Been long since I last posted,
My latest endeavors is reading the Twilight saga, which includes Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and finally Breaking Dawn. A book, midnight sun is currently in the draft state, and its basically Twilight from the viewpoint of the vampire.
Overall its quite nice a story to me but there's always criticism.
One is as follows:
"We get it. She thinks he's hot. Move along"-The Philadelphia Inquirer on Twilight.
But then there's always selective reading, skipping parts. Some felt the vampire was too protective and the girl oversensitive.
The vampire seems to be just like any normally superhero -- super strength, speed, just that they have a diet of blood. Shouldn't take too long to read I guess, taking about slightly over a week.
Would recommend for people who like romance story.
Sounds like an advertisement @_@
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Strengthsquest
Ok after seeing probably all of my sch mates posting this, I decided to post on this too.
Harmony
You look for areas of agreement. In your view there is little to be gained from conflict and friction, so you seek to hold them to a minimum. When you know that the people around you hold differing views, you try to find the common ground. You try to steer them away from confrontation and toward harmony. In fact, harmony is one of your guiding values. You can’t quite believe how much time is wasted by people trying to impose their views on others. Wouldn’t we all be more productive if we kept our opinions in check and instead looked for consensus and support? You believe we would, and you live by that belief. When others are sounding off about their goals, their claims, and their fervently held opinions, you hold your peace. When others strike out in a direction, you will willingly, in the service of harmony, modify your own objectives to merge with theirs (as long as their basic values do not clash with yours). When others start to argue about their pet theory or concept, you steer clear of the debate, preferring to talk about practical, down-to-earth matters on which you can all agree. In your view we are all in the same boat, and we need this boat to get where we are going. It is a good boat. There is no need to rock it just to show that you can.
Includer
“Stretch the circle wider.” This is the philosophy around which you orient your life. You want to include people and make them feel part of the group. In direct contrast to those who are drawn only to exclusive groups, you actively avoid those groups that exclude others. You want to expand the group so that as many people as possible can benefit from its support. You hate the sight of someone on the outside looking in. You want to draw them in so that they can feel the warmth of the group. You are an instinctively accepting person. Regardless of race or sex or nationality or personality or faith, you cast few judgments. Judgments can hurt a person’s feelings. Why do that if you don’t have to? Your accepting nature does not necessarily rest on a belief that each of us is different and that one should respect these differences. Rather, it rests on your conviction that fundamentally we are all the same. We are all equally important. Thus, no one should be ignored. Each of us should be included. It is the least we all deserve.
Empathy
You can sense the emotions of those around you. You can feel what they are feeling as though their feelings are your own. Intuitively, you are able to see the world through their eyes and share their perspective. You do not necessarily agree with each person’s perspective. You do not necessarily feel pity for each person’s predicament—this would be sympathy, not Empathy. You do not necessarily condone the choices each person makes, but you do understand. This instinctive ability to understand is powerful. You hear the unvoiced questions. You anticipate the need. Where others grapple for words, you seem to find the right words and the right tone. You help people find the right phrases to express their feelings—to themselves as well as to others. You help them give voice to their emotional life. For all these reasons other people are drawn to you.
Developer
You see the potential in others. Very often, in fact, potential is all you see. In your view no individual is fully formed. On the contrary, each individual is a work in progress, alive with possibilities. And you are drawn toward people for this very reason. When you interact with others, your goal is to help them experience success. You look for ways to challenge them. You devise interesting experiences that can stretch them and help them grow. And all the while you are on the lookout for the signs of growth—a new behavior learned or modified, a slight improvement in a skill, a glimpse of excellence or of “flow” where previously there were only halting steps. For you these small increments—invisible to some—are clear signs of potential being realized. These signs of growth in others are your fuel. They bring you strength and satisfaction. Over time many will seek you out for help and encouragement because on some level they know that your helpfulness is both genuine and fulfilling to you.
