高人上哪寻？

大家都是凡人，
你我也不例外。
凡人都会有问题，
爱情、友情、
学业、工作。

凡人遇到复杂问题时，
情况像是史无前例,
情绪可能即将崩溃，
凡人怎么解决？

想不开而自寻短见？
闭关修炼好好反省？

曾想过找高人帮忙？

高人究竟在哪？
戒备森严的政府大厦？
以世隔绝的世外桃源？
无人所知的荒山野岭？

寻高人其实不需费尽心思。
高人无处不在，
高人就在你我身旁。
家人、朋友、
同学、同事，
各个都是高人！

想想看

你工作、功课上有问题，你会上哪请教？
你感情、爱情关系磨擦，你会到哪诉苦？
你经历、经验相比逊色，你会找谁求助？
即使找人闲聊，你会上哪，到哪，找谁？

以上的问题，笔者的答案只有一个：
高人。
帮你解决问题的人，
陪你度过难关的人，
和你分享经验的人，
各个都是高人。

识别高人、
利用高人、
珍惜高人，
笔者认为每人最重要的任务
就是找自己的“高人”。

笔者停笔前，
祝笔者自己生日快乐，
也祝大家新的一年，有新的去向。

两个故事

第一个故事，在今天巴士上发生。我前面坐了两名小学女生。我上了巴士不久，其中一位应该是到了她的站，先下巴士。她们两在那之前的对话，令我感触深厚。

有几点要先强调：

1. 我对小女生完全没兴趣。我希望你们别在胡说八道！
2. 她们的学校，我也不知道。别问。
3. 想知道我坐那个巴士的话，我没记下巴士车牌。^^

女孩甲：你到站了。
女孩乙：啊！我们聊了这么久，差点忘了。
女孩甲：我们话还没说完。今晚在聊。
女孩乙：好，我今晚打给你。
女孩乙背着书包，向她朋友道别。
女孩甲：再见。
双层巴士就要到站。女孩乙走下楼梯。
女孩甲靠着围栏，看着她朋友下梯。
女孩甲：下了车后要向我挥手哦！
女孩乙：知道。拜拜。
巴士到站，女孩乙下了巴士，转身回头向朋友挥手。
女孩甲向她朋友挥了挥手，然后回到自己的座位。过了几个站她也下了巴士。

你可以说这并不罕见，到哪都能看到，没必要大惊小怪。对，在普通时候我也不会加以理会。但在那时我MP3播放器播着梁文福的细水长流，突然间令我想起我小时候的时光。我在小学时，是那么无忧无虑，每天都很开心，每天都期望着明天的到来。在小学跟朋友在一起时，什么好玩又不犯校规都做，天底下的事，无所不谈。现在的我，只有应该不会出卖我的电脑做伴；不够的话上网找几个虚拟女生的图片看看。现在的我，和任何人说话，不三思必遭天堑。现在的我，想到明天，一定会和永远做不完的报道挂钩。

想问大家一个问题：如果有个时光倒流器，让你回到从前，你会用吗？如果你会去用的话，你会怎么做？

如果我能回到我小时候，我不会以现在的身份，而是以我还小的时候回去。第一件会做的事是交更多朋友，还要确保和他们保持联络。我现在只有一位小学同学还有联络。其他的，不是我忘了他，就是他忘了我。在我刚到理工学院开阔新的学习生涯时，碰到了一位小学和我同班的同学。那时她和我打招呼时，我对她知道我的名字感到惊讶。花了半年多，终于想起她是谁时，以无缘和她再相会。我认为朋友是任何人一生中非常重要的人物。你一生能成功或失败，都是靠你的朋友。多不用紧，不能没有，或太少。即使和损友结交，如果你朋友多的话，一定能走出正确的道路。

第二件，就是要享受小学时光。玩卡，踢球；做完和温习功课后，就可以玩得够。现在找几个人陪我踢个球，都有问题。大家都没空，哪有那种时间浪费？你可以说我好玩，但我觉得你不懂得玩的话，你不会知道什么是休息。玩，就是要做你喜欢做的事。做你喜欢做的事时，你才会感觉轻松，你身体才会休息。你的“玩”，可能是继续读书，增广见闻。我的“玩”，却是玩电动踢足球哦！

很多东西，要失去了，才会珍惜。当然，现在说这些也没用。往事只能回味。

好花不常开，好景不常在，今宵离别后，何日君再来。

细水长流
作曲：梁文福 作词：梁文福

年少时候 谁没有梦 无意之中 你将心愿透露
就在你的生日的时候 我将小小口琴送 最难忘记 你的笑容

友情的细水慢慢流 流进了你我的心中
曾在球场边为你欢呼 你跌伤我背伏
夜里流星飞渡 想像着他日的路途 晚风听着我们壮志无数

年少时候 谁没有愁 满腔愤慨 唯有你能听得懂
每当我失意的时候 你将那首歌吹奏 琴声悠悠 解我轻忧

岁月的细水慢慢流 流到了别离的时候
轻拍你的肩 听我说朋友不要太惆怅
霓虹纵然再嚣张 我们的步履有方向 成败不论切莫将昔日遗忘

多年以后 又再重逢 我们都有了疲倦的笑容
问一声我的朋友 何时再为我吹奏 是否依旧 是否依旧

人生的际遇千百种 但有知心长相重
人愿长久 水愿长流 年少时候

第二个故事，是我在网上找到的。迟些时候才翻译。不会英文的话，就得等哦！

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.

