Do you know what's good about falling sick and enjoying medical leave at home?
You get to SLEEP the whole day officially.
Hurray!
Sunday, 25 March 2007
Monday, 19 March 2007
Sunday, 18 March 2007
Sleeping pills of the future
From BBC:
“Sleeping pills of the future could allow people to wake up feeling refreshed after two hours' sleep, according to the New Scientist.
Some pills might even allow people to go for days without sleeping at all. Steve Smith reports.”
You wanna try?
“Sleeping pills of the future could allow people to wake up feeling refreshed after two hours' sleep, according to the New Scientist.
Some pills might even allow people to go for days without sleeping at all. Steve Smith reports.”
You wanna try?
Friday, 16 March 2007
The Paradigm of Sleep, Stress and Sex
According to an obscure article traced back to the fav' magazine of male homo sapiens residing in Singapore [read: Men's Health], a human's stress level has been found to be linked to many other external factors. To facilitate the understanding of what MANkind should realise about himself, here is the gist of the feature as had been published on page 16 of the January 2007 issue:
More than 43% of men will experience the physical side effects of stress in their lifetimes, including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and back pain. But there are a number of fun solutions and stress arousals that will make his stress level soar or fall.
Listening to your fav music: -16%
Running on the treadmill for 30 mins: -17%
Mediating: -44%
Being happily married: -55%
Drinking coffee: +32%
A tight dateline: +45%
Your commute: +80%
An overbearing boss: +110%
Late nights at the office: +270%
Having sex: -15%
Hence, if you are, say, the head of the communications department in a design firm, who lives on black coffee, works longer than late nights (and through to many many brand new days), is always swamped with countless menacing datelines, you must be one super duper stressed-out man.
And so the equation goes like this:
Stress Level of You Poor Chap (insert name) in one normal day
= 32 (coffee) + 270 (late nights) + 110 (loss of control) - 16 (Jay Chow's songs) - 55 (wife and 2 kids)
= 341%
To even out the stress, you need to loosen up and turn your attention to things you enjoy
= 341 / 15 (playing with birds and bees)
= 22.73 (to 2 decimal places)
= 23 (to the next whole number)
This means you need to have 23 times of S-E-X per day to balance out your accumulated stress.
Estimated Time taken to De-Stress
= 23 x 3 mins each
= 69 mins of hard work
Extra time for Rest In Between De-stressing Exercises (No normal being has the sheer physical strength to continue 'n whack non-stop)
= 22 x 5 mins break in between
= 110 mins
Total time taken to destress for a day's work
= 110 + 69
= 179 mins
= 2.983 hours
= 3 hours (rounded off)
Time to unwind for every three late nights in a week,
= 3 x 3 hours
= 9 hours
Therefore, for the described Singaporean man in the above example, you have to spend up to 9 hours every week just to overcome the total stress you accumulate in a typical 5-work-day week.
Think about this, a 9-hour sex marathon will definitely be tiring - but worth the effort to keep yourself in the pinkest of health. Is this any less beneficial than sleep can do to revitalise the body?
Now that you have been through the mind-whirling blast of Sex in the City phenomenon, and having worked out the mathematical and fun step to destressing, who will want to go to sleep so frequently now that another solution is readily available?
More than 43% of men will experience the physical side effects of stress in their lifetimes, including diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and back pain. But there are a number of fun solutions and stress arousals that will make his stress level soar or fall.
Listening to your fav music: -16%
Running on the treadmill for 30 mins: -17%
Mediating: -44%
Being happily married: -55%
Drinking coffee: +32%
A tight dateline: +45%
Your commute: +80%
An overbearing boss: +110%
Late nights at the office: +270%
Having sex: -15%
Hence, if you are, say, the head of the communications department in a design firm, who lives on black coffee, works longer than late nights (and through to many many brand new days), is always swamped with countless menacing datelines, you must be one super duper stressed-out man.
And so the equation goes like this:
Stress Level of You Poor Chap (insert name) in one normal day
= 32 (coffee) + 270 (late nights) + 110 (loss of control) - 16 (Jay Chow's songs) - 55 (wife and 2 kids)
= 341%
To even out the stress, you need to loosen up and turn your attention to things you enjoy
= 341 / 15 (playing with birds and bees)
= 22.73 (to 2 decimal places)
= 23 (to the next whole number)
This means you need to have 23 times of S-E-X per day to balance out your accumulated stress.
