hansvision » time http://hschin.com the world, engineered Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:26:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Lengthening our lives http://hschin.com/2011/09/lengthening-our-lives/ http://hschin.com/2011/09/lengthening-our-lives/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:42:41 +0000 hschin http://hschin.com/?p=526 Continue reading →]]> Joshua Foer in Moonwalking with Einstein:

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next–and disappear. That’s why it’s important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.

]]> http://hschin.com/2011/09/lengthening-our-lives/feed/ 0 End of 1st semester! http://hschin.com/2007/04/end-of-1st-semester/ http://hschin.com/2007/04/end-of-1st-semester/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:27:00 +0000 hschin http://hschin.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/end-of-1st-semester Continue reading →]]> The last day of classes was today…Can’t believe time passes so fast…it’s already the end of my first semester in university already! 6 papers to go before i completely finish my semester! But my schedule is quite crazy and its not helped by the fact that McGill doesn’t have the practice of having 1 wk of study break.

So basically, my exams start in 2 days time (Friday)! By this time next wk, I would have finished 5 of my 6 papers…1 paper on mon, 2 on tues and 1 on wed. Then the next paper is MORE than a wk after…haha…oh well…i can’t decide if time shld pass faster or slower. On one hand, i really want the exams to be over and done with but on the other hand, i would have liked more time to prepare for my papers…

That’s all i have time for now…just a short update. Time to go back to work!

]]> http://hschin.com/2007/04/end-of-1st-semester/feed/ 0 Spring forward, fall back http://hschin.com/2007/03/spring-forward-fall-back/ http://hschin.com/2007/03/spring-forward-fall-back/#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:10:00 +0000 hschin http://hschin.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/spring-forward-fall-back Continue reading →]]> That’s the easiest way to remember how to adjust your clocks for Daylight Saving Time (DST). It just means that in Spring, changeover from standard time to DST is to adjust your clock FORWARD by an hour, while in Fall, you turn it BACK by an hour. It’s my first time experiencing the changeover from standard time to DST. It happens tonight at 2am, when clocks will be adjusted forward to 3am, so technically, the day will have 23 hours and i’ll be 1 hour short of sleep =( (Nvm, i’ll gain it back in Fall!)

So now, the time difference between Singapore and Montreal is cut from 13 hours to 12 hours. Not like it makes much of a difference if the time difference is already so large…haha…

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