The massive and amazing capacity and capability of our brain is beyond our wildest imagination.
Yesterday I wondered abt the brain's power of "sifting" or some call it "filtering". I found that I have this ability to sift thru wat I see and hear...new skill wo!
A couple of examples:
I have this old 14" TV in my room which has lines showing when the TV is on (think the display spoil lah)...but I am able to "Not See" those lines and carry on watching my shows as per norm while my bro will be complaining abt them and grumble at me as to why I couldnt see those lines...keke
My office is an open concept office where u can see ur colleagues from where u are seated. Although its extremely easy to hear ur colleagues' conversation on phone or otherwise, I have mastered the skill of "Not Hear" all forms of conversations around me that does not include myself.
Just yesterday, one of the lights above my workstation started flickering (the light tube fused). I am actually able to ignore the sama-disco lighting and continue typing away on my pc...wahaha...steady hor. ^^
Now u see the powers of the brain and its ability to sift thru information that was sent to it by the eyes and ears...amazing!
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Bizarre - Dreams
Ever wondered how dreams come abt? Wat they mean? Whether they could be controlled?
Some say dreams only come to those who are tired and did not get enuff sleep. Some say its the result of our subconscious mind working OT. There is an old chinese saying "Ri You Shuo Si, Ye You Shuo Meng" - ie. U dream at night about what u think of in the daytime. But I also vaguely remember a saying that at night when we sleep, our spirits float out of our bodies and "do things"...thus sometimes when we are awake and do certain stuffs, we get the deja-vu feeling that all the things that are occuring had happened before. Bizarre??? Tat's not all...
Then, there are talks about interpretation of dreams and wat they could predict in our near/distant future. Of coz these interpretations are not as easy as for eg. u dream of being late for school/work and the result being that you are really late...its more in-depth than this...a dream of wealth might not necessarily mean a windfall.
My dreams comes mostly in bits and pieces and somehow incomprehensible. The most frequent dreams I had when I was a kid were of spiders and falling down. Spiders, I think was caused by my childhood fear of things lurking in the dark and the shadow of my mum's clothes hanging near my bed. Falling down, hmmmm...I never understood why I had tat. It was actually quite scary to fall down and feel ur body "thump" (shake as if there's an impact) on the bed.
Luckily, when I grew up those dreams of spiders and falling down no longer plague me. From then, I had lots of weird dreams: waking up late for school; attending to urgent nature's call (either big or small business ah); scenes from shows that I watched; me in some sort of race; me in a series of events; etc...etc...
I ever tried "controlling" my dreams by thinking hard of someone (I wana have sweet dreams ^^) but it never work. Yeh, I had some romantic dreams too...bet most of u also had such dreams before, keke (not wet dreams lah!!! Aiyo!!!)...but mine is mostly with pple I dun wish to have these romantic dreams abt. Let's see...I dreamt of being with Christian Slater before, then once I dreamt of kissing a friend's boyfriend (whom by the way, I really have no fantasy abt..he is not my type). Ok, there is abt once or twice that I dreamt of kissing a guy I used to like (not my ex-bf!), and those times were most unexpected coz I tried so often trying to think of him hoping that I will dream of him at night...but nah! Never comes when I wanted it.
The most unnerving dreams I had would be dreams of my ex-bf. I hate dreaming abt him! Never had dreams abt him when I was with him (ok, I dun remember having lah)...but since we broke off...it seems that once in a long time (eg. a few months or half a year), he will visit my dreams. I REALLY HATE DREAMING ABT HIM!!! I never bothered thinking abt him, so why do I keep dreaming of him??? I remember the first time I dreamt of him after we broke off, I woke up in cold sweat and went to a friend for comfort. I dreamt abt him this morning again...within the 1 hr that I laze back into bed (which I really regretted doing), I dreamt of patching up with him (over my dead body!) and getting cheated by him! Felt so betrayed...the leftover feeling when I woke up is NOT GOOD....T_T think this will be a sucky day! All coz of this lousy dream...
