Blood sampling in bio

We did blood sampling in Bio two days ago. I have finally discovered my blood type. I feel like I've just discovered my new identity. :)

Apparently my blood group is O. I was so disappointed. I waited and waited for agglutination to occur but nothing happened. =(

Maryann even tested her blood twice because she didn't want to accept that she's O. We were like... O is so uncool.

And because O-blood people can only receive blood from other O blood people, we had to gather our gang and identify our O-friends so that we will know who to contact if we ever kenak accident. *touch wood* I'm so glad that I've got Maryann and Adeline Liaw going NS with me. At least we have each other - the O-blood gang.

Discrimination started to happen after we discovered our blood type. We were going to discriminate Abigail because she's an AB. And everyone wants to be friends with the O-people just in case they ever need our blood. Marilyn's mum even instructed her to be nice to me. =) Though she still isn't. =( Her and her evil cousin had this clandestine club and they wouldn't let me join. Hmph.

Oh and Kim had to poke her fingers like a gamillion times because her skin's so thick! I'm sure she must have continuously poked herself for at least 20-25 minutes before we managed to force her to let teacher do it for her.

Us: Poke deeper! Hear the POP sound!

Kim: I POKE VERY DEEP ALREADY! I've been poking the same place since just now. Do you know how painful it is!?

Us: Let teacher do it for you!

Kim: Don't want! *poke for another 5 minutes to no avail*

Us: LET TEACHER DO IT FOR YOU OR YOU NO NEED TO KNOW LA!

Kim: Fine! *goes to teacher*

Teacher: *pokes* *pokes* *pokes* Why your skin so thick!

Lol! And the day goes down in history.

Doodles

Me: I don't see anything. What did you write?

Abigail: I didn't write.

Me: Dots...

Abigail: I drew.

Me: *stares* What laaarrrr!

Just because you are

Generally we are all selfish individuals. Sometimes, when we are facing some odd midlife crisis, we lose sight of our goal, we lose our heads and we live a life without purpose. The tale of a man who does not know his life’s purpose is a common tale, familiar among men. Great artists like Van Gogh had the purpose of illuminating the arts world, Einstein shed light to modern science and Edison invented light bulbs. These individuals had made life more comfortable for men, having their inventions living through centuries and still striking awe in those who appreciate it. They had their brains and their creativity but what of me? We all ask that sometimes. However, in truth, there is no such thing as one born without a purpose. In fact, we all share one common purpose, including Van Gogh, Einstein and Edison – we are all meant to change lives.

The world works in psychology. It is a known fact that the world is always changing, but in those changes, so too have some things remained constant. That is in the more human side of things. All human are vulnerable to influences. Just planting an idea in an individual would have changed the individual’s perspective entirely. For instance, when our parents decided to have us, just the idea of our future presence in their lives would have sparked a change. A change in personality is easily brought about. The way we think defines our personality. Therefore, be it with just a word or a gesture, as long as we make someone else thinks, we can be almost certain that we have contributed to the being’s character building. 

Phenotype is the combination of genotype and environmental factor. I have always believed that genotype is what your parents give to you and environmental factor is what God has prepared for you. Environmental factor here being you and I in each other’s lives. I do believe that personality can be inherited genetically but at the same time, it can be overridden by environmental factors because the mind is a powerful thing. It holds everything in perspective. It can cause pain and it can relieve pain. 

Now, we have to understand the bond among us. We do what we do for each other, selfishly or otherwise. We struggle up the social ladder because we want others to look up to us. We work hard to excel because we want to be known as capable. We work for money and job satisfaction because we want to feed our family and our needs. It’s all brain food, literally. We do not do what we do for absolutely nothing. It is always either we do to help others or we do to have others look at us and marvel. Nevertheless, the bottom line is the same. We drive each other; therefore we change each other’s lives, solely by our existence. With the growing world population, it does not matter if I know you or if you know me. Just the simple regard that you are there, alive and fighting for a place in the world is enough to keep one going.

Hence the next time you think life is purposeless, look around you. It is a pain to keep going because others are doing it. But it is the only way any human can be driven. We keep going for others because we know we can. We want to help others and we want to help ourselves. It is human nature. It is what keeps us sane and paradoxically, it is also what makes us go insane. Some times. And at the moment, I will try keep myself sane… just because you are.

Horlick 1 Nescafe 1

That's H1N1 for you. :)

Picked that up from tuition.

Anyway Marilyn is supposedly sick at the moment. I sat next to her during tuition and now I fear for my life. A bit. ;p

Me: Can you wear a mask? What if I get sick!

Amanda: You afraid of death meh?

Me: A bit.

Amanda: Really?

Me: Ya. Not ready to face God yet.

Marilyn: But then like you die then everything's over.

Amanda: How do you know you're going to heaven? *sniggers*

Me: Ha-ha! Exactly! That's why I said I'm not ready to die yet!

