Monday, January 31, 2005
Freestyle poem... since I can't write rhyming stuffinspired by Maw2's comment...
Love..oh what is love?
We can only guess
Love is in the air
says she...
Can I catch it?
I ask...
It sure tastes good, while it lasts
Says she...
Oh well, I sure would like to taste it,
even for a brief moment
Says I...
I've "tasted" it many many times be4
But ended up feeling disappointed
Cuz of my oh-so-high expectations, probably?
But I won't settle for less...
Cuz I know, there's a pot of gold at the end of my rainbow
And I'll only settle for the best (in my opinion)...
Or walk away empty handed...
With a wide smile on my face.
No I'm not in a hurry
And no, I don't feel I have to reach that pot of gold
At the end of my rainbow
Cuz I'll only settle for the best
Or walk away empty handed
With the widest smile on my face
Cuz I'll be happy and blessed either way
And either way, I win
Cuz I've tasted life:
I've tasted God's miracles
I've tasted mercy
I've tasted grace
I've tasted sorrow
I've tasted joy
And I've tasted compassion
And they're all worth living for!
So I'm gonna aim for the end of my rainbow
And if there's no pot of gold...
Oh well, at least I made the journey
And the journey is all that matters
100% by Mathilda ~January 31... a good closure to the month of January, don't ya think? ^.~
si Monyet @ 1/31/2005 09:41:00 PM
Childhood memories
Went thru old family albums... found some cute pics... there are only 2 that I could photograph with my digi-cam... the others I have to scan and I'm too lazy to scan them.
so here goes...
trus trus.. ada foto si J waktu dia umur 20 taon, gw baru ketemu di file gw di computer... hihihihi
si Monyet @ 1/31/2005 04:18:00 PM
Sunday, January 30, 2005
My Sunday morningSO I went to church in the morning and guess what... my favorite priest was saying homili! Yayyyy Father Chris is sooo wise. I love that guy!
So in summary, he was preaching about the beattitudes (blessed are the poor, blessed are the merciful, blessed are the mourning, etc) and compared the beattitudes in the Bible with the world's attitude.
The world says happy are the powerful, happy are the wealthy, happy are the ones who have a LOT. Well, if this is the case, then those Hollywood stars should perfectly fit this, yes? NO... they're the most unhappy people... with drug and alcohol problems, divorces, etc... So something is obviously missing there!
So Father Chris went on again to say that people spend most of their time trying to be happy and to find happiness... to follow the crowd...this will lead to nowhere. We will never be happy this way, he said. He explained that instead of focusing on trying to be happy, we should strive to be blessed: only then will we be BOTH happy and blessed. He went on again to say that in the many countries he visited and the many people he'd met from all social classes, the happiest people he knew were the nuns at St. Francis in Austria. He spent a lot of time with the nuns when he was in Austria and he found that they were glowing with happiness, despite not owning anything and leaving everything behind. They were poor and lived very simply in peace... they are very very very happy!
If we really wanna be happy, we have to ally ourselves with the poor, the sad, the meek, and the weak. We have to be peacemakers in violent times, and we have to be merciful to those who don't deserve mercy. We have to keep our hearts pure and expect persecution when we tell the truth. We have to make friends in lowly places, basically. Experience the blessing!
Now, he said that a lot of people complained when he gave "heavy" homilies, because a lot of people are disturbed by the "truth". So he said that instead of telling him to shut up, why not do something about their lives? He's not there to make people feel comfortable. He refused to follow the crowd and make people feel comfortable about the lives they lead.
Go Father Chris! hahaha
So after church, my sister and I went tobbagonning at Milliken Park. Tobogganning itu meluncur dari atas bukit bersalju (buat yg gak tau)... asikk bgt gila! Of course, my sister was too light, so everytime she went on the board, she flew right off the board and fell face down onto the snow. Once, we hit the softest snow (untouched snow) and it was like diving straight into icy water. Our faces were covered with snow and we looked like messed-up-Santa Clauses hahaha. Oh and once, instead of going down forward, the board changed direction and we didn't know where we were goin' and we were screaming sooo hard! I almost hit the pole! Damn, it was fun!
