Wah...

Wow.. I just looked at how many posts i post in a month. how it has dropped so much. Hehe.. haven't been blogging much. I do take time to blog about stuff I did though. =)

Exams are coming up so I think I will be on hiatus. Maybe not long hiatus but short. Will update once in a while though. =)

Mian.. I am so stressed with assignments and lab work. Assignment marks is not good and I am scared of the finals though I have confidence. Sigh..

Anyway, back to study.. don't stare at the screen.

Woo...

Aih.. I so do not know how to do my stats lab work. Dumb la the code. Not the code fault la, I have to figure out what to insert into the code so I can get it done.
Currently in uni computer lab supposedly doing work. I wanted to blog in my .com website but I cannot remember what is the site for login. So came here to blog instead. I guess no one reads this blog anyway. =) Hahaha.. so i can babble whatever I want.

Oh, I learnt that complaining and arguing is not good and we shouldn't do that often. Mian.. and I am doing it now, complaining on the amount of work. It is one question of my lab work but with part a, b, c and d and I don't even know how to do part a. Well, it is more like I have to find mu and sigma and put into rmnorm(N,mu,sigma) to get the generated sample points. Oh oh, know what, a friend asked me if I know how to plot few graphs in one big A4 size. I said, yea I can do it if there are data. Well, hopefully I can make it work. Hehehe.. how does engineering work relates to stats? Just by plotting graphs? *grins Well, most of my stats course are something to do with computer programming and using the codes to find the best model and to elaborate or analysing those models. Eh, it is not easy to find the best model. You have to decide which variables to drop by looking at the AIC, p-value etc.

Ok la, my coursemates are here so I should be doing my work. Ciao.

Games all the way

I thought I could sit in front of PS2 for a long time playing with the fighting games, racing games or whatever adventure games, etc. But no, I got bored of playing the racing games or the fighting game after 10 minutes. Sometimes I was thinking, what is the point of having a PS2 when I don't play for more than 10 minutes? But sometimes my friends and I borrowed Singstar to sing for occasion of dinner. So, that was worth it. We did use PS2 for ICF games night, singing Singstar. =)

I just joined

I was invited to join SocialSpark a few weeks ago. That time, I think I was too lazy to find out more about SocialSpark. But after the few weeks of thinking, I thought I should give it a go. There is nothing to lose anyway. So I found out that it is like payperpost. But it has more features, for example, there is a page where you can browse blogs and actually make friends with other bloggers. Now, I am really blurred in these things. I don’t really browse around a lot in payperpost but Social Sparks made me realise that there is a lot more.

I think I just joined two days ago and I already had 5 friends. How great is that? And I am probably clueless in finding my way around the site to add friends so the four of them just added me. Thanks, guys. I knew my cousin would join so I typed in her nickname and there it was.

The blogger profile looks so interesting and I hope I do get the hang of familiarising around the site. By the way, my blog has already been approved and I do hope to get more opportunities from Social Sparks. The opportunities are quite different, you have to reserve the opportunity and they approve for you. Actually, it is good because every blogger do deserve to get at least one opportunity per day.

And oh, if you happen to see an opportunity which you think is a very good opportunity for your friend, you can click on the button that says send to friend. They have code of ethics as well.

SocialSpark

Sprained foot

Sigh.. I haven't been to gym for over 3 weeks already. I did not go during the first week because I thought I exercise enough from my field trip. Second week was because I had assignments due. This week is because I just sprained my foot. How lucky. =(

Maybe I should try dieting instead. Hmm.. what a good idea. Don't worry, I am not going to starve myself. I am still going to eat but healthier. There's this website on fast weight loss. Looks interesting because it talks about new lifestyle diet. Said that fast weight loss is achieved, faster than weight watchers, jenny craig, slim fast, atkins, medifast and optifast.

The website even has liquid diet, as in they thought what is best (no fat gain) for you. You can even shop from the website. This is cool. Hmm.. if you don't want to shop, you can always browse the shopping list and try to make for yourself. I am sure that the items listed are fat free. What a good idea. I am going to try that myself. Oh but do join the program if you are interested. =)

Getting annoyed

Sharing house or say living room, dining room and the kitchen really is troublesome. The counter place is so messy and left with crumbs around, not cleaned. The sink is left very dirty. I had to clean the sink and put all the plates, pots/pans and the cutleries back into the drawers every morning. I am starting to get annoyed by this.

Another one is a flatmate of mine broke one of my transparent cup. I was shouting to my flatmate who was in the living room if she knew where the other transparent cup of mine has gone. Then, the flatmate confessed that he broke it. Well, at least I know where it is now. I am still annoyed though. Of all the cups around, he went on and use mine. Sigh.. I guess that is for sharing a house with other people. I can't wait to move out and move into my own place with my flatmate.

I became dark

Screen, Inc.

I know it is not summer here but it is going to be summer for my family. Anyways, summer is coming up so I guess I can prepare early. Buy lots of sun screen and put on wherever you go during the summer. That time, the sun will be up really high and can burn your skin if you don't look after it properly.

I think I did bring sun screen to my field trip but I forgot all about it until the fourth day when there was sun coming out. Well, not my fault for forgetting. There wasn't any sun so I didn't bother putting any. It was always cold in the morning and one morning, my boots and socks were frozen. Imagine that. Sigh..

Anyway, my point of saying this is that we should prepare ourselves at all times, as in to bring sun screen everywhere we goes. We never know when we will need it. I thought I don’t need any for field trip but I did need to. So, I was quite dark after I came back from the field trip. My friends couldn’t even recognize me.

