Last day of school. Exams are around the corner.
I dont even know should i post this : Be thankful for your exams. There are alot of people who can't afford education at all.
How so very true that statement is. There are worse things than exams I guess.
Back in army, I often moaned about how life sucks and wished to go to uni and study.
Now that i'm out and actually studying in uni, I guess that I should be thankful in a way... despite exams and stuff.
I guess that most people are never grateful with what they already have, and i'm guilty of that too.
Saturday, October 29
Friday, October 28
Absolutely Lovely
Had a absolutely wonderful evening.
Nice parties... and
It's just pleasant to have an intelligent conversation with people sometimes, regardless of the time.
Nice parties... and
It's just pleasant to have an intelligent conversation with people sometimes, regardless of the time.
Wednesday, October 26
CAPITAL PUNSIHMENT
A follow up from a last post...
Take some time off to read it and think about it, guess we'll never see these sort of reports back home.
The article does not represent my views on the incident.
(Brings back the GP memories)
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Australian heroin mule Nguyen Tuong Van will be hanged in Singapore using a method devised in 19th-century Britain, writes Nick Cater
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October 26, 2005
THE hangman's craft calls for a good stout rope with enough tensile strength to withstand a force of about 570kg, which is sufficient to snap the neck of a condemned prisoner, putting them in a coma for the six minutes or so it takes the brain to shut down.
If the pressure on the side of the neck from the noose is less than 570kg when the body's fall is arrested, the prisoner will probably suffer prolonged death by strangulation.
Should the hangman miscalculate the length of the rope, allowing the body to fall too far, the force will be too great and, unless the rope snaps, death will be by decapitation.
Hanging grew in popularity from the 5th century onwards in Europe as a means of execution, partly because it provided a spectacle. The body of a murderer, witch or thief was strung high above the crowd, giving everyone a perfect view.
But judicial hanging is never tidy, even when professionally executed, and these days in pristine Singapore executions are carried out quietly, with a minimum of publicity, behind the walls of the rebuilt Changi Prison.
The Singapore Government stopped announcing executions five years ago and refuses to give out any information about life on death row. Although it is happy to publicise the death penalty in abstraction, believing its existence to be a deterrent to drug traffickers, the details of the execution, using a method devised in 19th-century Britain, are never officially discussed.
Nevertheless it is possible to piece together a detailed picture of how convicted Australian heroin trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van's life will end, using accounts obtained from relatives of prisoners by Amnesty International and from a rare interview I conducted in 1996 with the Malaysian hangman who executed Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers, also for heroin trafficking.
Before their post-colonial separation in 1965, Singapore and Malaysia had a joint prisons department and, despite their technological advances in many other areas, the Singaporeans have been unable to improve on the long-drop execution technique introduced to British prisons in 1872. The mechanics and rituals of this macabre colonial legacy have barely altered since the mother country hanged its last prisoner 41 years ago.
A week or so before the twin trap doors open beneath her son's feet, Kim Nguyen can expect to receive a terse letter from the superintendent of Changi Prison. "You are advised to make the necessary funeral arrangements," the letter will say. "If you are unable to do so, cremation will be carried out by the state."
Nguyen Tuong Van was about to fly to Melbourne when he was caught in transit at Changi airport in December 2002 with almost 400g of heroin strapped to his body and in his hand luggage. He said he had been pressured by loan sharks to act as a drug mule to help pay off his twin brother Khoa's legal debts of $25,000. The sales executive from Glen Waverley, a middle-class suburb east of Melbourne, has no previous criminal record. He was sentenced to death in March last year. After Singapore's President S.R. Nathan refused his clemency petition last Friday, Nguyen is set to become the first Australian to be executed in 12 years, since Sydney barman Michael McAuliffe was hanged in Malaysia in 1993 for heroin trafficking.
Nguyen, 25, will spend the final days of his short life in an isolation cell approximately 3mx3m, furnished with a toilet and a bed mat but no bedding.
