Sunday, 15 April 2007
This post is dedicated to our bio man - Mr Johari!
You know what Huimei? Freakily, I think Mr Johari suffers from ParareÃr Perridere, like seriously. The symptoms you listed. He easily qualifies under most of them. Let's list them out one by one.
Firstly, the prerequisite - 80% of males get this. I'm pretty sure Mr Jo's more than 80% male, so that's definitely satisfied.
1)An urge to laugh at almost nothing at all
This is definitely a YES. Our bio man laughs at everything!
2)You think that something is funny, and nobody agrees with you
This is negotiable, but leaning more towards the YES side.
3)You lack the ability to giggle, you can only laugh
YES YES YES YES YES.
4)You have are obsessed with anything fictional (eg . comic book characters, items that only exist in stories, magic, excetera)
YES YES YES. Mr Johari and his Star Wars! The Darth Vader makes an appearance on the back of his car even.
5)You often embarrass yourself by laughing too loud in public places.
MAYBE.
6)One of your relatives suffer from this disease.
MAYBE.
7) Your shoulders are very squishy in the morning.
Mr Johari! Are they? For now, MAYBE.
8)You will also have a fascination with anything realating to time ( watches, books on time travel)
YES. Mr Johari and his Panerai-s. Another hobby which makes an appearance on his car.
9)You have a photographic memory
YES, definitely YES. I think the whole of gy can attest to this, at least those who heard him quote Romeo and Juliet flawlessly.
10)You have an allergic reaction to food that you like to eat.
MAYBE. I don't know. Ask him.
VERDICT:OMG THIS IS A SERIOUS CASE.
And now, I will teach you to combat muscle fatigue from sprinting! I would like to take this opportunity to thank our selfless bio man for being ourunwilling unwitting model. Er kudos to Amanda of 3gr and Zhao Xian of 3sy, for the generous use of their cameras too.
This is him walking around before his big race, setting a good example by staying limber.:D You can't see it, but he's probably breathing deeply and regularly so that after the race the pain from the incurrence of the oxygen debt won't be that bad.
And of course, he has always taught us to stretch before a race so that the muscles do not get strained.
On a completely unrelated note, if you look carefully at the pictures where he's crouching down, we actually have quite a cool brand-conscious teacher teaching us bio. Adidas shirt with Germany stripes, Adidas track pants, and Adidas yellow shoes.
I also have a video of Mr Johari running and burning up the rubber on the track, but it's currently residing in the shell of Zhao's camera and refuses to budge out of its safe haven, even into the limelight of youtube. It was also extremely reluctant in treading the pathway of MSN File Sharing from Zhao's comp to mine, so in the end we cancelled the transfer. So until we find a way via thumbdrive or cd, you'll have to watch this space for that vid.
Anyway, see we take all the precautions (warming up, cooling down etc) to avoid strains or sore spots later. But there is a rare genetic disease in the world called the congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis, also known as CIPA, which affects the nerve endings. The sufferer actually suffers from the lack of physical pain.
Most of us sometimes wonder, why does pain exist in this world? Why does our God allow it? This topic is so hotly debated, it was even questioned in Dan Brown's controversial bestseller The Da Vinci Code which caused an uproar in the Roman Catholic Church. In that theory, it likens pain to a lesson. Our nuclear weapons of mass destruction and radar and the likes are the skateboard of a young child. The pain and devastation caused by the weapons and tools of war are the scrape on the knees of the child when he falls. The healing process takes place when he gets up to walk again.
And of course, there's the Ethiopian theory. Pain and suffering exists so that we know what true happiness is, in contrast. To quote a famous wheelchair bound ambassador called Jonathan, "Pain is inevitable, misery is optional." He's the man.
I suppose the answer could be found in the way we look at pain. When we look at pain, we are often inundated, or our human mind inundates us with pictures of the likes of the Iraq War, of the Bali Bombings, of children of theolidamide and kwashiorkor, of cancer patients et cetera.
But we often forget the more important everyday roles that pain plays. Sufferers from CIPA have frequent fractures, cuts, burns and other injuries. They cannot feel pain at all. For example, a child suffering from CIPA might inspect her hand and wonder why it was red and blistered because she put it on an object that was extremely hot, causing pain she could not feel. Pain creates stimuli to which we react to.
Of course, there also the more different kinds of people, including one very stupid man I read about in the newspapers last year, who embezzled his company funds to pay for a dominatrix to, get this, whip him to create sexual pleasure (somehow).
Sometimes I think I am very exposed to the more un-feminine aspects and elements of life. But yes, coming back to the lack of physical pain. My answer to that question of why pain exists is that it is necessary. We need pain to remind ourselves that we are human. A baby needs pain for it to start crying and in the process clear the airways for air to enter its new lungs. An inquisitive child needs pain to learn though experience not to do something. An adult needs pain to help themselves not become an emotionally-detached generation.
And recently my mother and then my chinese teacher brought to my attention, was the topic of abortion. I was thinking about it during Chinese tuition earlier this night. It's strange, isn't it. Abortion isn't a crime, but infanticide is. Does it matter if the baby is born or unborn? The fact is that it's a life, not alive.
Pain is also caused by tension between groups of different views and characteristics. We could just take a few examples, the Crusades, The Genocide, just to name a few famous ones in history. A little more present, the current tension between the Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, and the battle between the Protestants and the Catholics in Northern Ireland.
ok happy lack of pain day, i desperately need sleep now. :D night.
