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So I said I'd get back to you guys about my attempt to do that pushups/situps program. It's been about 2 weeks now, today was Day 1 Week 3 and I'm happy to say I've been keeping to to schedule pretty well ^_^ Only two more weeks to go =]

Yesterday was a day of uberfail for me =[ Well, it started off pretty well, with me waking up at 5.30am to see if I could/go for a run. Btw it was also an initial trial for the 3mile in 18min run thing, I got 26min hahaha >< It equates to just pass on the grading scale =.=" Anyhoo after that went out and ended up eating lunch at Nandos. Do you think the sauce hotness varies between establishments? I swear I couldn't take hot flavour in Melbourne but here it's like =\ Maybe it's just because everyone else around was like from Malaysia/Singapore/Indonesia and they were making fun of the 'extra hot' flavour lol.

After that I went home and my day of fail began. I spent about an hour shortening my uni office pants, which worked out pretty well considering I was using a $2 sewing kit (apart from breaking a needle, cause I'm tank like that =.="). But after when I tried to iron it to make the edges straight I managed to melt a freakin hole in the leg >__>" Apparently highest setting is a nono. I should know this, as it's happened to me once before ==" So now I've ripped a piece of material off the pants, to use to test the melty-ness of the iron before I use it on anything else.

After that I decided to play some Starcraft to you know...de-rage from my loss of pants. Teamed up with two guys on NA for 3v3 goodness, and we won 4/5 matches of placement. The fail was the last game, against diamonds, where we couldn't even deny ONE expo. So by midgame they had like a billion things flying around the map and my whole team was still onebase =-="

After that slightly sad ending I decided to make dinner because you know...food =]. I was going mega ceebs that night, so dinner was buttered wholemeal toast with leftover curry in omelette + spinach. 15min start->eating ftw!! xD Anyway I managed to burn my tongue on the curry/omelette thing which resulted in me closing my mouth and scraping my hard palate with hot, hard, toast (with added pointy wholegrains!). It didn't help one bit that I know exactly what the bits of mucosa I had scraped off were called =[(rugae).

Do you reckon by being able to better verbalize your pain you increase the pain? Kind of like when you don't want people to start a revolution in your country you don't let them have a word for revolution in their language - it makes the concept harder to grasp.

*sigh* So that was my fail day, which started off so well =[ Now I have to deal with having only one set of un-melted pants, an embarrassing SC2 replay and a very smooth hard palate =_=

And no more curry!! ;__;

I hope today's going to be better xD

Post 14 of 2011 =]

“It’s quite hard to soar like an eagle when one thinks like a turkey”

Listening to: Mother, We just can't Get Enough - New Radicals

Not a Monday

Recently I've been trying to eek out a post every Monday.
Today it's only Friday :O

The reason I felt like posting today is because the girl I sit next to in Preclinic (the class where we drill into plastic teeth in fake people) said something I thought was really nice. Also because I have time to kill while my chicken defrosts. I'm not sure how we got to it, but the quote was was "Time spent enjoying yourself is never time wasted".

I just thought that was a really succinct way to remind yourself what is important in life, and that you should not feel guilty/regret the times you've enjoyed yourself (with the exception of all the weird fetish people). The most important goal in life is to be happy. Happy with yourself, and what you've done/accomplished in the past, and where you're going =]

In Preclinic right now we're doing Class V cavities, which is basically cutting a smiley face mouth into the outside surface of the tooth near the gums. It looks super simple on paper, but it is omfg hard to angle the drill properly >__>" It turns out it is helpful to actually get the patient to close their teeth together when doing these preparations, because it takes tension out of the cheeks, meaning they don't pull your drill in random directions when you bump them.
Nevertheless, I think I'm doing quite well in Class V's, which is good because we have an assessment on them in a couple weeks ><

In other news I finally watched Dorian Grey, the movie adaptation of the book, almost exactly 2 years after it came out. Lol. I've been meaning to get that story into my head somehow for ages, so yeah ^^ I knew the general idea but never went through the whole thing. There was probably a nice philosophical lesson in there somewhere if I think hard enough but I've already rambled about that other thing today ^^"

Post 13 of 2011 =]

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)

Listening to: Nothing - The Script

Saturday Night

Was Riverfire. It's basically and annual event that involves and airshow in the afternoon and fireworks at night =] It signals the opening of several weeks of art shows and other random stuff. Anyhoo I went down to Southbank (same general idea as the Melbourne one =]) with a couple of people to watch, and I've gotta say, fireworks still amaze me ^^ They also has this whole laser light show that synced with music that they were playing out of speakers all along the bank.

