another life blog

Yay! Can’t tell a difference yet, will know later tonight when I start working on the organic chem homework.

So I was browsing my hotmail email just now and saw that LeAnn Rimes have eczema! And I thought immediatley, omg… LeAnn Rimes have some kind of lung disease where the elastase couldn’t digest her alveolars and she is dying?! WOW! BioChemistry does apply in real world!
So, poor LeAnn been battling the [...]

Have you ever feel dumber after walking out of a class? That’s how I feel today after hearing lecture about quaternary structure and chaperones. Cis ring? Trans ring? … It’s not that I don’t get it, it’s just trying to figure out what’s pertinent information and what’s not. The notes [...]

Thanks for the effort of Matthew and the fansubbers, the translation is complete! It’s a really beautiful song in my opinion, so check it out!
いつか溶ける涙 (itsuka tokeru namida)
作詞 – ああ
作曲 – takumi
編曲 – takumi/野崎圭一
歌 – savage genius

Kanji
Translation

あの日　出逢わなければ　今も笑えてたのかな
あの日　失くした笑顔　いつか溶ける涙
ほら　今年も雨降る午後　儚い泡沫の色
空もやさしく見えないわ　だって独りだもの
いたずらな運命に　言葉も出ないわ
解り合えた二人に　もう戻れないの？
あの日　出逢わなければ　今も笑えてたのかな
あの日　失くした笑顔　いつか溶ける涙
ほら　憂いた風吹く度　揺れる悲しみの糸
他の誰もほどけないわ　きっとあなた以外
潮騒の香りに　あなたを探すよ
ぬくもりの記憶に　早くなる鼓動
あの日　出逢わなければ　今も笑えてたのかな
あの日　失くした笑顔　今は遠い雫
あの日　出逢わなければ　今も笑えてたのかな
あの日　失くした笑顔　胸に残したまま
あの日　出逢わなければ　今も笑えてたのかな
あの日　失くした笑顔　いつか溶ける涙
あの日　出逢わなければ…
あの日　失くした笑顔…

If we didn’t meet that day, I wonder if I could still laugh today.
The [...]

Dr Phanstiel went off to California and in his stead, we have Dr Brightfield, who lectured on Wittig reaction and Cannizzaro reaction. We didn’t get into the Gilman reactions, but that’s not so bad either I suppose. Test Monday!
Lecture Notes
Summary:
The Wittig reaction looks tough, smells funky, and no one likes it! But, [...]

Lecture Notes
Summary:
Wow, today’s lecture was actually fairly difficult to comprehend! We first went over some key definitions then went over the key ideas over recombination and crossing over. Once we have the basic laid out, we started talking about detection of linkages. Basically, when you cross a heterozygote with a homo-recessive and [...]

So as I was driving home today, I noticed this huge oil tanker and thought to myself… I’ve taken organic 1 and know some organic 2, would I be able to synethsize cocaine?
Well, cocaine has molecular formula of C17H21NO4 and it looks like

The methyl-nitrogen bridge across the cycloheptane looks tough… but I should know how [...]

One sentence summaries!
Episode 10 – Yura and Kira invites Nozomu over to their special Christmas party and Yuuya expresses his feelings for Kaoruko.
Episode 11 – Nozomu is confused over his feelings and Kenmochi decides to keep Kira and Yura away from indecisive Nozomu.
Episode 12 – Both twins, Ichijou and Sakurazuki realizes their love for [...]

As I was getting juice out of the fridge just now, a question suddenly popped into my mind — how long can arthropods such as ants/spiders/roaches survive in a completely different temperate zone such as the freezer? I know very well they cannot survive high temperatures (like burning match or stove top), but what [...]

#1 – Closer. Drive every day for an hour just to go to school and back. After I move, it’d be 30 minute round trip instead.
#2 – New microwave. Yes. One of the highest motivation for moving is getting to use a new microwave. Damn I hate this 10 year [...]

Dane Cook
I went out to see Dane Cook tonight at the UCF Arena with Po, Dar, Cherie, and Megan. Though we had pretty sad seats, there were some great laughs! Dane was preceded by another comedian Jim Davis. The most memorable joke from Davis was naming the hurricane — “Hurricane Bitch” instead [...]

We turned in the neural drawings. Dr Brophy came in and announces an emergency at home so he left us in a hurry. We started watching The Usual Suspects
A truckload of gun is stolen, and the usual suspects are rounded up. As revenge, the gang devised a plan to pay back the [...]

The average is so bad, that Dr Cunningham has assigned the test once again to be done before Monday and it’d be regraded for 20 points extra credits. The grade ranges from 0 to 92 as highest. Average score is around 50.
Life goes on.
Lecture Notes
Summary:
Today we begin talking about how tertiary structure [...]

Final lecture by Dr Phanstiel before Exm #2.
Lecture Notes
Summary:
- Quick overview of relative reactivity between ketone and aldehyde
- Conjugate addition of 1,2 vs 1,4 adducts. (or even 1,6). Stabilities depending.
- Addition reactions to carbonyls
1) Hydration to form gem diols
2) Addition of HCN
5) Amine addition. Know the difference between imines and enamines and [...]

The episode starts with flashback of Kouse’s childhood. Alone, he was adopted by Shizuka and trained to be Moribito’s pilot. She basically got him to do everything with promises of a hug. Damn the operant conditioning!
Rui fought against Kouse, but she didn’t do so hot. After some brooding, Aoba went up [...]