Adaptability
You live in the moment. You don’t see the future as a fixed destination. Instead, you see it as a place that you create out of the choices that you make right now. And so you discover your future one choice at a time. This doesn’t mean that you don’t have plans. You probably do. But this theme of Adaptability does enable you to respond willingly to the demands of the moment even if they pull you away from your plans. Unlike some, you don’t resent sudden requests or unforeseen detours. You expect them. They are inevitable. Indeed, on some level you actually look forward to them. You are, at heart, a very flexible person who can stay productive when the demands of work are pulling you in many different directions at once.
Action Items
Ok that's all. Done for the day.
Harmony
You look for areas of agreement. In your view there is little to be gained from conflict and friction, so you seek to hold them to a minimum. When you know that the people around you hold differing views, you try to find the common ground. You try to steer them away from confrontation and toward harmony. In fact, harmony is one of your guiding values. You can’t quite believe how much time is wasted by people trying to impose their views on others. Wouldn’t we all be more productive if we kept our opinions in check and instead looked for consensus and support? You believe we would, and you live by that belief. When others are sounding off about their goals, their claims, and their fervently held opinions, you hold your peace. When others strike out in a direction, you will willingly, in the service of harmony, modify your own objectives to merge with theirs (as long as their basic values do not clash with yours). When others start to argue about their pet theory or concept, you steer clear of the debate, preferring to talk about practical, down-to-earth matters on which you can all agree. In your view we are all in the same boat, and we need this boat to get where we are going. It is a good boat. There is no need to rock it just to show that you can.
Includer
“Stretch the circle wider.” This is the philosophy around which you orient your life. You want to include people and make them feel part of the group. In direct contrast to those who are drawn only to exclusive groups, you actively avoid those groups that exclude others. You want to expand the group so that as many people as possible can benefit from its support. You hate the sight of someone on the outside looking in. You want to draw them in so that they can feel the warmth of the group. You are an instinctively accepting person. Regardless of race or sex or nationality or personality or faith, you cast few judgments. Judgments can hurt a person’s feelings. Why do that if you don’t have to? Your accepting nature does not necessarily rest on a belief that each of us is different and that one should respect these differences. Rather, it rests on your conviction that fundamentally we are all the same. We are all equally important. Thus, no one should be ignored. Each of us should be included. It is the least we all deserve.
Empathy
You can sense the emotions of those around you. You can feel what they are feeling as though their feelings are your own. Intuitively, you are able to see the world through their eyes and share their perspective. You do not necessarily agree with each person’s perspective. You do not necessarily feel pity for each person’s predicament—this would be sympathy, not Empathy. You do not necessarily condone the choices each person makes, but you do understand. This instinctive ability to understand is powerful. You hear the unvoiced questions. You anticipate the need. Where others grapple for words, you seem to find the right words and the right tone. You help people find the right phrases to express their feelings—to themselves as well as to others. You help them give voice to their emotional life. For all these reasons other people are drawn to you.
Developer
You see the potential in others. Very often, in fact, potential is all you see. In your view no individual is fully formed. On the contrary, each individual is a work in progress, alive with possibilities. And you are drawn toward people for this very reason. When you interact with others, your goal is to help them experience success. You look for ways to challenge them. You devise interesting experiences that can stretch them and help them grow. And all the while you are on the lookout for the signs of growth—a new behavior learned or modified, a slight improvement in a skill, a glimpse of excellence or of “flow” where previously there were only halting steps. For you these small increments—invisible to some—are clear signs of potential being realized. These signs of growth in others are your fuel. They bring you strength and satisfaction. Over time many will seek you out for help and encouragement because on some level they know that your helpfulness is both genuine and fulfilling to you.
Adaptability
You live in the moment. You don’t see the future as a fixed destination. Instead, you see it as a place that you create out of the choices that you make right now. And so you discover your future one choice at a time. This doesn’t mean that you don’t have plans. You probably do. But this theme of Adaptability does enable you to respond willingly to the demands of the moment even if they pull you away from your plans. Unlike some, you don’t resent sudden requests or unforeseen detours. You expect them. They are inevitable. Indeed, on some level you actually look forward to them. You are, at heart, a very flexible person who can stay productive when the demands of work are pulling you in many different directions at once.
