i am the BEST !!! =P

2010-08-22T23:21:00.001+08:00

Guess this would be my very last blog post before i serve the nation in the comfortable aircon room. For those who still dont know, i would be going to serve the nation in a few days. To be more exact, as at 11am on 24th Aug, 2010, i would be officially announcing myself a NS man. Tho i'm one of the lucky few to be going in every morning and out of camp after 6, but still i will no longer be able to be busy slacking anymore. Not mentioning volunteering at Trybe.

My very last event with Trybe was to plan for the 9th birthday celebration. It is a success! Special thanks to the TEOrg team who came out with such wonderful ideas and made it happened. The planning started few month ago after some brainstorming and discussion of what we (TEOrg) wanted to plan for Trybe. We came out with quite a few great idea and voted for the idea we wanted to execute FIRST. Haha... note that i say first as we would be planning the rest of the ideas in time to come.

Guess all of you would already know what was the result of our voting. Yes, it the 9th BRITHDAY Celebration for Trybe. Meetings were held almost every week to get updates from the different "departments" and get more funny ideas. (Thanks Hanafy for the prizes idea.) I'm so glad that many of you are able to turn up to celebrate, eat and play with us. It is a fun day, not forgetting the "sabo" Dexter and Thomas secretly planned.

Well, the 9th birthday celebration and the 10th would be coming VERY SOON!
For those who are interested to plan for this grand event, please do contact the staff. And for those who dont want to miss out the fun, do keep yourself updated thru Trybe blog regularly as we will be releasing more information bit by bit as soon as we are able to confirm the detail.

Hope to see all you guys soon! =D

china's 1st day

2009-03-04T00:15:00.002+08:00

Whoo... i finally have internet access... ^^
itz like finally after:
plane from singapore to xiamen, (0855 to 1300)
plane from xiamen to tianjin, (1245 to 1630)
train from tianjin to harbin. (0034 to 1445)

the train ride fron tianjin to harbin is a killer...

when i was on the plane i thought nothing could be worst den getting stuck on the sit for 8hours BUT.. i was wrong... the 14hours train ride was pure boring... since we reached tianjin at 4.30pm, and our train is at 12.34am the next day, our "tour guide" decided to bring us around tianjin's shopping area. We deposited our luggage at the rain station and went of shopping... all i can say is that the security there is very poor. Though security officers could been seen everywhere, poeple just see them as transparent. and i feel tt itz kindda weird that itz the security members themselves that are the bully around. they will call random ppl for their identification card (IC) for NO PARTICULAR REASON!!!

Anyway.. we shop till 10+pm and started to walk back to the train station. the train station is packed with ppl resting and lying around. even though the train station was indoor and air condition, you can easily spot ppl smoking, spitting and littering. we waited till 11 plus before going to collect our luggage from the lockers and proceeded to the entrance. queue started to formed in all direction when time gets closer and closer to the entry time... our queues was useless as once the gate open, everyone started to rush in and get onto the train as it is only gonna stop for mere 8 mins.

luckily for us, the train started to move only after our last person got on the train. we squeeze our luggage into the rooms and tried to get some rest. Train officers come over for inspection very frequently causing many of us to not able to sleep "peacefully". whenever given the chance, we will get off the train to buy stuff to stuff our mouth during the journey.. During noon time, we got so bored we started to play all sort of game and we ended "gambling". not with money but with food. so eventually, i won 2cup noodles, 1 dessert, 1 hot drink, 1 sussage, 1 xiao long pau, 1 jiao zi and lost 1 cup noodle and 1 bubble tea.

Not long after, we reach harbin, the ice city... it isnt as icey as we expected and the crowd there are rough... they will just pull u aside and confuse u with the words tht are coming out of their mouth like a machine gun. an TA-DA... i am where i am now.. in my room typing this blog...
itz suchh a long time since i type such long post.. but i will still continue to keep all of u updated... i am currently trying to upload the video on facebook but photos are already available on my photo album in facebook... ^^
Good night everyone... ^^
YAWN....

12 hours to go

2009-03-01T19:59:00.003+08:00

Wahaha... i am exactly 12hours away from flying off to harbin... ^^
Still wondering how can i survive there for 7weeks..
hmm... for those who dont know, i am going over there for my Industrial Training Programme (ITP) in other words internship.. gosh... 5 days per week 8hours a day... with such "high pay" (640RMB for 7wks)
During these time when i am away i promise to keep all my beloved friends updated with daily post and lots and lots of photos xD
Cant w8 to see snowflakes falling from the sky... ^^

2009-01-20T09:37:00.002+08:00

haha.. this is a super long ago video... have lotz of things to blog about but i have so many assignments to do...

