omg random post while im still high from my nap. moar peektures!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
in response to xiaoyao's post, here's the spoof canadian article mentioned in the GP compre.
apparently eeyore suffers from the traumatic amputation of his tail (if you haven't noticed already) and housing problems (remember his house of twigs that keeps collapsing? haha.
so here's the hyperlink for you to read at your leisure if you're free:
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/163/12/1557
enjoy! :)
.:Edit:. oh and here's another interesting link to um. cute pictures. haha. http://icanhascheezburger.com/
note: not beneficial to GP standards. you have been warned xD
apparently eeyore suffers from the traumatic amputation of his tail (if you haven't noticed already) and housing problems (remember his house of twigs that keeps collapsing? haha.
so here's the hyperlink for you to read at your leisure if you're free:
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/163/12/1557
enjoy! :)
.:Edit:. oh and here's another interesting link to um. cute pictures. haha. http://icanhascheezburger.com/
note: not beneficial to GP standards. you have been warned xD
Stuff to bring for chalet (specified as below)
Hi ppl,
Take note of the things to bring:
Zhi Rui, Yi Ren, Xiao Yao and Li Jie - Steamboat stuff (If possible try and bring it to school, quite troublesome and time-costly to get Tse-An to drive to each and every household just to pick up one boat. We need him to check-in btw. So there's an urgency of time here. Just bring and drop it in Tse-An's car in the morning.)
Guo Jun - Xbox 360 console (+ controller) and games
Jason - Xbox 360 controllers + games
Tse-An - PS3,DVDs, and of course YOUR CAR!
Shoukee - Drinks
The rest (and the above ppl as well): Spam cards, mahjong sets and anything sociable
So, on that day itself, those people who are taking the MRT together will go get the food for steamboat (no need to purchase drinks, shoukee will settle that). There's a shuttle bus outside the MRT station to Aloha Loyang as well. Tse-An and some other hitchhikers will go check-in asap.
I will most probably be heading back home to grab some extra stuff before heading out for Aloha Loyang. So perhaps, Wen Bo will take the lead in getting the rest of you there and purchasing the food. He's quite familiar with the surroundings there as well.
Ciao
Your ACT Rep
Take note of the things to bring:
Zhi Rui, Yi Ren, Xiao Yao and Li Jie - Steamboat stuff (If possible try and bring it to school, quite troublesome and time-costly to get Tse-An to drive to each and every household just to pick up one boat. We need him to check-in btw. So there's an urgency of time here. Just bring and drop it in Tse-An's car in the morning.)
Guo Jun - Xbox 360 console (+ controller) and games
Jason - Xbox 360 controllers + games
Tse-An - PS3,DVDs, and of course YOUR CAR!
Shoukee - Drinks
The rest (and the above ppl as well): Spam cards, mahjong sets and anything sociable
So, on that day itself, those people who are taking the MRT together will go get the food for steamboat (no need to purchase drinks, shoukee will settle that). There's a shuttle bus outside the MRT station to Aloha Loyang as well. Tse-An and some other hitchhikers will go check-in asap.
I will most probably be heading back home to grab some extra stuff before heading out for Aloha Loyang. So perhaps, Wen Bo will take the lead in getting the rest of you there and purchasing the food. He's quite familiar with the surroundings there as well.
Ciao
Your ACT Rep
A post from Dr Ross
Heres how the little humour started..
In 2000, five Canadian psychologists published a satirical article about Winnie the Pooh entitled 'Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood'. At first glance, say the authors, the hero of AA Milne's 1926 children's classic appears to be a healthy, well-adjusted bear; but on closer and more expert examination, Pooh turns out to suffer from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, binge eating, and borderline cognitive functioning ('a bear of very little brain'), to name just a few of his infirmities.
Pooh's friends are similarly afflicted: Rabbit fits the profile of narcissistic personality syndrome; Owl is emotionally disturbed, which renders him dyslexic; and Piglet displays classic symptoms of generalised anxiety (a diagnosis that is admittedly difficult to dispute).
The Canadian spoof makes a serious point: the propensity of experts to pathologise and medicalise healthy children en masse has gotten way out of hand. The past decade has seen a cascade of books and articles promoting the idea that seemingly content and well-adjusted American children are emotionally damaged.
Adults are said to be miserable, too, as various experts and popular writers have been telling us for more than three decades. For example, in 1993 the prestigious Commonwealth Fund, a New York philanthropy concerned with public health, released the results of a poll on women's health. This 'important' study, as then US secretary of health and human services Donna Shalala called it, reported that in any given week, 40 per cent of American women are 'severely depressed.'
But then, in 1999, feminist author Susan Faludi, a veteran of the bestseller lists, called attention to the devastating emotional problems of yet another group of fragile Americans: adult males. In Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Male, Faludi contended that American men cannot live up to the conventional stoic ideal of manliness and so they lose their sense of self. 'No wonder men are in such agony', she says.
And no one has been more successful in making a career out of an alleged national anguish than Daniel Goleman, a former New York Times science writer. His bestselling 1995 book Emotional Intelligence described a nation suffering from profound 'emotional malaise' and in the grip of 'surging rage and despair'.
