11 August 2009 9:48 PM
We can call it a day then
Would you brand it selfish, to not want company when company comes round, and then grumble when you're quite alone? As if your friends are like the stuffed toys you keep by the bed, huggable when you need them and such a crowd on your bed when you need the space. Does it sound very bad? I would wonder, time and again.
Because sometimes, despite company being the best of options, I would prefer an arm's length away from everything, loving or not, in order to be by myself. As if, the way another's presence makes the environment unbearably humid, their little conversations becoming an irritating chatter and their laughter so stifling. And to want to move away from all that, when you need to, and to pine for them, when you want to, is that selfishness? Because then it seems you fall into the stereotype of people who, make use of friends, in a sense.
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Apparently, as they promise, its off-peak now, which means a lot of lolling heads in the office and efforts to make oneself look extremely busy. 2 cups of thick Milo, a glass of watermelon juice and 2 cups of hot plain water, I spent 7 hours scouring over pages on channelnewsasia.com and occasionally the different email accounts to clear mail.
And so today I learnt that,
1. Those who had been inactive during the day took longer to nod off. Every sedentary hour during daytime added 3.1 minutes to the time it took to fall asleep.
2. Baby boys are more likely to die than baby girls and medical advances have actually increased the gender gap.
3. Some of the world's healthiest countries including top-ranking Iceland, Sweden and Finland. Others that fared well include Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Denmark, Canada, Austria and the Netherlands.
4. Doctors in the United States are testing a possible breakthrough treatment for brain cancer.
Scorpion venom has been administered to dozens of patients at four hospitals after researchers found that the agent selectively attaches to tumour cells while sparing normal cells.
5. While chemotherapy can remove breast cancer tumours, it fails to root out the stem cells that can revive the cancer.
Point 5, noted.
Considering how cancer is becoming quite a headliner, and how many around me are one way or another associated with this illness, or robbed of love by it, I could sadistically conclude that in light of our lifestyle and culture of late, cancer would sooner or later appear as a natural cause of death, ousting death by old age.
And oh, happy birthday to me.
(:
Would you brand it selfish, to not want company when company comes round, and then grumble when you're quite alone? As if your friends are like the stuffed toys you keep by the bed, huggable when you need them and such a crowd on your bed when you need the space. Does it sound very bad? I would wonder, time and again.
Because sometimes, despite company being the best of options, I would prefer an arm's length away from everything, loving or not, in order to be by myself. As if, the way another's presence makes the environment unbearably humid, their little conversations becoming an irritating chatter and their laughter so stifling. And to want to move away from all that, when you need to, and to pine for them, when you want to, is that selfishness? Because then it seems you fall into the stereotype of people who, make use of friends, in a sense.
Apparently, as they promise, its off-peak now, which means a lot of lolling heads in the office and efforts to make oneself look extremely busy. 2 cups of thick Milo, a glass of watermelon juice and 2 cups of hot plain water, I spent 7 hours scouring over pages on channelnewsasia.com and occasionally the different email accounts to clear mail.
And so today I learnt that,
1. Those who had been inactive during the day took longer to nod off. Every sedentary hour during daytime added 3.1 minutes to the time it took to fall asleep.
2. Baby boys are more likely to die than baby girls and medical advances have actually increased the gender gap.
3. Some of the world's healthiest countries including top-ranking Iceland, Sweden and Finland. Others that fared well include Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Denmark, Canada, Austria and the Netherlands.
4. Doctors in the United States are testing a possible breakthrough treatment for brain cancer.
Scorpion venom has been administered to dozens of patients at four hospitals after researchers found that the agent selectively attaches to tumour cells while sparing normal cells.
5. While chemotherapy can remove breast cancer tumours, it fails to root out the stem cells that can revive the cancer.
Point 5, noted.
Considering how cancer is becoming quite a headliner, and how many around me are one way or another associated with this illness, or robbed of love by it, I could sadistically conclude that in light of our lifestyle and culture of late, cancer would sooner or later appear as a natural cause of death, ousting death by old age.
And oh, happy birthday to me.
(:
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