oh my! it's end of the year again! soon it's gonna be new year AGAIN! What have i done in year 2008?! Is it just another year for me? hhmm let's see:
1. training and planning for mir6 expedition to Nepal Mera peak. 2x10km run + 2 gym + 1 or 2 stair with average 15kg load
2. fund raising using simply rose and o-adv- which were hell- but worth the effort- raising about 10k in total;)
3. fantastic year2.2 results! fantastic!
4. Mera peak expedition;): sick, lousy, insecure, weakest link, didnt summit, beautiful journey, beautiful people, breathtaking
5. start of year 3 and in love with REAL biology modules! evolution, life form and function, SEA;)
6. lindy hop classes
7. projects- art and religion, brain and diet
8. genting trip- woohoo!
9. still working on a21 website, all my sec best friends attached but me (oh wells)
10. graduating next sem and still doesnt not have a plan of what to do next.. teaching/Nparks/travel...
11. moving house for the first time in 21 year of my life
i'm out of cj for 4 years already! my god! time really files man! it's really jus a blink of an eye and i mean it! i'm going on to 22! 0_0 Uncle richard is right i need a list of places i wanna go in my life. A bucket list to fufil before i die, so i wont have regrets in life!!! yeah.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
start of my reflections
Today lsm3261 lecture gave me a new insight to what I’ve been doing for the past 3 years and yah, realized a few answers that I’ve been searching for in life. Makes me see things in a different perspectives. Questioning is the answer. Teaching is not just about making student understand a concept or theory. I decided keep track of all the interesting stuff I’ve learnt bio mod this year. only the year 3 mod seems interesting. How sad!
Evolution.
Of altruism and social behavior- it’s upsetting me that our caring and sacrificial acts are actually not that selfless, but entirely for increasing our fitness ( to pass on our genes). Imagine your parents are nice to you because they wanna ensure that their genes are passed down, your spouses are nice to you becos they wanna have more offspring. Then what’s love man? Something that’s evolved to ensure our lineage? Oh my. Quite laughable yah? But it makes sense.
Bees/ ants/ mole rat/ termites are all social animals, with some sort of a hierarchy consisting of queen (egg laying machine), worker (sterile slaves), male (sperm contributor). The worker gave up their reproduction ability to take care of all the offsprings of the queen, in another words their siblings. It doesn’t make sense if evolution fitness is all about passing down one’s gene right? Let’s look that the genetic relationship between parents and offspring: 50% = genetic relationship between sibling. Get it? So actually, it’s more efficient and more cost effective to be like a reproduction factory assembly line to have specific roles and hence, lead to increase in ‘yield’.
Of my project on evolution of encephalization of human- a change in diet and increase in quality of food resulted in the increase in relative brain use of our ancestors. Oh well, will update later.
Dev biology
It seems like all fields of biology are calling themselves the essential one and the key one to understanding life. Whatever. I just think it’s just a ego boosting thing. Every field links up to give the big picture. Maybe it’s just how useful is it for the use of humans. The value. Imagine a research that has nothing to do with human VS one tat will cure human disease. It will make hell lots of difference.
Life form and function
Why land mammals evolved to have toes? And in many 5 digits are observed? Is it the ultimate design but why?
Evolution.
Of altruism and social behavior- it’s upsetting me that our caring and sacrificial acts are actually not that selfless, but entirely for increasing our fitness ( to pass on our genes). Imagine your parents are nice to you because they wanna ensure that their genes are passed down, your spouses are nice to you becos they wanna have more offspring. Then what’s love man? Something that’s evolved to ensure our lineage? Oh my. Quite laughable yah? But it makes sense.
Bees/ ants/ mole rat/ termites are all social animals, with some sort of a hierarchy consisting of queen (egg laying machine), worker (sterile slaves), male (sperm contributor). The worker gave up their reproduction ability to take care of all the offsprings of the queen, in another words their siblings. It doesn’t make sense if evolution fitness is all about passing down one’s gene right? Let’s look that the genetic relationship between parents and offspring: 50% = genetic relationship between sibling. Get it? So actually, it’s more efficient and more cost effective to be like a reproduction factory assembly line to have specific roles and hence, lead to increase in ‘yield’.
Of my project on evolution of encephalization of human- a change in diet and increase in quality of food resulted in the increase in relative brain use of our ancestors. Oh well, will update later.
Dev biology
It seems like all fields of biology are calling themselves the essential one and the key one to understanding life. Whatever. I just think it’s just a ego boosting thing. Every field links up to give the big picture. Maybe it’s just how useful is it for the use of humans. The value. Imagine a research that has nothing to do with human VS one tat will cure human disease. It will make hell lots of difference.
Life form and function
Why land mammals evolved to have toes? And in many 5 digits are observed? Is it the ultimate design but why?
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