Ways to Waste Waiting Time

I am inspired by my friends' journey from Jakarta to Lhokseumawe (approximately 14 hours). She complained about how boring sitting all day, doing nothing, no friends, etc... . Personally I never bored even in a long journey (my longest journey is going to London one year ago, it was 18 hours).

These are suggestions I gave to my friend above :D

1. Read something. Papers, books, mags, ads. Typical
2. Talk to the person beside you (in my friend's case, it was some middle-aged, fat, flirty, unmarried man so my friend went 'ughh'. Pity her)
3. Make up a story in your mind
4. Try to make acronyms of license plates of all vehicles passing by. Eg: B XXXX SB. Sarah Brightman or else
5. Play Solitaire, Sudoku, or else
6. Specify every clouds you see. Eg: that's cumulo-nimbus, and that one is stratus etc. And making up figures from clouds shapes
7. Practice some dance moves
8. Listen to music
9. If it's night, identify star constellations
10. Draw, sketch, whatever
11. Browse the internet
12. Make origamis
13. Watch movies
14. Look outside the window. I survived 18 hours by merely looking outside. So aisle seat is a bad idea
15. Tell the driver to drive faster :p (don't do this if you're on plane)
16. Compose a song
17. Make a to-do list on what you'll do once you arrive
18. If you're going home, think of all cynical or sarcastic words you'll say to your annoying sibling(s) (also my friend's case)
19. Design your dream house (my friend took my interior design mags to do this)
20. Learn a foreign language (or polish your local dialect)
21. Observe everyone else and Sherlockian deductions
22. Do a little survey. Eg: you see 100 men passing by in XYZ city, 4 of them have straight hair, so the incidence of recessive genes appearance in XYZ city is 4%. Silly, I know (btw, straight hair is recessive trait)
23. Make up weird list like this

Sticky Note: Papaya

Sticky Note

Papaya (Carica papaya) has papain enzyme that accelerates protein and carbohydrate breakdown, and helps cleansing our body from toxics.

Papain mainly breaks protein into arginin, an amino acid that has important role in growth.

Expired Drugs

Sometimes we ignore expired date in drugs. You may only get stomachache if you eat expired food, buy hey, it's drug. It can be more serious, indeed.

You may see change in drug colour or funny smell, but sometimes they don't change physically.

The main reason you shouldn't consume expired drugs is it is being decomposed. Decomposition changes the chemical structure of drug, thus change the activity of it or eliminates the drug's ability. Some antibiotics and vitamins can turn into monstrous toxic after their expired date, I swear! These chemical reactions happen quickly, so don't assume it's safe just because it's only ONE DAY after expired date.

• Note for antibiotics: commonly antibiotics beyond expired date lose half of their powers. Bacterias realize their enemies are weakened, so they multiply quicker and can mutate into something more difficult to assault.