facts

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced

enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.)

(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour

(Don't try this at home,maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmm......)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

(okay, so that would be a good thing)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains

(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.

(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

(What about that pig??)

Author: Unknown (i just had to, it was so funny, and if you didnt even smile, you must be pretty depressed)

Tennis

Its funny, actually nto so funny for me.
This morning i played the best tennis in my life.
and at the tryouts? i played the worst tennis i have played in the past three years.
yea the story of my life.
lets just say the chances of me getting on teh team are slim, but for once..it doesn't really matter so much to me.

Internatinal Day

purpose: to show the diverse cultures existant in school and to feel 'international'.
outcome: students group into nationalities where they speak to one another in their own languages and stick with one another for the first few hours of the day. each country also seems to want to show they're the best by chants (eh-hum australians) or by balloons, costume, props, dances etc etc etc.
But what i hate most about international day is that sad as it is i don't really fit in anywhere, especially not with the dutch, apparantly its strange to be dutch and not speak the language, or not have blond hair or not have blue eyes, and in my case not have all three. In fact, the only tme me and my sis gets recognised was when she got top in the world or when they're telling each other how she got into cambridge then they're all like "oh yess stand in the front, stand in the front"
But it was cute this year, Jasmijn came and held on to my hand for the entire morning and i have to say it was fun; and it was like i had my own little dutch prop...hehe lol. :)
i know its gay but what i totally love about international day is the song, one world, one voice, one song song. I just think its so beautiful when the whole school sings it, but whatever that's just me. i also LOVE the displays and THE FOOD!!!! heehee greeedy pig but i don't care.
it sux though that this year we don't get to miss classes, even though some of the dancing was gay, it was damn fun and i wish i could do it again for just one more year.
but i'm thinking, next year maybe i'll come in a white shirt and just go to whatever country i want, its all about internationalism right?

will you be my valentine?

and so there comes the time of year when you wish there was that someone there to buy you roses and chocolate, take you out on a date and make you feel special. For all who know what i'm on about, don't worry.. the extremity of that longing usually only lasts a day. yep that's the same as the day where everyone seems to be going on triple dates and when roses are way overpriced.
okay so i'm not actually that bitter, or at least i don't want poeple seeing me that way. I always wondered what's up with valentines day, i mean if you REALLY loved someone would need a certain day to show it? and double triple dating? way overated, and it loses all the romance- but watever.
So anyway i looked into the history of St. Valentine and this is what i foundn (it was really long and complicated so here's the summary) :
Valentines day originated in Rome. Emperor Claudius II, emporer of the time, wanted a large army but many men were attatched to women and families. So as a result he cancelled all marraiges and engagements in rome. St. Valentine was a pope who secretly wed couples despite this ban. When discovered of his workings the emperor condemned him to death. he died on February 14, leaving a goodbye note to his 'friend' signed, "from your valentine". The already ancient tradition of young men choosing the names of girls from a jar then proceeded to occur on this day and from then on the valentines day tradition continued. but it only commercialised when cards were first sold in the US in around the 1800s.
so there you have it, origin of valentines day. glad to know it wasn't a holiday created by the americans, no offense or anything. but don't get me wrong i had fun today, Big mama's house 2 is damn funny and i had fun in empo with pim. and i actually had a pretty romantic end to the day: rose in one hand, a chocolate in the other, slightly warm from the cherry brandy (all freebies from a restaurant) and strolling down my street lined with tourist buses and garbage trucks. charming huh?

Line of the day (sick but funny i just had to add it): a way to a man's heart is not through his stomach, ur about 4 inches too high.

blood test

yep every year i have a blood test. and today its that time of year when i wake up realy early on a weekend and starve myself until they withdraw my blood with a syringe. gross.
funny thing is this year my mum went to the hospital with a long sleeved shirt which can not and would not roll up any higher than her wrist which proved to be a problem.

phone

oh this sucks. called marié and she was having a japanese lesson, called pim and she was out, called sara and she's not picking up, called peck and he wasn't home either. so i gave up.
why is no one ever available when i jus feel like talking to someone? sigh.

people always leave

i'm having such a week of nostalgic memories.
first its steffani, okay technically not really MY friend but my sister's but we used to hang out ALL the time, most of my memories as a kid was at her house and she came back to visit!! we had so much fun at Lynn's. lol.
and now its Na Yeon, i mean its been 4 years since i talked to her, we send the occasional christmas card but that's it. and now we're on msn like nothings happened since year 5.
it just shows that although poeple always leave...
sometimes they come back.