Of my Paper Fans, and to my Loyal Fans
Once again, same old same old commentary on my rather drab (not drag) day:
Skipped PE today due to my flu as i want to recover in the shortest time possible (read: tomorrow) to be able to go for volleyball trainings. I hear they're going to have the AGM and vote for the captains and such... Obviously, my skill, or lack thereof, will result me in playing the shephard-led sheep once again. Here's to hoping i get to be volleyball treasurer ay? I KNOW i'm up to it and i handle money very very well *smiles evilly*. Really. Jokes aside. STOP MOCKING ME!
Anyway, that aside, i learnt how to do the "RobustY Rotate-Y RavellY paper thing"! It involves a stack of roughly 30 A4 paper pieces in a neat pile. Placing the middle of the stack on one hand's fingers, one uses the other hand in what looks like a series of elaborate piano sequences in a left-to right wave-like motion on top of the paper. (OMG this is much much harder to describe as envisioned)
The result is that the entire paper stack fans out and eventually forms a small circle from all the individually spread out paper pieces. Its exactly like the thing they do for the grave spring-cleaning festival superstitious chinese celebrate. When they have to spread the hell money to burn. In offering to the demonic hellspawn. Hmm doubts on its practicality and significance brewing... At least its SO COOL!! Right? Right???
Arrgh. The creepy silence that thunders into my perpetually blocked ears (pressure build-up from the flu) speaks volumes about what any of you readers think... Humbuggers.
I actually hypothesised some scientific basis behind the entire action of the paper-fanning.
It is a transverse wave travelling in a circular, repetitive motion. Kinetic energy input in the form of the moving fingers provides for both the transverse wave motion AND the continually changing direction (an acceleration).
This would prove why this process requires more time (as work done = power x time) and hence more energy to maintain the motion. This energy is in turn lost in dissipative heat, the fanning and gradual spinning of the entire stack and the heat from friction (read: blister on the finger supporting the paper stack, ironically the middle one, which you must absolutely want to wave violently in my direction after reading this particularly droll entry).
Apparently a "fanning out paper stack". Google Images, go figure.
Aha, more like this, just with paper O.o
In other events, I had ban mian today! It just wasn't the same without the chilli, so i just dumped my entire saucecup into it. WOOOOOHOOOO! Cough and phlegmy throat be damned.
The regurgitation i experienced later kinda made me want to retract that last statement. CHILLI OIL DOES NOT GET DIGESTED FOR A LONG TIME! Fyi. Just Fyi (for your imagination, fyi).
While wasting my time away at SRP (the sleep-inducing "How to Write a Scientific Paper", which i so skilfully demonstrated earlier E.e), Nubi cheonged out of the house when the gate was opened. Deducing from my grandmother's rabid exaggerations, he ran only as fast as lightning. Only to the near location that is Nanyang JC. Stupid dog... almost lost him. Must go huggies liao.
Finished updating my once-empty-profile. Its now so spangly and wordy! Will try to add a picture of me in all my gorgeousness (eech!) there asap!
Ridiculously cheerful to... Cry Me a River - Justin Timberlake
Skipped PE today due to my flu as i want to recover in the shortest time possible (read: tomorrow) to be able to go for volleyball trainings. I hear they're going to have the AGM and vote for the captains and such... Obviously, my skill, or lack thereof, will result me in playing the shephard-led sheep once again. Here's to hoping i get to be volleyball treasurer ay? I KNOW i'm up to it and i handle money very very well *smiles evilly*. Really. Jokes aside. STOP MOCKING ME!
Anyway, that aside, i learnt how to do the "RobustY Rotate-Y RavellY paper thing"! It involves a stack of roughly 30 A4 paper pieces in a neat pile. Placing the middle of the stack on one hand's fingers, one uses the other hand in what looks like a series of elaborate piano sequences in a left-to right wave-like motion on top of the paper. (OMG this is much much harder to describe as envisioned)
The result is that the entire paper stack fans out and eventually forms a small circle from all the individually spread out paper pieces. Its exactly like the thing they do for the grave spring-cleaning festival superstitious chinese celebrate. When they have to spread the hell money to burn. In offering to the demonic hellspawn. Hmm doubts on its practicality and significance brewing... At least its SO COOL!! Right? Right???
Arrgh. The creepy silence that thunders into my perpetually blocked ears (pressure build-up from the flu) speaks volumes about what any of you readers think... Humbuggers.
I actually hypothesised some scientific basis behind the entire action of the paper-fanning.
It is a transverse wave travelling in a circular, repetitive motion. Kinetic energy input in the form of the moving fingers provides for both the transverse wave motion AND the continually changing direction (an acceleration).
This would prove why this process requires more time (as work done = power x time) and hence more energy to maintain the motion. This energy is in turn lost in dissipative heat, the fanning and gradual spinning of the entire stack and the heat from friction (read: blister on the finger supporting the paper stack, ironically the middle one, which you must absolutely want to wave violently in my direction after reading this particularly droll entry).
Apparently a "fanning out paper stack". Google Images, go figure.
Aha, more like this, just with paper O.o
In other events, I had ban mian today! It just wasn't the same without the chilli, so i just dumped my entire saucecup into it. WOOOOOHOOOO! Cough and phlegmy throat be damned.
The regurgitation i experienced later kinda made me want to retract that last statement. CHILLI OIL DOES NOT GET DIGESTED FOR A LONG TIME! Fyi. Just Fyi (for your imagination, fyi).
While wasting my time away at SRP (the sleep-inducing "How to Write a Scientific Paper", which i so skilfully demonstrated earlier E.e), Nubi cheonged out of the house when the gate was opened. Deducing from my grandmother's rabid exaggerations, he ran only as fast as lightning. Only to the near location that is Nanyang JC. Stupid dog... almost lost him. Must go huggies liao.
Finished updating my once-empty-profile. Its now so spangly and wordy! Will try to add a picture of me in all my gorgeousness (eech!) there asap!
Ridiculously cheerful to... Cry Me a River - Justin Timberlake
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