One day, the farmer's horse ran away, and all the neighbors gathered in the evening and said ‘that’s too bad.’
He said ‘maybe.’
Next day, the horse came back and brought with it seven wild horses. ‘Wow!’ they said, ‘Aren’t you lucky!’
He said ‘maybe.’
The next day, his son grappled with one of these wild horses and tried to break it in, and he got thrown and broke his leg. And all the neighbors said ‘oh, that’s too bad that your son broke his leg.’
He said, ‘maybe.’ The next day, the conscription officers came around, gathering young men for the army, and they rejected his son because he had a broken leg. And the visitors all came around and said ‘Isn’t that great! Your son got out.’
He said, ‘maybe.’
There are a lot of uncertainties in the world. As human being, we are curious about what will happen in the future. We wish to have to ability to foreseen the future. We wish to have the ability to discover what will happen in the future. We talk about our future, we imagine about our and we dream about our future. But, in fact, we are not given the ability to foreseen the future. Maybe, it was a gift from the God since His first creature. He wanted the human to discover their own abilities, He wanted to train His creature to be well prepared for any unforeseen circumstances. This is why human are being created without the ability to foreseen future.
For those studying in UTP, including myself, we have to prepared ourselves in order to conquer all the difficulties in our future. Fight for our future!!!
TAN AL VIN
18180
Mechanical Engineering
Sunday, 9 December 2012
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Words of Randomness
How long have I not been blogging? Hmm, 2 months, or
3? Well, it’s not the main point here. So we meet again, blog. I wonder how
much you have changed since the last time I logged into a blog account. It
actually took quite a long time for me to figure out the interface and layout
of the dashboard, especially when I had to create a blog which allows more than
one administrator or author to post on it. Okay, I admit that I’m obsolete.
Time
flies and it’s already the last month of 2012, the month which is going to be
the full stop of our second trimester in UTP. It’s also expected to be much
challenging, thanks to tonnes of quizzes as well as tests. What could be worse?
Those people out there are actually anticipating the Doomsday or the end of the
world to fall on this month. Well, it’s not a good idea to talk about or judge
the credibility of this news. Let’s just be neutral. After all it might be one
of the big events of the month, who knows? Whether it’s true or not, we still
have to get ourselves prepared for the real catastrophe, which ‘experts’ and ‘professionals’
believed to be an irremediable and ineluctable five-day event (arguably four)
starting on the 27th of this month. Needless to hint or explain further,
I presume every one of us here is aware of what it is.
Towards
the end of this trimester, there are indeed a lot of works and tasks to be settled
to wrap up this 4-month period of study. Some are tedious as always; some are
surprisingly not, just like this cyber-writing module, which is why I’m here,
writing some random stuff that doesn’t really make sense. But somehow, it’s
somewhat fun, as we students have been accustomed to paperwork, written jobs and
oral tasks, but not this kind of online stuff. This is undoubtedly one of the novel methods of teaching and
learning that are capable of sparking our interest in the language.
What
else can I say at this critical moment? Wish you all the best of luck in days and
weeks ahead, and ultimately in the calamitous final exams as well. Cheerio!
DICKSON LIM QUEI HUAN
18102
BIS
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Friends
When I first stepped into UTP, I found this place strange. Not the 'weird' strange, but unfamiliar. Of course, I have never set my foot here. However, the feeling was like this place wasn't welcoming me at that time. I tried to accommodate to this new environment. Luckily, I've had 2 friends from my hometown pursuing their studies in UTP too. This is comforting, as I might not be here if they didn't make their choice to study here.
As the time passes, I've made a lot of new friends. However, at first glance I thought that most of them are insincere and hypocritical. So, I kept myself from them. It's so depressing that I started to miss my friends during my secondary education. We've had a lot of good times together, I missed them so much. I even wanted to cry, but this shouldn't be the way. There must be some other reasons that I'm here. While pursuing tertiary education is the main reason, I couldn't do it alone too. So, slowly, I opened my heart to some friends here. That proved my first intuition wrong. All these times I've been avoiding people, thinking that nobody can understand me. Yes, I was pessimistic. However, when you get to know people for a certain time, you'll actually like them, and become buddies with them instead.
One of the reasons that I write this post is that I wanted to apologize to someone whom I misunderstood. I did that because I didn't understand some of them well enough. Whenever they tried to do something, I gave them a look of suspicion. I know it's not good but I couldn't control my emotions well. After some time, I would be so regret that I've done those things. But now I know, to get people to trust you, you have to trust them first. Only when you are open to them, they can be truthful to you.
Furthermore, I write this post in purpose to encourage you, the readers to treasure every single of your friends and buddies. It's not easy to get to know a person, nor to befriend with him. After enduring thick and thin with someone, you'll treasure them even more! So, do cherish the happy moments you spent with everyone you care. You might not know what will happen in the next minute, but we won't lose anything to give more concern to everyone we love, right?
Thank you for reading, I've changed my mind after so many things, how about you?