The haze is quite bad now. We're using mask at school but no one can tahan having it on the whole day. So we normally take it off after recess when the morning haze has more or less cleared off. But even the mask is making us a lil confused coz we don't know which side is in and which side is out. =.="

Drought is happening somewhere else in Sarawak. Haze in Kuching. H1N1 pandemic is everywhere. Global warming is around the globe.

Global warming. You know it's happening when your house doesn't even install water heater and you're bathing hot water.

Anyway, the world seems to be taking a very bad turn. What if a Plague 99 scenario happens? What if a drought like the one in Looking For A Rain God happens?

-_-"

The Day Before Yesterday

Yesterday was the beginning of exams.

The day before yesterday was the third of our four-times-a-year exam breakdown session.

I believe it all started 2 minutes after recess, when I was walking back to class. I met Gurprit along the way because she screamed my name.

Gurprit: LIPYI!

Me: Yes?

Someone-i-forgot-who: *tags me* JADI!

Me: *stares at Gurprit*

Gurprit: You jadi!

Me: Ha? *tags Angeline*

Angeline: I culup!!

Me: Not fair! You all culup!

Gurprit: *sees Amanda walking towards us* Amanda! Tag Amanda!

Me: MANDA! Come! *hits Amanda* JADI!

And her expression was... "Whaat...?"

So we got back to class and we started randomly tagging people.

*tags Ginny who'd just got back from toilet*

Ginny: What?

*tags Adeline Liaw who mid-talking*

Adeline: Ha?

*Fish walks in, sees commotion, understands situation and screams loudly: I CULUP!!!!!!*

*tags Maxine who'd just returned from toilet*

Us: JADI!

Maxine: *dots* .... +.+" You people... semakin menjadi-jadi!

And from there, the tagging game began and every one was in. In the beginning it was easy to tag people but as every one became aware of the game, every one culup.

Adeline Tan: *reading newspaper with her thumbs up*

Abigail: *studying bio with her thumbs up*

Random people: *sitting in their seats, doing nothing, with their thumbs up*

Thumbs up - Don't know promoting what. ;p

Then Francoise went: Every one culup must squat down!

So every one rushed to squat down.

Abigail: *squats down too fast, her table overturned*

Olivia: *helps Abigail picks up her things*

Don't-know-who: *tags Olivia*

Maxine: *duck-walks back to her seat, with her thumbs up*

Fish: *at her seat with her thumbs up and got tagged*

"You didn't squat!"

Fish: HAAA!

It was so funny. The whole class, really the WHOLE class, was squating down, with their thumbs up and laughing. Talk about class bonding! =D

Then... after don't know how many rounds of people jadi-ing...

Teacher entered.

And for the first time since... a very long time...

The entire class stood up in unison.

And the effect was so obvious because every one was squating down!

I wish there was a picture. If one had just peeked into our class, I think she'll wonder why suddenly 40 students were squating down at the same time with one random person circling about. Maybe she'll think the one random person is punishing the others. Now, won't that be scary... ;)

Anyway it was good fun. After that 5-10 minutes of us 17 year-olds playing 7-year-olds game, we got back to studying. Sigh.

Olivia was studying Bio when she suddenly read about Anthrax.

Olivia: What's Anthrax?

Me: It's a virus.

Abigail: People used to send it in envelopes to the ambassadors. I think it spoils their respiratory system.

Me: Really? Who sends it?

Olivia: The EVIL people la!

Me: =.=" Of course I know it's evil people la! But who? Which country?

Oliva: *gives her famed scandalous look* The EVIL people from the EVIL country!

Me: You look at her evil look! I think Olivia sends it!

Olivia: Yes! I send it!

Abigail: But if you send it, how come you don't know what's Anthrax?

*kantoi...*

Olivia: Oh...  I don't know it by what you commoners call itI Anthrax.. I know it by it's scientific name! It's called.... H1N3456789XY!

*wePeng...*

Abigail: Why don't you just call it OLIVIA if you designed it? So much simpler!

Olivia: I cannot let people know it's me ma!

Abigail: Then! You tell us?

Olivia: Oh. You? Who would believe you?

Abigail: Oh! So now I'm not believeable la!?

Me: I think she'll just claim you're crazy.

Olivia: Yes. Besides, my virus is called.... H1N8910111213XYZ....

Me: LOL! IT'S NOT EVEN THE SAME NAME!!

Abigail: She can't even remember the name of her virus! *laughs out loud*

Me: Maybe that's the next strain - Anthrax TWO!

Olivia will not make a very good villian. Haha.

And we ended the day by colouring Kim's leg with highlighter. Just because it's exam period, everyone is equipped with highlighter. =)

After school, just before I went home, Kim drew a peace sign on my left hand which looked super cacat. Then she wanted to draw another one on my right hand. But the circle turned out even more cacat. So instead of drawing the peace sign inside, she drew a smiley. =.="

So instead of flashing two peace signs to people, I had to do this:

Me: You see, you got this....

*shows left hand - the peace sign*

Me: Then you got this!

*shows right hand - the smiley*

Geddit? ;p