Friday, February 24, 2006
Photo
Realized that the photo put up yesterday couldnt distinguish the numbers on the yellow asset number clearly, so here's a pic of the pic from the booklet:
Thursday, February 23, 2006
blasphemy
The uni is trying to raise funds by asking everybody out there to give them money in exchange for renaming things after them. If you give them 2-30 million, they will name a building after you and if you give above 25 million, they will rename a school / faculty after you.
Thus, I have decided to save money to give to the uni, in a few years time, when I accumulate $100Million dollars, I will give it to the uni so they will rename NUS as National University of Sam. MUahahahahahah!!!! Then I will hike school fees by 30% each year and everybody that enters the uni will get stright A's no matter what you do or score in exams, just so long you dont complain about the fee hike. Muahhahah!!!!
As always, the uni has a unique way of messing things up.
Take a look at this picture, from the prestigious flavilab center:
An inverted microscope with the yellow asset number tag at the top.
Take a look at the propaganda brochure the uni came up with. They try to mimic the Mastercard 'priceless' advert some time ago.
Cover:
First page:
Some middle page:
Research excellence, yadda yadda yadda:
But wait, what's this!!!
Is that a pic from our lab? Lets read the caption:
What the....
O & G????
Ok, maybe OnG has a microscope EXACTLY like ours, same model, same monitor, and even same corner of the wall.
But on closer inspection, notice the yellow asset number? Its exactly the same.
Then, of course I'm wrong! I'm sure OnG has a microscope with the same asset number as microbiology.
How silly of me to accuse the makers of the brochure to NOT give credit to whom credit is due.
Thus, I have decided to save money to give to the uni, in a few years time, when I accumulate $100Million dollars, I will give it to the uni so they will rename NUS as National University of Sam. MUahahahahahah!!!! Then I will hike school fees by 30% each year and everybody that enters the uni will get stright A's no matter what you do or score in exams, just so long you dont complain about the fee hike. Muahhahah!!!!
As always, the uni has a unique way of messing things up.
Take a look at this picture, from the prestigious flavilab center:
An inverted microscope with the yellow asset number tag at the top.
Take a look at the propaganda brochure the uni came up with. They try to mimic the Mastercard 'priceless' advert some time ago.
Cover:
First page:
Some middle page:
Research excellence, yadda yadda yadda:
But wait, what's this!!!
Is that a pic from our lab? Lets read the caption:
What the....
O & G????
Ok, maybe OnG has a microscope EXACTLY like ours, same model, same monitor, and even same corner of the wall.
But on closer inspection, notice the yellow asset number? Its exactly the same.
Then, of course I'm wrong! I'm sure OnG has a microscope with the same asset number as microbiology.
How silly of me to accuse the makers of the brochure to NOT give credit to whom credit is due.
Monday, February 20, 2006
Pollutioin
Heard this saying today. Don't know how true it is.
The solution to pollution is dilution.
Think about it. So may ways to argue both for and against it.
The solution to pollution is dilution.
Think about it. So may ways to argue both for and against it.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Broken hearts
Feb 14, 2006
Be careful, a broken heart can kill you
Severe emotional or work stress can trigger heart attacks in healthy people
By Salma Khalik
HEALTH CORRESPONDENT
ON A day devoted to affairs of the heart, here's a bit of sobering news: A broken heart CAN kill.
So, too, can a surprise party... if there's a little too much of a surprise in it. There is truth to the phrase, 'scared to death'.
And that old chestnut, 'you're being worked to death'? That's possible too.
With Valentine's Day today, comes a timely warning from cardiologists at the National University Hospital (NUH): Severe emotional or work stress can trigger heart attacks in otherwise healthy people.
And their study of seven such patients, along with several others conducted by other cardiac centres, seems to confirm what men have long suspected: Women's hearts break more easily.
Women account for more than nine in 10 of these emotional heart attacks, the studies have revealed.
But it is not all bad news.
They also give the answer to that question posed in the popular song, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?
Time, apparently, does the trick.
A 'heartbreak' attack is different from a 'regular' heart attack, which is usually caused by blocked arteries that restrict blood flow to the rest of the body.
A heart attack induced by emotion or stress, on the other hand, is triggered by a surge of hormones, which causes only the top part of the heart to contract, thus reducing blood flow.
This phenomenon was first discovered by Japanese researchers in 2001.