CHONG WEN HUI
18104
PE
As the time passes, I've made a lot of new friends. However, at first glance I thought that most of them are insincere and hypocritical. So, I kept myself from them. It's so depressing that I started to miss my friends during my secondary education. We've had a lot of good times together, I missed them so much. I even wanted to cry, but this shouldn't be the way. There must be some other reasons that I'm here. While pursuing tertiary education is the main reason, I couldn't do it alone too. So, slowly, I opened my heart to some friends here. That proved my first intuition wrong. All these times I've been avoiding people, thinking that nobody can understand me. Yes, I was pessimistic. However, when you get to know people for a certain time, you'll actually like them, and become buddies with them instead.
One of the reasons that I write this post is that I wanted to apologize to someone whom I misunderstood. I did that because I didn't understand some of them well enough. Whenever they tried to do something, I gave them a look of suspicion. I know it's not good but I couldn't control my emotions well. After some time, I would be so regret that I've done those things. But now I know, to get people to trust you, you have to trust them first. Only when you are open to them, they can be truthful to you.
Furthermore, I write this post in purpose to encourage you, the readers to treasure every single of your friends and buddies. It's not easy to get to know a person, nor to befriend with him. After enduring thick and thin with someone, you'll treasure them even more! So, do cherish the happy moments you spent with everyone you care. You might not know what will happen in the next minute, but we won't lose anything to give more concern to everyone we love, right?
Thank you for reading, I've changed my mind after so many things, how about you?
CHONG WEN HUI
18104
PE
Influences
Person who has influenced me most of all
Most people writing about people who
have influenced them will choose someone they admire, a mentor or other
important person who has been a role model for them over the course of their
lives. My description, on the contrary, will aim to describe someone who
influenced me in a totally opposite way: by being an anti-role model, someone I
would not like to resemble, if only for some minor points. He is not in any way
an extreme villain or anybody with strongly deficient ethics. He is just a
person who, in my mind, is going to fail in most life situations.
We first met when I took a part-time
job as a content writer for an Internet project. I was not particularly
impressed with the outlook for this business, but took the job as a way to get
my first experience and learn more about the particular sphere on which I was
writing. Zero was a relatively young marketing manager, in his late 20s, and
being of more or less the same age compared to the rest of the team, we began to
communicate a lot. He seemed a highly professional person with great expertise
in his area, but his ways of dealing with colleagues struck me as in some way
completely wrong. He simply reacted to innocent criticisms with a lot of
aggression so that people would pull back, scared by the strength of his
reaction. Our boss was a good-natured elderly man, not much from the point of
view of knowledge, but comfortable in what was probably his last job and nice
to employees. Zero immediately saw an enemy in him and reacted to his comments
with some anger for which I had little understanding.
It was no surprise that Zero’s
harshness and what I would call a peculiar sense of humor evoked widespread
resistance. People began to shun him in everyday interactions, negatively
respond to his comments during meetings, and evade him on the company’s shuttle
bus and in the café. The boss for a long time took his behavior in stride, but
was extremely displeased with his attitude shown when Zero was reminded of the
deadline for his project terminated him on a short notice. One may wonder why I
still communicated with him. The matter is that I can take what other people
see as rude with a grain of salt and react with a good joke. Besides, we found
plenty of common interests, and with me he was not always gruff.
A little more communication
discovered the true cause of his troubles: his wife had left him just before
our meeting, and he was reacting to her desertion with anger and pain. This was
really sorrowful, but why, I asked myself whether this is a sound reaction. Is
it wise to take out your personal troubles on other people? To me, the answer
is a clear “No”. Looking at Zero, I could draw a lot of inferences to be used
in my personal experience. First, it never pays to be rude to others. No matter
what, I told myself, we must preserve human dignity in any situation. Second, I
thought, we should perceive communication with other people as a way to gain
emotional support when we face a problem, not vice versa. People are there to share
our burden with us, not get us deeper into trouble. Even if you do not want to
share your problems with them, you can make them help you by distracting you
from your concerns.
I did tell Zero what I thought of
his way of dealing with problems. However, the impact of my thoughts was
limited: he would not listen as he was too much engrossed in his own concerns.
This was really pitiful, but also helped me develop in one important way:
realize that I have to be more mature and convincing to persuade people to
change their lives. This was yet another revelation and another insight for the
future. Sometimes we indeed learn more from those whom we do not want to
imitate than from unattainable role models.
Chu Shi Min
18074
BIS
Why I Love Reading Romance Novels
I started reading romance novels ever since I was 15 years old. Actually, I didn’t start with “romance” novels; I started out with those detective-type novels.
By the time I was 15 years old, I had already read a lot of Harlequin and Mills & Boon novels (with 100+ pages) and those Sweet Dreams novels that are for teen-ages and I already graduated to reading those thick pocketbooks featuring more pages and more complex romance stories (much to the chagrin of my parents who thought I was too young to read those “things”). In fact, some of my classmates credited me with introducing to them these romance novels (they also became addicted to reading romance novels.)
