i was reading this article..
Nap without guilt: It boosts sophisticated memory
it talks about how napping helps the brain memory, and experiments on people to confirm their theory.. it also talks about fragmented sleep, slow-wave sleep which is a period of very deep sleep and REM sleep which is the dreaming time..
Fragmented sleep can suppress the birth of new brain cells in the hippocampus, where memory-making begins.
However, a more active role for the slow-wave sleep can emerge even in a power nap.
the experiment goes like this.. 20 English College students were made to learn chi words spelled with 2 characters like mother, sister.. half the students took a 90th minute nap.. when they woke up, they took took a mcq test of chi words they'd never seen before.. however, the nappers were able to do better than those non nappers.. The nappers did much better at automatically learning that the first of the two-pair characters in the words they'd memorized earlier always meant the same thing, like 妈妈, 姐姐.. that had a 女 in front..
super cool man..

woah.. it's exactly one month i haven blogged..
i'm finally back from taiwan.. i mean actually i'm back already for the Asia Conference.. haha..
so so so tiring but the 3 days of roaming around taipei is fun lah.. though it's not long enough.. i went New Life Church on the sunday.. it was pretty cool man.. they used a basement of a primary school beside their building for the main service and their style is very similar to ours..
Pst Abraham Ku preaches very loud, make sure their youths are not sleeping.. but everything's in chinese.. after that i had to rush back to get ready to fly back..

and flew back in time for Asia Conference!! it was awesome, powerpact, super anointed.. what else can i say.. probably the queuing was crazy!! oh and the lunches are GOOD man! peter luen and i were talking about it, if Pst Kong said that the food is ordinary, then what is army food? junk? hahaha.. and i really wanna thank God that my soccer team actually won the champion for the 5-on-5.. i didn't expect it, even for them to qualify for the prelims.. didnt manage to play prelims on the previous sat cause i was in tw.. so they made it.. and really, our whole team was playing fair play i would say.. and all of us really commit everything to God.. during the games, many suffered injuries, however we didn't give up.. we were praying asking for strength and stuff.. and we just prayed we would play our best even though all of us wanted to win.. and there and there we won.. other than just winning, we built friendships.. some of us weren't as close as before but we made it together and became soccer buddies.. really enjoyed the team =).. oh most importantly, we had the favour of the referee i think.. because our team is really slow to wrath, and we just played whatever the ref commands... anyhow, i'll be looking forward the playing more games together.. hahah