In Nguyen's final few days, the regulation restricting family visiting time to 20 minutes a week will be relaxed, although physical contact will be strictly forbidden.
Nguyen is also allowed a television in his cell to receive the sanitised entertainment provided by Singapore's Channel Five English-language service.
Finally, on the night before his execution, he will be allowed to eat a takeaway meal of his choice, within the prison's budget.
Earlier that day Nguyen will meet his executioner, who will weigh him and examine his physique. After subtracting 6.3kg from the body weight, the notional weight of the head, the executioner will consult the Official Table of Drops, last revised in 1913, to calculate the length of the rope.
British Home Office regulations, adopted by Singapore, stipulate that the drop will be between 1.83m and 2.44m. For a condemned man weighing 66kg, for example, the rope should be 2.03m, with an additional 33cm added for the circumference of the neck.
Before Britain abolished the death penalty in 1964, the rope was specially made at a factory in Wellington, Somerset, woven from Italian silk hemp, chosen because it did not stretch. Elasticity in a rope reduces the deceleration force on the victim's neck, making death more painful. Today the favoured rope is made of Terylene, the least elastic of all the synthetic fibres used in rope making.
Friday is execution day at Changi, and before the sun rises, the hangman and
his assistant will test the lever operating the twin trap doors and recheck the measurement of the rope.
Once the prisoner is collected from his cell shortly before 6am, speed is of the essence. The longer it takes, the greater the opportunity for panic and struggle.
A hood is placed over the prisoner's head and his hands are pinioned behind his back, usually with handcuffs. His legs are bound together with wire to prevent him kicking out and catching them against the sides of the trapdoor. The rope, attached to a concealed beam, is positioned around the neck and the trapdoor lever on the execution platform is pulled. The clunk of the wooden doors echoes around the chamber. Before the prison was modernised, the sound could be clearly heard by other prisoners on death row. If everything goes to plan, the strike force of the noose will dislocate
the neck at the second and third cervical vertebrae, the classic hangman's fracture. The prisoner will enter complete neurogenic shock, unable to process pain, although electrical activity may continue in the brain for several minutes after the spinal cord is cut.
The body is left for 30 minutes. A doctor will perform an autopsy and issue a death certificate. By mid-morning the cadaver is ready for collection by relatives.
When prime minister Goh Chok Tong was asked in a BBC interview two years ago if he knew the precise number of people executed in 2003, he replied dismissively: "I've got more important issues to worry about."
Amnesty International claims more than 400 prisoners were hanged in Singapore from 1991 to 2003, the highest per capita rate of executions in the world by a considerable margin. More than half of those executed were drug traffickers.
In Singapore the issue is rarely debated, the country's low crime rate being
seen as sufficient justification for capital punishment. Abolition, it is said, would send the wrong message to criminals who may interpret it as an indication that the Government is going soft on crime.
Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's hangman for 25 years, saw things somewhat differently in his 1974 autobiography. "All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder," he confessed. "I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge."
Nick Cater is The Australian's assistant editor (news) and a former News Limited Asia correspondent.
Take some time off to read it and think about it, guess we'll never see these sort of reports back home.
The article does not represent my views on the incident.
(Brings back the GP memories)
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Australian heroin mule Nguyen Tuong Van will be hanged in Singapore using a method devised in 19th-century Britain, writes Nick Cater
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October 26, 2005
THE hangman's craft calls for a good stout rope with enough tensile strength to withstand a force of about 570kg, which is sufficient to snap the neck of a condemned prisoner, putting them in a coma for the six minutes or so it takes the brain to shut down.
If the pressure on the side of the neck from the noose is less than 570kg when the body's fall is arrested, the prisoner will probably suffer prolonged death by strangulation.
Should the hangman miscalculate the length of the rope, allowing the body to fall too far, the force will be too great and, unless the rope snaps, death will be by decapitation.
