BASICALLY there is an old German myth of a beautiful nymph who marries a knight. He tells her on their marriage day "My every waking breath shall be my pledge of love and faithfulness to you." But of course being a typical man, he cheats on her when she starts to age. 

AND so she curses him, "You swore faithfulness to me with every waking breath, and I accepted your oath. So be it. As long as you are awake, you shall have your breath, but should you ever fall asleep, then that breath will be taken from you and you will die!" 

NOW, as to why I mentioned this, this is an acutal phenomenon (D:!). There are people who stop breathing when they fall asleep. And not so suprisingly, the medical term for it is ONDINE'S CURSE. I find it funny that a legend from god knows how many years ago, actually has such a spooky coincidence (or maybe it was FATE?). Lol, I'm just trying to imagine telling my patient, "I'm sorry sir, but I'm afraid you have been cursed, by a 500+y/o nymph, who may or may not have existed, D:! " 

It's such a melodramatic name as well, and flashy compared to all the other boring Latin names we usually get. But it sure as hell made the lecture much more interesting. 

In other news: I CAN'T BELIEVE ALAN RICKMAN (more commonly as the Snape, or if you're a fan of Sense and Sensibility, Colonel Brandon!) IS 61! Suddenly my obsession with him goes from slighty disturbing to SQICKY. Lol, why is it like this...xD!? I still won't deny that fact that he has the voice of a sex-god though. :D Haha, he's so manly. (Inserted above: a poem he recited for one of his charities, Peace One Day). 



In other not so happy news: My exam timetable came out, and I'm so screwed. Haha, it's six exams spread over three weeks. That's like killing someone with a blunt knife, slowly and painfully.

Tinky winky ---> likes purses and is purple (and likes to hug the other tellytubies an awful lot). 

Therefore the logical conclusion is that he's gay. 

GA-AAAY.

http://optuszoo.news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=269801&rss=yes&_cobr=optus

Yeah right lady.

Well I'm feeling better since last post. The cold is almost gone, which is a huge relief , hacking your lungs out when you're trying to sleep is not a pleasent experience. 

And lol, at all the infections I spread with my sneaky net cough. We had the funniest conversation in the PBL tut. this week about which people to knock out before the exams. And Jonno Emerson is first on the list (have to tell you guys later about his fanclub which is just hilarious -and which I kinda wanted to join...-____-;). After a anatomy lesson where he proceeded to name every aspect of the human GI tract, we decided he studied too much, so our tut. group decided to cough on him till he's out of action. 

Lol, so now he's going to get all this random people trying their hardest to spread him some germ love. >D 

Hee, and here's a funny clip about how our PBL tuts are like (it's SCARILY like ours -lol, I'm the lazy ass, and WIKI OWNS)