entitled "transition state = high energy".

That definitely caught my attention obviously because I think she got the idea from my comment on her post. :)

In a chemical reaction, it is in the transition state where the highest energy is needed.

Similar to life, whenever there is a transition taking place it takes a lot of energy to cope with the transition. Be it a transition from school life to work life or from bum life to work life.

Also on Facebook, I remember a friend posting this as her status:

It's no surprise that I figured that outright (hello, chemistry major!). And I love the statement! This is from the ideal gas equation PV=nRT, where P is pressure, V is volume, n is the number of moles of gas, R is the gas constant, and T is the temperature. Do the Math and you'll find out that "nakaka-[nRT/V]" translates to "nakaka-PRESSURE". This friend is studying for her upcoming board exam and trust me, I can completely sympathize with her.


I hope I'm not making noses bleed here... :)

Injecting some foreign language phrases into my vocabulary

To start off, my favorite Waray word is “ambot”, which means “ewan” in Tagalog. Having two Waray friends as my closest friends in college didn’t help me much in learning the language. Not that I’m not interested or anything. It’s just that we always talk pretty much in the same language, either English or Tagalog. And so, sad to say, “ambot” is the only Waray word injected to my vocab.


In contrast, having an almost 4-month vacation in Austria and being able to mingle with people of different nationalities there, I’ve learned quite a few of the basic phrases in various languages aside from German.


TURKISH
Nasılsın? How are you?
Iyi. I’m good./I’m fine.
Para yok No money
küçük small
büyük big

SERBIAN
Dobar dan! Good day.
Kako si? How are you?
Dobro. I’m good./I’m fine.
Šta radiš? What are you doing?

ALBANIAN
Mirëdita! Good day.
Si je? How are you?
Mirë. I’m good./I’m fine.
Faleminderit. Thank you.

Baklava — My classmates often mention this in class. I’ve known this as a kind of sweet/pastry but I never got to see nor taste it.


DISCLAIMER: I am only writing according to what I remember having learned from my classmates. Ergo, I am uncertain as to the accuracy of the aforementioned words and letters/characters and their corresponding translation. :)

Chris T. on Twitter!!

Eeeekkk! Oh-em-gee! I am now following Chris Tiu on Twitter. How cute. :o

I'm free

It puzzles me how I get weirder everyday. Like how I looked like I got my dream job as I went out of the Marine Science Institute building today — teary-eyed, smiling face and all. Man, I know it’s nuts but I was really elated a while back after my meeting with Ma’am Gisela. Totally unexpected that it turned out perfect, just not the way I imagined it would be. And soooooo, I am soooooo freeeee!…Oh, and jobless, by the way. :D

Ouch!

My back…my shoulders…my arms…my neck! Shouldn’t have practiced playing the violin that seriously. I didn’t push myself that hard, did I? See, I’m trying to play it perfectly but I ain’t perfect. Sadness. If not for my aching body parts, I would have played for an hour more or so. Good luck to tomorrow’s class!


Plus, I’m sick. Blame it on rainy days. This better be not THE virus that’s H1N1! I’m crossing my fingers…

The chicken in me

Just what is it with me?! After all my melodramatic overanalysis of things, crossing Rubicons and stuff, I ended up chickening out in the end. Booooo! Loser. I’m guilty as charged!


After 3 days at work, I decided to pull the plug. As to why I did it? It simply does not suit me and feels like I’d not be happy doing that job for a year. Maybe I can’t put up with the challenge of a project as big as it is or maybe the people, heck. Anyway, I know that in the future I’d be sorry I turned it down. I’ve had my dose of wasted chances. As a matter of fact, thinking about the past year, I realized how unthinkably I’ve passed up several opportunities. However, I’m more attached to the present than neither the past nor the future.


It’s actually hurting me that I can’t think of anything at all that I really want so bad in life. I came across this article that says,

True satisfaction comes from doing what you know you were created to do.

But the question lies on what am I really created to do. Still need to do some soul searching.

Happy birthday, Chris Tiu!

July 15.