Random idea.

Suppose you invent a head-dress (could be a cap, hat or visor) which contains a patch that measures skin-conductance. The head dress would display the scaled skin-conductance graph of the wearer. This would allow other people would know how stressed you are, and to a certain extent, whether you are lying. However, the display for the skin-conductance is designed such that you can only read the skin-conductance of other people if you are wearing a particular kind of goggles.

Experiment one.

1. Get a bunch of people. Give half of them special goggles.

2. Split them into pairs, so that 1/3 of the pairs have 2 goggles, 1/3 of the pairs have one, and1/3 of the pairs have none.

3. The researcher, while wearing the special goggles, observes them having a conversation with each other, with perhaps some prompting questions.

Which of the cases is the most stressful? Both partners having goggles? Both without goggles? Being the only one without goggles? Or being the only one with goggles?

Experiment two. (Same thing, except the bolded parts)

1. Get a bunch of people. Give half of them special goggles, and give the other half of them similar-looking but normal goggles.

2. Split them into pairs, so that 1/3 of the pairs have 2 special goggles, 1/3 of the pairs have one, and1/3 of the pairs have none.

3. The researcher, while wearing the special goggles, observes them having a conversation with each other, with perhaps some prompting questions.

Which of the cases is the most stressful? Both partners having special goggles? Both without special goggles? Being the only one without special goggles? Or being the only one with special goggles? Would they be able to tell if their partners have special goggles?

Random thoughts:

Some of the recent advertisements are seriously bad, or as Nelson puts it, "No effort!"

Like, the "London Choco Roll" advertisement just involves some airy voice chanting "London Choco Roll" while a yellow fairy dances in front of the said product.

Or, the "Jia xiang mian" advertisement.

"Jia Xiang!" "Mian!"
"Jia Xiang!" "Mian!"
"Jia Xiang Jia Xiang!" "Mian Mian!"
"Jia Xiang Jia Xiang Jia Xiang!" "Mian Mian Mian!"
"ooooooooooh Jia Xiang Mian!"

That's like some secondary school cheer, dude.

The Shop N Save advertisement is painful to even recall.

OH. MY. GOD.

Shawn(now 14) has broken his voice.

And in this new campus superstar, there is ANOTHER guy called Jarod Lee(now 13). This guy sings damn well too!

What's best, Shawn and Jarod are gonna sing together!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_xfwBR3Lk0&feature=related

My goodness.

Random:

Here's what you get when you google-translate the chorus for Britney Spears' "Womanizer":

Womanizer ，女性womanizer ，你是一个womanizer
噢， womanizer ，哦，你是一个womanizer婴儿
你，你，你，你，你，你是
Womanizer ， womanizer ， womanizer
（ Womanizer ）

男孩不要前端
一只是我知道，只要你是什么，是
男孩不要前端
一只是我知道，只要你是什么，是

(男孩不要前端? What the heck?)

Actually, we don't know whether the guy she's talking about is really a womanizer. But she asserts her claim so confidently with such great frequency, that if it's true that a lie repeated oft' becomes the truth, then that guy is almost certainly a womanizer. Especially since this song is played like EVERYWHERE almost ALL THE TIME.

Random made-up conversations/monologues.
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"My favourite music goes like this: 'Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit...'"

"Do you mean 'Ride of the Valkyries' by Wagner?"

"Oh is it? *youtube* Ahh yes!"
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"Guys, I know that you don't like Chinese very much. I didn't like Chinese either when I was in sec 4. But now, I regret the fact that I didn't work hard enough for Chinese back then.

Have you seen the New Moon Chicken Essence advertisements? I've heard that they pay a thousand plus bucks to those who appear on their advertisements. Think about it! A thousand plus bucks! You can get yourself a pretty decent computer with it.

Well, I could have been one of them, except that I didn't get A1 for Chinese. Damn. If only... back then... sigh... then I'LL be the one who is proudly holding up the can of New Moon Chicken Essence for all to see, and I'LL be a thousand bucks richer in the process. If only...

So you see, an A1 for Chinese isn't exactly useless. In the case that you get A's for everything else for your A levels, you'll be an additional thousand plus bucks richer! Now, I hope that while you are contemplating giving up on Chinese, think about the thousand bucks! Man, that's a spanking new PC or even laptop! And you'll be the ubiquitous dude holding up the New Moon Chicken Essence with the wide grin across your face telling the whole of Singapore that you are some smart guy, and perhaps, just perhaps, while you are on the MRT doing your uni apps on your brand new Laptop, a little kid would squeal at his mom, "MA, isn't that the gor gor / jie jie who drinks New Moon Chicken Essence and scored the highest for A levels?" And everyone in the carriage turns around to look at you! What a Crowning Moment of Awesome that would be!

BUT! If you don't get an A1 for Chinese, that would never happen.

So, I hope that y'all would be inspired enough to study hard for your Chinese O levels! Wish you good luck!"