On the subject of money..

I came upon a brilliant song in this beginner's piano music book when I started learning a couple of years back. It has a very kiddie melody but it's its lyrics that I want to talk about.

The name of the song is called "Money Isn't Everything". It's true. It's a line we hear everyone bring up all the time, whilst acting all self-righteous. Money isn't everything. I thought the same way too for a while until I read the following:


"
Money isn't everything,
Money can't make you a king,
Money cannot bring success,
Money can't buy happiness.

But of one thing I am sure,
Money doesn't make you poor,
Money doesn't make you sad,
Money can't be all that bad!

"


Truer words have never been spoken..

My Job >>>>> Yours, to be fair..

You:

Really? Pfft, I really don't think so. I get paid everyday to sort out my client's accounts/invest some other rich guy's money/work some machinery in the factory/do some sales/"market" my company's product/etc. and I think it's a highly rewarding experience.

What do you do that is so great? Find cures for cancer?


Me:

Why, yes, that's what i do actually...

I Have Always Hated..

.. chemistry with a passion. It stemmed from my disinterest of the subject during my SPM days and the disgust grew throughout the years as I forgot whatever good that it offered then and only the bad memories remained. The subject comes third on my list of things I despise behind self-given English names and fat pork in Bak Kut Teh.


I made it a point to not take Chemistry during A-levels and did not regret my decision one bit as I watched my friends toil through the lab sessions and open book exams. During my undergraduate years, I was absolutely horrified to find some chemistry-esque chapters in Thermodynamics. Only 3 months ago, just the very thought of the table of elements nauseates me.


Just as well then that at this very moment, I'm sitting here typing this with an SPM Chemistry reference book I borrowed off my sister in front of me; about to brush off the cobwebs and shake the rust off my Chem knowledge as I'm doing my PhD on a project that involves the study of homogeneous reactions under the effect of ultrasound waves. In a word, sonochemistry.


And, wait for it, I think I'm actually starting to like this shit.



You win, Universe, you win...