Back to the mothercity

.....Soon ><
I'll be back Saturday night!!!

Quite happy now that all my midsems are over - we had three, one for immunolgy, one for tooth anatomy and one for microbiology. Microbio kinda sucked because I thought tooth anatomy was actually the last one and was in like celebration mode before someone reminded me about it >__>"

I used to suck so bad at poaching eggs. Like all the white never seemed to stay in one place so I got all this fluffy stuff boiling over. Awhile ago though I heard of a good method. When the water is boiling, turn off the heat and stir until the water looks like a whirlpool. Then you just carefully pour the egg into the centre and as long as you don't disrupt the motion of the water too much, it'll nudge all of the eggy goodness to the centre, leaving you with an intact poached egg!

Hm so I'm trying to get rid of all my perishables before I come back, which has led to alot of nights where dinner is meat et randomstuffinmyfridge. I suppose it is pretty fun experimenting though ^^ As long as you're willing to eat whatever you make haha.

I should really do more exercise =_= feeling quite out of it after all the nerding

Anyhoo somehow I managed to stumble upon this on youtube. The words are very confusing, but what I gathered is that they reckon the phosphorylation sites on the tubulin protein can be used as an on/off switch - effectively acting like a computer bit. And then it went on to some random stuff about quantum theory to try to explain the circuitry and used the whole system to explain how we store memory and cell tasks. It's rather dense but it really blew my mind that the idea was a combination of biology, IT and quantum physics.

Post 10 of 2011 =]
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1

Listening to: Taxiride – Creeping up slowly
I first heard that song back in primary school at camp - makes me happy ^^

OH OH and Fast Car - Tracy Chapman. I used to think she was a guy lol =_= She used to look somewhat unisex I believe. Anyway I found her version of this after seeing a guy sing it on Britain's Got Talent. He walked out on stage looking like a friendless hobo and then wowed everyone. I know that story is a bit cliched by now, but I can't help but smile when people are proven wrong when they prejudge others.

Sometimes...

I think that I live in the past too much. Today is one of those days.
Cue the very first episode of Pokemon The thing is so old the character's mouths don't even move all the time when they talk :O It's stop motion goodness.

"Spearows! do you know who I am? I am Ash from the town of pallet, and I'm destined to be the world's NUMBER ONE POKEMON MASTER! I can't be defeated by the likes of you! Do you hear me? I'll catch you allllllllllll!"

I spy a gyarados, magikarp, spearow, pidgey, rattata and HoOh in that ep.

I read this article in a Psychology Today about how everyone tends to focus on a certain time in their life, i.e. back then, right now and in the future. Also the views of these times can be coloured negatively and positively. I think I'm one of those people who's a little bit stuck in the past; always looking back and wishing I was past Steve for a little bit longer. That's probably not the most healthy thing but it gets me by =] A little happy nostalgia never hurt anyone xD The article mentioned that it thought the best type of person to be was to take all bits positively - well duh.

Anyhoo I suppose technically watching that pokemon episode doesn't count as living in my past, since I never actually watched the first episode until tonight =] So excited to see the HoOh bahaha !! ^^

Speaking of nostalgia, I found a scan of page 97 of my very old art book. I think I started it in year 7 haha =] I know it's a bit small, but try spot all the swords...and the Kakashi - even back then I had a thing for awesome ninja-y stuff xD Pretty sure the thing at the top is part of the view from the balcony of my grandparents house in Malaysia ^^ Good memories!

Post 9 of 2011 =]
Listening to : Jian Dan Ai 简单爱 (Simple Love) - Jay Chou 周杰伦, because everything should be oldschool tonight ^__^

“In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, in death we are eternally hungry.”

Happy Day

Thursday has turned into my do random stuff day now that I've gotten credit for biology =]

I really really hate thongs. For some reason the side of my foot always gets rubbed raw when I walk with them on =[ I'm wearing them out more because I'm soaking my runners because they're a bit dirty from that day I cleverly decided to go running in the rain ^^"

I'm feeling my cooking skills levelling up ^^ Made chilli spaghetti the other day!

Got an OPG scan at the radiologists to check my wisdoms, visited the dentist to discuss it, bought lunch and some fruit and then ambled home to do washing and nerd it up ^^ Met and played with a random baby in the waiting room - I love how they're amazed by everything =]

Oh oh and the girl who served me gave me an extra mini muffin!! Always feels good to get free stuff xD Anyhoo I've got a butterscotch muffin that I bought with lunch sitting next to me right now and the smell of it is making me...well dizzy I guess but totally in a good way hahaha =]

At uni we're currently doing a block on immune response in 1020, which is all well and good, but I've been warned they expect you to read outside the lectures quite bit...so I'll grab that book I bought when it comes in next week and grind I suppose ==" In other news we've started poking teeth and around in fake heads in prac now which is much fun xD Quite enjoying using all the pointy dental tools haha =] In 1010 it's all been tooth memorisation, which is like learning the distinctive features of each tooth and being able to recognise them through wear and natural variation...which is actually kind of fun in practice but the theory is rather dry >_>

Hmm the other day talked to Alex about perception and social norms and a blob of stuff. I got quite into it, and it made me miss all the philosophy I did in year 7 and 9 =[ It's very refreshing to have conversations like that every once in awhile ^^

I dislike slightly how these recent posts are largely recounts of what I've done here in QLD. I will try make sure future one is a bit more thought-full xD I do miss Melb quite alot, despite how nice qld is =]


Post 8 of 2011 =]
“Laugh every moment you live, for you’ll find it decidedly difficult afterwards” – Nicomo Cosca

Listening to: Lighthouse - The Hush Sound

Decisions decisions

Clever TED lecture that made me think about my choices a little more.