And then we walked on the frozen pond (covered in knee-deep snow). I was scared at first, but then I saw people went on their boards on the ice, so I wasn't that scared no more... and my sister was yappin' "You're such a chicken!" hahaha, thx sis... you're lovely... ^.^
So we just fooled around, yelling and laughing... and then, an hour later, we headed back to the car... boy, the drive home was sooo smooth, like I was still sliding down the snowy hill.
And now it's time to get back to my studying... BORING! man! I'd do anything to get out of this situation. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE learning (those who know me should know!) but this course... cognition and representation-->bullcrap! I have no idea what the purpose of studying line, contours, penumbra, umbra, shadow, luminosity, etc... ok ok, I get the fact that blind people can draw... but the theories are sooo..UMMPPHHH! The whole course is about testing people with raised-line drawing n stuff, touch and feel and identify the objects... BORING!
Anyways, hating it won't help, in fact, it's gonna make it worse! So, I'm gonna change my stinky attitude right now and say in super-sarcastic tone: "I LOVE this course!" yay... NOT... whatever... just shut up Mathilda, alrite...
And then Sagad suruh gw foto pake baju fupei.com, utk promosiin t-shirt sale nya katanya... yg dudulznya tuh ye, dia kagak bilang kalo tangan gw tuh mesti kayak metallica getuu... ade gw udah cape2 motoin, n gw juga ampe kesel gara2 dia maen2 terus sama kameranya n gw dah cape senyum n pose... trus eh, pas gw kirim beberapa biji ke dia (biar tinggal pilih yg mana yg dia mau), malah ngomel2... padahal gw lagi ngantuk berat gara2 belon bobo siang (my favorite activity hahaha) ya udah deh, dia kena semprot ama gw... hihihi.. sorry broo... tp salah lo juga sih yeee... ya udah aje gw bales ngomel, gw bilang ntar deh kapan2 gw foto lagi kalo lagi mood! ugghh huahaha...
nih 2 of the pics, sekalian promosiin www.fupei.com. dah ye Gad, jgn ngomel2 terus, ntar cepet tua hihihi
gw udah centil gini kagak dihargai! gak terimaaaaa hihihi
si Monyet @ 1/30/2005 01:36:00 PM
Pendidikan
Found this in Fupei.com forum... pretty interesting...
Nikah Dengan Wanita Pintar Bikin Sehat:
Bagi para lajang, mungkin ini akan menjadi nasihat yang baik bagi Anda. Menurut para peneliti, pria yang menikah dengan wanita pintar akan terhindar dari penyakit jantung. Yah setidak-tidaknya mengurangi risiko mereka menderita penyakit jantung yang berbahaya ini. Sebab wanita seperti ini akan mengurangi kemungkinan Anda menjalani gaya hidup yang bermalasan-malasan dan menjadikannya memiliki kelebihan berat badan.
Para peneliti dari Norwegia menyatakan bahwa wanita yang berpendidikan mungkin bisa menenangkan pengaruh suami mereka, dan bisa berpengaruh positif terhadap pola makan dan kebiasaan hidup mereka.
Cara penelitian yang dilakukan adalah dengan memperhatikan kesehatan 20.000 pria menikah berusia 35 - 56 tahun yang dilibatkan dalam survei nasional untuk mengetahui apakah mereka menderita penyakit jantung atau tidak dan faktor-faktor risiko lainnya. Mereka memonitor mereka dari tahun 1977 sampai 1992.
Mereka mengambil informasi mengenai tekanan darah dan tingkat kolesterol, berat badan, meroko dan kebiasaan berolahraga.
Para pria juga ditanya apakah mereka memiliki sejarah serangan jantung atau angina, dan apakah mereka mengobatinya untuk mengurangi tekanan darah.
