'In' and 'Of'

Somewhere in the bible, it is mentioned: U r in the world but not of the world!

This is exactly wad I am feelin...

Performing services to others..

Ultimately I m still the servant of God...


Cheers~!

The Sociology of KTV

Last night, 9 of us went singin at KTV and oh.. another fren joined us towards the last hour or something..

As we go into the night, I realised the mechanism of sociology at work...

A Functionalist Perspective:

The KTV session serves to perform its role of collective effervescence. When people get together, they tend to forget themselves. The fun and joy of the session emerges and serves to cover up other feelings. Deadlines, essays and other issues gradually fade into the background as the actors engage themselves in singing.

On the other hand, some of the songs bring about memories of sorrows, broken hearts and such...


A Marxian Approach:

The role of power and interests are at work here interacting with each other ever so rigorously... Who is in power? In whose interests?

Who does the selection of songs? Who has the power? --> The majority who follows a certain genre of trend...

Power also come into play to shield and cover fundamentals. For instance, when the state incurs the wrath of the people, the state governement can easily put in place a programme hoping that it has extensive effectiveness. And the state government has the power to do it...

Sociology is such a beautiful subject.. was tinking shld i do a write-up on the Sociology of DOING Bash(es)? Perhaps not..


Cheers!

Scoring

One good thing occured today: I got my CA score for one of my modules which is weighted 40% and guess wad I got? :)

Ha! I got 40 outta 40 and scanning through the general results... it seems that the mean is about 28-31 outta 40.. YAY!

Cheers!

Love

What the bible says about love...

"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them." - Luke 6:32 (Hol)

"But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is gracious to the ungrateful and evil." - Luke 6:35 (Hol)

"If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, this is why the world hates you." - John 15:19 (Hol)

"Show family affection to one another with brotherly love. Outdo one another in showing honor." - Romans 12:10 (Hol)

"For if your brother is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. By what you eat, do not destroy that one for whom Christ died." - Romans 14:15

"fulfill my joy by thinking the same way, having the same love, sharing the same feelings, focusing on one goal." - Philippians 2:2

Slacken!

I've slacken tremendously this semester!

Exams are in like less than 4 weeks and I haven really started revision!

Somemore I am taking FOUR econs modules outta which 3 are level 3000s. You may arugue, "Hey! I am also taking 3 level 3000s wad.."

Darling, lemme tell you that econs lvl 3000 modules are NOT relatively but SIGNIFICANTLY different from other major modules simply because the modules I am taking are built-on modules meaning to say you cannot do for example 3101 without 2101 or 3303 without 2303 etc.

That worsen it simply because things get tougher unlike singular modules even if it is 3000, it is much more manageable!


Sianz!
Bobz

Me!

Those who know me will know that I am he who is expressive in terms of emotions, feelings and such...

Often I dun realy hide what I feel or think unless it is goin to be life threatening...

However, people commented that to reveal one's feelings via blog or whatever means is a sign of weakness. Is that really a sign of weakness? Or issit weakness to mask up everything; a weakness that subjects the individual to pride? To guard one's own image?

Maybe, my style is indeed a sign of weakness as put forth by some...

So I shall adopt a different style... blogging and revealing only happy and positive feelings and emotions?


Cheers!

Simplicity

Some pple tinks that I am very simple...

Others tink that I am somewhat simple...

Yet, there are those who tink that I am a little simple...

So am I a simply person?

Yet, someone once told me "You are so simple to the point of complexity"

Everything is simpler than one thinks and at the same time more complex than one imagines...

Simple procedures (codes, programs), in nature as well as in computing, often yields the most complex results. Where does the complexity reside, if not in the simple program that created it? A minimal number of primitive interactions occurs in life. Was life somehow embedded in the primordial soup all along? Or in the interactions? Or in the combination of substrate and interactions?

Complex processes yield simple products (for example, a poem). What happened to the complexity? Was it somehow reduced, "absorbed, digested, or assimilated"? Is it a general rule that, given sufficient time and resources - the simple can become complex and the complex reduced to the simple? Is it only a matter of computation?

Perhaps simplicity and complexity are categorical illusions, the outcomes of limitations inherent in our symbols system. Complexity would then be when we use a large number of symbols to describe something. For example, a straight line can be described by three symbols (X, Y, and the distance between them) - or by three billion symbols (a subset of the discrete points which make up the line and their inter-relatedness, their function). But whatever the number of symbols we choose, however complex our level of description - it has nothing to do with the straight line or its traits. It is not rendered more (or less) complex or orderly by our choice of level of (meta) description and language elements.

