Clearing the back log… here we go!

1. My ex is: an ex for a reason

2. Maybe I should: move to the UK/NY/HK/Australia for awhile

3. I love: too easily

4. I don’t understand: Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

5. I lose: focus easily

6. People say I: should drink more water!

7. Love is: not just passion and compatibility, but also respect and admiration.

8. Somewhere, someone is: dragging a Christmas tree along their snow covered lawn into the house, about to decorate it with tinsel, lights, baubles and ornaments.

9. I will always: turn the chair away from me before I sleep.

10. Forever is: never forever. I don’t believe in forevers anymore.

11. I never want to: settle for something less than what I deserve.

12. I think the current US President: is a refreshing change.

13. When I wake up in the morning: I wipe the drool away, turn off the aircon and jump straight into the shower, no dilly-dally! Get UP and Get Going!

14. My past was: messy with sparks of awesomeness!

15. I get annoyed when: SICC keeps sending me rubbish by post! Save the planet people, stop printing useless minutes and notices and stick them online instead. At least have an opt out function in place.

16. Parties are for: all

17. My dog is: across the rainbow bridge.

18. My cat is: non-existent.

19. Kisses are the best when: you least expect them. Like when you’re walking on the busy side walks of Hong Kong and he stops you in your steps and turns to give you smooch. Hot!

20. Tomorrow: I’m going to spend quality time with the family! Auntie Wendy is in town

21. I really want: to see snow again…

22. I have low tolerance for people who: don’t have a good head on their shoulders.

23. I am tagging: everyone

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…a company would name their product collon (colon), especially when it looks like a cross section of a small intestine too?

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I don’t know why, but I’m not at all enticed into patronising this restaurant which recently opened at China Square.

It’s just the phrasing on the signboard… hmmmmm…

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Anyone knows what’s wrong with the menu from The Secret Garden at Middle Road, Sculpture Square?

On a side note, if you haven’t been there in awhile, prepare to be utterly disappointed. They’ve change the concept to cater to the students from the art schools around. It has a more canteen-self-service feel to it, nothing like what it used to be. Service was appalling and food quality was a far cry from what it was previously.

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Meme from “ditzy”

I know these memes are sometimes pointless, but I always love reading what my friends post. Learn something new about them everytime. Plus, I need to clear my backlog of drafts. So here we go.
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A friend emailed me this morning
“Happy Hump Day”!

Me, being the illiterate I am, had to check on Urban dictionary just to double check it wasn’t an inappropriate comment.

Hump day
Wednesday, the middle of a work week (Wednesday); used in the context of climbing a proverbial hill to get through a tough week. The middle of the week, implying that you have to get “over the hump” before you can anticipate the weekend. The term was not originally intended to carry a second, more risqué meaning.
-Urban Dictionary-

If that’s the case…

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I don’t know about you, but I find this quite wrong! I took this photo at a gas station in Malaysia.

There are quite a few references to that word, but these are the ones I’m talking about:

Nip may refer to:

credit: Wikipedia

Of all words, couldn’t they have chosen a more P.C. name like Chocolate drops or choconuts?

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By David Thomas
Last Updated: 9:13PM BST 12 Aug 2008

To most of us it has always seemed obvious that an octopus has eight arms.
But experts have now revealed that this assumption is wrong – as two of their long tentacle-like limbs are in fact legs.

A study by scientists at Sea Life centres across Europe found that the invertebrates move across the sea bed using their two rearmost limbs, leaving the other six free for the important business of feeding.

Researchers who observed the creatures in action found they push off with the “legs” and then employ the other tentacles to pump themselves along.

The study, the largest of its type carried out, was designed to show if octopuses favoured one side or the other.

But it found that octopuses are ambidextrous, though many seem to favour their third arm from the front to eat with.

Octopuses either swim or crawl across the seabed.

If they need to move fast they can shoot a jet of water from an opening in their body.

Scientists from 20 centres across Europe analysed data from 2,000 observations of common octopuses to get the results.

Claire Little, a marine expert from the Weymouth Sea Life Centre in Dorset, said: “We’ve found that octopuses effectively have six arms and two legs.

“Observations showed that they use the rearmost two to get around over rocks and the seabed.

“They also use these two legs to push off when they wish to swim, and then other tentacles are used to propel them.”

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15. Wake the dead!
If your hand falls asleep while you’re driving or sitting in an odd position, rock your head from side to side. It’ll painlessly banish your pins and needles in less than a minute, says Dr. DeStefano. A tingly hand or arm is often the result of compression in the bundle of nerves in your neck; loosening your neck muscles releases the pressure. Compressed nerves lower in the body govern the feet, so don’t let your sleeping dogs lie. Stand up and walk around.