As I grew older, I read more and more of this type of novels. I read other types of novels, those written by Dan Brown, John Grisham and the like but romance novels are simply the ones I look for when I go to the book store. These are just the kind of novels that I really want to read. So why do I love reading them?
Here are just some of the reasons why:
They’re My Escape from the Real World
They provide a short escape from the everyday problems and concerns I face. The happy endings I read can often put me in the good mood and after reading one; I’m ready to face the world again. (I don’t like sad or “hanging” endings. I seldom encounter romance novels that don’t have a happy ending but when I do, I don’t read it at all.)
They Bring Me to Beautiful Places and Wonderful Eras
A lot of the romance novels I’ve read are contemporary and are based in the US or the UK. But I’ve also read lots of novels that are based on various locations (Paris, Athens, Rome, Australia) Also, I like reading historical romance novels as these bring me back to other historical eras with their rich traditions and beautifully-dressed gentlemen and ladies.
They Helped Improve My English
These novels are written in very good English. In fact, I don’t remember reading one with misspellings or grammatical errors. I’m not saying that the other novels have a lot of errors but, personally speaking, romance novels really helped me a lot in this area.
Basketball & Me
Everybody has different hobbies that they like to do for fun or just to relax. There are many kind of activities like badminton, basketball, swimming, or baseball. It all depends on each personality. For me, basketball is my favourite hobby because it's part of my life and I can not live without it.
Since I was a little girl, I started to play basketball in the school team and also with my friends in the neighborhood. My mother told me that I liked kicking the ball around and had so much fun with it when I was only about two years old. Since then, playing basketball is my favorite sport and it is my hobby whenever I have free time.
Playing basketball also helps me to relax and be confident when I have stress and frustration. For example, after doing my homework or when I come home from school, I play a little bit with my friends outside of my house or we go to the park, if the weather is nice.
Few years ago, there was an inter-school competition. Our team members practised everyday after school for 3 hours from seven till nine o’clock and we slowly got better. During the first round of the competition, we tried our best and worked together, but we were still behind, so we discussed how we should cope with the opponent. Finally, through our tactic, we got the first place. We were pleased of how we worked it out well to win a cup and medal.
Whenever I play basketball, I feel healthy and stronger. Besides, I meet new friends from the neighbour I not only like playing basketball, but I also enjoy watching basketball on television. When I go to the beach, my family and friends would get together to play and we have a lot of fun. Also, during weekends, I would call up my friends to play basketball with me. After the intense games, we would go to the teashop nearby to relax and grab some cold drinks to cool us down from the games we had.
We never stop playing basketball even though we now no longer school student.
Since I was a little girl, I started to play basketball in the school team and also with my friends in the neighborhood. My mother told me that I liked kicking the ball around and had so much fun with it when I was only about two years old. Since then, playing basketball is my favorite sport and it is my hobby whenever I have free time.
Playing basketball also helps me to relax and be confident when I have stress and frustration. For example, after doing my homework or when I come home from school, I play a little bit with my friends outside of my house or we go to the park, if the weather is nice.
Few years ago, there was an inter-school competition. Our team members practised everyday after school for 3 hours from seven till nine o’clock and we slowly got better. During the first round of the competition, we tried our best and worked together, but we were still behind, so we discussed how we should cope with the opponent. Finally, through our tactic, we got the first place. We were pleased of how we worked it out well to win a cup and medal.
Whenever I play basketball, I feel healthy and stronger. Besides, I meet new friends from the neighbour I not only like playing basketball, but I also enjoy watching basketball on television. When I go to the beach, my family and friends would get together to play and we have a lot of fun. Also, during weekends, I would call up my friends to play basketball with me. After the intense games, we would go to the teashop nearby to relax and grab some cold drinks to cool us down from the games we had.
We never stop playing basketball even though we now no longer school student.
Anime ^^
My hobby is watching anime.
Anime is like my whole world. It has become my hobby since I’m in standard 5. I
really love to watch them. Besides it fills my leisure times up, I also learn
many things from them such as Japanese language and even morale values.
Besides that,
The first anime that I watch was ‘Inuyasha’.
I first encountered this anime in television and then I furthered searching
it through the Youtube and finished the whole series.
Anime is not just all those
cartoons. People tend to mix up with cartoons and anime. They also simply note
all those who watch anime are childish. Let me make it clear! Anime and
cartoons are two different things. Anime concentrates mostly on
life issues or things tied closer to human emotion but cartoons generally made
to make people laugh and so are more comical.
There are also Differences
in Visual Characteristics. Anime illustrations are known to be exaggerated as
far as physical features are concerned. Usually, one can
differentiate an anime by observing the physical traits of the characters which
would include "large eyes, big hair and elongated limbs. Cartoons however,
approximate reality a little more compared to anime and carry traces of day to
day life in them. Striking resemblances to humans can be spotted in various
cartoons.
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