OK. I admit, there isn't a thousand words in the picture. But Harry, we love you! (Even Madame the phantom blogger and picture uploader is doing this. Don't you love me too?) 4 Comments This can't be good
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Science Says: Cost of Love Is Two Old FriendsSource:http://healthland.time.com/2010/09/16/science-says-cost-of-love-is-two-old-friends/ In the economy of relationships, there's a price to falling in love. According to a new, as yet unpublished study from Oxford University, it's two friends. Brian Dunbar, an evolutionary anthropologist, conducted a survey that asked people about how their inner circle changed when they fell in love. His findings suggest that people have about five close confidantes at any one time. In order to make room for the new love interest, that circle shrinks. "People who are in romantic relationships - instead of having the typical five [individuals] on average, they only have four in that circle," Dunbar told the BBC. "And bearing in mind that one of those is the new person that's come into your life, it means you've had to give up two others." This may explain why some young males maintain the "bros over h-words" rule—to try to prevent their inner circle from being fragmented. It also explains why the sequel to Sex and The City didn't really work. (Well, that and the whole multiple costume changes in the middle of the desert thing...) "What I suspect happens," says Dunbar, "is that your attention is so wholly focused on your romantic partner that you just don't get to see the other folks you have a lot to do with, and therefore some of those relationships just start to deteriorate and drop down into the layer below." Dunbar is noted for previously having suggested that we can only really hold enough space in our brains to have relationships with 150 people, despite what our Facebook pages say. This has come to be known as Dunbar's number. But evolutionary anthropology is not destiny, as they say in the classics. So even if we have to all roll over and two have rolled out to accommodate our bestie's new flame, nobody's circle is set in stone. After things have simmered down a bit, it's got to be possible to reconnect with good friends again, right? Unless of course, the new lover is unbearable, and there's the only one thing to do. 0 Comments Neih hou ma, y'all?
Friday, December 3, 2010
That was the title of an article in today's International Herald Tribune. Speaking in Tongues - NYTimes.com Harriet's sense of home is twisted but she has PFs. In New York, I find I am less watchful, less greedy, less restless. Besides, I have finally acquired a handful of friends that I do not hold at arm’s length to analyze. And with them, I do not secrete every meaningful thought away in the apothecary drawers in my brain. They ask me questions and I respond with answers, not decoys or digressions. With them, too, especially when I’m angry or excited, my language is unguarded. I am suddenly “chuffed” instead of proud, “skint” in place of broke, eat “crisps” and an “aiyah” may make an appearance to indicate alarm. They rib me about my guilelessly disclosed peripatetic hodgepodge, my squirmy diphthongs and strange argot. But I am grateful that they get through my force field. I even tell them so. Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.5 0 Comments Killing 2 Birds with 1 Turtle
Friday, September 24, 2010
Hello my friends. I have an interesting proposition. Let's go to Kusu Island on 10/10/10! It's a Sunday by the way. I have to go explore/take pictures of flora and fauna and make a poster of one of Singapore's shoreline and was really sad to find out that they closed off the intertidal regions of Labrador Nature Reserve on the mainland. So the next most exciting one should be on Kusu Island. After consulting the tide tables, 101010 seem like a good day to get my ankles wet and hopefully get some photos of corals and nemo lookalikes. So... here's the schedule for the boat ride out: Okok. Honestly, I don't want to go to an offshore island alone... and I need madame's camera or my project might look damn cui. So here's some background info about Kusu island. Please try to make it! Its the pilgrimage season too XD ~*YN*~ 2 Comments hello from nuh
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
healthcaresucks. waiting time is super long...
luckily we are very crappy ppl and entertain ourselves for hours. Too bad there are no ambiguous couples to speculate 0 Comments Only (twenty)one left standing
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
恭祝你 福壽與天齊 慶賀你生辰快樂 年年都有今日 歲歲都有今朝 恭喜你..恭喜你~~~~~ Ok. I can't pronounce half the words here so I'd probably go Gong hei lei all the way. Happy Birthday Harry! ~*YN*~ 0 Comments Jelly jelly lens lens baby XD
Saturday, September 11, 2010
We spent a leisurely afternoon at Marine parade walking in and out of PP and stalking NUS shuttle bus. And of course I got my jelly lenses. Harry trying them out best way possible XD Stretch lens Stretch lens the other direction Soft focus 6 image mirage Vignette (I think a bit fail) Fish eye Star burst There are a few more... Haven't tried them out yet. Need to study first. Grrrrr. ~*YN*~ 0 Comments |