Some say dreams only come to those who are tired and did not get enuff sleep. Some say its the result of our subconscious mind working OT. There is an old chinese saying "Ri You Shuo Si, Ye You Shuo Meng" - ie. U dream at night about what u think of in the daytime. But I also vaguely remember a saying that at night when we sleep, our spirits float out of our bodies and "do things"...thus sometimes when we are awake and do certain stuffs, we get the deja-vu feeling that all the things that are occuring had happened before. Bizarre??? Tat's not all...
Then, there are talks about interpretation of dreams and wat they could predict in our near/distant future. Of coz these interpretations are not as easy as for eg. u dream of being late for school/work and the result being that you are really late...its more in-depth than this...a dream of wealth might not necessarily mean a windfall.
My dreams comes mostly in bits and pieces and somehow incomprehensible. The most frequent dreams I had when I was a kid were of spiders and falling down. Spiders, I think was caused by my childhood fear of things lurking in the dark and the shadow of my mum's clothes hanging near my bed. Falling down, hmmmm...I never understood why I had tat. It was actually quite scary to fall down and feel ur body "thump" (shake as if there's an impact) on the bed.
Luckily, when I grew up those dreams of spiders and falling down no longer plague me. From then, I had lots of weird dreams: waking up late for school; attending to urgent nature's call (either big or small business ah); scenes from shows that I watched; me in some sort of race; me in a series of events; etc...etc...
I ever tried "controlling" my dreams by thinking hard of someone (I wana have sweet dreams ^^) but it never work. Yeh, I had some romantic dreams too...bet most of u also had such dreams before, keke (not wet dreams lah!!! Aiyo!!!)...but mine is mostly with pple I dun wish to have these romantic dreams abt. Let's see...I dreamt of being with Christian Slater before, then once I dreamt of kissing a friend's boyfriend (whom by the way, I really have no fantasy abt..he is not my type). Ok, there is abt once or twice that I dreamt of kissing a guy I used to like (not my ex-bf!), and those times were most unexpected coz I tried so often trying to think of him hoping that I will dream of him at night...but nah! Never comes when I wanted it.
The most unnerving dreams I had would be dreams of my ex-bf. I hate dreaming abt him! Never had dreams abt him when I was with him (ok, I dun remember having lah)...but since we broke off...it seems that once in a long time (eg. a few months or half a year), he will visit my dreams. I REALLY HATE DREAMING ABT HIM!!! I never bothered thinking abt him, so why do I keep dreaming of him??? I remember the first time I dreamt of him after we broke off, I woke up in cold sweat and went to a friend for comfort. I dreamt abt him this morning again...within the 1 hr that I laze back into bed (which I really regretted doing), I dreamt of patching up with him (over my dead body!) and getting cheated by him! Felt so betrayed...the leftover feeling when I woke up is NOT GOOD....T_T think this will be a sucky day! All coz of this lousy dream...
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Zhuan Shu Tian Shi - Tank (Hana-Kimi)
I am currently watching Taiwan drama "Hana-Kimi" or "Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu" starring Ella (SHE), Wu Zun (Fei Lun Hai) and Wang Dong Cheng (Fei Lun Hai). Got absolutely addicted to this show...think I will buy the show for my own keepsake since I have only been watching from youtube. Will post my review on the show once I completed the whole show...now waiting for the last 2 episodes to be posted on youtube. T_T buay tahan....
Meanwhile, wana introduce to all one of the songs in this show sang by TANK - Zhuan Shu Tian Shi. Fell in love with the song the 1st time I heard it. I was like asking my fren, who sang that ending song in the show? When I heard it was TANK, was rather surprised...coz I never really notice this singer until now. This song is really good lah...hmm, cant find the right word to describe it...u listen lah, will understand wat I mean.
Meanwhile, wana introduce to all one of the songs in this show sang by TANK - Zhuan Shu Tian Shi. Fell in love with the song the 1st time I heard it. I was like asking my fren, who sang that ending song in the show? When I heard it was TANK, was rather surprised...coz I never really notice this singer until now. This song is really good lah...hmm, cant find the right word to describe it...u listen lah, will understand wat I mean.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Happy Chinese New Year!
Its Chinese New Year 2007...here's wishing everyone a fantastic year ahead!