I wonder where I'm going to end up in 10 years. I read a quote ages ago that said something like "as we become older, we become more like ourselves unless we make conscious changes". I.e. angry people stay angry, if you have bad habits you'll stay that way, unless you do something about it. Things won't just change themselves. I hope I end up being somebody I'd be proud to become.

Watching everyone run off on their chosen career paths makes me sad. The whole 'road not taken' deal. I'm pretty sure we read some kind of poem about it in year 7 or 8. It's like when you're playing some kind of RPG and you want to try out the stories of all the character classes at the same time, but you can only pick one because you cbs playing the game through like 6 times. Irrelevant of which one you choose, you're always going to wonder if things might have been different/better if you went another way. I guess the only thing to do is to be happy with the boat you're in after you've cast off =] (Necromancer F.T.W)

Post 12 of 2011 =]

True humour is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humour has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
Hugh Prather

Listening to: I'd Rather Be With You - Joshua Radin

Pushups

I'm not sure why people go to the gym. I suppose all the equipment means you can work one muscle at a time, but compound exercises are much better I think =] Maybe it's because of all the other hot people and mirrors. Meh.

Anyhoo I found this website and I thought since I've got a bit of spare time around here I'd give it a try. Today was week 3 day 2 ^_^. I'm also just starting a 200 situps one at week 3. Check back in a couple weeks to see if my usual ceebs has gotten the better of me, but I'm hoping this time can hold it down for awhile haha.

Those two are kind of part of my greater goal of completing this other fitness test I found online. Basically the test is maximum pull-ups, max crunches in 2min and a 3mile (4.8k) timed run. Doing the pushup/situps program kind of feels like mining for iron in Minecraft, so I can make a bucket ... to milk a cow ... to make cake xD. I think I respond better to gaming-achievement style goals.
The 'perfect score' for the above test is 20+ pullups, 100 crunches and 18min run by the way, if anyone wants to try and get there with me >_< It's going to take awhile haha.

Hmm what else, we just had our drilling competency exam at dent school. Was a bit stressful since we only had like an hour to drill. But if you think about it a professional should be able to do it in 15min lol...so not that hard. I know a couple people who restarted midway through and still finished on time =]

Sorry I haven't had alot of interesting thoughts lately lmao. Had one about the nature of religion but rather not open that can of worms :x

Anyhoo that's it for me; hope I will think of something more interesting next week haha ^^"

10 points if you know where I got the idea to do that -->
Maybe this one is too easy =="

Stay awesome kids =]

Post 11 of 2011 =]
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
-Anonymous

Listening to: Hey Man (Now You're Really Living) - Eels
These are the guys that sing all the awesome music in Shrek ^__^

I wonder...

If my grandkids will be using Facebook, if I ever have grandkids.
In the depths of their procrastination time, would they decide to fb stalk me?

It's such a weird thing to think that after about a century, if the Internet still exists, and still has a facebook, you might one day be able to 'watch' a person's entire life by clicking through their photos. From the day they took their first steps, through their parties in highschool and uni, into their bigkid holidays and first house. All the marriage photos, photos of their own kids.

I doubt the Internet or Fb will still exist that far into the future, and I think I harp on about it too much, but the idea just amazes me ^^''

6 years in 6 minutes

A day in California

These videos kind of are a taste of the feeling I think you'd get looking at that lifetime worth of photos.

Anyway no excuses, big gap cause I was lazy about updating this. Probably should do it more, but I haven't felt like doing it in awhile ^^"

Post 11 of 2011 =]
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest
loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you
once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and
thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The
eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust
of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and
curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything
more divine'?”
~Nietzsche

Listening to: Marching On - OneRepublic

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.”