I’ve wondered why.. But I donno why.. How is it possible that every time I stand below the shower, with water falling on my head, I become lost in intense thoughts? When my friend asked me why I returned from bath every time with so many ideas about how to do my art-plates and other assignments when I was in hostel, I’ve wondered why that was happening too!! I think non-stop when I’m taking a shower!!! All complicated problems of mine are solved magically beneath the shower!! Isn’t that funny? Really funny? It is, to me! Not just problems, I think about things that are in no way related to me… Like today, I was thinking about carboxyl group and carboxylic acids!

HCOOH however found it’s way into my mind.. I forgot the name of this acid, though.. I was trying to figure out it’s structure.. I knew that Carbon had 4 valence electrons, Hydrogen had 1 and Oxygen had 2.. Even if I assigned a hydrogen, oxygen and hydroxyl to the carbon atom, it still had one more place left, and so did oxygen :-( That’s when double bond hit me! Oxygen and carbon shares a double bond, problem solved!! I didn’t know whether I was right though, coz it’s been a long time since I’ve said the words, ‘carbon’, ‘hydrogen’ or ‘oxygen’ and even more time since I’ve used ‘carboxyl’, ‘valence electron’, ‘hydroxyl’ and ‘double bond’ in a sentence!! hehe!!

Anyway, I got interested about organic chemistry suddenly. I searched for my old textbooks from school. I got hold of the K.L.Chugh ISC Chemistry textbook, which I seriously used as a pillow one night before the model exam. It’s three and a half inches thick, everything that had to be known written in boring small letters, making it seem unworthy of spending time with!! Anyways, this book seems pretty interesting now! I flipped through the pages that were once Greek and Latin to me, which reminded me of the bad days I had to spend with this book, trying to understand it, trying to like it. I put in a lot of effort into it, to make the relationship work. But some are just too difficult to put up with. I spent days and nights listening to what it has got to say to me. Some things were pretty boring that I fell asleep in between. I know that’s not how relationships work. But I got tired, because it was an endless ramble of things that I could never picture, or relate to.. Our relationship ended forever, the day after the Chemistry Board Examination! And I can’t say how relieved I was… :-)

Uhm.. I think I should shower less :|