ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
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OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime
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SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $20 for a $10 item he needs.
A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need
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GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
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LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die.
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PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
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DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
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Hello~~ I'm back from the dead and resurrected.. Hee.. Okay, haven't blog for a looong time cos I'm busy with school.
The first year of Uni life is very fun, but i wouldn't be staying in hostel anymore. So its travelling all the way from UBI to BOON LAY :( But i realised travelling the distance is managable, can sleep, can listen to music.. Blah blah..
And... I've joined a rock band "Ellipsis" as keyboardist. We'll be having a performance at Orchard Road on 29th and 30th July, so see how it goes. I think playing in rock band and playing in church is so different. Style is different. Hee.. Joining Ellipsis made me learn more about keyboard cos I've always played piano and keyboard is abit different.
People in Ellipsis are quite nice, and I've listen to songs I probably would never hear. Haha.. Like I didn't know who Bon Jovi was before Ellipsis.. Haha
Tonight I'll be flying off to Korea... To be a beggar..
Haha.. Its actually a international campus crusade conference held in korea, Busan. And then at the last few days of my Korean trip, we'll be going to rural villages on misson trip.
So I'll blog more abt my Korean trip when I'm back :)
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posted @ 2:42 PM
Happy Valentine's Day!
Haha.. I've spent my Valentines yesterday watching movie with... ...
200 other people in lecture!
Haha.. Yesterday I went for lecture for the module " Science or Fiction? Biology in popular media". Its the coolest elective I've ever taken. Its like learning bio through watching movies such as Spiderman, CSI, Outbreak... We'll even be watching Da Chang Jin later on in the lecture of chinese medicine.
I think my electives this semester are quite nice. My other elective is Improvisation in Music. There's only 12 of us in class and each week, we'll be given a theme (eg. rainforest) and then we'll take different instruments and compose according to the theme.
I'm thinking of taking music again next semester. Maybe Jazz or shakuhachi flute.
I think psychology is really fun! Haha.. There's a whole chapter on LOVE in my social psychology textbook and in it describes what causes attraction, the different types of love, attachment styles... And there's even a part on breaking up. Coincidently, my lecturer's name is Venus. Doctor Venus..
Its fun reading it, but its another story altogether to memorise all the terms and sit for exam..
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posted @ 2:35 PM
Okay, I'm back from my hibernation.
New year, new beginnings, new start. That's what people say every new year and make new revised resolutions every new year. I think I only keep and fulfill half of my resolutions last year.
Some people may think that new year resolutions are craps and if people really want to change, they wouldn't wait till new year to make resolutions. Most resolution wouldn't work anyway, they say.
Well, I think I would agree with them. But I would still make new year resolutions anyway. Cos making resolutions is about reflecting on the past year, highlighting problems and attempting to change.
Yup, most resolutions are not kept but at least you're aware of that problem and tried to do something about it. I think those who don't do resolutions are either those who don't reflect, or think there's no fault to change, or those who are aware of a fault but did nothing about it.
Okay, this year, I'll just have one...
Good time management.
Before I end, here's a good piece of advice to Dear friends out there who drive:
If you happen to pour too much car battery acid into your car, please, PLEASE...
Do not use a straw to suck out the excess acid.
There was someone in my sister's hospital ward because of "Car Battery acid infusion".
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posted @ 8:14 PM
Just attended my last lecture of 'Introduction to Psychology'. It was on abnormal psychology. Learnt about depression and schizophrenia. I think there's a lot of stigma attached to these patients. A lot of black jokes about them and IMH.
I used to think that we can always control what we think and how we feel. So I don't think that I really understood the plight of these patients. I thought depression is just about being sad. Until I attended the lecture, I've always wondered why can't they just ' snap out of it'?
I think being in psychology taught me a lot of things. A lot of times we diagnose patients as 'depressive', 'schizophrenic' but we forget that they are not just a collective group of symtoms. They're real people with real feelings, just like us. They too have mothers, father, brothers, sisters. They have dreams and hopes.
The lecturer showed us a video clip of a schizophrenic named 'Harry'. Harry's condition made it difficult for him to tell the difference between real and unreal experiences, to think logically, to have appropriate emotional response to others and behave in social situations.
In the video clip, Harry was being interviewed by a psychologist. What he said really did not made sense. To a simple question of "How are you?", he went on to talk about protons and neurons and atoms.
A lot of people would think that Harry must have some tragic childhood for him to be like that. Actually, before Harry was diagnosed as schizophrenic, he was just another teenager reading psychology as a major at a university.
Actually there are many patients who are able to accomplish much in life in spite of their conditions. Contrary to popular belief, they are not useless, handicapped people depending on society for their survival.