Hanging grew in popularity from the 5th century onwards in Europe as a means of execution, partly because it provided a spectacle. The body of a murderer, witch or thief was strung high above the crowd, giving everyone a perfect view.
But judicial hanging is never tidy, even when professionally executed, and these days in pristine Singapore executions are carried out quietly, with a minimum of publicity, behind the walls of the rebuilt Changi Prison.
The Singapore Government stopped announcing executions five years ago and refuses to give out any information about life on death row. Although it is happy to publicise the death penalty in abstraction, believing its existence to be a deterrent to drug traffickers, the details of the execution, using a method devised in 19th-century Britain, are never officially discussed.
Nevertheless it is possible to piece together a detailed picture of how convicted Australian heroin trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van's life will end, using accounts obtained from relatives of prisoners by Amnesty International and from a rare interview I conducted in 1996 with the Malaysian hangman who executed Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers, also for heroin trafficking.
Before their post-colonial separation in 1965, Singapore and Malaysia had a joint prisons department and, despite their technological advances in many other areas, the Singaporeans have been unable to improve on the long-drop execution technique introduced to British prisons in 1872. The mechanics and rituals of this macabre colonial legacy have barely altered since the mother country hanged its last prisoner 41 years ago.
A week or so before the twin trap doors open beneath her son's feet, Kim Nguyen can expect to receive a terse letter from the superintendent of Changi Prison. "You are advised to make the necessary funeral arrangements," the letter will say. "If you are unable to do so, cremation will be carried out by the state."
Nguyen Tuong Van was about to fly to Melbourne when he was caught in transit at Changi airport in December 2002 with almost 400g of heroin strapped to his body and in his hand luggage. He said he had been pressured by loan sharks to act as a drug mule to help pay off his twin brother Khoa's legal debts of $25,000. The sales executive from Glen Waverley, a middle-class suburb east of Melbourne, has no previous criminal record. He was sentenced to death in March last year. After Singapore's President S.R. Nathan refused his clemency petition last Friday, Nguyen is set to become the first Australian to be executed in 12 years, since Sydney barman Michael McAuliffe was hanged in Malaysia in 1993 for heroin trafficking.
Nguyen, 25, will spend the final days of his short life in an isolation cell approximately 3mx3m, furnished with a toilet and a bed mat but no bedding.
In Nguyen's final few days, the regulation restricting family visiting time to 20 minutes a week will be relaxed, although physical contact will be strictly forbidden.
Nguyen is also allowed a television in his cell to receive the sanitised entertainment provided by Singapore's Channel Five English-language service.
Finally, on the night before his execution, he will be allowed to eat a takeaway meal of his choice, within the prison's budget.
Earlier that day Nguyen will meet his executioner, who will weigh him and examine his physique. After subtracting 6.3kg from the body weight, the notional weight of the head, the executioner will consult the Official Table of Drops, last revised in 1913, to calculate the length of the rope.
British Home Office regulations, adopted by Singapore, stipulate that the drop will be between 1.83m and 2.44m. For a condemned man weighing 66kg, for example, the rope should be 2.03m, with an additional 33cm added for the circumference of the neck.
Before Britain abolished the death penalty in 1964, the rope was specially made at a factory in Wellington, Somerset, woven from Italian silk hemp, chosen because it did not stretch. Elasticity in a rope reduces the deceleration force on the victim's neck, making death more painful. Today the favoured rope is made of Terylene, the least elastic of all the synthetic fibres used in rope making.
Friday is execution day at Changi, and before the sun rises, the hangman and
his assistant will test the lever operating the twin trap doors and recheck the measurement of the rope.
Once the prisoner is collected from his cell shortly before 6am, speed is of the essence. The longer it takes, the greater the opportunity for panic and struggle.
