as part of my new exam ritual over the past 3, 4 days

• i've been chugging down what seems to be my 38th cup of green tea, for the antioxidant powers
  
• knocking back my 5th brand's chicken essence (very common singaporean thing for parents to make their kids take during the exam period, helps their noggin' i say!) mark's mom is a psycho advocate of it makes him bring them up by the boxload (the word looks wrong but somehow boxful doesn't really convey the amount, and i can't use truckload since there's no trucks involved, so i'm using box since the bottles come in a box and load simply cause i want to)
  
• 8 evening primrose oil capsules since it supposedly assists in the healing of the multiple scratches and bruises clumsy me has sustained and the treatment of skin inflammation, been getting lots of suspicious insect bites that always bleeds right after, dad says it's probably a minor allergic or sensitive reaction to certain insect bites.
  also helps that it's a dietary supplement for GLA and vitamin E which is an antioxidant

random experiment i did couple of weeks back, whilst i was clearing out mark's room i found various tablets on the carpet, in the nook and crannys, all over the place! and decided to do 'what medication do ants like best?' since ants are plentiful at his place

there was
lexotan
pink panadol (coutesy of his girlfriend)
half a diazepam
evening primrose capsul (from moi)
cod liver oil supplement
2 veragel tablets
unknown large green translucent tablet

this is a NOT a true experiment or quasi experiment or correlational study, could possibly be a field study or a descriptive study.

hypothesis: sandra is mad and is really bored.

results: ants apparently like the cod liver and the unknown tablet. kinda gathered round the primrose. the rest not much activity if any at all.

so there! now you know

08:09

realised that i didn't post this on monday.

spent my break in the education buliding computer lab replying to my mom's email then researching on the functions of the basal ganglia which is co-ordinating deliberate synchronised movements. as well as shifting attention from 1 thing to another.

i've come up with a fab way of remebering it.
co-ordinated deliberate GANG (for ganglia) movements must be synchronised. then when you're beating up people you shift your attention from one victim to another!
smart huh!
don't i come up with the most colourful stories?
like caleb owens said (and i've been doing this for years, explaining my scarily amazing memory) this is the most efficient way of memorising.

random pointer to those who are studying

DON"T WRITE STUFF IN CAPITAL LETTERS, you remember WORSE compared to small caps. HA! bet you've forgotten that already! (ok maybe you didn't quite get my quirky irony)

anyway for the tut we were suppose to look and 'diagnose' cases of mental symptons from different perspectives. my group had the philip case study.
philip is stading in the middle of the busy junction directing heavy traffic in a tee shirt on a cold rainy day.
some guy from my group said ha he's schizophrenic!
to which i protested (after laughing so hard after reading philip's case) hey he could be an undercover traffic police officer, no no, most likely a traffic police on his day off and then he saw how bad the traffic situation was and quickly intervened to prevent an accident if one hasn't aleady occured, so the situation demanded that he respnd there and then!

guy: hellooooooo! he's obviously a nutjob he's IN THE RAIN IN A TEE SHIRT!

me: well it could have NOT been raining when he started directing traffic, you can't just stop directing traffic just to put on a jacket! and of all times NOT in the RAIN! see that's dedication from him! he could have frozen of fallen sick but he's putting the safety and well being of others before himself.

the guy had nothing left to say. can't blame him. i think i DID go over the top with the whole possible explaination for his actions.

samantha fearns my tutor proposed other possible alternative explainations.
he lost a bet with his mates.
he's high from smoking pot
he's on psychoactive substances.

logical but not as far fetched as mine. i quite like my explainations honestly. somehow it seems very me doesn't it?

after that went shopping at braodway, spent the WHOLE weekend obsessing about the chunky black necklace that i've suddenly hankered after and so worried that someone would buy the last 7 of them or sportsgirl would clear the whole stock!

very irrational, i'm starting to seem like those case studies of mental patients i've been studying about.
03:01

interesting facts that you learn from neuroscience

1. dolphins can sleep one hemisphere at a time! so each half of the brain takes turns to sleep!
2. giraffes only sleep 2 hours a day
3. the short form of ecstacy is E but the long form it's real name is methylenedioxymethamphetamine. what a mouthful trying to quickly get a fix from your dealer 'hey man do you have any more methylenedioxymethamphetamine?
4. alcohol is the world's oldest known drug