One good example is Vincent Van Gogh.
The Starry Night was painted by Van Gogh in 1889 in the hospital for mentally disturbed people in St Remy de Provence. Van Gogh was considered to have been affected by bipolar disorder and this painting has high contrasts analogous to extreme bipolar highs and lows, and captures the vibrancy associated with mania
The leafless tree in the drawing is like reaching for the starry skies, like reaching for help.
Music composer Don Mclean was so touched by the painting that he wrote the song Vincent ( Starry starry Night).
Vincent had a sad life actually. He was borned on the same day as his stillborned older brother, also named Vincent. Van Gogh could have suffered psychological trauma as a result of being a 'replacement child', having a deceased brother with the same name and same birthdate.
His love life was sad too. He had fell in love with his landlord's daughter but she rejected him. He also fell in love with his cousin but was also rejected. He then lived with a pregnant prostitute for a year and a half but this relationship failed too.
Even though Vincent painted more than 400 works, he only sold one when he was alive.
Vincent Van Gogh died by shooting himself in the chest with a pistol. Even so, he did not die immediatly. Van Gogh had died 3 days later. As he was dying, he said 'La tristesse durera toujours' ('The sadness will last forever.') and his last words were "I wish I could pass away like this."
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posted @ 3:06 PM
Last Sunday was children's day. It was the last time Sabrina celebrate Children's day. But she had to spend it studying for her PSLE.Haha..
The kids in Sunday school were very excited and kept asking me and Joseph for their presents. Haha.. But the Children Day program ended late so the presents have to be given this sunday instead. But we did gave them chocolates (proudly sponsered by Aaron).
Haha.. The church gave them gifts too. Pencil box, sweets, pens, crackers... And even terapin. These are small things that mean a lot to them. The way they smile and show their gifts to their parents.
I used to look forward to Children's Day as a child. Cos I can get presents and sweets. Haha.. The children day present I loved most was a little, Hello Kitty container. I got it in Pri 4 when Aunty Helena was my teacher. I still have it with me. Haha...
I guess most of us would have a memorable childhood ( even if most of it is spent studying). I thank God that I'm placed in a stable, well-adjusted family in a safe country.
As kids in Singapore are celebrating their children's day, there'll probably be some who wouldn't survive past that day.
Every day, more than 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds.
Besides starvation, there's also child abuse."Child abuse is reported on an average of every 10 seconds and three children die every day as a result of such abuse." (child abuse.org)
I've read books on child-abuse survivors like 'A child called it', 'Chinese Cinderella'... Its quite shocking that the abusers are usually the parents or someone close to the child. The childhood song, ' Shi shang zhi you Mama how' (which my mum sang to me) applied to me, but not everyone else.
I think the saddest are the unwanted,aborted children. I know that abortion is a huge, huge grey area and debates are going on.Like whether the foetus have human rights or they're considered as a living thing.
I don't support abortion, but neither am I against it. Like if there are medical complications and the mother/foetus lives are in danger.. It isthe parent's rights to decide whether or not to continue on with the pregnancy. Also in moral dilema where a woman is raped and becomes pregnant, I think she have a right to decided whether she wants to have an abortion.
But if the reasons for abortion becomes something like, 'inconvenience' or 'unplanned/unwanted', I think its very selfish.
If the foetus is wanted, he/she would have an identity. He/she would be granted with names like Christina or John. Daddy would read to the 'baby' bedtime stories and Mummy would squeal at the slightest move or kick by 'baby' in her womb.
But if the foetus is unplanned/unwanted. The foetus is simply a thing or a tissue mass called 'it'. 'It' have no feelings and emotions. 'It' is aborted, deleted and thrown away. Never mind if 'it' have pain receptors spread over the body from week 8 onwards. Who cares?
Haizz.. Two equally developing foetus, yet different outcomes. All by the basis of 'wanted/unwanted'. Why can't we love them both?
Do we really have a right to decide
This
Or this
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posted @ 12:25 PM
I'm having my Uni one week break now. But its more of a study break than anything. Haha..
Anyway, I received this email from a friend which is about protecting children from internet exploitation. Sounds chim? Actually its about protesting against child pornography.
There's this website where you can light a candle to protest against online child abuse.Light a million candles
The website aims to eradicate child porn. They hope to light at least one million candles by Dec 2006.This petition would then be used to encourage government, politicians, financial institutions, payment organisations,Internet service providers, technological companies, law enforcement agencies to eradicate the commercial viability of online child pornography.
Oh, I went swimming with Angela at the Tampines SAFRA yesterday afternoon. The weather's nice and sunny and there were few ppl swimming there. I prefer to swim in places where its not crowded cos it feels cleaner..