A hood is placed over the prisoner's head and his hands are pinioned behind his back, usually with handcuffs. His legs are bound together with wire to prevent him kicking out and catching them against the sides of the trapdoor. The rope, attached to a concealed beam, is positioned around the neck and the trapdoor lever on the execution platform is pulled. The clunk of the wooden doors echoes around the chamber. Before the prison was modernised, the sound could be clearly heard by other prisoners on death row. If everything goes to plan, the strike force of the noose will dislocate
the neck at the second and third cervical vertebrae, the classic hangman's fracture. The prisoner will enter complete neurogenic shock, unable to process pain, although electrical activity may continue in the brain for several minutes after the spinal cord is cut.
The body is left for 30 minutes. A doctor will perform an autopsy and issue a death certificate. By mid-morning the cadaver is ready for collection by relatives.
When prime minister Goh Chok Tong was asked in a BBC interview two years ago if he knew the precise number of people executed in 2003, he replied dismissively: "I've got more important issues to worry about."
Amnesty International claims more than 400 prisoners were hanged in Singapore from 1991 to 2003, the highest per capita rate of executions in the world by a considerable margin. More than half of those executed were drug traffickers.
In Singapore the issue is rarely debated, the country's low crime rate being
seen as sufficient justification for capital punishment. Abolition, it is said, would send the wrong message to criminals who may interpret it as an indication that the Government is going soft on crime.
Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's hangman for 25 years, saw things somewhat differently in his 1974 autobiography. "All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder," he confessed. "I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge."
Nick Cater is The Australian's assistant editor (news) and a former News Limited Asia correspondent.
LOSERS ALERT
All right people listen up
The LOSER'S CLUB will be back in function on 20th Nov.
Yes you heard it right... the LOSER'S CLUB ALUMNI member will be back in town this summer.
Unfortunately, there hasnt been any decrease in membership. and thankfully there's no increase in membership too.
This time around, the loserish activities include
- Watching soccer at Irish Pubs
- Driniking beer
- Beach Volleyball
- Food food and more food
- Partying
- Fishing?
- Gym
Incoming chairman Li pls prepare the beer, outgoing chairman Goh please prepare the stories.... haha
Sounds interesting? Unfortunately is exclusively only for the biggest losers around.
Wanna know if you qualify? Take the loser test below!
1)Have you been exploited endlessly by other people during work?
2)Have you been backstabbed so many times that you can't remember who backstabbed you?
3)Do you have no life?
4)Are you not attached?
5)Have you been rejected so many times but yet you still try?
6)Have you absolutely no luck?
If you answered yes to all the above questions, you only qualify HALF WAY~!
well you're almost there. Now for the most important criteria. Just come for an interview with your biggest, most loserish story you have and share it with us! If it's actually so loser that we laugh at it, bingo! You're in the LOSERS CLUB!
sounds easy eh? You bet it is~!
So why not? Stop brooding around like a loser and come join us and we'll compound your loserism with our loser activities and stories... HAHA
The LOSER'S CLUB will be back in function on 20th Nov.
Yes you heard it right... the LOSER'S CLUB ALUMNI member will be back in town this summer.
Unfortunately, there hasnt been any decrease in membership. and thankfully there's no increase in membership too.
This time around, the loserish activities include
- Watching soccer at Irish Pubs
- Driniking beer
- Beach Volleyball
- Food food and more food
- Partying
- Fishing?
- Gym
Incoming chairman Li pls prepare the beer, outgoing chairman Goh please prepare the stories.... haha
Sounds interesting? Unfortunately is exclusively only for the biggest losers around.
Wanna know if you qualify? Take the loser test below!
1)Have you been exploited endlessly by other people during work?
2)Have you been backstabbed so many times that you can't remember who backstabbed you?
3)Do you have no life?
4)Are you not attached?
5)Have you been rejected so many times but yet you still try?
6)Have you absolutely no luck?
If you answered yes to all the above questions, you only qualify HALF WAY~!
well you're almost there. Now for the most important criteria. Just come for an interview with your biggest, most loserish story you have and share it with us! If it's actually so loser that we laugh at it, bingo! You're in the LOSERS CLUB!
sounds easy eh? You bet it is~!
