Manipulating the Grammar of Life

I got an excellent for my previous term exams!

ok I know I've been seriously neglecting my LJ.... I just have nothing to blog about and it really has been awhile since I've even log into my account.

anyways, happy holidays to everyone.

P.s. if anyone knows anything about the street/recreational drugs that are making the rounds in Kuching or Malaysia please enlighten me. just need to know what they're called and what the active substance is.

Update

So the boiler's fix and the electricty went poof after I tried to hoover (vacuum for those not familiar with Brit slang) my floor. Fuse blew and all the sockets in the damn house went offline... except for the ones in the kitchen so broke out extension cords that were brought over from home and for a few days we were running the phone, broadband, tv, dvd, satellite box and computers off one socket and a bunch of extension cords. So fine, ok that was fixed less than a week ago but ha-ha like a massive joke I still get electrocuted in the shower ever so often.... besides that the heating is now not working so called the landlord, he came with the guy who fixed up the boiler who out of the blue, caught red-handed, confessed that he has yet to fix up ONE REMAINING PIPE so off goes the boiler. He was SUPPOSED to return tonight at 6 to fix the pipe and do some earthing work for poor lil old me so I don't get fried when I'm cleaning myself but lo and behold 6pm came and went......

In other, more interesting and less RARRR I WILL KILL YOU news... I'm teaching Clinical Skills to first years every wednesday (yay me!) which will help me in my revision and be well, I expect some fun. Also taken up kickboxing..... since it's the only martial arty thing they have.

Sidenote, I'll be visiting a psychiatric hospital next wednesday as part of my project on psychiatry and film and if that wasn't fun enough, my tutor is a forensic psychiatrist.... (meaning he deals with aggressive psychopaths and serial killers) and his clinic (where we're having our meetings) is in the secure wing of the hospital which has a few airlock security checks you have to go through to get there....

Yay me.

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boiler

this is a picture of the warning attached to the boiler, enjoy.

So I'm back in London and uni has restarted.

Also, I'm living in a house which could explode if the boiler isn't fixed. So for the time being, we're living in a house which has no hot water or heating as the landlord is reluctant to replace it.

We'll see how this goes.

Since some of you wanted an update post, here it is:

what have I been doing? nothing much sums it up pretty well.

any new developments in my life? none whatsoever.

ok so it isn't all true. I did give a 50 minute talk on the undesirable effects of smoking to a bunch of kids about two weeks ago. it was a church thing; they originally wanted me to "share" about my experience living overseas and so on with a pinch of religious zeal and drama added into the mix but the best I can come up with was............. heh, let's not go there. suffice to say, I came up with the whole smoking is bad thing as a counter offer seeing as I have absolutely peanuts to say about discipline, being religious or the positive outcome of once being an altar boy (other than developing a mistrust for others, finely tuned organisational skills with multi-layered emergency contingencies as a specialty and an elevated blood pressure of course).

so for 50 minutes on a hot saturday afternoon in a room which looks very much like a minute lecture hall, I scared the living daylights out of kids as young as 11 to their 17 year old seniors with pictures of lungs both normal and abnormal plus pictures of tumours in the nostril, mouth and throat. besides that, I freaked them out with photos of burn victims that survive the ordeal with 3rd degree burns and those that were luckier (meaning those that burnt themselves to ashes whilst they were sleeping with a fag in hand).

pictures weren't the only thing they had to deal with because I bombarded them with facts about cigarette smoke like how there are over 3000 known chemicals identified in the smoke itself with 19 known cancer inducing agents, 4 of which are radioactive. they also had to deal with my conspiracy theories on how tobacco companies secretly desire to set all their clients on fire and burn them to a crispy death by chemically treating their tobacco so it will not self extinguish, which natural tobacco is supposed to do.

in the end, I think half of them were clutching their faces in horror trying to shield their eyes from the continuous barrage of horrific images projected onto the wall by the LCD projector. near the end, I had pleas to stop showing the pictures hehe, my sadistic soul giggled like a little school girl upon hearing those pleas.

my final message was simple, nobody cares if you're killing yourself by smoking or if you're killing other smokers in an airtight smokers' corner with minimal ventilation; if that was the only problem with smoking then by all means, go ahead why should I care but it isn't. smoking kills, plain and simple; maybe not immediately but surely and slowly it will torture and/or kill those nearby to the smoker. any damage done to lung tissue is non-regenerative, it accumulates over the years until you can't even dress yourself without going out of breath and then you die, horribly. gasping for air as if someone is sucking the life out of you, smothering you with a pillow. your lungs, completely useless for anything other than decoration and dissection by people like me. smoking might not kill you, but it might kill those closest to you.

speaking of which, I should really see how much damage my lungs have taken over the years of passive smoking and breathing in the haze.

separate note: there's apparently this new thing called facebook which is a friendster like thingy but it connects people by networking them into educational institutions and working establishments. it has unlimited photo storage though it only allows photos the size of 4mb and under. it's somewhat of a cross between hi5 and friendster with a more professional twist. it's mainly for small university groups like the medical school I attend as it seems that about 1/3 of my year is already on it exchanging gossip about lecturers (apparently even forming a fanclub for a pharmacology professor of mine). I would say its highest selling point is the options in the status menu where you indicate what your intention is in meeting people (the ever useful and ever present "looking for" box) where it lists, (i) friendship, (ii) relationship, (iii) dating and my 2 favourites: (IV) RANDOM PLAY & (V) WHATEVER I CAN GET.

your guess is as good as mine as to what random play might suggest.

Those that want to check it out can find the link well... in my links.... it's the last one or if you're really THAT lazy to go to my page to find it, use this: www.facebook.com

this is your host, B, signing off with my intentions clearly marked as: WHATEVER I CAN GET.

I have accomplished the mission that was given to me from on high.

I have prepared for my quest ever since I set foot on my homeland, readying both my mind and my body for the ordeal that I was about to endure...

Finally, I set out on my holy quest not two weeks ago and now I have returned triumphant.

I have successfully finished Xenosaga III: Also Sprach Zarathustra...

What? Did you think I would be so foolhardy to actually go on a "god-given" quest? I'm not that stupid, even if I were hearing voices in my head; it just wouldn't be me to actually listen to them.

I suppose this explains my absence from cyberspace.. or maybe not...

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As for my lack of updates on my blog, I think I'll just leave it as a case of "Nothing important happened today".... or any other day for that matter.

My disinterest in the happenings in the world of Man is ever increasing.

I have an adverse reaction to Singapore.

I hate the ppl who live in my area. I hate them. Hate them. I shall drive a massive 4WD and ram them all down. Fucking cunts.

Broadband is working! woohoo!!