just taking a peek at my blog

It looks pretty dead haha.

like huh o.o

Read this somewhere:

"Conscience is the root of all true courage, for courage without conscience is a wild beast. If a man would be brave, let him obey his conscience so that he'll do the right things than just merely doing things right. With courage, he will then dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is foundation of integrity and conscience."

Lol does it make sense at all...

time management

Ehh. I was at dental. And I happened to see this:

:: four Ds of time management ::

delete

delay

diminish

delegate

Nothing quite spectacular or original... But I found it pretty neat haha.

anality

Lol I first heard the word "anality" at a lunch session with Mr Lim and Tim Chow. I'm not sure if such a word exists, but to my understanding anality is simply the quality of being anal.

I've read some text lately; and it is quite amusing how the originator of the text did not quite take the effort to proofread and proofread and proofread.

One. A banner promoting some courses taught by a particular centre/somebody (I'm not sure which). One of the courses offered- Hanyu Pingying

Two. "Our organisation advocates a strong and open learning culture where competing ideas flourish, while knowledge created is restrained and pervasively shared." I think the author meant "retained" instead of "restrained"...

Excuse me for my anality, if any :p

yawning cools the brain, dude

Seems like I've given in to societal pressure :p No lah actually I happened to find this online and I thought it was interesting. Keep yawning people!

Why we yawn: To cool our brains
Contagious yawning may have evolved to keep group of people alert

By Jennifer Viegas

If your head is overheated, there's a good chance you'll yawn soon, according to a new study that found the primary purpose of yawning is to control brain temperature.

The finding solves several mysteries about yawning, such as why it's most commonly done just before and after sleeping, why certain diseases lead to excessive yawning, and why breathing through the nose and cooling off the forehead often stop yawning.

The key yawn instigator appears to be brain temperature.

"Brains are like computers," Andrew Gallup, a researcher in the Department of Biology at Binghamton University who led the study, told Discovery News. "They operate most efficiently when cool, and physical adaptations have evolved to allow maximum cooling of the brain."

He and colleagues Michael Miller and Anne Clark analyzed yawning in parakeets as representative vertebrates because the birds have relatively large brains, live wild in Australia, which is subject to frequent temperature swings, and, most importantly, do not engage in contagious yawning, as humans and some other animals do.

Contagious yawning is thought to be an evolved mechanism for keeping groups alert so they "remain vigilant against danger," Gallup said.

For the bird study, the scientists exposed parakeets to three different conditions: increasing temperature, high temperature and a control temperature. While yawning did not increase during the latter two conditions, it more than doubled when the researchers increased the bird's ambient temperature.

A paper on the findings has been accepted for publication in the journal Animal Behavior.

"Based on the brain cooling hypothesis, we suggest that there should be a thermal window in which yawning should occur," Gallup said. "For instance, yawning should not occur when ambient temperatures exceed body temperature, as taking a deep inhalation of warm air would be counterproductive. In addition, yawning when it is extremely cold may be maladaptive, as this may send unusually cold air to the brain, which may produce a thermal shock."

The parakeets yawned as predicted.

It's now believed yawning operates like a radiator for birds and mammals.

If air in the atmosphere is cooler than brain and body temperatures, taking it in quickly cools facial blood that, in turn, cools the brain and may even alter blood flow. Prior studies reveal yawning leads to a heightened state of arousal, so a morning yawn may function somewhat like a cup of coffee in providing a jolt of energy.

The new findings also explain why tired individuals often yawn, since both exhaustion and sleep deprivation have been shown to increase deep brain temperatures, again prompting a yawn-driven cool down. Yawning additionally appears to facilitate transitional states of the brain, such as going from sleep to waking periods.

Gordon Gallup, Jr., a State University of New York at Albany psychologist, did not work on the study, but, as Andrew Gallup's father, paid close attention to the research. The senior Gallup also happens to be a leading expert on the science of yawning and other widespread evolved traits.

"It is interesting to note that instances of excessive yawning in humans may be indicative of brain cooling problems," Gallup, Jr., told Discovery News, pointing out that patients with multiple sclerosis often experience bouts of excessive yawning "and MS involves thermoregulatory dysfunction."

He added, "Bouts of excessive yawning often precede the onset of seizures in epileptic patients, and predict the onset of headaches in people who suffer from migraines."

In the future, researchers may focus more on brain temperature and its role in diseases and their symptoms. But the new study on yawning changes the popular notion that yawns are mere signs of boredom.

On the contrary, as Gallup said, "yawning more accurately reflects a mechanism that maintains attention, and therefore should be looked at as a compliment!"

© 2008 Discovery Channel

stop and stare

by OneRepublic

This town is colder now, I think it's sick of us
It's time to make our move, I'm shakin off the rust
I've got my heart set on anywhere but hereI
'm staring down myself, counting up the years

Steady hands, just take the wheel
And every glance is killing me
Time to make one last appeal
For the life I lead

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh

Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can u see what I see

They're tryin to come back, all my senses push
Un-tie the weight bags, I never thought I could
Steady feet, don't fail me now
Gonna run till you can't walk
But something pulls my focus out
And I'm standing down

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, you don't need

What u need, what u need...

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be
Oh, do u see what I see

One of the songs I've grown to like lately haha...

Haven't been around here for long! Just needed to tell myself to take some time to take stock of myself after the upcoming exercise.

Yeapp haha.

heylo ppl!

Haha I wonder how everybody is doing... Haven't been talking to people much...

If you read this please tag! :)

the apple

Is officially my favourite fruit now :) Everytime I book out I will eat 5-6 apples (I'd say at least :p) over the weekend I think... Its like crunchy and juicy. Sometimes its sour sometimes its sweet. But in both cases its nice :)