eureka!

ive been feeling pretty down this morning ever since penning my PBL report, because I CANT SEEM TO WRITE ANYMORE. my grammar is going to pieces and my vocabulary has decided to go on a vacation. lamarck was right on use and disuse... at least with regards to language. use a language often and it will improve. cease to use it and it degenerates until you are left with the bare basics of communication. which annoys me to no end because i used to be rather eloquent. well... ok i exaggerate. but i could definitely express myself better than i can right now o.0

anyways, i came up with an emergency action plan - Operation Mother Tongue. haha! the first part (and the only im afraid... at least for now) involves me infringing the copyright law by photocopying all the nice articles in Time and Newsweek. (its awfully cheap to do that if you shrink 2 pages into one) i took down 3 issues and it cost me only SGD2.50. quite a steal if you ask me!

was perusing the stolen articles during calculus class and lo and behold! i might have just unearthed the answer to my acute sleeping illness (of the benign type). according to my -uh hum- research, i might have a case of sleep apnea. what is sleep apnea, you ask? well it happens when your nasal passages or throat gets blocked during sleep and your breathing is badly interrupted. this effectively wakes you up at a subconscious level as your body strains to breathe (often through snoring, snorting har har, snuffling or wheezing). this means that you get little or no sleep at Stage 4 of the sleep cycle. now, this translates into your body not ever getting complete rest.

apparently, after the reader had CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) applied to him via this mini machine thing, he awoke feeling better than he ever EVER did! and, get this, he usually "take(s) a couple of hours after i wake up (around 10am) to arrive at even moderate alertness". sounds like anybody you know??!!

well the sympoms of sleep apnea are as follows - snuffling at night (just ask yideho, me snorted all night in tainan), irritability, constant need for naps (check out me during class!), nodding off in the afternoon (haha!). sounds like me? eh eh eh??

i certainly think so!!! think im gonna check myself into a sleep clinic real soon (hopefully i'll get some discount, too.. cuz ive a feeling it aint gonna be cheap). alright thats abt it for now!! i'll try to update more often, now that the midterms (almost) over.

hmm oh yeah btw, I PASSED PHYSICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woot. (although i flunked physics lab so far that the passing mark is a speckle) hehe. but who cares abt lab anyways, when the apparatus EXPIRE in the 1970s?! hehehe. aighty gotta go study for biology lab. i'll definitely remember to capitalize and attempt to italicize the goddamn latin names this time. o.0

cheerios!