The tab that'll always be on my browser besides FB, gmail and hotmail, is BBC news.
Have you heard of baby OT?
I just read the article and my heart feels so heavy for the futility of it all.
OT is a 9 month old baby in the UK.
He suffered from mitochondrial disease,
a rare metabolic disorder in which the body can’t deliver energy properly.
As a result he was severely brain damaged and had lived in an intensive care unit since he was three weeks old, kept alive on a ventilator.
Doctors treating him had said the boy's life was intolerable and his disability amounted to 'torture'.
The hospital’s medical team had applied to the courts to end the boy’s treatment and take him off life support.
The parents wanted the hospital to keep their son alive.
They produced a video footage of Baby OT-
apparently giving a slight smile in response to being tickled on the feet by his father.
They were absolutely convinced he reacted to their voices, that he cooed when his father went closer and relaxed him and comforted him, and when he was unhappy he made a completely different type of noise
The attorney:
"Does not the baby's autonomy, humanity, his life justify further time and further resources?"
The doctor replied:
"What we are looking at is the quality of his life.
Parents may get tremendous pleasure from their interaction with him-
but what we are looking at is the quality of the life of this child.
How much pain and suffering should he be made to bear
when the pleasures he gets from life are few and far between?"
The verdict?
The parents lost their case.
Baby OT was unable to breathe by himself and died at 1008 GMT after doctors withdrew his treatment.
"He died peacefully. We will miss him greatly and wish to say that we are proud to have known our beautiful son for his brief life."
My heart goes out to them, and the medical team.
"There is a belief among us, fed by everyone around us, that medicine has the answer to everything. But unfortunately there are occasions where medicine can't do anything."
Her parents was told she only had one-percent chance of survival. Doctors applied to the High Court for permission not to resuscitate her in a life-threatening situation.
She is now five-
Still needs a little oxygen every day, but loves to listen to nursery rhymes and can now stand and walk with the help of a walking frame(:
I'm glad she had the chance to live on.
+++
I'm not going to delve into the debate of life expectancy versus the right to live.
but if u ask me, i'll go for pro-life-
though that isnt always the most rational decision.
I'm thankful for being born healthy and raised in a complete family.
Please remind me about this
if i start bitching about how i wish
i was born taller, slimmer, prettier and into a richer family.
+++
Bringing my mummy out for dinner later, i think Swensens
To celebrate her 50th birthday, which falls nxt tuesday.
She is fifty already. I REFUSE to believe it.
Growing up also means that your parents are getting older by the day. This is how Earth maintains its balance.
+++
ANYWAY! On a lighter note, my hall had our seniors' camp yesterday.
It was mega fun and surprisingly I really enjoyed myself(:
I'd thought that being in Pub means i'll be restricted to just going around taking photos;
bitterly so as i see the rest having fun.
BUT i got to play the games as well. yayy *victory sign to myself*
Hanah, I know i've got to do my job doing the real camp haha.
People, i look forward to your brightest smile and the most pained expressions.
+++
Met up with jingles (gawd, can't we have a cooler-sounding name) on friday evening,
to celebrate SIMONE's extremely belated birthday.
I have a feeling we'll grow old with each other (sounds romantic? HAHAHA) bringing our husbands & little brats to our gathering.
Man, i really can't imagine. We'll have our hands full.
And if we do, please caution me to keep my children from running around simone yong.
I don't want them to get slapped/ get holes stared through their foreheads=P
WHAT HAPPENED AT HAAGENDAZS WAS HILARIOUS, now that i look back.
Yea, anyway i'm happy they she liked our present and the card.
Your delighted expression is priceless.
+++
Back to books. The following week will be a warzone.
LAUREN LIN LIHUI PLEASE STAY SANE N DON'T SNACK LIKE A PIG WHEN U'RE RUSHING UR ASSIGNMENTS!
Sneaking a break, caught up several chapters of NANA from where i left off. all too realistic characters & truths in a manga. as it happened, playlist was mainly blues then- THAT totally did it.
