//beconfused

This week I had 4 text messages sent at my sleeping hours:

1. 3:41 AM
2. 4:05 AM
3. 4:38 AM
4. 4:43 AM

Erm… I am starting to wonder if people think I don’t sleep or something. Seriously, it’s quite inconsiderate to text me at those timings. I get awoken by my phone’s vibration, I didn’t set a ring tone even. I am all fine with people texting stuff that are important.

BUT all the four messages are sent by 3 different people request me to send this and that, a reminder to bring my camera to school to lend him, and 2 others to ask for phone numbers of other people. They’re asking for favors in the wee hours of the morning and none are particularly urgent. What are they thinking? Have they even considered I might have woke up just to entertain their messages.

I usually sleep at 2 AM, so be nice and don’t message me till morning. Ahh, like they would read my blog like that.

[On a side note: My friend was telling me that liver repair starts at 12 AM and stops at 3 AM in the morning. Any comments on how true that could be?]

Five excuses to use when caught sleeping at your desk:

1. “They told me at the Blood Bank this might happen.”
2. “This is just a 15 minute power nap they raved about in the time management course you sent me to.”
3. “Whew! Guess I left the top off the Whiteout. You probably got here just in time.”
4. “Did you ever notice sound coming out of these keyboards when you put your ear down real close?” And the NUMBER ONE best thing to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk…
5. Raise your head slowly and say, “…in Jesus’ name, Amen.”

[via Atlanta Illustrated]

Not sure true or false but an article over at Scribd suggests that if you want an insight into somebody’s true personality, then try to catch a glimpse of the way they sleep.

Scientists believe the position in which a person goes to sleep provides an important clue about the kind of person they are.

Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, has analysed six common sleeping positions – and found that each is linked to a particular personality type.

• The Foetus: Those who curl up in the foetus position are described as tough on the outside but sensitive at heart. They may be shy when they first meet somebody, but soon relax. This is the most common sleeping position, adopted by 41% of the 1,000 people who took part in the survey. More than twice as many women as men tend to adopt this position.
• Log (15%): Lying on your side with both arms down by your side. These sleepers are easy going, social people who like being part of the in-crowd, and who are trusting of strangers. However, they may be gullible.
• The yearner (13%): People who sleep on their side with both arms out in front are said to have an open nature, but can be suspicious, cynical. They are slow to make up their minds, but once they have taken a decision, they are unlikely ever to change it.
• Soldier (8%): Lying on your back with both arms pinned to your sides. People who sleep in this position are generally quiet and reserved. They don’t like a fuss, but set themselves and others high standards.
• Freefall (7%): Lying on your front with your hands around the pillow, and your head turned to one side. Often gregarious and brash people, but can be nervy and thin-skinned underneath, and don’t like criticism, or extreme situations.
• Starfish (5%): Lying on your back with both arms up around the pillow. These sleepers make good friends because they are always ready to listen to others, and offer help when needed. They generally don’t like to be the centre of attention.

The remainder of those in the poll said the position they fell asleep varied or did not know.

Read the article for more information. I usually sleep in the log position, so I’m easy-going, trusting and gullible… Well, it’s probably bull. Anyway, I can’t imagine how people sleep in the yearner position. On some nights, I prefer to sleep with hands wrapping around my pillow.

[via Digg]

Q: Why do most snooze buttons only give you nine more minutes of sleep?

A: By the time the snooze feature was added in the 1950s, the innards of alarm clocks had long been standardized. This meant that the teeth on the snooze gear had to mesh with the existing gear configuration, leaving engineers with a single choice: They could set the snooze for either a little more than nine minutes, or a little more than 10 minutes. But because reports indicated that 10 minutes was too long, allowing people to fall back into a ‘deep’ sleep, clock makers decided on the nine-minute gear, believing people would wake up easier and happier after a shorter snooze. We’d tend to disagree with that logic, but, then, we must be in the lazy minority. Although today’s digital clocks can be programmed to have a snooze of any length, most stick with nine minutes because that’s what consumers expect.

I didn’t know my snooze button lets me sleep only 9 minutes, that blowed me off totally. I reckon that to increase the snooze timing to at least 90 minutes alright.