One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to
help drain the fluid from his lungs.  His bed was next to the room's only window.  The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end.  They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation.

And every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and colour of the world outside. The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.  Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats.  Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every colour of the rainbow. Grand old trees graced the landscape, and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by.  Although the other man couldn't hear the band - he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days and weeks passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.  As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window.  The nurse was happy to make the switch and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the world outside.  Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it for himself. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.  It faced a blank wall.

The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.  The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.  She said, "Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you."

Epilogue . . . . There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own situations.  Shared grief is half the sorrow but happiness when shared, is doubled.

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.  "Today is a gift, that's why it is called the present."

LOLI 是毒。。。戒不掉的

你可知道 LOLI 是什么吗？

上图应该不算是 LOLI

知道别说。不知道，以后别提！^_^

原本想写一篇回顾去年所发生的大小事，但是力不从心，没写完。反正现在已过了大半年，还回顾干吗？要我写前几个星期所发生的大小事，那更糟。别人有从二月开始的两个月长假，我却得天天回校做研究写报道！早知如此，当初就不选下半年去学功。

我来个看图写感想吧。

今年的美食展，你去过了吗？

新加坡年年都有展览。书展，电脑展，我都去过，唯有美食展还没去过。不是我对展览会非常有兴趣，但是偶尔也要出去走走，凑凑一下热闹。我父母也觉得每个星期天有点无聊，所以一家四口到那看看，也吃吃“美食”。把美食展和其他展览比较，我认为美食展是最无聊的展览之一。摆摊多数都是的“家喻户晓” 的商家，卖些冷冻食品，或是即食餐。剩下的都是售卖健康产品。冷冻食品和即食餐都能在超市买到，我又不服任何健康产品，在美食展的时间可算是浪费掉了。你可以用“人山人海”来形容当天的场面，但是去的人多，空手离开的人也不少。可见在新加坡做生意不容易。

能猜得到下图这个地方在哪吗？你不住那的话应该不难猜吧！

长话短说。我最近认识了一群朋友。这一帮人可说是志同道合，他们对日本漫画，动画，和游戏都非常了解。在新加坡哪有漫画促销之类的新闻他们都了如指掌。被怪我想法古老，我认为问题就出在年龄。最年长的已可成家立业，生孩子做爸爸了。最年轻的是整组中唯一女性，刚从中学毕业。和一位比你年轻半轮的人在大庭广众玩闹，成和体统？不是我想保护她，你也该想想我们在外时，外人会什么看我们？何况，一位“小女孩”和一群“大男人”一起出去，外人一定会指指点点。

说到着，还想加一点：你现在怎么对你的婆婆和父母，以后你孩子和孙子就会怎么对你。善有善报，恶有恶报，时候一到，一切全报。

接下来全都是天空的照片。可说是被这个新的动画所影响。哈哈！

上面那三张照都是我朋友拍的。接下来的全都是我拍到的。看吧，我拍时太阳公公躲到云后面去了！

下一篇会有更多和云有关的照片哦！

Quick guide to life in Polytechnic

Just a quick question for people who have not studied in polytechnic yet: what kind of place do you think a polytechnic is?

The Ngee Ann campus is always brimming with activities and there’s never a dull moment.

Lunchtime will find the canteens busy with students discussing projects seeking their favourite food or trying something new from the large variety of stalls.

In the evenings, the sports facilities are vibrant with students practicing their Taekwondo moves, training hard for athletic meets, pumping iron in the gym, doing their cheerleading routines or just lazing around by the pool. You might even be able to spot our resident hunks and babes from the Dragonboat team jogging around campus. Many students are actively involved in clubs and societies catering to a wide array of interests.

Ngee Ann students enjoy a wide variety of sporting and recreational facilities including an Olympic-sized swimming pool, complete stadium facilities, gymnasiums, tennis, badminton, and squash courts. Year-round activities, fairs, performances, events and meets are held to keep Ngee Ann students happily active.
And after a day of lessons, the Atrium is an ideal place to do assignments, or just to relax and chat with friends. There is a café and deli where you can grab a bite to eat while surfing the Internet.