Action Items
Ok that's all. Done for the day.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
What an enjoyable stay at school.
After 1 day of slacking, I finally decided to post on the hottest and latest news about my very very interesting life.
Camp was overall slack and very relaxed, although with many reminders to be more serious and stuff. It was err. bout 80% of the time in school. Meaning 20% of the time out of sch. A rough estimate la.
Day 1.
Started with camp briefing. Camp Name dunno wad Hankonotaki or something, means 'Moment of Change'. Then started to think of group name. My group started the trend of "balls". Lol. Mine was meatballs, then there were fishball, birdballs and no balls. The latter 2 were told to changed of course. Became snow balls and beefballs later on.
Then later camp development. Wan pitch tent no pegs. How perfect. Fast forward. Lunch my patrol supposed to cook. Then Mr Lee was complaining it was too late to cook and ordered seniors to go packet food for us. Yay so shiok xD. Discussed for campfire item. then lunch camp and we had fun. Then was some teambuilding games I think. One involved forming a circle and untangling hands. another involved using twine to stack cups. the last involved carrying one guy over the other 3's head to a certain point. Then next was supposed to be swimming. But played football first. IMBA Pro help my team own of course. Then went swimming. Swam 10 laps. Then continue swimming. Lol. Then the duty patrol go cook. Then soon went to wash up. Then receive the VERY UNFORTUNATE new that IMBA PRO needa go to NPC. How sad.. Then after that makan. Mr Lee cooked a whole big pot of rice.(He revealed on the last day it was meant for 60 ppl and the camp only had like 18?) Then night activity. Just a random solo hike round the sch. Had checkpoint names like "Blue Pillar", "Black Dot 29", "Union", "White Box" Blah Blah. Unfortunately, we all grouped together eventually. My team spirit was low during supper, due to a PATHETIC 2 man patrol. -Lights out- Predicted to have thunderstorm in night, so slept indoors. Woke up at 2:30 am for 20 pumpings and went to sleep. Caused me to wake up bout every hour later. Terrible!
Day 2
Continued camp. Woke up to know it was time for breakfast.(Yay no morn PT). Then was inspection. How slacky. Checked once nia xD. Then we were supposed to help NPC shift the spars. But then Mr Lee chased us away. Some just fake and continue helping. Then we went to scouts den do something I can't rmb. Then it was time to do backwoods man. Mr Lee was kping coz it was bout 12:30 and worried we too late eat. Jerrold help us and managed to cook some chicken. Black pepper chicken. Yummy. Well not really. Apples were definitely the BEST part of the meal. Sweet and tasty. Carbon rice was definitely not too delicious.
Then I don't know what happened but apparently we had some song session or something. Learnt and sang some old songs which lyrics I dunno. Also the many variations of songs like Titanic. Quite fun. Then soon help out with dinner. Shredded some chicken. Yummy. Dinner was fried rice(using the leftover cooked rice) and shredded chicken with delicious black pepper sauce. We also spammed it into the rice too while eating. That night we had solo hike. I was the last sec 3 to go. How sad.. Then while walking in, 5 cars drew past me, forcing me to lose my night sight. Then as I was enjoying the scenery, I heard footsteps. Shocked, I turned around and saw a dark figure. Luckily it wasn't a ghost but a junior. Walked to the end point together. Then went out, walked back to HCI, and went to bathe. Then it was time to sleep. But first to choose a scary location in school. Apparently I got a not scary location near the table tennis area. Had the sad thing of waking up once every hour. -End of Day-
Day 3
Had morn PT. Then went breakfast. Then inspection. Then it was SRIT. First station for my group, need to rescue a fallen "hand bag"(a pail). Yea. Easily got it back by throwing the lashing over it and dragging the pail back. Then was told to use a dustbin as a tree. 2nd station. At scouts den. Not too sure wad happened. I was unconscious with a right arm injury. Then 3rd station was bout a fight. very tiring station. Last was a station was one where we were trapped in an island. Learnt that must use shiny object to reflect light into pilot eyes and make him blind and crash. Haha. Just to attract attention. Then was told to bathe so we were clean and fresh to welcome the St Nicks Guides. Showered and saw track ppl camping in toilet playing bridge. Then had lunch. Then we were given our camp tee for there were no fresh t shirt liao. Then the guides came and given a briefing about the Amazing Race.