Something that i SHOULD have grown out of by now ha.
My neighbour tagged me in one of his notes on FB and it was so accurate for him!
Couldnt resist my curiosity and did it too:
Your view on yourself: Other people find you very interesting, but you are really hiding your true self. Your friends love you because you are a good listener. They'll probably still love you if you learn to be yourself with them.
The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for: You are not looking merely for a girl/boyfriend - you are looking for your life partner. Perhaps you should be more open-minded about who you spend time with. The person you are looking for might hide their charm under their exterior.
Your readiness to commit to a relationship: You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.
The seriousness of your love: You like to flirt and behave seductively. The opposite sex finds this very attractive, and that's why you'll always have admirers hanging off your arms. But how serious are you about choosing someone to be in a relationship with?
Your views on education: Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.
The right job for you: You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.
How do you view success: You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.
What are you most afraid of: You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel.
Who is your true self: You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.
So, i give good advice, it says. Who will give me mine?
Nothing that i really feel like writing about, let's just say this is to ward off the complaints tt i haven't been updating since god-knows-when. But it makes me secretly happy in a sense. As it always happens, i like to give this page a new look after a long break from blogging- to keep me posting. Somehow blogs seem so yesterday after facebook came into the foreground, no? And randomly, it just occurred to me that it being NTU openhouse today signals one full year since the last one. Had gone with belly and von, and bel's parents drove us around. Was a confused wreck then, and in my opinion, not much better now. Sometimes I think I know what I want, but sometimes everything just seems a complete blur. So much for having supposedly grown the past year huh. End of sem 2 awaits, i can smell it. Wish i can tell u just how much i dread it. Totally.
Well wells, there shall be a proper update when i feel less grouchy haha. Oh ya, and check out AAR's 08 album When the world comes down. I like it. Sunshine is a hidden track, & stuck in my head today:D
-Edited-
I'm hooked to this site which i'd mentioned some time back,
here's putting up some of the pictures tt amused me. Some briliant ones:
Durex condom ad: Love is blind.
This is pure evil.
For the extremists.
Campaign for the World Food Programme.
N24 is a television news channel from Germany. One picture that speaks all about human politics.
Fox News ad-busting. .
WWF: Animals are going extinct. .
IKEA crazy billboard(: .
KitKat Benchvertising. .
How cigarettes are advertised in the past. .
Ever wondered how a giraffe's tongue looks like?
.
For the caffeine addicts like bels, a smiling coffee(:
The tab that'll always be on my browser besides FB, gmail and hotmail, is BBC news.
Have you heard of baby OT?
I just read the article and my heart feels so heavy for the futility of it all.
OT is a 9 month old baby in the UK.
He suffered from mitochondrial disease,
a rare metabolic disorder in which the body can’t deliver energy properly.
As a result he was severely brain damaged and had lived in an intensive care unit since he was three weeks old, kept alive on a ventilator.
Doctors treating him had said the boy's life was intolerable and his disability amounted to 'torture'.
The hospital’s medical team had applied to the courts to end the boy’s treatment and take him off life support.
The parents wanted the hospital to keep their son alive.
They produced a video footage of Baby OT-
apparently giving a slight smile in response to being tickled on the feet by his father.
They were absolutely convinced he reacted to their voices, that he cooed when his father went closer and relaxed him and comforted him, and when he was unhappy he made a completely different type of noise
The attorney:
"Does not the baby's autonomy, humanity, his life justify further time and further resources?"
The doctor replied:
"What we are looking at is the quality of his life.
Parents may get tremendous pleasure from their interaction with him-
but what we are looking at is the quality of the life of this child.
How much pain and suffering should he be made to bear
when the pleasures he gets from life are few and far between?"
The verdict?
The parents lost their case.
Baby OT was unable to breathe by himself and died at 1008 GMT after doctors withdrew his treatment.
