Thursday, August 31, 2006


I need to learn...

...to be patient.

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Sunday, August 27, 2006


The weekend

Ge Yao was nice. It was a great difference from the last Ge Yao I watched. I think mainly is because of the hosts and all the big shot guest performers. So the atmosphere was really good. So, thanks to all those who accompanied me there (Xiz, Ronnie, Weixin and Cheng Rong)...yah, and thanks to my sis who bugged me the whole week to buy tix....

Watched 英雄 on Ch U juz now. 2nd time watching it but still felt that it was a really beautiful movie... Every scene was breathtaking...Smooth flowing swordplay of consummate grace...although I felt that some effects were overdone and unnatural (like the one with the raindrops and the one with all the flying leaves). The soundtrack, although abit repetitive, was 沧桑 enuff. But most impressive of all was the use of colours. Red for passion and rage; blue for courage and serenity; green for youth and vibrancy; white for truth and reason; black for power, strength and death. Very very impressive.

A more recent Jet Li movie made great use of colour to dictate the mood of the movie too, albeit with more subtlety. Black vs white. If you haven guessed it by now, its 霍元甲. I only noticed it after watching Jay Chou's MTV multiple times. The dark mood of the first part of the movie was made to contrast with the 2nd part's brighter mood using only one simple thing. The characters' clothes.

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Saturday, August 26, 2006


Morale boost

I feel 1000%.

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006


Sniff sniff

Can feel a flu coming....nevermind at least that'll renew my subscription to influenza immunity...

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Tuesday, August 22, 2006


Biological clock-setter

Slept at 11pm yesterday. Woke up suddenly in the middle of the night (abt 4am). Suddenly thought "Did I set my alarm???". Also dunno why. Checked my clock. Really din set. Set alarm at 6am. Went back to sleep.

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Monday, August 21, 2006


Hope...

...the thing that keeps us going, yet causes so much agony. The higher your hope, the harder your disappointment.

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gg

Good game. Thanks for the entertainment.

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Thursday, August 17, 2006


The TRUTH about medical textbooks


(Click to enlarge)

Yes, its time to reveal the shocking truth about medical txtbks: They are room decorations. You are a medical student, so you better start looking like one. So you better start filling your room with things that make you look like a medical student. Other items you may wish to decorate your room with include: a set of skeleton, charts of anatomy, plastic models of various body parts eg. heart, inner ear etc, medical instruments eg stethoscope, fundoscope etc. All these come at quite high costs though, so txtbooks remain the more popular choice.

Choosing your room accessories. Every year, there are a range of recommended medical txts for every subject. So many medical students are faced with dilemas when they walk into the bookshops. So how do you choose? How do you make the correct choice? My method: choose the more colourful one. That'll take you about 10secs. Den you can walk out of the shop smugly, leaving your collegues behind to frown over multiple texts.

Of course, I cannot leave out the other important function of medical txts. The other reason why we spend hundreds of dollars every year on them.

They make excellent paperweights.

No known medical txtbook can be moved by sub-hurricane winds. (excluding those pocketbooks) So keep your desk organised with your brand-new medical txts now!

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Wednesday, August 09, 2006


National Day

Authoritarian state. Uncultured society. Disneyland. No national identity. Ill-mannered people. Absurd laws. Unbearable costs of living. National Service.

Wadever.

I still like this place. =)

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Tuesday, August 08, 2006


My point

Because of a number of responses to my previous post, I feel that I should clarify some stuff. First of all, I am not proposing a solution to the current crisis. I am not saying who is right or who is wrong. I am not siding with any faction.

I am merely lamenting the fact that people are willing to go to war despite all our similarities, despite the fact that we are all humans. I am merely pointing out that violence perpetuates more violence, and history has proven that force does not work, for all factions involved in the conflict.

But I have realised that I am in fact wrong. In fact, force can end this. Yes, a nuclear war would probably end it all. Clean up the whole mess. Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D). Yays =)

(You can read more about M.A.D here.)