Pada lebih dari 6.000 pria, dimana istri tidak terlalu berpendidikan seperti suaminya, sedangkan pada 5.000 kasus istri mereka berpendidikan lebih baik. Sisanya memiliki pendidikan yang seimbang.
Para peneliti menemukan bahwa pria yang istrinya lebih berpendidikan, lebih kecil kemungkinannya menderita penyakit jantung. Selain itu mereka juga kecil kemungkinannya untuk mengalami kelebihan berat badan dan lebih rajin berolahraga. Selain itu para istri yang pendidikannya lebih tinggi jadi bisa membuat suami mereka memiliki tekanan darah, kolesterol dan merokok yang rendah.
Berdasarkan penelitian ini, ditemukan bahwa pria berusia 18 tahun ke atas yang menikah dengan wanita dari tingkat pendidikan yang sama akan 50% berkurang kemungkinannya mengalami kematian karena penyakit jantung dibandingkan mereka yang menikah dengan wanita dari kelompok berpendidikan lebih rendah.
Tetapi pria yang tidak terlalu berpendidikan menikah dengan wanita yang lebih berpendidikan tidak nampak menguntungkan. Menurut peneliti ini bisa dijelaskan dengan penelitian terhadap sekelompok kecil pria dalam survei tersebut.
Dr Haakon Meyer dari Institut Riset Nutrisi di Universitas Oslo, salah seorang penelitinya mengatakan, sebaiknya pria yang berpendidikan menikah pula dengan wanita yang berpendidikan agar keduanya sama-sama sehat.
so guys, if u wanna live a long healthy life... marry a genius! hahaha...whatever
source: Click here
si Monyet @ 1/30/2005 01:26:00 AM
Thursday, January 27, 2005
MannersI was so impressed this morning. It was a bitterly freezing morning with windchill that makes you wanna curse all the way. I was walking super fast from the parking lot to school. And then there was a guy in front of me who was also walking super fast but he paused at the entrance of the building. He looked back and waited for me. When I reached the door, he opened it for me, and went in after me. I was WOW-ed. I said thank you of course.
I was impressed that there are still men out there who knows the basic manners... hahaha... thank God.
Now I'm just bored to death, waiting for my abnormal psychology seminar in 1 hour. I froze one of the computers in the library... oops... luckily there's another vacant one.
One of my lecture today was video-taped by this guy, who said that TV Ontario wanted to use like, 30 mins of it for their show or sumthiing. So the prof was being a goody-goody person today, instead of the cynical, commenting person that he usually is. Unfortunately, he didn't write a word on the board, but I taped the lecture so it should be fine, I guess
Anyone knows how I can get a sound convert tool software to download so I can convert ACT file to WAV/MP3????? Pleaseeee
My dream last night was amazing. I dreamed that the whole family moved to Montreal and we live in this gorgeous house facing the sea (which was frozen cuz it was winter). My bro got the room with the fantastic scenery and I was stuck with the room that had a walk-in closet (not that I would need such a big wardrobe anyway)and the walk-in closet had a stairway leading to another walk-in closet in the basement... it was kinda spooky! It was dark in the basement and I hated the thought of having to look down on it everytime I go in.
Azalea was in the dream, my parents, Aunt Esme (something to do with pasta restaurant), Dita, and Adam, of course... then Fiona and her parents were there too (they came to visit or sumthing)
this is like... the most interesting and exciting dream I've had in months! Isn't it pathetic? hahaha
i woke up feeling soooo happy, but when I realized that it was just a dream, I got kinda sad.
I fell out of the habit of recording my dreams everyday, simply cuz I never have time to go back and review my dreams anyway, and cuz I'm too lazy to wake up in the middle of the night to write them down (scribbles mostly) and rewrite them in the morning (so I can read it next time)and trying to make sense out of the scribbles.
