hello blog. looks like i am not keeping up with my blogging resolution again oops. alright, skiing outstanding, i know.
just wanna drop by to say that its getting harder and harder (reminds me of the sociolinguistic project's boston pronunication ha-dar and ha-der) to concentrate on my work. gah, the SEP mood is finally setting in.
shit, my main intention of blogging is to say that, interestingly, the blogs accessed here end off with '.ca'! it might be some usual kind of stuff but i was amazed lol. bei-inthepocket.ca keke. so are other blogs ;)
random rants, i had my flintstone day again, apparently flintstoneness can travel too. but all went well in the end.
maybe due to some magical power ;)
Friday, March 23, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
IMO
After hunting for my kinder surprise egg, i forgot what i wanted to blogged about lol. Let me refresh my memory. For a filler, my ice fishing trip is cancelled =( because the ice is too thin. And oh wait, my friend just replied to say it might be possible at the other side of the lake! whee!
Ah, recalled what i wanted to blog about already. Nothing much to do with CAPONHOL but just some random thoughts that have accumulated today. Gah, how should i put it in words. In short, i just felt that i process matters in a really childish manner. Take Kony for example, just a video and i got duped my tears and into believing every single sentence of it, without any IMOs. It wasn't until people started posting other critics and stuff before I realised, hey wait, why did i so easily believe the video in the first place? I know some kind of social psych stuff is going on here but i am determined to snap out of this! I think i mentioned before I really admired people who have a view of themselves, always being able to analyse situations and provide their take on the issue. Unfortunately, somehow, i wasn't brought up to become like this. haiz, what an obedient girl. the perfect citizen our gahman would love. Some other stuff happened today too which led me to think this way but I cannot remember the details, just the general feel~ hmm, something from wong fu productions but i seriously cannot recall. Anyway, i really hope to have more opionions haha, critical mind to be exact, though people feel that being qing cai makes life easier. Glad that i have a bunch of smarties friends beside me who always have their thinking cap on ;). Alright, new resolution, to be more critical before i become Ms Low. If not, students attending my class will be like kids going to playground. NO WAY!
On a side note, why isn't my English improving. My post feels like an ahlian post.
Ah, recalled what i wanted to blog about already. Nothing much to do with CAPONHOL but just some random thoughts that have accumulated today. Gah, how should i put it in words. In short, i just felt that i process matters in a really childish manner. Take Kony for example, just a video and i got duped my tears and into believing every single sentence of it, without any IMOs. It wasn't until people started posting other critics and stuff before I realised, hey wait, why did i so easily believe the video in the first place? I know some kind of social psych stuff is going on here but i am determined to snap out of this! I think i mentioned before I really admired people who have a view of themselves, always being able to analyse situations and provide their take on the issue. Unfortunately, somehow, i wasn't brought up to become like this. haiz, what an obedient girl. the perfect citizen our gahman would love. Some other stuff happened today too which led me to think this way but I cannot remember the details, just the general feel~ hmm, something from wong fu productions but i seriously cannot recall. Anyway, i really hope to have more opionions haha, critical mind to be exact, though people feel that being qing cai makes life easier. Glad that i have a bunch of smarties friends beside me who always have their thinking cap on ;). Alright, new resolution, to be more critical before i become Ms Low. If not, students attending my class will be like kids going to playground. NO WAY!
On a side note, why isn't my English improving. My post feels like an ahlian post.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
the power of mind.
Since I am on it, i might as well continue. Cuz i know this enthusiasm in blogging will not last haha.
Next up, about memorable people i met so far in Canada! Not like i am very kaki kaki with them but they are really interesting people we see here :).
Auntie Nemo. That day that I wanted to blog about her, I drank a cup of the special juice she made. That was the very first day she smiled and became unusually friendly to us. Auntie Nemo is a staff at Canada Room. Her attitude fluctuated a lot last time, across time, across people. And most of the time, we got the bad end of it. So every time I need a bag lunch, i secretly pray that its not her at the counter. But that day was interesting. She was really friendly, passing our card after she swiped it back to us personally and not put it down on the tabletop. Then, we saw her making juices in the pantry. It was a really nice green colour and she offered us a cup too! Damn refreshing!! And Auntie Nemo attitude became really lovely. After that day, she disappeared for a few days so we concluded that her happy mood was some kind of pre holiday symptoms. Well, now she is back. Her mood still fluctuates but at least we get some of the good end now teehee. MUST BE THE JUICE. As for why she is called Auntie Nemo, I will leave it to you to guess ;)
Speaking of Auntie Nemo, how can we leave out kind auntie! Kind auntie as her name suggests is forever smiling and kind!! I really find her very beautiful as a woman her age. Not that kind of attractive beauty but 慈祥 that kind of auntie. like a grandma like that :). But she seem easily bullied though. Everytime I need a bagged lunch, i hope to see her at the counter haha!
