Chronicles of a Young College Boy

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Disney Cartoons!!...hhahaha..this week is wad i can call a flashback or a return to my childhood era of movies....mainly disney ones....lemme see..i watched cinderella....anastasia (20th century fox)....toy story.....hercules..... Mulan.... annd...Beauty and the Beast!!...wa beauty and the beast was really good..the songs and all r just so catchy....and they made it into a musical..i was thinking of mayb watching another musical during my stay here...but when i check out the price and its the same as the price of phantom of the opera...i was like..."Some other time, some other place..."... haha....but for some reason i like beauty and the beast a lot..for the songs...the story...every little bit of it...=)...
I also went to madame tessauds ytd....the picture shown above is taken from the building...pretty cool eh...anyway madame tessauds is a place where they hav all the wax replicates of famous ppl...like past presidents of america...movie stars...sport stars....and superman..hehe...then there is this funny part where they hav the chamber of horrors...i thought i hav outgrown the fear of going into scary places now...but i surprised myself man...my friend and i was like..."ah wad the hell...how scary can it b..."...then i go in first...there is somekind of curtain in front of me wif a pathway beside it...a hand come out of it...and it was moving like its searching for something in the wall..so i thought somebody from the technical services will come out...but noooo...it goes back in..then come out again...trust me...its not scary wif just my verbalisation...u almost hav to b there...then i kinda chicken out and move to other places of the gallery.....haha...fine ok...i admit tht i was pretty freaked...

Anyway...this past week i kinda think to myself....i know so many quotes tht my life values become intangible...i cant find a certain quote help me or teach me...so im going to finger on some of the best quotes and values i noe (some mayb my own creation...=))..so in not any particular order...
1) Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in the presence of it.
2) A person's personality and leadership is tested not under good and stable conditions, but under bad and critical conditions.
3) Resource is never the reason for success or failure, it's resourcefulness.
4) Always believe in the best of people.
5) People who causes you nothing but trouble are not worth your time, energy and thought.
6) Ignore defeat, but don't lose the lesson.
7) The level of challenges we are facing in our life now are there only because we can now deal with them.
8) We are not what we think, we are not what we say, we are not what we feel. We are what we do.
9) Laughter is the best medicine.
10) Love is the most powerful emotion of all.
11) Everything in life is a test.
There u go...10 values i believe in....i would like to elaborate more on some of them...like no. 10...love IS the most powerful emotion...because it has the potential to cause pain...suffering...tears...depression...frustration...anger...but it also has the power to spark a joy tht i cant put into words when u feel it...this love im talking abt is just not abt bf gf type...im also talking abt love for family and friends...its something so elusive yet so powerful...
value 7 is in other words...as u get better, smarter and stronger...so does the game of life getting more difficult, more complex, and more 'stamina-sucking'...

ok anyway this kinda ties in with an analysis of a personality of a friend of mine....so ok...to my good friend..this will be like a conversation to u from henceforth in this blog entry...(except mayb in the ending)...:
u wrote to ask me to reassure u tht u r normal by assessing ur strengths and weaknesses...lemme say something..You are completely normal...the feelings u experienced the past days or so are completely normal...u get hurt when people do mean things to u...so hurt tht u actually wonder wad kind of screwed up morals they hav....but the pain u feel is wad makes u human...=)...anyway...without beating more arnd the bush...here r ur strengths..they may not b much since i havent met u for quite some time...ok..the obvious one will definitely b commitment... its something which i still cannot understand...ur commitment to projects are so pro tht...er...well its something like the hierachy of commitments...not committed...quite committed...committed...very committed...then there is u....yea i noe from the way u work on projects like mad flushing day....chingay...all those stuffs....however...heres the catch...your greatest strength can be your greatest weakness....check out value 6 above....i don want to assume i noe wad happened..but if there is no there is no fire there couldnt b a smoke right...heh wad im saying is tht u and only u can see wad went wrong and assess u as a person urself...this incident tht u got into...there can b something tht u did tht may not b entirely appropriate...and thus causes the other party to feel how they r feeling now...so wad u can do now is to look back on how the incident escalates....from start to end...pick out behaviours tht u may tink hav made the other party unhappy...in the process ignore any upsetness (is there such a word?) u feel...if u cannot detect any behaviours tht u did wrong...then close the case with the conclusion tht u and the other party just don click....it happens once in a while...at least it does to me...
anyway if this memory of incident is painful to u...im going to teach u a technique tht may help u forget it...or at least put it aside anytime it comes to u....its called the distortion technique...i want u now to tink of the incident and pick out its most painful moments...now use ur memory like a dvd player...play them from the start to the end of this painful memory...notice how u r feeling....after u finish playing them...rewind them...then replay this movie memory BUT this time at a faster speed...then after u finish the movie...replay again...this time increasing the speed of the movie...continue this process by increasing the speed everytime u replay it...u can make it more effective by adding silly objects into the memory movie...like a clown, or mime doing stupid stuffs...at the fast speed...feel better? =) u can use this technique for every single painful memories...it works wonders for me...i wont take the credit though...i learnt it from AKLTG ...
Anyway coming back to the strengths and weaknesses analysis...ur second strength will b ur outspokenness...its kinda hard not to see tht as a strength in u...hahahaha....the outspokenness probably comes from confidence...the confidence ties in with your will....don take this good point for granted...bcos its quite valuable...i remembered i quote from a movie..."Training is nothing, will is everything.....the will to act."....wad im saying is tht this good point can help u making decisions....be it wrong or right...bcos some people can b too scared to make a desicion while u can...=)
a weakness u hav thts probably quite prominent is ur moodswings...now i just want to suggest tht this moodswings can b quite manageable...to a certain extent...bcos again i don wanna assume to know wads happening in ur life now....so anyway...everytime from now u hav a moodswing..wad u can do is give urself 6 reasons y u choose to feel this way...i wanna emphasize on the word choose...bcos no one can make u feel how u r feeling but u...its all abt interpretation of events...lets just take me for an example for a moment...u may remember there was one time in sec 3 when during assembly in the hall a sec 4 girl come and scold and raised her voiced at me in front of quite a number of ppl....her reason being i didnt listen to her asking me to give her class more space to sit on...so she blamed it on me and kinda scold and described me in colorful terms in quite a loud voice in front of me..so wad did i do in response?...NOTHING....i ignored her...one ear in another ear out...i choose to not feel insulted...choose not to feel wronged...choose not to retaliate...i don want to let her affect my power of decision...if i respond, she wins...u can ask ken yeo abt this incident bcos im quite sure he remembered wad happened since he was sitting next to me...(pity him having to hear the girl scold like hell..hahaha)...so anyway...im not saying this to brag...but to help u understand the fact tht no one ... can make u feel the way u do but u....except mayb love....but thts another story...=)...so everytime u feel the signs of moodswings...find the origin...find 6 reasons to justify y u feel the way u feel...then interpret the event in another way...=)..

hmm...i tink tht shld covers it all for now...hahaha...i hope it helps...=)

DanieL counted snowflakes at 9:26 PM