I remember very clearly this dream I had, about an apartment building that exploded (I was in it) and everyone died! I survived and was in trauma for a while... it was sooo real (like I was really gonna die) that I woke up feeling troubled and I still think of it sometimes... about how scary it's gonna be to die a horrible death.
I'm not scared of dying, mind you... well, we all are, to some extent... but I'm not worried about dying n all that... cuz I know that I can die right now, in the middle of writing this sentence, if God wills it... it's just that, the fear of the unknown, of the unexpected... not knowing what to do but pray to God and... I don't know... the more you think about it, the less ready you realize you are about dying.
Alright, enuff blabber for one day... 30 more mins to go.. *sigh*
si Monyet @ 1/27/2005 01:12:00 PM
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Hollywood crapsDear diary, I'm sorry I feel angry about sumthin stoopid again... can't help it ^.^
Just saw Britney's new video... TOTAL CRAP is all I can say.
She's sooooooo lost n f**ked up! What is it about fame n wealth controlling people? Almost every damn "star" end up forgetting who they are, where they come from n stuff like that... They got more than they ever need n so they waste their money... how cruel is that, taking everything for granted... while most of them know what it feels like to be poor (that's how most people started, cuz they were poor n didn't wanna be no more)and hungry n suffering... they could have done SO MUCH to help the starving children receive some education, things like that... just imagine, if they all get together to try to help "fix" the tragedy of the world... what a wonderful world it would be! *sobs* Will I live to see that day? I doubt it... but who knows... God works in mysterious ways, rite...
What's funny is... the world sees them as idols and examples and goals... the truth is far from all that. Those "stars" are the ones confused n lost n insecure n unhappy. It should be us, the lay people, that they admire... though we ain't got much money or flashy cars, or mansions, or money to throw away. With all the money they have, all the fame, they still couldn't put it all together... trying so hard to find happiness in all the wrong places and on things like drugs, sex, the whole deal.
No wonder depressed people become even more depressed! Cuz if they start looking at things as they really are, I'm pretty sure most of them (also us) can't handle life. We won't last a week! This world is sooo messed up... too bad God promised Noah to never again destroy the world like he did with the 40-day flood. If God hadn't made that promise, I'm sure He would have wiped out his creations many many times (cuz we're all so evil most times) over n over again.
Oooook... enuff writing about this depressing subject... gotta get some sleep... Oh, I just finished reading "Shopaholic takes Manhattan" the ending is soooooo good! Which made me realize that we humans collect sooo much junk that we don't need... too many clothes, too much money wasted on clothes, shoes, bags, the whole deal. Why? Why? Why? Can we be like Mother Teresa who only had 2 pairs of robe? the second one was for in case the one she was wearing got wet/was being washed... I know I can't, at least not that extreme... maybe one day I can attain enlightenment n free myself from worldly desires... one day... and this is the end of today for me... hitting the sack now. Nite nite
si Monyet @ 1/19/2005 09:54:00 PM
Monday, January 17, 2005
"Ran"Just watched this Japanese movie by Akira Kurosawa... excellent!
The morals of the story are so true.
In life, those you consider as friends may abandon you in distress, but true friends stand by you in hardships. It's when things are difficult that you know who your true friends are.
In this mad world, only the mad are really sane. There is no such thing as sanity, but only apparent sanity. Who's to judge if you're sane or not? If most people around you are insane, and you're not, then it will be the opposite, won't it? You will be the insane one in their eyes. Boy this life is confusing!
To be wise and smart is much better than to be strong and rich and powerful. Don't be abrupt in making decisions, but think it thru and seek counsel from the wise. In the end, do what your heart tells you and what you think is right. Other people can voice their opinions and give you advice, but you have the final word.
Forgiveness is more effective than hatred. We'll be more at peace when we forgive, although never forget. Be extra kind to those who despise and condemn you; it's more potent than poison! This is sooo true, even the Bible says so. I've tried this approach, and boy did it work so well!
