L'amour est bleu

"Love is Blue". a favourite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD4ib9-laGY

i love being back home. the familiar smells and sounds of Penang lull me to sleep and in the same way wake me up in the morning. aye, its humid that is true but even the sweat is enjoyable at the moment.

hee hee! woop woop. I am home!

impish

Amelie is brilliant. Its typically French in all its quirkiness and whimsies. I am 8years late in watching this movie but no matter. Twas 2hours well spent.

Oh Don Juan Demarco was very enjoyable too. Quite whimsy and fanciful as well.

And yes, changed the whole blog look thing. I'm feeling sunny and colourful today. Mayn't last.

*sniff*

Twas a strange morning today. En route to Uni to hand in the last of my assignments (woop woop), the sun was shining golden and sky as blue as Paul Newman's eyes. Caught a whiff of fresh air and suddenly it seemed like I was home in Penang. So vivid it was that I was disoriented for a moment, I could have sworn (but i don't swear) I smelt Georgetown in all its exhaust fumes and coffee shop fried oil smells.

Merely an acute longing to go home I hear you say. Nay. I have proof it is explained by science.

Scientists believe they have discovered how a waft of perfume or the strains of a familiar melody can evoke a vivid memory.

Scientists believe they have discovered how a waft of perfume or the strains of a familiar melody can evoke a vivid memory.

A study has located the precise region of the brain that appears to be responsible for connecting an everyday sensation with something that has happened in the past. The area, the CA3 region of the brain's hippocampus, plays a critical role in the formation of memories that can stay with a person for life.

Researchers led by Dan Johnston, a professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, said the CA3 region was essential for a phenomenon known as "pattern completion". He said: "That is the ability to recall memories from partial representations of the original." The CA3 region may be the part of the brain that initially captures a memory and prepares it for long-term storage. This may explain why people with a damaged hippocampus can remember events that occurred years ago but not what happened yesterday.

The study was based on an experiment in which mice were trained to escape from a maze using a set of visual clues. Genetically engineered mice that lacked a specific protein in the CA3 region could not remember how to get out of the maze when some of the clues had been removed.

Being able to recall the details of a memory from partial clues is thought to explain why humans can become sentimental over a song or a smell.

So you see, I am no sentimental fool. Twas my hippocampus playing tricks on me.

dearth

there is a dearth of motivation. a dearth of excitement. a dearth of tender loving care. a surplus of stress, frustration & injustice reigneth for another week or so! Oh no! no! no! no! 

so melodramatic. 

"The pina colada song", my favourite chill-out song.

the short of it

Could this week drag any longer? well, i exaggerate it is actually flying by. last week of placement woop woop! then its wrapping up assignments, kill off a presentation then home! where the sun shines relentlessly and it rains earnestly. Praise Adonai for a truly blessed year..what a year it was! and its not over yet(i'm speaking in terms of academic year).

- had great friends to help me enjoy the exam/study process. and got a good housemate too. 

- had an amazing not-so-ordinary christmas at Johnny's

- got 2 great placements with great grades and great educators

- went to Cote D'Azur, met the extended family and had an unbelievably good time.

- flying back home for more adventures and CHURCH soon. i miss the B.O.G. ambience!

its been GREAT. i couldn't have had a better 2nd year if i purposefully planned it. I've met some weird and wonderful people. God is good. HE is indeed.