RandumThots

"Shots are less painful and less likely to be sore afterwards when you get them in a "fatty" or muscular part of the body. Hence, the reason why many people get shots in one of their bottom cheeks. They are usually done up closer to the hip or back; it's not like you sit there and drop your pants completely off...."

"The muscle in the buttock is larger and it takes longer for the drug to enter the system, so the buttock is used for drugs with a higher concentration that need to be absorbed more slowly by the body, eg.painkillers are usually given in arm, but longer acting like psychatratic drugs and contraceptives are given in the buttock"

Brake oil is good for an open wound. it hurts like hell but it also helps a lot in avoiding infection and helping the healing process...

Pain isnt as much physical as it is psychological or neurological... Pain is a response mechanism to any change in the body, and the cause isnt restricted to physical tissue/muscular damage.

The International Association for the Study of Pain (just a huge set of knowledgeable people trying to make sense out of and treat Pain) defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage".
the layman definition is: "Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does"

so, there you go, i tried to control pain with all the psychological positive thinking and sometimes even with strict instructions to my palm to NOT send signals to my brain to notice/feel the pain, but well, it was overwhelming. and hence i took some painkillers before i ran the risk of going mad in the process (it was a tough one).

and why all these random thoughts? cos a stupid short SOB who never learnt the art of crossing streets in primary school (which is a serious 3 step process.. a. look to ur left b. look to your right c. cross over as soon as possible), decides to stop right in the middle of the road, straight ahead of me in my lane, after slowly starting off draggin his bike from one end... and i remember taking the option among a. hit him and then fall b. brake NOW and fall.

no points for guessing what i did.
i've had many accidents in the past but this one was the silliest.

i also browsed thru some youtube videos about disk/drum brakes and how to identify problems and fix them... :)