In an article in the Wall Street Journal, Jim Windolf, editor of the New York Observer, tallied the number of Americans allegedly suffering from some kind of emotional disorder. He sent away for the literature of dozens of advocacy agencies and mental health organisations. Then he did the math. Windolf reported, 'If you believe the statistics, 77 per cent of America's adult population is a mess.... And we haven't even thrown in alien abductees, road-ragers, and internet addicts.' If we factor in the drowning girls, diminished boys, despondent women, agonised men, and the all-around emotionally challenged, the country is, in Windolf's words, 'officially nuts'.
Our new book One Nation Under Therapy offers a more sanguine view of American society. It points out that there is no evidence that large segments of the population are in psychological freefall. On the contrary, researchers who abide by the protocols of genuine social science find most Americans - young and old - faring quite well.
Of course, we are not suggesting that everyone is perennially happy or possessed of an abiding sense of wellbeing. Many, if not most, human beings are mildly neurotic, at times self-defeating, anxious, or sad. These traits or behaviours are characteristic of the human condition, often emerging in different life circumstances - they are not pathological. And they are certainly not new. What we oppose is the view that Americans today are emotionally underdeveloped, psychically frail, and that they require the ministrations of mental health professionals to cope with life's vicissitudes. The crisis authors offer only anecdotes, misleading statistics, and dubious studies for their alarming findings. Yet they are taken very seriously.
'Therapism' in practice
These would-be healers of our purported woes dogmatically believe and promote the doctrine we call 'therapism'. Therapism extols openness, emotional self-absorption, and the sharing of feelings. It encompasses the assumption that vulnerability rather than strength characterises the American psyche and that suffering is a pathology in need of a cure. Therapism assumes that a diffident, anguished, and emotionally apprehensive public requires a vast array of therapists, self-esteem educators, grief counsellors, work-shoppers, healers, and traumatologists to lead it though the trials of everyday life. Children, more than any group, are targeted for therapeutic improvement. We roundly reject these assumptions.
Because they tend to regard normal children as psychologically at risk, many educators are taking extreme and unprecedented measures to protect them from stress. Schoolyard games that encourage competition are under assault. In some districts, dodgeball has been placed in a 'Hall of Shame' because, as one leading educator says, 'It's like Lord of the Flies, with adults encouraging it'. Tag is also under a cloud. The National Education Association distributes a teacher's guide that suggests an anxiety-reducing version of tag, 'where nobody is ever "out"'.
It is now common practice for 'sensitivity and bias committees' inside publishing houses to expunge from standardised tests all mention of potentially distressing topics. Two major companies specifically interdict references to rats, mice, roaches, snakes, lice, typhoons, blizzards and birthday parties. (The latter could create bad feelings in children whose families do not celebrate them.) The committees, says Diane Ravitch in her recent book The Language Police, believe such references could 'be so upsetting to some children that they will not be able to do their best on a test'.
Harmful effects on children
Young people are not helped by being wrapped in cotton wool and deprived of the vigorous pastimes and intellectual challenges they need for healthy development. Nor are they improved when educators, obsessed with the mission of boosting children's self-esteem, tell them how 'wonderful' they are. A growing body of research suggests there is, in fact, no connection between high self-esteem and achievement, kindness, or good personal relationships. On the other hand, unmerited self-esteem is known to be associated with antisocial behaviour - even criminality.
Therapism tends to regard people as essentially weak, dependent, and never altogether responsible for what they do. Alan Wolfe, a Boston College sociologist and expert on national mores and attitudes, reports that for many Americans non-judgmentalism has become a cardinal virtue. Concepts of right and wrong, good and evil, are often regarded as anachronistic and intolerant. 'Thou shalt be nice' is the new categorical imperative.
Summarising his findings, Wolfe says: 'What the Victorians considered self-destructive behaviour requiring punishment we consider self-destructive behaviour requiring treatment.... America has most definitely entered a new era in which virtue and vice are redefined in terms of public health and addiction.'
We do not advocate a return to a harsh judgmentalism. Wolfe may have a point when he says that an emphasis on tolerance has made Americans 'nicer'. However, this emphasis also induces a moral inertia that can be the opposite of nice. Consider, for example, the supposedly enlightened, compassionate view that drug and alcohol addiction are 'brain diseases'. We challenge the brain disease model on the grounds that treating addicts as morally responsible, self-determining human beings free to change their behaviour is, in the end, more effective, more respectful, and more compassionate.
We also reject therapism's central doctrine that uninhibited emotional openness is essential to mental health. On the contrary, recent findings suggest that reticence and suppression of feelings, far from compromising one's psychological wellbeing, can be healthy and adaptive. For many temperaments, an excessive focus on introspection and self-disclosure is depressing. Victims of loss and tragedy differ widely in their reactions: some benefit from therapeutic intervention; most do not and should not be coerced by mental health professionals into emotionally correct responses. Trauma and grief counsellors have erred massively in this direction.
