Today, I pre-ordered the iPad mini, and I can't wait for it to comeeee. I think a tablet is really useful in times where you have a hell lot of readings to do and cant print them out. Plus, of course, the mobility and in the case of iPad mini, the weight. Will review it when it arrives 2 weeks later.
I really think I'm mad. Why am I spending so much this month?????????
I bought myself an instax mini, films for it, a portable charger for phone (seriously, I'm never ever buying from anywhere other than gmarket because they have better prices and better performance chargers), a desktop organiser, a windows 8 upgrade, and now an iPad mini.
What the hellllll am I doing. !!!!
That's enough expenditure for 2 months.. gotta limit myself to 2 pieces of clothing in November, cheap meals again and skip some when I can (someone's so going to disapprove of this :/) and save up to return to my savings account and for Christmas, too. And I just remembered Deborah's birthday present, and Chiam's too oh goshhhhhhh
Ok study time.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Music and Human Memory
Hello.. This period's extra busy for me, with the peak weeks for this month being the next week and the week after, so I won't really be blogging autobiographical/episodic posts properly with pictures about my life. Must be mindful that my life as a student is limited though, and always be grateful for what I have so far.
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I'm supposed to do a literature review for one of my modules, so I'm just typing some thoughts now. I can't type too much cos' some of my sentences will be used in my paper, and I don't want my plagiarism % to be too high for my paper because I've plagiarised myself in my own blog -__- that'll be really lame. Another alternative would be to publish this post only after submission of the paper.
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Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) suffer from dementia, which causes deficits in certain types of memory. This is the reason why researchers conduct research on dementia patients, though usually narrowed down to AD patients since it's the most common form of dementia, because we can better understand the underlying mechanisms of memory, and what can help to improve memory by working on these mechanisms. It is unethical to induce this on human subjects with normal memory, so certain types of memory cannot be directly manipulated, and in such circumstances, quasi-experimental research will have to be done, which limits the control of researchers, which may affect the accuracy of results.
(I feel like such a noob because I don't know how exactly to phrase and explain why we use patients with memory deficits)
Researchers Simmons-Stern, Budson, and Ally in their paper Music as a memory enhancer in patients with Alzheimer's disease propose that "brain areas subserving music processing may be preferentially spared by AD, allowing a more holistic encoding that facilitates recognition," and that music causes AD patients to be more aroused, which allows better attention and improved memory. This is based on their study to investigate the effect of music on encoding, on the subsequent recognition of associated verbal information.
TO be continued. Time for me to go for class.
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I'm supposed to do a literature review for one of my modules, so I'm just typing some thoughts now. I can't type too much cos' some of my sentences will be used in my paper, and I don't want my plagiarism % to be too high for my paper because I've plagiarised myself in my own blog -__- that'll be really lame. Another alternative would be to publish this post only after submission of the paper.
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Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) suffer from dementia, which causes deficits in certain types of memory. This is the reason why researchers conduct research on dementia patients, though usually narrowed down to AD patients since it's the most common form of dementia, because we can better understand the underlying mechanisms of memory, and what can help to improve memory by working on these mechanisms. It is unethical to induce this on human subjects with normal memory, so certain types of memory cannot be directly manipulated, and in such circumstances, quasi-experimental research will have to be done, which limits the control of researchers, which may affect the accuracy of results.
(I feel like such a noob because I don't know how exactly to phrase and explain why we use patients with memory deficits)
Researchers Simmons-Stern, Budson, and Ally in their paper Music as a memory enhancer in patients with Alzheimer's disease propose that "brain areas subserving music processing may be preferentially spared by AD, allowing a more holistic encoding that facilitates recognition," and that music causes AD patients to be more aroused, which allows better attention and improved memory. This is based on their study to investigate the effect of music on encoding, on the subsequent recognition of associated verbal information.
TO be continued. Time for me to go for class.
Monday, October 01, 2012
Habitat Coffee!
Highlight for this weekend! Finally finally got to try Habitat Coffee after hearing about how good it is from some of the church girls! And reading about their truffle fries and how it falls under ladyironchef's list of Best Truffle Fries in Singapore :)
(Quick and lazy editing. All shot by iPhone 4. I'm still a noob when it comes to these stuff, so it's merely a weak attempt at these photos. Don't judge okay, all ye photography enthusiasts!)
Went there with the guy whose plans with other guys got cancelled thanks to the heavy rain this afternoon. I'm being selfish but I'm secretly glad cos', hey, that means he has time to eat with me! So yes, made rather impromptu plans during that late afternoon to settle for dinner with him, not too far from home, and I seized the opportunity to make him try Habitat with me. :)
First we saw the queue at Fat Boy's, which was quite long, and started to wonder if the queue at Habitat would be this long too. Thankfully, much to our surprise, it wasn't! In fact it was quite empty and the staff appeared to be quite free.
Took some time to decide what to order and happened to decide on the food marked with an asterisk!
Normal peach tea...
(Quick and lazy editing. All shot by iPhone 4. I'm still a noob when it comes to these stuff, so it's merely a weak attempt at these photos. Don't judge okay, all ye photography enthusiasts!)
Went there with the guy whose plans with other guys got cancelled thanks to the heavy rain this afternoon. I'm being selfish but I'm secretly glad cos', hey, that means he has time to eat with me! So yes, made rather impromptu plans during that late afternoon to settle for dinner with him, not too far from home, and I seized the opportunity to make him try Habitat with me. :)
First we saw the queue at Fat Boy's, which was quite long, and started to wonder if the queue at Habitat would be this long too. Thankfully, much to our surprise, it wasn't! In fact it was quite empty and the staff appeared to be quite free.
Took some time to decide what to order and happened to decide on the food marked with an asterisk!
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| Ice Habitat Fusion Tea - Peach. $4.90 I think |
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