pics say a thousand words :)
stay sane and happy,
amyemeelea
Friday, February 24, 2006
Saturday, February 18, 2006
the four f's...
stands for, fornication, fight, flight and freeze.
its the very basic workings of the the amygdala. no not the star wars queen but the part of our brain. i wonder why she was named for the very part that is said to be "the seat of our passions" or rather more precisely the seat of our fear. i went for class today and that was what stuck in my mind for the rest of the time i left class.
i'm taking module AP105- Emotional motivation and Intelligence :D and as it always has been, class was an experience in itself. i missed last week's class and it's nice to know my coursemates actually missed me haha! i didn't get a new lecturer as i had hoped but it was mr chee kum again. he's okay but can get very dry and technical *hrrrmpf* but for one thing, hes very passionate about teaching and is very serious about the comments that he get in class. he tries to accomodate by bringing in new material and tries to relate to the young and old in the class by using varied terms to explain the technical and scientific terms we learn in class. today he used the word horny *hurrah!!!* but stopped when i made a snide remark about it hehehe...we were talking about how in the 60's it was believed that women do not reach orgasm hah! but later studies have shown *ofcourse!* that women do reach orgasm such as men do but in very different ways.
which is why i prefer mr naidu to teach because he hates to speak about what was researched way back in the 60's! they have no blaardy business in the present, the now :) but in the academic world i guess it is still very much necessary to learn how things and theories HAVE evolved. very much like how life in general is. we hate to make past mistakes but many have forgotten that its the process that really matters. in the now times that everything has to be rushed, i find people aroud me less tolerant and less patient about changing and adapting. we have lost the sense of achievement that comes with a work well done and for different people the learning curve truly varies *weknowthatbutestillchoosetodisbelieve* i hate all the rush but reality is as such that i say potato and you say potata :P
after about a month in my permanent *hopes* department i took my very first mc today. i just can't take the stress and long working hours. i have been neglecting my health, my spirit and those close to me. just feeling off balance and the much needed rest was very welcome. i set my mind yet again to the routine i had set much earlier before which was to maximise my resources to its fullest and again am more aware of my strengths and weaknesses. i don't care how many times i fail and i don't care if it seems to be fruitless to some when significant and fixed changes have yet manifested themselves in my course of trying. it does get to me these negative feedback but He knows best and of course those closest to me.
"Human mental processes are surely among the most important and most difficult to deal with" - Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, Richard J. Heuer, Jr. and that's the challenge for me today!!!!! just need to first reduce the tension i am now feeling. so now i know more about what exactly that goes around in our mind among our kind *hehe* so it'll be much easier to 'understand' and go with the flow when i'm so set in my thinking and ways from before. and yeah....it'll be intresting to see how i can apply what i have learnt in class to work for me in real life. even if it takes the topic of sex to awake me from my slumber hehehehehe...
stay sane and in good spirits,
amyemeela
its the very basic workings of the the amygdala. no not the star wars queen but the part of our brain. i wonder why she was named for the very part that is said to be "the seat of our passions" or rather more precisely the seat of our fear. i went for class today and that was what stuck in my mind for the rest of the time i left class.
i'm taking module AP105- Emotional motivation and Intelligence :D and as it always has been, class was an experience in itself. i missed last week's class and it's nice to know my coursemates actually missed me haha! i didn't get a new lecturer as i had hoped but it was mr chee kum again. he's okay but can get very dry and technical *hrrrmpf* but for one thing, hes very passionate about teaching and is very serious about the comments that he get in class. he tries to accomodate by bringing in new material and tries to relate to the young and old in the class by using varied terms to explain the technical and scientific terms we learn in class. today he used the word horny *hurrah!!!* but stopped when i made a snide remark about it hehehe...we were talking about how in the 60's it was believed that women do not reach orgasm hah! but later studies have shown *ofcourse!* that women do reach orgasm such as men do but in very different ways.
which is why i prefer mr naidu to teach because he hates to speak about what was researched way back in the 60's! they have no blaardy business in the present, the now :) but in the academic world i guess it is still very much necessary to learn how things and theories HAVE evolved. very much like how life in general is. we hate to make past mistakes but many have forgotten that its the process that really matters. in the now times that everything has to be rushed, i find people aroud me less tolerant and less patient about changing and adapting. we have lost the sense of achievement that comes with a work well done and for different people the learning curve truly varies *weknowthatbutestillchoosetodisbelieve* i hate all the rush but reality is as such that i say potato and you say potata :P
after about a month in my permanent *hopes* department i took my very first mc today. i just can't take the stress and long working hours. i have been neglecting my health, my spirit and those close to me. just feeling off balance and the much needed rest was very welcome. i set my mind yet again to the routine i had set much earlier before which was to maximise my resources to its fullest and again am more aware of my strengths and weaknesses. i don't care how many times i fail and i don't care if it seems to be fruitless to some when significant and fixed changes have yet manifested themselves in my course of trying. it does get to me these negative feedback but He knows best and of course those closest to me.
"Human mental processes are surely among the most important and most difficult to deal with" - Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, Richard J. Heuer, Jr. and that's the challenge for me today!!!!! just need to first reduce the tension i am now feeling. so now i know more about what exactly that goes around in our mind among our kind *hehe* so it'll be much easier to 'understand' and go with the flow when i'm so set in my thinking and ways from before. and yeah....it'll be intresting to see how i can apply what i have learnt in class to work for me in real life. even if it takes the topic of sex to awake me from my slumber hehehehehe...
stay sane and in good spirits,
amyemeela
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
i'm backkkk!!!!!
