metamorphoziz

Wow, the last time i blogged was 2 years back? I wasnt even pregnant with Jireh yet. Now, he is a cheeky little 2 year-old cute boy. On top of that, i have a pretty, big-eyed and domineering 8 month old baby girl. So much to catch up with me huh, blogspot? :) A sudden urge to blog again. Not because i am free, but i guess life is too short and memories are too mich to be remembered. Many said, you will always remember the good moments in your life. True and not true. But im sure there are some precious moments you will forget, no matter how beautiful they are, unless you revisited them (via photologue or blogs or diary). Example. I cant really exactly remember how Jireh looked like when he was pretty much younger. Beautiful memories we had the past 2 years. But i bet you would want to remember as much as possible. And too bad, we cant. And what if, one day should my memory deteroriate, i have blogs to freshen me up. Even if they cant, at least, i can read up my life story, those time...

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... i know that Christmas is near. Just imagine...  when the wind gently blows,  the curtains took the crows. silence surround the house, as quiet as a mouse. lounging on a chaise, enjoying the breezy chase. oh! how i love this feeling! I love being home.  I love silence. I love Christmas.  

Look! an antique Uno cards! My auntie who doesn't play uno has it.  and it is still in very goooooooood condition! amazing! so retro! UuuuuuuNOoooo!

"Pavlov's theory is known as classical conditioning. The distinticive characteristic of this form of learning is that a particular stimulus comes to elicit a response after the learning experience that it did not elicit before. Skinner (1978, 1953) calls this respondent behaviour: the response follow automatically upon the appearance of the stimulus. Skinner, however, argued that most behaviour is not to be accounted for in terms of classical conditioning, for most behaviour is operant behaviour. Operant behaviour is so called because it is behaviour that operates on the environment; we cannot normally identify any particular stimulus produces such operant responding as talking, grasping, play. Operant behaviour is emitted by the organism rather than elicited by stimuli. Skinner does not explain the learning of termsof the patterns of reinforcement that determine its occurence. In classical conditioning what reinforces the behaviour is the unconditioned stimulus, but what rein...

[Postdated entry 20 Aug 2008] David took this signboard couple of months ago at a coffeeshop in the West. I find it amusing. The owner might as well save the money from doing that signboard. There will be no chance that a customer will be served based on the requirements to be served. Or just print two words "自助" (self service) would be suffice.  Serving out of convenience is not service at all.  ----------------------------------------------------- "Life is so unloving for a servant who's not serving." - Beauty & the Beast 

Today's class.  Activity 1.  1. What is your happiest memory of being in a learning situation as a child under the age of 16? 2. What is your least happy memory of a learning situation as a child under the age of 16? 3. Were your memories you have described for questions 1 and 2 linked in any way? 4. How might your happinest memory have shaped your subsequent development as a learner? 5. How might your least happy memory have shaped your subsequent development as a learner? 6. Has either memory played any part in shaping you as a person? 7. How do you feel about your answers? Do they surprise you? Faint. hardisk crashed. I cant recall anything! (but i had a wonderful childhood, sompa!)

This is how my "ang mo" ancestors looked like. You must be laughing now. Try it! and laugh your head off. mUuahahahahahahah~ --------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- Lots of backlogs to catch up.. check.list. 1. Laundr y needs to be cleared 2. Rooms need to be tided 3. post-dated blogs need to be published 4. and etc 5. and etc etc I wish when i open my eyes the next morning, everything would be done. In my dreams, perhaps.

Today is 20 Aug 2008 David and i have been collecting $1 and $0.50 coins some months ago. We reckon that this is one of the best way to save money. Slightly more than 3 months, we managed to save up $450 plus. It is quite an achievement huh. This sum comes handy when Sze Chuan Single parent project comes along. We decided to donate what we have saved to this project. To cut the whole story short... I packed the coins into two bags - $1 coin mounted $360. $0.50 mounted $100. I took both bags with me to Tanjong Pagar market, wanting to change notes with a fruit seller. The auntie only wants to change $100. Ok, so i took the other bag of $360 back, planning to break those coins down into bags of $100 so that i can change over 3 days. It is more 'sell-able' this way. My colleague wanted to help me to change the remaining sum that i have with a florist this afternoon. During lunch, i took out the bag and re-count the money. To my horror, i have given the $360 bag in exchange for $10...

On our way to church this morning, i heard this very funny joke in Class95 by Flying Dutchman & Glenn Ong. I must say, they are really a good match! "Why do scuba divers fall backwards to get off the boat?" Guess what is the answer? (because... if they fall forward, they will fall into the boat!) I spent a good 1 min laughing at this joke. They are really good, it helps to chase away whatever blues you may have for the day and laughing is a good morning exercise! Do tune in if you may! (though sometimes it was quite lame, but the lameness will lighten you up) :) I reached office at 930am. While waiting for the lift that goes direc tly to the higher level of the building, i turned and saw an Indian lady stood outside a lift full of eager commuters, pointing her index finger upwards, as if asking whether the lift is going up. My first thought was... there is no basement in this building and for goodness sake, this is ground zero, no way you can go down, of course they are ...