So why not? Stop brooding around like a loser and come join us and we'll compound your loserism with our loser activities and stories... HAHA
Monday, October 24
What are the odds?
Read this from the newspaper:
Some Aus chap of Asian ethnicity got arrested by the Singapore government in 2002 for trying to traffic 398g of heroin out of Singapore to Melbourne. Now he faces the death penalty in Singapore....
Now they are appealing for clemency for this poor chap. Of course it's just interesting how the papers here potray him totally as a victim of circumstances, not a criminal by choice. I would really like to look at the other side of the coin, the other part of the story. But sadly i couldnt find anything from Channel Newsaia Online.
Oh well... Hope there wont be any serious reprucussions regardless of the decisions made. Btw, if he's gonna get executed, he's just the 4th Australian to be punished by the death sentence overseas. Wow way to go SG, in the headlines for the wrong reasons... again :)
Some Aus chap of Asian ethnicity got arrested by the Singapore government in 2002 for trying to traffic 398g of heroin out of Singapore to Melbourne. Now he faces the death penalty in Singapore....
Now they are appealing for clemency for this poor chap. Of course it's just interesting how the papers here potray him totally as a victim of circumstances, not a criminal by choice. I would really like to look at the other side of the coin, the other part of the story. But sadly i couldnt find anything from Channel Newsaia Online.
Oh well... Hope there wont be any serious reprucussions regardless of the decisions made. Btw, if he's gonna get executed, he's just the 4th Australian to be punished by the death sentence overseas. Wow way to go SG, in the headlines for the wrong reasons... again :)
Sunday, October 23
Return
Made a fatal mistake.
NS Resumption date : 23 Nov - 30 Dec
42 SAR PTP intake : 9 Dec
For once in a long while... I swore big time. Just goes to show how much i hate army.
For those who dont know what the above info means, Just put it simply... i'm goin back to army in a shitty time. And my unit isn't really the best place to be in. Anyone who was inside can vouch for that. Get to see the worst side of me again... absolutely lovely
and people for those who dont know, i'm not a really a big fan of sunny island.
namely because of education sys and ns... I'm escaping from sg for now in other words. Hopefully things change, otherwise i'll juz raise a family somewhere else... if i can...
NS Resumption date : 23 Nov - 30 Dec
42 SAR PTP intake : 9 Dec
For once in a long while... I swore big time. Just goes to show how much i hate army.
For those who dont know what the above info means, Just put it simply... i'm goin back to army in a shitty time. And my unit isn't really the best place to be in. Anyone who was inside can vouch for that. Get to see the worst side of me again... absolutely lovely
and people for those who dont know, i'm not a really a big fan of sunny island.
namely because of education sys and ns... I'm escaping from sg for now in other words. Hopefully things change, otherwise i'll juz raise a family somewhere else... if i can...
Saturday, October 22
Science Freak Show
I am starting to feel more and more like a science freak i.e Peter Parker, Reed Richards, Ben Grimm...
Yeah i was actually interested in stuff that appeared in today's bio lecture about the genome mapping and sequencing stuff. Despite only having 2 hours of sleep, my interest and attention level still remained high.
It's funny for me to say things like this but im starting to see the beauty of science and i sort of can understand why some people are so passionate about their scientific work.
Anyway as the most cliche saying goes , "Knowledge is Power"... Manipulating the basic hereditary units of life. Playing with cloning and embryonic stem cells. Sometimes i just wonder how much further will the limits be pushed. The Science vs Spirituality debate will never end. Keep it that way. We need both to make this world work. When will we finish discovering all that is there to discover? I guess that will never happen eh.
For me and for now, it's just about appreciating and making sense of what's around me.
Yeah i was actually interested in stuff that appeared in today's bio lecture about the genome mapping and sequencing stuff. Despite only having 2 hours of sleep, my interest and attention level still remained high.