First stop. Clue: Some word puzzle where you had to derive HOT SPRINGS. The grp didnt know hot springs existed in singapore. Found out later that the only one existed in Sembawang. Then took 157 or something to MacRitchie and 156 to Bishan. Then MRT to YiShun and finally 959 or something for 4 stops. Walked a short distance before reaching. Some other groups were alr walking out. It was a choice of drinking raw eggs or waiting for them to boil. Common "Amazing Race" sense told you to drink it raw. Drinking the first one, I felt it was more of half boiled, having been soaked for sometime by HOT SPRINGS water. Then 2nd one I tank. 3rd one a junior tank. last junior slack dun wan drink. Next stop was Blk 152 in Toa Payoh, supposedly the tallest in the area. MRT-ed there. Found it in no time. Were scammed to go to 40th floor at first. Then found the station master at 1st floor. Then gotta climb up to 30th floor. The others seemed to have a hard time or so. Then went up, take photo then go down. Last stop VivoCity. Again MRT-ed there. Then we had to take photo of 3 JC2 seniors. found them in no time and left to go back to HCI. MRT to Newton and bused back. Was 6th out of 8. Not too bad. Dinner, was supposed to communicate but had a daoing session. Then campfire. Had much fun. Sad my grp tio dao. Never got the chance to act out the planned skit. Then we started worrying for the night. Fears of the much feared Fire Drill. Adult leaders talked about how they are leaving the troop to become and Auxillary runned troop in 2010. Meaning my batch :O Took up our "bathing" time in which no one bothered to do so anyway. and then went to sleep. Slept in tent for first time of the camp. On the last day. Lol.
Day 4.(Last day YAY)
Woke up at nearly 6, to hear a guy saying 30 mins to fall in. Made me think it was fire drill. BUT YAY. NO FIRE DRILL. THE CAMP ROX.After being delighted at the info, we relaxed awhile. Then changed to wushi kit for the performance planned that day. slacked without inspection. Was told to do knuckle pumping and destroy our poor knuckles. Had breakfast. Then slack abit then go performance. Then turn out not enuff ppl to do 2 lions. 1 tail but no head, coz only the supposed to be drummer knew how to do head. So sad. Then last minute called a sec 2 to be lion head. Then Adult scout leader and a JC1 senior had to come help. but somehow they should have been the other's role. But anyway I was tail to the sec 2. it was a screwed up performance but we received appreciation, with the audience giving a round of applause. Went back to camp. Had camp debrief. Heard the other non lion dance had to do punishment for 45 mistakes. Then we were released shortly.
After a delicious meal at KAP, I went home.
Camp was overall slack and very relaxed, although with many reminders to be more serious and stuff. It was err. bout 80% of the time in school. Meaning 20% of the time out of sch. A rough estimate la.
Day 1.
Started with camp briefing. Camp Name dunno wad Hankonotaki or something, means 'Moment of Change'. Then started to think of group name. My group started the trend of "balls". Lol. Mine was meatballs, then there were fishball, birdballs and no balls. The latter 2 were told to changed of course. Became snow balls and beefballs later on.
Then later camp development. Wan pitch tent no pegs. How perfect. Fast forward. Lunch my patrol supposed to cook. Then Mr Lee was complaining it was too late to cook and ordered seniors to go packet food for us. Yay so shiok xD. Discussed for campfire item. then lunch camp and we had fun. Then was some teambuilding games I think. One involved forming a circle and untangling hands. another involved using twine to stack cups. the last involved carrying one guy over the other 3's head to a certain point. Then next was supposed to be swimming. But played football first. IMBA Pro help my team own of course. Then went swimming. Swam 10 laps. Then continue swimming. Lol. Then the duty patrol go cook. Then soon went to wash up. Then receive the VERY UNFORTUNATE new that IMBA PRO needa go to NPC. How sad.. Then after that makan. Mr Lee cooked a whole big pot of rice.(He revealed on the last day it was meant for 60 ppl and the camp only had like 18?) Then night activity. Just a random solo hike round the sch. Had checkpoint names like "Blue Pillar", "Black Dot 29", "Union", "White Box" Blah Blah. Unfortunately, we all grouped together eventually. My team spirit was low during supper, due to a PATHETIC 2 man patrol. -Lights out- Predicted to have thunderstorm in night, so slept indoors. Woke up at 2:30 am for 20 pumpings and went to sleep. Caused me to wake up bout every hour later. Terrible!