I was very tired, but could not sleep last night (Must be the half cup coffee i consumed in the late afternoon).. I was mingling with my blogs and suddenly i have an urge to revamp my blog interface and fah-laa! what you see is what you get. By the time i decided on a blogskin and customized the scripting to my preference, it was about 5 in the morning already. Oh gosh! Coincidently, because of the new blogskin that i am very pleased with, i begin to re-read my past entries, and realised that my blog is 5 years old on 13 August 2008! 5 years for 150 entries, averaging each year 30, which means to say in a month i have blogged at least 2.5 posts. I thought not bad huh! (or not? hahaha) As i was reminiscing, i was quite surprised at some enteries i wrote... quite proud of myself. Hahaha. Where on earth i have those thoughts?? I thought i wrote better last time than now. Have i been progressing forward or naught? gee.. anyway. Happy birthday metamorphoziz!

My nightmare came true this morning.. My friend sent me a loud (really loud) old song called "Cha Cham Bo" last month. I have decided to set that song as my alarm melody every morning because it is loud enough (double emphasis) to wake me up. I always have this fear that my bonkers phone may blast out the melo dy in the middle of the service someday... in my denial, i told myself it wont happen because it only rings at 8 o'clock in the morning.. and i have been very cautious; whenever i attend any meetings to have my phone turned to silent mode. I thought i was safe, until... i met THE day... I turned my phone to silent mode. I was having a great time worshiping the Lord, immersing into His presence.. After a series of corporate prayer, Pastor Kong was ending the prayer meeting with a closing prayer, and while he was praying... (this was the time the hall was quieter..) all of a sudden... "CHA CHAM BOOOoOooooo" I almost flipped. Thank God I am quick enough to st...

Today is my second morning. Arriving church slightly before 7 in the morning. Seeing church from afar... nostalgia. I'm missing something... I can feel it coming. something familiar. It overwhelmed my heart, I can smell it. I miss SOT. --------------------------------------------------------------- Can you see the difference in the skylight? We were just trying to make a U-turn from the multi-storey carpark into the church building, and it took us from dust till dawn... just within a few minutes? 岁月不留人呀！ 在你不留意的时候，时间似从没关紧水龙头的水， 滴答滴答地悄悄溜进了那无 边无际的大海。。 永远都找不回遗失的那一滴。。 你是否是那个关不紧的水龙头，就这样浪费了每一滴，每一秒呢？ 好好的珍惜每一分，每一秒。 好好的珍惜身旁的人吧！

First out of the 10 days of morning spiritual exercise. This is how wonderful the sky looks like when i was on my way to church for morning prayer meeting. Just one word - shiok

I was trying out the Photoshop software that bundled with my laptop. Quite fun mingling with it. I really love my Vaio laptop. So many multimedia softwares and most of all, Photoshop! now i can edit pictures! I dont do super-impose, dont worry. What you see is what you get. heehee. Time for creative juice to ozzze!

First time watching a Batman show. Another one of those superhero stylo milo show. The joker is ruthless. I wonder where the director/producer get the 'killings' ideas from.. How can they be so creative to come such psycho killing ideas like the "permanent smile" (and etc). I wonder if they have done research and have seen such deeds somewhere in the world.. if they do, that is really scary! Though the ending of such shows is always the good triumphs over the evil, but i just simply help but think if such killing ideas should be screened internationally. It could just simply giving the extremists more ideas to kill and torture (or perhaps they do not even need to be taught). Referencing the Roman history... perhaps their psycho-ness is even more psycho. They throw people into the lions' den to see how the beasts tear up human for enjoyment. People in the world are living in fear. Some fear lack. Some fear the supernatural, and the list goes on. However, the most f...

Nowadays, before you can partake of your food, not only you must say grace (for christian), before you indulge in your delicious meal, it is a trend to have your camera to 'devour' the food first before it fills your empty stomach. What has the world turning into?

A picture i took from my office today. Rain is coming in. shhoooosh! Rain down! My heart is dry but still I'm singing, rain down... rain it down!

I have been wondering why for many years, why do ladies like to use sitting toilet bowl when squat is more hygienic. There are times you see footprints on the pedestal. Apparently some squatted on top of the pedestal seat. How 'considerate' they are! Some don't know how they sit, never 'aim' (yea right. Ladies need to aim too) properly and dirty the pedestal seat. To weigh to pros and cons, personally i think squat is so much better than sit. Why have all the public toilets turn most of the cubicles to sitting toilet bowl? Only yesterday then i realised the possible reason. It was my grandpa's 90th birthday. My family made a trip back to Malaysia to celebrate this BIG occasion with him. Half way through the dinner, my grandma wanted to go to the restroom. I held her there. The inconsiderate me trying to look for a clean squatting cubicle for her, at the same time she is looking for a sitting one. Not understanding why, i held her to the sitting cubicle. While sh...