26.10.07
2:48 PM

SLEEP...

'Scientists think we may solve problems and improve memory while we snooze.'

Scientists have been trying to determine why people need sleep for more than 100 years. They have not learned much more than what every new parent quickly finds out: sleep loss makes you more reckless, more emotionally fragile, less able to concentrate and almost certainly more vulnerable to infection. They know, too, that some people get by on as few as three hours a night, even less, and that there are hearty souls who have stayed up for more than week without significant health problems.

Now, a small group of neuroscientists is arguing that at least one vital function of sleep is bound up with learning and memory. A cascade of new findings, in animals and humans, suggest that sleep plays a critical role in flagging and storing important memories, both intellectual and physical, and perhaps in seeing subtle connections that were invisible during waking — a new way to solve a math or Easter egg problem, even an unseen pattern causing stress in a marriage.

Yet the new research underscores a vast transformation in the way scientists have come to understand the sleeping brain. Once seen as a blank screen, a metaphor for death, it has emerged as an active, purposeful machine, a secretive intelligence that comes out at night to play — and to work — during periods of dreaming and during the netherworld chasms known as deep sleep.

“To do science you have to have an idea, and for years no one had one; they saw sleep as nothing but an annihilation of consciousness,” said Dr. J. Allan Hobson, a psychiatry professor at Harvard. “Now we know different, and we’ve got some very good ideas about what’s going on.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/health/23memo.html?ref=science

More reason for us to have MORE sleep and less hours of school, Uni and work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Jesus!!!!!!


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22.10.07
4:54 PM

With about 9 days left of school... and 18 days to my finals... I really have nothing to blog about except...

NICCI NEEDS TO FINISH HER WORK AND STUDDDDDDDYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!

It is pretty exciting thinking that I'll be finishing in just a couple of ... days really... With that comes a lot of pressure, stress and LAST MINUTE LATE NIGHT work...

Oh well... Looking forward to the near future... God is good...

To all those finishing year 12... INTO THE BIG BAD WORLD WE GO!!!!!!!!!!
To all those who have many more years in high school... GOD BE WITH YOU!!
To all those in Malaysia... HOPE TO SEE YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!

:D

Have a good life everyone~!


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16.10.07
6:34 PM

Thank you Ella...

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God, that a man must seek God to find it.....

:D :D :D :D


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12.10.07
11:25 PM

update...

It has been a month and four days since i last updated my blog...

Whats been happening?

Well......

I have 31 days left before my finals...

I have 3 major assignments to hand in... 2 of which are done... and 1 which needs a fair bit of work...

I seriously NEED to STUDY...

I had this.... nightmare a couple of days ago... that I didn't do well and wasn't accepted into any uni... and was such a failure, disappointment and embarrassment... I studied 3 chapters of biology the next day... And got an assignment started... HAHAHAH... maybe it is good to get such nightmares...

I was reading my bible this morning... and it was so good... Kinda felt like i was chillin with God.. I mean.. it was just a different experience... like... you know sometimes when you spend time with God... it can be intense... and sometimes its just you know... relaxed... sometimes it is encouraging... sometimes it is inspiring...yah... this time was different... very different... it was... FUN... I mean... I'm not saying spending time with God isn't fun... it was just a different kind of fun... I find hard to explain in words... you've just gotta feel me here... and work with me... :D

It was like hanging with a group of girlfriends at a shopping mall... or a sleepover... hahahhah... For some reason this morning i was in a very 'tickled' mood... You know how you have those days where everything just tends to be funny? Even when it isn't funny? Well.. yah.. and so as i was reading my bible.. it was in that mood... read some funny stuff in the bible which really was good and i needed it but i looked at it in a funny way and it stuck with me.. Not in a funny mocking way... It hit me and i needed to hear it...or read it... AND it stuck... It was just a fun morning with God... hahahah... i know that sounds strange... but it was... Even thinking about it now makes me laugh... I reckon God had a pretty good morning today~!!!!!!!!!! hahahah... I sure did...

You know what I find difficult? Waking up in the morning... on a 16-18 degree spring morning... I mean... waking up itself is difficult... but with weather like that... The difficulty level is escalated greatly!!! The bed is just somehow always more comfortable... it is warm and cosy...you are in the perfect position... the hair is off your face... everything is just right... until... then stupid alarm clock rings... and you know you have to drag yourself out of bed using up the entire effort quota of the day!!!!!

It is more difficult than saying no to a plate of warm sticky date pudding... and is more difficult than saying no to a plate of pork... specifically siew yok in wing sun's case!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm rambling on... think i need sleep... Need to wake up early again tomorrow... Should get back into the habit... school starts Monday... *groans*

have a good one everybody~!!!

*ignore the incorrect use of grammar and bad sentence construction...


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