Mr Bean. He is a regular diner in Canada Room. His real identity is still a mystery up till now. But he eats a lot for his size and he has a really nice green shirt.
Snape. Another diner in Canada Room, who erm, looks like Snape.
Gangster. I forgot his name already. But somewhere along this line. Yet another diner in Canada Room. He is huge, he eats a lot too. But don't be fooled by his look, he might be a very nice guy from the way he said sorry when needed and how he brought his own tray on trayless day.
I am not sure if i constructed this memory but once, Bean, Snape and Gangster, who never sat with each other before actually gathered to eat together. haha I wonder if we can take a photo with them before we leave Canada. Memories of Canada Room totally.
Note I said Harry Potter and not Snape, because there is this guy that really looks like Hagrid in two of my psychology classes. He is unlike a typical student cuz he has a really special hairstyle, those twirl twirl dry dry kind which i supposed is really hard to maintain. Till now, i still cannot discern if its natural or not. He is always late and carefree, just like good old Hagrid! The kind of typical classmate that always awed me. Students who never print their notes but forever offering really good insights during class. I wish i could be like that next time but apparently i am always operating on a Pentium 1 mode in class LOL =(
Maildesk uncle. Probably the person that I have talked to the longest in English in Canada so far, minus all the chinese kaki i have. I think i mentioned him before in my post on popo. A really nice Sri Lankan who shifted to Canada few years back. Really enjoyed chit chatting with him cuz he is just like the good old wise person you would turn to for advice. Though he said feel free to go chit chat with him but aiya, its just weird to keep going back. Probably the next mail! :)
Social cognition class is on person impression and some attribution theories lately. today, we watched The Human Zoo. My prof said she downloaded the video illegally somemore, she is really cute haha. and the cat of hers. but ok, the point about The Human Zoo. Its by yes, Zimbardo of course and is about how people can be really swift in making their first impression of others and how this impressions, made within seconds, can affect how they judge a person. The main study is about having 12 participants who have never met before to stay in a place for a few days and see how their interactions turn out and the dynamics. and i must say, despite of two years of reading similar journals, i am still shocked by how our perceptions colour the world we see. Like there is no reality. A height difference of a few inches can lead people think that two similar guys have an annual pay difference of around 50, 000?! Back to the main study, there is this really interestig part when the camera slow mo-ed a girl's expression when she shook hands with another really handsome participants. Hahaha, fleeting seconds and it meant something ;) a pity we cannot finish the video before the class ends. Hopefully its available in the library! :)
So here we are, forming impressions of others. Similarly, i bet people are making impressions of us. And i really wonder what the content is like. maybe Bean sees us as a group of pesty kids who make a lot of noise he doesn't understand and chopes his table keke. Its amazing how we form impression of people in or lives though our paths might near but probably never intersect. People are linked together just like that :) through the unseen. through the power of mind.
Next up, about memorable people i met so far in Canada! Not like i am very kaki kaki with them but they are really interesting people we see here :).
Auntie Nemo. That day that I wanted to blog about her, I drank a cup of the special juice she made. That was the very first day she smiled and became unusually friendly to us. Auntie Nemo is a staff at Canada Room. Her attitude fluctuated a lot last time, across time, across people. And most of the time, we got the bad end of it. So every time I need a bag lunch, i secretly pray that its not her at the counter. But that day was interesting. She was really friendly, passing our card after she swiped it back to us personally and not put it down on the tabletop. Then, we saw her making juices in the pantry. It was a really nice green colour and she offered us a cup too! Damn refreshing!! And Auntie Nemo attitude became really lovely. After that day, she disappeared for a few days so we concluded that her happy mood was some kind of pre holiday symptoms. Well, now she is back. Her mood still fluctuates but at least we get some of the good end now teehee. MUST BE THE JUICE. As for why she is called Auntie Nemo, I will leave it to you to guess ;)
Speaking of Auntie Nemo, how can we leave out kind auntie! Kind auntie as her name suggests is forever smiling and kind!! I really find her very beautiful as a woman her age. Not that kind of attractive beauty but 慈祥 that kind of auntie. like a grandma like that :). But she seem easily bullied though. Everytime I need a bagged lunch, i hope to see her at the counter haha!
Mr Bean. He is a regular diner in Canada Room. His real identity is still a mystery up till now. But he eats a lot for his size and he has a really nice green shirt.
Snape. Another diner in Canada Room, who erm, looks like Snape.
Gangster. I forgot his name already. But somewhere along this line. Yet another diner in Canada Room. He is huge, he eats a lot too. But don't be fooled by his look, he might be a very nice guy from the way he said sorry when needed and how he brought his own tray on trayless day.
I am not sure if i constructed this memory but once, Bean, Snape and Gangster, who never sat with each other before actually gathered to eat together. haha I wonder if we can take a photo with them before we leave Canada. Memories of Canada Room totally.
