NY is an idea factory. happy vibes. Coffee. Mates of state vs. Clapyourhandssayyeah on NYE... which oh which. Chinatown ice cream factory. Heaven in a scoop in a cup with a spoon. (Flavours avail incl. black sesame, green tea, coconut. and coming soon, RICE flavour! wtf! i suspect noodle flavour is an impending release... yeh. Could also propose soy sauce ice cream with positive outcome at this rate.) Federal bank money shredding and crying materialistic heart out. Free haircut. Serabeth restaurant. best breakfasts in town. breakfast hours 9-3.30pm, awesome! LadyM cheesecakes. posh nosh and uppity staff you just want to mess up their hair and crinkle their shirts and drive them insane. Guggenheim. Picasso reminds me of dexter's lab cartoons. inside of building is like a snail's home, very nice i like. Dog walking. Cass's lovely NY pad, complete with flatmate and bro for fun times. Black converse hi-tops for 14USD, yes!!! and already broken in and worn out for me ;) Beth arrives 25th Dec. Need dosh. haven't got my camera yet, shucks.
Rutgers college carollers officiated Xmas for me. It is here! ooh singing boys... ooh.
bright lights and sights
big big v big / hv to make sure i close my mouth and watch where i'm going.
main mode of sustenance: coffee & donuts
here, everything is BIG, people are small, (except tourists from other states!) and they all hv pretty teeth! heck, they're all good looking.
met lovely people along the way.
Less depressing than London
weather is 7degrees, warmer than usual. this globe is screwd.
tryin to avoid corn syrup like its the plague.
trigger happy with my film SLR, can't wait to develop prints!
3 sample sales in a row on Greene st nr. Canal st. A dizzying array of jeans, of which i bought an earnest sewn skinny for 50USD! holy...James Pearse top, vintage Aigner belt,
Beacon's closet vintage store at williamsburg, plus all the other perks there.
SEA restaurant, bedford, Williamsburg. Of Garden State & SATC fame. OMG total yum hipness. and not to mention, hip yumness.
Century 21, only scoured the first floor in 2 hours! We have to do some speed shopping here.
Possible ski trip this saturday with Yixiu and her adorable 17 yr old bro, who loves shopping and poseing with me! Mirror war!
PISSED...And submitting my job application form. Neh neh neh. I look more sober than a certain someone tanking up on mineral water all night. I'm a mental oriental, but I have THE ENZYME, so zippitty zip.
The above pic is of Lizzy, Katy, James, Me and Dina of the hip hopping geriatrics crew,Conquest Hospital Christmas Show 2006. Regrets : Caris & Anita.
Here's my 2 year old cousin Isabel giving the finger to all non-chopstick users. And all this through sheer observation, no formal training whatsoever. The knack of a second child is awe inspiring, and I look forward to seeing such fine motor skills, coodination and dexterity put to good use.
This random shiny Ford appeared along our street, where there usually is a smelly leaking kebab van with smelly leaking men preparing smelly leaking kebabs. I can't help but grimace everytime i walk by it, lookin at the seeping elephant leg rotating on a skewer. I wonder why people still eat that formless gunk of carcass, bones, hooves and gut.
Just for one day it existed, and never to be seen again! It was the strangest thing ever, one of those uber random things that make you think you've lapsed into a parallel universe.
It was a body and soul pleasing experience and the service couldn't be faulted! £38 for the hair chopping experience, to remedy my 4am frustration with my tangled hair.
I kind of hoped that once the split ends were gone that all i'd be left with was bouncy shiney hair, but how blind i am, to not even be able to judge the quality of my hair lately. Too much straightening iron, and too little hair protecting products!
Thus, i bring you, my mop! And this is already tamed with product, mind you. phew! Now let's pray i dont get tempted to go back to my old spikey haired days. ah!
" In the wild, the ants recognize enemies by their pheromones. The organizers of the game used this natural ability to make the ants "ant-agonize" each other, by feeding the Japanese team with Kagoshima pork and the Brazilian team with spare ribs in order to alter the ants' pheromones."
Blimey. What really had me in hysterics were the comments at cellar.
1. Check out their jerseys (!) 2. Japan then ends up in a draw with Brazil... Guess you'll only see it here!
My computer is in serious danger… by ZDNet's Suzi Turner -- I recently did an online scan at the site of a major antivirus vendor. Now I've gotten two emails like this:AdvertisementDear Valued Customer:Thank You for using Active Scan.During the process of scanning your computer, we discovered:0 viruses found0 files infectedThis means your computer is in serious danger. You are running a risk of losing vital information or infecting [...]