They called it 'tako tsubo' because, in such an attack, only the top part of the heart contracts, giving it the shape of an octopus trap with a round bottom and narrow neck - called tako tsubo in Japanese.
But time can help the victims of heartbreak - physically, as well as emotionally.
Rush the victim to hospital. If he - or more likely, she - gets there in time, the chances are very good that, within a month, the heart will have recovered its resilience, resulting in a full recovery and no side-effects from the attack.
Senior cardiologist Tan Huay Cheem, one of the researchers in the NUH study, said: 'We have come across cases like this before, but we thought it was caused by a very small clot which disintegrated.'
These victims tend to have typical heart attack symptoms, such as chest pains.
When doctors investigate, they find none of the classic problems, such as blocked or narrow arteries.
Now, when they do an angiogram on the patient and see the heart in the tako tsubo shape, they know they merely need to support the organ till it gets back to normal.
This is done with a balloon pump which helps the heart push blood to the rest of the body.
A study by the Sheba Medical Centre in Israel found that the tako tsubo syndrome caused 2 per cent of all heart attacks in that country, but 6 per cent of those in women.
A study by Johns Hopkins University in the United States found that, of 19 patients who had suffered attacks related to emotion and stress, about half were triggered by news of the death of someone close.
Other causes included surprise parties, armed robbery and even a fear of public speaking.
'The potentially lethal consequences of emotional stress,' the study concluded, 'are deeply rooted in folk wisdom, as reflected by phrases such as 'scared to death' and 'a broken heart'.'
salma@sph.com.sg
Be careful, a broken heart can kill you
Severe emotional or work stress can trigger heart attacks in healthy people
By Salma Khalik
HEALTH CORRESPONDENT
ON A day devoted to affairs of the heart, here's a bit of sobering news: A broken heart CAN kill.
So, too, can a surprise party... if there's a little too much of a surprise in it. There is truth to the phrase, 'scared to death'.
And that old chestnut, 'you're being worked to death'? That's possible too.
With Valentine's Day today, comes a timely warning from cardiologists at the National University Hospital (NUH): Severe emotional or work stress can trigger heart attacks in otherwise healthy people.
And their study of seven such patients, along with several others conducted by other cardiac centres, seems to confirm what men have long suspected: Women's hearts break more easily.
Women account for more than nine in 10 of these emotional heart attacks, the studies have revealed.
But it is not all bad news.
They also give the answer to that question posed in the popular song, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?
Time, apparently, does the trick.
A 'heartbreak' attack is different from a 'regular' heart attack, which is usually caused by blocked arteries that restrict blood flow to the rest of the body.
A heart attack induced by emotion or stress, on the other hand, is triggered by a surge of hormones, which causes only the top part of the heart to contract, thus reducing blood flow.
This phenomenon was first discovered by Japanese researchers in 2001.
They called it 'tako tsubo' because, in such an attack, only the top part of the heart contracts, giving it the shape of an octopus trap with a round bottom and narrow neck - called tako tsubo in Japanese.
But time can help the victims of heartbreak - physically, as well as emotionally.
Rush the victim to hospital. If he - or more likely, she - gets there in time, the chances are very good that, within a month, the heart will have recovered its resilience, resulting in a full recovery and no side-effects from the attack.
Senior cardiologist Tan Huay Cheem, one of the researchers in the NUH study, said: 'We have come across cases like this before, but we thought it was caused by a very small clot which disintegrated.'
These victims tend to have typical heart attack symptoms, such as chest pains.
When doctors investigate, they find none of the classic problems, such as blocked or narrow arteries.
Now, when they do an angiogram on the patient and see the heart in the tako tsubo shape, they know they merely need to support the organ till it gets back to normal.
This is done with a balloon pump which helps the heart push blood to the rest of the body.
A study by the Sheba Medical Centre in Israel found that the tako tsubo syndrome caused 2 per cent of all heart attacks in that country, but 6 per cent of those in women.
A study by Johns Hopkins University in the United States found that, of 19 patients who had suffered attacks related to emotion and stress, about half were triggered by news of the death of someone close.
Other causes included surprise parties, armed robbery and even a fear of public speaking.
'The potentially lethal consequences of emotional stress,' the study concluded, 'are deeply rooted in folk wisdom, as reflected by phrases such as 'scared to death' and 'a broken heart'.'
salma@sph.com.sg
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