imode
you just need to spend 10 minutes of your life doing this simple survey and stand to win some prizes and get to know more about the starhub imode phone.. kewl.
clickie here..
and it evens come with a simple personality analysis at the end.. cute .. heres mine.
Life affirming wisdom seekerYou understand that new does not always mean better and you see no reason to skip from one fad to the next. You value things that have stood the test of time, things that have proved themselves. You hate to kill time? that would be cruel, and after all, every moment is precious. You are fully aware that life is a one lap race. You like to enjoy every moment, getting lots out of life, because you put lots in.
You love to be right, and take great pains to avoid ever being wrong. You can be compulsively rational and some see you as a perfectionist. You tend to listen to your "inner critic", your inner set of standards that tends to be quite rigorous, and independent of what other people tell you. Hence, you are often very self-critical, and sometimes critical of others as you expect the same high standards of others that they have imposed on yourselves. Often your this energy is channeled into discipline, organization, a strong work ethic and a love of fairness, justice, and truth
brainfood
My current brainfood at the moment besides my everyday reading of other miscellaneous stuff..
It explores and investigates one particular issue that all of us face and grapple with at some point in our lives. Why do innocent and righteous people suffer while the wicked and unscrupulous get away with their crimes and live lavishly? Why does God allow this to happen? Why is God not doing anything to make things right? Why does the unrighteous who does not even care less about God seem to have all the good things in life? I belive all of us face this kind of injustice at some point of time. Like the co-worker who slacks and bootlicks his way up the rungs of promotion while the others, working with their heart and soul gets nothing in the end but more work?
I guess we have to be honest with ourselves and look around us. It does not always go well for good people and badly for bad people. Look around you, thats not happening at all. We have to look and turn to God for an answer to all this. This book explores the issues of suffering in a biblical point of view in the book of Job.
I guess thats why i'm reading this book :) hope to finish this book soon and prehaps be able to provide some insights here to you guys..
The Terry Fox Run
Anybody up for it?? Its a 4km or 7.5km run.. sounds easy enough doesn't it? It will be on the 18th of this month by the way. :)
Its takes two to tango
Finally had a chance to take an off day today to attempt my driving test for the third time.. yes.. for the third time.. which is considered quite pathetic for a guy.. ahh..
I also found out today that when people are facing a similar crisis e.g. driving test, total strangers would even talk to each other to loosen some nerves.. smile at each other and comment abit about how nervous they are.. typical humans eh? Humans would only come together in times of crisis and ignore each other in just about any other time. I guess i'm the cooler of the whole lot, maybe for the fact that this is my third time *ahem*.. or i keep telling myself that why should i fear a man when i should instead fear god? That helps a lot but thats the truth :)
Drove around feeling proud of myself.. made no mistakes in the circuit and got zero demerit points. Felt a bit pissed off though by the tester ramblings about how i was not following his instructions to go faster. At one point of time, i thought he contradicted himself.. he said
'I want you to go faster because there's heavy traffic in the circuit'. Duh?!? Shoulden't it be the other way around? Didn't the rules say that one must drive slower when there's heavy traffic? He really needs to get his brain in that balding head of his examined one of these days. I drove pretty well on the road outside and i admit i made a couple of judgement errors that could be easily overlooked and resolved, but i'm sure it would not even be a major criteria for a failure. I drove back to the centre feeling happy and proud that i have passed but however the slow driving thingie clung on like a leech and he marked out ALL the boxes on the paper for slow driving!! That does it. In my previous two attempts, i've never got marked for slow driving before except a couple boxes for insufficient acceleration which amounts only to four points only. But ALL the boxes for ALL the slow driving stuff?? I think thats a bit too much already. That adds up close to twenty points already.. gulp.
I also felt pissed off because he also marked all the boxes for not checking blind spots..what the !?! .. really.. it sure feels sucky to be accused of something when you did not make that mistake in the first place. But ALL the boxes?!? thats getting outboard and easily adds up close to thirty points.
If i were a sucky driver who deserved to fail, i would be a gentleman and graciously admit that it was my fault and that i deserved to fail. But i felt i have done no major mistakes and everything went pretty smoothly. A good-natured tester would have easily passed me this time. Even my instructor said i was not able to drive fast enough for that particular tester standards and i could have easily passed with other testers. Well.. if you want to be a chiongster, it doesn't mean i have to be one right? Thats why there's still so many road accidents in singapore and he should have his traffic police vocation revoked.
Nevermind, no excuses for my failure and i shall take it in my stride like a man. One more attempt to go. Just felt sad that i busted all my current month's army allowance on this. It just need to take a jackass tester to louse everything up.
Hope i never kena him as a tester again.
