Cells and Laughs

Apparently this is my six hundredth post whoa.

And so the dust settles. The IMD computer lab is so schecksay can. Wide, pristine screens, pinhole scrolling wheel(the default Mac mouse doesn't have scrolling wheel), lip-smacking good. And we learn to make websites, cool or wot. Yes i know i am abnormal cause nobody finds it appealing except me and that prolly explains why i am the only ADM-er in the class.

On this humid, dreary and surreal(or say, depressive) Wednesday. The hot sun fries my brain and decapitates my verbal ability. Man i felt like i was floating around and spinning in some unknown jiggly orbit. Nehmindnehmind irrelevant i know.

There's this thing about 9am-12pm classes. I return home lying on my parents' bed, chewing Sour Scoox in the austere colour of ocean blue, watching National Geographic Channel.

So first came "China's Hollywood". Don't ask me why i just have this mysterious penchant for China-related shows, especially those which take you into the imperial palaces. Anyway today's show is about the rising popularity of Chinese films and directors and stars and all that.

"Showreal Asia: Supercells". Which talks about the use of stem cells to cure diseases and illnesses. Stem cells, by nature, are the basic building blocks of all multi-cellular organisms, and undergo cell division and are responsible for the repair of cells.

The belief that stem cell can cure various sickness is unproven yet, but parts of Asia like Bangkok and China are already shifting it from the laboratory to the operational table. This episode takes us along the journeys of a handful of individuals, who all flocked to Asia from the West, on seeking alternative treatment.

Somehow watching this programme made me went through a major emotional crisis. Not like it was the first time getting to know this whole stem cell thing. Doesn't it feel funny. Like we all started from stem cells, and they multiply and grow, and we become this big.

And the thing is most of the patients have seen recovery, including a man in his fifties, who had heart failure such that his heart can only pump 15% of the blood in his body. Doctors at Bangkok Hospital inserted stem cells DIRECTLY into his heart by slicing the flesh open(and you could see the heart pumping). Before this operation he was on the waiting list to get a heart transplant, and now he no longer needs one. Is that a miracle or wot.

And so did a man, who suffered from paralysis chest down from a car accident. He could move his legs and clench his left hand into a fist after six shots of stem cells into his spine. And there was this part where SG was mentioned, and the doctor who cloned Dolly the Sheep was actually based here(don't know about now) to research on embryonic stem cells. SG, THE HUB OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE HELLYEAH.

But there were cases where nothing much changed. Bo, a very young kid, suffers from brain damage from a near-drowning experience, and there wasn't any improvement after treatment. Ah man.

And there's the thing about adult stem cells and (umbilical) cord blood cells, which have their pros and cons respectively.

Ohhhh. Can you imagine what the future would be like if stem cells can cure the incurable? Scientists are working on deriving brain cells and liver tissues and bone cells from stem cells, and who knows there might be solutions to Parkinson's, stroke or even cancer in the near future. OMG this is so spine-tingling.

And embryonic cells are like. The EMBRYO. Which means the almost-there foetus. Yeah but the Dolly-creator says they use cells from dead embryos for research.

But then the issue of humanity is raised. What if this is working against the force of nature. What if we were all pre-destined to die in one way or another? And science interrrupts. We don't really know if it's for the better or the worse do we?

Will we even die of anything else except from old age?

I know i know it's all about science, but i can't help wondering.

Sometimes i don't know what i want to be when i grow up. I'm like, I WANT TO BE PART OF EVERYTHING. Quite impossible right, so i shall continue seeing the face of VTOHS.

Educational channels ftw.



Mould.



M-O-U-L-D.



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mOuLd.

I was so serious i took out my magnifying glass dunnchpraypray.



And so there is the outcry that Paramore is now a 'sellout'. I feel that 'sellout' is a very demeaning word. If the music sells, nobody can help it right. That's why they are 'mainstream'. People who say that are most probably childish and green-eyed twelve-year-old kids.


Oh these made my day. :]

Wanna Buy A Ghost?


Funny Baby

Baby Laugh


Hahaha


Funny Baby "Blood"

Baby Laughing Devil Laugh 2


I wonder what went through their mind lololol.

Eh it's doubly proven that DIY dye doesn't work. Ohwell at least i got rid of the blonde.