Gave blood today, for the first time. I'd like to say my motivations were altruistic but in truth i only wanted to know my blood type. I'm suppose to know and i find it quite disturbing that i dont. Anyways, it was an interesting experience, besides the 1hr long interview process where i had to regurgitate my travel and medical history for the past year. That was very boring indeed, except i got some nice personal statistics out of it, 67.3 kg BP 105/75 and HG of 156 and pulse of 61/sec. I'm not actually sure what these numbers translate to, but apparently they are good numbers =)

So like cats, i was basically curious about the entire process of giving blood. Although i was advised to look away as the stabbed me, I was too curious about it to look away. Gosh its a bloody big arse needle. It's bigger then the needles you use to pump up basketballs and it was halfway into my arm *freaky*. The wound doesnt behave like a cut where you would expect it to bleed all over the place, rather it just goes straight into the tubes and into the bag. Like siphoning petrol, my dark red blood was being pulled out of me.

Once you get over the sting of it, it just becomes a game where you try to get the fastest flow rate possible =P (61!) Also i didnt get any of the side effects of giving blood, such as light headedness, tiredness or loss of concentration. I actually felt no different at all.

It was very interesting observing all the different people that come in to give blood as well. It wasn't the people you expected, it seemed to be a random sample of the general population, business people, students, unemployed, construction workers, anyone and everyone. It was good to see that people from all walks of life, take time out of their day to help others. Now that i'm on the other side, it seems like such a human thing to do. It costs nothing, it benefits other people and you get food at the end, so why not?

Give Blood!!!

Making the photo contacts on my phone match every1's facebook profile pic.

u have all these different apsects of "me" or how you perceive what makes up what your "me" wants to be. I personally want to be many things but i never have the motivation, awareness and memory to advance myself in all these directions that i want to goto. Perhaps it can be trained...

think of a program, that is activated by a hotkey (cos i love hotkeys) , ure desktop fades away and something like a nintendo mii pops on the screen surrounded by all these pictures/animations of all the different aspects of "me". the degree of animation, attention seeking behaviour is relative to how long it's been since you've clicked them.

so for example, an aspect of me wants to become a motorcyclist. To do that.. i need to get the gear and the bike and start practicing.. soo i bring up the screen.. the bike animation is going crazy.. K fine i'll click you.. brings up a list of todo, whats next in teh plan? how should i advance this..? so on... then you click "activate". you get your desktop again, and like the gold old paper clip, theres a little motorbiek in the corner of your screen to remind you, "right now, you should are to be focussed on being a motorcyclist, ie go look on the trading post, go internet shopping do some research"

another hotkey, removes the motorcycle and ure back to normal.

.. i wish i knew how to code that..

They say you shouldn't reinvent the wheel, but man.. how satisfying would it be to invent the wheel? and we can all do it. All you have to do is not see a wheel as you grow up... and get really tired with carrying heavy things.

When you discover something amazing and novel it's great and fantastic. It makes you feel like you're smart and intelligent and you are good at what you are trying to do. It's empowering and satisfying. Now if that's not an excuse to stay stupid what is? I really enjoy it when i think on something that seems so original to me, only because i'm not knowledgeable enough to know so.

but it someone tells me that some1 has already done it, what a downer that is....

so the choice is know nothing or know everything! either way any idea you have will be definitely an original =)

also, when someone observes you and goes... "hey that is really awesome". There's that little boy you that goes, "WEEE yeah damn straight" but you keep him from showing on your face cos big brother you clocks him on the head for being so immature. It's weird, big brother me is very praise adverse. Big brother me has learnt from the bible and life lessons to be humble, how does one humbly receive praise? *shrugs* ick, i dont like praise, constructive criticism on the other hand is great =P

I'm not sure what that is physcologically...but somewhere along the path my brain has confused the two...