The trauma industry
In the wake of mass tragedy, therapism's 'grief brigades', as Time magazine calls them, swoop down on victims. Helping professionals - many with questionable credentials - have become fixtures at scenes of disaster. The trauma industry operates on the assumption that the principal lesson to be learned from suffering is that one must exorcise it. But suffering is sometimes edifying. In his profound and moving book, Man's Search for Meaning, psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, himself a survivor of the Nazi death camps, wrote that, 'Suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon.... Suffering may well be a human achievement, especially if it grows out of existential frustration.'
It was in the same spirit that Time writer Lance Morrow wrote in the wake of 9/11, 'For once, let's have no "grief counsellors" standing by with banal consolations, as if the purpose, in the midst of all this, were merely to make everyone feel better as quickly as possible. We shouldn't feel better'. Finding solace and strength after grief without professional help has become an anachronism - like setting one's own broken bone.
The trauma industry routinely flouts Morrow's wise injunction, and applies with abandon the diagnosis of 'post-traumatic stress disorder'. PTSD is a legitimate clinical condition marked by intense re-experiencing of a horrific, often life-threatening event in the form of relentless nightmares or unbidden waking images. PTSD is not to be applied to people who are acutely distraught - a perfectly normal reaction - after a terrifying ordeal, but to the minority who go on to develop disabling, pathological anxiety because of it. Worse, clinicians often diagnose PTSD in individuals who have not even been exposed to horrific events but are simply upset by troubling incidents. For example, professional journals are rife with examples of 'PTSD' patients who have been sexually harassed on the job, moviegoers upset by seeing The Exorcist, and motorists involved in minor accidents - treated as if they were survivors of the Bataan Death March.
The rise of therapism
Where did it come from, this current preoccupation with feelings? It has many roots. One is the eighteenth-century Romantic philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. For Rousseau, the expression of emotion is crucial to any moral and spiritual development. It can also be traced to nineteenth-century evangelical movements that offered nostrums for liberating their followers from negative emotions. Its more immediate and familiar progenitors are the new psychologies that flourished and were popularised in the USA after the Second World War - notably, Freudian psychoanalysis and a successor that came to be known as the 'human potential movement'.
Colourful academic psychologists like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers introduced into American life their ideal of 'self-actualisation'. Their work and that of colleagues seems at first optimistic, positive, and suitable to a dynamic and energetic society like postwar America. But a closer look shows that both these thinkers were precursors to today's crisis writers. They were of the opinion that the vast majority of Americans led 'unactualised' lives in spiritual wastelands from which they needed to be rescued. Said Maslow, 'I sometimes think that the world will either be saved by psychologists - in the very broadest sense - or it will not be saved at all'.
We reject the idea that psychology, however humanistic and liberationist, can be a general provider of salvation. This is not to say that psychology has not made impressive progress. We understand very well that the same half century that incubated an unwholesome therapism also saw remarkable developments in the knowledge of the brain and in new medications for severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. And we appreciate that the various talk therapies have real value for many patients. But this approach can be, and has been, taken too far. The popular assumption that emotional disclosure is always valuable, and that without professional help most people are incapable of dealing with adversity, has slipped its clinical moorings and drifted into all corners of American life.
We are not the first to notice these encroachments. Social critics such as Philip Rieff, Christopher Lasch, Allan Bloom, and, more recently, Charles Sykes and Wendy Kaminer, have chronicled many aspects of what Rieff called the 'triumph of the therapeutic'. Our work builds on their insights and shows how the growth of therapism continues apace, affecting contemporary culture in ways that might surprise even these observers.
Our book, One Nation Under Therapy, describes the incursion of therapism and the growing role of helping professionals in our daily lives. It rejects the presumption of fragility and challenges the dogma of self-revelation; it exposes the folly of replacing ethical judgment with psychological and medical diagnosis, save for instances where individuals are severely mentally ill. The book contends, in other words, that human beings, including children, are best regarded as self-reliant, resilient, psychically sound moral agents responsible for their behaviour. For, with few exceptions, that is what we are.
In 2000, five Canadian psychologists published a satirical article about Winnie the Pooh entitled 'Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood'. At first glance, say the authors, the hero of AA Milne's 1926 children's classic appears to be a healthy, well-adjusted bear; but on closer and more expert examination, Pooh turns out to suffer from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, binge eating, and borderline cognitive functioning ('a bear of very little brain'), to name just a few of his infirmities.
Pooh's friends are similarly afflicted: Rabbit fits the profile of narcissistic personality syndrome; Owl is emotionally disturbed, which renders him dyslexic; and Piglet displays classic symptoms of generalised anxiety (a diagnosis that is admittedly difficult to dispute).
The Canadian spoof makes a serious point: the propensity of experts to pathologise and medicalise healthy children en masse has gotten way out of hand. The past decade has seen a cascade of books and articles promoting the idea that seemingly content and well-adjusted American children are emotionally damaged.
