Some scientific knowledge from my memory, for sharing.

Ahh... The dead blog.

Heh. Bored for now, so I'll revive it for a bit.

I'm not sure to people, but somehow to me, I feel that I'm speaking too much when I'm talking about scientific knowledge about the world.

Specifically, The World and the Outer Space.

I should say, I'm really not boasting when I do that. Its just sharing some knowledge around.

But if you take it that way, I'm really sorry. But no offence, seriously.

Its just knowledge I learnt from 3 years of reading in news and Wikipedia.

Sooo... Here we go!

Firstly, Global Warming.

Been a bit hot lately in Singapore isn't it?

Well, perhaps it doesn't really apply only to Singapore. The highest temperature I saw in Korea was 20 degrees.

For a country that has degrees which could go as low as 5 degrees, 20 degrees is somewhat hot over there.

We can definitely feel it. The burning temperature of 34 degrees in Singapore.

Which I think is mostly attributed to the season of Summer in this period of the year.

So, its not really a big problem now. But if it stays like that till October or December, there's something to worry about.

Anyhoo, back to the main topic.

On the Global Warming, of course.

Surely you guys know about how it affects the temperature. We shall skip that.

Did you know an Ice shelf broke off in the Arctic?

An ice shelf is a large floating platform of ice on the Arctic. Think of it as a floating island made out of ice. The sizes of ice shelves that break off from a whole platform can be as big as the size of Rhode Island.

How does this affect us?

Well, the ice shelf won't really melt. Its not on the ice part. Instead, the ice in the arctic reflects light back to outer space, which is somewhat beneficial.

But when an ice shelf breaks, there is a space of water created between the ice shelves. Heat from the sun is allowed to warm up the areas of water between the ice shelves. Instead of heat from the sun, the heat from the water, melts the ice faster.

This in turn, dumps more water into the ocean. Even though salt water is more dense than pure water in ice, the water still has to end up somewhere right?

This dumping of water, increases the sea levels. Slowly, but surely it will rise. By 1mm, then 5mm. Then long enough, it becomes 1cm to maybe 3 or 4cm.

Imagine sea levels to rise to the length of your handphone, or maybe your wallet.

Next up, just a piece of news.

The glaciers, or caps of ice on the Himalayas, is expected to melt completely by the year 2036. I'd be around 47 years old by then.

Instead of just ice shelves, glaciers also contribute to the rise in sea levels.

Mehh, next up. Tsunamis.

No seriously, its really hard to see a wave so high up formed through natural means. Like maybe 100 feet in the air?

The concept of waves is that each time, the gravity from the moon, pulls the waves up. Then as the moon moves, the gravity "disappears" and the waves come down again.

In a tsunami instead, it is caused by earthquakes or erupting undersea volcanoes.

How?

Imagine yourself placing your hands together under the surface of the water in a tub. Then, you open your hands slowly while maintaining the hands under the surface. You should see the water rushing in to fill in the space you created for about 2 seconds with your hands. The water that fills in clashes with water coming in from the other side, creating a big ripple.

On the tub, it looks like a small ripple. On Earth, that ripple is worth about 5 storeys high.

Another scenario.

In an earthquake, the crusts can slip beside each other, or one side of the crust can rise while the other goes downwards. Now, imagine you have a hand underneath the water in a tub. Raise your hand slowly up to the surface and you can see a small gush of water coming upwards to the surface. This is called water displacement. The water gushing upwards is displaced to the surrounding areas where the crusts are at the same level instead of the crust that has risen due to the earthquake.

Due to water displacement, the excess amount of water will travel to cover up the other areas of water that are not on the same water level. Upon travelling, the speed of the water travelling creates waves. The further it travels, the bigger the wave. Water is taken in to flow with the wave. Which is why you have your receding shoreline minutes before the big wave crashes.

Undersea volcanoes work the same way to cause tsunamis. Volcanoes erupt sometimes due to water that enter the volcanic lava within a volcano.

What happens when water boils?

Bubbles and steam are created, which rises and brings up lava. The amount of steam and bubbles creates the eruptions.

In an earthquake, the eruptions somewhat create a displacement of the water in the ocean due to the eruption from the volcano.

Pretty cool?

Dunno about you guys, but its interesting to me.

I'm tired anyways. I'll continue about the outer space part sometime soon.

Nights!

Choices.

Been long since I last posted.

Aishh... I should really post some pics up soon.

Maybe I'll get a few from Zeke soon...

Weather's been real hot and warmer recently. Top temperatures reaching 33 degrees and the lowest is 26 degrees.

I finally began driving lessons again. From my uncle. As in real uncle.

And I like his way of teaching. Hope I'll really get better.

