Okay, not really angry mad. More of really irritated.
Maybe it's PMS. Pre-menstrual syndrome.
Or the shit load of assignments to do. And I don't know how to start.
Or the fact that I tried to book an early flight to Singapore but the fee increased.
Or that the stupid credit card transmission cannot seem to get through.
Or that the INTERNET IS STUPIDLY SLOW.
T.T
I give up.
Positive thoughts.
Positive thoughts.
Positive thoughts.
On a brighter note (wahh change mood so fast ^^), I went for a mini charity concert yesterday in Help Main Block. Paid RM 8 for it. Actually I was cheated cos on the promotional poster it said ticket price is only RM 5.
Who's lying now?
Somehow, they sold out those tickets so the ticket I bought was considered as a late-comer ticket. Like that also can -_- But since it was for charity, so I paid willingly lah. The acts were pretty good. Most of them are/ were Help University students. And most of them sang. But it was a night to let go of stress and just take in the music. There were a few guys who played the guitar/ keyboard and they can sing and they got swag, yo! Nice 3 hours to "cuci mata".
:)
Reuben Kang was the emcee for the event. In case you don't know who Reuben is, he is quite famous. (in Malaysia at least). He's one half of Jinnyboy TV. If you don't know who Jin is, he's the DJ for Hitz.fm. If you don't know what Hitz.fm is, seriously WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING?!!
Ya that dude is Reuben Kang a.k.a the Malaysian version of Psy.
Have you heard this version of Gangnam Style? I kinda like it. Everyone is catching the Gangnam fever. OMGGG. Even one of my lecturers, who looks like Psy, danced this yesterday. Didn't know he was that sporting. @.@
Left : Reuben, Right: Mr Lecturer
People in Help are really cool.
Reuben is kinda cute also. I tweeted him after the concert and he replied
:)
I read this blog about this Singaporean blogger cos one of my friends mentioned her on Facebook and Twitter. I read about how she met her husband online. She was only 21 then and he flew to Singapore to meet her. He's all the way from the States. Really sweet story. But also kinda scary that she took the chance. I mean for all you know, he can be a rapist or a serial killer right? You cannot trust people you meet online.
But aww.. damn romantic lah her story.
I was so sappy after reading it.
Now I hope I'll meet a guy who is as passionate as him. And who would sacrifice everything to be with me.
I would sacrifice some stuff also lah. I'm not that selfish, k?
<3
Although I strongly feel meeting people via the web for the first time is pretty creepy.
:S
Also I feel that she looks so much prettier with her original hair colour. Maybe because I don't really fancy blonde girls. Not that I'm stereotyping them or whatever. I just prefer girls with darker hair colour (?) I think she is beautiful just the way she was, before the surgeries and stuff. People have no right to call her a slut or a prostitute or "plastic" just because she underwent a couple of surgeries.
Who are you to judge, seriously?
I think that was one of the reasons why I was mad also. Because people think its right to call girls names just because they're hiding behind a screen. And like she said, you're no Zac Efron or in my case Ryan Reynolds. You don't have the look or the body and the brain for that matter, so just shut the eff up. No one is passing around judgement about you or calling you ugly. Just shut up and mind your business, assholes.
I have to choose 1 out of 6 topics to do my assignments on in PSY 111: Introduction to Psychology part 1
And one of the questions were:
Loftus Theory of False Memories : Is it really possible for someone to remember an event that never really happened at all?
Sounds intriguing?
So I googled it.
Omg, it's so interesting!
This theory was basically formulated by Elizabeth Loftus, a PhD holder in cognitive psychology.
She believes that you can implant a false memory into the brain of a person.
What she does in short is gather a group of teenagers mostly around the age of 14- 20 and she tells them that they are a part of an experiment to determine if they can remember their childhood memories.
She has a family member of the teenagers to participate in this experiment as well.
What the family member has to do is write down 3 real events which happened during the teenagers' childhood and a false event.
The false event is often about losing the way in the shopping mall at the age of 5 and being found by an elderly person.
The teenagers will have to read and write down these 4 events for 5 consecutive days.
They will be called for an interview to describe the 4 events and rate them on a scale of 1 to 10 on how well they can remember these events.
A week or two later, they will be called back again and the same processes are repeated.
What is so shocking is that most of them say that they can remember the false event pretty vividly and rated it pretty high. Whereas a true event was rated pretty low.
Finally, the teenagers were told that the false event never really occur in their childhood. Most of them found that hard to believe.
But it became so disturbing for me when I read about this teenage girl in the States who accused her father of killing and raping her best friend.
In reality, the event didn't happen and it was said that when her former best friend passed away, the teen implanted a false memory because of sadness and hatred towards her father.
Omg just read about the Loftus Theory.
It's damn interesting.
Makes me wonder now whether whatever happened in Inception can actually happen in real life
Brain overloaded and densely saturated with facts.