02:18

other facts that i picked up from watching documentaries (as usual)
octupus and lobsters have blue blood! it's cause they have hemocyanin instead of haemogloblin which we humans (mammals actually) have that carry red blood cells.
incests have clear blood! far out! (that's what the guy from the documentary said) cause there's no need to carry O2.

tralalala now you can impress people who don't know that!
01:26

ok i've come up with a brilliant plan. regarding a nose job.
see, i'll get into an accident, while in singapore and with my dad around of course. which the major damage would be my nose hopefully it'll be broken.
broken to the extent that cosmetic surgery wouldn't be too much of a stretch to ask for. this is where my dad comes in, my dad being my dad would naturally insist on getting the best (in his case means using his contacts or getting someone distantly related to us or someone that has treated family and friends before) to do the job.
then i'll say since my nose is already al BLEAH can i get a nose job, then go all dramatic on how repulsive i would look without cosmetic surgery but at this point it wouldn't really be excessive, unnecessary or shallow.

and BINGO!

new nose, hopefully one like kate beckinsale's. she's a really nice nose tho from the side it's a TAD angular than most. but still a very nice nose.
00:06

warning: this entry contains sexual references. (good grief i sound like the disclaimer and tv advisory board listing the rating before a certain show)

anyway was leafing through a bunch of old magazines when this durex booklet dropped out. huh.
no no it's not pervy or anything, it contained the results from the durex global sex survey.
after skimming through it i can really say that singaporeans are very sad in the bedroom department, mostly in frequency and creativeness. no i'm not refering to extreme sex while hanging from the ceiling suspended by a whole bunch of straps and cables (though the editor of cosmo when she visited our college told us that you actually can buy those apparatues.) but at how they approach it.
usually it's a lacklusture wham bam thankyou mam, over before it even starts.
but there's always exceptions to every rule.

remembered reading a mag where they had 'hot steamy tips from all over the world', was utterly disappointed to see the tip given by a supposed singaporean sex expert.
goes along the line of 'have sex in the bathroom (does NOT refer to the shower OR bathtub). why? cause singaporean men till their 30s live with their parents. (I"M LIKE BLOODY HELL THEY ACTUALLY ADMITTED THAT!! YOU"RE ONLY LIKE TELLING THAT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD!!) so you have sex in the bathroom cause the bedroom is too obvious (??????????????????????????) then all small little sounds would echo it's very sexy but you have to keep the noise level down otherwise YOUR PARENTS might hear (YOUR PARENTS!???!!! your parents! you freaking mention your parents AGAIN??!!!!?? are you that hard up wanting to confirm the suspicion of the rest of the world that singaporean men are losers when it comes to sex!!!)

good grief i really have no comment for you!
01:14

unfortunately was not able to sleep much less finish any dream.
the 3, 4 hours i had before waking up (in the midst of such a lovely dream) really didn't let me sleep after that so i spent another 4 and a half hours tossing and turning in bed. it's when you're lying in bed unable to sleep you get really particular about your sleeping environment.
the sheets were too scratchy, need my lovely smooth high thread count sheets (really one of my few indulgences in life, actually it's more of a must)
the frills of the quilt constantly tickling my nose causing me to sneeze so many times
pillow is too low to offer proper neck support so i fidget incessantly with it trying to make it more comfortable but that rarely happens so i generally have little choice but go through the day with sore stiff neck and shoulders.
a single teensy weensy crumb would really chaff my sensitive skin irritating the hell of out of me so i have to dust off the sheets till i'm sure it's gone for good.

when i was a little girl my dad mentioned off hand that i'm like the princess from princess in the pea.


overall it's mostly the scratchy sheets and pillow lacking better ergonomic support that really irritate me.

the room being uncomfortable stuffy lacking sufficient ventilation also major factor. being on the 2nd floor it never occurred to the designers of the building to install grills to go with the sliding doors or safety latch windows so i can't open the windows or leave the door slightly ajar since i fear so much for my life. for those who know me i sleep like the dead (incidentally we learnt about sleep patterns for neuroscience today) very few things (make that nothing) can rouse me when i'm in my deepest slumber so i rather not risk my safety.

furthermore the windows are partially shielded by trees so even when the campus security park their car and keep a lookout for would be intruders, the trees would obstruct their view of an intruder and they wouldn't be able to help me until it's too late.

i'm NOT being paranoid, i'm being cautious. a lone young girl (ok maybe not young girl but still) in deserted campus accommodation is an easy target for breaking-and-entering fiends!

losing WAY too much sleep.
09:17

had very VERY nice dream of hugh jackman, you know what i've come to the conclusion that whoever's named hugh is naturally hot.
there's hugh laurie
hugh grant (ok maybe he's not HOT but still)
and of course yours truly hugh jackman.