Oops

I forgot to blog about the other page of the draft I wrote on friendship. So here goes.

• Friends should support each other. This doesn't mean that Friend A should ditch Friend B for Friend C. I mean, if Friend C did not do anything to Friend A, why should Friend A ditch Friend C.
  
• Listen to friends. LISTEN. It is best to listen to positive feedback and ignore if it is negative feedback.
  
• Friendships are very important and they are always by your side. So we should appreciate them. What happens if you got no friends at all?

From what I have said so far, I know it is hard to fulfill them so we should always forgive our friends if they did something wrong or bad. Who is perfect anyway? You are not, I am not, your friends are not.

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• sacrificial love

From 1 Samuel in the Bible, it is the friendship from Jonathan and David. Jonathan's dad tried to kill David and Jonathan was almost killed because he was protecting David from his father.
I was thinking, in this kind of world now, no one would do that kind of thing because it is not the norm. People would think you are crazy and start thinking if gay or lesbian. *shakes head* Such a world.
From my point of view, friendships nowadays are just friends hanging out and helping each other out. I bet there is no such thing as sacrificial love between friends. I mean, if I ask you to die for your friend or friends, would you want to do that?

On this, I still want to comment about what I wrote. A friend disagrees with what I said. Well, what I meant was that some people take their friend for granted, which is why I said friendships nowadays are just friends hanging out and helping each other. You can never know if this friend is truly your friend. What happens when he or she turns out to be different, as in not whom you used to know.

My songs =)

Everyone nowadays listen to MP3 songs right? Everywhere I go, I see people holding MP3 players which holds mp3 songs format. I have an mp3 player but I don't bring it out. It's too big to put in my pocket. But it has 30gb storage. Crazy huh? I should have bought smaller one. I did not manage to use even half of it. So I guess I can use Mp3 Search Engine to search for songs so I can fill up my mp3 storage.

MP3 Search Engine

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MP3 Realm

On friendship

I am going to summarize what I hear and learnt from friendship from church camp and reading relationship book on friendship. First of all, there is this model of friendship list from a book called The Relationship Revolution by Nigel D. Polluck.

• mutual commitment

I think this is common. Friends do commit to each other.

• sacrificial love

From 1 Samuel in the Bible, it is the friendship from Jonathan and David. Jonathan's dad tried to kill David and Jonathan was almost killed because he was protecting David from his father.
I was thinking, in this kind of world now, no one would do that kind of thing because it is not the norm. People would think you are crazy and start thinking if gay or lesbian. *shakes head* Such a world.
From my point of view, friendships nowadays are just friends hanging out and helping each other out. I bet there is no such thing as sacrificial love between friends. I mean, if I ask you to die for your friend or friends, would you want to do that?

• openness and honesty

Honesty is a hallmark of real friendship. Friends do not pretend about themselves or others do not desire or need to cover up their struggles or failings. -Nigel D. Polluck-
You do have to be open and honest to your friends. If you are not sure if you can trust the friends you are with, don't open too much. But be honest because they won't like you and you can lose their trust in you if you happen to lie or do something bad to them or even one of them.

• service

Service? What do you mean by that? Well, I think it is more like you do things for your friends. I do believe that. Now compare with what you usually do for your siblings or parents. I think it is similar.
There are ways to show your love for your family and friends. You help them out on things, eg buying things for them or just helping out on chores. Anyway, my point is that if you yell at your siblings or parents or disobey them, that doesn't mean you don't love your family or siblings. =)

• God - centreness
• interdependence

Friendship is not about making people dependent upon us or about us becoming dependent on other people.
True friendship can only develop and grow when we work together, trust each other, help each other and rely on each other.
With true friends pointing out your weakness or something bad, I don't think you should keep it at heart and decide that he or she is not a good friend. Instead, you should look at yourself first and try to undo your weakness. Yes, you are not perfect and your friends are not perfect but it would help to study yourself first before start blaming on friends. Not all friends give good advice but some particularly do. Some friends are there to listen to you and give you a long big hug when you are down.
I do admit that I don't like my friends to see me crying if there is anything so I tend to go away or be quiet if I see my friends crying. So don't take it to heart, thinking that your friends desert you when you need someone to talk while you're crying.

• willing to let go

Friendship is so important and sometimes there are things that we need to let go in order to let the friendship to last. 1 Samuel 20:42 shows that.

Am I being too straight-forward? Hmm.. this is just my point of view. I will let you have your opinions, I won't judge or be defensive. I am beginning to refer to Bible verses a lot. =)

This is from church camp talks and I summarized it up. Some may be the same from what I said above.

• Friends do point out your mistakes or your differences. But how do you feel from it? Embarrassed or anger? If embarrassed, would you rather strangers telling you those or your friends? If anger, study yourself first before you start blaming your friends. Humans aren't perfect so your friends are there to tell you your differences. Again, would you rather strangers telling you?

I think I prefer my friends to tell me. I rather them laughing at me than strangers or friends whom I don't normally talk to.

• Friends don't just give advices or comfort you, they go through each step with you. They are there to guide you so don't keep them away. Remember that some friends deal with their problems better than you.
  

Correction

Correction: I did said that I honestly tried to get higher marks to please my parents. But it should be "Honestly, I USED to try harder to get higher marks to please my parents.
I don't do that now. Now, I want to get higher marks for myself. I have ambition for myself. Hope that clears it all.