If someone you love hurts you by being honest, don't hate that person. In fact, treasure that person, because there is no deceit in that person. It's better than to know a sweet, gentle, lying one; you can never tell if they're fooling you or not. With the bold one, you can always be certain that that person is true and virtuous. "A true friend stabs you from the front", as the saying goes.
Now I'd better sleep... *yawns*
si Monyet @ 1/17/2005 01:36:00 AM
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Six feet under is a really good show. Each episode begins with someone's death. It tells people that they can die of anything, and anytime. One lady died because a golf ball hit her in the head. So when you watch the beginning of each episode, you will be guessing "so who's gonna die between these people? and the cause of death?"The last episode of season one is especially good; it contains a lot of lessons to be learned.
This annoying lady just lost her aunt (the only person who ever loved her and raised her). So she had to make arrangements for her funeral and when it was all done, she sat down alone, crying. She asked "Why do people die?"
Nate, one of the owner of the funeral home, answered, "To make life important. We don't know how long we've got to live, which is why we have to make each day matter. Your aunt did exactly that, so you should be happy because she lived a life well-lived." Nate just came to terms with his own fear of death. He almost lost the girl he loves and he just lost his father 6 months earlier... A father he never really knew. He knew more about his father after his death and he wished that everything could be different. The family is pretty weird.
And then, the episode before that, a gay man was killed because him and his partner were showing affection in public. It may seem cruel and unreal, but stuff like this happen in real life.
The parents were ashamed because the son was gay, the father especially, was angry. When it came time for his funeral, a lot of people were campaigning "Gays burn in hell", "Read the Bible bla bla bla", "There are no gays in heaven", etc.
I would say to these cruel people "you don't belong in heaven either!" or "You should read the Bible, because Jesus didn't teach His followers to condemn others!" How can they call themselves Christians when they condemn others (gays in this case)? Jesus said to Mary Magdalene, the prostitute, "Let anyone without sin throw the first stone" when the Jews wanted to stone her to death for prostituting. Jesus taught us to be compassionate to outcasts and people who need help and support, not to condemn them. the scripture for today's reading was about Jesus eating with sinners and being their friend. The Jewish leaders ask "why is He friends with sinners and tax collectors and prostitutes?" To which Jesus answers that those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick do. I didn't come for the righteous, but for sinners.
This world is so sad and people are so cruel. But I can be a good Christian to those around me and make a difference.
si Monyet @ 1/15/2005 01:31:00 PM
I was sooooo angry yesterday. I don't think I've ever been this angry in my life before, it was scary. Maybe it's PMS or mood swings... but I don't like excusing myself for my behavior. Especially when it was about something really stupid and unnecessary. I wanted to scream and punch something and just be nuts. I guess watching the TV series "Six Feet Under" influenced me in a negative way. Each show is packed with enough swear words to last you a lifetime.
It's a really good show, I must say. The characters are amazing and the acting is soooo well-done, as well as the twist of the story. But nothing beats "Nip/Tuck" show. I finished the whole first season (13 episodes) of "6 feet under" in less than 2 weeks. I can't wait for the second season. I'm gonna watch them next week probably. I have an essay due on Thursday, so... gotta do some research for that first.
So, back to my being angry. So yeah, being the self-conscious person that I am, I paused for a moment and took a deep breath. I tried to calm down. I realized that I failed in NOT letting my emotions (anger, frustration, lack of sleep) control me. So I tried to laugh about it (another failure, unfortunately). I realized that me being angry and aggressive didn't change a thing; it only made me feel angrier and shittier. So I asked God's help in granting me patience and strength.
