The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing.

- Lord Henry advises Dorian, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde.

Happens to me my mantra now. Hedonism rules.

Mongkut once remarked to a Christian missionary friend: "What you teach us to do is admirable, but what you teach us to believe is foolish".

Hello everyone,

got to come home early (erms.... not really but still earlier than usual) so decided to come post a blog before i go and shower and all...

SDL nearly killed me on friday and today's lab nearly made me faint today (haha....) cause my ARO overslept and as a result, i cannot do my expt.. boohoo.... i postponed my tuition but in the end can't do expt!!!! so irritating hor.... I'm not really complaining cause i don't really feel like doing expt today too. keke.....

Had hot plate beef today... not fantastic but still.... i love the soy sauce taste.... (i must eat healthier food now......) the seaweed was nice though.... heehee...

Mind is not working very well.... so shall stop here and go to shower and sleep...

Yo ppl,

It is me again, i read some wiki articles on human and animals experiments and found some interesting stuff.

Is it because I speak to you, that you judge that I have feeling, memory, ideas? Well, I do not speak to you; you see me going home looking disconsolate, seeking a paper anxiously, opening the desk where I remember having shut it, finding it, reading it joyfully. You judge that I have experienced the feeling of distress and that of pleasure, that I have memory and understanding. Bring the same judgment to bear on this dog which has lost its master, which has sought him on every road with sorrowful cries, which enters the house agitated, uneasy, which goes down the stairs, up the stairs, from room to room, which at last finds in his study the master it loves, and which shows him its joy by its cries of delight, by its leaps, by its caresses. Barbarians seize this dog, which in friendship surpasses man so prodigiously; they nail it on a table, and they dissect it alive in order to show the mesenteric veins. You discover in it all the same organs of feeling that are in yourself. Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of feeling in this animal, so that it may not feel? has it nerves in order to be impassible? Do not suppose this impertinent contradiction in nature.

In 1764, Voltaire wrote the following in his Philosophical Dictionary, powerful stuff man.

And three very interesting psychological experiments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monster_Study

Goes to show how mentally weak we are... To me, all three shows that humans need reassurance to survive. You can(will) go on if someone you deam equal or higher standing(eg ppl u respect due to watever reason, rank or wat not) acknowledges you.

Very scary...