Silence Speaks

50/50

Ended the 4-month movie fast on the last day of exams with a bang.

If the odds of survival for undergoing an operation to remove a cancerous lump is 50%, would you take the leap? I like the analogy that Karl used, if you were at the casino man, this would be terrific odds. It just resonated with me for a number of reasons, a) gambling process in stochastic processes hahahaha b) the way of looking/perceiving odds is actually rather contextual-based. At the end of the day, it depends on how one looks at it, and not whether if you're the gambling sort of person.

Anyway the movie was loosely based on real life, and knowing it could happen to anybody is really not surprising I would say but more of like a wake-up call. I can die, you can die, everyone dies. The difference is how and when.

And I can't believe my tutee fired me through sms. I mean hello? Where's the basic decency? I hope she fails her exams. Sheesh. I know I know kinda vindicative of me, but a scorpio holds grudges okay. But seriously sheesh. It certainly puts a damper and a dent on my (exchange $$) plans.

Last night was horrible. A 9am morning paper (today), for the last paper no less, means I had to wake up at 6am. My earliest class this semester was 1030! In preparation for you know possible obstacles to hinder my usually efficient transportation schedule, the alarm was set at 545. Laid down on the bed around 12ish, and I'm pretty sure I didn't get to lalaland till an hour later min. Which gave me a total of abt 4ish hours of sleep. Wanted to set myself a challenge to "beat the sunrise, sleep can wake", no really, just survive 24h without sleep to see if I can, but I can't. Already my eyes are close to turning the lights off and the brain is only half-funnctioning at best.

Good night, world. Finally, no waking up to alarms!!

posted by wantington-ny @ 2:09 AM