Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Since I've been in the pyschology mood lately, here's my recommendation of two books which have the psychology plus crime element in it, a fantastic combination! The first is Mind Catcher by John Darnton. The second, The Intepretaion of murder by Jed Rubenfield.
Mind Catcher is about this mad psychologist working in a mental research insituite trying to capture the human mind as it escapes from the brain when it nears death. The concept behind his idea is that since our brain shuts down in folds from the outside to the inside, the mind located at the centre of it all will struggle to escape and when given an open portal will do so. Thus if his resaerch and experiement ( for what is a mad doctor without his mad experiement) suceeds, this will prove his theory, that the human mind (or anima as he calls it) can exist outside a body, correct.
Interetsing bits of the book i really like, include the short argument on the difference between the mind and the brain. Really enlightening, and i would have posted up a short exerpt if not for the constrain of time. The book also featured different mental illnesses, such as a man who believes his flesh is rotting. Kinda scary, but then again scary is interesting.
As for The Intepretation of murder, i havn't yet read the book as i intend to save it for the holidays when i can slowly savour every single page without the constant nagging of homework. But how can a book ever go wrong with a charcter like Freud featured as the detective of the novel!?! Also, i have to but add, that this is the very first book i bought on impulse. I almost never buy books except for the one time i was force to get one for my brithday and ended up with the ridiculously boring "water babies".
3:10 AM
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Hey Rachel!
First and foremost, it's an interesting read! For both essays, you manage to address the question and you sustaniate your points. Plus, it's not too formal too turn off the reader from reading.
For the prejudice article,
Good points:
- interesting and relevant example =)
- good sentence structure, signposting it's easy to follow your clear path of thoughts
Areas to improve on
- just a minor thing it's " at no time" not "at not time" x_x
- the second paragraph becomes slightly irrelevant as you didn't link it back to the question clearly.
That's all =) I look forward to your furure aticles!
8:30 PM
Saturday, May 12, 2007
I dreamt of spiders yesterday and snakes a few weeks ago. I’ve been telling anybody who would listen about it, believe me it makes excellent conversation material when you’re walking silently with your friend along a long and empty road and there’s about another 10 mins more of walking you’ve got to do. So how are my dreams related to GP, you ask. Well, it answers the ongoing GP question on whether Singapore teens are stress, cause if young girls like me have creepy crawlies instead of white daffodil fields or tantalizing chocolate buffets in my dreams, then yes, apparently I am very stress.
So back to my dream. In it, my sis lose her tarantula spider (you know, those huge brown ones with fangs), and it sank its fangs into a passerby who then after dies in approximately 3 minutes. I thought she would have learned her lesson and kept the lid on her spider cage a little more tight after that unfortunate incident, but as with all pesky little sisters, she didn’t. This time round her Arizona spider escaped, I just freaked out. It’s a horrible feeling when you are aware that something so lethally dangerous is hanging around you but you just can’t see it. I searched everywhere in the house armed with my graphical calculator (another sign that school is driving young teens mad!) ready to smash that “eight legged freak” into pulp, then…..my mom called, I woke up.
I remember telling Yi Herng today that dreams are merely a reflection of our hidden desires. Not literally of course (when are things like these ever straight forward!?!) they exist as Freudian symbols. Freudian symbols are just a theory evolved by the great father of psychology, Sigmund Freud. He says that dreams are repress forms of our sexual desires (yuck! For those who doesn’t know, Freud really does have some weird theories), for example a sword in our dream might be a phallic symbol. Ive checked, snakes and spiders mean something too. But, I’m not going to tell you what, there is just this much you can share in your blog. But check it out yourself, there’s always Google and the ever “reliable”, Wikipedia.
10:44 PM
Monday, May 7, 2007
Just look at my new blogskin...really just look..you are looking at 2 hours of hard hard work. I have to admit though that half way through those stupid codings you have to copy and paste..and then oops...copy and paste again...i began to wonder why on Earth a computer idiot like me was attempting to venture into this dangerous terrain of template changing. But, its all worth it! Just look at it, the perfect symetry of colours, such an adept song, such beautiful graphics, such...ok, that's enough i think you get the point.
So then i was thinking, why should such a beautiful blog such as mine( thankyou. thankyou)go to waste. I should blog more often, yar tht's what i should do. Try to link every nosensical happenings of my life to GP. I can almost hear the Gp teachers going in their sagely voice "yes, GP exist all around you". So...
Oh crap! Mom's calling, its 11pm what do you think you're doing on your computer, err...im doing my homework don't disturb me. That's not going to work, she knows a blogpage when she sees one.
8:01 AM