It's funny for me to say things like this but im starting to see the beauty of science and i sort of can understand why some people are so passionate about their scientific work.
Anyway as the most cliche saying goes , "Knowledge is Power"... Manipulating the basic hereditary units of life. Playing with cloning and embryonic stem cells. Sometimes i just wonder how much further will the limits be pushed. The Science vs Spirituality debate will never end. Keep it that way. We need both to make this world work. When will we finish discovering all that is there to discover? I guess that will never happen eh.
For me and for now, it's just about appreciating and making sense of what's around me.
Friday, October 21
Once more, from the top
Managed to tweak the blog abit. New layout, and i think a working tagboard. Yeah if there's anything that's not working properly, just leave a message.
I've been taking it easy for the past day or so... not studying as hard as before the physics test. Will pick up the pace once the weekend arrives. hopefully :) Been looking at the subjects available for next year. All the streams just look equally unappealing/appealing to me. I was interested in stem cell research initially but now i'm more interested in genetics, especially the mutation of a particular fibrillin gene in humans. hmmm and this weird and suicidal part of me feels like doing physics, since there's gonna be a whole load of bio and chem people out in the workplace when i graduate. Decisions, decisions, decisions. Whatever i choose, i'll still end up as a lab rat. Absolutely lovely.
You know how people look deceptively tall when they're on stage?
There was this dancer on stage during Jazz night who i thought was quite tall. but i saw her on the streets again and found out i was wrong. Dont even think she hit 1.7. Slightly disappointed? yeah but oh well... that was just the random thought of the day. Maybe i should get my eyes checked.
I've been taking it easy for the past day or so... not studying as hard as before the physics test. Will pick up the pace once the weekend arrives. hopefully :) Been looking at the subjects available for next year. All the streams just look equally unappealing/appealing to me. I was interested in stem cell research initially but now i'm more interested in genetics, especially the mutation of a particular fibrillin gene in humans. hmmm and this weird and suicidal part of me feels like doing physics, since there's gonna be a whole load of bio and chem people out in the workplace when i graduate. Decisions, decisions, decisions. Whatever i choose, i'll still end up as a lab rat. Absolutely lovely.
You know how people look deceptively tall when they're on stage?
There was this dancer on stage during Jazz night who i thought was quite tall. but i saw her on the streets again and found out i was wrong. Dont even think she hit 1.7. Slightly disappointed? yeah but oh well... that was just the random thought of the day. Maybe i should get my eyes checked.
Tuesday, October 18
Worlds Apart
So steal my heart and take the pain
And wash the feet and cleanse my pride
Take the selfish, take the weak,
And all the things I cannot hide
Take the beauty, take my tears
The sin soaked heart and make it yours
And serve the ones that I despise
Speak the words I can't deny
Watch the world I used to love
Fall to dust and thrown away
Take my world apart.
And wash the feet and cleanse my pride
Take the selfish, take the weak,
And all the things I cannot hide
Take the beauty, take my tears
The sin soaked heart and make it yours
And serve the ones that I despise
Speak the words I can't deny
Watch the world I used to love
Fall to dust and thrown away
Take my world apart.
Monday, October 17
Trouble Sleeping
FLARE~! Limelight was good... Yeah the only reason i attended was because Jo asked all of us to go and she didnt disappoint. Jo was good :) Great to see someone use her talent. There was also this Rob Scholten lookalike doing a Michael Jackson impersonation and he was pretty successful... haha. Other than that, there was a tad too much hip hop items i reckon. But i guess that's the trend nowadays. Oh yeah and there were plenty of ah-lians that night. urgh
Took a break from work on Saturday. Stuffed myself silly with food. Gelati, laksa and even more food at home cell :) Happiness
Took a break from work on Saturday. Stuffed myself silly with food. Gelati, laksa and even more food at home cell :) Happiness
Friday, October 14
The undeniable truth
Peace is nothing but a result of war.