Now to my whining abt the new year. Ever since I grew up, I am beginning to find CNY pretty meaningless. Other than the holiday off from work that we get, I really cannot find a good reason to like this festival...yeah, u get time to accompany ur family....yeah, u get to see relatives and friends whom u might not have seen for a year....blah blah blah! But, to be truthful, its really pretty boring.
The same conversational topics come out every year during CNY:
"Oh, u have grown fatter/thinner o."
"Which school u studying in?"
"So, where r u working now? Graduated anot?"
"U havent found a boyfriend/girlfriend ah?"
"When r u getting married? Not young already o."
"When are u having kids ah?"
"How are ur kids doing in school?"
Of coz there are more samples of such conversational topics...but its all really quite irritating to answer...not becoz a little concern from relatives and friends are not good...its really becoz why do pple who see u like once a year wana do knowing so much abt u? Its not as if they really play tat big a part in our lives if we only see them once or twice a year....which is the case for my relatives...see them like maybe twice a year...once on CNY and another on my grandma's birthday.
BORING!!!
Luckily these 2 days was not a long torture...went to both grandma's place at abt 11plus and came back home in the afternoon abt 3 plus to 4 plus....so its not tat bad. And with a little distraction from Charmaine and Ray, time flew pretty fast. But then, I still couldnt help but think that CNY meant so much more to me when I was a kid. I remember that I couldnt wait for CNY to arrive during the eve...and that our family would stay at my grandma's place for almost the whole day, eating and playing blackjack. Now...well, it was just eat and make small talk, then scram...hahaha....guess tats the difference in meaning CNY holds for children and adults.
Had my other bolt of bad luck just now when I tried to turn on my bro's pc...it wouldnt start! Could see lights flashing on the CPU and hear the fan engine in the CPU start...but no image appear on monitor...checked the monitor and its ok but no images from CPU...argh!!! I DIN DO ANYTHING TO THE PC!!! Why did it have to die on me at this time? T_T No proper maple for me for the next few days till the pc get repaired...now had to use the lousy laptop at home to surf net also...T_T
BAD LUCK GO AWAY!!!! GO AWAY!!!! GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!
Now to my whining abt the new year. Ever since I grew up, I am beginning to find CNY pretty meaningless. Other than the holiday off from work that we get, I really cannot find a good reason to like this festival...yeah, u get time to accompany ur family....yeah, u get to see relatives and friends whom u might not have seen for a year....blah blah blah! But, to be truthful, its really pretty boring.
The same conversational topics come out every year during CNY:
"Oh, u have grown fatter/thinner o."
"Which school u studying in?"
"So, where r u working now? Graduated anot?"
"U havent found a boyfriend/girlfriend ah?"
"When r u getting married? Not young already o."
"When are u having kids ah?"
"How are ur kids doing in school?"
Of coz there are more samples of such conversational topics...but its all really quite irritating to answer...not becoz a little concern from relatives and friends are not good...its really becoz why do pple who see u like once a year wana do knowing so much abt u? Its not as if they really play tat big a part in our lives if we only see them once or twice a year....which is the case for my relatives...see them like maybe twice a year...once on CNY and another on my grandma's birthday.
BORING!!!
Luckily these 2 days was not a long torture...went to both grandma's place at abt 11plus and came back home in the afternoon abt 3 plus to 4 plus....so its not tat bad. And with a little distraction from Charmaine and Ray, time flew pretty fast. But then, I still couldnt help but think that CNY meant so much more to me when I was a kid. I remember that I couldnt wait for CNY to arrive during the eve...and that our family would stay at my grandma's place for almost the whole day, eating and playing blackjack. Now...well, it was just eat and make small talk, then scram...hahaha....guess tats the difference in meaning CNY holds for children and adults.
Had my other bolt of bad luck just now when I tried to turn on my bro's pc...it wouldnt start! Could see lights flashing on the CPU and hear the fan engine in the CPU start...but no image appear on monitor...checked the monitor and its ok but no images from CPU...argh!!! I DIN DO ANYTHING TO THE PC!!! Why did it have to die on me at this time? T_T No proper maple for me for the next few days till the pc get repaired...now had to use the lousy laptop at home to surf net also...T_T
BAD LUCK GO AWAY!!!! GO AWAY!!!! GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!