Then I took a nap, of course, after realizing that I only had like 3 hours of sleep the night before. I also tried to see the situation differently; that everything is part of His divine plan. I've learned not to regret things that already happened and can't be fixed, because those things must happen for me to be stronger and wiser. So... I guess now my anger and frustration are back to normal (what's normal anyway?), especially after I expressed them in writing... I love writing! Phew...
si Monyet @ 1/15/2005 01:30:00 PM
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Checked my email today, and then there was an email from my school:Dear UTSC Student,
You wrote a final examination in one or more of the following courses on:
Saturday, December 18th, 2004, at 2:00pm:
bla bla
Monday, December 20th, 2004, at 9:00am:
bla bla
PSYC53H3
Unfortunately, failing heating and ventilation systems on the day of these examinations
created a very uncomfortable environment for some students. This may have negatively
affected your performance, and we offer you the option to re-write the impacted
examinations as follows:
bla bla bla
PSYC53H3F Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:00 - 7:00 pm H305
These re-written examinations and their results or consequences are otherwise
subject to the usual Academic Regulations as published in the current UTSC
Calendar. *In particular, if you choose to re-write, the result of that examination
will be counted towards your final mark in the course, and the one from the
previous final examination will be discarded, whether higher or lower than the
original grade assigned. *
Let me express our sincere regrets that these events prevented you from
finishing the fall term in an appropriate setting that would have allowed you
to perform at your best!
So I was worried about my final exam for my Psych and Law course... I remembered feeling soooo terribly cold that I could hardly write my essays. But there is no friggin' way that I'd rewrite that brutal final exam! I would have to restudy the materials bla bla bla... too much work!
So I went on to ROSI to check my final mark for this course... and I got a decent grade... yayyyy... that means I don't have to rewrite! yippeeee! Thank God!
One of the textbooks I need for this semester (Drawing n the Blind) is actually put on pdf files online (yayyy)... I tried printing the first 5 chapters... holy! it's so thick! Sure it cost me much less, but oh man, it's just that I have to print... and remember to keep up with the lecture...
I was thinking of buying an MP3 player that has voice recording... I have 2 profs who talk super fast and not clear this semester and I can't write everything they say... so... what the heck... have to do some window shopping first...
si Monyet @ 1/11/2005 01:38:00 PM
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Psychology of Emotion classMy 2-hour class today was interesting, I learned some new things.
1. Emotion and cognition are inseperable, they're mutually related.
2. Just because someone is not very expressive doesn't mean that that person doesn't have emotions. Some people are more emotional than others, but we all have emotions (except of course, psychopaths)
3. Act-of-noticing--> learn to begin noticing our emotions in every day lives. Most of our everyday actions are habitual, so slow down and tune in to your emotions.
4. There are content and form to emotions (e.g.,what you say and how you say it)
5. Goal of therapy process: to recover the context of the emotional episode and the situation it manifested itself in, to better understand and approach your emotions.
*** The more honest we are about our emotions, the less our emotions control us. Befriend your emotions, and embrace them.
So you've just been dumped... so what... there are other things worse... don't focus on your own little world, try to see other "worlds"... we focus too much on guy-girl issues... face the issues, deal with your emotions, and move on.
Don't bury your emotions, don't turn your back on them and shut them up, because they will come out sooner or later and you will have to deal with them anyway. So deal with them as soon as possible.
6. We see ourselves as living in a world of objects and we are one of them. We experience ourselves as being physically separate from the rest of the world. We think that we are trapped in our body... WRONG! The notion that our body is a boundary is FAKE, it's an ILLUSION. "Where is your mind?" nobody can answer this...
We have worlds within us, we have worlds outside of us.
Don't focus on yourself as an object (object error)...instead, focus on yourself as a process! We are not locked in. When we are honest about our emotions, we welcome our emotions and we're not burdened by them.
Looking at ourselves as a process means that we're open to change and we're not fixed... we change thru time and we evolve.
So I think today's lecture was more like a therapy session... Prof Cupchik is funny and a killer! But he did make an excellent point: When we see ourselves as a process, we're not worried about getting high grades... you're here to learn. If we get out of the class feeling more intuned with ourselves and our emotions, then it's all that matters... it's the learning experience.
