Yesterday I was at Mid Valley Megamall. My family and I walked for like 5 hours.. when I finally got back home, I could barely feel my legs. Though I still couldn't sleep after all that. Grr!!
Anyway, yes, to the title.
My mother and sister were looking at handbags. I'm not the type to look at all these stuff and things. I'm just not interested, sorry. :] I can walk with you, but if you're asking me to look at clothes, shoes, and all that; you're really asking for too much. Lol.
Anndddd... this song was playing.
I found myself mumbling to it... and this guy across me was rapping along to it. When I noticed it, I was like, smiling to myself. We were like singing along to the song. PS: The song is great! I love Eminem's recent songs. His rapping has really gone from great to epicness.
Oh, and to all my friends and to all the people leaving for matriculation today... Good luck! I'm still not sure where I'll be going. Still waiting. Haha, have been waiting for like 6 months now. It's okay though.
I seem to blog more; I don't know, maybe I just have more things to say, or I'm remembering my blog more and more since I'm gonna be gone next month. :(
No, I'm not gonna freak you out with some creepy pictures. (Maybe.)
Anyway... Hi! I've got some.. answers, I suppose. To my own questions.
The other day I was talking to my wife, Maya, about slitting wrists in the bathtub. Why? It's not because I was being suicidal or I'm thinking about it, or ANYTHING at all in the line. *coughs* Yeah, so it's because once upon a time, when I was in Form 3 (15 year old, for those not familiar with the forms), I stumbled on this book. Yes, I literally stumbled on it. I almost fell over. (awkward laugh) Nah, joking.
So yeah, this book was about this Polish woman with her family (I almost said 'he' there..) and stuff went on. Don't judge me, I don't remember half the things that happen in my life. And, yeah, so in this one particular chapter, her father, torn apart from humiliation (since they were living in a foreign country, you know how it goes) decided to slit his wrist.
And guess what? He placed his slitted wrist in a bowl of water.
Also, because I saw the video clip 'Perfect' by Pink.
The part where the girl, in the bathtub, with blood. Yeah. She slit her wrist, I came to that conclusion.
So it got me thinking... Why do people slit their wrists in the bathtub? Or the bowl of water? Is there some sort of explanation to it? Yes. Thank you Detective Conan.
Shinichi (Conan, the main character, genius detective [took me so long to spell that! xD]) solved this mystery, as usual.
I won't spoil it to y- .. oh what the heck, I'm gonna spoil it to you anyway. =]
It's a two part episode (meaning the case had to be in two episodes [614-615]) where Shinichi and his friends went up to the mountain with the professor, Professor Agasa (sorry, I don't really know how to spell his name) and their car broke down on the way back. So Shinichi and the others had to stay whilst the professor went downtown with the tow truck. It started to rain so Shinichi decided that they had to take shelter. Bla bla bla, they went back to the villas they crossed before, and heard a peculiar tune. On a piano. Known as, Air on the G-String. If I'm not mistaken, it's by Bach. Yeah, Google it for me, will you? =P
On and on with the case, and in the end, the culprit had slit his wrist and placed it in a running hot water in the bathtub. (Again with the bathtub, right?)
Fuh, so long until the conclusion; this is where Shinichi (Conan, for those not catching up with the names) explains why.
Apparently, if you place your bleeding hand into hot water, or water in general I suppose, it prevents clotting of the blood. And I had to apply my Biology in here;
The Mechanism of Blood Clotting.
I have to take my book so that I know I got this right.
So, essentially, when you cut yourself, accidentally or not, the blood will naturally clot. Unless you have haemophilia, in which case; cut yourself and you'd literally bleed out to death.
I'm not gonna type out all the specifics, but I'll put some in as much as I can without sounding like a textbook.
1) When a blood vessel is damaged/cut/impaired, a tissue called the connective tissue in the vessel wall will be exposed to blood plasma.
2) Platelets that release chemicals known as clotting factors, making the surrounding platelets sticky, stick immediately to the connective tissue.
3) The forming of platelets becomes something called a platelet plug; that in turn, can stop blood completely, providing the impairment is small.
4) If said damage is severe, the plug has a backup; a clot of fibrin.
5) Platelets, damaged cells and clotting factors in the plasma (still with the blood) form activators (also knowns as thromboplastins).
6) Thromboplastins, acting with Ca+ and vitamin K, converts prothrombin (an inactive plasma protein) to thrombin (active plasma protein.)
7) Skipping out on all the names, in the end, the fibrin earlier aggregates, forming a 'bandage' over the wound, trapping red blood cells and sealing the wound.
The end.
And where's our question? Why slit your wrist and put it in running hot water?
Because it'll stop the formation of platelets, the proteins, preventing blood clotting thus making it easier for you to bleed out to death. If so you wish.
Long explanation and such a short answer, I know. But it's still good to know all those things.
Sharina Hwaiting!'s blog. :) Sorry if I spelled that wrong ! D;
So then I thought, hmmm, I haven't been updating my blog. *sadness*
Haha, and fortunately, I have something to say.
My father had just informed me that we are going to Pulau Pinang (my mother's hometown) for her uncle's child thing wedding. Whatever.
Hahaha.
Lol, so yeah, going to Pinang? Yayyy? I'm not sure.
I'm kinda sad to leave my lappy.... *sweatdrop* Technology sadness, much?
Yeah... and next week is UniKL registration day. 15th May.
I'm not sure what to think of it. I'm PROBABLY not going, seeing my parents' answers.
Though I have just completed an application form for KPTM (Kolej Poly-Tech Mara). Don't ask.
Hm.
Excited and anxious? Not a pleasant feeling. Feels like your stomach is churning and flipping all in the wrong places. Lmao. And next Monday is my next driving class. (Hurry to another soreness of my body.. -_-) Last Wednesday, I bruised my leg. I don't even know what I did. But it's pretty bad. Red and all. But now it's green, and that's a generally good sign. (Generally.)
It should get better.
My dislocated right shoulder and arm is okay now, though. I can actually move without flinching and saying, "Oww" every now and then.
Ohh, but I'm so tired right now. Don't know why.
Lack of sleep? Maybe. Maybe I'm just this tired all the time, who knows? o_O
So if I don't go online tomorrow... means I'm off to Pinang. Kinda excited 'cause then I can go on the ferry again. Though I'm seasick, ugh. Bad sea. Bad Amira.