Adults are said to be miserable, too, as various experts and popular writers have been telling us for more than three decades. For example, in 1993 the prestigious Commonwealth Fund, a New York philanthropy concerned with public health, released the results of a poll on women's health. This 'important' study, as then US secretary of health and human services Donna Shalala called it, reported that in any given week, 40 per cent of American women are 'severely depressed.'
But then, in 1999, feminist author Susan Faludi, a veteran of the bestseller lists, called attention to the devastating emotional problems of yet another group of fragile Americans: adult males. In Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Male, Faludi contended that American men cannot live up to the conventional stoic ideal of manliness and so they lose their sense of self. 'No wonder men are in such agony', she says.
And no one has been more successful in making a career out of an alleged national anguish than Daniel Goleman, a former New York Times science writer. His bestselling 1995 book Emotional Intelligence described a nation suffering from profound 'emotional malaise' and in the grip of 'surging rage and despair'.
In an article in the Wall Street Journal, Jim Windolf, editor of the New York Observer, tallied the number of Americans allegedly suffering from some kind of emotional disorder. He sent away for the literature of dozens of advocacy agencies and mental health organisations. Then he did the math. Windolf reported, 'If you believe the statistics, 77 per cent of America's adult population is a mess.... And we haven't even thrown in alien abductees, road-ragers, and internet addicts.' If we factor in the drowning girls, diminished boys, despondent women, agonised men, and the all-around emotionally challenged, the country is, in Windolf's words, 'officially nuts'.
Our new book One Nation Under Therapy offers a more sanguine view of American society. It points out that there is no evidence that large segments of the population are in psychological freefall. On the contrary, researchers who abide by the protocols of genuine social science find most Americans - young and old - faring quite well.
Of course, we are not suggesting that everyone is perennially happy or possessed of an abiding sense of wellbeing. Many, if not most, human beings are mildly neurotic, at times self-defeating, anxious, or sad. These traits or behaviours are characteristic of the human condition, often emerging in different life circumstances - they are not pathological. And they are certainly not new. What we oppose is the view that Americans today are emotionally underdeveloped, psychically frail, and that they require the ministrations of mental health professionals to cope with life's vicissitudes. The crisis authors offer only anecdotes, misleading statistics, and dubious studies for their alarming findings. Yet they are taken very seriously.
'Therapism' in practice
These would-be healers of our purported woes dogmatically believe and promote the doctrine we call 'therapism'. Therapism extols openness, emotional self-absorption, and the sharing of feelings. It encompasses the assumption that vulnerability rather than strength characterises the American psyche and that suffering is a pathology in need of a cure. Therapism assumes that a diffident, anguished, and emotionally apprehensive public requires a vast array of therapists, self-esteem educators, grief counsellors, work-shoppers, healers, and traumatologists to lead it though the trials of everyday life. Children, more than any group, are targeted for therapeutic improvement. We roundly reject these assumptions.
Because they tend to regard normal children as psychologically at risk, many educators are taking extreme and unprecedented measures to protect them from stress. Schoolyard games that encourage competition are under assault. In some districts, dodgeball has been placed in a 'Hall of Shame' because, as one leading educator says, 'It's like Lord of the Flies, with adults encouraging it'. Tag is also under a cloud. The National Education Association distributes a teacher's guide that suggests an anxiety-reducing version of tag, 'where nobody is ever "out"'.
It is now common practice for 'sensitivity and bias committees' inside publishing houses to expunge from standardised tests all mention of potentially distressing topics. Two major companies specifically interdict references to rats, mice, roaches, snakes, lice, typhoons, blizzards and birthday parties. (The latter could create bad feelings in children whose families do not celebrate them.) The committees, says Diane Ravitch in her recent book The Language Police, believe such references could 'be so upsetting to some children that they will not be able to do their best on a test'.
Harmful effects on children
Young people are not helped by being wrapped in cotton wool and deprived of the vigorous pastimes and intellectual challenges they need for healthy development. Nor are they improved when educators, obsessed with the mission of boosting children's self-esteem, tell them how 'wonderful' they are. A growing body of research suggests there is, in fact, no connection between high self-esteem and achievement, kindness, or good personal relationships. On the other hand, unmerited self-esteem is known to be associated with antisocial behaviour - even criminality.
Therapism tends to regard people as essentially weak, dependent, and never altogether responsible for what they do. Alan Wolfe, a Boston College sociologist and expert on national mores and attitudes, reports that for many Americans non-judgmentalism has become a cardinal virtue. Concepts of right and wrong, good and evil, are often regarded as anachronistic and intolerant. 'Thou shalt be nice' is the new categorical imperative.
Summarising his findings, Wolfe says: 'What the Victorians considered self-destructive behaviour requiring punishment we consider self-destructive behaviour requiring treatment.... America has most definitely entered a new era in which virtue and vice are redefined in terms of public health and addiction.'
We do not advocate a return to a harsh judgmentalism. Wolfe may have a point when he says that an emphasis on tolerance has made Americans 'nicer'. However, this emphasis also induces a moral inertia that can be the opposite of nice. Consider, for example, the supposedly enlightened, compassionate view that drug and alcohol addiction are 'brain diseases'. We challenge the brain disease model on the grounds that treating addicts as morally responsible, self-determining human beings free to change their behaviour is, in the end, more effective, more respectful, and more compassionate.