Day 2
Continued camp. Woke up to know it was time for breakfast.(Yay no morn PT). Then was inspection. How slacky. Checked once nia xD. Then we were supposed to help NPC shift the spars. But then Mr Lee chased us away. Some just fake and continue helping. Then we went to scouts den do something I can't rmb. Then it was time to do backwoods man. Mr Lee was kping coz it was bout 12:30 and worried we too late eat. Jerrold help us and managed to cook some chicken. Black pepper chicken. Yummy. Well not really. Apples were definitely the BEST part of the meal. Sweet and tasty. Carbon rice was definitely not too delicious.
Then I don't know what happened but apparently we had some song session or something. Learnt and sang some old songs which lyrics I dunno. Also the many variations of songs like Titanic. Quite fun. Then soon help out with dinner. Shredded some chicken. Yummy. Dinner was fried rice(using the leftover cooked rice) and shredded chicken with delicious black pepper sauce. We also spammed it into the rice too while eating. That night we had solo hike. I was the last sec 3 to go. How sad.. Then while walking in, 5 cars drew past me, forcing me to lose my night sight. Then as I was enjoying the scenery, I heard footsteps. Shocked, I turned around and saw a dark figure. Luckily it wasn't a ghost but a junior. Walked to the end point together. Then went out, walked back to HCI, and went to bathe. Then it was time to sleep. But first to choose a scary location in school. Apparently I got a not scary location near the table tennis area. Had the sad thing of waking up once every hour. -End of Day-
Day 3
Had morn PT. Then went breakfast. Then inspection. Then it was SRIT. First station for my group, need to rescue a fallen "hand bag"(a pail). Yea. Easily got it back by throwing the lashing over it and dragging the pail back. Then was told to use a dustbin as a tree. 2nd station. At scouts den. Not too sure wad happened. I was unconscious with a right arm injury. Then 3rd station was bout a fight. very tiring station. Last was a station was one where we were trapped in an island. Learnt that must use shiny object to reflect light into pilot eyes and make him blind and crash. Haha. Just to attract attention. Then was told to bathe so we were clean and fresh to welcome the St Nicks Guides. Showered and saw track ppl camping in toilet playing bridge. Then had lunch. Then we were given our camp tee for there were no fresh t shirt liao. Then the guides came and given a briefing about the Amazing Race.
First stop. Clue: Some word puzzle where you had to derive HOT SPRINGS. The grp didnt know hot springs existed in singapore. Found out later that the only one existed in Sembawang. Then took 157 or something to MacRitchie and 156 to Bishan. Then MRT to YiShun and finally 959 or something for 4 stops. Walked a short distance before reaching. Some other groups were alr walking out. It was a choice of drinking raw eggs or waiting for them to boil. Common "Amazing Race" sense told you to drink it raw. Drinking the first one, I felt it was more of half boiled, having been soaked for sometime by HOT SPRINGS water. Then 2nd one I tank. 3rd one a junior tank. last junior slack dun wan drink. Next stop was Blk 152 in Toa Payoh, supposedly the tallest in the area. MRT-ed there. Found it in no time. Were scammed to go to 40th floor at first. Then found the station master at 1st floor. Then gotta climb up to 30th floor. The others seemed to have a hard time or so. Then went up, take photo then go down. Last stop VivoCity. Again MRT-ed there. Then we had to take photo of 3 JC2 seniors. found them in no time and left to go back to HCI. MRT to Newton and bused back. Was 6th out of 8. Not too bad. Dinner, was supposed to communicate but had a daoing session. Then campfire. Had much fun. Sad my grp tio dao. Never got the chance to act out the planned skit. Then we started worrying for the night. Fears of the much feared Fire Drill. Adult leaders talked about how they are leaving the troop to become and Auxillary runned troop in 2010. Meaning my batch :O Took up our "bathing" time in which no one bothered to do so anyway. and then went to sleep. Slept in tent for first time of the camp. On the last day. Lol.
