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one more thing...

NOT LONG TILL CAMP!!


Fin.//

I had the privilege of being visited by two very old friends and their mum today.

I'm talking about Abbey and Tristan (with Aunty Pauline.) Even though i was 'sleeping' i heard them come in. I didn't think it would be them because, well frankly it would've been really random lol; but random it was and i found myself having a chat with the two kids for around half an hour.

They've both grown; into different things - Abbey has grown up alot. I can tell from the way she carries herself and the way she dresses that she has fast matured. The girl i once knew and looked after like....somewhat of a little sister - now tells me not to worry about her, she's grown up now. I can see it, i really can.



The boy has also grown. He's grown into somewhat a video game professional. He's quietened down alot, and i notice his capacity for manners has increased. So has his relationship with his brother and sister, i'm guessing by the way things looked.

One thing i did keep notice of though; was that we carried out the conversation like i was still in ROL, like i never left them; like i wasn't a stranger. If you ever read this abbey, or tristan: thank you. Somehow that meant alot to me. I prayed before i walked out that i wouldn't be seen as a stranger, as somebody who hurt them; as a unforgiven person.

Abbey talked to me like she always did; smiled at me like she always had. I cant see inside of her obviously but i felt....i felt nothing against me. For that i'm very grateful, to her. We talked about things that we always did when we used to see each other 3 days a week. How many boys asked her out lately, how Dae was etc etc.


Tristan maintained the closeness he had for me, which was shown through him always trying to show off to me hahaha; i can remember he was telling me how he could jump to reach the top of the doorpost; and i told him that soon he'd be able to reach it without jumping lol, which he was quite pleased to hear. He attempted to pat my head with his jumper sleeve but aunty pauline told him off haha.

mmm, i miss them. I remember when i used to go back to ROL and saw them sometimes up to 4 days a week. Haha, life moves on; and so must we; but sometimes, we have the joy of making the past a present.

lol, in more ways than one.

Fin~

Hey guys; thought i'd blog just before i completely got owned by chemistry.

Yea i only have one exam left- scheduled for Tuesday at 9 Am. Please pray for me! Its chemistry...which i found horrendous in school but funnily enough turned out to be one of my highest scoring subjects in university. Could be because i tried - but then again i haven't touched any chemistry books in like a few weeks lol so i'm gonna have to see how that goes =\.

Oh right; erm i've had another two exams, which were the human biology theory and the calculus exam. Human biology theory was .....probably the best exam yet, although like alot of people said it was so bad they were going to fail the world was gonna end yadadada and all. I mean those are the people who say they'll fail and then end up HDing everything ._.

hmm..my fingers are sore. They usually dont get sore after playing the piano...ho well..

calc was hell. It was held in a church too (harhar). After 40 minutes around half the room just got up and left. Not because they could finish the paper; but more because the paper finished them. Thankfully i wasn't one of them; i stayed to the very endd and completed (my version of completed) every question. Although i know that if i pass..it'll be a damn miracle lol. But then again, miracles can happen! So we'll see how i go hopefully ><


Could you ever answer somebody if they asked you this, "how much do i mean to you?" I've been asked it by a few people; not many mind you; but a few. Then again it's always been by people whom i know at least decently well; and therefore my answer can always be elaborate. I guess a stranger wouldn't ask you that question...would they? It's quite intimate. You wouldn't just grab somebody and go "oi how much do i mean to you".

And that's not even considering the question is usually asked in times where one of the you is in trouble. why would you ask it at any other time? Unless you were feeling somewhat insecure, or perhaps lonely, or even upset and wanting comfort. So naturally, you'd ask somebody who you mean alot to, right? Because you know you'd get a good answer. And whenever somebody close asks me that i know that i wont just go

"oh yea alot"

Because the question begs for more. The person asking the question probably needs more, and an answer as simplistic as that will often make them feel worse. For me? I usually take my time and try to weave an answer that they'd understand and that i'd understand. I dont think i can give an example haha purely because there are many of you reading. But im sure alot of you know what i mean.


But have you ever wondered, how much you mean to others? Not how much others mean to you. How much you mean to others. Have you ever asked yourself that question? I mean, if you were to ask the above question to somebody else - perhaps you'd say yes. Or maybe not?

I dont think many people think about how much they mean to others. The new age thinking is just to be who you are and whoever accepts you for it well; that's good. Whoever doesn't; too bad. Personally, i've actually never really thought about this. Never hey, well, not in terms of a group of people anyway. I've never actually sat down and asked myself, how much do i mean to others? Hahaha there are probably some of you sitting there going "not much" but hey, that's an answer too.

however i was somewhat forced to think of this question over the past week. Cumulating at yesterday i'm guessing. Around there anyway; Wasn't the best of weeks or anything. But alot of people i found; were watching out for me. They were always watching, just that i never noticed.


