CJL
Conscientious Joyful Living, does it reflect me or what. lol
The lower 6 examinations are finally over. As Gandhi once put it, it always seems impossible until it is done. Nothing is impossible, except for the things that we have chosen not to do yet.
SMKC’s choir won 4th place. Well, at least it was better than last year. CDQ was kind enough to burn a copy of the entire choir competition event for me. All I had to do was collect it from Pn CHe Ma.
Pn Che Ma wasn’t at home when I first rang her door. Apparently she went to Shah Alam with her husband to watch a real hantu exhibition. Ghosts spooks, and the smell of death, nothing disturbs me more.
Which reminds me of the front page of Star 2 on Monday, which was filled with caricatures of hantu of manifold religion and beliefs. Amusingly unnerving, one which looked novel to me was the hantu puchong. Apparently this specific hantu was always wrapped in white cloth. The hantus will have 2 months of holidays? gee.. where did that come from
Recently I"ve come to derive joy from knowledge again. And nothing inspires me more than this picture
Yep, its a picture captured by hubble’s deep space magnification telescope. This is certainly beyond the descriptive abilities of mere words.. all these galaxies.. each illuminating glow a galaxy with trillions of stars… there is so much to learn! don’t u just get excited?
And consider the humble text books which adorn our table, with magnificient pages of information carefully researched and crafted by benevolent individuals who equated each subtopic as their live’s work. With the hope that someone else would use its knowledge and change the world for the better, yet how we sometimes find them a burden, a bothersome, cumbersome, obstacle towards the goal post of social recognition……
I would like to quote Guy Kiyosaki’s presentation. " There are 3 ways to make meaning in life - to increase the quality of life, to right a wrong, and to prevent the end of something good" How very true. For our goals to be truly meaningful then, they ought to derive certain common denominators with the mentioned 3. That aside, Guy Kiyosaki’s presentation was downright awesome. I really respect that guy for being such a good public speaker, and I certainly seek to learn from him. Don’t know what I"m talking about? check this out http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3755718939216161559
From his presentation too I realized a critical flawed paradigm within myself - the constant harping of creating the perfect mission statement. I’m truly grateful for such newfound knowledge.
Recently, another spindle of life that has caught my eye are the 7 deadly sins. What are the 7 deadly sins? check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins as I was reading the wiki article, and as my eyes rolled down the 7 great imperfections of men, my heart resonated with something. Yep, no wonder life stinks at times. Surprisingly it is able to serve as an excellent and simple guideline to better oneself. And its certainly more specific than the golden rule.
Mm. I finished watching the choir competition recordings. CBN wasn’t really that awesome.. their rendition of over the rainbow was actually quite pitchy, and their medley - think of me fondly, remember me.. blablabla.. was actually quite amusing in the sense that they were indirectly singing to the judges to THINK OF ME FONDLY, and REMEMBER ME.. and it was like so ugh… they won.. LoL
VI was good as usual, but this time they seemed to have overdid it perhaps.. something just didn’t click.. maybe it was the weather that day, positive songs had a fairer chance of winning… St Mary.. wow.. SO colourful, I am so speechless because they look like they just robbed bill gates, made him bankrupt and stuck all his money on themselves as costumes.. SMKC was well, aihz. the song selection.. the oomph just wasn’t there. and then there was the school I forgot what’s its name.. they were quite passionate and amusing as they sang.. MALAYSIA SUDAH BERJAYA, MALAYSIA BERJAYA, MAAAALAAAYSIIAAAA BERJAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.. and then next they sang - Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of thyme? LOL they mambo jamboed the nursery rhyme into a godzilla.. it sounded so funny especially when it came to the part of the rhyme when they were supposed to sing " the birds began to Sing!!!!!!!!!!!" THey literally pulled the ’sing’ syllable up and down 5000 piano octaves with a frequency of 10284129750197 hertz.. lol.. in conclusion.. the lesson learnt is.. emotion sells.. emotion was lacking.. in my opinion, of the other 4 choirs.. but the CBN really meant it when they sang to THINK OF ME and REMEMBER ME FONDLY.. it struck a chord with the audience and obviously the judges.. so I guess, as circumstances and the weather would have it.. they deserved to win.
I’ve recently wondered why I tend to shake my leg whenever I’m running certain thought processes in my brain. It seems, that when I understand something in class or get excited, I shake my leg.. and I notice my classmates doing that too, especially the smart ones.. so doesn’t that tell u something? LOL.. My explanation is that because the leg muscles are the biggest in the body, the rapid contraction and subsequent relaxation of the muscles activate the myoglobin in the muscles which stores oxygen, does resulting in an oxygen demand which seems to increase metabolism as well as a certain amount of dopamine release into the brain.. normally leg shaking stops when the discomfort of lactic acid build up cancels out the pleasurable feelings from the dopamine effect.. so then, I suppose you can judge to a certain degree, the energy level for learning in a class by the frequency its students shake their legs? LoLOoLOlOlol.. pure speculations of course.. imaginary. Yet, when they are mixed with pieces of facts.. they become complex.. (think complex numbers: imaginary number + real number) an excellent example being the da vinci code.. how it has managed to play on this human feature so well to make the entire literary world dance to its tune.
http://www.chemsoc.org/timeline/pages/timeline.html
Another website filled with thought provoking imagery. A cancer fighting drug.. Imatinib.. wow, enzymes are key players in biology indeed
To sum it all up, I know I’ve flunked the monthly test. But I have discovered myself.. which was there all along.. because believing is seeing, after all.