"He died peacefully. We will miss him greatly and wish to say that we are proud to have known our beautiful son for his brief life."
My heart goes out to them, and the medical team.
"There is a belief among us, fed by everyone around us, that medicine has the answer to everything. But unfortunately there are occasions where medicine can't do anything."
Her parents was told she only had one-percent chance of survival. Doctors applied to the High Court for permission not to resuscitate her in a life-threatening situation.
She is now five-
Still needs a little oxygen every day, but loves to listen to nursery rhymes and can now stand and walk with the help of a walking frame(:
I'm glad she had the chance to live on.
+++
I'm not going to delve into the debate of life expectancy versus the right to live.
but if u ask me, i'll go for pro-life-
though that isnt always the most rational decision.
I'm thankful for being born healthy and raised in a complete family.
Please remind me about this
if i start bitching about how i wish
i was born taller, slimmer, prettier and into a richer family.
+++
Bringing my mummy out for dinner later, i think Swensens
To celebrate her 50th birthday, which falls nxt tuesday.
She is fifty already. I REFUSE to believe it.
Growing up also means that your parents are getting older by the day. This is how Earth maintains its balance.
+++
ANYWAY! On a lighter note, my hall had our seniors' camp yesterday.
It was mega fun and surprisingly I really enjoyed myself(:
I'd thought that being in Pub means i'll be restricted to just going around taking photos;
bitterly so as i see the rest having fun.
BUT i got to play the games as well. yayy *victory sign to myself*
Hanah, I know i've got to do my job doing the real camp haha.
People, i look forward to your brightest smile and the most pained expressions.
+++
Met up with jingles (gawd, can't we have a cooler-sounding name) on friday evening,
to celebrate SIMONE's extremely belated birthday.
I have a feeling we'll grow old with each other (sounds romantic? HAHAHA) bringing our husbands & little brats to our gathering.
Man, i really can't imagine. We'll have our hands full.
And if we do, please caution me to keep my children from running around simone yong.
I don't want them to get slapped/ get holes stared through their foreheads=P
WHAT HAPPENED AT HAAGENDAZS WAS HILARIOUS, now that i look back.
Yea, anyway i'm happy they she liked our present and the card.
Your delighted expression is priceless.
+++
Back to books. The following week will be a warzone.
LAUREN LIN LIHUI PLEASE STAY SANE N DON'T SNACK LIKE A PIG WHEN U'RE RUSHING UR ASSIGNMENTS!
Sneaking a break, caught up several chapters of NANA from where i left off. all too realistic characters & truths in a manga. as it happened, playlist was mainly blues then- THAT totally did it.
Something that i SHOULD have grown out of by now ha.
My neighbour tagged me in one of his notes on FB and it was so accurate for him!
Couldnt resist my curiosity and did it too:
Your view on yourself: Other people find you very interesting, but you are really hiding your true self. Your friends love you because you are a good listener. They'll probably still love you if you learn to be yourself with them.
The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for: You are not looking merely for a girl/boyfriend - you are looking for your life partner. Perhaps you should be more open-minded about who you spend time with. The person you are looking for might hide their charm under their exterior.
Your readiness to commit to a relationship: You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.
The seriousness of your love: You like to flirt and behave seductively. The opposite sex finds this very attractive, and that's why you'll always have admirers hanging off your arms. But how serious are you about choosing someone to be in a relationship with?
Your views on education: Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.
The right job for you: You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.
How do you view success: You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.
What are you most afraid of: You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel.
Who is your true self: You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.
So, i give good advice, it says. Who will give me mine?
Nothing that i really feel like writing about, let's just say this is to ward off the complaints tt i haven't been updating since god-knows-when. But it makes me secretly happy in a sense. As it always happens, i like to give this page a new look after a long break from blogging- to keep me posting. Somehow blogs seem so yesterday after facebook came into the foreground, no? And randomly, it just occurred to me that it being NTU openhouse today signals one full year since the last one. Had gone with belly and von, and bel's parents drove us around. Was a confused wreck then, and in my opinion, not much better now. Sometimes I think I know what I want, but sometimes everything just seems a complete blur. So much for having supposedly grown the past year huh. End of sem 2 awaits, i can smell it. Wish i can tell u just how much i dread it. Totally.