Day 4.(Last day YAY)
Woke up at nearly 6, to hear a guy saying 30 mins to fall in. Made me think it was fire drill. BUT YAY. NO FIRE DRILL. THE CAMP ROX.After being delighted at the info, we relaxed awhile. Then changed to wushi kit for the performance planned that day. slacked without inspection. Was told to do knuckle pumping and destroy our poor knuckles. Had breakfast. Then slack abit then go performance. Then turn out not enuff ppl to do 2 lions. 1 tail but no head, coz only the supposed to be drummer knew how to do head. So sad. Then last minute called a sec 2 to be lion head. Then Adult scout leader and a JC1 senior had to come help. but somehow they should have been the other's role. But anyway I was tail to the sec 2. it was a screwed up performance but we received appreciation, with the audience giving a round of applause. Went back to camp. Had camp debrief. Heard the other non lion dance had to do punishment for 45 mistakes. Then we were released shortly.
After a delicious meal at KAP, I went home.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Going for camp tmr
Will be leaving for a 4 D 3 N luxurious cruise to nowhere, organised by the HCI Scouts Troop.
I wish..
Oh well hope I dun die too badly. And hopefully NO firedrill(though there will).
I wish..
Oh well hope I dun die too badly. And hopefully NO firedrill(though there will).
Boring day.
Started with a draggy wake up call.
Went to sch for briefing on chem ACE. Have to do on some Thermochemistry, Sian I wanted organic chem. Then went to eat lunch with Yao Nian and Yan Yu at KAP. They were discussing some Red Alert 3 game which I never play before. But just managed to chip in.
Then came home, slack and watch some drama called Moonlight Resonance. Now watching 7 pm show. have a fun day!
Went to sch for briefing on chem ACE. Have to do on some Thermochemistry, Sian I wanted organic chem. Then went to eat lunch with Yao Nian and Yan Yu at KAP. They were discussing some Red Alert 3 game which I never play before. But just managed to chip in.
Then came home, slack and watch some drama called Moonlight Resonance. Now watching 7 pm show. have a fun day!
Monday, November 24, 2008
New blog
Hope I will constantly update and not give up.
This post shall focus on the genting holidays 2 weeks or so ago.
It was fun and interesting, with various activities, not only camping at the outdoor theme park. Went to cybercafe, went to snow world, went to some huanted house adventure that was "scary", went to watch The Coffin and Madagascar 2, went for massage. Fun eh?
Sadly these were of course unable to complete within the short period of 1 day, thus I had to stay there for 6 days. Anyway, after going Genting for trillion of times, I have finally onoe taken the Corkscrew, something I never dare took before. Not scary, just a very rough ride. Ever felt like flying out of seat. Spaceshot too. Air Resistance.
Anyway, it was a very fun and enjoyable trip. I enjoyed it tremendously.
Thank you for coming to my blog. Your view is very much appreciated.
This post shall focus on the genting holidays 2 weeks or so ago.
It was fun and interesting, with various activities, not only camping at the outdoor theme park. Went to cybercafe, went to snow world, went to some huanted house adventure that was "scary", went to watch The Coffin and Madagascar 2, went for massage. Fun eh?
Sadly these were of course unable to complete within the short period of 1 day, thus I had to stay there for 6 days. Anyway, after going Genting for trillion of times, I have finally onoe taken the Corkscrew, something I never dare took before. Not scary, just a very rough ride. Ever felt like flying out of seat. Spaceshot too. Air Resistance.
Anyway, it was a very fun and enjoyable trip. I enjoyed it tremendously.
Thank you for coming to my blog. Your view is very much appreciated.
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