3 due on 2 feb
2 due on 30 feb
1 due TODAY

arrrr... i am being squashed by my assignments..
how do sp wan was to enjoy our chinese new year when there is soo mani assignments due after cny 0.o?
nvm..
WISHING ALL HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR IN ADVANCE ^^

Fine i will update xD

2008-10-27T18:01:00.003+08:00

Suave and compromising. Careful, cautious and organized. Likes to point out people’s mistakes. Likes to criticize. Stubborn. Quiet but able to talk well. Calm and cool. Kind and sympathetic. Concerned and detailed.Loyal but not always honest. Does work well. Very confident. Sensitive. Clever and knowledgeable. Good memory. Loves to look for information. Must control oneself when criticizing. Able to motivate oneself. Understanding. Fun to be around. Secretive. Loves leisure and traveling. Hardly shows emotions. Tends to bottle up feelings. Very choosy, especially in relationships. Systematic.

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Is Your Jar Full?

2008-04-21T14:16:00.002+08:00

Is Your Jar Full?

When things in your life seem almost to much to handle, when 24 hours in a
day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar......and the beer.

A Professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front
of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and
empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then
asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

So the Professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the
jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas
between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was
full. They agreed it was.

The Professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of
course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar
was full. The students responded with an unanimous "Yes."

The Professor then produced two cans of beer from under the table and
poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty
space between the sand. The students laughed.

"Now," said the Professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to
recognize that this jar represents your life.

The golf balls are the important things - your family, your children, your
health, your friends, your favorite passions - things that if everything
else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house,
your car. The sand is everything else - the small stuff."

"If you put the sand into the jar first", he continued, "there is no room
for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all
your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the
things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are
critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get
medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18. There
will always be time to clean the house, and fix the disposal. Take care of
the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities.
The rest is just sand."

When he had finished, there was a profound silence. Then one of the
students raised her hand and with a puzzled expression, inquired what the
beer represented.

The Professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no
matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of
beers."

Great Day =P

2008-03-11T22:58:00.005+08:00

Great Day =P

wow... tis is sure a great day...
woke up early to go for a friendship race organise by Trybe for a MOE exchange students... it was also that morning that i was brief tat the students in all our group were made up of 5 students of reputable University in china and 5 of local university students...
i shall end my post with this 2 photo i took:
this photo was taken not long ago this afternoon in little india
singapore police are breaking the law... xD

gosh... wat am i saying...
they are the law... xD

hmmm... how can the law break the law =S

everyone who saw this or is still seeing this plz own up by tagging...
i know who u are =P
plz do not make me go through all the trouble by tracking ur IP address... =S

Hua Yi Leadership Camp 2008

2008-02-24T15:29:00.003+08:00

Hua Yi Leadership Camp 2008

3 days 2 nights of hua yi leadership camp was sooooooo fun =)
LALALA u are the best !

Sori for not updating for such long time... =P hav finalli posted some photos of the camp since it has been uploaded ^^

I hav totalli enjoyed myself wif u guys(and gals too) hmmm... this group of mine were super hyper(in a good way) and was filled with leaders of different dynamics(jus before i forget the group name was lalala and it was named after BLUR as she was the leader of the team)...

the phrase that left a deep impression in me:
If you are not a solution...
you are a problem.

2007-12-28T14:07:00.000+08:00

http://upchucky.net/~upchucky/flash-fun/farmer-donkey.swf

A Happy Life

2007-12-24T22:51:00.000+08:00

A Happy Life

Mind your own business
Don't interfere in other people's personal matters unless they request you... it keeps you free from extra tension.

Don't be too curious; never try to investigate or inquire about a person's schedule, as these inquiries usually make you and the ones questioned uncomfortable.

Help yourself; always do your work yourself, try not to use help unless you actually need it. It keeps you busy and secondly it saves you the hassle of another's carelessness.

Help other people; you get a lot of pleasure by helping the needy. Always be ready to lend a helpful hand. Thanks and warm wishes will make your journey, life, happy and safe.

Recognize small achievements; don't aim too high as small goals are equally important. Always remember little droplets makeup the ocean. Your small achievements and virtues will also prove your worth.

Give thanks and say sorry; never hesitate to say thank you and sorry. It shows your kind and caring nature. It also compels other to respect you and advise you.

