deceptive appearances

finally HRM has ended. i think it was a relief for most if not all. and i think i surprised myself as well when i actually found a purpose to these whole series of lectures and tutorials.

but in fact i was still very skeptical about the purpose tt hrm served, since i think i was practically sleeping/doodling/reading/absent throughout all the lectures, and thus totally shut myself off.

and actually i walked in to the last tutorial with the same mentality too, but i left the room with a much refreshed opinion on the series of lessons. and now i think tt these lectures actually do help to a certain extent as alan koh and the genius-of-a-jonathon-chia has made me realise. well, i only realised at the very last 1/2 hr of the tutorial, but i guess tt's better than not realising at all.

and allow me to share what i've learnt, though i do realise tt it'll probably be very difficult to convey my ideas over this limited form of medium and break down the walls of resistance tt we have all built up from the super-boring lectures and pointless tutorials... what they are teaching us, is in fact to sensatise us to allow us to be able to know what signals to pick up in such and such situations.

and the point is to make us sensatised to pick up such signals, whatever they may be in whatever situations, and not to provide us with a certain concrete set of steps tt we have to undertake when dealing with situation A, and another set of steps when faced with situation B, and so on and so forth. which i personally feel it is pointless to discuss such hypothetical situations.

anyway i think tt's just the pathetic take tt i'll attempt to explain what i think of HRM now. and of course i'm GLAD tt it's over. :D

went for the last diving theory lesson today. haha, it's so exciting and interesting cause we discussed about nitrogen narcosis. contrary to popular belief (haha ok, maybe only mine), the limiting factor for length and depth of scuba dives is actually the no-decompression nitrogen limit and not air supply in the tank.

and cause our normal teacher was late, and this french guy took over for the first part of the lesson. haha, his accent was so strong not to mention his english wasn't perfect too. so u can just imagine the expert decoding poweress tt we had to exercise. :) but in my opinion he was a better teacher than ronald wee, cause he was less luo(1) suo(1)...

and anyway whatever the french guy covered ronald wee covered again when he got there. so there u have it, luo(1) suo(1)-ness at its best.

well, no-compression nitrogen limit is simply just the length of the dive tt u can carry out at a certain depth before u potentially suffer from nitrogen narcosis.

haha so interesting. and the way the teacher animatedly demonstrated how a puffer fish becomes totally helpless when it's inflated is really a sight to gaawf at. haha~~ :D so apparently this puffer fish is really adorable, cause when it inflates it just becomes unable to swim liao and just bobs around following the current. and u can actually hold it's top and twirl it around, and in his words, "if u take out ur flippers u can even play tennis with ur friend!"

and anyway after the lesson guohao's dad gave me a lift all the way to skin centre, though i was only expecting a lift to clementi mrt. quite a funny person who prides himself with a fine memory.