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Your result for The Perception Personality Image Test…
HFDS – The Coach
Humanity, Foreground, Detail, and Shape
You perceive the world with particular attention to humanity. You focus on what’s in front of you (the foreground) and how that is affected by the details of life. You are also particularly drawn towards the shapes around you. Because of the value you place on humanity, you tend to seek out other people and get energized by being around others. You like to deal directly with whatever comes your way without dealing with speculating possibilities or outcomes you can’t control. You are highly focused on specific goals or tasks and find meaning in life by pursuing those goals. You prefer a structured environment within which to live and you like things to be predictable.
The Perception Personality Types:
… simply melt my heart.
They are so endearing.
A Korean girl named Yoo Ye Eun who was blind at birth knows how to play the piano just by listening to the tune once. Watch her play… you’ll be touched to tears…
And if you haven’t had enough of Connie Talbot, that lovely little girl on Britain’s Got Talent, watch her and Ye Eun combine efforts to produce a very beautiful “You Raise Me Up”.
Sigh…
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Watching any news about the Sichuan earthquake really breaks my heart. Perhaps it’s media bias that Myanmar does not get enough coverage to illicit the kind of response it needs (and seriously trying to continue have elections when your country is in absolute dire situation definitely won’t help things), but I just can’t stand the fact that so many children lost their lives and parents.
Especially when these children could be saved with quicker action.
And safer buildings.
It’s just… unbearable.
More and more heart-wrenching stories fill the front pages everyday, and I just can’t help but cry at every single one.
Sigh. God, bless these poor children. They don’t deserve this…
Hahahahaha.
You need something like this to cheer you up, when you’re feeling downright sian or stressed.
Tulibu dibu douchoo. 
This is a photo essay done by German photographer Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta on 11 individuals before and after their deaths. It has aroused interest from all over the world; some found it terrifying and nauseating, while I join the camp who thinks that these pictures are hauntingly beautiful, truly inspiring.
I’ve always found myself wanting to look at a dead person’s face. I guess I’m curious if people actually have a common expression when they pass on or if they have different expressions depicting their feelings at the moment when God took them away.
While looking at these pictures, I felt a sense of comfort somehow, like I know that these people are finally in good hands. At the same time I wonder, why are these good people made to leave life in such a manner? Everyone deserves to live their lives to the fullest, but why are these people deprived?
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This comes back to the simple notion of trying to live your day to the fullest, and I guess everyone would want to do that. Everyone would want to try their best at whatever they are doing, be less angry and be happier. But I seriously wonder how this is possible when I’m in my current situation now. It is sad that some people are just out to make the lives of others difficult, and I’m still trying to cope with the fact that I am too trusting. I am really trying my best, but some people just dun see it or refuse to see it. So how am I going to live my life to the fullest when I’m constantly bugged by discriminating opinions of fake people? I’m no saint, I can’t say that I’m not upset at all. I can only try again and again, hoping that perhaps one day, someone can see that I am really doing all I can.
Oh well. We shall see how it goes. I can’t wait for 9 May.
Read a short quote from a friend’s blog and was inspired to read the whole article by Sumiko Tan.
And yes, it saddens me that divorce rates are rising.
I suppose we humans get ourselves into a lot of emotional crap most of the time, just like how we self-inflicted pain and misery when the riots began, when terrorist attacks began, when the World Wars began.
I am an incurable romantic. Some may snigger at what I just said, since it seems that I’ve lost that touch since God-knows-when.
(Or perhaps God does know when, it’s just that it’s too unspeakable to mention when exactly.)
But I am. Deep down, I really am. I enjoy spending quiet moments in my life just being with the person I love, you know the “just sit there and dun have to speak a word but you felt like you have the best conversation in the world” kind of feeling?
I suppose this article got me thinking a bit, and in a way I realise why the so-called incurable romantic in me has died or is probably unconscious after all this while.
It’s because I refuse to get hurt again. Being romantic, loving someone too much always results in hurt. And I refuse to go through that again.
Which is why the incurable romantic is replaced by the cynic.
However, I wish to clarify that there are, so many a time, that I do feel like I can start on that 轰轰烈烈的爱 all over, but the cynic had to remind me of all the horrible things that had occurred before, and it would be at those critical moments when I 悬崖勒马 and stop myself from feeling.
Sounds sad, but it’s something that I and the people around me got to deal with.
And I can only pray that no one thinks too much about what I’m saying here, because I really am very contented with what I have now. 
Should you be too lazy to click the link to the article, you can read more under the cut.
Filed under: Misc Curios
If you have enjoyed Tuesdays with Morrie, you will enjoy this.
A lecturer from Carnegie Mellon, Randy Pausch has only months to live, and he gave his last one hour lecture with something inspirational.
His speech was filled with quotable quotes, and as I looked through his webpage and saw the picture of his kids, I felt so much for his kids and his wife that I couldn’t help but tear…
“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” – Randy Pausch
“The brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.” – Randy Pausch
“Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. When you are pissed off with somebody, and you are angry at them, you just haven’t given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they will almost always impress you.” – John Snorty
“It’s very important to know when you are in a pissing match… and it’s very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.”
“How to get people to help you… tell the truth, be earnest, apologize when you screw up, focus on others, not yourself.” – Randy Pausch
I think I can relate to the last 3 quotes very well. The last quote, I feel, is one of the most important ones, because more often than not we refuse to do that due to pride… and I must admit, I dun always apologize when I screw up.
Well, we all learn. We all have to learn.
Click on the image below to visit ABC news on this and watch the lecture. Takes time to load though; the one hour lecture is divided into 3 parts.
I’ve signed the open letter. Go ahead and do it too
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On a less serious note, I’m FINALLY done with Ed sai Psy 1 Presentation! WHEE!!!!
But I still have like a dozen of other stuff to do. *sigh*