Awesome youtube video from kegs


I had oreos and milk for the first time in ages last night ^^

Post 7 of 2011 =]
"Ghandi, as you know was barefoot most of the time, which created many large calluses on his feet. He also didn't eat very often which made him very thin and fragile. His unusual diet also gave him bad breath, so i guess you could say he's a super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis"

Listening to: Drops of Jupiter - Train

Food =]

So lately I've been experimenting with cooking etc at home. Made some yummy spaghetti a couple nights ago as you can see on the right=] I think it was my camera but it looks a bit sickly in colour right =\ I think that might also be because we only used like three tomatoes in the sauce, so wasn't very red. It's kinda cool watching them shrivel up and disappear when they cook though =]

We've had to keep a food diary for uni prac soon, and I started yesterday. I never realised but I eat quite...random food =_= So yes, without further ado here is all the food I ate on Saturday (this is totally not filler XD). It's a little more random than usual because I had linner/dinner at a friends house.

Breakfast - Bowl of cereal and milk. Glass of fruit juice.
Brunch - 2 funsize chocolates (cherry ripe and timeout ^^)
Lunch - bunch of grapes. Wedge of camembert cheese and biscuits.
Linner - Gummy bears.
Dinner - Lasagne, garden salad, glass of water.
Supper - oreo truffles, grapes.

I'm a little worried that I eat so much sugar in one day haha ==' Have to make up for it somehow XD

Hmm, lately a couple of my friends have been playing Pokemon black/white. I wonder who comes up with all the new ones, and do you reckon they have like this super serious board of pokemon coolness that vets all the designs? Best job ever yes hahah ^^

Anyhoo I think I'll end here; not alot of interesting stuff floating around in my head of late ^^"

Post 6 of 2011 =]
"If you are what you eat, then Lord Voldemort was a unicorn"

Listening to: A million years - Teddy Geiger

Toothbrush

Yes. Indeed today I am bringing my toothbrush to uni. Aren't I a good little dentist haha =]
Also I'm worried I might have to get some booster shots to bump up my immunity =[ Yucky needles.



I think I'm going to look just like that kid =[

Anyhoo Post 5 of 2011 =]
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” – Dr Robert Schuller

Listening to: Human - John McLaughlin

Van Helsing

....is probably not the best movie I've ever watched =\ In fact I consider it a couple hours wasted =_=. But yes I'd never seen it before and I wanted to exercise the power of my new library card OKAYY?

ahem. So...
guess who recently:
-ran 8k VERY EARLY in the morning while REPEATEDLY dodging deadly bicycles
-learnt the alphabet backwards in a day (I finally resolved to do it after seeing a video on youtube. You can listen here =] Now I'll be prepared if boost ever has another free reciting the alphabet backwards competition (fwahaha)
-spent today looking at pictures of mouths and (sadly enough) enjoyed it xD
-pretended they were superman when the lift in their apartment building took them upstairs
-and finally cooked a badass chicken soup XD

I am oh so cool I know I know =p OH BTW if you cbb pleeeease gimme ideas for stuff to cook over here haha. So far I've tried scrambeled eggs, spaghetti, chicken soup, two types of stirfry chicken + veg and banana milkshakes. Someone suggested sushi but I'm not sure I trust myself to make it; it's quite hard to get the rice the right consistency right?

Eh anyway onto the slightly more think-y bit. I was having a conversation with my friend the other day. The basic point of debate was, "Assuming that all religions essentialy are different ways of worshipping the same God. Without this God, humans would have no sense of good and evil." My initial knee-jerk response was, no. I know plenty of non-religious people who live lives with good morals. But I guess, if you say those morals are derived from the society the people in question were brought up in, and the laws of...well pretty much every society were set out in a time when religion was pretty much ubiquitous in society. So the other persons argument was that, even though you don't account the values you own to a higher power, by taking them from the society you live in you've indirectly used the Gods morals, and hence without them your values still wouldn't exist.
This sounded a bit weird still to me. I mean, given that pretty much every culture in the world ever had a religion at some stage in their history means that whatever morals you do have would have to be attributed to the higher God. It pretty much means the argument is unbeatable right? How do you crack something like that?

Anyhoo, in my opinion, religion developed because humans have an innate need to feel like they have someone to look up to; someone to pray to and believe is watching over them...and maybe to explain things that seem unexplainable at the time. Also, having people believe there is a badass thrower of thunderbolts watching if you're being bad is also probably very beneficial to a stable community. The term the person used was that in a godless society everyone would be running around killing each other and basically living the hedonistic life. Anyway would be interested if any of you guys have anything to say about that.


Plah anyway to finish off here's a video to reward you if you managed to read/skip down to this far. ^^

Post 4 of 2011 =]
“Use what talent you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best”

Listening to: This Ain't Goodbye - Train