Note I said Harry Potter and not Snape, because there is this guy that really looks like Hagrid in two of my psychology classes. He is unlike a typical student cuz he has a really special hairstyle, those twirl twirl dry dry kind which i supposed is really hard to maintain. Till now, i still cannot discern if its natural or not. He is always late and carefree, just like good old Hagrid! The kind of typical classmate that always awed me. Students who never print their notes but forever offering really good insights during class. I wish i could be like that next time but apparently i am always operating on a Pentium 1 mode in class LOL =(
Maildesk uncle. Probably the person that I have talked to the longest in English in Canada so far, minus all the chinese kaki i have. I think i mentioned him before in my post on popo. A really nice Sri Lankan who shifted to Canada few years back. Really enjoyed chit chatting with him cuz he is just like the good old wise person you would turn to for advice. Though he said feel free to go chit chat with him but aiya, its just weird to keep going back. Probably the next mail! :)
Social cognition class is on person impression and some attribution theories lately. today, we watched The Human Zoo. My prof said she downloaded the video illegally somemore, she is really cute haha. and the cat of hers. but ok, the point about The Human Zoo. Its by yes, Zimbardo of course and is about how people can be really swift in making their first impression of others and how this impressions, made within seconds, can affect how they judge a person. The main study is about having 12 participants who have never met before to stay in a place for a few days and see how their interactions turn out and the dynamics. and i must say, despite of two years of reading similar journals, i am still shocked by how our perceptions colour the world we see. Like there is no reality. A height difference of a few inches can lead people think that two similar guys have an annual pay difference of around 50, 000?! Back to the main study, there is this really interestig part when the camera slow mo-ed a girl's expression when she shook hands with another really handsome participants. Hahaha, fleeting seconds and it meant something ;) a pity we cannot finish the video before the class ends. Hopefully its available in the library! :)
So here we are, forming impressions of others. Similarly, i bet people are making impressions of us. And i really wonder what the content is like. maybe Bean sees us as a group of pesty kids who make a lot of noise he doesn't understand and chopes his table keke. Its amazing how we form impression of people in or lives though our paths might near but probably never intersect. People are linked together just like that :) through the unseen. through the power of mind.
i am back with my robarts adventure!
Hi pocket, as promised, i am back!
Alright, good for my Robarts adventure? So it started off with me needing a book for a project so i asked stephen (i BELIEVE thats his name) for directions to the stacks. In NUS, I've only heard of CLOSED stacks which I never need to use so far. I thought the book should be really exclusive and i was worried i couldn't get it out of the library. Apparently, turned out stacks here meant normal borrowing shelves and I think he was kinda shocked to see that I know nuts about stacks. alright malu max, so we'll move on.
Ok, normal borrowing shelves. So today i set out for the Robarts Library, wondering on the way where on earth these normal shelves are. I went Robarts N times already, though countable with my fingers, but I didn't recall seeing shelves of normal books. Only course reserves and reference so far. Maybe cuz I only ventured up to level 4. So i went all the way up to level 4 hoping to go higher only to realise there is no more escalators? Ended up we need to take the lifts to go to the stacks, and they are an incredible x number of levels for A-Z. mine's on level 11. okie, chionged to the lift and got called after by a lady near the lift. oh, need show T card. Up to level 11, i still saw no books, only people using computers. Realised that we need to get into the room through some normal doors into the stacks. Alright i went in and hunted for my books among the sea of books. Automatic lights when you go down the aisle wow. some sophisticated system to transport the books between levels and sections i think wow wow. When i got my book and wanted to head out, i realised i lost the exit to many many doors. peered through the windows of each door i saw and its all computers. OMG WHERE IS THE EXIT. i could feel myself panicking. started hunting for my phone to make sure that i was connected to the world. for a moment, i thought i was lost in some other dimension, that i was going to be stuck in the never ending maze and i thought of harry potter (ok, fantacise too much but you get the point). Eventually, i found the exit. the doorS were just all the doors i peered through. i forgot there were computers all over. those i saw through the windows just now weren't computer rooms o.o ok. so i headed out red faced and found myself another problem. where is the check out machine? hunted the entire level and i couldn't find it. But i decided to not ask people anymore, lest the next one i asked might just tell me 'oh don't you know? its checked out the moment u took it down the shelf' ><. Luckily, after reading all the signs, i found one that says check out is to be down on level 1. so yup, to level one and now, 'Renewing Unilever' is resting on my table. but there is still one thing thats baffling me. A woman with a baby pram went to the stacks lift and the lady at level one never asked her for her T card or something. So, i looked suspicious, huh. haha
anyway, exciting adventure at Robarts. Today, i rewrote my schema about borrowing books :) and i blogged about it. fresh from memory, yay! :D
Alright, good for my Robarts adventure? So it started off with me needing a book for a project so i asked stephen (i BELIEVE thats his name) for directions to the stacks. In NUS, I've only heard of CLOSED stacks which I never need to use so far. I thought the book should be really exclusive and i was worried i couldn't get it out of the library. Apparently, turned out stacks here meant normal borrowing shelves and I think he was kinda shocked to see that I know nuts about stacks. alright malu max, so we'll move on.