Well wells, there shall be a proper update when i feel less grouchy haha. Oh ya, and check out AAR's 08 album When the world comes down. I like it. Sunshine is a hidden track, & stuck in my head today:D
-Edited-
I'm hooked to this site which i'd mentioned some time back,
here's putting up some of the pictures tt amused me. Some briliant ones:
Durex condom ad: Love is blind.
This is pure evil.
For the extremists.
Campaign for the World Food Programme.
N24 is a television news channel from Germany. One picture that speaks all about human politics.
Fox News ad-busting. .
WWF: Animals are going extinct. .
IKEA crazy billboard(: .
KitKat Benchvertising. .
How cigarettes are advertised in the past. .
Ever wondered how a giraffe's tongue looks like?
.
For the caffeine addicts like bels, a smiling coffee(:
The tab that'll always be on my browser besides FB, gmail and hotmail, is BBC news.
Have you heard of baby OT?
I just read the article and my heart feels so heavy for the futility of it all.
OT is a 9 month old baby in the UK.
He suffered from mitochondrial disease,
a rare metabolic disorder in which the body can’t deliver energy properly.
As a result he was severely brain damaged and had lived in an intensive care unit since he was three weeks old, kept alive on a ventilator.
Doctors treating him had said the boy's life was intolerable and his disability amounted to 'torture'.
The hospital’s medical team had applied to the courts to end the boy’s treatment and take him off life support.
The parents wanted the hospital to keep their son alive.
They produced a video footage of Baby OT-
apparently giving a slight smile in response to being tickled on the feet by his father.
They were absolutely convinced he reacted to their voices, that he cooed when his father went closer and relaxed him and comforted him, and when he was unhappy he made a completely different type of noise
The attorney:
"Does not the baby's autonomy, humanity, his life justify further time and further resources?"
The doctor replied:
"What we are looking at is the quality of his life.
Parents may get tremendous pleasure from their interaction with him-
but what we are looking at is the quality of the life of this child.
How much pain and suffering should he be made to bear
when the pleasures he gets from life are few and far between?"
The verdict?
The parents lost their case.
Baby OT was unable to breathe by himself and died at 1008 GMT after doctors withdrew his treatment.
"He died peacefully. We will miss him greatly and wish to say that we are proud to have known our beautiful son for his brief life."
My heart goes out to them, and the medical team.
"There is a belief among us, fed by everyone around us, that medicine has the answer to everything. But unfortunately there are occasions where medicine can't do anything."
Her parents was told she only had one-percent chance of survival. Doctors applied to the High Court for permission not to resuscitate her in a life-threatening situation.
She is now five-
Still needs a little oxygen every day, but loves to listen to nursery rhymes and can now stand and walk with the help of a walking frame(:
I'm glad she had the chance to live on.
+++
I'm not going to delve into the debate of life expectancy versus the right to live.
but if u ask me, i'll go for pro-life-
though that isnt always the most rational decision.
I'm thankful for being born healthy and raised in a complete family.
Please remind me about this
if i start bitching about how i wish
i was born taller, slimmer, prettier and into a richer family.
+++
Bringing my mummy out for dinner later, i think Swensens
To celebrate her 50th birthday, which falls nxt tuesday.
She is fifty already. I REFUSE to believe it.
Growing up also means that your parents are getting older by the day. This is how Earth maintains its balance.
+++
ANYWAY! On a lighter note, my hall had our seniors' camp yesterday.
It was mega fun and surprisingly I really enjoyed myself(:
I'd thought that being in Pub means i'll be restricted to just going around taking photos;
bitterly so as i see the rest having fun.