At Ngee Ann, students get a total education. Learning goes very much beyond the classrooms and lectures. Students can choose to study specific disciplines while pursuing their interest in other fascinating areas. For instance, an engineering student can learn how rock music developed, while a business student can learn about plant and aquatic science.

Learning on campus happens anytime and anywhere. NPNet, a wireless network, allows students wireless computer access in the Atrium, library, classrooms and canteens. Forty per cent of the modules are already online, so students can access their coursework on and off campus. Workshops are conducted via portable, mobile e-workbenches, while technology-enabled solutions enhance both teaching and learning.

Not all of life’s lessons can be learnt in a classroom. Ngee Ann students have a chance to go abroad through our various overseas immersion, attachment and exchange programmes in more than 30 countries. Students are challenged to have a global outlook. On campus, international students study alongside our local students. Under the International Fellowship scheme, young and hip lecturers come from as far as the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia and Germany.

Taken directly from this site. I am from NP after all and I ought to do publicity for them.

On top of reading up web sites of various polytechnics to find out more, I am sure you have also find out more from your seniors. The following is what my seniors, and teachers, told me when I was still in secondary 4.

“A place which I can wear anything I like!”

“A place with lots of fun and laughter!”

“A place which is less stressful compared to secondary school!”

Not everything up there is true however. I will do some minor correction, and add in my own list.

1. Unlike Secondary schools, there are no such things call rules and regulations in polytechnic. I can wear anything I like!
Who told you that? There are rules and regulations in polytechnics. Guys' hair cannot touch the collar. Your fingernails cannot be too long. Your skirt cannot be too short. School rules which are enforced during your secondary school days (on attire especially), they are back to haunt you if you do not comply with them in polytechnic. Failure in obeying school rules will result in either fine or a letter to your house. (That includes a mark in your name in polytechnic database, not a very good thing) Your seniors never talk about it before? Very likely they have not got caught by the wardens yet.

2. There are a lot of canteens in polytechnic. You will always have nice and different things to eat during lunch!
True to certain extend. There are 4 canteens in NP (I don't count the fifth one as a canteen), with a total of around 35 stalls. Every canteen has stalls which sells western food, chinese mixed vegetables, yong tao foo, chicken rice, and obviously muslim food. Some canteens have stalls selling japanese food, while you can buy fish soup at other canteens. If you crave for noodles, 3 canteens have stalls selling them. A pretty wide variety of food I suppose. Quality wise? Almost all cannot meet my standard; some taste more horrible than the coffee shop near my house. I blame it to all the good food which are near the campus: Megabites (which has freaking good food, but comes with a more expensive price tag) and Alumni “restaurant” (they sell at small quantity though) to name a few. Don't mention about going to Macdonald or KFC or any fast food restaurant. It 1) only fills up your stomach if you are willing to spend and 2) I already got sick of it.

3. I want to come to -specific- polytechnic because I can own my own laptop!
Right now, owning a laptop also means you want to connect to the internet wirelessly. The good is that I can log onto internet as and when I like, wherever I want as long as I am in the campus. That makes it easier to play teamwork intensive and timing crucial games like Utopia and The Reincarnation. The bad thing is that you may not need to use laptop more frequently than others. It takes me quite a while to realize that I only have a single module which requires the usage of laptop in my first semester, and using laptop during other modules only gets you being targeted frequently by the lecturers who wanted to keep the class quiet. Most lecturers see laptops as a greater distractions to the class rather than other students who are talking with each other. If they really want mobile learning, they should just drop the restrictions, and let us use the laptops everywhere we want!

4. Polytechnic life is less stressful compared to JC!
It depends on what course you are taking, again. Business students are usually the most relax because they have lesser lessons, and they get to organize their own time table! (Which means that they squeeze all their lessons to only 3 days per week, excluding IS) Business students have a lot of projects however. Engineering students are “no-life” on the other hand; they have lessons at least 5 hours everyday (there are even days which they need to be in school from 8 to 5), and cannot reorganize their timetable. Night lessons are common in polytechnic, with a mixture of make-up, and extras which you sign up for. Not forgetting about CCA; most have weekly meetings at night. JC students probably have their night time free, polytechnic students don't.

5. To move on to university I need CCA points. I need to join a Co-Curricular Activity and be active in it!
Another saying which has no solid proof. You do not need a lot of CCA points to go to university; you only around 10. It is not that hard to get 10 CCA points. There are around 100 clubs and societies in NP, and almost every club have Annual General Meeting yearly which is open to public, and each AGM gives you around 2 points. Going for every single AGM will earn you at least 30 points in 1 year! If you really want to join a CCA, join one which you have the most interest in. Don't join a CCA just because you want to see members of the opposite sex from other schools (you can always go friendster find), or just to get a lot of CCA points. In my opinion, the best time to pursue your interest or hobby, or even go crazy, is when you are in polytechnic or university. You will not be able to get that much free time to explore your own interest once you start working. Once you miss it, you do not get any more chances to do it.