That's what happened this morning during lecture class at 8 am. I slept at 2 am so there wasn't enough oxygen in the brain to keep me wide awake during class. And we were just getting to the most interesting part of Psychology! Introduction to Psychology Part 1, which is basically about the brain in Chapter 1. We need to know the structure of the brain, the different and confusing names, the functions etc. It's like learning Biology all over again! :D
Don't you think the brain is just marvellous? It's just this thing, which is about 1/3 of our whole body, probably smaller but yet it controls EVERYTHING! It determines the emotions you're feeling. The reaction that is supposed to happen. It's so simple yet so complex. Ahh.. simply loving it.
These are the few terms that I can remember during class today. The lecturer is pretty good.
1. Hippocampus. Imagine a hippopotamus going to campus and getting lost. To avoid getting lost, it needs to remember the way it came in. Hence, the hippocamus is in charge of memory.
2. Cerebellum. In charge of body movement and balance.
3. Temporal lobe. Situated at the side of the brain. In charge of hearing. (Temporal sounds like telinga hence hearing)
Okay that's about a few things I can remember lah.
Anyway, was reading this journal on Brain Sexualization and Plasticity. Sounds interesting?
Found out that there's a type of fish named teleost fish. Below is an excerpt from the journal
Among vertebrates, teleost fish are unique in many respects, but one
of the most intriguing ones is their capacity to change sex during
adulthood. Indeed, while hermaphroditism is quite common in
invertebrates, mainly in worms and snails, or in plants, it is rarely
seen in vertebrates.
In contrast, teleost fishes
are known for exhibiting several forms of natural hermaphroditism. Some
species are synchronous hermaphrodites that have both ovarian and
testicular tissues and form spawning pairs performing cross-fecundation.
Other species undergo genetically programmed sex change
during development.
In protogynous hermaphrodites, animals are
first females before becoming males. In contrast, in the protandrous
hermaphrodites, testicular tissue predominates first but, after a
transition period, the ovarian tissue takes over and the fish behaves
I watched this Lee Hom's video on Facebook just now. Understood a little bit of what the commentator was saying. At least I think I understand. Suddenly feeling so emotional right now. Wtf pms. Haha. I feel like his journey can be so lonely at times. But the fact that he perseveres and never once gives up to chase after his dream is something to applaud for. That guy, so good looking and such a good role model.
Makes me even more determined to give it my all in Psychology.
I'm finally back in the blogging world. I have so much to blog about but where do I begin?
University life has been pretty interesting so far.
But truth be told, I felt a little homesick the minute I stepped into the Residence. To be even more truthful, I was about to shed tears when I had to leave home just to get to KL. As you might already know, I don't fancy KL. Only like the shopping and when celebrities come over. But other than that, KL hasn't been my forte.
It's been such a culture shock here in University. There isn't class everyday. And classes don't start at 8 am and end at 2 pm. Haha. I have early classes at 8 am and sometime I have classes at 4 pm! And of course there are days when I don't have classes at all. That's the part I enjoy most. And people just dress however they want. Girls don't carry backpacks to school anymore. They all carry handbags to classes. Makes me wonder "Are they here to study or to go shopping?" o.O
Because I entered late, my course mates are all younger than me. I think me and my school mate --we're the only 20 year old in the class :3
Food-- there's not much variety here. Okay there's all kinds of fast food outlets here. You name it, they have it. But of course you don't expect me to eat fast food every.single.day. In fact, I eat economy rice on weekdays. And I try to limit myself to only spending RM 5 per meal, which also means I can probably take 3 kinds of vegetables and that's that. I feel hungry in KL all the time. I can have lunch at 1 pm and feel hungry an hour later. There's this voice in my head that keeps urging me to take a bite.
Assignments have been piling up. First week of my semester and I have 10 assignments to do. Not all same deadlines of course T.T But I guess that's pretty normal since most of the marks come from the assignments. If you think these assignments are like folios you did in Secondary school, please slap yourself across the face now. Wake up! They have this special site which helps scan for plagiarism. And there's no such thing as "Copy and Paste". We're only now learning it the hard way. I wonder what we learned in Form 6. Seriously, although having taken the General Paper in STPM, I have to take Moral studies and Malaysian studies in University. You gotta be kidding me, right?
Wifi - It sucks here. There are times when 2 days we will have WiFi and another 2 days nothing at all. Haha. Desperate time calls for desperate measures. Room mate and I will go down to the Chalk & Cheese cafeteria to use their WiFi but we have to buy a drink or eat something. Nothing is free in this world, right?
WiFi there sucks also la. Unifi my ass. I think because so many people are hogging it that there's time when we can't connect at all. :'(
There's a lot of walking here in Help University. And we have to rely on the shuttle buses to get to the campus building. Now I am thankful to have a place in the Residence. Everything is pretty convenient here although the room is small. I am thankful for having my school mate as my room mate. Despite the pressure from the assignments and the unfamiliarity of the place, I feel calm and am glad I chose to take up Psychology here.