Wars take many lives away. Humans never forget the grief, but they also never stop the fighting. Streams of blood and tears are only an ornament for their destructive ritual."
Wars take many lives away. Humans never forget the grief, but they also never stop the fighting. Streams of blood and tears are only an ornament for their destructive ritual."
What's in a name?
Jonathan - Hebrew for 'God has given'
Ironically my other name means 'Giver of grace'.
Don't really know whether my parents planned this. Being given to being a giver. Being blessed to become a blessing to others. Maybe that's what they hope for me.
Ironically my other name means 'Giver of grace'.
Don't really know whether my parents planned this. Being given to being a giver. Being blessed to become a blessing to others. Maybe that's what they hope for me.
Sunday, October 9
Never meant to belong
It's lonely, living in the shadows.
Depressing isnt it? without ever hearing a word of affirmation.
Wandering endlessly, always pondering about who you can really trust and more importantly, who trusts you.
People are envious about the thing that is goin to bring about your death. The irony of it all...
At the end of the day, people just remember you by only your physcial attributes, not what you have left in their lives.... Saddening isn't it.
Always a face in the crowd, that's all. Nothing more, nothing less.
Depressing isnt it? without ever hearing a word of affirmation.
Wandering endlessly, always pondering about who you can really trust and more importantly, who trusts you.
People are envious about the thing that is goin to bring about your death. The irony of it all...
At the end of the day, people just remember you by only your physcial attributes, not what you have left in their lives.... Saddening isn't it.
Always a face in the crowd, that's all. Nothing more, nothing less.
Saturday, October 8
Wednesday, October 5
There was this documentary on TV just now about how lung cancer can be treated now without surgery. Yep no doctors, no knives. Just the patient and one gigantic smart machine that apparently kills the tumour with radiation. The tumours are marked with metal particles and the metal apparently acts as the guide for the machine. About 2-5 treatements needed. Interesting stuff... How they manage 2 kill the tumour only and not other cells i dont really know.
ok that was really random.
Anyway been feeling disturbed and tired because of school. Time really catches up. One year is almost gone and i'm left staring at my 2nd sem exams. The fight for survival starts again.
Just celebrated Ravind's birthday. The first part of a 4 day celebration. haha... Typical blokes celebration at KEC (Keith entertainment Centre) minus the booze of course. It's only Wednesday night :) haha just a simple time of relaxation and destress...
Anyway i wanna thank Jo-ann and Jessie for just talking to me on Tuesday. One during lunch before prac and one after prac. Made my freaking lousy day better somehow. I like talking to the small one... she's like a innocent child. Watching her rant about plants and stuff just made me chuckle. Joann's doing some genetic experiment on surprise surprise the drosophilla fly.... haha every geneticist's favourite animal in the whole wide world. Anyway they both study science, makes it easier to talk to and understand.
Shall go back to genetic problems. It's kinda interesting deducing how a single stupid protein sequence can actually muck up alot of stuff in the body. absolutely lovely...
ok that was really random.
Anyway been feeling disturbed and tired because of school. Time really catches up. One year is almost gone and i'm left staring at my 2nd sem exams. The fight for survival starts again.
Just celebrated Ravind's birthday. The first part of a 4 day celebration. haha... Typical blokes celebration at KEC (Keith entertainment Centre) minus the booze of course. It's only Wednesday night :) haha just a simple time of relaxation and destress...
Anyway i wanna thank Jo-ann and Jessie for just talking to me on Tuesday. One during lunch before prac and one after prac. Made my freaking lousy day better somehow. I like talking to the small one... she's like a innocent child. Watching her rant about plants and stuff just made me chuckle. Joann's doing some genetic experiment on surprise surprise the drosophilla fly.... haha every geneticist's favourite animal in the whole wide world. Anyway they both study science, makes it easier to talk to and understand.
Shall go back to genetic problems. It's kinda interesting deducing how a single stupid protein sequence can actually muck up alot of stuff in the body. absolutely lovely...