BUT i got to play the games as well. yayy *victory sign to myself*
Hanah, I know i've got to do my job doing the real camp haha.
People, i look forward to your brightest smile and the most pained expressions.
+++
Met up with jingles (gawd, can't we have a cooler-sounding name) on friday evening,
to celebrate SIMONE's extremely belated birthday.
I have a feeling we'll grow old with each other (sounds romantic? HAHAHA) bringing our husbands & little brats to our gathering.
Man, i really can't imagine. We'll have our hands full.
And if we do, please caution me to keep my children from running around simone yong.
I don't want them to get slapped/ get holes stared through their foreheads=P
WHAT HAPPENED AT HAAGENDAZS WAS HILARIOUS, now that i look back.
Yea, anyway i'm happy they she liked our present and the card.
Your delighted expression is priceless.
+++
Back to books. The following week will be a warzone.
LAUREN LIN LIHUI PLEASE STAY SANE N DON'T SNACK LIKE A PIG WHEN U'RE RUSHING UR ASSIGNMENTS!
Sneaking a break, caught up several chapters of NANA from where i left off. all too realistic characters & truths in a manga. as it happened, playlist was mainly blues then- THAT totally did it.
Something that i SHOULD have grown out of by now ha.
My neighbour tagged me in one of his notes on FB and it was so accurate for him!
Couldnt resist my curiosity and did it too:
Your view on yourself: Other people find you very interesting, but you are really hiding your true self. Your friends love you because you are a good listener. They'll probably still love you if you learn to be yourself with them.
The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for: You are not looking merely for a girl/boyfriend - you are looking for your life partner. Perhaps you should be more open-minded about who you spend time with. The person you are looking for might hide their charm under their exterior.
Your readiness to commit to a relationship: You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.
The seriousness of your love: You like to flirt and behave seductively. The opposite sex finds this very attractive, and that's why you'll always have admirers hanging off your arms. But how serious are you about choosing someone to be in a relationship with?
Your views on education: Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.
The right job for you: You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.
How do you view success: You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.
What are you most afraid of: You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel.
Who is your true self: You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.
So, i give good advice, it says. Who will give me mine?
Nothing that i really feel like writing about, let's just say this is to ward off the complaints tt i haven't been updating since god-knows-when. But it makes me secretly happy in a sense. As it always happens, i like to give this page a new look after a long break from blogging- to keep me posting. Somehow blogs seem so yesterday after facebook came into the foreground, no? And randomly, it just occurred to me that it being NTU openhouse today signals one full year since the last one. Had gone with belly and von, and bel's parents drove us around. Was a confused wreck then, and in my opinion, not much better now. Sometimes I think I know what I want, but sometimes everything just seems a complete blur. So much for having supposedly grown the past year huh. End of sem 2 awaits, i can smell it. Wish i can tell u just how much i dread it. Totally.
Well wells, there shall be a proper update when i feel less grouchy haha. Oh ya, and check out AAR's 08 album When the world comes down. I like it. Sunshine is a hidden track, & stuck in my head today:D
-Edited-
I'm hooked to this site which i'd mentioned some time back,
here's putting up some of the pictures tt amused me. Some briliant ones:
Durex condom ad: Love is blind.
This is pure evil.
For the extremists.
Campaign for the World Food Programme.
N24 is a television news channel from Germany. One picture that speaks all about human politics.
Fox News ad-busting. .
WWF: Animals are going extinct. .
IKEA crazy billboard(: .
KitKat Benchvertising. .
How cigarettes are advertised in the past. .
Ever wondered how a giraffe's tongue looks like?
.
For the caffeine addicts like bels, a smiling coffee(:
BUT i got to play the games as well. yayy *victory sign to myself*
+++
I have a feeling we'll grow old with each other (sounds romantic? HAHAHA)
Your delighted expression is priceless.
This is pure evil. 
For the extremists.
Campaign for the World Food Programme.
N24 is a television news channel from Germany.