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Monday, August 07, 2006


Spot the difference?

What if I asked you to describe the objects in the following picture?

Immediately, almost like a spinal reflex, you would say, "There is a square that is different from the others." That is the thing with us human beings - differences are more obvious to us than similarities. So upon a first glance, we tend to neglect things like:
  1. They all have the same shape
  2. They all qualify as regular polygons, parallelograms, rhombuses and squares
  3. They all have the same length
  4. They all have the same breadth
  5. They all have the same perimeter
  6. They all have the same area
  7. They all are spaced equally from each other
Look upon any other human being, no matter friend, stranger or foe, and see that like you, he/she has:
  1. 2 eyes to see
  2. 2 ears to listen
  3. A nose to breathe and smell
  4. A mouth to eat, taste and speak
  5. 2 hands to feel, touch and work
  6. 2 opposable thumbs, which no other animal on the planet has
  7. 2 legs to carry him/her
  8. A mind to think, to analyse, to judge
  9. A heart to pump blood
  10. Blood that is red
  11. Blood that is warm
  12. Chromosomes that number 23 pairs
  13. The capacity to feel emotions like pain, anger, sadness, joy, gratitute, love
  14. Parents that gave birth to him/her
  15. Siblings and friends that love him/her
  16. A life that he/she leads
  17. Hopes
  18. Dreams
  19. Fears
  20. And the list goes on....
Yet despite all these similarities, we are willing to fight, to kill, to destroy each other for the little differences between us. The unwillingness to accept the differences that must exist, the refusal to acknowledge each other as fellow human beings have locked us in a seemingly endless cycle of conflict.

怨怨相报何时了? When will you free yourselves from your own hatred?

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Sunday, August 06, 2006


Trust

Trust is something I value a lot in my friendships. I trust my frens a lot and in return I hope for theirs. That is why I feel very hurt when someone lies to me or is unable to keep a promise. That is also why I (used to) be very pissed when my frens are late for meetings. Cos I see it as a breach of trust. I trust you to keep your promise to meet me at the agreed time, so I wake up early, settle my things so that I can step out of the house in time, estimate my travelling time - all to make sure I meet you at the appointed time. So I'm not happy when the other party doesn't make an effort to keep the appointment. But I'm used to it by now. I purposely slow things down so I arrive 10mins late. Anyway, that's not the point of my post.

In terms of human-human interaction, I'm the passive type. I do not warm up to people fast. I tend to keep my opinions to myself around people I'm not close to and let the conversation just flow along. To quote QY: "I'll probably think he's a very dao guy (referring to me) if I didn't knew him". But around my frens, I share my tots more openly. I trust my frens not to share my secrets with others and I return the favour. Yes. I do not tell another person and say "This is ______'s secret. You are the only person I told. Please dun tell others." Sometimes I agree with some things, sometimes I disagree. Around acquantances or strangers, I tend to keep my mouth shut. But around frens, I will tend to voice them out.

Maybe sometimes its the words I use. Maybe I'm just not good at expressing myself. So sometimes I offend ppl when I disagree (another reason why I dun like to say my tots). But the thing is, we are friends because I am able to accept the differences between us. Even if I do not agree with your actions or opinions, I do not see you as a lesser person. In fact, I respect you for having the courage to voice out some of your deepest thoughts. And I value that trust, the trust that you have in me for you to share your thoughts and opinions with me.

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Saturday, August 05, 2006


Failure...again.

Failed my driving test again. The examiner said that I had no confidence, always wait until no car den dare to turn... say I cause "big jam" behind because I wait too long (2x6 demerit points).. Haiz... Waste money again...

Down with a throat infection. Wad a sian weekend. =(

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Thursday, August 03, 2006


Random Words of Wisdom

(Dun ask me why...sometimes things juz pop into my head, and after thinking a while, it seems to have 道理, so I post it here...)

Noble acts are noble because they demand sacrifices. It's easy to say what is right and what is wrong -- when you are the bystander. Do not pass judgement on others easily.

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