We also reject therapism's central doctrine that uninhibited emotional openness is essential to mental health. On the contrary, recent findings suggest that reticence and suppression of feelings, far from compromising one's psychological wellbeing, can be healthy and adaptive. For many temperaments, an excessive focus on introspection and self-disclosure is depressing. Victims of loss and tragedy differ widely in their reactions: some benefit from therapeutic intervention; most do not and should not be coerced by mental health professionals into emotionally correct responses. Trauma and grief counsellors have erred massively in this direction.
The trauma industry
In the wake of mass tragedy, therapism's 'grief brigades', as Time magazine calls them, swoop down on victims. Helping professionals - many with questionable credentials - have become fixtures at scenes of disaster. The trauma industry operates on the assumption that the principal lesson to be learned from suffering is that one must exorcise it. But suffering is sometimes edifying. In his profound and moving book, Man's Search for Meaning, psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, himself a survivor of the Nazi death camps, wrote that, 'Suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon.... Suffering may well be a human achievement, especially if it grows out of existential frustration.'
It was in the same spirit that Time writer Lance Morrow wrote in the wake of 9/11, 'For once, let's have no "grief counsellors" standing by with banal consolations, as if the purpose, in the midst of all this, were merely to make everyone feel better as quickly as possible. We shouldn't feel better'. Finding solace and strength after grief without professional help has become an anachronism - like setting one's own broken bone.
The trauma industry routinely flouts Morrow's wise injunction, and applies with abandon the diagnosis of 'post-traumatic stress disorder'. PTSD is a legitimate clinical condition marked by intense re-experiencing of a horrific, often life-threatening event in the form of relentless nightmares or unbidden waking images. PTSD is not to be applied to people who are acutely distraught - a perfectly normal reaction - after a terrifying ordeal, but to the minority who go on to develop disabling, pathological anxiety because of it. Worse, clinicians often diagnose PTSD in individuals who have not even been exposed to horrific events but are simply upset by troubling incidents. For example, professional journals are rife with examples of 'PTSD' patients who have been sexually harassed on the job, moviegoers upset by seeing The Exorcist, and motorists involved in minor accidents - treated as if they were survivors of the Bataan Death March.
The rise of therapism
Where did it come from, this current preoccupation with feelings? It has many roots. One is the eighteenth-century Romantic philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. For Rousseau, the expression of emotion is crucial to any moral and spiritual development. It can also be traced to nineteenth-century evangelical movements that offered nostrums for liberating their followers from negative emotions. Its more immediate and familiar progenitors are the new psychologies that flourished and were popularised in the USA after the Second World War - notably, Freudian psychoanalysis and a successor that came to be known as the 'human potential movement'.
Colourful academic psychologists like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers introduced into American life their ideal of 'self-actualisation'. Their work and that of colleagues seems at first optimistic, positive, and suitable to a dynamic and energetic society like postwar America. But a closer look shows that both these thinkers were precursors to today's crisis writers. They were of the opinion that the vast majority of Americans led 'unactualised' lives in spiritual wastelands from which they needed to be rescued. Said Maslow, 'I sometimes think that the world will either be saved by psychologists - in the very broadest sense - or it will not be saved at all'.
We reject the idea that psychology, however humanistic and liberationist, can be a general provider of salvation. This is not to say that psychology has not made impressive progress. We understand very well that the same half century that incubated an unwholesome therapism also saw remarkable developments in the knowledge of the brain and in new medications for severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. And we appreciate that the various talk therapies have real value for many patients. But this approach can be, and has been, taken too far. The popular assumption that emotional disclosure is always valuable, and that without professional help most people are incapable of dealing with adversity, has slipped its clinical moorings and drifted into all corners of American life.
We are not the first to notice these encroachments. Social critics such as Philip Rieff, Christopher Lasch, Allan Bloom, and, more recently, Charles Sykes and Wendy Kaminer, have chronicled many aspects of what Rieff called the 'triumph of the therapeutic'. Our work builds on their insights and shows how the growth of therapism continues apace, affecting contemporary culture in ways that might surprise even these observers.
Our book, One Nation Under Therapy, describes the incursion of therapism and the growing role of helping professionals in our daily lives. It rejects the presumption of fragility and challenges the dogma of self-revelation; it exposes the folly of replacing ethical judgment with psychological and medical diagnosis, save for instances where individuals are severely mentally ill. The book contends, in other words, that human beings, including children, are best regarded as self-reliant, resilient, psychically sound moral agents responsible for their behaviour. For, with few exceptions, that is what we are.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
michael jackson
Just watched some michael jackson videos on youtube. its cool. juz pause ur mugging momentum and watch these videos haha and destress.
second one.
ok. continue mugging barh since u have already taken 10 minutes of rest = =
second one.
ok. continue mugging barh since u have already taken 10 minutes of rest = =
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Another video(s) to chill out at...
