gloomy

im feeling gloomy =(
i hate how this feeling creeps up every summer.

i should reallie listen to my body and give it the rest it deserves. =/

an update

went to nyc for fourth of july. calvinchung was nice enough to spend the day with me. proving that we are 2 mo liu people. who have nothing to do after work. ha

haha it was nice catching up with him and doing stupid things and having a zillion random conversations. and stuffing our faces with dimsum.jampajiuce.koreanfood

oh and hes an idiot for almost breaking the m&m dispenser.









and in the news...

Study: Women don't talk more than guys

By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science WriterThu Jul 5, 2:12 PM ET

Another stereotype — chatty gals and taciturn guys — bites the dust. Turns out, when you actually count the words, there isn't much difference between the sexes when it comes to talking.

A team led by Matthias R. Mehl, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, came up with the finding, which is published in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

The researchers placed microphones on 396 college students for periods ranging from two to 10 days, sampled their conversations and calculated how many words they used in the course of a day.

The score: Women, 16,215. Men, 15,669.

The difference: 546 words: "Not statistically significant," say the researchers.

"What's a 500-word difference, compared with the 45,000-word difference between the most and the least talkative persons" in the study, said Mehl.

Co-author James W. Pennebaker, chairman of the psychology department at the University of Texas, said the researchers collected the recordings as part of a larger project to understand how people are affected when they talk about emotional experiences.

They were surprised when a magazine article asserted that women use an average of 20,000 words per day compared with 7,000 for men. If there had been that big a difference, he thought, they should have noticed it.

They found that the 20,000-7,000 figures have been used in popular books and magazines for years. But they couldn't find any research supporting them.

"Although many people believe the stereotypes of females as talkative and males as reticent, there is no large-scale study that systematically has recorded the natural conversations of large groups of people for extended periods of time," Pennebaker said.

Indeed, Mehl said, one study they found, done in workplaces, showed men talking more.

Still, the idea that women use nearly three times as many words a day as men has taken on the status of an "urban legend," he said.

"We realized we had the data," Mehl said in a telephone interview, so they went back to their recordings and calculated the actual numbers.

Their research began with one group of students in 1998, two groups sampled in 2001, two in 2003 and a final group in 2004. One of the 2003 groups involved 51 students in Mexico, the rest were all in the United States.

The students were fitted with unobtrusive recorders that sampled their conversations — the students didn't know when the recorders were on. From the samples, a total number of words for the day could be calculated.

Of the six groups sampled, women used more words than men in three and men used more words than women in the other three, including the one in Mexico.

The research was limited to college students, but Pennebaker said he believes it would probably apply to others in the same age range.

"The question is, how it applies to people as we get older," he said in a telephone interview on Thursday.

Mehl said he thinks it should apply across age groups, but he wondered how it would be affected by different cultures.

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On the Net:

Science: http://www.sciencemag.org

overdue

this always happens. every time i want to write an entry, i get lazy and keep putting it off.
new resolution. at least a few entries per week. let's see how long i can keep this thing alive. =)

internship's been great so far =) except for the fact that my experiments keep failing.. and i broke a $200 glass centrifuge cell. =( it slipped when i was cleaning it.. hit the sink and fell apart =/ so now until the one gets here.. i can't do a whole set of experiments.

otherwise things have been great.
- had breakfast with derrick samuel a few weeks ago.. he's the president of global r&d.. very interesting man. he seems genuinely interested in having a conversation with you.
- my mentor took me out for lunch one day to an awesome chinese restaurant. hong kong style. cantonese speaking waiters. felt like home. it really did.
- had a business presentation skill workshop. learnt how to prepare professional presentations. useful skill. impromptu presentation was somewhat embarrassing but that's okay =) oh. and free pizza afterwards was a huge plus.

weekends have been greattttt =) addicted to food shows. 30-minute meals. top chef. iron chef. i love having cable


i promise i'll put up pictures. i promise i promise... b says i should put up pics of food =))

fire alarm

while i was in the shower. at rutgers in nj.

=(

and there was a fire alarm in unione two weeks ago.






twice in 2 weeks.

lucky

workaholic

im working for colgate-palmolive company this summer. second day today. still excited.

yes. they gave us a huge bag of free samples.
yes. i get a hugeee discount. (toothbrush for 25 cents). so yes if you want anything. let me know.

before orientation yesterday.. little did i know that the company i am working for has a 200 year history and is a hugeee international empire with its corporate headquarters on park avenue, new york.

im working at the technology center. the brain of the company. the heart of research and development. my department is called early research and it's basically the first step of the whole production process. thinking of new products/modifying formulas so that the product can be made in bulk and so on.

it's fascinating. it really is. they have a laundry room with a zillion washing machines to test out the effectiveness of the products. they have a whole sub department on fragrances to make the products smell just right. there is soap. toothpaste. detergent. all over the place and the place smells like mint.

and i get my own project. not being an office bitch. im testing out a new product and seeing how i can control the stability of it. fancy stuff. downside. navier stokes theorem. non newtonian fluid. fluid mechanics. thank goodness i half paid attention in class last semester. thank you dr. stebe.

oh. and today i got a pair of steel toe shoes. safety shoes for free. original price 90 bucks
and tomorrow i might go get a pair of prescription glasses. with side shields for doing experiments. fancy.

i forgot my cord in baltimore. so pics up when i go back and grab it.

oh and btw.. huk yen toothpaste "black person toothpaste" the brand is made by colgate. who would have known. =)




p.s. chicago pics up later too =)