My favourite two spots directed by the talented Dezzo of Salt Films. The first was an advertorial for the Singapore leg of the Nike Human Race 2008 and the second, a short for the Singapore International Film Festival 2009.
My favourite line from the SIFF spot, ‘I am icarus, falling from grace’ 
Amri posted a snippet from the Notes & Neurons lecture on her blog. Just watch how, based on expectations, the audience is able to generate the universal pentatonic scale through simple cues.
I find it absolutely fascinating how deeply music can affect people, emotionally, physically and even to the point where it might alter one’s mental state. So many key elements of the brain come into play when listening to music. Auditory perception and analysis, memory and association, expectancy generation, visual representations, the list goes on.
In part 3 of the lecture, it states that personality and preference has an impact on the expectancy one has when listening to music. So as individuals, two people could be listening to the same piece of music and yet have emotional responses on complete opposite ends of the spectrum and as a result have completely different experiences and set of responses to the auditory stimuli.
If you have some time to spare, here’s part 3 and 4
The human mind is truly amazing.
Alright, enough, back to focusing on another organ located a little further down, Oh valentine!
We always want the things we can’t have.
But in time, one will realise that it was useless wanting to begin with anyway.
All time favourite scene.
Alice in Wonderland 3D out tomorrow!
They swallowed it whole, they went for the gold, for the gold
We fall for the same lies we all have the same shoes to fit
The preachers and books of your empire will fight here alone
Some day the will be forgotten and die one by one
The walls the walls are coming down
The here and now is coming round
It will some day let you down
The ships the ships are coming in
The great ideas are wearing thin
There is nothing left to do
For atoms have gone as far as atoms will go
Your books write themselves
They line up in row after row
The walls the walls are coming down
The here and now is coming round
It will some day let you down
The ships the ships are coming in
The great ideas are wearing thin
There is nothing left to do
I got a pair of reading glasses made when I last went back to Singapore. I was having problems reading for extended periods and found that I had to squint to see calibri font 11 (a favourite and oft used font) on my computer screen.
The diagnosis was astigmatism in left eye with mild long sightedness in both.
Crikey. Only geriatrics wear reading glasses, I thought. Oh well, just make and keep (in a secret hinding place) the pair and use only when absoutely necessary.
I have resisted wearing them, but with readings piling up and work to be done, it is talking a toll on my poor eyes again. I was wondering if the time it took (one day) for me to complete my 4 page summary on hypo and hypercalcaemia was as a result of pure procrastination or the slowing of my mental faculties, till I caught myself hunched over leaning forward trying to see what was on my computer screen.
Bollocks. Bollocks. Bollocks.
Guess I can’t fight it anymore.
Med school, you bastard, you took away my 6/6 vision.
In time we might walk the straight line
But with memories of a grapevine
A guitar, as we came close from far
Forgot about the war
We barely touched
As if being watched
And even in time
We’ll give in to crime
We’ll be on the line
Pulling our weight
Many miles from where I’m sleeping
You share laughter in the evening
As do I, in the great divine
Yours is mine
We’ll find love
The kind we’re dreaming of
And even in time
We’ll give in to crime
We’ll be on the line
Pulling our weight
Today was a pretty day
No disappointments
No expectations on your whereabouts
And oh, did I let you go?
Did it finally show that strange things will happen if you let
them?
Today I didn’t even try to hide
I’ll stay here and never push things to the side
You can’t reach me cause I’m way beyond you today
Today was a pretty day
Autumn comes with
These slight surprises where your life might twist and turn
Hope to unlearn
Strange things will happen
If you let them come around and stick around
Today I didn’t even try to hide
I’ll stay here and never push things to the side
Today I didn’t even look to find
Something to put me in that peace of mind
You can’t touch me cause I’m way beyond you today
In the hospital library now using the internet (no internet at home for another week or so) so thought I’d just cough up a quick and dirty post before I get back to doing some actual work
I am still here, a little worse for wear, but still alive after having to up and move to a new rental property and having to deal with all the extra bits that come along with coping with the rigors of Med and with differences in personalities in a diplomatic fashion.
Milestones and other frivolous loose ends
1. Medicine: We get to go on wards once a week this year for our 1.5hr long clinical coaching session with our registrar. YES! Wards! Meeting actual patients! Listening to hearts, lungs, palpating for livers, spleens, kidneys, conducting neurological exams on actual patients, not each other
2. The new house: We have a garden. A lovely garden for, well, gardening. My room is 2.5x the size of my old one, its a little further into suburbia, but we love it nonetheless.
3. Iggy Pop: Our neighbour’s dog is the sweetest mutt. He came onto our porch one night, tail between his legs, extremely shy and placid. I found out that he was adopted by from the RSPCA. His hind legs are weak and unstable from what we presume to be, the abuse he used to receive.
4. I bought an iPhone
K. Back to the books!