So deal with your emotions, don't delay... don't bury them... face them, befriend them. Because if your don't, one day when you're 60 years old, you might still have that undealt issues of when you were 20 (the 20-yr-old you is trapped in a 60-yr-old body)... don't let that happen to u ^.^
So yeah, I'm so looking forward to a semester of therapy session and fun! bring them on!
si Monyet @ 1/05/2005 03:48:00 PM
Went to one of my psychology courses yesterday, PSYC54... Cognition and Representation. Prof Kennedy is specializing in the study of the blind. He told us some very interesting things, like: the blind can draw, they can "see" and feel drawings, statues, etc. He showed us a painting done by a blind man... It was AMAZING! The blind also have knowledge about perspective, depth, and all the rest that even us the sighted have not fully grasped yet and we take it for granted. If you get a blind person to draw or to feel a drawing, the occipital lobe (vision area in the back of the brain) is active when you scan the brain. WOW! all this time everyone thought that the areas in the brain involved in vision must be dead in blind people... WRONG... 100 years of research has been WRONG!
want to find out more? here are the online books and journals that I'll be using this semester.
T-space URL for "Drawing and the Blind" Kennedy, 1993--> Click here
Url for notes on T space's "Drawing and the blind"--> Click here
So this semester is going to be very interesting. I'll be learning more about art, touch, sense, perception, and vision. My textbook is "Art beyond sight" and it's full of pictures done by the blind, braille stuff... and all those interesting things.
Four years ago I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, what courses I should take, etc... but now I never regret the decision I made when I applied for Life science: Specializing in Psychology. These 3 yrs of learning has changed my life completely.
Most people's goals are to get high marks and graduate and get a high-paying job. Not me... sure the good grades help motivate me to study harder, but I don't really care if I don't get A's or 4.0 in GPA... what I care about is what I learn, what I've added to my knowledge and how I can apply what I learned to help those around me and to be a better person. Hell, those people who get high grades don't even know or understand what they just learned anyway... this is true, because when u ask them like a week later what they've learned, all they could say was "I don't know, I forgot already" hahaha... what good will that do??? Cramming all the info before the exam and forgetting them as soon as u finish the exam... what's the point??? But of course I want a good job... but it doesnt have to be a high-paying job... as long as I love what I do, then it's all that matters... the difference that I'll make... the people I'll help, and all that...
I don't know... I'm just glad that even though I'm not the smartest person, I get to experience learning, all areas of learning, from Chemistry, Calculus, Languages, creative writing, biology, world religion, music, anthropology, to all areas of psychology (brain, drugs, emotion, social, cognition, memory, statistic, research, neuro, child development, abnormal psychology, etc)... everything! Bring them on! I'm so lucky that I have the opportunity to learn when most people on other parts of the world would kill for a chance to learn. I think we all take too many things for granted. Boy, is life full of lessons to learn or what! It's a lifetime of learning! La vie est belle, n'est ce pas? ouais!
Read the paper yesterday... over 134,000 people died in the Tsunami thing, and over 90,000 of them are Indonesians. Government Canada will match every donation made, dollar for dollar, until January 11th. Isn't it great! So if each Canadian donate like, $100, then that amount will double and it will make a huge different and be a great help.
I think it's also very important to donate another kind of help: prayers for those who died and for those affected. God have mercy on those poor souls. May God bless us all and keep us.
si Monyet @ 1/05/2005 08:49:00 AM
Monday, January 03, 2005
What a beautiful cloudy day... back to school tomorrow... went to the bookstore today... only got 2 books: Five Books of Moses and World Religions Eastern Traditions.They're still waiting for the psychology books to be shipped from the U.S or sumthin... yayyy my books this semester aren't that expensive... phew!
Looking forward to a fun semester... and I will study more dilligently this semester... I know I can do it!
Alrite... time to relax and enjoy my last day off.
si Monyet @ 1/03/2005 10:02:00 AM
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