Archive for April, 2007

Hwangisms…

Raar…

A word used for pratically anything at all. It can be used to express anger, resent, hatrid, or to say a friendly hello. It is a very mysterious word.

Meh…

This is a universal, non-commital answer to every question ever posed. It’s the answer that doesn’t actually give any answer.

Blah…

It’s a word used in an after sentence, when no one is talking, or when a person has nothing else to say.

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No love, just hate…

Nobody loves me, everybody hates me,
Guess I’ll go and eat worms,
Long, thin, slimy ones; Short, fat, juicy ones,
Itsy, bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms.

Down goes the first one, down goes the second one,
Oh how they wiggle and squirm.
Up comes the first one, up comes the second one,
Oh how they wiggle and squirm.

Nobody loves me, everybody hates me
Think I’ll go and eat worms
Long ones, short ones, fat ones, thin ones
See how they wriggle and squirm

I bite off the heads, and suck out the juice
And throw the skins away
Nobody knows how fat I grow
On worms three times a day
Ohh…nobody loves me.

Wise words…

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Mother Teresa
26/08/1910 - 05/09/1997

Alcohol and Memory Functions…

Alcohol interferes with a persons ability to form new memories. Large amounts of alcohol can produce partial (fragmentary) or complete (en bloc) blackouts, which are periods of memory loss for events that occur while a person was drinking. Until fairly recently it appears that blackouts have been associated with alcoholism. However, recent studies indicate that blackouts are much more common among social drinkers.

Fragmentary blackouts involve partial blockage of memory formation for events that occurred while a person was intoxicated. Goodwin reported that subjects experiencing fragmentary blackouts often become aware that they are missing pieces of events only after being reminded that the events occurred. Interestingly, these reminders trigger at least some recall of the initially missing information.

A blackout is a period of amnesia during which the person is actively engaged in behaviors (for example walking, talking etc.) but the brain is unable to form new memories for the events, leaving the person unable to recall the events once they are no longer intoxicated.

alcohol and memory effects

This helps to explain why, after waking up from a night out drinking, large amounts of my memories can not be recalled. Even though I could be holding seemingly sensible and coherent conversations right up to the point that I fall asleep.

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