--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Hina Shehzad --- UAE

The Legacy Of Health

2007-12-24T22:42:00.000+08:00

The Legacy Of Health

Most of the time, in the pursuit to do what is best, we forget to fulfill the mandatory needs of our children. All they need is our unconditional love and support at every step in their lives, but, we spend the time by accumulating as much wealth as we can, at the cost of our own health.

All of our problems erupt from a bad life style, long working hours, unhealthy food habits and bottling up of unwanted stress. Surprisingly we are all well aware of these facts, but keep on ignoring them, till things go out of hand and make us just too weak to work. That's the time when we rush to doctors. Doctors cannot cure completely; they can only treat the problem.

Health is wealth, it needs all the attention all the time; it must be our topmost priority. The worst part is that wealth may or may not be hereditary, but health is. So, if we are not healthy, how do we pass on the wealth of our health to our children for them to enjoy? Yesterday life was difficult and living was easy but today life is easy and living is difficult.

We have a rich cultural lineage that enables us to lead a healthy and subsequently a wealthy life under all conditions, lest we believe in exporting our culture to western countries, to be approved by them, and only then we put it into use.

Let's preserve it for our future generations or else it will be destroyed. This can be only done if we inculcate them, in our own daily lives, and pass them on to our children by leading a self disciplined routine life, with a positive outlook, strong moral ethics and values.

Controlling and channeling the negative into positive, works wonders for our mind, body and soul. Like food, exercise of any kind, be it yoga aerobics or even simple walking is compulsory.

Taking care of one's own self is not being selfish or self-centered. Pamper yourself by taking good care of your body. It's said a healthy body inhabits a healthy mind.

When one is in good health, only then can one take care of his loved ones and enjoy the pleasures of life in all ways possible. The legacy of health has no substitute for our future generations to come.

Written in 2007 by --- India

Merry Christmas

2007-12-24T21:46:00.000+08:00

Merry Christmas Everyone

We wish you a Merry Christmas
We wish you a Merry Christmas
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas to everyone =)

Wow! Another year is gonna pass soon... it seems like yesterday was only the start of 2007... lol...
Santa please grant my wish... (impossible =X)

Have not post for 2 days le... came home late and was too tired to post entries for that past two days... =P

Shall start to post now... =.=

Honesty Is Still The Best Policy

2007-12-20T15:35:00.000+08:00

Honesty Is Still The Best Policy

Once a general manager wanted to test his people, who had come from all over India, about their values of life. He announced that in their seminar folder, there was a PVC pouch and in it a seed. When they return, they must put the seed in a pot with good soil and look after it very well. He would hold a competition at the next year's seminar and that the best plants would be awarded suitably.

Everyone did what was told to him. A year passed quickly. And next year in a big hall, a great scene! There were hundreds of pots and a great variety of plants - all except one. In this one pot was soil, but no plant! The owner of the pot was standing quietly and seemingly ashamed of himself.

The general manager called him on the stage. He asked him what happened and he told him the truth. He planted the seed, which he was given, and did what was to be done - but nothing happened.

The general manager declared him the winner!

Everyone was shocked.

It was announced, "Gentlemen! The seeds I gave you were boiled seeds. You planted them and nothing happened! You acted smartly and used some other seeds. This man was honest to his work and therefore, he did not cheat me or himself!"

--- Written in 2007 by Kalpna Varshney --- India

Positive Thought- A Strong Tool Of Success

2007-12-20T15:28:00.000+08:00

Positive Thought

A Strong Tool Of Success

Once upon a time there was bunch of tiny frogs that arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of very high tower. A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants.

The race began. Honestly, no one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of tower. You heard statements such as, "They will NEVER make it to the top. Or: Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is too high!"

The tiny frogs began collapsing, one by one, except for those, who in fresh tempo were climbing higher and higher.

The crowd continued to yell, "Its too difficult!!! No one will make it!"

More tiny frogs got tired and gave up, but one continued higher and higher and higher. This one wouldn't give up!

At the end, everyone else had given up climbing the tower, except for one tiny frog. After a big effort, he was the only one who reached the top! THEN all the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it?

A contestant asked the tiny frog how he had found the strength to succeed and reach the goal. It turned out.... that the winner was deaf!!!!

Never listen to other people tendencies to be negative or pessimistic.... because they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you- the ones you have in your heart!

Just do it! Do what you want!

Use Your Strengths

2007-12-19T00:03:00.000+08:00

Use Your Strengths

One day, an angel was roaming in the forest. It was a very beautiful day. The angel saw trees touching the sky, and leaves were swinging with cool breeze. Flowers were smiling, painted with beautiful colors, and the birds were singing. Angel was very pleased to see the beauty that God had created; it was a magical feeling.

