Oh my gosh, can you believe I woke up at 8.30 tis morning and edited my template TIL NOW?
I can't believe it.
Anyway, my current ranking for my options is:
1. Tourism
2. Marketing
3. Retail
4. Supply
After hearing my dad's opinion, I might change it to:
2. Retail
3. Supply
4. Marketing
And I'm in search of a job that will will just satisfy my Dad's hounding because I am planning to go ahead with the Dubai tfip in March... Factory work, Here I Come.
Hahaha!
Sunday, December 04, 2005
Friday, December 02, 2005
Shehism - the new philosophy
Today HAD to be the most profound and philosophical day I had in school... The first lesson in school was staaaatss... Mmh, not exactly my kinda subject. But the teacher was totally FASCINATING today.
For the past half of a year, he would mention at nearly every lesson that he had written blah blah blah books, they can be found in blah blah polys, and at blahh blahh libraries... Well, when he does that, I'll juz treat it like he was just doing his own publication.
But today, TODAY. It was DIFFERENT. He shared with us what knew knew and wrote. I don't quite rmb how we got there from a stats question... I think I started with the 2 guys NK and Raymond in class; we always made fun of them going everyway like together...
And the stats question was about hypothesis testing. Sheh then asked NK a debatable question "Are men smarter then women?" Of course NK ans Yes... and some "discussion" followed. So he drew this Taoist symbol.
He started by saying "Look at this symbol... the Ying and the Yang..." Then he started saying some things that are made so much sense but no one has ever spoke of before:
"...This is about balance. In a man (refering to the dark side), there'll come a time when he will cry (refering to the light spot). In a woman (pointing to the light side), if you push her to a corner, she will fight back (refering to the dark spot) .
Then if you see it as good and bad; no matter how good a person seems, he will have some bad in him. Similarly, no matter how bad a person is, there's still some good in him... "
Of course that's not all! He then went on to tell us more about Sun Zi, Sun Bin, Lao Tzu, Kong Tzu (Zi), 36 strategum etc...
For one, he told us about "non-sense" as defined by one of the philosophers... It's Reeeally profound, so I'll do my best in quoting what he said. It went like;
"We usually call something we don't understand as NONSENSE. But actually it's sensing without using our 5 senses ie sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. (Before you -_- read on...). Becausing the word 'sense' in 'non-sense' means sensing, so non-sense means not sensing la. Alot of the world/ nature cannot be defined by sense only wad, like the trees and rivers..."
Ya, I know people'll probably call this non-sense in modern day terms... but just try to soak it in la. Tell yourself, it's profound and it makes sense.
Then he started to talk about this guy, I forgot it's Lao Tzu or Kong Tzu. The only think I'm sure of is he was dying and his disciples were surrounding him in a cave... And he said, "After I've died, just leave me out in the open there..." So his disciplines opposed his wish strongly, saying they must give Shi fu a proper burial underground. So the dying Master retaliated, "What's the difference if I'm going to get eaten by worm underground? Might as well feed me to the starving birds outside..."
To that, Sheh commented, "So you see, his understanding of death is extremely profound... ... There nothing to be afraid about DEATH, the worse thing is DYING. It's the dying process that's painful..."
Immediatedly I was reminded of the poem I experimented with on "Death and Dying" in sec sch!!! I mean it's so amazing to share the same 'philosophy' with this teaher of ours...
He also presented us with this situation: Two stockbrokers bought ten shares. One made profits on ALL ten, while the other lost on 5 and gained 5. Who do you think is luckier? By the looks of how he asked, we knew the ans was the first guy, but some of us still answered "the 1ST GUY LA" and waited for his rebuttal.
The ans: "The 2ND GUY. Because the 2nd guy bought 10 and only lost half, he's considered very lucky already. As for the 1st guy, he went in and won all 10 of his shares, this can't be based on chance/ luck. It's called STRATEGY. This is about the 36 stratagies... " and so on went the lesson...
And the most simple yet impactful statement he made was: "Chinese Leadership is just like a ship. His followers are like water. Water can raise theship to greater heights; it can also capsize it easily."
For the past half of a year, he would mention at nearly every lesson that he had written blah blah blah books, they can be found in blah blah polys, and at blahh blahh libraries... Well, when he does that, I'll juz treat it like he was just doing his own publication.
But today, TODAY. It was DIFFERENT. He shared with us what knew knew and wrote. I don't quite rmb how we got there from a stats question... I think I started with the 2 guys NK and Raymond in class; we always made fun of them going everyway like together...
And the stats question was about hypothesis testing. Sheh then asked NK a debatable question "Are men smarter then women?" Of course NK ans Yes... and some "discussion" followed. So he drew this Taoist symbol.
He started by saying "Look at this symbol... the Ying and the Yang..." Then he started saying some things that are made so much sense but no one has ever spoke of before:
"...This is about balance. In a man (refering to the dark side), there'll come a time when he will cry (refering to the light spot). In a woman (pointing to the light side), if you push her to a corner, she will fight back (refering to the dark spot) .
Then if you see it as good and bad; no matter how good a person seems, he will have some bad in him. Similarly, no matter how bad a person is, there's still some good in him... "
Of course that's not all! He then went on to tell us more about Sun Zi, Sun Bin, Lao Tzu, Kong Tzu (Zi), 36 strategum etc...
For one, he told us about "non-sense" as defined by one of the philosophers... It's Reeeally profound, so I'll do my best in quoting what he said. It went like;
"We usually call something we don't understand as NONSENSE. But actually it's sensing without using our 5 senses ie sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. (Before you -_- read on...). Becausing the word 'sense' in 'non-sense' means sensing, so non-sense means not sensing la. Alot of the world/ nature cannot be defined by sense only wad, like the trees and rivers..."
Ya, I know people'll probably call this non-sense in modern day terms... but just try to soak it in la. Tell yourself, it's profound and it makes sense.
Then he started to talk about this guy, I forgot it's Lao Tzu or Kong Tzu. The only think I'm sure of is he was dying and his disciples were surrounding him in a cave... And he said, "After I've died, just leave me out in the open there..." So his disciplines opposed his wish strongly, saying they must give Shi fu a proper burial underground. So the dying Master retaliated, "What's the difference if I'm going to get eaten by worm underground? Might as well feed me to the starving birds outside..."
To that, Sheh commented, "So you see, his understanding of death is extremely profound... ... There nothing to be afraid about DEATH, the worse thing is DYING. It's the dying process that's painful..."
Immediatedly I was reminded of the poem I experimented with on "Death and Dying" in sec sch!!! I mean it's so amazing to share the same 'philosophy' with this teaher of ours...
He also presented us with this situation: Two stockbrokers bought ten shares. One made profits on ALL ten, while the other lost on 5 and gained 5. Who do you think is luckier? By the looks of how he asked, we knew the ans was the first guy, but some of us still answered "the 1ST GUY LA" and waited for his rebuttal.
The ans: "The 2ND GUY. Because the 2nd guy bought 10 and only lost half, he's considered very lucky already. As for the 1st guy, he went in and won all 10 of his shares, this can't be based on chance/ luck. It's called STRATEGY. This is about the 36 stratagies... " and so on went the lesson...
And the most simple yet impactful statement he made was: "Chinese Leadership is just like a ship. His followers are like water. Water can raise theship to greater heights; it can also capsize it easily."
Thursday, December 01, 2005
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