For your entertainment...: What a rough weekend...

Last week was pretty uneventful. We're into the last two weeks of classes already. I think classes end Nov. 5... Then there is a reading week to study for finals. I can't believe this term has gone by so quickly! But I'm looking forward to going back home to Toronto for the break.

Anyhow... back to this week. Everyone's been busy getting projects done so everything's been really slow. Over the weekend I got some mild form of food poisoning. It must've been one of the most painful experiences ever. I was throwing up, had a fever, nausea, and diarrhea. The worst part is I was so thirsty... but whenever i would drink water, i would just throw it up. Anyhow... I'm feeling a little better now. I've been drinking lots of Gatorade (to replenish lost electrolytes) and eating cornflakes. For some reason they don't sell soda crackers here, and I can't find any Congee on campus (what kind of Asian country doesn't have congee?). Anyhow... for other food poisoning tips click here. I must say it really sucks getting sick in a foreign country. I know its not a big deal, but I have to thank all my friends back home for caring and trying to give advice. Jay (for the webmd link), Tu My, and Ken... It made such a huge difference knowing somebody cares. So besides that... everything's been fine, I just need to catch up with school work now.

So I was watching the Hour of Power again this past Sunday... and Dr. Schuller had this great story... He was continuing his series on Crafting Your Future. You can interpret this story in any way you want...

"There was once this little boy who was very nice and did many extra things for his mom. So many things that she decided to reward him with a quarter. Which back then was a lot of money. And he could go to the store and buy anything that he wanted. So he went to the little Dime store it was called and he looked at balloons and oh he liked balloons... but nah.... and then he looked at the colouring books and wow he liked those as well... but nah.. no.... and then he looked at some toys.... but no... nah..... and finally he looked at some whistles....
and he bought a whistle. He put the 25 cents on the counter... and left the store... he blew the whistle... oh he was having fun... he blew it all the way home... But before he got to the house he stopped blowing it... He was bored with his whistle... And he got a tear in his eye... he threw the whistle away... and said... I didn't want a whistle after all... "
We all need guidance... and Psalm 32:8 says:
The LORD says, "I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.
Click here if you want the full message... It wasn't a particularly good message... But this story really hit home for me.

So yeah... today's health lesson is titled "What's the Diff?" I got this out of another health magazine I read...

1) Dark meat and white meat: Dark meat is mostly slow-twitch fibers, used for slow, continuous activities like walking around the chicken pen, wondering if this is all there is to life. White meat is made up of fast-twitch muscle fibers, used for sudden bursts of activity, like flapping your wings when that scary man reaches down to grab you and end your life, which really wasn't so bad. Fast-twitch muscles don't need the stored fat that slow-twitch muscles do, so white meat has less than half the fat of dark meat.

2) White Eggs and Brown Eggs: They're the same on the inside, and let's extend that lesson to society at large, shall we? White shelled eggs come from white feathered, white earlobed hens. Brown shelled eggs come from red feathered, red earlobed hens. (Yes chickens have earlobes.) There is no nutritional or taste difference. Brown eggs cost more because they come from slightly larger birds that require more food.

3) Raisins and Golden Raisins: No, the dark ones aren't from red grapes. They're both made from Thompson seedless white grapes (actually light green). Regular raisins are dried in the sun; hence the tan. Golden raisins are dried in warm air indoors and treated with sulfur dioxide (harmless, really) to retain their light color. They tend to be moister and plumper. And more expensive.

Oh and from the same magazine... For those people who don't turn on the A/C in the car on a hot day.... 64 kilometers per hour or above is the speed in which it is more fuel efficient to close the windows and turn on the air-conditioning, because of wind resistance.

So that about does it for me... I've also posted up the next batch of photos from Singapore... Bear with me here... It takes a lot of time to post these. Click here to access them. I better get back to studying... But I'll leave you with a few funny photos... If you talk to me on MSN you would've already seen these.