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Friday, October 17, 2008


Shu Ning reports:

Here are pics from that very very WET day when we celebrated Chi Hau and Shuba's birthday...


The present we bought for him. there's a striking resemblance, right?? =P =P =P

Cutting the cake...


Now feeding each other the cake...


The "hua ping"...=P



Chi Hau, covered in cake, & his birthday present.




Dancing...Oh man, ask anyone who saw him dancing that night...it was hilarious...I'll upload the video once I actually get access to Youtube...


And finally, group pic of all the Alice Springs people who turned up on that day. Be grateful, class rep......=P =P =P


Anyway, once again Happy Birthday, Chi Hau...Thanks for "jaga-ing" us as class rep this year...hehe...and for the times we keep making you attempt to cancel class...

Good luck & all the best in everything, ya...



7:00 AM

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Saturday, October 4, 2008


Chi Hau:


The other night I was wandering at Popular bookstore when Who Moved My Cheese? by Dr Spencer Johnson caught my sight. I came across the book frequently years ago when I was a librarian at my high school but I was never keen to take a glimpse into it. That night, I picked up the book and finished it in about half an hour. The story depicted four characters – Sniff, Scurry, Haw and Hem – searching for cheese in a maze and their responses when a cheese station which was once a haven for them ran out of cheese.

If you do not change, you can become extinct.” When the cheese station was out of supply, Sniff and Scurry were immediately aware of it and they moved on to search for more cheese in the maze. In contrast, Haw and Hem were at a complete loss when they faced that predicament. Eventually, one of them (can’t really remember whether it is Haw and Hem because I can just vaguely recall the story) decided to move out of the once-full-of-cheese station and explore the maze for more cheese. The above statement is kind of akin to the notion of natural selection, in which organisms have to evolve or to change to adapt to the ever-changing environment. Undergoing no changes, the populations are doomed to be wiped out. Even when substrates bind to the active sites of enzymes, the enzymes also have to change it shape slightly in order to produce a better binding, stress the bonds in substrates, lower the activation energy and hence increase the rate of reaction. Oh heck, what am I crapping? Anyway the principles and values that we always hold on to shall surfer no alteration. It is the way we see things, the way we perceive an issue, the way we analyze a situation that should be changed. Most of us talk about making a difference in others’ lives. We talk about healing the world but in fact how ready are we for all those things? To make changes in others’ lives, first we have to change ourselves…

When you stop being afraid, you feel happy.” Undeniably, we feel delightful when we have nothing to be afraid of, when we are not worrying about something. But then most of the times, our mind is cluttered with too many ‘what-ifs’. What if I fail the test miserably? What I say something that makes me look stupid during the debate competition? What if the girl turns me down when I try to confess to her? Indeed worries, at most of the time, are redundant. For things that have been done or things that have happened in the past, it is impractical to worry about them because things will not change to your favor even though you worry about it for the whole day. Your results will not change from black and white into flying colors not matter what. The only thing we can do is to stop worrying and work on things that we are capable to change. We have the future in our hand. We are the one who determine who we want to be in the future and we are going to work on it. We should try our best so that we will have no regrets when we look back. Take a fancy to someone? Why not make your stand clear to him/her? You wouldn’t want to regret years later when you think that you should have confessed to her in the first place. If you never try, you will never know how things are going to turn out to be. When we put in all our effort in something, of course we will feel depressed if the effort were to no avail but at least, we know deep in the bottom of our heart that we have tried our best and we have no regrets. Oh, this reminds me of William Hung who took the world by storm due to his effort despite his ***** voice. In fact the only thing that we have to be afraid of is fear itself and this is well said by Franklin Roosevelt. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Discard your worries and conquer your fear and you are no far away from who you always wish to be.

Imagining yourself enjoying your cheese leads you to it.” At the first instant I saw this sentence, Steve Chandler’s words came into my mind. In his book 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself, Chandler talks about ‘Create a vision’. When Arnold Schwarzeneggar retired from bodybuilding, he dreamt to be the number-one box-office in the Tinseltown. Nevertheless, his initial attempts at movies were not much promising. “What you do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture, as if it were already true.” He said this when he was asked on how he is going to achieve his goal. In fact this turns out to be true for me. I have been thinking about who I want to be in the future. For the past few months, I went through a few interviews to be admitted into a medical school. Whenever the interviewers ask me who I see myself as ten years in the future, it is the same answer – to work in disaster-wrecked and poverty-stricken areas. When you create a picture of who you want to be in the future, you will work harder for it because you know that this is what you want in your life, that is the thing that gives you a sense of purpose, the thing that keeps you alive while you are still alive. Sometimes we wake up in the morning and wonder what is the purpose of life, why are we here, what are we supposed to do. But when you create a vision about yourself in the future, you will have something to wake up for in the morning. Do not live a single moment of your life without having a vision for Helen Keller once said: “The most pathetic person is someone who has sight but has no vision.”




5:47 AM

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Friday, October 3, 2008


Chi Hau:

Though human cloning might sound to be whimsical fifty years ago, a major breakthrough was attained in 2004 when a team of South Korean researchers, led by Woo Suk Hwang, declared that they had cloned human embryos capable of reaching the blastocyst stage. Nonetheless, a university panel subsequently decided that the research was fabricated. In fact, I was quite surprised when, a few weeks ago, I stumbled across the news that Australia granted a patent to Woo Suk Hwang regarding his method used in human cloning. Indeed Australia is the first ever country that recognizes the human cloning technique of Woo and deems it as legitimate.

Anyway the idea of human cloning is really fascinating! Besides extracting cells from embryonic stem cells to treat genetic diseases, did you ever think of replicating a celebrity or your dream guy/gal and make him/her your perfect date? Not feasible though it sounds to be as under normal condition, a clone reaches maturity in a shorter period of time and surely you wouldn’t want to see your beau/lass to grow from a chubby infant into a mature adult and towards senility when you yourself have just gone through a period of, say, then years. Haha…

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People don’t just want children, but children with more advantages than they had.” This sentence really put me into a moment of silence, a moment to think, to ponder and to reflect upon myself. Parents, regardless of human beings and animals, always strive to give the best to their children, though sometimes they may be deprived of something else which is much more essential to them. As a matter of fact, nurturing and providing basic requirements are as vital as searching for the perfect spouse to create offspring with perfect combination of characteristics. And thus the notion of eugenics is born. However I shall not further elaborate this subject and pertinent scientific and social implication.

What I want to talk about is the sacrifice made by our parents, things they have no choice but to give up to give us a better life. It reminds me of a movie that I watched recently – Money Not Enough 2 (a Singaporean film) – in which the mother decided to take her own life in order to halt the squabble between the children and to save her granddaughter’s life. For One More Day by Mitch Albom is a very poignant and touching one in the way this matter is presented. The main character hardly stands up for his mum despite the mother’s concerns. Most of us only come to appreciate someone we love only when the person is no longer around us. How much our parents have done for us and in return, what have we done in reciprocation?




1:48 AM

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