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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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