Friday, February 16, 2007
Summerbeach (aka Let's Go To The Beach)
Another one of my current favourite Korean actor, Lee Wan's show. I still cant get over how different he looks in this show compared to Taste Sweet Love. Though he looked slightly fatter in Taste Sweet Love, I sort of like tat version of him better...think its becoz he looks less like a star and more like the average guy and thus I feel more able to relate to him in tat show. Think this is the same thing with Kim Sam Soon's character...coz she is plump and not like the regular sweet pretty Female Lead in most shows tat makes her more like a real life character than just a make believe character in stories.
Ok, back to this show..not my all time favourite show coz the plot is guessable and sort of reminds me of the show "Prince's First Love".
The typical brothers' rivalry to get the same girl. Both brothers being born to the same father but different mothers vie to gain their dad's favour and position in the company. Then come along this sweet simple country girl who innocently rubs shoulders with both brothers and attracted them to her....blah blah blah....yeh, typical plot but still nice to watch...
RATING FOR SHOW: ** (out of 5 stars)
Rival
This is a show I bought recently and only realised that it was an earlier drama which Kim Jae Won acted in.
The show started with the Female Lead (FL) being a poor illegitimate girl who was staying with her aunt coz her mum was in coma. The Male Lead (ML), who was a hooligan, met the FL when he was trying to collect a debt from FL's cousin.
Touched by FL's courage and determination to repay the debt owed by her cousin by means of playing golf, ML protected her from his boss. And he slowly developed good feelings for FL.
One day, FL suddenly disappeared and ML went in search of her, thinking that she was running away from debt. Only to discover that FL had found her birth dad and was staying with her dad, step mum and step sis. Her step sis was jealous of her appearance in their lives and tried ways to get rid of her. But to her annoyance, her childhood love met FL and took a liking to FL, thus making her even more angry. Falling into her step sis' ploy, FL was mistaken not to be her dad's real daughter and was forced to leave the family...only to meet them again 4 years later...
RATING FOR SHOW: ** (out of 5 stars)
The show started with the Female Lead (FL) being a poor illegitimate girl who was staying with her aunt coz her mum was in coma. The Male Lead (ML), who was a hooligan, met the FL when he was trying to collect a debt from FL's cousin.
Touched by FL's courage and determination to repay the debt owed by her cousin by means of playing golf, ML protected her from his boss. And he slowly developed good feelings for FL.
One day, FL suddenly disappeared and ML went in search of her, thinking that she was running away from debt. Only to discover that FL had found her birth dad and was staying with her dad, step mum and step sis. Her step sis was jealous of her appearance in their lives and tried ways to get rid of her. But to her annoyance, her childhood love met FL and took a liking to FL, thus making her even more angry. Falling into her step sis' ploy, FL was mistaken not to be her dad's real daughter and was forced to leave the family...only to meet them again 4 years later...
RATING FOR SHOW: ** (out of 5 stars)
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Happy Valentine's Day
Just a simple message to all my frens and loved ones...
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Helen...we miss U...
One of my colleague, Helen, has left the company. The 4th colleague (under contract in our dept) to leave and there is still NO REPLACEMENT!!! Think employers just love to exploit labour...arghhhh....
Been feeling tired of my job for the longest time already...day in, day out of reading case files can really get to me...coupled with annoying directors & creditors, ambiguous instructions and overload of work...makes me wana leave the place sooner than planned. But being the lazy me, I am putting off the job hunt..."maybe next week ba" ringing in my head all the time...
Now tat my neighbour at work is gone, it became even more boring than ever...the frequency of visits from the Z-monster has also increased. She had been a model for me to at least do more work coz she is forever rushing work...in tat way, I slack less when she was ard. So, u can more or less guess the state I am in right now :P
Helen, you are being missed in office k! Wish u all the best for the future and keep in touch ^^
Been feeling tired of my job for the longest time already...day in, day out of reading case files can really get to me...coupled with annoying directors & creditors, ambiguous instructions and overload of work...makes me wana leave the place sooner than planned. But being the lazy me, I am putting off the job hunt..."maybe next week ba" ringing in my head all the time...
