valentine's day

all right v day just passed right by me. woke up at 5 pm cos i was playing partypoker overnight. that thing is bloody addictive. good thing it's not real money. alot of idiots out there but there's some really sneaky players. real good. i always make alot of money off the losers then i squander it all when i get bored or lose concentration. good way to practice though. going to try to own my friends at poker soon. hold'em is probably one of the few fun new things i've found. beats fucking mahjong anyday.

anyway i have a test tomorrow and it's a real bitch. it's 2:25am now and i can't fucking sleep cos i woke up so late. plus i'm hungry now. too much inertia to walk to the kopitiam. THERE ARE SO MANY FREAKING TESTS IN MEDICINE. one every one to two months. how cool is that. right after this paeds test, one month later i have patho exam. that's some mother big exam where they test alot of things. need to pick up patho textbook again. and everytime it's exams feels like life and death. guess i haven't really found my rhythm yet. hope it's not like that next year.

was watching some documentary on martial arts. there's quite alot of science in it. ninjutsu's really impressive. apparently you can stop a guy's heart with well-directed blow to the sternum. and you know in those wuxia stories? where you can dian the guys xue dao? well the scientific basis behind it is that you hit the nerve where it runs very superficially, probably just covered by a bit of skin, subcutaneous tissue and fascia. by hitting the nerve at these exposed points, such as the axillary nerve in the armpit, you cause a massive discharge of neurons, causing EXTREME shooting pain. the signals return to your brain and i think it kind of confuses it and incapacitates your motor function for a while. i'd like to see this in real life. obviously they couldn't actually perform it on real people on the show. experimental ethics. hehe. speaking of ethics, did you know the CIA tried to develop a method of erasing a person's personality? some mind control shit. inspired by the good work of the Nazis. alot of weird but important research comes out of war. when people don't really give a shit. what's the best way to find out how the human body works? TEST REAL PEOPLE. hypothermia? no problem. let's freeze a few chinks and watch them die. i wonder if this plant is poisonous or medicinal? let's spike that little kid's ice cream and then laugh at him. who the fuck gives a shit. really cruel ways of gaining knowledge. makes me sick but at the same time you have to admire how inquisitive these guys were.

bolton-arsenal in a while, think i will bet on arsenal. cos i like them and they haven't cleared handicap in a while. GO FABREGAS! ok peace.