You know what Huimei? Freakily, I think Mr Johari suffers from ParareÃr Perridere, like seriously. The symptoms you listed. He easily qualifies under most of them. Let's list them out one by one.
Firstly, the prerequisite - 80% of males get this. I'm pretty sure Mr Jo's more than 80% male, so that's definitely satisfied.
1)An urge to laugh at almost nothing at all
This is definitely a YES. Our bio man laughs at everything!
2)You think that something is funny, and nobody agrees with you
This is negotiable, but leaning more towards the YES side.
3)You lack the ability to giggle, you can only laugh
YES YES YES YES YES.
4)You have are obsessed with anything fictional (eg . comic book characters, items that only exist in stories, magic, excetera)
YES YES YES. Mr Johari and his Star Wars! The Darth Vader makes an appearance on the back of his car even.
5)You often embarrass yourself by laughing too loud in public places.
MAYBE.
6)One of your relatives suffer from this disease.
MAYBE.
7) Your shoulders are very squishy in the morning.
Mr Johari! Are they? For now, MAYBE.
8)You will also have a fascination with anything realating to time ( watches, books on time travel)
YES. Mr Johari and his Panerai-s. Another hobby which makes an appearance on his car.
9)You have a photographic memory
YES, definitely YES. I think the whole of gy can attest to this, at least those who heard him quote Romeo and Juliet flawlessly.
10)You have an allergic reaction to food that you like to eat.
MAYBE. I don't know. Ask him.
VERDICT:OMG THIS IS A SERIOUS CASE.
And now, I will teach you to combat muscle fatigue from sprinting! I would like to take this opportunity to thank our selfless bio man for being our
This is him walking around before his big race, setting a good example by staying limber.:D You can't see it, but he's probably breathing deeply and regularly so that after the race the pain from the incurrence of the oxygen debt won't be that bad.
And of course, he has always taught us to stretch before a race so that the muscles do not get strained.
On a completely unrelated note, if you look carefully at the pictures where he's crouching down, we actually have quite a cool brand-conscious teacher teaching us bio. Adidas shirt with Germany stripes, Adidas track pants, and Adidas yellow shoes.
I also have a video of Mr Johari running and burning up the rubber on the track, but it's currently residing in the shell of Zhao's camera and refuses to budge out of its safe haven, even into the limelight of youtube. It was also extremely reluctant in treading the pathway of MSN File Sharing from Zhao's comp to mine, so in the end we cancelled the transfer. So until we find a way via thumbdrive or cd, you'll have to watch this space for that vid.
Anyway, see we take all the precautions (warming up, cooling down etc) to avoid strains or sore spots later. But there is a rare genetic disease in the world called the congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis, also known as CIPA, which affects the nerve endings. The sufferer actually suffers from the lack of physical pain.
Most of us sometimes wonder, why does pain exist in this world? Why does our God allow it? This topic is so hotly debated, it was even questioned in Dan Brown's controversial bestseller The Da Vinci Code which caused an uproar in the Roman Catholic Church. In that theory, it likens pain to a lesson. Our nuclear weapons of mass destruction and radar and the likes are the skateboard of a young child. The pain and devastation caused by the weapons and tools of war are the scrape on the knees of the child when he falls. The healing process takes place when he gets up to walk again.
And of course, there's the Ethiopian theory. Pain and suffering exists so that we know what true happiness is, in contrast. To quote a famous wheelchair bound ambassador called Jonathan, "Pain is inevitable, misery is optional." He's the man.
I suppose the answer could be found in the way we look at pain. When we look at pain, we are often inundated, or our human mind inundates us with pictures of the likes of the Iraq War, of the Bali Bombings, of children of theolidamide and kwashiorkor, of cancer patients et cetera.
But we often forget the more important everyday roles that pain plays. Sufferers from CIPA have frequent fractures, cuts, burns and other injuries. They cannot feel pain at all. For example, a child suffering from CIPA might inspect her hand and wonder why it was red and blistered because she put it on an object that was extremely hot, causing pain she could not feel. Pain creates stimuli to which we react to.
Of course, there also the more different kinds of people, including one very stupid man I read about in the newspapers last year, who embezzled his company funds to pay for a dominatrix to, get this, whip him to create sexual pleasure (somehow).
Sometimes I think I am very exposed to the more un-feminine aspects and elements of life. But yes, coming back to the lack of physical pain. My answer to that question of why pain exists is that it is necessary. We need pain to remind ourselves that we are human. A baby needs pain for it to start crying and in the process clear the airways for air to enter its new lungs. An inquisitive child needs pain to learn though experience not to do something. An adult needs pain to help themselves not become an emotionally-detached generation.
And recently my mother and then my chinese teacher brought to my attention, was the topic of abortion. I was thinking about it during Chinese tuition earlier this night. It's strange, isn't it. Abortion isn't a crime, but infanticide is. Does it matter if the baby is born or unborn? The fact is that it's a life, not alive.
Pain is also caused by tension between groups of different views and characteristics. We could just take a few examples, the Crusades, The Genocide, just to name a few famous ones in history. A little more present, the current tension between the Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, and the battle between the Protestants and the Catholics in Northern Ireland.
ok happy lack of pain day, i desperately need sleep now. :D night.
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