Riding in the Rain...

Sunday, February 19, 2006

Valentine's with a GPMG


Valentine's cap
Originally uploaded by Xepheiro.
It's been a long while since i blogged. LAzines, i guess.

Spent a wonderfully boring Valentine's Day in camp with Kelvin and the GPMG. The GPMG doesn't exchange much in the date. Heh.

I finished reading Blink By Malcom Gladwell. I intrigues me that in his last few chapters he talks about temporary autism when stuck in a critical situation with little time to react. Firstly, I have gone through such similar experiences in camp. Eg, some vehicle caught fire, sudden activation and some irritating siren going on and off. This temporary autism comes about when their is little time given, let's say a quarter of a second, there's a man reaching into his shirt for something. You think it's a gun. He takes it out and fires a shot. At this moment, your state of mind would be overwhelmed by the stress induced. Your receptive senses gets narrowed down. Basically, your awaresness is focused on the gunman himself, not your surroundings. Then your brain thinks through the next couse of action. Then a slight pause again.

It's pretty interesting. It happened to one of the guys too. In a sudeen activation, the guys was holding on to the car keys in his hands. Yet, due to stress, his mind shuts of his knowledge part of him holding on to the keys in his hands. He panics even more when he can't 'find' the keys. Till someone told him where is it. Hah.... interesting.

That aside, I'm to playing RO once again... heh. DiviniaRo lookc appealing. Now the damn prob is to download the client. Grrr.

Breakfast at Cafe Cartel with Tim was great! Nice portions of sausages and bacon, eggs and a muffin. On top of that free flow of bread! Much better than Mac's at the same price!