November 19, 2005, 12:39am

Finally, I get to know why the rice cooker doens't work... I got a 220-110V transformer! This is so bad...

I simply didn't pay attention to the specifications on my two transformers. Well, they look the same at a glance. Yet, the other one is 110-220V.

Theoretically, I should be able to convert the 220-110V to 110-220V. It's simply the number of coils. I did a lot of these calculations and experiments in secondary school. Well, but I just don't have the confidence to practically do it in my apartment. I have to fear about a fire.

You see, I just don't know why I had to learn physics all those years. I did all the work to pass the exam yet I simply didn't have any real life experience to apply my knowledge on the everyday appliances.

It's just a simple transformer... not a washer or a microwave. Anyways, I don't want to be bold about electricity outside the lab.

Well, when I was on the plane, I would think about how pressure increases and velocity decreases. I also thought about the P and V relationship when I was on the feluca in River Nile. Yet, the sailors didn't seem to know these theories yet they could go sailing... I just got to think about what I'm doing all these years burying my head in the books.

I still haven't found anyone available to teach me driving. Again, I learnt all the basics about the engine and combustion. I also learnt about how a car turns: friction, centripetal force... what's the use? Can these help me drive safer? What about how to maintain a car?

Just don't know why the school didn't teach any practical stuff at all. Here, at least they make high school students to learn driving. I learnt to sit still in the overly crowded classroom because Hong Kong is overly populated anyways.

I just hated it when I was in the home economics class. Just damn stupid to buy a piece of fabric and make a dress etc when the fabric was a lot more expensive than what I could have bought with a brand name. I simply didn't learn any sewing or cooking at all. What's the point to have those stoves and ovens in the school kitchen when most Hong Kong people don't have them at home? Now, I have an oven and I just don't know how to utilize it.

Anyways, baked food is just hot air and not good for my health... It's just a weird colonial education system back then.