The following are the minor things that you should take note too:

6. Truancy no longer works. If you are planning to skip all your homework, be prepared to part with up to 30% of your overall score for that particular module. Only type 3 lecturers will chase for your homework to make sure you pass. If you are going to skip lessons, make sure you do not fall below the 85% attendance rate. Go below that level and you will be debar from exam. Polytechnic lecturers and classmates look down on those who play truant or being a nuisance in class, especially so if you are in a class of “smart people” (Those who get GPA of 4, or nearly 4). Humans, after all, need someone to look down on to be assured of themselves and their qualities. My lecturers classification: Type 1 lecturers do not care about what is happening to the class, they just go on teaching regardless of whether the class is noisy or not. Type 2 lecturers tried to control the situation in the class when it goes out of hand, but failed, and after half a semester they will become type 1 lecturers. Type 3 lecturers also tried to control the class, but they succeed. Most of the time you only find type 3 in secondary school, and in polytechnic all the type 3 lecturers are not the fierce type.

7. Be a girl. This world is bias towards females. It is a fact. The law protects women, guys have to give way to girls at places out of courtesy... There will be 1001 things which will go in your favor if you are a girl; you can get extra marks from male lecturers (there are more male lecturers than female ones in NP, I think), the list of guys interested in you never runs out so you get to choose boyfriends (there are cases of guys trying to get contact of a girl he met in the study area, through the campus forum), you can even get female-only scholarships! If you are a guy, do a sex change, or be an overage male student. Since you are older than your peers, you will be more matured, and girls will swarm around you instead. I need not explain further. It is a fact: most girls' thinking is more mature than guys of the same age. It is natural for a girl to choose an older guy rather than her classmates which is same age as her, because her classmates are more childish.

You may need the following if you are going to accomplish big things.

8. Always aim for the top post if you are in the club or society!
A little background information before I continue. At the start of every semester most clubs will have around 30 to 60 new members, with popular clubs and societies having more than this quota. Most join because their friends joined, and their friends joined because another of their friends joined, and the never ending list goes on (Join for Joins). After some time a few clubs will start having monthly assessment and axe people who cannot meet the mark. Other clubs will move deeper into their interest, which make members who are not interested at all quit at their own will. As people start leaving, the number of people in your batch will slowly shrink. By the time your first year in polytechnic is about to end, your batch should have only slightly more than 10 members. It is also around this time that the old committee will elect a new one. Whether you want to change how the club runs, or you want to prevent other people from changing it, the only post which allows you to do all these is the president post. If you cannot secure that post, get someone who can secure it and is your puppet has the same ideology as you. You will be so wrong if you are contended with just a post in publicity or welfare; you will be drag into politics (sooner or later), and become a tool for other people.

9. Get connections, make more friends!
Especially important if you want to make sure you get that post in the club or society. The more people you know and befriend, the more people will support you. At societies which require a voting to determine who will be the president, it will be a big help to you. It will be useful too if you need resources from other departments to organize an event, or you need help on your project, or you want everyone to boycott a certain people. Having 1 more friend is always better than having 1 more enemy.

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This entry was actually a long hate post. The original content of this post revolves around the author classmates who look down on him and his “group of friends” who like to wreck havoc in the class, his clubmates who outcast him and “his clique” for trying to change the way things work in the club, and many more minute things which the author has tolerated for the past years. It was sparked off when something triggered this author off in class one day. The entry will be biased, since they are from the author's point of view. In order not to invite fierce response from opposing parties, and eventually starting a drama in his blog, the author decided against it. He thinks it is useless to complain about things if nothing is done to improve it. Instead, he wrote a guide to remind others what to look out for, should they take the same path as he does. Instead of pursuing his interest, or study well for his paper, the author wasted most of his time playing games, watching cartoons, and dealing with politics or related stuff. The author felt that he has wasted too many chances in his polytechnic life. His last reminder for everyone before ending this post is that, make good use of every chance which comes in your way, for chances that you miss will never come back to you again.

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Guess where am I?

Yes. I am in a market, at night time. Crazy eh? Look at the decorations. Chinese New Year is coming!

Miko celebrates New Year too! What are mikos, or shrine maidens?

Why did I bring up Mikos all of the sudden? Because there is a Miko Figurine! A stripping Miko!

(NSFW) NOT SAFE FOR WORK! Scroll down at your own risk!

Presenting 1/7 Tsukimiya Kaede from Miraroma. It will be avaliable during July this year. Time to save up to buy one.

There are hotter mikos in real life though.

Talking about Figurines, there are dolls too. The above picture is an example of a female doll, 140cm in height. Creepy...