To those people who read this; and you know who you are- i want to say thank you. Not a "yea rite, thanks" sort of issue. Far deeper than that, thank you for looking out for me, looking after me and for making me smile. I know that sounds really dramatic, and perhaps that's not exactly what i mean. But in many ways....yea, it is. I know there will be people reading this that will think i'm just trying to make myself feel better - but i promise you that this post isn't for me.

Because when i actually sat down and thought about how i hurt people when i'm hurt, how when i dont smile; all those that care about me dont smile so brightly; how when i'm not myself, people wonder where i am; how when my "hi" is slurred and a bit off tone - they all wonder what might've happened during the week to upset me.


I'm blessed by people who protect me, in many of my relationships; these guys (and girls) are kind enough to turn around and protect me. Not just literally; it could be from anything, something that they know might hurt me, some people (thanks Leon xD) that they know might hurt me. Some words even, that they know might hurt me. You know what's really amazing though?

Protection is a human instinct. You'll learn it in psych1101 ._. It's given for a few reasons. Two of the main being a parent protecting a child because it is in their best interests to see the child grow up and prosper. Another is an older person protecting a younger person because they have more experience, and therefore can deal with the situation better. In that case- i have many parents; and i have many older friends.

What's amazing though is that some of them aren't older than me. They could be two years younger, sometimes even more. They dont have as much experience as me when it comes to life -or life's problems for that matter. They dont have as real a definition of what going through a hard time is (generalisation). but yet they still just jump in; they dont know what they're getting themselves into - but they couldn't care less.


You know that you mean alot to somebody when they talk to you and their hands are shaking, not because they're cold or anything; but because they're glad to see you ok. When you go for a walk with somebody and they suddenly dig into their bag and fish you out a present they had taken the time to make over the past week. When they call you up at 2 am in the morning just to say that they were thinking about you and were hoping and praying (despite being an unbeliever) that you were ok. (it was a guy too.) When they nag you every time you get on MSN just to say " 'lo how's Jon today?" (thanks hartley, i really appreciate it.) When you mention something a bit off to them and after the youth meeting they send you an SMS so full of care and concern and comfort that it almost makes you cry.


When you tell somebody you almost got hit by a car and laugh about it - only to realise the person on the other end is crying because they were so, so scared for you. When you're busy trying to lead a group that refuses to follow you; and you shoot a glance at one person who nods and smiles as if to say "you're doing great.", When you trip and graze your knee a slight bit - and three of your friends act as if you've just broken your leg; When you see somebody for the first time in....5 days...and are greeted with a hug; When somebody takes the time (during lessons *photography*) to think of you and make you something thoughtful, and to write you an encouraging letter; When somebody's rushing around like crazy but stops when they see you, puts down what they're doing and goes to ask about how you're coping. When somebody sees you in university; even though they're 8 minutes late for a class; they run over to give you the cookies they baked for you last night before running off again.

When you part from a person - and an hour later as soon as they get on MSN they tell you that they miss you.

That is when you know that not only do you mean alot to your friends; but that you have extremely, awesomely amazing friends.

This is a thank you letter; to all of you.

Just asking you to keep in mind that you have somebody who you mean alot to as well.

i love you all =)

and thank you! I shine because of you today.

Fin~

Hey guys.

Exams and stuff have been haha....well i'lll tell you in a bit; finally found some time to blog. Hopefully after exams and when i'm liberated from this hellish reality; i'll get around to changing the blog layout and everything to something perhaps a bit newer haha. Alls good!

Yea exams hey hahaha; well i've done two so far and i have one tomorrow - so i'll give you a run down on how things are going.

The human bio prac wasn't easy; but it wasn't hard. The only reason it wasn't easy was because i picked the hardest paper...yeah (sorry cuz, i knew i should've picked lime green><><) but the guy behind me was being pushy and he would've been like err...why did you stop at the first paper? (we're meant to shuffle down to the last). So yellow was the last and lime green was in the middle T.T

Well i was doing this exam next to this dude who was really quite rude; It was a prac exam and so you have to shuffle around tables to get to the next question because there are different models and diagrams on each table. And when you get up; you get up as a group of three and move when the timer goes off. (the colours are so you cant cheat...)

So every time we'd get up; this dude would like go quickqucikqcukqcuik like a freaking duck, while the chick on his left was just like man give it a rest; and i'm like dude stop touching me. I mean, seriously, you cant start until the timer goes off anyway! So effectively we rush just to sit down and wait for 8 minutes. He was this nerdy skinny glasses-wearing asian dude so i naturally assumed he was like acing everything..

NA-UH

this guy was like infected by the dumb god; seriously; since we 'couldnt' cheat, i looked over on his paper to see how he was going with everything. The first thing i saw:

Identify and label structure x (which was clearly a chromosome.).

answer: Chrozomer.

