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Black Friday???

The day after Thanksgiving, people called it Black Friday, the worst shopping season in the country, said David Letterman.
Shopping centre and stores opened their stores at 5.AM.
Anyway, I managed to take a walk with Adek to New York. On our way to deliver paperwork for Nana's surgery to the doctor's office we stopped at this place, looked around and that's it.



This picture was taken next to the store that we just visited and seemed to many people were taking advantages for the discount offered by the store. I would like to have that too, bit too crowded...Not one sales rep was free.

Ways of Changing the Brain

I read newsletter Brain in the News or Brain-work the other day. I have the habit to read as many newsletter as I can. It's not only that it is very easy to read, but that's also a way to learn something new in a fast way. Because, newsletter usually elaborate everything in a short and simple way. So in the past if you visit my place, you will see that I have a lot of subscription as many newsletter.  Not anymore now, everything is online. Harvard Heart letter, Nutrition, and many more including Brain-work and Brain in the news are easier to be read on line. But if I have subscriptions for Brain in the News or Brain-work, those are the Neuroscience Newsletter don't ever refer that I have interested in anything about neuroscience or having a special interest because I know person on that fields. My main purpose is just to enhance my knowledge about anything. And sometime it helps me to understand others as well. Just like what I have read recently. That not so long ago, a scientists used to view the brain as a form of concrete-soft and easily shaped in youth, but gradually hardening over the years into a rigid organ highly resistant to change.

(Is this why I always hear people give this kind of advice 'never have the intention or think that you can change somebody' ???)


A Child's brain certainly displays vigorous neuroplasticity. For example, children can absorb a foreign language far more easily than adults, and they can speak it without an accent if they start speaking it before their late teens.

( Everybody knows about this. And I know very well too, that's how my son speaks English better than me and with the right accent)

But scientist now recognize that the brain remains surprisingly plastic and resilient throughout life, which creates opportunities for adults to make possible changes in their neural connections through a focus attention and practice.
"Neurology, Psychology, speech therapy, education, sports, music, all this domains will be improved as we apply the law of neuroplasticity.
That was stated by Norman Doidge author of 'The Brain That Changes Itself. 

With fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) scientist can reveals areas in the right and left hemispheres that are much active in good readers than in poor readers.
Even though until now, the evidence attributing such dramatic changes to neuroplasticity has been largely circumstantial, but fMRI is producing vivid images that show neuroplasticity in action.

In the future maybe the neuroplasticity can be used to develop effective remedial reading program for children with dislexia I think, to improve memory, attention, processing speed sequencing skills which are vital to all learning.

The wisdom of  brain plasticity, MODIFICATIONS ARE NOT LIMITED TO CHILDREN.

New York Aquarium

Sudah lama pengen ngajak anak yang paling kecil jalan2 di musim liburan, belum juga terkabul. Musim liburan hanya untuk Adri, nggak liburan buat ibunya sih. Jadi gimana... Ya di sempet2 in di waktu yang sempit ini ya....gimana yah... Akhirnya pikir punya pikir karena sesudah beberapa tahun kita tinggal disini belum pernah berkunjung ke yang namanya New York Aquarium maka kita putuskan untuk pergi ke sana. Katanya sih letaknya di Coney Island. Juga karena dengar2 tahun ini adalah tahun terakhirnya Coney Island existed, jadi katanya tahun depan Coney Island ini dah mau di bongkar, jadi yah gitu... akhirnya kita berdua (doang) berangkat kesana.

Akhir nya ...oooo Coney Island ternyata mirip2 Ancol. Ingat jaman anak2 masih kecil, seringnya dulu kita menggiring mereka ke Ancol kalau lagi iseng dan gak banyak kegiatan. Yang namanya kayak Ancol jadi ya gitu penuh dengan manusia2 yang sedang memanfaatkan waktu libur. Tau ya, apa karena udara panas karena sepertinya semua orang mau dipping themselves in the water, ...maklum meskipun cuaca panasnya hampir 90 degF, ternyata air lautnya masih cukup dingin. Bisa di liat tuh .... anak2, ibu2, bapak2, remaja dll. Ada juga yang jualan kembang gula kayak di Ancol gitu,