I just deleted a long long long entry rambling and grumbling when I stopped and deleted everything. Simple with just a click and then its all gone! Wouldn’t I be great to erase things just as easy as that :D
I am not going to edit this entry at all just to see if I could spot some Freudian slips of mine along the way hehe and try not to censor myself along the way. I just spotted one above and I’m going to let it be.
So what did I do these past few weeks? I managed to finish one assignement on time and the other *tootteetteettoot* along athe way. I I emant that. I just don’t know what happened to the other one. Everyone who cared asked if I handed in my assignments and I said yes to all :P I attended the hotel’s dinner and dance as a bear last Thursday and won a huge ang pow. Won’t say how much it was but have already spent it all on verybody else except myself ;) I have finally decided that it’s okay for me to look for another job if I don’t find the current one suitable for me *thankyoupoww* and I am convinced now that my sympathies for the opposition party in Singapore will only have me looked upon as just another rebel without a cause *yeah!!!rockon!* again I learnt to opposites do attract but all for the wrong reasons and that I’d always be a stubborn mule when I can’t bring myself to agree with another’s point of view or sets of beliefs.
I still belive in the freedom of the press and that it should be upheld at all costs. Because to me freedom of press means living without fear and when one lives without fear only then can one be faced with situations and challenges to change oneself from within. I’m not saying we all should not live in fear totally but isn’t fear the very thing that stops us from moving forward and experiencing the good the bad the ugly? Should life just be happy, peaceful and in harmony? Was it meant to be without strife and adversity? I think there’s a lot more issues at hand that needs to be tackled,.immediate issues very close at home, at heart that needs our attention. Bigger pictures gives us the wide screen view of things but if you look closely, and that’s how you should look…..very closely and that is when you can see what needs to be done and how it needs to be done. No point looking at the bigger picture and missing the finer things in between or one can’t be anal retentive and micro manage everything. I just think that I should conventrate on what I do best nad try to do other aspirational, inspirational things at least once. Who knows you might like it and decide to pursue and keep it as a constant.
Who knows what is good or bad for us anymore. For some freedom means one but to another a totally different thing altogether. The most most important is not to,lose its ‘essence’ and efforts must be made to keep it pure. Whether its freedom of the press or maybe it was just seeking out the truth. Fair is fair and I think everyone should take it as their own responsibility to practice what they preach and earn their keep. Its just very sad that some had to die and others ostracised. But fear not……..evil begets evil and good will triumph. Law of the universe transcends mere idolatry laws of men and I have faith that nothing that has transpired has gone to waste.
Some may fear lipas and some may fear cicaks but I fear I’d fail to hear the alarm go off tomorrow if I don’t get some shuteye. Some fears are irrational and many totally makes sense!!! But just how many will overcome and prevail AT least the selfless ones :)
stay sane and not sleepy :P
amyemelea
I am not going to edit this entry at all just to see if I could spot some Freudian slips of mine along the way hehe and try not to censor myself along the way. I just spotted one above and I’m going to let it be.
So what did I do these past few weeks? I managed to finish one assignement on time and the other *tootteetteettoot* along athe way. I I emant that. I just don’t know what happened to the other one. Everyone who cared asked if I handed in my assignments and I said yes to all :P I attended the hotel’s dinner and dance as a bear last Thursday and won a huge ang pow. Won’t say how much it was but have already spent it all on verybody else except myself ;) I have finally decided that it’s okay for me to look for another job if I don’t find the current one suitable for me *thankyoupoww* and I am convinced now that my sympathies for the opposition party in Singapore will only have me looked upon as just another rebel without a cause *yeah!!!rockon!* again I learnt to opposites do attract but all for the wrong reasons and that I’d always be a stubborn mule when I can’t bring myself to agree with another’s point of view or sets of beliefs.
I still belive in the freedom of the press and that it should be upheld at all costs. Because to me freedom of press means living without fear and when one lives without fear only then can one be faced with situations and challenges to change oneself from within. I’m not saying we all should not live in fear totally but isn’t fear the very thing that stops us from moving forward and experiencing the good the bad the ugly? Should life just be happy, peaceful and in harmony? Was it meant to be without strife and adversity? I think there’s a lot more issues at hand that needs to be tackled,.immediate issues very close at home, at heart that needs our attention. Bigger pictures gives us the wide screen view of things but if you look closely, and that’s how you should look…..very closely and that is when you can see what needs to be done and how it needs to be done. No point looking at the bigger picture and missing the finer things in between or one can’t be anal retentive and micro manage everything. I just think that I should conventrate on what I do best nad try to do other aspirational, inspirational things at least once. Who knows you might like it and decide to pursue and keep it as a constant.
Who knows what is good or bad for us anymore. For some freedom means one but to another a totally different thing altogether. The most most important is not to,lose its ‘essence’ and efforts must be made to keep it pure. Whether its freedom of the press or maybe it was just seeking out the truth. Fair is fair and I think everyone should take it as their own responsibility to practice what they preach and earn their keep. Its just very sad that some had to die and others ostracised. But fear not……..evil begets evil and good will triumph. Law of the universe transcends mere idolatry laws of men and I have faith that nothing that has transpired has gone to waste.
Some may fear lipas and some may fear cicaks but I fear I’d fail to hear the alarm go off tomorrow if I don’t get some shuteye. Some fears are irrational and many totally makes sense!!! But just how many will overcome and prevail AT least the selfless ones :)
stay sane and not sleepy :P
amyemelea
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