Disclaimer's warning: This show may contain violent images and snippets that may cause convulsions and nausea to the person in front of the computer screen. Shut down your computer and get back to mugger mode if you feel unwell.
If you haven't had enough, (probably you should, or else your parents gonna scold you for spending too much time on the com), here's part 2:
Haha (sadistically)
Your ACT REP
If you haven't had enough, (probably you should, or else your parents gonna scold you for spending too much time on the com), here's part 2:
Haha (sadistically)
Your ACT REP
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Class Chalet Update
Hi all,
The chalet's already been booked by Tse-An. Apologize but we could only get the Member-of-Public Rate cost for the chalet. Seems that all the civil-servant vacancies are taken up earlier than we did. Don't ask why, I am surprised at how many civil servants can take leave to go for chalets on a normal working day too.
So, we booked Seaview Bungalow Number 8. For those who are going there yourselves (a.k.a those who are going back home to collect their belongings before coming over), you might wanna check out the map below. There will be a more detailed replica of the map when you are at the clubhouse area, so that you won't get lost.
Check out the facilities as well. If you wanna swim (which i think not coz it's gonna be quite late by the time we reach there) or play street soccer/basketball (It's a half-court basketball court on a street soccer court. Not sure whether the basketball hoop is fixed. Last time, I've been there, the hoop was parallel to the board. Cool.), bring the necessary stuff.
Will discuss again on Friday to polish up on the final details before we enter the climax of C1 life: The Promos.
Ciao
Your ACT Rep
The chalet's already been booked by Tse-An. Apologize but we could only get the Member-of-Public Rate cost for the chalet. Seems that all the civil-servant vacancies are taken up earlier than we did. Don't ask why, I am surprised at how many civil servants can take leave to go for chalets on a normal working day too.
So, we booked Seaview Bungalow Number 8. For those who are going there yourselves (a.k.a those who are going back home to collect their belongings before coming over), you might wanna check out the map below. There will be a more detailed replica of the map when you are at the clubhouse area, so that you won't get lost.
Check out the facilities as well. If you wanna swim (which i think not coz it's gonna be quite late by the time we reach there) or play street soccer/basketball (It's a half-court basketball court on a street soccer court. Not sure whether the basketball hoop is fixed. Last time, I've been there, the hoop was parallel to the board. Cool.), bring the necessary stuff.
Will discuss again on Friday to polish up on the final details before we enter the climax of C1 life: The Promos.
Ciao
Your ACT Rep
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Updates and stuff!
Hi all,
For the chalet, Li Jie, Yi Ren, Zhi Rui and Xiao Yao, please confirm with us the things you will be bringing for the steamboat dinner. Will only get some ppl to bring, so please inform us asap.
Shoukee, update us about the booking of the chalet. If it's inconvenient for your cousin, we shall stick to the member of the public rate instead.
For the others, please bring try as much as possible to bring your stuff for the chalet on 2nd Oct. Can deposit in tse-an's car in the morning. If not, you can still go back home to collect your stuff and head over there yourself. Gonna be a little troublesome though.
Finally, here's something to chill at while you are mugging hard:
Ciao
Your ACT Rep
For the chalet, Li Jie, Yi Ren, Zhi Rui and Xiao Yao, please confirm with us the things you will be bringing for the steamboat dinner. Will only get some ppl to bring, so please inform us asap.
Shoukee, update us about the booking of the chalet. If it's inconvenient for your cousin, we shall stick to the member of the public rate instead.
For the others, please bring try as much as possible to bring your stuff for the chalet on 2nd Oct. Can deposit in tse-an's car in the morning. If not, you can still go back home to collect your stuff and head over there yourself. Gonna be a little troublesome though.
Finally, here's something to chill at while you are mugging hard:
Ciao
Your ACT Rep
hello everyone. this is an urgent message.
im using this blog because (some) people read it, and i can put more content here as compared to the sms i just sent out to all of you.
i apologize for all the trouble that is about to break out. but i still hope you can give me your co-operation first.
i have received an email from the teacher i/c for collection of newsweek $ that monday is the final final deadline.
i suppose it was wrong for me to give false hope that ordering newsweek was not compulsory. especially if this was not my right. in any case, i should have stood my ground from the start.
so i am making my stand now.
all those who have not paid (i.e NOT jason, zhirui, chenwo, guojun, tse an, shoukee) and do NOT have a subscription. please bring $18 on monday. i will settle all the little change so that it doesn't get too troublesome.
please respond to my sms to confirm that you have received it. and put the money into your wallet first. so you don't forget.
possible consequences if:
you say you have a subscription but have no proof.
i have no idea what is going to happen. but it is NOT. repeat NOT likely to be good. just so you know. if you don't want to risk all your ocip and obs and whatever attachments, please co-operate and pay up.
you forget to bring:
will be forced to withdraw the money from the class fund, or, failing that, will force you to go and pay yourself. yes. you alone.
i understand its quite harsh and everyone doesn't deserve it since it was my fault that started this screwup in the first place. but please co-operate and i won't have to compound this mistake any further. thanks.
