Fleeting thoughts

Quite a cool photo (:

I wish I had a big sister so I can tell her all of all my worries while she tells me how everything will be ok. haha I need a disciplinarian in my life to keep me on my feet, because I have always led a liberal lifestyle that caters to my needs and whims.

If today isn't a good day, just remember that tomorrow will always be better, because that's just how life works. There's always 'tomorrow' to look forward to.

I am actually quite amused when friends ask me stuff on the syrupy toxic called 'love' and exclaimed that I seemed to be 'experienced', when most of the time it's probably my empathy working in tandem with my imagination.

There was once I said that the 'season of love is upon us'. That's because I saw friends around starting to ask girls out, got involved in stomach-hurting and laugh-inducing conversations on how to plan out dates, and witnessed friends doing all sorts of inane stuff like denying their interest when it was so BLATANT! And with the departure of our good old companion, the A levels, it is obvious that friends are seeking a different kind of companionship these days. haha all in all, the phrase sums it all up. Seek, and you'll find.

A friend said that compatibility in relationship is not something that is measurable like how we can check the compatibility of programs on computers. Nice analogy (:

Another friend asks how one knows when one likes someone else. I told her a lot of stuff, but I think I forgot the most important bit: the fact that you're asking yourself whether or not you like that somebody is already proof that you like him. Stop thinking, start acting ;)

Finally, I resolved my problem of unproductive days by scheduling a law exam in three days' time. Good job. I have to start bucking up. But somehow, it feels good, in a way.

simple plan

has nice songs!





haha they are kinda angsty, but nevertheless, still nice.

Recent conversations with friends who brought up the topic of love, friendship and relationship have left me thinking about these complexities again. haha oh well, but at least in class we are still having fun satirizing these issues, what with Royce's Plan GG and Jeffrey's impressive pursuit of a childhood dream.

IM BOREDDDDDD. History readings and subsequent summaries are damn boring. haha this reminds me of the time when Ye Wei and I were fantasizing about the ability to freeze time. Won't it be amazingly wonderful? Like we can just stop time and slowly study for exams. Only drawback would be the extreme solitude and isolation (assuming you're the only person in the world who can freeze time). But the advantages are so great!

From a different perspective, one might even say that geniuses are people who can 'slow time in their minds'. Perhaps one second for an average person is in actuality 10 seconds for geniuses! Thus, they appear to be faster and smarter because of this additional advantage. hahaha aiya but I think geniuses know how to make every second more productive than an average person, thus creating an obvious comparative advantage over everyone else.

zzz damn i'm slow. still got 3 more themes to go through. gg no need sleep

ok revision on arab-israeli.

the conflict started off as a civil war between the zionists and palestinians. after the partition, the arabs involved themselves in their bid to lead the region and used pakistan as a rhetorical tool. the conflict then evolved into the nature of inter-state. soon after, cold war policies intruded into the politics of the conflict, and even the arabs were divided by the different sponsorship of us and ussr. us had egypt, saudi and jordan under its belt while ussr had iraq, south yemen and syria.

of course, this conflict wouldn't be the most complicated conflict ever if it were just these issues. the heavyhanded ruling by israeli towards the palestinian refugees suffered a backlash in 1987 when the syzygy of injustice, poverty, economic hardship and years of being marginalized materialized into a spontaneous and passionate uprising, also known as the intifada. the intifada also transformed islamic activism, which used to focus on communal activities, with popular fundamentalist groups such as hamas and islamic jihad being formed. the emergence of these islamic fundamentalists complicated the issue as it fuelled israel security fears and thus made it harder to resolve the conflict.

this led the israelis to realise that the core of the conflict lies with the palestinian, and to ever unravel this already complicated knot, they have to deal directly with the palestinians and not their supposed allies, the arabs. the oslo accords were founded in 1992-3, and it was a watershed move towards harmony between the two sides. however, the agreement to handover parts of west bank and gaza strip to palestinians to form their sovereign state did not go down well with hardcore right-winegrs pro-settlers as they had already acclimatized to life in their jewish settlement and were displeased by the need to move. they argued that the number of settlements to be returned should be given at a slower rate and in reduced numbers. as their wishes were not complied, terrorist attacks soon surfaced, with examples being the 1994 hebron massacre and 1995 assassination of labour party pm rabin. the assassination allowed the hardline party, likud, to succeed and led to greater difficulty in resolving the conflict as likud was known for its anti-peace stance.

