I was just practising a past Chemistry Unit 6 exam paper and there was a question about sulfuric acid in it. The chap who set the paper must have also been reading nursery rhymes to his/her kid out loud while he/she was setting the paper because the question included this rhyme about diluting acid with water:

May her rest be long and placid ( Read more... )

It's the UAE's national day today, so Papa was off work. My folks and I decided to go out for a drive. We had planned to go towards Hatta/Oman, but we ended up going only to al-Dhaid [pronounced Zayd, z with a lisp] and coming back to Dubai for lunch ( Read more... )

Lazy day today.. at least the first bit of it ( Read more... )

We packed our bags and set out towards the railway station, caught the 10:30 train to Brig, from Brig to Spiez [Shpee-etz] and from Spiez we reached Interlaken ( Read more... )

Since we had nothing to do today, we decided to go paragliding. It's not the same as parasailing where you control your own flying instrument.. someone else controls your parachute in paragliding ( Read more... )

Ok, wow. Whoever's controlling the rain pattern in Dubai is either drunk or is feeling very naughty today. A little too naughty for comfort.

( Pik-churs )

The CD I made with the Huqa Pani and other songs got stuck in my dad's car's CD player. Stupid thang ate it up and refused to give it up. When we got into the car in the morning, my dad told me to get a knife so we could get it out. We finally did get it out, but it was all scratched up ( Read more... )