Well, I forgot to post this up. I recently went to my awesome friend’s house, who isn’t as awesome as his sister. Because, come on, take a look at this.
This is one awesome sister.
Come on man, what the fuck? Oh side note, all of these? Given by boyfriends. Notice the S a the back.
Seriously. Dude, you have an awesome sis. LOL.
Well, since I ain’t able to hack my phone no matter what. (since there really isn’t a firmware update for my phone yet)
The next best thing I could do to it is just to customize it with whatever I have to make it look as unique as possible.
So well, this is how it looks like now.
Come on, there’s no way you can say that it isn’t awesome. LOL.
Okay, this is an article from another web, I’ll just copy and paste, source link will be below.
Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie. Many persons swear by positive thinking and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases. There are much better ways to get the benefits that positive thinking allegedly provides.
Perhaps the statement that best exemplifies positive thinking is "When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade." It seems so self-evident that this is a good thing that we never question the wisdom of the adage. But it does not take a whole lot of digging to unearth the flaws in this reasoning.
First, did fate really hand you a lemon or was this merely your initial, unthinking response? Second, is a lemon really a bad thing, something that you would rather not have, but now that you do have it you will somehow salvage something by making lemonade? Finally, it is quite stressful to be handed a lemon until such time as you figure out how to make lemonade. Do you really have to go through this phase?
No matter what happens to us in life we tend to think of it as "good" or "bad". And most of us tend to use the "bad" label three to ten times as often as the "good" label. And when we say something is bad, the odds grow overwhelming that we will experience it as such. And that is when we need positive thinking. We have been given something bad, a real lemon, and we better scramble and make some lemonade out of it and salvage something out of this "bad" situation.
How tiring and tiresome!
Now think back on your own life. Can you recall instances of something that you initially thought was a bad thing that turned out to be not so bad after all or perhaps even a spectacularly good thing? Like the time you just missed a train and had to wait a whole hour for the next one and it was horrible except that your neighbor also missed it so you talked for the first time and a beautiful friendship developed. You will find many instances in your life, some of them very significant such as the job you desperately wanted but didn't get only to find that a much better one came by and you would not have been able to accept it if not for the earlier rejection.
Now lets propose something radical and revolutionary. Lets propose that, no matter what happens to you, you do not stick a bad thing label on it. No matter what. You are fired from your job...your mortgage lender sends you a foreclosure notice . . . your spouse files for divorce . . . or whatever. This seems so far-fetched as to be laughable. Of course these are horrible tragedies and terrible things to happen. Or are they? Is it possible, just possible, that you have been conditioned to think of these happenings as unspeakable tragedies and hence experience them as such?
Viktor Frankl in his book Man's Search for Meaning narrates the tale of the beautiful girl of privilege who was grateful to be in a concentration camp because she was able to connect with a spiritual side of her that she never knew existed. Observations like this led Frankl into his life's work of determining why, when faced with extreme adversity, some persons positively flourish while others disintegrate.
Many who rise so triumphantly never label what they go through as bad and lament over it. They simply take it as a given as if they were a civil engineer surveying the landscape through which a road is to be built. In this view, a swamp is not a bad thing. It is merely something that has to be addressed in the construction plan.
And if you never label something as bad, then you don't need positive thinking and all of the stress associated with getting something bad and experiencing it as such till you figure out how to make lemonade out of it simply goes away.
That is the huge pebble in the positive thinking shoe. "This is bad. Really bad. It's a lemon. But somehow I will make some lemonade out of it and then perhaps it won't be so bad." First you think its bad and then you think you will somehow make it less bad and there is a strong undercurrent that you are playing games and kidding yourself. Some people succeed. Many don't. And those who don't are devastated that the model they were trying so hard to build caved in on them. That's why positive thinking can sometimes be harmful.
Can you actually go through life without labeling what happens to you as good or bad? Sure you can. You have to train yourself to do this. You have been conditioned to think of things as bad or good. You can de-condition yourself. It is neither easy nor fast but it is possible.
Lets say you break your leg. There is stuff you have to do like go to an orthopedist and get it set and go to therapy when the cast comes off. But all the rest of the stuff you pick up "Why did this have to happen to me? Bad things always come my way. I am in such pain. Who will hold the world up now that I am disabled?" is simply baggage. You don't have to pick up this load and the only reason you do is because you were never told that you didn't have to.
I am telling you now. Don't pick up that useless burden. Don't label what happens to you as bad. Then you won't need positive thinking and much of the stress in your life will simply disappear. Poof! Just like that.
Alright I’m finally
back!
I totally forgot to put the
On Hiatus
status but nevermind lah, i’m back!
The first day was fucked up, like really really, cause the weather was so bloody hot that it’s just screwing with us all. And I guess my body overheated. Zzz. But yeah, it was fun, my group or, family as they call it, was awesome.
Well, I missed my 1/3 chance of getting something ^^ but then I got the leaders (or parents as they call it) that I wanted. So… Yeah it was awesome.
Cheshire is so cute! (not real name)
LOL. But like man! I love the racial diversity that I wasn’t able to have in secondary school. We have like chinese malays indians and caucasian in our family. Damn bloody awesome.
