am.03.26.2013

Katakot! Kaya pala may checkpoint sa Maginhawa nung Sabado ng gabi. :\

Good thing I wasn’t able to wake up early at 5:30 this morning to walk Bambam and Precious with mommy around the UP Oval that is adjacent to the University Avenue and C.P. Garcia Avenue. It creeps me out. Plus, my sister asked me to watch “Tresspass” in her room after I made her caviar manicure. I was wide awake and she was almost asleep before she prepared for her night shift at work. That movie made me realize even more that losing my cellphone, which someone stole from my bag, something thay really made me feel numb, is somehow better than a traumatic event.

Oh well. Giving justice to my lost/stolen phone will really make me feel better. This incident led to a series of events and after all, I know He will never leave me and has a better plan for me why these things happened.

Good night ate Carmie. Thanks ate Marie for the information. Btw, Topshop is selling an imitation of our MCHS green skirt umiform. Hahaha! :)) And, I can’t wait for my sister to get married! Though, it is moved. 111213 Seyeng. ;\

Good night friends! Keep safe and take care anytime and anywhere with anyone. ;)

Periodic table a bit wonky, but pope’s men strive to explain how smoke, signalling progress on pontiff vote, gets its colour

am.03.14.2013

• Lizzy Davies in Vatican City
• guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 March 2013 16.25 GMT
• Black smoke blowing from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, indicating that the cardinals had yet to elect the next pope. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

  As the Sistine Chapel chimney spewed out clouds of very black smoke on Tuesday night, Federico Lombardi, the Vatican’s spokesman, received a phone call from a journalist.

  How had the cardinal electors managed to get the smoke quite that black, the reporter wanted to know, when in previous conclaves it had often been a confusing shade of grey?

  Chemistry, Lombardi joked, was not his strong point. But valiantly, on Wednesday, the Jesuit priest nonetheless embarked on a detailed description of smoke-making at the Sistine Chapel’s two stoves.

  It was not easy. Lombardi, deftly able to navigate the obscurest of Vatican minutiae, showed signs of acute unease when it came to the periodic table.

  His English-speaking assistant, Fr Tom Rosica, experienced even greater difficulty when it came to translating the names of the various chemicals from Italian to English – though, as he said, he had only been presented with them minutes before.

  Apologetically, he explained: “I don’t study this stuff; I study the bible.”

  The system they were outlining was not straightforward. There are two stoves in the Sistine Chapel, one that has been used in conclaves since 1939, and one, introduced in 2005, which has an electronic smoke-producing device in it.

  The ballot papers are burned in the first, while the device in the second activates a cartridge holding five lots of chemical mixture that are loaded gradually over the course of seven minutes. This is designed to make the smoke either clearly black or clearly white.

  For the black smoke the mixture is potassium perchlorate, anthracene and sulphur, the Vatican confirmed. For the white version it is potassium chlorate, lactose and a pine resin known as Greek pitch. The two stoves join in one pipe that connects them to the chimney.

  At the end of his explanation Lombardi received a round of applause from the press corps.

  “It used to be that a theology qualification was useful to cover the Vatican,” tweeted Michael Kelly, editor of the Irish Catholic. “Now I’m wishing I did chemistry.”

  *Reposted from http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/13/sistine-chapel-smoke-chemistry-vatican ;)