Facebook Apps are the way to go when you're bored at home.

Either that, or some old school games like Starcraft with a few buddies can be a way to pass the time.

Anyhoo, I went to the club recently.

TO GET EXPERIENCE!

I didn't drink, but I was coerced to go into the dance floor to shake that stiff booty of mine.

Interesting place, but the bleddy speakers nearly made my eardrums burst. Somehow, I went home and could still feel the bass of the stereos lingering in my ears.

Oh well, at least I made friends with Joel's classmates.

And they're really nice people.

Totally way different from the others in the club.

Those in the club could only be described with 1 word.

"Wild."

Today, I went to Mummy's Office to help her pack her stuff on her desk before going to the new location of her office.

Ate with her before going to meet Ganesh, Naveen, Joel and his classmates for dinner.

And also to celebrate Keen Hong, one of Joel's classmates birthday.

Seriously, I should just type "my friend", instead of "Joel's classmates".

Anyone I know, is my friend mah!

Before we celebrated the "Surprise" birthday cake, we played a few games like "Mu Tou Ren/Wooden Dummy".

Ran like I've never did before.

And my calves feel the pinch of not training for a long time.

Then while we're resting, Me, Ganesh and Joel went to try out some flips and handstands.

I flew over Naveen's back, followed by Ganesh.

Then we cut the "Surprise" Birthday Cake and shared it among all of us, including the 2 security guards who lent us their lighter for the candles.

By the way, I said "Surprise" with double apostrophes because...

It was so bleddy obvious that there was a cake LAH!

But at least we celebrated!

With English, Chinese and Korean birthday songs!

After finishing the cake, we parted ways and took the train home.

I went to have some sort of a pep-talk with Joel, while Ganesh headed home.


Back to topic.

Its 5:22 am currently.

I feel damn tired. But I can't really sleep until I type this out.

This whole week, I feel that I've really learnt a lot of stuff.

Not only learnt, but also, I've seen a lot of stuff.

Saying it just like that doesn't really help I guess. I should describe it then.


Thursday, I went out for a short while with my Dad to get some A4 size paper for printing. After that, we went to have some drinks at the nearby coffeeshop. His buddies were there as usual. We sat at another table and just talked and joked as usual. I went off after finishing my drink and carried the ream of A4 papers home while my dad went to talk with his buddies.

During the conversation between my dad and me, I could see how he felt.

Joy.

Happiness.

One, because the both of us haven't had drinks together like that for a pretty long time. About a few months.

Two, we rarely talk and joke that much at home.

That expression on his face. I would never forget it.

Today, I went to meet my mum to help her pack her stuff on her workdesk as they were shifting to a new office. I enjoyed packing the stuff with her.

We jokingly scolded each other on how to place and arrange the stuff neatly into the boxes. How we slowly wrapped the computer with plastic. How she gave me tasks such as sealing the boxes which were done.

After packing, we went to have prata at a nearby stall near her office. There, we talked and talked as usual.

Oh, I communicate more to my mum than my dad.

I told her about my problem. She told me a sentence.

I'm not going to type out the whole sentence though. I'll encode it in another format.

She said something like this, "Would you rather let a person fall from a curb, or bring that person to the 12th storey to have a harder fall?"

After that, we walked back to the MRT station where I sent her off to the bus before taking the train to meet the guys.

When we reached Tampines, Ganesh went back while me and Joel went to the playground to talk.

I gave him my reason for choosing this.

Somehow, I get that feeling that the reason I gave would look like just any other reason all the other guys in the world would give just to escape from the problem.

But, this reason I gave, is the truth.

Nothing but only the truth.

One of the sentences I asked Joel was, "Would you rather act and not be yourself for your whole life, or just portray who you are, yourself?"

Then I jokingly added, "If you chose to act, before you die, do tell me. So I can give you an Oscar."

On the way back in the train, I was thinking even more harder than any other exam I have taken in my whole life.

Whether I should choose to do this or that.

I care about everyone.

Not only my family, but my friends.

I worry about how my mother can survive on just that little amount of money.

How my dad feels each time he is sick.

How my sister having not enough money.

I worry about what are the consequences of each and every action I do, every word I speak, everything I say to everyone.

Sometimes, I might make you mad.

Sometimes, I might just make you disappointed.

Even sometimes, I might make you feel sad or even cry.

Each and everytime, I really want to try my best to make everyone around me smile.

But when the problem doesn't leave me with an option, I'll choose the best choice not only for me, but for everyone.

After hearing something, this was what I replied:

Everyone was born great, to do great things. The only reason some of them aren't that great or are bad, is because of the choices that they made under some circumstances.

And for that choice, 제가저말미안해.