Yearly Archives: 2010

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1. Direct Titration

In a direct titration, EDTA is directly added to the analyte until the end point is reached.

This classification includes your regular enemies. Those who can say what they want to say face-to-face are obviously under this type. Of course, courage is the underlying characteristic of all Direct Titration enemies. However notorious, they are the most lovable enemies that you can get because their modus operandi is 100% free of dirty tactics; they do not exert extra effort to disintegrate your dignity when you’re away. In a simplified sense, they are fair and square because they address their hatred to you directly.

2. Back Titration

In a back titration, a known excess of EDTA is added, and the excess is reacted with another regent (of unknown volume) until the end point is reached.

Backstabbers, period. They exchange stories with you, laugh with you, and treat you like a helluva best friend when you are in close proximity – close enough to be perceived by their eyesights. But the moment you increase your distance away from them (aka the moment you turn your back), they turn into monstrous creatures: they make stories about you, laugh at you, and treat you as an enemy. They savagely damage you by taking advantage of the time when you cannot use your ears to hear them. Back Titration enemies are so called because it is known to you that they are on good terms with you. However, you’ll soon realize that they have unknown motives toward you.

3. Indirect Titration

In an indirect titration, an anion is indirectly analyzed by precipitation of the anion with a cation and then addition of EDTA to complex with the metal.

Another wave of foes can be categorized under this. Indirect Titration enemies are very discreet. In fact, you may have a hard time figuring which is which because they are good whenever you’re around and not around. Except that they aren’t. The good thoughts they hurl at you are actually nasty sarcasms – just like candy-coated rocks. It takes a determined victim to hear beyond all the praises. A piece of advice: False humility is the ultimate form of sarcasm. So, if you spot someone who’s being too good to be true, take it as an opportunity to think and reflect on the noxious possibility that they may be fighting you indirectly.

4. Replacement Titration

In a replacement titration, a stronger metal replaces a weaker metal which is in complex with EDTA.

Replacement Titration enemies are the deadliest of their kind. And why not, they are capable of taking various forms. They replace their tactics from time to time. They can attack you using direct, back, and indirect techniques. You would be too busy uncovering their current MO without knowing that they have already replaced their tactics.

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One of the fundamental truths of nature is tacitly expressed as “You cannot please everyone.” Let’s face it: no matter how hard you try to be good, there’s still a fat chance that green-eyed gargoyles will be around you. They’ll fight, attack, and kill you. When facing them, it’s often good to fight back. However, it’s far wiser to ignore them – just let go and let God. After all, He has the power to dissolve wrongdoings and neutralize evil.

There is a right time to give up, a wise moment to quit, a correct instance to surrender. And in that exact point in time, never hold back – just let go and let God.

Life is but a moment of circumstances; a continuous string of chances. A second is dissolved in an eternity conceding to the inset of the mind. One moment at a time, series of fleeting memories craft the past which becomes distant at sunset. Eventually, the past is forgotten with the preconception of the future. Generations pass and the memory of existence decay with the blossom of flower beds.

Such is the beautiful cruelty life has wrought for man. The grandeur of mortality is in man’s numbered years and irrevocability of choices. If then, must we permit the fragments of time to recklessly slip us by?

Medieval men have once uttered upon books, “Drink and be merry for tomorrow you will die”. What good is it to always fear the unknown and unconventional? Was greatness not found in the ventures of Newton and Galileo? I must implore you, do what is obliged to you and do what you will to do. Life must not be bent on strict ruling of books and law. Embrace life to the fullest; open your eyes to the vast horizon, take in what you can and take another step forward for what you see is only but a section of the entire landscape.

Life is too short for one to succumb to fear and sadness; to worry and despair. Why must we let trepidations rule us? Have we forgotten the core Spirit that bound us together in this world? It is evident that the enormity of prayer and gratitude are slowly being forgotten. The hearts of men has grown so fragile that trust and hope is shattered with the onset of predicaments. As master Yoda has put it, “fear leads to sadness, sadness leads to hate, hate leads to suffering”. Thus, it is in my understanding that the folly of man resides in his disregard of Love, for in Love there is no fear.

The opulence of existence is not defined with one’s bereavement; rather, it resides in the substance of one’s life. Moreover, the life of a man does not end with his death for most men are dead throughout their lives. I believe in immortality for one may perpetually exist in memory; one may never die as long as he is vivid in another’s memory.

It is my honor that you shall live on in the cellar of my mind. I thank you for giving me the paramount of my years. It is in you that I have found myself. Your strength has given me courage to trust in the best that I could be and stopped me from becoming what I would’ve come to be. I pray that one day you may find this discolored withering sheet of paper, stacked in one corner of your home (for I know you would do better than a house) and remember the name of the one who wrote this to you.

Carpe diem my friend, carpe diem.

- Mary Roxanne S. Musñgi