Mark Twain Hair

A Glorious Mess

These days I wake up, grab a shower, comb my hair and wait for it to dry. Then in the next couple of hours, my hair slips out of the shape I combed for it and goes into its own regular pattern. At this stage, it usually falls into a slight bit of a mess, and I can muss it up and it turns out a bit like Mark Twain’s hairstyle in his old age, except not white. Mark Twain hair usually means it’s time to go for a haircut, but I think I’ll hold that off for a few days and enjoy this only similarity with the literary giant before the hair gets too long and (imaginably) floppy.

Google Logo

Yesterday being National Day, Google did this to their logo:

It’s pretty cute.

Mystery Gift

Kinokuniya are currently having their 10th anniversary/National Day sale, and my sister was there on Saturday before I was. Apparently, if you spent 50 bucks, you’d get a free gift (while stocks last!). I was too late to get mine, but my sister got one, and it seemed to be a figurine of… erm… Iron Man… What?

Urgh

This post is a little shorter than usual because there’s that funny twist in my gut that I get whenever I am about to be beset by stomach flu. And I do terribly with stomach flu. I don’t know why. I suppose everyone has a worst enemy of a fashion.

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Pre-Exam Monday

One More Paper!

So I’m kind of just dropping by with a bunch of random things.

Opinion Soon!

I’ve been listening to The Hazards Of Love, and I’ll be putting up some thoughts on it as soon as things settle down a bit.

All The Plans!

I’ve also been listening to the not-so-new-anymore Starsailor album All The Plans. It’s not bad. Certainly like it better than the last one. It hasn’t quite won me over in the way Silence Is Easy did, but there are a few songs that I’m quite taken to. The opener is really good, and there are a number of others that have a bit of sparkle to them. A really decent album.

In Fact!

After the exams, I really hope to be doing an assortment of things that just need doing. Like getting a haircut. Getting a shave. Blogging properly. (Sorry.) Writing. Watching movies. Meeting friends. Dentist’s. More writing. Reading. Some games. Hunting unicorns. Loads of editing. You know, the usual things. It’s just that there isn’t the heart for these things when the exams loom dark and dangerous. Especially after that math paper.

H1N1!

Speaking of exams, I now have to go an hour earlier for my examinations because of the swine flu outbreak, because apparently we have to pass a temperature screening before being allowed to take the paper.

I’m sure these precautions are great and all; but sometimes I get the feeling that the half the media reports emerge from the shadow of fear-mongering.

Three Bags Full!

Photographs of the near-perfect baby mammoth found. [via National Geographic] Beautiful stuff.

Touch!

Researchers at John Hopkins University seem to have discovered that microRNA production is at some level regulated by touch/cell density. [via PhysOrg]

Goats!

Google mows their lawn with goats. [via The Official Google Blog]

All right, back to fend off Physiology.

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