studying tips...

I've never quite understood how people can say that they are studying and sit in the same place for the entire night just staring at a book. i will go crazy! for every half hour i study (depending on how interesting it is) i need to get up and walk about. maybe i am a little bit ADHD...who knows? but i've learnt that it's the only way i will absorb the material i am studying. so here's what i learnt about studying...
-if i'm sleepy and i have to study, i will look at the material, see how much i need to know, estimate the time it will take to learn it, set 2 alarms and go to sleep. wouldn't concentrate if i'm sleepy.
-never eat carbs when doing an all-nighter. found out that after eating, i feel sleepy and distracted.
peanuts work fine...or any other protein filled snack food....not some elaborate meal like fried up tomatoes, mushrooms, and roti at 2am! (yeah, furgie...remember that?)...
-two redbulls and an expresso is a caffeine overdose. heart races like ato boldon after his 100m dash...definitely not conducive to studying.
-studying in the early hours of the morning is best for memory. usually, the house is quiet. .....on a metaphysical aspect, the universe is just waking up and you get all the positive vibrations that is passing through the surroundings at that time....remember the saying: "the early bird catches the worm?"
-if you are doing a lab report...remember to remove the click here links after copying and pasting...the chem majors know this one...oh, and yeah! pray real hard that someone else does not have the same copied and pasted stuff like you...it pays to read the stuff that you are copying and pasting too...reading all that fine print and starting at a computer screen makes you start seeing things that aren't there after a whole night of just reading articles on some scientific machine and how it works.....
-classical music helps...or mild religious songs....on low volume though...i call that 'securing the blessings.

i'm doing a lab report now. just took a break to have another cup of coffee. makes no sense to sleep now. i am thankful for the hour i stole to sleep when i got home from work. the boss cooked so i ate with him in work. now he does not use peppers at all in his cooking. made some curried zucchini and roti. was actually quite good. nan ordered chinese food for my mom. her present will come later on this week. ordered it a bit too late. she got a whole bunch of roses and another bunch of flowers and the house was decorated though and she got a card from each of us, including my dad, with our own words to her. in the evening, my dad and her prayed together. she's a happy person...and we are equally happy to have her. she, together with my brother, neutralizes the extremes that are my dad, furgie, and me. my mom and vinod are the calm ones...my dad, me and furgie are the explosive, impulsive ones....and talking about impulse...i better get back to my report.