the hippocampus is important in long term memory consolidation. my notes say that if you have bilateral lesions of the hippocampus, you have no trouble remembering past events, but you cannot consolidate current events into a permanent memory that can be recalled later. All of life's experiences between the time of the lesion and the present vanish. Time ceases except for the immediate present and the remote past. haha isn't that like drew barrymore in 50 first dates... anyway tomorrow is neuroscience paper and it feels really weird using your brain to study about your brain. kinda scary though when you think about it. everything functions by electrical impulses and it's like even when you think about doing something ( e.g moving your hand), just thinking about it, your premotor and supplementary motor cortex is activated already meaning like i think some ionic channels open, sodium or calcium or whatever move in and out action potential or whatever potentials and signals fly around. whatever it is the brain is mad i can't imagine how it can work it's seriously mad mad mad mad mad mad super powerful. unlce boon cheang said that day the even einstein used 10% of his brain power only. it's super super complex and if you tell me that we all evolved from a single cell, where proteins clash together and somehow through trial and error formed a cell, and then dunno bla bla bla bla bla got a brain come out that's like animal faeces la how can it be true. even a cell is how super complex already. surely only a God could have created this? how on earth can evolution lead to this. sian i wished i read more about evolution and what they think ok maybe i'll do that after exam.

anyway, did you know that when i was young i hated singapore. like when i was sec 3 and 4. ask mr ryan kam and you'll know. haha i was angsty and i wanted to leave this place and go to new york and stay. i think one thing that influenced that was watching too many movies. and everytime they show all the nice aerial scence of new york, the nice buildings, central park then i'll just be like wa sian singapore so ugly. me and ryan would make fun of all the street names here in singapore, LORONG MAMBONG, or LORONG LIPUT and say how yucks they are. when i'm on the bus i would like be sick of everyone's demeanour and actions and like i dunno the way we talked everything. then, i came up with great plans, to play piano at mandarin hotel and earn enough money so that after O levels i could go to usa to study. hahah i was really serious about it i told my dad i hated the education system here. like i hated everybody's attitude and whatever and i think he could really tell i was serious cos he said "ok if this is something from God then i can't do anything about it also what". but i think in his mind he was thinking : hahaa what is this stressed out boy thinking
anyway, i guess i kinda forgot about it, or i went back to normal and then when i went to JC i guessed i really loved it. i got to go usa with kai min's family after my Os too and got to see the country i like a lot. but anyway, these past few years have made me love singapore a lot i guess. especially trips to places like vietnam made me realise how nice singapore actually is. seriously the food here is DA BOMB i love the food here love it love it love it. it's one major factor why i miss singapore if i go overseas. when i was in vietnam and australia and maybe even america i was missing mee pok, kway chap, roti prata all the food here in singapore. and actually singlish is kinda cool u know.. like no one else on earth speaks the way we do. when i went to usa, i couldn't help speaking their accent and like it just didn't feel comfortable. i feel the most comfortable when i'm speaking with singaporeans, when we mix chinese plus dialect plus malay it's quite cool what. i think being kiasu is quite stupid but it's quite funny actually what. and like the way we respond to the mas selamat thing is like quite uniquely singaporean also what. when you speak to your friends about it and make jokes about it it's quite funny right.. haha sure sometimes i hate our education system to the core like it's super hard core and so results oriented and the parents here have like no failure tolerance. there's not much emphasis on the arts or like a whollistic education unlike in the usa but you know what i grew up in this system and all my friends went through that system too and it's because of that system we're the way we are and i kinda like how we are actually. as in sure i wished we were more open minded a lot of the time and like try new stuff ...........
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you know what i need to go pee and i don't wanna blog anymore i wanna study and i'm becoming incoherent i also don't know what i'm talking about i continue this national education post next time bye.
ohh and also i wished when i was young i did more stupid stuff like prank other pple and throw things into other pple's house or like stupid things that joel pang and jeremy and derrick they all did now thinking back. it's like only what young pple can do. i'm still young so i guess i can do that. but not for long can you imagine if we were all 40 years old and after some church camp we take the left over char siew pau and threw it onto other buildings and into pple's house. ehh actually can what. haha by then also got money to hire lawyer if pple wanna sue you. but i guess if you're 14 years old nobody would sue you. but nvm.. i think it's good to stay foolish. may i always be wrong because for when men are right they are not young. haha i read that somewhere