After walking a little further, the angel saw a rose plant. The rose plant was crying. The angel felt very sad.

The angel asked the rose plant, "Why are you crying, my child?"

The rose plant replied, "God doesn't love me as much as he loves other plants."

And the angel said, "What makes you think that, my beautiful?"

Rose plant then said, "God gave me a thorn."

The angel said, "Awwww, God didn't give you a thorn, you were born with the thorn. God blessed you with a beautiful flower with beautiful carved petals. God blessed you with a sweet fragrance. You are remembered as a symbol of love. God blessed your beauty to live with the thorn."

Live your life with your strength, not with your weakness.

Writers name is Mansi Arora and was born different. Mansi Arora is 32 years old and short in stature, 4 feet tall. Doctor has diagnosed Mansi Arora with Metaphyseal Dysplasia.

Hack Yourself

2007-12-18T10:35:00.000+08:00

Hack Yourself

Stop assigning blame. This is the first step. Stop assigning blame and leave the past behind you.
You know whose fault it is that your life isn't perfect. Your boss. Your teachers. Your ex-lovers. The ones who hurt you, the ones who abused you, the ones who left you bleeding. Or even yourself. You know whose fault it is — you've been telling yourself your whole life. Knowing whose fault it is that your life sucks is an excellent way to absolve yourself of any reponsibility for taking your life into your own hands.
Forget about it. Let it go. The past isn't real. “That was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead.” If we're not talking about something that is real and present and in your life right now, then it doesn't matter. Nothing can be done about it. If nothing can be done about it, then don't spend your energy dwelling on it — you have other things to do.
I may sound cruel, I may sound simplistic, I may sound like I'm saying you should just “get over it,” by suggesting that you should let go of your past. I'm sorry for that. But life won't hold still and wait for you to lick your wounds. The race is still being run. Get up and keep moving. You can't do anything about yesterday.
You can do something about tomorrow. And about the next day. Focus your energies there.
“I don't have time to write.” “I can't dance.” “I can't talk to new people.” “I'm not attractive.”
I hear this all the time. I always hear the people around me sabotaging themselves, drawing lines and borders and boxes around themselves.
To which I say, make the time; dance; just talk to people; be attractive!
Yes, again, it's simplistic of me to say that. But it's simplistic of you to so easily say what you cannot do!
We're excellent pattern-matchers. That's what the human mind does — it's a pattern-matching engine. So we look at ourselves, at our history, at our behaviors, and we draw straight lines between the points — we assume that just because we've done things a certain way in the past, we'll always do them that way in the future. If we've failed before, we'll always fail.
Screw that.
Surprise yourself. No — amaze yourself.
You don't have to keep doing the things you hate. Why go home and beat yourself up for, say, not going over and saying a few words to someone you find really attractive? Can any damage they could do to you by rejecting you possibly be any worse than the damage you're going to do to yourself for missing the chance?

Find the demon.
Do you know what I'm talking about? It's the little voice in the back of your head that's always whispering, “You can't.” You know the demon. You may think you hate the demon, but you don't. You love it. You let it own you. You do everything it says. Everytime there's something you want, you consult the demon first, to see if it will say, “You can't have that.”
What you don't realize is that your demon doesn't know anything. It's an idiot. It's nothing but a parrot, repeating back to you anything negative that it's ever heard, anything that makes you hurt, makes you squirm. If a teacher once told you “You'll never accomplish anything,” it was listening; it hoards words like that and repeats them back to you to watch you jump. It doesn't know what it's saying. It doesn't care.
Exorcise yourself.
You can take me literally or not, as suits you. But do, please, the next time you hear that voice in your head, imagine it, visualize it, as something physical that you can get hold of; tear it out of you, feel its fingers weaken and lose their grip on your spine, and grind it to dust, to nothing, under your boot heel on your way out to dance in the streets.
You can. You think you can't; but it's telling you that. You can.

You don't exist.
You just think you do.
We're nothing but the stories we tell ourselves. We know in our hearts what kind of people we are, what we're capable of, because we've told ourselves what kind of people we are. You're a carefully-rehearsed list of weaknesses and strengths you've told yourself you have.
(Self-confidence, for example, is a particularly nebulous quality you can easily talk yourself out of having.)
You owe no allegiance to that self-image if it harms you. If you don't like the story your life has become — tell yourself a better one.
Think about the person you want to be and do what that person would do. Act the way that person would act.
Amazingly enough, once you start acting like that person, people will start treating you like that person.
And you'll start to believe it. And then it will be true.
Welcome to your new self.