Thus, ultimately, complexity touches upon very essential questions of who we, what are we for, how we create, and how we evolve. It is not a simple matter...

Maybe the dual nature of simplicity lies in the hands of the one goin thru it...


Cheers!

Pity...

Lihui sent me a sms... "...I only gotta know how u r after reading ur blog... it's kinda sad to find out about a fren thru such impersonal means..."

I was quite touched by this simple msg and it's okay LH! No worries! I cant be expecting everyone to know my status on the spot or thru personal means...

The saddest thing however is that some other closer frens, now have different priorities in life, new frenz etc. aint much different from how prolly acquainted friends treat me...

Tat is one of the greatest pity...


Cheers!

A Chilly Experience

I took on a fever or rather a fever took me on in the middle of the night. like 3?

Gosh I was sent to CGH and temp. was running at 40 degrees... nvr felt so HOT.. ya i know I m hot.. u know wad I mean..

So the next thing I knew, I was stripped NAKED and placed on this table where they purge this icy cold water on me... I was like AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

Anyhow, my temperature went down by morning and finally discharged in the evening after everything stablised..

Wad a chilly experiece...

Grr!

Forgotten

My friends seem to have forgotten me... esp. Diana...

Saddening..

The Life of a Tuna

I juz came back from Pep's dinner and btw, all u avid readers of Celestial Zone 2, vol. 33 is out...

So I came back and nua-ed at Kartika's rm while waiting for son of Yusof to be ready b4 we come back to clubrm to mug...

And I juz realised that I m a tuna... Someone told me so...

DK always claims that I am truly a pessimistic person but she nvr understood tat it was only till recent times after befriending certain grp of pple tat brought this pessimism out...

I was never in any race and never want to... a happy uni life was what I tot I will have wanted but will it now truly be the ideal life I sought?

If I were to rate the various sems in NUS based on this criteria:

Feeling Happy (30 points)
Academic Satisfaction (30 pts)
Spiritual Fulfilment (40 pts),

Then it will be as such:

Sem 1 : 25 + 25 + 30 = 80, Sem 2 : 25 + 28 + 35 = 88, Sem 3(till this point) : 12 + 10 + 23 = 45

As can be seen, the 3rd sem failed to even get half mark...

In case u r wondering what happiness means to me, the criteria is as such:

(a) Spiritual Well-being
(b) Circumstances
(c) Friends
(d) Fulfillment
(e) Working relations
(f) Academic Fulfillment

...

Me --> People

Some stuff about me:

10 things I dislike about people most (in no order)

1. People breaking promises
2. People always turning up super late for appointments
3. People taking me for granted
4. People playing me out
5. People putting me down publicly
6. People backstabbing me
7. People making curt and unfounded negative remarks about CHC
8. People who despises me
9. People who are rude to the elderly
10. People who tinks too highly of themselves

So there! How about 10 things I like about pple

1. People keeping their promises
2. People turning up on time
3. People appreciating me
4. People not playing me out
5. People who do not shame me publicly
6. People who dun backstab
7. People who tinks well of my church
8. People who do not look down on me
9. People who r nice to the elderly
10. People who r humble

Cheerz!
Muahaha!
Bobz

I will give you strength...

Why am I blogging at this hour? COz the comfort of my bed was juz too great to resist leading me to wake up at 9 when I'd a lecture at 8... 2 weeks in a row.. this is getting bad!

Anyway, I decided to go for a run last nite with Jeremy and I did the same route as I did with Hock on Friday. I clocked 34 minutes plus on Friday (almost 35) and the run last nite was a good run...

I almost couldn't feel my legs, my thighs were screaming out and I could feel the angusih of my calves and the worst was my right foot.. been giving me problems.. it din let out any cries or yells but I could hear its groans... anyhow we clocked 29 minutes .. and tat's like <30 which is like about 5 mikes improvement over a wkend.. not bad at all...

I very much wanted to give up especially when I hit ACJC, and that was only half way through, so shagged... but I said "God, lemme complete it" to which I heard God spoke "I will give you strength ONLY if you do not give up..." And then I remembered "for WITH God , nothing is impossible..." Note that it is WITH God and not To God, tat means you (I in this case) with God --> God works only when you work... cool? yea cool!

