Just a few random questions. If you can answer all of them I treat you to 1 cup of bubble tea. Only people i know, and first person to send answer to yaxy2k@hotmail.com is eligible. only 1 try. no teachers pls.

Qn 1. : A tank of grapes contained 1000kg of grapes. They were 99% water by mass. Now, they lose some water by evaporation such that they are now 98% water by mass. What is their mass now?

Qn 2. : How does global warming lead to sea level rise?

Qn 3. : Why do carboxylic acids tend to lose a proton? (Answer in atomic scales, must involve electrons)

Qn 4. : E = mc² is a mathematical consequence of which Einstein's theory?

Qn 5. : What is the scientific term for neck bones?

There. Geography, physics, math, bio, chem. have fun.

idea: when you bring large amounts of money, copy down all the serial numbers of the notes somewhere, then hide in clothing (not wallet or pocket or PDA or phone). When you get robbed, go straight to the police with the list of serial numbers. That might help them in their investigation.

even though we did not win in the rocketry competiton, i am actually not too sad either.

here's why:

1. one $20 launcher vs about 40+ $80 launchers and we came in second, not bad already.

2. judges complimented our launchers. even though i didn't invent them, i built them myself, so i'm really proud of it. the hand launcher was an innovation, inspired by some guy's RE project.

3. Everyone at the competition felt, saw, and heard our presence. p-34r _5!

4. Amused by amyas' remark. amyas is a person who is not known to exaggerate.

"You could dry launch it, but i must warn you that it is really very loud."

Indeed, all who dry launched without ear protection went deaf for a couple of seconds. The echo was marvellous.

5. Fired a rocket across Malaysian territory. Range: >150 metres
@ 45 degrees, wet launch, 100 psi.

6. Managed to make rockets disappear into the sky for >15 secs. As in, they were so high up that it can't be seen and you are really scared tt it would land on you.

7. Everyone loved my handheld launcher.

8. We beat almost all the teams with a home-built launcher. Sorry, felt the need to stress tt again.

9. We enjoyed ourselves.

10. We didn't really put in much effort.

11. We were lucky tt we didn't cause too much trouble to the LRT ppl, australian ruggers, and trees in ri.

12. We learnt a lot from the organisers. They are really well-learned in rocketry and i'm happy to know that they actually considered many many aspects of the competition in organising. They do read their email, after all.

13. We didn't get caught using rockets >200g.

14. We know we can win.

Lastly, I learnt how to build a handheld launcher properly. if ppl are interested i might make and sell. But the response is not good. It is cool, but not THAT cool.

man... i think ggy is pro.

Hey, i have an idea! Let us organise a "GGY research fund" project!

Currently, GGY wants $1000 to get a road bike, so the first $1000 would probably not go to his research projects. However, GGY can do great things with money! for example, he builds tesla coils with $100+ (considered really cheap), and coil guns with $200+ (considered cheap too). Just imagine what he can do with more funding! He may even come back someday as an old boy to set up a defense science department in RI!

Talents like him are hard to find, and I believe that soon he would be much coveted by DSTA. Remember that DSTA is rich! Fund him while you still have the chance to! It is in GGY to enable RI to make a name in defence science!

Read more about him and his works HERE.

there are so many general interests out there that teenagers are more familiar with. Things like music, gossip, current affairs, games and sports are some of the things that most teenagers would talk about. I am, however, unfamiliar with them.

I find it difficult to mix with many people. What people would be interested in talking about, i probably would not understand, and what i am interested in, others are not interested. From strangers to friends, the only route is communication. There aren't many such routes from me to many people, thus i have few, or no friends.

For that, i used to think that i belong to a superior class, i could continue with my pursuits, my passion for learning, while others of my age can continue with their daily meaningless musings, and surpass them by great margins eventually.

How wrong i was. it came the time when i realised that i wasn't as good as i thought i was. losing several competitions, i had to wake up from my dream. people are progressing so fast that i had actually spent so much of my time wandering in my dream world. and i started to feel lonely.

There aren't any whom i can just pop in and say "hi" and start talking cock. It would probably start with "hey why are you here, you're supposed to be doing something else". I dunno, maybe that is how friends greet each other? i wouldn't know.

i was lonely. i started playing games so that i have something to talk about. i know they are not good. i can stop whenever i want, there isn't a lot of attachment between me and games.needless to say, i wouldn't be good at it, so most surpass e so much that they are sick of explaining just the acronyms.

music is quite a waste of time. time to "chatability" ratio is very low.

current affairs... not interested.

sports... weird way to start.

so lonely. i want to sleep.

So near yet so far. The skin-depth distance too great for me to overcome.

I ought to do something. I can't be a bachelor for life...

moor:

not very congruent, the pieces were not fitted very tightly together, even at the end. Another problem was that it was a bit one-sided, for example, when joe was very depressed and was telling him that he couldn't find a job, the main char enthusiastically encouraged him. not only that, joe actually heeded it. and the main char's big-shot friends were actually too mean to be realistic.

another thing, it is okay for guys to hold hands, four fingers around the other guy's four fingers, okay, but FIVE FINGERS INTERTWINED LOOKS PLAIN GAY.

The actors were good, but the story was not very well done.

morrison:

too abstract for me to understand. my personal opinion is that bayley's was better, but perhaps i'm not so artistic.

overall it was great. akesh and wai kiat were great too.