Ah Mui swam i think 16 laps and I swam..Err I think 4. Hmmm cos I haven't exercised for a long long time and it isn't wise to overexert myself.. Haha.. Remind me of the time where I jogged on TPJC tracks during PE classes. The class guys would run from behind me and start walking beside me. And then they'll say "Hey Yvonne, I walk as fast as you jog leh.."
Yah lah, I'm their ego booster.
Anyway when Mui Mui was swimming her 16 laps, I was resting at the end of the pool, observing people. Actually, the pool can still be dirty even if there were only a few people.
There was this middle-age gangster looking guy who after swimming one lap, would cover his nose with his hand and started blowing. And what did he do after blowing? Yup, he washed his hands in the pool.
And I'm like only a few metres away from him.-_-'''
Disgusting! I like swimming but not in dirty pools.
Never, ever swim in children's pool. Cos you'll never know what happens down there. There was once when I overheard a young boy telling his mother, " Mummy, I need to she she." And the mother replied..
"Just do it in the pool lah."
Imagine a pool with so many children with that kind of mentality. But at least it was not visible, was it? I once saw shit in the children's pool. That was why the usually crowded children's pool was empty.
But I think the worst experience I had was in a hotel in KL. Mummy, my sisters and I were taking a stroll around the pool at night and discussing whether we should go swimming the nex day..
And we heard a vomitting sound, like someone's sick in the stomach. We turned around and saw this boy in the children's pool (children pool again) vomitting into the water.
After he finished vommitting, he quickly ran out of the pool, leaving behind his vomit floating on the waters. I mean, the least he could do is to inform the staff to clear right?
We just look at each other in shock and decided not to go swimming anymore.
I think the cleanest pool are those ulu,public swimming pools or condo pools.. Haha.. But the best is to not think of the waters and just keep swimming...
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posted @ 1:32 PM
Its been about a month since I started school. I've been coping fine. Enjoying myself in psychology and in hall life. Psy is quite a slack course.Only had a few lectures per week and not much tutorials. But that made it even more scarier cos I wouldn't know how whether I really know my stuff anot. So its consistant study..
Psy lectures are very fun. We did hypnosis for one lecture and I think its quite hilarious. The lecturer, Johnathan Marshall (cool looking ang-moh), did it on a group of us who volunteered. Haha.. He started with..
" Close your eyes and slowly roll them to the back. Relax and sit as comfortably as possible. Imagine yourself floating, floating, floating.."
Haha.. From that part onwards I couldn't concentrate. Its quite hilarious to me so hypnosis didn't really work for me. But it did work for others. Like when Mr. Marshall said " At the sound of the knock on the table, you would feel a slight itchiness at your right ankle." Some students actually bent down to scratch. The power of suggestion is amazing.
For psy tutorial, we did "Aunt Agony". Where each of us received pretended letters and we are supposed to write back as Aunt Agony. Quite cool, giving advices.
Then there was hall bash. It took place after JAM so its kinda rush. Joanne, Amandia and me attended the bash.
Me and Amandia :)
I found out halfway during the dinner that my camera was out of battery. So sianz.. Bringing around a white elephant. Then when I went home I realised why my cam was flat even though I charged it.. I used the wrong charger..
Oh,our DND is at JewelBox which is at Mt Faber. So we took cable car up.. It so cool and the view from the cable car is magnificent The theme for the DND is Old Shanghai Glam. And some people really dressed up in Qipaos and all..
Here's the photos I took with my handphone cam.( at least that works)
That was it.. And then the next day, I went to the RSAF Openhouse!!!
I went with Pam and her mom. And as I was queing to get in, I heard a "Jie Jie Yvonne" behind me. I turned around and saw my sunday school kid!
Me and Darling Johnathan
Haha... It was pretty hot and sunny, but its better than a rainy day. The planes were cool but somehow at closup view, they look quite fake. Haha..
Umbrellas blocking my F-16.. :(
The F-16s have their pilots' names inscribed at the side. It super cool. Imagine " Yvonne Kirk" on one.. muahaha.. SUper cool.. Oh, speaking of pilots, i don't really like the way pilots swagger and walk around.
Me and Pam
Today is the fifth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks. The thing that stayed most vivid in my mind was the sight of people falling out of the building. The pain they felt and the hard decision they had to make. But they would rather jump out of a building than be burnt alive. Perhaps as they jump out, their thoughts were full of regrets of unable to see or talk to their loved ones again. I don't know, but if I were in their shoes, I would think that way and make the same decision too..
Battle not with monsters
lest ye become a monster
and if you gaze into the abyss
the abyss gazes into you.
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posted @ 5:58 PM
