Y Monday, September 29, 2008
9:13 pm
This must come off as quite the shock to y'all, but I did watch the F1 night race yesterday night.(lol obvious time is obvious.) Now I'm not the most patriotic of people, for that, you're better off clicking the "Joel" link in my blog, nor am I the most sporty of teens.Yeah, it was only because my house was forcefully crashed by three stragglers who insisted on watching it. So we bought dinner and Dar, Bfoo and Joy headed to my place (in a cab too, cuz it was starting!)
Surprisingly, at the very end, only my mum and I were the ones paying attention to that race. I actually wanted Kimi Raikonnen to win, because well, his name is kick ass and he looks like he's an awesome person. But eh, stuff never goes my way. The poor blighter crashed from the sides and totaled his car(kart?).
They say the physical constitution required to drive in the F1 races is deceptively low. Those drivers are one of the fittest sportsman you'll see, and it's true. There's enormous strain on your poor neck, where G-forces multiply a 1kg helmet into a 7kg one. Talk about heavy. Putting a 7kg load on your head for an hour and forty five minutes makes clerks who stare at computer screens for hours seem lucky.
It's also a mental sport, because, well, goddamn, you do realize that driving that same bloody track for -SIXTY- laps is VERY, VERY boring. It's dangerous, tedious and boring. Your eyes start to water, you start to lose focus and.. next thing you know you pull a Raikonnen.
Evidently, those F1 drivers have never studied in a JC. Now believe me, university life is less rigorous. JC students are required to strategize their sleep times, something which F1 drivers don't have to bother with, since all they ever do is adjust sleep cycles accordingly, and they get enough sleep all the time.
Firstly, we have to split sleep into a few segments.
1) Actual sleep time. Compromised by... just about everything.
2) Compensate during bus rides.
3) Just before assembly, you can sneak in about 20 minutes if you reach school early.
4) During lectures, grabbing quick spurts of shut eye in 5 - 10 minute intervals is quite doable.
5) Tutorials are tough, but if you're good you can get anywhere from 2 to 20 minutes.
It adds up to be enough, somehow. How's that for sleep maximization, eh Lewis?
They say the immense mental stress is something unheard of in other sports as well. Afterall, your life is on the line.
That's why JC students ought to be the ones driving them Ferraris. Obviously they don't know what it's like to try to ninja sleep time during lectures with 3 teachers patrolling the lecture hall. It's also imperative you "sleep but don't look like you're sleeping." Wiggling your pen every 2 minutes is a good strategy, for example.
The age old hide behind the book doesn't help anymore. In fact, you shouldn't even cover your face.
Here's what you should do. Hold your pen upright. That's it. Since there's always at least one retard copying redundant things in the lecture, you can pretend to be one of them. Always works. I've never been caught sleeping. (okay maybe once or twice.)
While juggling all of these like an over-worked clown, your notes SHOULD be filled or you're fucked for that chapter. You should also be comprehending everything that's being said WHILE TRYING TO SLIP IN SLEEP.
How's that for mental stress, Schumacher?!
I tell ya, we really oughta be the ones driving those sleek beauts on the track.