You are a product of your environnent.
Most people realize this — usually, in the form of having something else to blame — but they tend to forget one important fact:
Humans are the masters of changing their environment.
What this means is that if your environment affects you, and you can affect your environment, then obviously, you can affect yourself.
Your environment includes people. Figure out who in your life isn't good for you, whose presence tears you down more than it builds you up, whose nearness is poison to you — and get rid of them. Get them out of your life. I don't care if it's your best friend, your boss, your mother, your lover — if they are harming you, if they are doing nothing but reinforce everything bad you tell yourself about yourself, then your relationship with them needs to radically alter or it needs to end.

Your environment includes goals. Don't set yourself pie-in-the-sky impossible goals and then beat yourself up over not achieving them — set yourself goals that will be good for you, not a source of pain. Attainable goals. Set them and meet them. Don't tell yourself you can't — that's the old story, that story you used to tell yourself about what a poor sad victim you were and how you could never change anything about your life. You can meet your goals. This is the new story.
Trying to clean your house? Good for you — a clean house can really affect your state of mind for the better. But don't say “Today I'm going to clean the entire house from top to bottom,” when you don't have the time and energy to — don't set yourself up for failure; don't feed the demon. Just say, “Today I'm going to wash all the dishes and clean off the kitchen counter.” And do it.
Don't tell yourself, “This month I'm going to write that novel.” Tell yourself, “Today I'm going to write five pages.” And do it. Take your dreams and break them down into small pieces and you'll have them in your hands before you know it.
And you'll find, as you start meeting your goals, that you like it. That it feels good, makes you feel confident and capable. You'll develop a hunger for it.
Your environment includes yourself — your physical presence. Do what you know you need to do — treat yourself better. Sleep, eat right, exercise. This doesn't mean you have to stop staying out late at night now and then, it doesn't mean you can't have a candy bar, it doesn't mean you have to stop sitting around watching television — it just means start doing the things that are good for you as well as the things that are bad for you, every so often. It's not an all-or-nothing proposition; you don't have to devote your life to being a health nut. Just try eating more fruits and vegetables, the occasional vegetarian meal; go for walks in the park on the weekends. You'll feel better and be more alert if you're a little healthier, and once you start feeling a little better, you'll start wanting the things that make you feel better. You'll see.

Your environment includes your appearance. If you're not happy with yourself, if you're angry with the person in the mirror, it can honestly help to literally change who you see when you look in the mirror. Try a different hairstyle, new glasses, new jewelry, new clothes. It doesn't have to be expensive — there's a whole universe full of possible You's waiting to be found in thrift stores, if need be. If you're deciding to become the person you want to be, then decide what that person is going to look like. Dress the part. It's not shallow, it's not about vanity, it's about self-transformation — even the most primitive tribes understand the value of costumes and masks for ritual, for change, for becoming someone else.
You are not an object. You are a system. Like with any system, if you change the inputs — change what goes into it — you'll change what comes out.

Despite everything I've just said:
Self-examination can be paralysis.
Don't “remember to breathe” — just breathe. It's a Tao thing.
It's the paradox at the center of all this — remember that, “Am I living up to being the person I want to be?”, is not a question the person you want to be would ask.
If I can leave you with just one thought, it's this:
Stop wasting your time fretting over not being happy.
Just be happy.

is a writer and a web developer living in the Pacific Northwest.

FINALLY STARTING A NEW BLOG =)

2007-12-17T21:43:00.000+08:00

FINALLY STARTING A NEW BLOG =)

long time since i blog...
think i will take awhile before i rmb all my html codes...
>.<
since i am having my holidays....
i shall restart a new blog...
=X

thats all for now. will update when i have more time
smilez...
^^

i am the BEST !!! =P

china's 1st day

12 hours to go

Fine i will update xD

Is Your Jar Full?

Is Your Jar Full?

Great Day =P

Great Day =P

Hua Yi Leadership Camp 2008

Hua Yi Leadership Camp 2008

A Happy Life

A Happy Life

The Legacy Of Health

The Legacy Of Health

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone

Honesty Is Still The Best Policy

Honesty Is Still The Best Policy

Positive Thought- A Strong Tool Of Success

Positive Thought A Strong Tool Of Success

Use Your Strengths

Use Your Strengths

Hack Yourself

Hack Yourself

FINALLY STARTING A NEW BLOG =)

FINALLY STARTING A NEW BLOG =)

Positive Thought

A Strong Tool Of Success