So anyway, the thing that I really don’t like about it is that it’s very military style. Greetings and all the stupid shit. But well, at least it feels organized. ^^ AND WE HAVE THE BEST GROUP OK.
Most hyper group in the camp, also the best performance in Camp Fire :D
But sadly we weren’t allowed to bring our phones around (or rather, it’ll just be too bloody troublesome) so I wasn’t really been able to take much photos. But okay lah! There’s a photographer that runs around taking pictures so I guess should be able to see the pictures on FB sometime soon?
Well, the second day was the most fun, for really simple reasons really.
1. Got to know each other better
2. The weather wasn’t fucked
And the games was quite interesting too. There was this 100 seconds OMG game which requires you to do 5 games(stations) in 100 seconds.
First is to make a spiral with our bodies on the ground
2nd is to hook our arms together and sit then stand at the same time
3rd is group skipping (18people)
4th is passing marbles from cup to cup using only mouth to hold the cup
5th is making human pyramid then 2 girls have to climb up
And you have to do all of that in 100 seconds. And that the stations are not all in the same place okay. Kns make us run like shit.
But we completed in like, around 300+ seconds, which was second. We would really want to see how you can finish that in 100 seconds. Screw you all! LOL
But the most fun was the multiple-family captains ball. It’s like regular captain’s ball, but with 6 teams playing at the same time, and then the Game Personal will start throwing the balls into the field, so you just take whatever you can (different items different points) and try to score them. Well.
The items are kinda ridiculous, arranged in order of points from least to most.
Soccerball
Basketball
Ping-pong ball
Tomato ?!
Cabbage ?!
CHICKEN
Yes. They threw like, 1 entire raw chicken at us. And we have to score that. What the fuck?
Then there was this guy who stuff the cabbage into the chicken and shouted.
“CHI BAGE! “
And then threw it out into the field for us to score
Seriously man. LOL.
Well, on the 2nd night, we had some clubbing. In a …. *drum rolls!* chapel. Whatthefuck? But yeah, it was like, 1~3am lah. But it was crazy, inside club, outside buffet, there’s like chocolate on marshmellows/fruits, drinks, cake, pizzas!
Wa seriously, talking about the nights right, the first day activities ended at around 3+++am. Finally got to bed at around 4+. Then they make us wake up at 7am. Then another crazy day of activities(club night), they then tell us
Do not sleep tonight, we are not responsible for whatever that happens to you.
wtf?! And well, fuck it, I’m too tired so I went to sleep. At around…. 3+am. When I woke up in the morning, 7am as usual. I felt something sticky. I opened my eyes and look at my arm, drawn all over with markers, with a touch of TOOHPASTE, blue PAINT, red PAINT, green PAINT. And well, my LEGS kana also.
Of course, it seems kinda bad at first, then I realized that my “injuries” was minor, I see many people who were far worse off than me. LOL
Oh wait, I tio flour all over me also. Well, I had fun lah.
And really, I like my family. Alot :D
Oh wait, forgot to say my family name, it’s
MEKONS
MY MUM ^^
that guy in the middle? That’s my dad, he got owned by everyone. (well, from the organizing committees) Kana whack by slippers, land they put a dustbin cover on his head too. But we were protesting against them so didn’t have the chance to take the picture.
My family (group) is the largest, cause our hierarchy spans out to almost all the organizing committees, so we really had alot of fun. LOL.
ALRIGHT~! THAT’S IT FOR NOW!
Rest for a day and prepare for the official orientation on monday. Rofl. PICTURES HOPEFULLY UP SOON! ^^
Okay as I’ve said I’m going to start from the design first before I jump into the codes. For the moment, this is my current design up till this point. Thoughts and comments appreciated. Tyvm (:
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Okay as I’ve said I’m trying to create a new blogskin, but then it’ll be alot easier on me to port this current layout because I like it and I’m currently doing changes to it. But seriously, the CSS is so bloody long it makes it really tiring for me to look through. It’s like. This.
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Like seriously, have to put them side by side if not bloody hard to see. (thankfully there’s aero snap in Win7 :D )
Oh well, while I’m at it I suddenly realized that it’s already 12.15am. I don’t want to sleep at 5am like yesterday. So I’m stopping soon. ( Honestly I have no idea what kinda skin I’m going to end up with. )
But there’ll definitely be more “internet interconnectivity” coming here! :D
For the moment enjoy this vid!
Okay, have you ever met with a situation where you’re either supposed to choose to act according to your feelings or your logical thinking?
Well, let me give you an example, let’s say you’re want to eat ice cream on an empty stomach when you just woke up in the morning. Like you really really have a craving for it.
So the situation is this, you know that, if you eat it, you’ll be happy and satisfied, however, you also know that you will probably have a stomachache in the near future. So, will you choose to eat it, risking that pain in the future, or wait until you have something in your stomach before eating the ice cream?
So basically it’s kind of like, will you do something that’ll make you happy now knowing that it’ll make you unhappy in the future?
Or would you not do it and be “unhappy” right now?
Please reply in the tagboard. I’m interested to know.
