Breakthrough

Finally! I have some inspirations on how to study for Money & Banking!

YES!

Lopata

I juz got news that my Macro paper later will have 30 MCQs... Is tat good or bad news? I dunno... never really been good with MCQs

Did a family reading on Lopata and yes I tink she's a feminist and radical, having extreme viewpoints with some but minimal efforts to cushion this extremism. On top of that, an egocentric writer the person is...

Go read the article and u will know wad I mean (not that anyone of u will be interested anyway)

:)

Bridge

There are juz some juniors who seem to tink they know everything under the sun...

There are yet others who play bridge as though their lives are at stake...

A description of the various emotions displayed:

1. Glares when partners 'consume' their cards
2. Sniggers when they win
3. Attempts to do complete analysis on why they did not win
4. Tries too hard to emulate others
5. Self-invitation to games

Or maybe it cld juz be me... exam tensions!

:)

Love Language

I did this test linked from Guan's blog.. cool!

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably
Physical Touch
with a secondary love language being
Quality Time.

Complete set of results

Physical Touch:		12
Quality Time:		9
Words of Affirmation:		5
Acts of Service:		2
Receiving Gifts:		2

Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

Take the quiz

Does God exist?

Sining asked me via sms that day that how issit that I can be a soci major (shared) and believe in God at the same time...

Do we even know the 4th diamension aka spiritual dimension exist? So let's explore this possibility by virtues of sciences and logic:

I am sure a lot of us learnt basic differentiation, so let's go!

The differential of an equation can also be identified as the rate of change, e.g. rate of change of speed (velocity) thus giving you dV/dT = acceleration.

So let's start from the basic: given a 2 dimensional equation, y = 2x defined as a line graphically, the differential of y gives you X, a precise spot graphically (1 dimensional).

Let's go 1 more step: given a plane (3d) equatio, y = x^2 + x, defined as a plane graphically, the differential of that gives u, 2x + 1, a linear 2 diamensional equation.

Base on this, we can infer that we existing in the sphere of reality being the 3rd dimensional world must therefore be the rate of change of the 4th dimension. Hence, at least in the mathematical sense, the 4th dimension exists.

Ok, going philosophical, using some points from Renes Descartes, how did we actually gain the knowledge that 1 + 1 = 2? Was it a mere invention of human or the works of the devil to deceive us or the works of God to provide the information. How did human gain the knowlegde of having and building such advance technology? How did man come to be the dominant species acquiring skills to conquer and tame the less dominant species?

Sociologically, Marx said that religion will pass away but now that marx has passed away, religion thrives even more strongly.

When God created the world, there's more than enough supplies to sustain us. When the world was groaning about oil running out, they discovered a new source in the 90s that can last us several more decades. If you tally the amount of food wasted in the world, yes you can feed the world and have leftovers. Is it then that God did not provide enough or the distrust and mismanagement of men?

Some thoughts...

A Step in and then Out Forever

I was listening to a conversation held between 3 friends earlier on. One was describing the various kind of different lifestyle that one goes thru on exchange..

I know I should not be lamenting about it since it was a choice but somehow I cannot help but to sigh... I was a foot in, done all the administrative work and gotten myself a place in the program but had to give it up...

True, it might be a choice I'd to make but still it was not an easy choice... It was a step in and then it is out forever as an undergraduate cause the last time I can go is that of semester 5...

The more sian impending thing now is the exams. Gosh, Singapore Society's my first paper tomorrow and I dun even know if I am adequately prepared for it. There's a history segment to it which really is driving me nuts with the details and such...

But the good thing is ... I am recovering from the germ spreading cold and yes, the long long long hols will be next up after the exams, not forgetting Joy's birthday!

B I T C H

I was happily studying in the lib juz now, ok not too happily since I was having runny nose..

So I was doin my work and this woman next to me slipped me a memo that look like this.

I mean WTH! And she din have the cheek to face me, so she left for somewhere (toilet or wadever) juz after slipping the piece of paper.

So I replied on another sheet of paper saying something like:

My apologies for that. Do u tink it is good if u shift elsewhere? I also dun wish to see u falling sick and exams r important. My apologies once again!

Other than tat, I got myself some honey and yes, my ibook!

