jammed

i think it’s amazing how much a person can impact our lives and not even be aware of it. i think it must be the best feeling in the world to know that you’ve been such an inspiration to someone, that you made a difference. or how the most insignificant of moments are stored in the deepest compartments and chest of memories, probably forever. like this time i was in preschool and we were having our teabreak. the teacher was circulating each table with a tray of jam sandwiches. i remember the sandwiches looking really good what with the jam oozing from the sides and i helped myself to a piece. it tasted pretty mediocre. bread wasn’t as soft as i imagined it to be, jam not the right amount of sweet. when the teacher came the second time round and offered me another piece; i took it. till today i dunno why i did because i had the hardest time trying to finish that second piece.

it’s silly, really but perhaps a lesson in disguise? like how i shouldn’t judge something just by its looks. or that greed is bad. but i know these things. maybe i was afraid of upsetting her. helping others at the expense of yourself is noble and all that jazz. but sometimes when i look back i ask myself if it was worth it. some honestly aren’t the most grateful bunch in the world and i’m often left to squint really hard to see the bright side of it all, the silver lining. and probably draw one if it didn’t exist. or maybe this is telling me to stop dwelling on the past. i can’t help but wish i could relive those carefree and conflict-free moments when my inbox used to be filled to the brim with texts from the closest of friends, and there were phone calls at the strangest of times for the longest time. i miss the familiar. this is familiar but it’s a new kind of familiar. ties weren’t loose, neither was there distance in the least. football games were often looked forward to and supporters of the losing team would not be left unreminded the next day. here it’s afl this, cricket that. i don’t see the appeal in them at all, i’m sorry. and i don’t care if unreminded isn’t a word. in fact, perhaps what we need is a lil less care and a lil more silver.

inevitable truth is that things change, people change. isn’t that such a horrible word. inevitable. i first heard the word when agent smith said it to neo. i was once told that besties are forever but really, i don’t think anything is anymore. cause that’s just too big a word.

and i guess maybe what this is trying to say is that i look into things way too much. i mean, it was just a jam sandwich for gosh sakes.

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sometimes i honestly think i’ve got the cutest cats in the world

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hope you guys had a good weekend! :)
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brainy

severe lack of updates lately i know, blame school! anyways i’ve uploaded some pictures from two recent excursions :)

alrightey first up’s the bio trip to the uni of queensland. we checked out the anatomy museum which displayed actual dead body parts. i was really excited before the trip but when we were there i was a little nervous. it sounded like something right out of a horror movie and we all know how much i love horror movies ._.

but it wasn’t so bad. it was really cool actually looking at hands and feet, there were foetuses(?) from a month to 9 months old. there were brains, skull caps. they all looked more like models than real parts so i guess when i was looking at them it just didn’t really register that they were real… but the heads were kinda scary ._. yea there were heads. okay i didn’t mean to get all grotesque!

the next bit was cooler! we got to go down to the wet lab where the med students do actual body dissections and such but no, we didn’t see any of that. we adorned in lab goggles, gloves and aprons. there was this really strong clinic smell in the air, much like a hospital. even the corridors were hospital-like.

anyways we were shown different human organs. this time they were real… real meaning not harderned or kept in a display glass like the ones in the anatomy museum. it can be a lil overwhelming especially with the strong chemical smell, someone from my class actually fainted ._. we saw a liver, and a liver of an alcoholic (really hard surface… don’t drink too much alco, guys) and a cancerous liver which was 3 times the size of a healthy one *O* we saw a pacemaker and a heart (which looked really different from what i imagined/seen from greys). we were allowed to touch and examine and poke em.

and the best part!! i touched a human brain! :D i don’t mean that in a sick way but it’s really cool, it wasn’t as squishy as i thought it would be and it kept reminding me of sylar from heroes x) oh and cool fact: apparently the more ridges you have in your brain, the more intelligent you are :) no idea how we can actually check that out… i say we just stick to iq tests…

we weren’t allowed to take any pictures (sighs of relief? :P) so no, i don’t have any. i did take pictures of uq though. they’ve got a really beautiful campus and it was o week (orientation) so it was really packed with people and there were lotsa booths around giving away free stuff.

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this food stand had really cute cushions and mats :)
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they were giving out free krispy kreme donuts!
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“don’t drink and drive!” said the guy handing out these funny glasses.
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i don’t like those fences. it’s too high to hop over, and too low to crawl under which i suppose is the whole point but it’s so annoying to get through >(
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lawn bowl!
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not sure what those people were doing.
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check out the guy with the massive tennis racket :D

okay this post is longer than i thought it would be so i’ll write about dreamworld in the next entry :) in case i don’t though (as usual), imma post my favourite pic from friday :

have a good weekend! :D