[via Digg]

Nowadays I wake up staring at the ceiling. I start to wonder – haven’t I plan to do something last night and didn’t?

I slept at 11 yesterday, my body considers that a sin. I usually sleep at 2 in the morning and would be either reading or using the computer. And yesterday I was just too tired to do either of this.

Back from my cousin’s wedding, I was full and tired. Never has eating food and talking with my mouth full been so tiring. I guess its the whole atmosphere, it makes people want to talk.

Talk is something I am quite good at. If you’re bored and start talking to me, I’ll just entertain you and, at the same time, be entertain. I like talking, probably more than I like sleeping at night.

There was this once in camp when my platoon-mate and I chatted till like 5 and were both really really tired. We were talking about careers and studying opportunities. And the next day we supposed to wake up at 8 and go for a first parade. Yes, we suppose to reveille at half past five but we didn’t. We woke at half past seven but collaspe back onto our horrible spring beds as if we slept late at 5. Oh yea, we did sleep at 5.

And you know, when we wake up, it’s already 12. My platoon mate sleeps right opposite me. He woke up the same time as me I think. I was just staring at the ceiling for 15 minutes wondering what I forgot to do. I sit up on my bed immediately and said, “first parade.” He laughed and said, “it’s too late already lar.”

Having heard that, my mind just switched off back and my body collaspe back to my extremely terrible spring beds. “Good night Jason.”

[Names of my friends are never real in my blog, this is to protect privacy so that he or she can sleep better at night in the morning.]

I just booked in yesterday evening at 10 and immediately I was told to fix some server problems. I must have sucked at the whole email administration thingy because I can’t fix the problem after an hour. I admit my incompetency and went back to my bunk to sleep. (Only to get pulled over by my bunk mate to listen to him tell me about the wonderful food he has eaten for the past one week.)

And this morning I woke up with my eyes barely opening – not that I can open much bigger anyway since my eyes are small – they told me there was a run. Huh… I have to say this, but after I enter my current unit, I start to dislike running. Unfortunately, those people are ki siao (crazy) on running and we just have to run all the time.

It turned out to be a sports day. Yeah, I wasn’t informed about it. I just don’t know what is happening half the time! There is this saying – Monkey see, monkey do – which I practise religiously in army. I just follow.

People clapped and I followed and clapped. People cheered and I followed. I don’t know what the hell am I doing. I just want to sleep. After the sports day, I booked out and I reach home and I fell asleep immediately. I have to book in back later at 8 – to prepare for a IPPT test tomorrow which I will fail anyway since I can only run it seems.

I’m beening counting down for several weeks, counting down to the end of my course. It is getting exciting but at the same time – not so exciting.

I don’t usually behave optismistic about any decisions made by the army. I just like to choose where to go I guess. Anyway, I have already been posted into a unit. I don’t know if I told any of you guys. I’ve been posted to a unit that – rumor says – is very regimental. Okay, it’s not really a rumor – things in the army just spreads around. Yes, men gossip too.

And I heard really bad things about my new place, so much so that I somehow rather stay as a trainee here forever. I don’t know what is coming but it seems cloudy

Sometimes, I talk to my other friends, not surprisingly all those I talked to actually prefer to remain as trainees here than to go to that place. Well, we have to go there anyway.

“You should just be like me,” Bob says. ["Bob" is a substitute name to conceal a fellow countrymen's identity.]

“Like sleeping during classes?” I suggested.

“Yeah, time flies. It was like minutes ago when I step into a class and then the guys were like, ‘Bob, it’s time for lunch’ and I went for lunch and I return and the same thing just repeats,” Bob explains.

He may be half right. I’m quite envious of people who can just sleep everywhere. I can’t. If you tell me to sleep and sit, it is just too hard for me and the success rate is really low. I would just be pretending to be sleeping for 15 minutes and still fail to get to sleep in the end. And worse – after I “wake up”, I get all sorts of aches due to bad posture, I need to lie down flat.

Well, at least I listen in to some of the lessons and some of the networking lessons and quite good actually.