Tuesday, February 19, 2008.

as usual, the mentally retarded chemRA afternoon lessons never fail to make the whole class look like an R(etard)Academy class. Save Nigel, for he rarely takes part in the fun, laughter and IQ-dropping exercises.

Today we were doing super-fast 1-min titrations. It all started well, till Mr. Ong found out that one of the samples' concentration was simply too low, so nothing was seen in the 1st place. Then all hell broke loose.

Tony devised some magic trick which involved "defying" the laws of matter and a broken test-tube. A lot of people got tricked, and it was seriously funny.

Daniel invented a new test for substance, where the substance was "mugger". Test for mugger: Drop special liquid on table, if it turns purple the substance "mugger" is present. Well, it 100% turned purple for all tests-Conclusion-go figure.

Chester's test for thiosulphate ion: Smell it. If it stinks it is definitely thiosulphate.

We had some fun with the magic test-tube and exploding water. In the end, while trying to force the water out of the magic test-tube, Chester the genius got himself wet.

Zong Yi stained himself purple -.-

It was frankly speaking very hilarious, and even the great Aaron Tang couldn't stop laughing. Barry and Ben Yong also joined in the fun, so in the end we were all laughing.

While titrating i randomly shouted out, "Where's my solar-powered racing club CCA?"

Mr. Ong initially thought I was making a fool of myself (that never happens, btw) and further questioned me. I told him about the legend of Barry Tng and his famous 10 words, which began like this:

"Barry steps up on stage. People look around and question where the next prefect candidate is, obviously unable to see people below 1.4m.

Barry speaks into the mike.

"I want to become the future Prime Minister of Singapore."

Loud, rapturous applause.

He then discusses and claims, "If I become a Prefect, I will set up a solar-powered racing car club.""

Barry questions me. "Where got 10 words?"

I let him count.

He goes, "Oh ya, 10 words!"

Well, "Read my lips: No new taxes." G.H.W.Bush

Still, it was really cool, this lesson.

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