haha ok time to go to the next topic. if only history were all about describing... that would have been too easy ><

reminder

haha damz, Nigel reminded me of how much there is left to study for. sigh. But nvm I have faith in my own abilities (:

Handing over to the 28ths in the morning was fun! haha basically gave them an insight to welfare's jobscope and it really reminds me how fast time has past. We wanted to handover certain important guiding philosophies that may help provide some direction in the coming year ahead, and after wrecking our brains, we came up with three!

1. Stop playing with toys -> Be realistic
haha there's a whole story behind this point. Too lazy to write it out. Ask me if you want to know xD

2. Always extend yourself out of the boundaries -> Self-explanatory
It's along the lines of my favourite quote mentioned in the previous post =)

3. Heartship in hardship -> Amidst difficulties, care.
In short, try to stay in tune with your houseD/house councillors' feelings and show care and concern for them, especially during their stress periods aka functions/cca peaks. A little care can go a long way to making a person feel much better.

haha I really like the 3rd one, especially since its arrival was marked by spontaneity.

Today was pretty good. Somehow my studying methods have been altered on a microscale subconsciously and I only noticed its increased efficiency when working on COMPLEX NUMBERS (haha which isn't really very complex). mmm looks like there are ways to studying smart after all, one of which is to read up more: out-of-syllabus material, while not entirely relevant, helps in improving understanding of our fundamentals and hence directly improves our grasp and utility of the various concepts. =)

SIGH.
I need to take some time off mugging soon and not use it to play PES/DOTA or watch videos or read anime.

I need to think.

Tragedy of the Commons
It occurs when free access and unrestricted demand for a finite resource ultimately structurally dooms the resource through over-exploitation. This occurs because the benefits of exploitation accrue to individuals or groups, each of whom is motivated to maximize use of the resource to the point in which they become reliant on it, while the costs of the exploitation are distributed among all those to whom the resource is available (which may be a wider class of individuals than that which is exploiting it). This, in turn, causes demand for the resource to increase, which causes the problem to snowball to the point in which the resource is exhausted.

smile

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.

haha i think a smile is one of the most magical gifts anyone can receive =) i have a lot of thoughts on a lot of stuff, but council work and schoolwork are snowballing! i better settle some of it first. haha but ya, next time you see a friend, or it could even be a stranger, along the corridor, JUST SMILE. haha at the very worst, they would just be amused at you, and it could potentially brighten up someone's day!

so, remember to ALWAYS SMILE because a smile is a curve that sets things straight!

visual dna

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haha it's quite cool. do try it =)

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lol, mel wanted to be featured here. so being the nice guy i am.. yup here's part of our convo xD. MEL, YOU'VE BEEN OFFICIALLY FEATURED ON NICK'S U-NICK BLOG! =)

kk, there u go! x.X aha

tonight's been pretty interesting. lots of convos on lots of interesting topics. and the coolio question "apples or bananas?" had a lot of weird and interesting response too. lol ><

k, gotta join the rest for another dota game. man, been playing a lot. nvm, at least i've finished my maths hw! aha, tmr must start on econs le =X

oh yes, before i forgot, thanks to shi hua's aka chocolatey-lover! reminder..

I WANNA THANK S-A-N-D é SANDSATIONALS ONCE AGAIN FOR EVERYTHING!

THANKS [S]HIHUA, [A]NNA, [D]EXTER!
(mmm, i just realised that without me, we would have been SAD! xD lolz)
MUCH THANKS TO MY BELOVED GROUP FOR ALL THE FUN AND CRAZINESS!
aha, am i becoming too SANDtimental? xD

"we were so lovely lor!" aha, yup, ok la =P