Of Why? Why? Why am I here?
Dear TomHa,
Why am I here? I am like supposed to be studying for the exam in like 2 days time but here I am, day dreaming about what I am going to do in 2 weeks' time! Oh my, I think I am so screwed. Haha, now all my inspiration is to wait for the orange juice in the fridge to expire. Its expiry date is on my last paper. Cannot wait to throw that freaking thing away.

You know that stress is getting into and affecting a lot of people when you attempt to eavesdrop on conversations by lesser people like me and his fellow friends in the library.
Me (Squashed dead an ant with my bare fingers, gloating with pride at the apprent supremacy of my species)
Vincent: That's so barbaric, can you imagine how you'll feel if you get squashed like that?
Me: Yeah, I could.
Vincent: Then why do it?
Me: Because ants don't have the sensory organs to feel pain?
Vincent: How about you trying to superimpose your feelings on the poor ant which sole purpose is to forage for food for her queen?
Me: No, I can't, I am human! Why degrade myself?
Stares at each other, then hit back at our books...
Can you imagine yourself speaking such nonsensical things? I guess that only happens during the exam period.

Oh and that just brings me to another point. Don't you think that essentially, education is just another brainwashing activity under the guise of an activity that would bring you more socail good than harm? For me, as I walk about aimlessly anywhere, do you think that my brain is resting? I don't think so. I see pipes everywhere and then what that comes to my mind is why is this pipe system designed like that? Would this design encourage more head loss? What is its friction factor, what is its roughness element, what are the variables needed for me if I want to analyse this flow using dimensional analysis? All sorts of cheem stuff. Then you walk into an air-con room, and what that comes to your mind first is not shiok but hmm.. I wonder how much heat is rejected, what is the working fluid inside this air con, what is the isentropic efficientcy of the compressor, the valves, the evaporator... and then you walk along some place and you see hanging structures and you wonder if its Young's modulus of elasticity is great, what would the deflection curve look like, how would you quantify the loading? By summation or by singularity method. Or, you just simple wanna relieve yourself and you look at those automatic sensors and wonder what is its measurement characteristics, what is its sensitivity, what order system is it... Yeah, I about summarise (albeit very very briefly) what I had been doing this past semester. It gets pretty scary as I think about it. Would a psychologist look at me as a subject, would a law student look at me like a rape criminal? I guess professional subject do really turn you into what they wanna train you into. Scary. Imagine what a business student would do...

Oh wellzz back to more fluid mechanics!