Tuesday, May 10, 2005
It's been quite a long time since i last blogged. Looking at this posting page makes me feel at a lost for words. Small little things scatter and bump around in my brain like collisions of gas particles. I'm reminded of the recent chemistry test. Actually not recent, it's been two weeks already. That is fourteen days. Last week was a hectic week whereby many things happened. But if you were to ask me to recall events in a snap of the fingers, my thoughts will wander even more randomly than now, and clashing. I cannot organise them at this point of time. In fact, i think my memory is even worse than that. 30 seconds ago i had thought chemistry test took place last week.
Not long ago there was this article on listening. Researchers say the human brain can absorb 50% of the things they hear. This is because while listening we may daydream or switch off, at the same time we choose only the things our minds and heart what to absorb. Approximately two days later only half of what is absorbed is retained. In other words, in all we keep 25% of the information we hear. If that is the case, shouldn't the teachers conduct the same lesson 4 times? Each lesson we absorb a different 25%, so eventually we learnt 100% of what is taught. =S But it does not seem so in life. Meanwhile i guess if we set out hearts out to listen attentively, and try a bit harder, we do have the ability to take in majority of what we hear.
I'm glad we got to listen to luo da you songs during chi lessons. I realised i have not truly enjoyed a single chi lesson in weeks. Some others probably feel the same. Anw i think we deserved it, not that we have accumulated a lot of merit for chi recently but it's after mid-yrs after all. Including mid-yrs, i think we have done a fair share of writing and need a break away from pens, gao zhi, ge shi and stuff. But perceiving it as a whole, it's never rest-time for us. After this i still got to work on cme portfolio. =( Anyway, compre was a disaster. A silent killer that came and went steathily, that worked on my nerves and arteries and one best at literary devices. The worse thing is sitting between two efficient english pros. And when Zoe writes, my table vibrates. '!'