and i'm really, really sorry about this. okay.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
ehh guys for the upcoming class chalet, i know that everyone is quite budget conscious.
so i spotted something on channel 8! haha its more useful for once
http://forums.keeptouch.net/showthread.php?p=2008906
thats a link to alot of stuff that can be bought cheaply. like food?
or perhaps
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haha. http://www.foodedgegourmet.com/
recommends this one. but i dont think we can arrange..since the opening hours are limited. dont think anyone wants to stop revising and go buy food right. haha.
just offering a (perhaps?) cheaper addition to the bbq. not alternative. okay. ^^
so i'll leave it to you guys to check it out. off to shower first :)
so i spotted something on channel 8! haha its more useful for once
http://forums.keeptouch.net/showthread.php?p=2008906
thats a link to alot of stuff that can be bought cheaply. like food?
or perhaps
icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream icecream
haha. http://www.foodedgegourmet.com/
recommends this one. but i dont think we can arrange..since the opening hours are limited. dont think anyone wants to stop revising and go buy food right. haha.
just offering a (perhaps?) cheaper addition to the bbq. not alternative. okay. ^^
so i'll leave it to you guys to check it out. off to shower first :)
Monday, September 8, 2008
Class CHALET (It's back!)
Hi ppl,
The tentative date now for class chalet is 2nd October (Thurs). It's gonna be a one-day overnight stay. This time we bring it to a better place: Aloha Loyang. Much bigger and better facilities than the previous one we went to.
You can check out this website for more info. http://www.aloharesorts.com.sg/
With regards to this, just inform me/ Guo Jun of any matters, be it you can't make it for the chalet/ stay overnight or you wanna tell us more info., good deals etc. We got to know the admin details asap so we can book the chalet without any delay. This is also to facilitate the distribution of the I/Cs as well.
Dinner's gonna be the same old style: BBQ. So we gonna get the same vendor for the food (unless you violently object) for the BBQ. If you wanna show off your cooking skills in front of us, feel free to do so as well! (But make sure it taste good, or else the class funds goes down the drain) You can also suggest alternative dinner styles e.g. steamboat (which zhirui violently object) or whatsoever.
Yulin: Can you check if your parent is able to help us with the booking of the chalet? We need to check the status of the chalets soon.
So what do YOU have to bring? Hmm.... Well just the same old stuff... Cards, Mahjong, Board games, Console games, DVDs (horror ones would be excellent)etc etc. Please tag if you got other excellent concepts and ideas.
Can also burn candles at the rock bunds of the Pasir Ris beach.(But don't fall into the sea!)
Remember to bring enough money as well. Gonna need it for late night cycling and purchase of drinks etc.
LATEST: There are still some chalets left for booking. But should be booked pretty soon based on the booking system. All slots on 3rd October are booked already.
Signing off
Your ACT REP
The tentative date now for class chalet is 2nd October (Thurs). It's gonna be a one-day overnight stay. This time we bring it to a better place: Aloha Loyang. Much bigger and better facilities than the previous one we went to.
You can check out this website for more info. http://www.aloharesorts.com.sg/
With regards to this, just inform me/ Guo Jun of any matters, be it you can't make it for the chalet/ stay overnight or you wanna tell us more info., good deals etc. We got to know the admin details asap so we can book the chalet without any delay. This is also to facilitate the distribution of the I/Cs as well.
Dinner's gonna be the same old style: BBQ. So we gonna get the same vendor for the food (unless you violently object) for the BBQ. If you wanna show off your cooking skills in front of us, feel free to do so as well! (But make sure it taste good, or else the class funds goes down the drain) You can also suggest alternative dinner styles e.g. steamboat (which zhirui violently object) or whatsoever.
Yulin: Can you check if your parent is able to help us with the booking of the chalet? We need to check the status of the chalets soon.
So what do YOU have to bring? Hmm.... Well just the same old stuff... Cards, Mahjong, Board games, Console games, DVDs (horror ones would be excellent)etc etc. Please tag if you got other excellent concepts and ideas.
Can also burn candles at the rock bunds of the Pasir Ris beach.(But don't fall into the sea!)
Remember to bring enough money as well. Gonna need it for late night cycling and purchase of drinks etc.
LATEST: There are still some chalets left for booking. But should be booked pretty soon based on the booking system. All slots on 3rd October are booked already.
Signing off
Your ACT REP
Saturday, September 6, 2008
BACK FROM MAF!!!!
Hi all,
Just came back from MAF. Excellent light-up and fountain. With lots of goodies and friends around as well. Got to see seniors from 05S63 and 06S63 (one of the PE teachers is from this class). Final verdict: Well done, councillors!
Will upload the photos soon on photobucket, so be sure to check it out! *Got to ask guo jun to photoshop some photos due to some reflection of dust specks on the pictures.
Heard from Tse-an that the girls wanna a chalet after Promos.. Hmm.. Can discuss that when we return to school on Mon.
