Graduation Day. I dun feel anything special about it actually. Im more concern about the flooding early in the morning! I can't even walked out of my block, getting one bit of me dry. wanted to tak a cab actually, but my house here quite deserted uh, no cab de somemore mus go in the rain and flag. So I stayed at home. Mattheus flag a cab and fetch me at my house. gosh even him take a long time to flag one cab. but was lucky that he took a longer way to fetch me. if not he wun get stucked in the flood already. thanksthanks. I get on the cab at 7.30. guess what? I reached school at 8.35.
you know why?! I show you.
somemore.
It fun though. (=
Fun eh. No late slip either. =x I skipped 2lesson of chemistry. then 1 period of english and slack all the way throughout the day. Gosh. What an experience early in the morning.
speeched out on 12:23 AM
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
This is why Michael Jordan is great. a great dunk plus a great effect.
Here comes another. Shaquille O'Neal
2nd time.
Nice Shake this time.
Never try to dunk man.
speeched out on 3:49 PM
Friday, September 12, 2008
How We Receive Emotion Information from Other People http://www.choisser.com/faceblind/emotion.html When someone communicates how he feels, most of the time he will choose to do so with facial expressions or by tone of voice. Research has shown that when people can both see and hear each other, they will rely on facial expressions and tone of voice to communicate over ninety percent of their emotions. Less than ten percent of the time do they communicate their feelings by using words.
Knowing people's emotions is important for survival, just as knowing who people are, is important. Since the dawn of mankind down to this very day, if a man miscalculates someone's emotions, that can get him killed, so it is important to know the emotions of a nearby person immediately.
It is no wonder, then, that most people get another person's emotions from the face, which is the same spot they are looking at to ascertain identity. How convenient, that we can save time by getting both of these vital pieces of information by looking at precisely the same place! Well, let's not seriously believe this happened by chance. It is so important that we get both pieces of information quickly that mankind probably evolved that way.
People also get quite a bit of emotional information from the tone of voice. The sound of the voice is also used to ascertain someone's identity, particularly when the other person cannot be seen, such as when it is night, when he is not in view, or, in modern times, when he is on the telephone. Once again, we have a situation where the other person's emotion is being extracted from the same source as is his identity.
Change, or motion is an important ingredient in pulling emotion data out of the identity data. The cracking of a smile means that smiling is the emotion right then! A frozen smile, on the other hand, is not as significant, and can only be used to infer that a smile belongs somewhere in the recent past of the event unfolding.
So what we have are two sources of identifying someone - the visual image of their face and the sound of their voice, plus two sources of identifying their emotions - the change in, or motion of, the visual image of their face and the change in, or fluctuation of, the sound of their voice. What all this means, of course, that the brain is primed to extract someone's emotions from the same place that we extract their identity, and in particular, the motion or change of those inputs is particularly sought out for emotional evaluation.
When we think of emotions that come from others, we think of our efforts to read their mental state. There is, though, one emotion that people cause you to feel merely by their presence. Because there is no word in English to describe it, I will call this emotion "I'm-here." (We do have a word for the absence of adequate doses of this emotion - "loneliness," but surprisingly, no word for the continuous stream of feelings one receives from another that forestalls it.) Like most of the emotions we receive from others, the I'm-here emotion comes directly from the neurological circuits that determine who a person is.
Emotions result from the action of a subconscious part of the brain upon what we sense around us. To feel genuine they have to feel spontaneous, automatic. This feeling arises because, as a matter created in the subconscious, they feel like they sprang forth spontaneously. What this means is that we must "follow our hearts" and pursue emotional satisfaction, even if our means of getting it is a bit unusual, because we really have no choice in the matter. The subconscious does what it wants.
Of course, we all apply conscious thought to our interpretation of others' emotions. If someone's facial and tone-of-voice information says one thing, but their words and deeds say another, we will take that into account. But to do that takes conscious thought, and it takes time. By the time we fashion our response, it may not fit into social discourse gracefully. The timing may be off, and our response may be just too late. Thinking about emotions really bogs us down. We do so much better when we take them immediately off the identity circuits without thought.
To summarize, each person's mind has established a way it recognizes people. For most people, that would be the image of the face, though they use the sound of the voice, too. Anytime a person is encountered, the mind makes it top priority to get that information about him at once and use it to determine both his identity and his emotional state. This happens very fast. A few seconds later, the mind gets around to processing other information that might also bear on the interpretation of emotional communications. At this time it may not be too late to use that information for all purposes, but it is too late to be socially graceful about doing it.
All this works great, of course, if your way of identifying people is the face, because that is where people put most of their emotional outgoing messages. If your way of identifying people is not the face, you can imagine that this might cause problems in these three areas:
