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31.12.03
Yes wat's left of my vacation is the 1st week of the new year so let's meet den if we want. Happy New Year ppl!
logged by Alvin at 7:26:00 PM
anytime after 5th? then what was the 1st to 5th about?
logged by AidanWu at 8:57:00 AM
29.12.03hey! welcome back yeelin!! (I just presumed.) =) Happy New Year!
logged by AidanWu at 8:10:00 PM
27.12.03haha okay..quite lame sia he.
anyway tomorrow may be going west coast if the weather is good.
but then there's a meeting on the hwa chong alumni co at 2pm, dunno whether can make it or not.
logged by AidanWu at 8:46:00 PM
I dun think I'm going also. Dat Jason.. signed some forms wrongly den given extra tmr.
logged by Alvin at 7:41:00 PM
hiya~ how's everyone here? hmm getting so quiet nowadays...why don't we plan something now that we can execute once yeelin comes back?
alvin, the ubin thingy how ah? don't think I can make it..hai. Unless it's next Sunday instead.
logged by AidanWu at 1:35:00 AM
24.12.03hey yeelin are u back in sg yet? there's a class gathering tmr...movie followed by dinner. can u make it?
logged by AidanWu at 9:43:00 AM
21.12.03Haha ur welcome...yup SAF one luckily the symbols are not that big or conspicuous.
logged by AidanWu at 8:35:00 AM
20.12.03Thx for ur card sy! It's saf one!
logged by Alvin at 1:42:00 PM
Haha congrats yeelin~~
logged by AidanWu at 10:14:00 AM
19.12.03Hey congrats yl.. gd grades u got there!
logged by Alvin at 10:08:00 PM
18.12.03hahah oops i just read the blog and realised it's what u icqed me just now..no worries...it's not the card that matters, it's the words that count. haha expected me to say though rite? cannot assume...
holidays? that's a bit foreign to me leh...hmm..i am freaking busy but happy :D
logged by AidanWu at 9:51:00 PM
17.12.03Haha thankew!
logged by AidanWu at 9:08:00 AM
16.12.03CONGRATS SHENGYONG!!!! Yay so happy for u! Now 79 has 2 Astar scholars in JHU.
Really dunno who he is.. =) But from the way both of u describe he muz be qt gd la!
logged by Alvin at 11:27:00 PM
yup i got the mp3...can send it to you one day. eh yeelin, there're loads of good chinese pop around.....haha see u listened to two and both were good so far right? =)
alvin, u dunno who's Zhou Chuan Xiong? he's damn popular now lah!!!
hey guys, I was accepted into JHU!! ^______^
logged by AidanWu at 6:28:00 PM
who is zhou chuan xiong? I'm ignorant pai seh
logged by Alvin at 2:51:00 AM
15.12.03Haha...i only heard the huang hun by zhou chuan xiong..very nice!
logged by AidanWu at 9:20:00 PM
11.12.03Jokes activate same brain region as cocaine
NatureNewsAgency/04Dec2003
Humour tickles drug centre that gives hedonistic high
04 December 2003
HELEN PEARSON
The nucleus accumbens is awash with feelgood chemical dopamine
© GettyImages
There's truth in the maxim 'laughter is a drug'. A comic cartoon fired up the same brain centre as a shot of cocaine, researchers are reporting.
A team at Stanford University in California asked lab mates, spouses and friends to select the wittiest newspaper cartoons from a portfolio. They showed the winning array to 16 volunteers while peering inside their heads by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
The cartoons activated the same reward circuits in the brain that are tickled by cocaine, money or a pretty face, the neuroscientists found1. One brain region in particular, the nucleus accumbens, lit up seconds after a rib-tickler but remained listless after a lacklustre cartoon.
The nucleus accumbens is awash with the feelgood chemical dopamine. The region's buzz may explain the euphoria that follows a good joke, the team suggests. "Intuitively, it makes sense," agrees Bill Kelley, who studies humour at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Earlier investigations found that humour triggers brain regions that work out a joke's language and meaning, or those that control smiling and laughter. Kelley, for example, has studied people's brains while they watched episodes of television comedies Seinfeld and The Simpsons. "It's surprising it's not consistent," he says.
A powerful fMRI machine and a particularly detailed analysis may explain why the new study picked up activity in the reward areas as well, suggests lead researcher Allan Reiss.
Reiss hopes that the finding could help to diagnose the early stages of depression - or show whether antidepressants are taking effect - during which people's appreciation of humour is altered. "That would be a terrific way to use this type of work," he says.
References
Mobbs, D., Greicius, M.D., Abdel-Azim, E., Menon, V. & Reiss, A. L. Humor modulates the mesolimbic reward centers. Neuron, 40, 1041 - 1048, (2003). |Homepage|
© Nature News Service / Macmillan Magazines Ltd 2003
logged by AidanWu at 11:01:00 AM
Bon voyage Yeelin!!! ^___^ Hope u pass ur advanced theory too~~
logged by AidanWu at 11:01:00 AM
10.12.03haha yah hor..
logged by AidanWu at 2:04:00 AM
9.12.03Haha thx shengyong. Tday was better. My 1st time on the road. Qt fun... was cruising at 60 km/h.
Btw how come u all r spelling kerb wrongly? =)
logged by Alvin at 9:43:00 PM
haha...your driving lessons sound very 'eventful'..yeelin ur learning driving in Kuching? Then u can only drive in Malaysia is it?
hmmm so how was ur driving today alvin? haha...nobody can tell u a formula for making left turns...the instructors are just there to make sure u dun kill anyone. but a good gauge would be when the left mirror just passes the curb.
sigh, duty is so sian. i think i am going to sleep soon.
logged by AidanWu at 8:08:00 PM
8.12.03Yes. I dun mind doing anything lor.. qt hard to organise something in our holidays ironically =)
Shall tell u about my disastrous driving lesson tday. Tday was lesson 4. The first 3 so far were not bad. But tday I was learning left turn. The 90 deg one. As u could have guessed I mounted the kerb 7 or 8 times. In the real test its an immediate failure. I think I kept too close to the left edge of the road and oversteered the steering wheel too early, too fast. And it didn't help dat my instructor didn't give me any guidelines on how to estimate when to turn. So it shows dat schools' instructors are not all dat good! Anyway tmr I will be going onto the road. I must be xtra careful! Muz learn how to judge the turn on my own.
logged by Alvin at 9:50:00 PM
6.12.03Hey...next week I am not free at all...paiseh ah. Should have gone out last thursday lah.
Monday got a concert to watch. Tuesday on duty. Wednesday got CO practice till at night. Thursday got programme. Friday got another concert to watch. Saturday got CO practice. Sunday got a concert to perform in.
Anyway, are any of you interested in supporting the Hwa Chong College Chinese Orchestra Concert on 20th Dec? 3 orchestras will be involved: Hwa Chong JC CO, TCHSCO, Hwa Chong Alumni CO. There's a grand finale with all 3 orchestras combined!
logged by AidanWu at 8:29:00 PM
4.12.03Ok.. next week I'm not free on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
logged by Alvin at 6:45:00 PM
2.12.03err so how? i am working on thursday so will be let off at 5pm only..and I watched Matrix already! ^___^
logged by AidanWu at 7:15:00 PM
1.12.03Can eat but cannot go on a feast liao.. I'm getting fat in the wrong places.
logged by Alvin at 11:00:00 PM
Hmm eat is a must. Movie...depends on where lor. Not too late cos i have to work on Friday..
logged by AidanWu at 9:54:00 AM