I think i did accomplish a fair bit this past holidays. A quick short list of what i did manage to do is:
-Read 4 books. (i actually made the effort to read!)
well the newspaper is still something that i can't bring myself to read.. ):
- make a few new and good friends
- cook a little something once in a while (quite a lot of it wasn't good i could say.. but at least i did try right?)
- and bum around wasting time.. :)
yea i know i could've done better and it wasn't much of any accomplishment to be proud of anyways but i still managed to read books. That to me is an awesome accomplishment in itself so i think i did fairly well for my standards. Tomorrw school is starting again. With new schedules, subjects, and friends to adjust to i wonder how well will i do.
Objective of this term
-study my best
-get to my ideal weight (72!!)
okok a little interuption. I got this ideal weight thing from a cook book's health part. Seems quite true and managable to me so i'm gonna try it.
Your height - 100= Your healthy weight
eg: 170 (height) - 100 = 70( healthy weight)
and supposedly, guys' ideal weight should be 10% less of the healthy weight and a girls' should be 15% less. Your ideal weight is supposed to be the weight at which you would actually live longer. hmmm sounds odd? well it does but its still not that out of reach but managable i should think.
eg: 70(ideal weight) - 10% = 63kg (for a guy)
or
70 - 15% = 60kg (for a girl)
so i should get to about 73. I think i can try that. and get healthier eating habits of course. Toward the end of the holiday period i've been eating uncontrollably and its good time that i start eating right and sufficient instead of over indulging. at the same time i can firm up a bit.. if i'm not to lazy that is :)
well done updating as far as now.. school's tmr! yay!! ;)
okay okay! so we all know that i'm not a very good reader or anything of that sort but guess what i came accross today? i was like going to read my mail on yahoo and you know the homepage has some news and all? well this is what i found. Something about the effects of sleep.
quote, Sharples. T. "Wish fulfillment? No. But dreams (and sleep) have meanings"
Past research by Walker and colleagues at Harvard Medical School, which was published in the journal Current Biology, found that in people who were sleep deprived, activity in the prefrontal lobe - a region of the brain involved in controlling emotion - was significantly diminished. He suggests that a similar response may be occurring in the nap-deprived volunteers, albeit to a lesser extent, and that it may have its roots in evolution. "If you're walking through the jungle and you're tired, it might benefit you more to be hypersensitive to negative things," he says. The idea is that with little mental energy to spare, you're emotionally more attuned to things that are likely to be the most threatening in the immediate moment. Inversely, when you're well rested, you may be more sensitive to positive emotions, which could benefit long-term survival, he suggests: "If it's getting food, if it's getting some kind of reward, finding a wife - those things are pretty good to pick up on."
end quote
Ok so what i guess its saying here if you want to do some positive things like get reward, find a wife or something like that, you should be well rested. haha ok odd but i guess it is agreeable. I mean when we are well rested we tend to omit more positve atmosphere around us like the way we actually answer people and all. It is actually a lot more positve then what we would say when we are rather sleep deprived. Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying sleep deprived is bad. In fact i kinda enjoy it. I feel like some of my best moments were when i was sleep deprived.
;)
19 Minutes by Jodi Picouly
A boy named Peter Houghton suddenly starts a school shoot-out resulting in the death of 10 and many more injured. The book speaks about his life and how did he come to be the way he is.
Ever since he started kindergarten he was picked on mercilessly by those so called "popular" kids aka jocks. They treated others as though they aren't a normal human being. Spit on them, stuff into lockers, flush their heads in the toilet. Worst of all the teachers of the high school did nothing to stop them but say "we do not allow any hassling of students on school ground".
None the less these kids again and again kept jumping others whom they deem lesser in society than others. Peter, unfortunately, was one of them who constantly kept facing these threats. It came to a point where he was publicaly. A private letter of his confession to a girl that he likes was sent out to the entire school board and the following day he had his pants pulled down in front of her in the cafeteria for all to see.
When he was in lockup he was allowed 1 visitor a week and his mom or dad would come but mostly his mom cause his dad couldn't bring himself to see him. Once she asked him something like "how did you come to doing this?" Didn't i see him grow up since young? where did this come from?
He shouted out " then look at me! you look at me but you don't see me!"
i guess some of us can relate to that. At times we feel like people look at us at who they want us to be. They don't see us for who we are. And it hurts sometimes just to be seen. Especially if we are like Peter who has an older brother who sets the shadow so wide that its impossible for us to see the sun. Joel, Peter's brother, was considered one of those popular kids as well. He was an athlete and he scored mainly A's in his exam unlike Peter who averaged B's and C's.
Well the story ends with him heing put to trial and sentenced to prison for 8 consecutive first-degree murder and 2 second degree murder. In other words. Jail for life, never to set foot in the world again. So sad.. :(
But anyway! Happy Schooling you all! ;)
Hmm.. i was wanting them secondary schoolers to go back to school before it even started. But now. I'm not so sure if it will make me any happier. How i'd wish that we could be as we were before all this. Between us time flies so fast that a moment seems a month. We've barely known each other but now we're like the bestest of friends. Or maybe thats just me. Hehe. But anyways. I wish we were like how we were some time ago.
today i went back to genting theme park. Wasn't there alone for sure. With my relatives from the states and there we met another relative. So our group became quite a party. I really like my local relatives. Of course people can be a little weird sometimes but.. i think that they're really nice.
Which reminds me.. some people.. just because.. i don't know... well they have some issues either with respecting others or just that they don't know what the definition of sharing is and that there is a basic hygene practice that can very easily be done. Well just because you're the only child in the family, doesn't mean that the whole WORLD revolves around you and that you're so special. When you're good.. someone is bound to be better than you and then another someone better than them and it goes on and on. I'm not gonna mention names la but you know who you are. Sarcasm has a limit. Respect others especially those older than you. Don't share if you don't know how to practice basic hygene. Thats it.
Anyways back to the my day.. You know there's this Solero shot in GTP? well its called space shot i think. Do you know the feeling you get when you've reached the top and suddenly you just fall down uncontrolably and you feel that gut feeling? like a part of your stomach was left up there where you just came down from? Well i feel kinda like that now. Maybe its because i finally have time to let things slow down for a bit in the day.
I feel like i've left behind something up there along life and its still taking its time to come back to me. Well maybe its just me being over sensitive but i feel like i've lost a shoulder to cry on (or about to) and a ear that listens to what i have to say (which is seldom). Did i ever mention that i like being depended on for certain things? well for my friends and friends only i sometimes want to try to help them with personal issues. Yea i'm quite nosey but also because i feel a sense of belonging like i've finally done something out of my own ability. Not something that was taught to me or i've picked up along my way.. but something that i can do by myself. Just a thought
Its been a long day. Slightly sleep deprived, but i've had quite an enjoyable day ;)
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