Yay! It is Nobel time again! It brings back so many fond memories of the times in the past when i was infatuated with Science and Research. Sadly, that passion is now no longer a full conflagration but now a small fire in the hearth. I wondered what made me divert myself totally to the arts side and the fitness craze.

I am very nostalgic. (Bet you all knew that) I miss the joys of science that once captivated me beyond all doubt. This is not to say that i no longer love science but i am given up hope on it. Well so much for National Science Talent Search and Bio Olympiad. After those things my interest level dipped down, not because i got bored with science but of other factors. Stuff that can constitute 10 posts aka rants or even more. Stuff that has been buried deep inside my heart and with no wish to incur more inflammation beyond the hurt that is chronic. It made me lose all my innocence and it shattered my very being.

You might think that i am being melodramatic again but from the way i am writing this post, it is very controlled and steady thoughts that are being processed. I am not rambling on the blog like normal. I was dealt a huge and fatal blow back when i was in JC and i never recovered from it. It was like a stab to my stomach, leaving me dying from my own intenal digestion by my gastric juices. I slowly lost my hope for science as it left nothing in me but a trail of despair and inconsolable sadness. I tried to rekindle it back in NUS but i can't. It faded away with the impossibility of the MBBS-PhD programme.

Now you might most probably know me as the playhouse scriptwriter, clothesmonger, fashion and culture connoisseur or the imcomparably sad and fat fitness freak. I could most probably discuss philosophy, wine and art with you if i wished to but i can't be bothered to. I have almost totally ditched the last vestiges of science left in my soul except for Medicine and my lifelong affliction with the subject. FCS, you know what i mean.

Why do i still have this affliction? Cos Science in itself is the most wonderful of all subjects. It brings us light into our lives and our minds. It illuminates all the unknown, it glorifies reason, logic and mental beauty. Science is art. Art is Science. I have merely traded one for the other. It is so beautiful, this ability to transform our flights of fantasy into logical proofs that document its actual intricacies.

Like for example, for physics there are people like Curie, Rontgen, Van der Waals, Einstein, Planck, Bohr, Hertz, de Broglie, Schrodinger,Heisenberg, Fermi, Thomson, Chadwick, Pauli, Feynman, Gell-Mann, Bohr and others.... who decorated the stars with their physical investigations. Ah, relativity, radioactivity, uncertaintiy etc...

For Chemistry, we have Arrhenius, Haber, Nernst, Svedberg, Hahn, Robinson, Pauling, Onsager, Mulliken, Ruzicska, Wittig, Sanger, Ostwald, Ramsay, Rutherford and many others. They are not famous to most of you cos by nature their work is humble.

For Medicine, we have Behring, Pavlov, Koch, Golgi, Erhlich, Mechnikoff, Warbur, Fleming, Chain, Florey, COri, Hess, Lipmann, Krebs, Kornberg, Medawar, Wilkins, Watson, Crick, Hodgkin, Monod, Rous, Bloch, Delbruck, Luria, Ramon y Cajal, Axelrod, Sutherland, Katz, Baltimore, Lorenz, Brenner, Prusiner, McClintockand so many famous individuals that are so often mentioned in textbooks and cases.

As for Peace Literature and Economics, I shall talk about them another day for Literature and Peace alone warrant a separate post. But if i could have a choice to be a Nobel Laureate, I would rather be awarded the Literature prize. Why? Cos it is the greatest thing and the most ancient of all traditions to tell a good story. It is the most beautiful prize, physics comes a close second and medicine third. It tells the story of a man's output throughout his entire life and his observation on humanity and the world.

When the literature prize comes out, I will post the continuing article to this. But for now, look upon in wonder at the glorious clelbration of Science

By the way, Anybody interested to go for a Nobel Laureate Lecture on 14th October at LT 31 by Douglas Osheroff from Stanford? He won the 1996 Nobel for discovering superfluidity in Helium-3. It is in conjunction with Science Faculty's 75th Aniversary. FCS... are you going?



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