Work it out, it's life... where 80% of the profit of anything comes from 20% the work. This is an interesting article to base all calculations of roductivity on. Oh yea. Internet entrepreneurs have much to share.
God damn it, I feel like slapping myself. My intractable itch to test the boundaries of deadlines is proving itself uncontrollable!!!
This stupid feeling and this darned persistence in being late in all things possible is pissing me off, it's reeling out of control, like a stage IV malignancy, without the comfort of death at the end. fuckitty fuck.
The only solution is to find this godforsaken energy within me to push on and get a freakin grip! Jesus christ what a loser.
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."
Argh, but I learnt that I may never get my beloved bookmarks back, and I feel like dying.
They were my entire surfing experience! What do I do now. All my precious links, some never to be found again...the treasures I've found, the gems I've painstakingly collected over three pivotal years of my internet life, gone, gone without a trace!
A few things that makes the world (wideweb) a better place...
1. Firefox
2. Googlepedia (Mozilla extension) - Integrate wikipedia searches into your google results page in a splitscreen layout. Info, gimme!
3. Backpack
4. Bloglines - all your RSS feeds into one nifty site, keep on top of the news and blog updates and save yourself a few million mouseclicks a week! Inflicted upon me by Peishan :)
In the span of one midnightly hour, I've managed to cook 4 dishes, readying myself for the week ahead! I pride myself on my kitchen efficiency, and sometimes get impatient with Bobbin who Here goes...
1. Thai Green Curry with chicken and veg
2. Mushroom and veg stir-fry
3. Mee pok
4. Honey Soy Sauce baked chicken thighs
Anyhow, I've just test driven those dishes by eating a combination of Mee pok with stir-fry and some green curry. And two spoonfuls of Strawberry crumble ice cream. Am I clogging up my arteries or what! Tomorrow I shall go jogging. Agenda is aplenty, with OSCE revision and SSM to do by monday. And it's Sunday today, damn non-timestamped blogamajig.
I can't say my energy levels are great, stimulants like caffeine are starting to wear away quicker than ever. How will I do it? How?
Divine intervention is something I want to believe in during times like these!
I am Chertl McTurtle. It has evolved from a typo, and a capitalist foodchain that I both love and hate. Love the Fries, hate the meat. Love the convenience, hate the slave it turns me into.
And, as the word 'turtle' is able to dually conjure an image of a ninja as well as a slowcoach, I am both.
Primary varicella infection most commonly known as Chickenpox, followed by a latent noninfectious phase during which virus survives in cranial nerve and dorsal root ganglia. Can also affect other nerves eg. sacral but cases are rare.
Oweing to decreases in cell-mediated immunity states such as HIV, increasing age, stress and drug therapy, viral reactivation, replicationt and migration occur along the peripheral sensory pathways, leading to an acute flare up known as herpes zoster rash.
This presents as a cutaneous inflammatory rash, with partial denervation in a dermatomal distribution, accompanied by inflammation, necrosis and fibrosis of the dorsal root ganglia.
Postherpetic Neuralgia (PHN) is when the pain associated with the acute episode of herpes zoster persists, by definition over a period of 1 month. In practise this sometimes taken to be 6 months.
PHN is one of the most common forms of neuropathic pain, which involves nerve damage, and is a common cause of chronic pain in the above 60 age group. Nearly a quarter of over 60s experience herpes zoster outbreaks, 15% of these go on to develop postherpetic neuralgia, a highly delibating condition.
To be able to treat PHN effectively, it is useful to look at the factors that predispose people to getting PHN and the pathophysiology of PHN.
Thus my essay that i'm slaving over at the moment is going to delve into those two areas in view of recommending the future therapies and protocols for the effective treatment of postherpetic neuralgia.
People who get an attack report intense burning pain and allodynia along dermatomes that is so incurable they feel like killing themselves. The only other comparable pain condition is trigeminal neuralgia.
Pain management is a thoroughly exciting area, since pain IS in the mind, and to find out where the mind and body interface is a highly complicated and philosophical debate no one has to date been able to resolve. Does neural activity liase with conscious perception at the cortex, as Popper and Eccles announced in 1977, or is there more? Does it really end at the cortex as we'd all like to think?
For further understanding of how humans deal with pain, it is imminent that psychologists and neuroscientists collaborate in this highly exciting field of knowlege, to shed light onto the question that begs an answer:
Watch out for this band, the London shows are already sold out! Bummer. Plus they're touring with Futureheads for some of their dates. Myspace them for song previews, or just d/l some tracks from their site: My favourite song is Cowbell. spiffy!
