lol whut?

what i did this week:
- tried to understand the complexity of a bee's communicative dance
- witnessed a doctor call students 'chicken' over teleconference
- interviewed fake patients in all awkwardness
- never been as confused as i've been in my whole life about data collection
- listened to Michael Buble
- showered with the bathroom door opened because i had my basement apt to myself

currently:
- in the middle of reading 60 pages about language acquisition and writing notes
- needing to wash my dishes
- wanting to take the bus home and having my mom make me food. yum

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on another note. this is mostly aimed at jenicka and anita:

have you guys seen this?




tis the new SLH shirt in the works. alls i can say is i'm not impressed and definitely not excited (for it to arrive in my mailbox).

the allegory of the cave pt 2.

continuing on with the previous blog:

all the answers are quite plausible right? and whatever you chose, you had your reasons. i myself chose 'd' when i first heard it.

so the story continues (as anita already knows.. lol) he goes back to the cave, tells his friends and they kill him (congrats to jenicka haha).

moral of the story: they kill him because they're too afraid of change. change in their own perspective, their own little world that they've built for themselves all their lives. it's just so easy to automatically reject something that doesn't fit with our view of things right? oh the complexity of the human mind.

so i thought that was an enlightening story. hoped you enjoyed it :)

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on a separate note, i'm going to *try* and blog more often. i've neglected it for a couple months now. i figure blogging is more harmless than online window shopping and "one click pay it now" options (curse you online shopping... curse you).

the allegory of the cave pt 1.

i was in my PBL class yesterday and my tutor/prof told me an enlightening story from dear old Plato. hope you guys haven't heard it before cuz i pass it on here and ask you guys to think of what it means:

There is a group of people who've been chained and imprisoned in a cave all their lives with no exposure to the outside world. They forever sat facing only one wall of the cave with a fire pit burning behind them. Every so often, there are puppeteers who'd come into the cave and perform shadow puppet plays on the wall for these cave people. Through the plays the cave people develop their own sense of the world outside of the cave. happy dandi. one day, a cave person breaks free from imprisonment and decides to trod out of the cave and actually explore the outside world. This guy lives amongst people in the outside world and adapts to the outside norms. Time passes and he decides to go back to his cave friends and tell them all about the wonders and happenings in the world outside the cave. When he goes and does this what do you think his cave friends did?

a) break free and join him in the outside world
b) sit on their butts and complain they'll never get to experience what he did
c) ask him to teach them of the workings of the outside world so they can adapt it in the cave
d) become angered then kill him
e) laugh at him and accuse him of being mentally deranged

i leave my blog here for you guys to pick one and say why you've chosen your choice. My next blog will finish the story. NO CHEATING BY LOOKING UP THE STORY ON GOOGLE! lol it ruins the fun.

here's a visual to accompany the scenario:

21 randos

i too will fill out this list of 21 things about me because i enjoyed reading your 21 facts.
haha! SCREW YOU TEXTBOOKS THAT NEED TO BE READ.

1. i will try any kind of food or beverage that has the words 'green tea' attached to it
2. when procrastinating, i like to pick clothes out of my closet to make new outfits
3. post-it notes are my life savers
4. my room is messy/disorganized pretty much all the time...
5. however, it pains me when my closet is not organized by clothing function or by colour
6. guys who look dork-chic, geek-chic or nerd-chic are awesome by my books
7. i hate any form of cleaning
8. i wish i had creative skills to design and make cool pieces of clothes
9. i love snooping garage sales and wished i had more time to go to them
10. i feel really bad when i eat anything after 8:00pm, but i do it anyways
11. one of my biggest pet peeves is going to the washroom first thing when i wake up and finding out there's no toilet paper on the roll-y thing afterwards
12. i like to set my alarm at least 1/2 hour earlier than when i'm suppose to wake up so i can "snooze" a couple times
13. i sleep with my blankets pulled over my head
14. i hate whole mushrooms in my food, but will eat it if it's diced
15. i'm currently recovering from a cold
16. i burn incense when i'm hardcore stressed out to help me relax
17. i'm more quiet than i would like to be
18. when i'm home, my hair is clipped up with a huge clamp on top of my head (like pebbles from the flintstones)
19. i think that guy-girl pop duos are so cute
20. i dislike using the eraser on top of lead pencils, i'd rather keep them unused
21. i really want to go overseas for a couple years after i graduate, but i'm afraid to actually do it

that was harder than i thought.

veronica it is YOUR TURN.