Anyway, I was readin on nursery rhymes and dun u tink they r like really dark?

Look: Humpty Dumpty sat on the Wall
Humpty Dunpty had a GREAT fall
All the King's horses and
All the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again

1. Why will an egg man be sitting on the wall if he knows he is so fragile?
2. What are all the king's subjects doing in the vincinity?
3. If the king's subjects are nearby, then where is the king?

Conclusion: Humpty muz have been tricked up the wall. He prolly is the illegtimate son of the King (or one of the sons of the King) with the kitchen Royal egg or something... and this is of utterly abdominable to the royal blood. Hence, the King had him tricked up the wall and someone could have given him a push. In many of the pictures, the wall aint tat high, why will have a such a GREAT fall then?

But in order not to rouse suspiscions, the king placed his pple nearby to help or rather to pretend to help such tat he still could be seen as the kind and benevolent KIng...


Cheerz!
BObZ

Sunday Night at Clubrm

I was back at clubroom this afternoon say abt 3+ 4+?

I wanted to do some studying or at least readings... I went online and Rabbit told me that actually some of them are going to do banner painting later in the evening... so I was like "ok..." It was then realised that nobody really approaches me to help them do stuff... hmmm... I wonder why...

Then someone made a comment: "Are you here to paint banner or study?" To which I replied, "Study lo... I din know abt this banner thing till quite recently..." That person then replied something tat took me by surprise "So r u disappointed that we came back so u cannot study?"

Oh well, juz take tat with a pinch of salt...

Went back to my room to take a shower and I am so goin to complete my readings on emotions tonite...



Cheers!
Bobz

The 5 Languages of Love

Pastor did a series on this...

Everyone responds differently and to some, love manifested in certain form works best and to others, other forms...

So the 5 languages are:

(a) Words of Affirmation
(b) Spending Quality Time
(c) Gifts
(d) Performing Acts of Services
(e) Physical Touch

The names speak for themselves so I shalnt elaborate much...

I always thought that my top 2 are physical touch and words of affirmation but after conversing with Diana juz now made me realized that it aint the case...

Naturally words of affirmation will make me feel good... I mean who wld mind praises? But it does not reaches the deepest of my heart... I tink my love language should be spending quality time and physical touch... haha... wooo hoooo.... wad a revealation!

And talking about love... Diana Kartika is ahem....

Anyway, been wantin to post some Thank You Dinner photos up so here they are...


The beauties of the 26th of various shapes & sizes... they are beauty and they're grace... They are Miss(es) 26th...










Someone commented that Rayner and me look like brothers... to this I say "POOI!"













OH NO! Where r the girls? I can only see (from right) Layz, JJ, Carol and Shuning












And always remember: Once a SAINT, always a SAINT (like me! :))












Dun the shanghai woman look like my wife of the 80s?












The Haidais Family less Xiao Min..













After the dinner where the flowers were dished out to those in need of them...












The HONORary Treasurer of the 25th and 26th, Kartika and me respectively with our little troop... the Assistants... Gianny and Guanjiez..

Gosh, aint the flowers I gave Kartika nice?










The Assault of a fren...

















CHeerz!
Bobz

KTV with My Good Old Buds

It was saturday... guess why I was in sch? Coz I was coaching some pple econs and preparing them for their ec1101e test on sat after I'd the shocking and disgusting paper on friday itself... Been a while since I really met up Joy, Xin and Jonny so we decided to go and sing it all out, followed by wad we wld typically called a horror show which for those who knows me shld know how I tend to react to it. Anyway, too lazy to type a lot... it was prolly my best day since I stepped up into management for Arts Club... A day i could really let loose!

Anyway, I've been avoidin clubroom and only appearing there at night.. day time mainly to pick things and never to stay there and mingle... this serves to make me a happier person! yay! That's the reason I am feeling happier these days...

Anyway, was reading a fren's blog and how he was unappreciated and there was like a whole throng of comments and sometimes I tink it's hard to understand how the 'victim' really feels but anyway all these r so disillusionary...

Sad truth but tat's the way it is... sad ehz?
Tat's me grooving away...

Gosh... look at this grp of wonderful girlfrenz I have... and these were my fella freshies back then in the House of Allit - Funis!!! The PowerPuff Girls!

Well.. those were the fond memories..

Bobz