Now tat my neighbour at work is gone, it became even more boring than ever...the frequency of visits from the Z-monster has also increased. She had been a model for me to at least do more work coz she is forever rushing work...in tat way, I slack less when she was ard. So, u can more or less guess the state I am in right now :P
Helen, you are being missed in office k! Wish u all the best for the future and keep in touch ^^
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Karaoke + Nice Dinner = Great Day Out!
I had an enjoyable day out with my Xiaomeis (ie. Ni, Meng and ZW). We din plan much for the day and only went for Karaoke and dinner but I think its more the company than wat u do that makes ur day great. ^^
Initially, we wanted to go swimming at Jurong but once again our plan failed. Its always one reason or another, think we will never be able to successfully arrange a swimming outing...sadz...
Well, we went K-Box at Suntec this time rather than Party World which we used to go. The room was comfortable as it was rather big for 4 persons but as usual, out of the 2 mics, 1 is slightly faulty. Wonder why does this happen everytime I go to sing karaoke? Do the owners/operators just decide to mix the good and faulty mics such that there is 1 of each in each room? Then when pple complain, they will replace another mic...which might well turn out to be faulty again :X
Anyway, we still had a good time despite the lousy mic...but I am finding it rather boring to be singing the same songs over and over...I am not really learning new songs...so am quite stuck when I go singing - boring! Am really outdated anyway...dun know all the new songs...ok, maybe I heard of them but dun really know them well.
I also received presents from them for my belated birthday...so sweet of them :) ...I wasnt expecting more presents after my "sick" birthday. We took some photos with Meng's famous digital cam which has amazingly short battery life. Now, I just gotta wait till Meng send us the photos so that I can upload here...which might well take forever coz Meng.... =X
We had dinner at Asian Kitchen at Marina. Surprisingly, the Zha Jiang Mian and Prawn Wanton Soup Noodle both tasted good. At first I was a bit wary abt how the Zha Jiang Mian will taste like (coz the one I tried at one restaurant in Chinatown in the past tasted pretty bad). Luckily, unlike the one I tried last time which was with blackish sauce, this Zha Jiang Mian at Asian Kitchen has a reddish sauce which is chilli and etc. Tasted quite good ah...yam yam...
After dinner it was just heading home to more tv and games. Think I am old, feel tired after a short day out.
Initially, we wanted to go swimming at Jurong but once again our plan failed. Its always one reason or another, think we will never be able to successfully arrange a swimming outing...sadz...
Well, we went K-Box at Suntec this time rather than Party World which we used to go. The room was comfortable as it was rather big for 4 persons but as usual, out of the 2 mics, 1 is slightly faulty. Wonder why does this happen everytime I go to sing karaoke? Do the owners/operators just decide to mix the good and faulty mics such that there is 1 of each in each room? Then when pple complain, they will replace another mic...which might well turn out to be faulty again :X
Anyway, we still had a good time despite the lousy mic...but I am finding it rather boring to be singing the same songs over and over...I am not really learning new songs...so am quite stuck when I go singing - boring! Am really outdated anyway...dun know all the new songs...ok, maybe I heard of them but dun really know them well.
I also received presents from them for my belated birthday...so sweet of them :) ...I wasnt expecting more presents after my "sick" birthday. We took some photos with Meng's famous digital cam which has amazingly short battery life. Now, I just gotta wait till Meng send us the photos so that I can upload here...which might well take forever coz Meng.... =X
We had dinner at Asian Kitchen at Marina. Surprisingly, the Zha Jiang Mian and Prawn Wanton Soup Noodle both tasted good. At first I was a bit wary abt how the Zha Jiang Mian will taste like (coz the one I tried at one restaurant in Chinatown in the past tasted pretty bad). Luckily, unlike the one I tried last time which was with blackish sauce, this Zha Jiang Mian at Asian Kitchen has a reddish sauce which is chilli and etc. Tasted quite good ah...yam yam...
After dinner it was just heading home to more tv and games. Think I am old, feel tired after a short day out.
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