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Friday, April 22, 2011 at 12:42 PM
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I'm finally back from 6 weeks of attachment. It seems that many things had happened during the period of my absence. I shall find some time soon to catch up with everything I had missed.
Without much break, the journey of my year 3 has begun, final lap of my polytechnic life. Will be quite busy for this coming year as FYP and other demanding modules are coming on board my timetable. I do not really have a good timetable this semester, having 2 days with 8am to 6pm is not cool at all. But what more can I say, just have to suck it up and go through this 6 months.
I'm really tired to keep on pushing stuff. Politics or not, that wasn't our main aim when we wanted to achieve our goals. Definitely the things we do are for the better good of the community but well, not everybody sees the route that we see. I guess this will be a final lap for a lot of us. Whatever that need to happen will happen this year.
I just hope that whatever decisions we make are carefully thought through and we will be able to respect each other's reasons.
Z K LIM
"The road to success is not straight. There is a curve called Failure, a loop called Confusion, speed bumps called Friends, red lights called Enemies, caution lights called Family. You will have flats called Jobs. But, if you have a spare called Determination, an engine called Perseverance, insurance called Faith, a driver called Jesus, you will make it to a place called Success."
Quoted from Anthia's blog
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at 12:41 AM
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thank you for packing my parachute....
Charles Plumb was a U.S. Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience. One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came upand said, You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!How in the world did you know that? asked Plumb. I packed your parachute, the man replied.Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, I guess it worked!Plumb assured him, It sure did. If your chute hadn't worked, I wouldn't be here today.
Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb says, I kept wondering what he might have looked like in a Navy uniform: a white hat, a bib in the back, and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said 'Good morning, how are you?' or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a sailor. Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent on a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn't know.Now, Plumb asks his audience, Who's packing your parachute? Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day. Plumb also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory - he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these supports before reaching safety.Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason.p.s. thank you for packing my parachute! I hope I'm there whenever you need me to pack yours!
Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 11:26 PM
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In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day one fellow met the great philosopher and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?". "Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test.". "Triple filter?". "That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say. That's why I call it the triple filter test. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?" "No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and...". "All right," said Socrates. "So you don't know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?" . "No, on the contrary...". "So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not certain it's true. You may still pass the test though, because there's one filter left: the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?" "No, not really." "Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?" Lesson: Well we can always participate in loose talks to curb our boredom. But when it comes to you friends its not worth it. Always avoid talking behind the back about your near and dear friends.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 4:25 PM
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"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
~ Aristotle ~
Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 3:55 PM
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