Ciao
Your ACT REP
Just came back from MAF. Excellent light-up and fountain. With lots of goodies and friends around as well. Got to see seniors from 05S63 and 06S63 (one of the PE teachers is from this class). Final verdict: Well done, councillors!
Will upload the photos soon on photobucket, so be sure to check it out! *Got to ask guo jun to photoshop some photos due to some reflection of dust specks on the pictures.
Heard from Tse-an that the girls wanna a chalet after Promos.. Hmm.. Can discuss that when we return to school on Mon.
Ciao
Your ACT REP
Thursday, September 4, 2008
MAF 2008
Hiya
RAWH i shall follow up on what jason has said...
Ok, anytime now, i'm going to SMS us (erm, this is not "us" but "you"s, as in.... alot of you ie. "u"... ok, nvm)
All i wanna ask is
1. Do you want to have dinner before maf?
2. If u do, where do u wan to have it?
Please do give me or jason a reply through
1. SMS
2. TAG
Yep, that's all
Oya, here's something for ur perusal when u get tired of studying this holiday week
Apparently, Alvin and the Chipmunks (if u know the movie) is not a new creation. It was created quite long ago. I got this from somewhere:
It was just darn interesting for me to know this. But maybe not for u :D
Now who can forget this song. i know i cant
gj
RAWH i shall follow up on what jason has said...
Ok, anytime now, i'm going to SMS us (erm, this is not "us" but "you"s, as in.... alot of you ie. "u"... ok, nvm)
All i wanna ask is
1. Do you want to have dinner before maf?
2. If u do, where do u wan to have it?
Please do give me or jason a reply through
1. SMS
2. TAG
Yep, that's all
Oya, here's something for ur perusal when u get tired of studying this holiday week
Apparently, Alvin and the Chipmunks (if u know the movie) is not a new creation. It was created quite long ago. I got this from somewhere:
These appealing characters were first brought to life in the '50s by singer and songwriter Ross Bagdasarian, who was writing songs and recording under the name David Seville. When his music career seemed to be floating in place, he came up with a plan and recorded a Christmas song using high-speed tracks to achieve a sound that he considered a good impersonation of what a cartoon chipmunk should sound like. When that first single sold millions of copies in less than two months, Bagdasarian knew he had found his perfect gimmick; one that would become a success that would outlast his lifetime. In 1961, Alvin & the Chipmunks was first transformed from simple singing voices into a full cartoon.
It was just darn interesting for me to know this. But maybe not for u :D
Now who can forget this song. i know i cant
gj
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Mid.Autumn.Festival
Hey all!!
Remember your old chinese textbook? The recording that your chinese teacher always play on the player while you read the textbook in school? 农历八月十五，中秋节。。。。 (Argh... can't rmb all the texts...)
Anyway, this Saturday's MAF - Mid-Autumn Festival. I'm sure all of you have celebrated it before -be it at home/ a restaurant or whatsoever.
So, I would HIGHLY ENCOURAGE all of you to attend this session. You will get to enjoy great performances, food and stuff. Heard they are selling the previous JC shirt. It's super cool: the vintage-look and the "total-defence" like logo. If you haven't seen the logo before, here it is!
At the same time, we are showing support for our councillors, who are working hard to bring you the best of the best (but that doesn't mean you splurge on their items n stuff... haha.. sry wenbo :x)
If you ppl wanna meet somewhere and have dinner first, do post on the blog or SMS guojun/me. Else, we assume you wanna have dinner with your cliques etc. before coming down.
Alternatively, if all of you are so enthusiastic, perhaps can have some mini-gathering outside on that day prior to MAF? Just give us the green light and we can coordinate that as well!
Hundreds and thousands of seniors and juniors are attending. How can YOU miss out on all the fun?
Haha
Happy Holidays
Your ACT REP
P.S. Sounds a little salesperson-ish :p
Remember your old chinese textbook? The recording that your chinese teacher always play on the player while you read the textbook in school? 农历八月十五，中秋节。。。。 (Argh... can't rmb all the texts...)
Anyway, this Saturday's MAF - Mid-Autumn Festival. I'm sure all of you have celebrated it before -be it at home/ a restaurant or whatsoever.
So, I would HIGHLY ENCOURAGE all of you to attend this session. You will get to enjoy great performances, food and stuff. Heard they are selling the previous JC shirt. It's super cool: the vintage-look and the "total-defence" like logo. If you haven't seen the logo before, here it is!
At the same time, we are showing support for our councillors, who are working hard to bring you the best of the best (but that doesn't mean you splurge on their items n stuff... haha.. sry wenbo :x)
If you ppl wanna meet somewhere and have dinner first, do post on the blog or SMS guojun/me. Else, we assume you wanna have dinner with your cliques etc. before coming down.
Alternatively, if all of you are so enthusiastic, perhaps can have some mini-gathering outside on that day prior to MAF? Just give us the green light and we can coordinate that as well!
Hundreds and thousands of seniors and juniors are attending. How can YOU miss out on all the fun?
Haha
Happy Holidays
Your ACT REP
P.S. Sounds a little salesperson-ish :p
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