Ok, normal borrowing shelves. So today i set out for the Robarts Library, wondering on the way where on earth these normal shelves are. I went Robarts N times already, though countable with my fingers, but I didn't recall seeing shelves of normal books. Only course reserves and reference so far. Maybe cuz I only ventured up to level 4. So i went all the way up to level 4 hoping to go higher only to realise there is no more escalators? Ended up we need to take the lifts to go to the stacks, and they are an incredible x number of levels for A-Z. mine's on level 11. okie, chionged to the lift and got called after by a lady near the lift. oh, need show T card. Up to level 11, i still saw no books, only people using computers. Realised that we need to get into the room through some normal doors into the stacks. Alright i went in and hunted for my books among the sea of books. Automatic lights when you go down the aisle wow. some sophisticated system to transport the books between levels and sections i think wow wow. When i got my book and wanted to head out, i realised i lost the exit to many many doors. peered through the windows of each door i saw and its all computers. OMG WHERE IS THE EXIT. i could feel myself panicking. started hunting for my phone to make sure that i was connected to the world. for a moment, i thought i was lost in some other dimension, that i was going to be stuck in the never ending maze and i thought of harry potter (ok, fantacise too much but you get the point). Eventually, i found the exit. the doorS were just all the doors i peered through. i forgot there were computers all over. those i saw through the windows just now weren't computer rooms o.o ok. so i headed out red faced and found myself another problem. where is the check out machine? hunted the entire level and i couldn't find it. But i decided to not ask people anymore, lest the next one i asked might just tell me 'oh don't you know? its checked out the moment u took it down the shelf' ><. Luckily, after reading all the signs, i found one that says check out is to be down on level 1. so yup, to level one and now, 'Renewing Unilever' is resting on my table. but there is still one thing thats baffling me. A woman with a baby pram went to the stacks lift and the lady at level one never asked her for her T card or something. So, i looked suspicious, huh. haha
anyway, exciting adventure at Robarts. Today, i rewrote my schema about borrowing books :) and i blogged about it. fresh from memory, yay! :D
imma slacker
This is really bad. I am forever putting off blogging for other stuff. The two times that I wanted to jot my experiences down were OBS and YEP. OBS, yes, I did it, detailing the stuff and takeaways (good job me). YEP, nah, it was half done on the diary I bought because memory and time taken to jot follows a negative correlation. As you can see, the trend continues. Now, SEP, … almost nothing. Sadly, I use this pocket to remind me when I become an old lady with dementia (since I don’t play that much mahjong) of what I have done and yes, most importantly organize my thoughts so I at least express myself coherently. If I had been less lazy and blogged consistently, there won’t be this mafan now that I don’t know what to start off when conversing with friends about what’s happening here lol. Ohman. Now I know why cher and sherdee have those little reflection session after trips. It really has its merits. Why do I have a goldfish memory. Why do I procrastinate so much. Argh.
Nuff said. So now I should start blogging more often! Strategy: Be more consistent now about current happenings and slowly recall the previous trips. Ok I try. And the fact I am doing it now is because my room network is taking longer and longer to start up lol. So effectively, I am blogging
on ms word while waiting for my internet connection. Situational forces lol. Alright a list of stuff in my brain. My Robarts adventure today (I will get it up today, hopefully). Erms, auntie nemo and the harry potter gang. Trips. What not. And I have this list that I did in my previous post I just recalled. The last I read back, I did not finishing posting about the topics on the list. And worse, some of the items I couldn’t even recall what happened LOL.
Random stuff today: The weather’s good and I can’t wait for spring. I am rushing to end this post. Because, the internet connection is back! Yay!! BRB pocket! :D
Nuff said. So now I should start blogging more often! Strategy: Be more consistent now about current happenings and slowly recall the previous trips. Ok I try. And the fact I am doing it now is because my room network is taking longer and longer to start up lol. So effectively, I am blogging
on ms word while waiting for my internet connection. Situational forces lol. Alright a list of stuff in my brain. My Robarts adventure today (I will get it up today, hopefully). Erms, auntie nemo and the harry potter gang. Trips. What not. And I have this list that I did in my previous post I just recalled. The last I read back, I did not finishing posting about the topics on the list. And worse, some of the items I couldn’t even recall what happened LOL.
Random stuff today: The weather’s good and I can’t wait for spring. I am rushing to end this post. Because, the internet connection is back! Yay!! BRB pocket! :D
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