Thursday, January 28, 2010

Monday, January 25, 2010

I'm an authentic queen


My brain is working at an awesomely sl-o-w speed, that even snails will sigh at me.


If they don't sigh, they complain.

Observations
1. I can't absorb during lectures, I have to read my notes/readings after lectures to understand, and I take a long time at that.
2. I take super long to complete my tutorials.
3. I'm like a small kid who needs extremely specific instructions during a basketball game, defense and offense tactics aren't instinctive to me. Too many moving people = too many volatile variables => makes me confused. Keeping too many changing variables in mind is also not my thing. Spontaneity oh spontaneity.
4. In debate, I seem to take +3 seconds to think compared to everyone else.
5. I remember how even in organ class, a long time ago, Ms Cheong said: "If other people take half a second to get it, Wei Yong will take 2 seconds to get it! If she takes 1 second, it's wonderful!"
6. In conversations, especially group conversations, I tend to wander off at a thought, and take too long to return to the dialogue, that I take 3 seconds to give .. no, not a proper response.. but a "Huh?".


Perhaps... no, definitely... this is why I'm the reigning "Blur Queen".


On a sidenote, I'm extremely happy that hall people haven't called me blur much.
YESSS! I have successfully kept my regal characteristics concealed.

On an endnote, 2nd sem does not look good.

Random articles

Hahaha : "If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up." - LKY

:( : "Dont come home, Son" - Icecream seller

Physics Q : If a plane crashes into a building, how would the building collapse?

Disadvantages of meritocracy : Disadvantages of an elite education (not that a non-elite education is great anyway, but this is worth reading)

Thursday, January 21, 2010

You know better than I (from "Joseph King of Dreams")

I like this old, often-repeated story and the music.
This song especially. Isn't it beautiful?

You might need speakers/headphones to hear the music clearly though.



Edit: This came in my mail on the next day (22 Jan) and it's related. It's from the Agape subscription.

Unfolding of a Rose………


A young, new preacher was walking with an older, more seasoned preacher in the garden one day and feeling a bit insecure about what God had for him to do, he was inquiring of the older preacher. The older preacher walked up to a rosebush and handed the young preacher a rosebud and told him to open it without tearing off any petals. The young preacher looked in disbelief at the older preacher and was trying to figure out what a rosebud could possibly have to do with his wanting to know the WILL OF GOD for his life and for his ministry. Because of his high respect for the older preacher, he proceeded to TRY to unfold the rose, while keeping every petal intact... It wasn't long before he realized how impossible it was to do so.

Noticing the younger preacher's inability to unfold the rosebud while keeping it intact, the older preacher began to recite the following poem... It is only a tiny rosebud, A flower of God's design; But I cannot unfold the petals, With these clumsy hands of mine. The secret of unfolding flowers, Is not known to such as I. GOD opens this flower so sweetly, When in my hands they fade and die. If I cannot unfold a rosebud, This flower of God's design, Then how can I think I have wisdom, To unfold this life of mine? So I'll trust in Him for His leading, Each moment of every day. I will look to Him for His guidance, Each step of the pilgrim way. The pathway that lies before me, Only my Heavenly Father knows. I'll trust Him to unfold the moments, Just as He unfolds the rose.