china...

Have you read today's papers?

There is an article about China banning tv ads with pigs on them... this is to make sure that Muslims watching wouldn't be offended by them... Chinese people got so sensitive meh???

And isn't China still like very socialist... i thought they OFFICIALLY dun recognize any religions??? then why must they do a thing like this??? so weird...

Do you remember an incident with a group of Chinese tourists in Malaysia??? they were having dinner at a hotel and the staff at the hotel marked the order slips of the Chinese tourist with a drawing of pigs... because they ordered non-halah dishes... they made a big hoo-ha cos they believed, and still believed, that the hotel staff represented them as pigs... over sensitive...

Please dun start posting anti-Chinese sentiments on the tagboard or the comments...

And if you not found the joys of Pandora... go listen... it is truely good... the link is right here on the side bar...

profile photo...

apparently... if i delete this... the profile picture dissapears...

animal behavior...

Well, for the module Animal Behavior, LSM1303, there is a project. We need to like film some animal for about 3 hours and then squeeze everything into a 10 minute presentation. Luckily, not presenting soon.

So apparently, this is the idea that our group will be doing: people's reaction to cockroaches. More specifically, the humans are all going to be sociology 4th year students. This will leave a lasting imprint in your school life. And, the only thing that we cannot do for the project is throw roaches at people. AND that's according to the lecturer. Not that I have an innate fear of roaches and standing near one is creepy. But like most people the only reason I would touch a roach is to make sure that the impact destorys it.

The most irriating thing about doing this is probably that we all need to go catch roaches.

So, if I want to get out of this, I'll need to think of a bigger and better idea to overthrow the human-roach interaction time. So save the roaches from having to be ogled at by us. Or the Sociology 4th years, which ever you like better. But if you really like the roaches, don't mind catching some for me????

resolution...

okie... one more resolution this year is to wear more shirts and less of t-shirts... although this will probably not apply to school... hahaha...

expectations...

The expectations that we have, we have expectations for others, we have expectations for ourselves and lastly, the expectations of how other precieve us.

The worse, I found out recently, is the expectations of how we think others will react. We always think people will react in a certain manner. But in actual fact, it's just what we think, it might not really be true. And this expectations screws with our thoughts and basically makes life "colourful".

So this would be one of the few resolutions that I have made in my life. That I will try to stop letting the expectations of how I think others will react dicate the way that I make the decisions of everyday life.

i'm not dying...

The match between Singapore and Laos just ended. Singapore won. They won 11-nil. That's right, Singapore scored 11(eleven) goals. That's double digits. That's alot. But it is Laos. Cannot get carried away with the 11 goals. I hope they win against Indonesia. Then they will play against Thialand or Malaysia. That'll be exciting.

Missed class today. Missed the Animal Behavior lecture. Got stuck at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) doing a Magnetic Resonance Imagery (MRI) test. Was helping do a study. A memory test sort of thing. They use the MRI to see the increased blood flow to the brain. Was interesting. And YES, I get paid. $20 for the theory test and $30 for the MRI scan. The previous guy took so long. That caused me to start an hour late. which lead me to end at 2pm. Was suppose to end at 1pm. So in the end, I didn't go class. Hope I didn't miss anything good. Felt so tired after the test, I reached home and I slept from 4 to 7. That's a long nap in the afternoon.

Been having a headache in the morning recently, was hoping they don't tell me that there's an abnormal growth on the brain. Luckily there isn't. I got to see the MRI scans of my brain. Nothing too out of the ordinary. But I do think that my eyeballs look like they are too large. Haha. My neck's still stiff from the MRI scan. You have to keep you head from moving, so they kind of stick your head in a clamp thingy. And although you are lying down, it's not like you are lying on a pillow with ample neck support. I think they need to invest in better neck support.

I saw Guanda in a picture in the test as well. I'm sure it was him. He told me he helped them by taking a mugshot for them while he was interning there. I think it's Alicia's birthday as well. So happy birthday, and if it's not, I'll take this off once you tell me. Haha...

And if you are interested in doing the test, I can give you the number.

i almost died...

Yes, it seems that I have morbid dreams. This morning I had a dream, that I died. It wasn't one of those normal dreams about dying. Most dreams about dying end right before you die. For example, if you were to be knocked down by a runaway bus in a dream, you would wake up right before the impact. So, you don't really die.

But this dream is different. I felt that I had died, no more sensation, no more life, for a good 1-2 seconds. Sure it may not be a long time, but it is. It is when you die. This may sound like a crazy overstatement, but I really think I had died for that 2 seconds.

Anyways, this is the dream. I got off a bus and I was looking out to the sea. Then the sky turned dark and it started to rain. We moved towards a building to seek shelter. When we were just about to enter the building, I turned around and saw this huge wave coming towards me. I turned to enter the building and then the water engulfed me. Usually in normal dreams, the dream would end right brfore the wave hit me. But this isn't a normal dream, After the wave hit, everything stopped. It was just darkness, and you could feel everything ceasing to work, my brain, my heart. Scary.

A friend asked if I would now live my life any differently, I guess not. Maybe I'll stop visiting the beach.

the first post of the year...

Wanted to post this story for a long time. But just didn't feel like it till now.

There was a tightrope walker. He was a very good tightrope walker.
One day, he walked across the tightrope with a balancing pole.
Reaching the other side he turned to ask the crowd if they thought he could do it without the help of the balancing pole. The crowd said yes and cheered as he completed it without the pole.
The he asked the crowd if they thought he could do it carry a monkey. The crowd cheered,"Yes!!!"
The tightrope walker completed it with the monkey and then asked if they thought he could cross the tightrope pushing a wheelbarrow while carrying the monkey. The crowd having seen him do all the other challenges roared a resounding yes.
Upon completing the feat, the tightrope walker asked the crowd they believed that he could do everything he just did in addition to having a person sitting in the wheelbarrow. The crowd screamed that he could.
But when the tightrope walker asked for a volunteer to sit in the wheelbarrow, noone volunteer.

So what's the point of the story?
It's easy to say you believe something, but doing stuff for what you beleive in is a totally different story.

I lost a module during the bidding period because I got screwed by CORS (the system that allocates modules in NUS). Fortunately, the module is available for bidding again. YAY!!! I hope i get it for 1 point. But just to be safe, I bidded 750.