:)

Exams, Revisions

Boring! Spent an afternoon MUGGING in the library... boring as it is, it brought me some sense of satisfaction that I lost (in the academic sense) since I stepped up in MC and tat's natural given that I've got much lesser free time on hand.

But so far so good, I am almost done with 2 modules, there's 3 more to go!

Arghz!

And I better start tuning my bio clock to normality... been sleeping at 6-7am.

And gosh, I'm gonna be yr 3 liaoz... SIANZZZzzZZZ!

And oh Good Luck guys for yr papers!

Joy Fang! End of exams a good thing to look forward to and all the more this year ehz... We gonna have fun with the 'lubes' and 'tubes'

:)

Quotes

I was juz surfing and looking at quotes on leadership and some of the quotes I found were:

Lao Tzu
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Donald H. McGannon
Leadership is action, not position.

Fred Smith
Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.

Anon
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

Mary D. Poole
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.

Marian Anderson
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

John Maxwell
The first step to leadership is servanthood.

It seems that if we are to follow the advice of all the wise people, to be a leader we need to be gentle, sacrificial, ready to spring into actions, ability to practice hegemony, courage to face the truths, a team player, meeting needs, being a servant to serve etc. Basically, you need to be PERFECT!

And these are juz a few quotes. Sometimes when ppl talk to me and tells me about what some great men say, I begin to wonder, because they say that, muz it necessarily be the correct method of doing things? Even if it is, is it relevant to the current context? For e.g. Lao Tzu says to be gentle but if u r leading a rowdy and unruly bunch, can the philosophy then work?

I came to realize quotes are good for academic work or maybe writing an essay but in life, are they really any good? Can they bring abt success when u apply the ‘right’ principle behind a quote? I dun tink so.. I tink they juz merely enhance a position that a person is speaking from, enhancing his stand and make it all sound more convincing. The amount of success a person has is limited by the quotes if he is governed by it. Quotes frame your mindset, it frames your abilities and it frames your expectations. Perhaps, they r of some good… but oh well…

Nanny McPhee

Instead of studying, I was watching Nanny McPhee. Emma Thompson is good and yes I am beginning to tink she is really quite good in roles that evoke magical spells and the recent shows that she made her appearances are all shows I like..

Love Actually as Karen with her unfaithful husband who bought her some CDs for Christmas and his 'mistress' a gold necklace..

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Professor Sybill Trelawney...

And finally Nanny McPhee in Nanny McPhee!

Kewl, somehow she plays the role well giving a soothing feeling of comfort

For now, it is revision for Living with Fluids test!

Exams

I had KTV with Rayner, Di, Chong and Fen last nite...

I am toying with my iPod

I woke up at 4+ in the evening

I have an exam in 11 days

How wonderful can life be!

Seniors

Hock always coin me as being a 'deconstructionist' .. Am I truly liddat?

This morning, I was in the computer room and quite a number of girls and Hock were talking and I was listening while checking my mails.. The conversation reminded me of a lot of things and got me thinking and thinking...

I realised that I dun look up to seniors somehow. I give them the due respect as seniors and their contributions and efforts but tat's abt it. This aint exactly something good or u know.. glorious. With all due respect, I know there r ppl who do look up to seniors and maybe I do, juz much lesser?

When I hear Hock tok about the glorious days of certain pple, I always wonder in my mind.. How great r the pple really are? Are they really tat fantastic or has the reputation been built via word of mouth and it juz get built up more and more? And if they do what they did in today's situation, will they be deemed to be as good? Are their actions relevant today? I m not discrediting anyone but I tink I need to be convinced by virtue of experience and not knowledge. Likewise, I dun expect my juniors to see me up. Maybe, it's juz a pragmatic side of me.

I am traditional yet I am not. I belive in certain traditional ways of how things shld be or not be but yet I dun like to base things on traditions unless they r good. What's good we keep. What's bad we discard. What's neutral, we try to make it good. To quote the 26th DOS: There must be a better way of doing things.

Oh well, back to readings!

Labouring and the Toil

I am back at the clubroom like rite now trying to do up my work!

Sianz! Exams in 3 weeks? And I got tons to read.. Shagely!

The Corrupter

Do not be a corrupter! It's quite disgusting and what goes around eventually will come around!

And I am still not quite impressed even though there r some who are...

Well, I juz got to see with more openess then

:)