what can bond us?

i wonder if chemistry is really the thing for me.  currently i'm teaching chemistry for dip and cert student (Health inspector and public health assistant trainnee). frankly, i am not always into chemistry (i hate it when i was in my secondary school. SPM hangkang maut) and my matriculation days no better. (can you believe, when i asked my tutor back then, about the Prinsip Pengecualian Pauli - the electron position in an atom. he told me that if i cant get it in the class, i can try to sleep on my chem textbook).. ugh..ok, maybe what he meant was, for me to study harder (sampai tertidur on the book?). but, i was deeply offended during those trying time...

my degree course in the univ required me to take at least 3 chemistry papers. ( i took Environmental chem I and II, analysis chem and took extra soil chem). the last two were taken during my sophomore year. Env chem I and II were taught by a very eccentric man ( he refused to use powerpoint/ the whiteboard to teach). he used the old reliable chalk and the blackboard. i fall in love with chemistry from his classes. he managed to make chemistry approachable and fun. maybe, its true that chemistry is a bit hard to grasp at first, but like everything else, once you see the basic foundation, it'll get easier. (have to admit though, that i'm still having trouble with the calculation. i hate numbers!)

so? what is chemistry? in simple words, it is the the study of elements, their structure and composition and how they react with each other. (simple enough?)

i knew, this is a very boooooooooring entry for a blog. (maybe i'll continue the lecture sometime soon). nah... i'll start right away. all elements are not naturally stable (except for noble gases, ie: group 18) so, all elements tend to react with each other to form a more stable nature of elemental composition. basically, there are 3 kind of bonds to form substance (ionic, covalent and metal)..the degree of interaction (fast/slow and strong /weak) depends heavily on the degree of polarity. (polarity = ability to form charges). 

what's real interesting is the fact that, different charges actually love to be together. (imagine, two very different person get together?). one example, the table salt (NaCl) = sodium chloride. in its elemental form, sodium is a metal react aggresively with plain water, while chlorine is quite poisonous by its own. but, put them together and voila! we have a cooking companion, familiar to all of us. i wonder if the same rules apply to human interaction/ bonding (will that even viable?)