*rawr* now that's one helluva fine specimen, indeed god's gift to the female race.
unfortunately i didn't manage to finish my dream (DAMN IT!) cause i woke up realising that i had fallen asleep on the sofa cause i didn't want to shower so just i could sleep properly in the bed.
but MAN! it was good while it lasted.
*phew* i'm still getting my breath back hehe!

just some tidbits bout my dream cause i want to hit the sack as quickly as possible to continue the dream with god's gift to women, or mostly me.

tennis newcomer grandslam
fixing match
jet company with PEEEENK margaritas!
tennis showdown
betting stakes

so i'm really hoping that i finish up the dream or at least continue part of it.

nighty night!

and HELLOOOOOOW jackman!
01:53

was watching the ad for HOUSE! YAY HOUSE IS BAAAAAAACK!
oh i LOVE feb! all the good shows are back..
GRAY'S ANATOMY! never miss a single episode. EVER!
tralalala. SVU which is quite intersting
BOSTON LEGAL! makes me want to be a lawyer again.
new comer SUPERNATURAL!! tres good! seriously! though i get a bit freaked out whenever i go to sleep since the bed is facing a full length and the curtains are right behind the bed so there's the curtain casts this 'frame of light' and i always bolt out of bed whenever i see the light frame reflection in the mirror. not good esp for someone with such overactive imagination.

ok my point of this point was..
when i was watching the house ads about 5 days ago and
it hit me all of a sudden, both the golden globe winners for this years tv drama are hugh laurie and geena davis, and they're the littles! you know mr and mrs little from stuart little!
HA that's thier connection! so the littles are also golden globe winners. how cool is that.
ok maybe i'm the only one who noticed.
remember point out to ed when we watched stuart little 2 (yes we watched such a gay movie, i wanted to go laugh and mock movies so i picked that)
the only people in the cinema- ed, i, this mother and her young son about 7 years old.
the two of us burst out laughing at the comment about moses cause before we watched the movie i made him sing songs from the prince of egypt soundtrack since VS chior did it for their choir night. but we mostly laughed cause it was reference to that vs chior performance, and out sudden laughter (for me it was peals of giggles) scared the boy who was sitting 3 seats away from me, when we saw his reaction we laughed even harder.
bet it wasn't the most plesant movie he's had.

ahh good ole sec 4 times..

if only i could relive it over again.
and again
and again.
04:00

one of my fave commercials ever.
just click the link http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4939404667311212482&q=carlton

seriously beer companies come up with the BEST ads ever.
like the heineken one where this rather dashing looking bloke goes back in time when heineken's were first made. classic

or the jen aniston one, which was also quite amusing, but still pales in comparison

i totally adore the new zealand beer ad about it being a bloke's beer. absolutely fab! very inventive, really got to give it to 'em.

well commercials really work, was impressed infact overwhemled by the ad in a good way, i actually got a carlton at the pub which actually sucks, considering i think ALL beer suck so you can't really take my work for it.

so enjoy the carlton ad.
00:25

damn it!
freaking opera tickets are sold out 4 months in advance
it's almost as bad as the michael buble tickets that were sold out in less than an hour!
grrr! i had the perfect dress for it!
my pretty pink princess dress!
it's so pretty *Swoon* no scrape that, it's GORGEOUS!
it's HAND MADE! well the beading, scallop vintage lace trimming, and details were all hand done! so that makes it HAND MADE! one off piece! well maybe a 3 off piece, S, M, L.
of course i got the small, the medium was roomier but i felt.. pouffy in it, didn't hang well on me.
the small bustier part's pretty much suffocating but it's absolitely fablous on me!

i wanted to wear it to the opera!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
00:00