16. Impress your friends!
Next time you’re at a party, try this trick: Have a person hold one arm straight out to the side, palm down, and instruct him to maintain this position. Then place two fingers on his wrist and push down. He’ll resist. Now have him put one foot on a surface that’s a half inch higher (a few magazines) and repeat. This time his arm will fold like a house of cards. By misaligning his hips, you’ve offset his spine, says Rachel Cosgrove, C.S.C.S., co-owner of Results Fitness, in Santa Clarita, California. Your brain senses that the spine is vulnerable, so it shuts down the body’s ability to resist.

17. Breathe underwater!
If you’re dying to retrieve that quarter from the bottom of the pool, take several short breaths first—essentially, hyperventilate. When you’re underwater, it’s not a lack of oxygen that makes you desperate for a breath; it’s the buildup of carbon dioxide, which makes your blood acidic, which signals your brain that somethin’ ain’t right. “When you hyperventilate, the influx of oxygen lowers blood acidity,” says Jonathan Armbruster, Ph.D., an associate professor of biology at Auburn University. “This tricks your brain into thinking it has more oxygen.” It’ll buy you up to 10 seconds.

18. Read minds!
Your own! “If you’re giving a speech the next day, review it before falling asleep,” says Candi Heimgartner, an instructor of biological sciences at the University of Idaho. Since most memory consolidation happens during sleep, anything you read right before bed is more likely to be encoded as long-term memory.

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5. Clear your stuffed nose!
Forget Sudafed. An easier, quicker, and cheaper way to relieve sinus pressure is by alternately thrusting your tongue against the roof of your mouth, then pressing between your eyebrows with one finger. This causes the vomer bone, which runs through the nasal passages to the mouth, to rock back and forth, says Lisa DeStefano, D.O., an assistant professor at the Michigan State University college of osteopathic medicine. The motion loosens congestion; after 20 seconds, you’ll feel your sinuses start to drain.

6. Fight fire without water!
Worried those wings will repeat on you tonight? “Sleep on your left side,” says Anthony A. Star-poli, M.D., a New York City gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine at New York Medical College. Studies have shown that patients who sleep on their left sides are less likely to suffer from acid reflux. The esophagus and stomach connect at an angle. When you sleep on your right, the stomach is higher than the esophagus, allowing food and stomach acid to slide up your throat. When you’re on your left, the stomach is lower than the esophagus, so gravity’s in your favor.

7. Cure your toothache without opening your mouth!
Just rub ice on the back of your hand, on the V-shaped webbed area between your thumb and index finger. A Canadian study found that this technique reduces toothache pain by as much as 50 percent compared with using no ice. The nerve pathways at the base of that V stimulate an area of the brain that blocks pain signals from the face and hands.

8. Make burns disappear!
When you accidentally singe your finger on the stove, clean the skin and apply light pressure with the finger pads of your unmarred hand. Ice will relieve your pain more quickly, Dr. DeStefano says, but since the natural method brings the burned skin back to a normal temperature, the skin is less likely to blister.

9. Stop the world from spinning!
One too many drinks left you dizzy? Put your hand on something stable. The part of your ear responsible for balance—the cupula—floats in a fluid of the same density as blood. “As alcohol dilutes blood in the cupula, the cupula becomes less dense and rises,” says Dr. Schaffer. This confuses your brain. The tactile input from a stable object gives the brain a second opinion, and you feel more in balance. Because the nerves in the hand are so sensitive, this works better than the conventional foot-on-the-floor wisdom.

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Here are some interesting facts. How true? I don’t know, but its still a nice read. It’s quite a long list, so i’ll do 4-5 facts a day till Friday.

1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear.
That tickle in your throat; it’s not worth gagging over. Here’s a better way to scratch your itch: “When the nerves in the ear are stimulated, it creates a reflex in the throat that can cause a muscle spasm,” says Scott Schaffer, M.D., president of an ear, nose and throat specialty center in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. “This spasm relieves the tickle.”

2. Experience supersonic hearing!
If you’re stuck chatting up a mumbler at a cocktail party, lean in with your right ear. It’s better than your left at following the rapid rhythms of speech, according to researchers at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. If, on the other hand, you’re trying to identify that song playing softly in the elevator, turn your left ear toward the sound. The left ear is better at picking up music tones.

3. Overcome your most primal urge!
Need to pee? No bathroom nearby? Fantasize about Jessica Simpson. Thinking about sex preoccupies your brain, so you won’t feel as much discomfort, says Larry Lipshultz, M.D., chief of male reproductive medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine. For best results, try Simpson’s “These Boots Are Made for Walking” video.

4. Feel no pain!
German researchers have discovered that coughing during an injection can lessen the pain of the needle stick. According to Taras Usichenko, author of a study on the phenomenon, the trick causes a sudden, temporary rise in pressure in the chest and spinal canal, inhibiting the pain-conducting structures of the spinal cord.

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