My dad got me a book- a collected works of plath...edited by Ted Hughes
He put an inscription in
that said
" In lieu of an oven"
I thought that that...was tres sympa...
Do you think we would like Plath if she had lived a long and happy life with grandchildren ?
Why are medics so morbid?
My lecturer promises us a flu pandemic in our life times
I get my lab yr next yr
hope they let me work on something cool
like a virus of some sort....the higher the BSL the better
Recent revelation on the BBC
being cold, makes you more prone to the cold
Intelligent....
sometimes something so banal, is published
for its sheer banality( is that even how its spelt?)
I really want to come home
Im tired out of my mind
Passive smokers are those who are too cheap to afford their own cigarettes
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Monday, November 14, 2005
Oxford is...being over worked
and is also, being worried all the time
I want to go somewhere now
where i dont have to worry
cos i have my stomach in knots now
Went to row at 530 in the morning
slight exaggeration....5 45
exhausted slightly
and i have 3 or 4 tiny blisters and one part of my thumb where i tore the skin off
have i mentioned the splint in my arm due to pushing off the raft
:-)
finding it slightly easier now...
still not easy..but we seem more of a crew now
doing things together...watching the person in front
and squaring over the knees:-)
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Do you notice how few women there are who have won a nobel prize
A few of them robbed
for example, Hilde Mangold....who discovered the idea of an nodal organiser
in her phD thesis
but her supervisor got the prize instead
Why am I such a cynical bitch.....
when i see innocent sentiment...it doesnt touch me as much as it makes me laugh
i spend my whole life trying to make it seem as if i dont care
and.....
I find it hard to say really nice things abt people
not because i dont think them
but i feel uncomfortable expressing that sort of emotion
whereas putting down someone...is a lot easier
I dont do it....cos...i make it a pt not to chime out judgement
but its so easy
on the other hand....more interestingly...
i think that there are massive riots going on in france
i dont really know the details...as i havent picked up a newspaper that wasnt the sun or the daily mail in weeks
but yah....riots in peaceful little france
these people must be so marginalised if they choose violence
and i can see that
when i was there in the summer...there were parts of town that were so racially polarised...magreb in one tiny corner...catholic white pple in another
whose fault is any of this i don tknow
each would blame each other for not integrating..or sapping up welfare to buy drugs
which ever side you look at it..there is a valid point
the immigrants werent probably helped enough to guarantee success
this doesnt mean that they were actively discriminated against
but more....not helped enough..to make sure that they didnt take the easy way out
living in the estates rife with crime, and relatively poor housing conditions
while the richer people at least had houses where they werent scared to live in
and its not going to be easy as an immigrant
many things are stacked against you...
basically, this is such a polarized country....
possibly the riots in france have implications for all other countries with such a massive immigrant population.
I doubt this is going to be a real problem in singapore, as immigration is tightly controlled
but yah..we need to take care of our immigrants...
not make them feel unwelcome
they build more of the nation that you or me can ever do
i for one...cant lift bricks
what else is happening in the world.....
lets see ...one more outbreak of bird flu in china
i remember..it was a while ago...where i...along with many people thought that the diseases of the future had to be lifestyle diseases...not infectious ones
but its so different now
we've seen the emergence of SARS, bird flu....so many other things....
all clear zoonotic diseases
to put in simply..if you mess up your environment, it will come back to you
i just hope that the greater nation of China, doesnt allow half of its citizens to be infected before it reports it to the rest of the world
stock up on your antivirals:-)
dont understand why everyone getting a flu vaccine...its not going to protect
god...this is the field for me....
