sábado, 30 de junho de 2007

My Favourite Things (II)

Radicals and SN2 substitutions,
Kc expressions and buffer solutions,
Haworth projections of pyranose rings -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Manganate (VII) that looks like Ribena,
Models of membranes made out of pipe-cleaners,
Programmes on CHIME about haemoglobin -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Weird fruity smells from esterification,
Reflux condensers and redox titrations,
Dichromate (VI) when it’s oxidising -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Standard electrodes, cell statements, salt bridges,
Benzene in petrol, CFCs in fridges,
NMR spectra and nuclear spin -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Born-Haber cycles and mole calculations,
Rate laws and stoichiometric equations,
Maxwell and Boltzmann and Hess and Pauling -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Transfers of protons in acids and bases,
Eluants, solvent fronts, stationary phases,
Lock-and-key models and chymotrypsin -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Beta-D-glucose and glycine and valine,
Loud orange azo dyes and phenolphthalein,
Complexes with transition metals in -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Bright-coloured flame tests of alkali metals,
Aldehydes, ketones and hemiacetals,
Enzyme cofactors and B vitamins -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Teflon and Terylene and polystyrene,
DNA helices, guanine and thymine,
Islets of Langerhans and insulin -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Ether and NaBH4 reductions,
Van der Waal’s forces and semi-conduction,
Bending vibrations when bonds stretch like springs -
These are a few of my favourite things!

Stereochemical isomerism,
Kinetics, catalysts, and mechanisms,
Metal hydroxides precipitating -
These are a few of my favourite things!!

My Favourite Things (I)

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with string,
These are a few of my favorite things.

Cream coloured ponies and crisp apple strudel,
Door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings,
These are a few of my favorite things.

Girls in white dresses and blue satin sashes,
Snow-flakes that stay on my nose and eye-lashes,
Silver white win-ters that melt into spring,
These are a few of my favorite things,

When the dog bites,
When the bee stings,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel, so bad.

sábado, 9 de junho de 2007

"Jamais se desespere em meio as sombrias aflições de sua vida, pois das nuvens mais negras cai água límpida e fecunda." - Provérbio Chinês

"Um forte egoísmo é uma protecção contra a enfermidade mas, no limite, precisamos de começar a amar a fim de evitar a doença, e podemos adoecer se, em consequência de uma frustração, não conseguirmos amar" Sigmund Freud