'Growing old is inevitable. Growing up is optional'

Wise words from an angmoh in my tute. Sort of explains why the kids here in uni are so childish. *Throws arms up in air*

Had a formative exam today. I personally found the questions quite crappy! Like 'What are the most important risk factors and protective factors of Mary's drinking problem'. Thinking along biomedical lines, I wrote something like RISK FACTOR: LIVER CIRRHOSIS. PROTECTIVE FACTOR: REDUCED RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. You will never guess how smart I felt writing that, especially the latter part. To my horror, the answer was RISK FACTORS: BREAKDOWN OF MARRIAGE, LOSS OF DRIVER'S LICENSE. PROTECTIVE FACTORS: FAMILY SUPPORT, BEING EMPLOYED. WTH?

Learnt something else recently: In Roman law, a person's ability to testify was intimately linked with the possession of testes! This was because he was swearing upon is testes, which would be crushed if he lied.