Sunday, March 20, 2011

this is what's been happening to me recently

ScienceDaily (May 3, 2007) — The ‘Peter Pan Syndrome’ affects people who do not want or feel unable to grow up, people with the body of an adult but the mind of a child. 

Peter Pan Pictures, Images and Photos

Symptoms of an anxiety attack include:

  • Surge of overwhelming panic
  • Feeling of losing control or going crazy
  • Heart palpitations or chest pain
  • Feeling like you’re going to pass out
  • Trouble breathing or choking sensation
  • Hyperventilation
  • Hot flashes or chills
  • Trembling or shaking
  • Nausea or stomach cramps
  • Feeling detached or unreal

Physical symptoms of anxiety

Anxiety is more than just a feeling. As a product of the body’s fight-or-flight response, anxiety involves a wide range of physical symptoms. Because of the numerous physical symptoms, anxiety sufferers often mistake their disorder for a medical illness. They may visit many doctors and make numerous trips to the hospital before their anxiety disorder is discovered.
Common physical symptoms of anxiety include:
  • Pounding heart
  • Sweating
  • Stomach upset or dizziness
  • Frequent urination or diarrhea
  • Shortness of breath
  • Tremors and twitches
  • Muscle tension
  • Headaches
  • Fatigue
  • Insomnia   

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Can you put a price on your dreams?-Sanjay Chandran

what thoughtful words people put on their blackberry messengers nowadays. 

that short sentence made me think about my own dreams. which were basically unformed, like a clump of cells in an uterus, i forget what the name is. blastocyst?

anyway, today was a good day. a wonderful way to end my first week of uni as a final year student. 

why?

because for the first time in 3 years, i have finally found an accounting subject that i love, Financial Accounting Theory. sounds boring and stuffy i know, that's what i thought initially. i dreaded doing the DR and CR, the NPVs, and all that nonsensical counting and projections on a damn spreadsheet. 

but hey, it's something that really interests me. it's about critical thinking, not boring questions with only ONE answer. its about speculating on the different types of accounting practices that could lead to an all round efficient market. it's a wonderful mesh of finance, economics and accounting. 

and it doesn't hurt that my lecturer is both the head of the accounting department, and the honours department. cue sucking up. wish i was the only student in the class. 

so, that led me to finally form a dream. 

to come up with the Wen Hypothesis (okay, maybe i'll change the name to something snazzier, maybe the Cupcake hypothesis. but in urban dictionary (look at no 5), cupcake means something totally disgusting, so maybe not... hmm. ill have a few more years to work on the name of my hypothesis). 

back to my hypothesis. 

my hypothesis shall:

1)encompass both finance and accounting (because its my 2 majors)
2)applicable in real life, none of that nonsense economics principles where you have to assume perfect competition and all that jazz. it must work in MOST situations, markets and in daily life.
3)be cursed my uni students, both finance and accounting because they have to learn about it and have many many lectures on it. 
4)be so totally awesome. 


which means that. I NEED TO GET INTO HONOURS. from there MASTERS and/or PhD. sounds quite ambitious. but i'm gonna try anyway. 

HONOURS FTWWWWWWWW!!!!!