Estimated Time taken to De-Stress
= 23 x 3 mins each
= 69 mins of hard work
Extra time for Rest In Between De-stressing Exercises (No normal being has the sheer physical strength to continue 'n whack non-stop)
= 22 x 5 mins break in between
= 110 mins
Total time taken to destress for a day's work
= 110 + 69
= 179 mins
= 2.983 hours
= 3 hours (rounded off)
Time to unwind for every three late nights in a week,
= 3 x 3 hours
= 9 hours
Therefore, for the described Singaporean man in the above example, you have to spend up to 9 hours every week just to overcome the total stress you accumulate in a typical 5-work-day week.
Think about this, a 9-hour sex marathon will definitely be tiring - but worth the effort to keep yourself in the pinkest of health. Is this any less beneficial than sleep can do to revitalise the body?
Now that you have been through the mind-whirling blast of Sex in the City phenomenon, and having worked out the mathematical and fun step to destressing, who will want to go to sleep so frequently now that another solution is readily available?
Who do you wanna sleep with?
Really! You know, according to an unknown self-proclaimed psychologist, your choice of sleeping partner reflects an inclination of yours that you may not even be aware of.
Now, seriously - ask yourself this question, and answer sincerely – who do you wanna sleep with? Is it:
1. your teddy bear?
2. your boss?
3. your colleague?
4. your employee/subordinate?
5. your current boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife?
6. your ex-boyfriend/ex-girlfriend?
7. all of your ex- and current boyfriends/girlfriends/husband/wife together?
8. a man if you claim to a be straight man or a lesbian woman / a woman if you claim to be a straight woman or gay man?
9. just by yourself?
10. any celebrity whom you don’t know personally?
11. any cute fellow you see on the street?
12. none of the above
The ANALysis
1 – You're still quite childish. Grow up!
2 – You're hungry for power.
3 – You just love to make simple things complicated.
4 – You’re quite sick.
5 – You’re boring.
6 – You can’t let go of the past. Go be a history teacher. Suits you.
7 – You’re just a useless, low class, greedy fellow.
8 – You’re oppressed. Free yourself.
9 – You’re narcissistic.
10 – You dream too much. Wake up!
11 – You’re hungry. Go eat.
12 – You’ve got no life. Go sleep with somebody! Anybody!
Now, seriously - ask yourself this question, and answer sincerely – who do you wanna sleep with? Is it:
1. your teddy bear?
2. your boss?
3. your colleague?
4. your employee/subordinate?
5. your current boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife?
6. your ex-boyfriend/ex-girlfriend?
7. all of your ex- and current boyfriends/girlfriends/husband/wife together?
8. a man if you claim to a be straight man or a lesbian woman / a woman if you claim to be a straight woman or gay man?
9. just by yourself?
10. any celebrity whom you don’t know personally?
11. any cute fellow you see on the street?
12. none of the above
The ANALysis
1 – You're still quite childish. Grow up!
2 – You're hungry for power.
3 – You just love to make simple things complicated.
4 – You’re quite sick.
5 – You’re boring.
6 – You can’t let go of the past. Go be a history teacher. Suits you.
7 – You’re just a useless, low class, greedy fellow.
8 – You’re oppressed. Free yourself.
9 – You’re narcissistic.
10 – You dream too much. Wake up!
11 – You’re hungry. Go eat.
12 – You’ve got no life. Go sleep with somebody! Anybody!
Thursday, 15 March 2007
EQ & Sleep
Take the following quiz to find out how much you know about how EQ affects your sleep. Scroll down to find the correct answers.
True or False
1. Older EQtarians require less sleep than younger EQtarians.
2. Poor sleep is a normal part of being an EQtarian.
3. People who aren't EQtarians tend to sleep better.
ANSWERS
1. FALSE is the correct answer. The sleep requirements of older EQtarians are similar to those of younger EQtarians. All EQtarians need the same seven to nine hours of sleep per night.
2. FALSE is the correct answer. Many people believe that poor sleep is a normal part of being an EQtarian, but it is not. In fact, many EQtarians report having no or few sleep problems (except during the traditional sleep disruption season, which affects human beings globally).
3. FALSE is the correct answer. History is filled with persons without affiliations to EQ who were known to have had problems sleeping, including Vincent Van Gogh (who went mad), Napoleon Bonaparte (who was power-mad), Catherine The Great (who was madly in love with many people), Winston Churchill (who easily got mad), Marilyn Monroe (who drove many men mad) and - the inventor of the light bulb - Thomas Edison (who was mad enough to experiment 10,000 times to finally arrive at a working incandescent light bulb).
The miracle stay-awake pill
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