WHAT THE HELL IS A CHROZOMER?? thinking that i was either really really tired, or the lack of sleep effect was starting to kick in, i read his next question. It was the hardest thing in the exam....trying not to laugh at his answer.

When an individual has two of the same alleles located at a loci; they are known as?: (the answer is homologous. i.e the same..duh)

answer: holomologous

.......holomologous?!!!?!?! 1111 I swear i'll eat my shoe or something if he's actually right but i looked ALL over the internet (yes i was that bored) and i swear, there is no such word as 'holomologous'. Serious! the balls on that one! if he spent as much time checking his work as he did pushing me around he might at least have realised many numerous things; such as the first stage of a cell mitotic division is PROPHASE and not METAPHASE. PRO = beginning, META = middle.

When i thought back about it the first thing that came to mind was this poor kid:

who clearly deserves every professional gamer's respect.

ok, so i shouldn't be laughing at somebody else's work; nor should i be criticizing him for his best efforts....but he was pushing me around. I seriously felt like turning around and as my grandpa would say "give him wannn tight slap". hmpf.

Oh well holomogo (as he is now known as) walked out of the exam hall smiling. And i.....walked out behind him laughing xD (i'm evil, i know. but what was i meant to do?? point out his mistakes?)

The Psych exam....woah dont ask hey. Bet he would've laughed at me if he saw that. Then again i guess everybody who walked out of the exam hall said they had a fairly tough time (well most of the people i know anyway - save michelle sin who gave me a very blatant ' i dont know'). Hnnn, essays were fine; really easy actually but..the multiple choice...ok, lets put it this way.

There were 100 multiple choice. ONE-HUNDRED.

Serious man it's psychology too, after 30 you cant tell the difference between E and B. imagine doing the next SEVENTY questions with your brain sort of floating a few centimeters above you.

Credit goes to the psychology department for asking this question:

"when walking down a street and staring at a house; the trees closest to you move:"
a)opposite
b)same

It was question 82, so after reading the question a few times i came to the conclusion that, of course, trees cant move.

So what do you do then!? Chao turtle. so i just circled opposite la ._.

Walked out of the exam feeling like a complete failure lol; then again, so did around 90% of the exam hall. the other 10%...yea the examiners.

Outside the hall most people were circling round the question "so howd you go with the multiple guess?" which i found absolutely hilarious for no apparent reason; think it finally got to me hey. pwoa, long papers like that really do take it out of you.

This post was originally meant to be about something long winded and sad haha; but i guess laughing at my incompetence in exams is alot better. I shall leave it there for now. Read this little comic my friend Val sent me; it made me smile haha.


have a great week guys;

Fin~

Broken hearts; broken lives- He will take them all.

Found this on my friend Nic's blog; sorry nic, cant help but put it here; almost fell out of my chair laughing. Sorry for the lack of updates - my exams are killing me -_-.
Enjoy!!!

5 corporate lessons

Corporate Lesson 1

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbour. Before she says a word, Bob says, “I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.” After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 dollars and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, “Who was that?” “It was Bob the next door neighbour,” she replies. “Great!” the husband says, “Did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?”

Moral of the story: - If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure.

Corporate Lesson 2

A priest offered a lift to a Nun. She got in and crossed her legs, forcing her gown to reveal a leg. The priest nearly had an accident. After controlling the car, he stealthily slid his hand up her leg.

The nun said, “Father, remember Psalm 129?” The priest removed his hand. But, changing gears, he let his hand slide up her leg again. The nun once again said, “Father, remember Psalm 129?”

The priest apologized “Sorry sister but the flesh is weak.”

Arriving at the convent, the nun went on her way. On his arrival at the church, the priest rushed to look up Psalm 129.

It said, “Go forth and seek, further up, you will find glory.”

Moral of the story: - If you are not well informed in your job, you might miss a great opportunity.

Corporate Lesson 3

A sales rep and an administration clerk, and the manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a Genie comes out. The Genie says, “I’ll give each of you just one wish.”

“Me first! Me first!” says the admin clerk. “I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speedboat, without a care in the world.” Poof! She’s gone.

“Me next! Me next!” says the sales rep. “I want to be in Hawaii, relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of Pina Coladas and the love of my life.” Poof! He’s gone!

“OK, you’re up,” the Genie says to the manager. The manager says, “I want those two back in the office after lunch.”

Moral of the story: - Always let your boss have the first say.

Corporate Lesson 4

A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A rabbit asked him, “Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?”

The crow answered: - “Sure, why not.”

So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested!

A fox jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story: - To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very high up.

Corporate Lesson 5

A turkey was chatting with a bull. “I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree,” sighed the turkey, but I haven’t got the energy.”

“Well, why don’t you nibble on my droppings?” replied the bull. “They’re packed with nutrients.”

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon he was spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Moral of the story: - Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won’t keep you there.

Fin~