Can't understand a word these people say - but I think this Norway advertisement for milk ROCKS!!!
Monday, May 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Life
My dad has asked me today if I still had my blog and I told him that I've been too busy to write to it lately... So much has happened this year. As Charles Dickens said: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair..." I have accomplish so much and I have lost immensely... I have to re-adjust to a life of a single person alone in this cold world again and I am both scared and hopeful. I have never been so lonely and I have never been surrounded by so many people at once. I don't know if I should post anything or say anything but I just felt like it - here I am going with my gut feeling again...
Friday, December 26, 2008
Over
I am SO thankful this semester is finally over I got home and decided to weigh all of the books that I had to read in 3 months – the total weight came to 28.2 lbs! Ironically, reading this much doesn’t make you feel smarter, but does make you more confused...
Friday, August 22, 2008
LASIK
Disclaimer – do not read if you are scared of surgeries!!!
So I finally got brave enough to trust my eyes to the spine-chilling procedure of the laser vision correction. To be specific, my surgery was called a PRK (photo refractive keratectomy) and it slightly differs from LASIK because there is no corneal cut-and-flap (instead, the doctor puts a metal ring and burns off the top part of the cornea with alcohol and removes it with a brush). The whole surgery on both eyes took total of 9 minutes!! Here’s what happened:
1)Before surgery I took a nerve-calming pill and waited for 45 minutes for it to work (it gave me a few yawns, but I was still awake and VERY scared)
2)A nurse walked me to the surgery room and I laid flat with my eyes directly under the laser (which looks like a huge metal torture machine with a blinking red spot)
3)Nurse put anesthetic drops in my eyes.
4)Doctor entered the room (I had hard times staying still on the table and not running away ahead of my screams at that point)
5)Nurse showed me the eye-opening tool (literally!!) – it looked like a small pair of tons with hooks for the eyes – yes, like a typical torture instrument)
6)The doctor ordered told me to stay still and put a sticky tape on my eye lids first, then open the eyes by pilling on the tape and sticking the eye-opener in.
7)Burnt the top layer of cornea.
8)Did 30-second laser.
9)Put anti-cancerous medication on the eye (30 seconds)
10)Put a contact lens (as a patch)
11)Removed the eye-opened (THANK GOD!)
12)Repeated with the other eye
To summarize, I am SO happy that I got this done! Yes, this was very scary to go through, but it is great. The only regret I have is not doing this about five years ago.
So I finally got brave enough to trust my eyes to the spine-chilling procedure of the laser vision correction. To be specific, my surgery was called a PRK (photo refractive keratectomy) and it slightly differs from LASIK because there is no corneal cut-and-flap (instead, the doctor puts a metal ring and burns off the top part of the cornea with alcohol and removes it with a brush). The whole surgery on both eyes took total of 9 minutes!! Here’s what happened:
1)Before surgery I took a nerve-calming pill and waited for 45 minutes for it to work (it gave me a few yawns, but I was still awake and VERY scared)
2)A nurse walked me to the surgery room and I laid flat with my eyes directly under the laser (which looks like a huge metal torture machine with a blinking red spot)
3)Nurse put anesthetic drops in my eyes.
4)Doctor entered the room (I had hard times staying still on the table and not running away ahead of my screams at that point)
5)Nurse showed me the eye-opening tool (literally!!) – it looked like a small pair of tons with hooks for the eyes – yes, like a typical torture instrument)
6)The doctor ordered told me to stay still and put a sticky tape on my eye lids first, then open the eyes by pilling on the tape and sticking the eye-opener in.
7)Burnt the top layer of cornea.
8)Did 30-second laser.
9)Put anti-cancerous medication on the eye (30 seconds)
10)Put a contact lens (as a patch)
11)Removed the eye-opened (THANK GOD!)
12)Repeated with the other eye
To summarize, I am SO happy that I got this done! Yes, this was very scary to go through, but it is great. The only regret I have is not doing this about five years ago.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Fat in Action
I am not just trying to be funny - this is a true story. A 400-pounder teaches an aerobics class and people say that he’s quite motivational…
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Mid-life crisis
People on Russian internet are discussing mid-life crisis right now. The story that opened that discussion was that a man went to work, and when he got back home his wife and his daughter have disappeared. The other things that disappeared were a chandelier, a piano, and their savings account. The wife never told him that she was unhappy. So now his burning question is “Can a mid-life crisis change people on a whim?”
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Intentional thinking
Have you noticed that if you start to think intentionally something or if you acquire a certain condition that changes your life (i. e. a disease of some kind) you start to notice people who have the same thing? When I was pregnant, I started to notice lots of other pregnant women. When I grew a long hair I started to notice other women with a long hair. When I wanted to get an eye correction surgery I started taking a note of others who’ve gone through it. Buddhists believe that our thoughts can materialize if we give them enough time and effort. Americans believe in the American Dream coming true. What are the things that YOU intentionally think about and notice?
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