It's OKay not to be OKay

That is the latest lesson I've learnt. It's only taken me 20+ years to begin to understand something that other people master by the age of 3, but that's okay ;)

So, in other words, it's alright not to 'cope' all the time, it's okay to tell people close to you when you are unhappy with how they have treated you and feeling sad/happy/angry/pissed off etc etc is fine too. Keeping it all inside doesn't help and just makes things exponentially worse. It's okay when everything seems to go wrong like having a bad day or a quarrel or something even worse 'coz sooner or later everything will work out fine..ahm..am I making any sense?

It is also okay to give yourself a break and not beat yourself up when you are less than perfect - a lesson it took me over twenty years until I was forced to learn it.

I wouldn't worry. I'll get there one day....

Top 5 Reasons It Sucks to be an Engineering Student

I got this at Wired.com and wanted to post it in my blog because I find them true well at least at my course. No offense MEM, I'm just telling the truth. I'm thinking of making a list of caveats or something similar like this that applies to my course. You'd better watch out for it.

For many students, earning a degree in engineering is less than enjoyable and far from what they expected. Here are our biggest complaints about the educational rite of passage. Of course, they are sweeping generalizations. Feel free to disagree.

5. Awful Textbooks
Thick, dry, black and white manuscripts are rarely a source of inspiration and sometimes can cause loads of confusion. Often, the text is poorly written and interrupted by lengthy equations with symbols that are different from those used by the professor during lectures.

4. Professors are Rarely Encouraging
During each class, a professor that would rather be tending to his research will waltz up to a blackboard or overhead projector and scribble out equations for an hour without uttering a single sentence to create some excitement.

3. Dearth of Quality Counseling
College students may not have a sense for how to build their resume and they might be clueless about the variety of career opportunities that await them. Unfortunately, some academic advisers do little more than post fliers about internships and hand out a checklist of classes to take. They should make some projections about the future job market, learn about the interests of each young scholar, and offer them tailored advice for how to best prepare themselves.

2. Other Disciplines Have Inflated Grades
Brilliant engineering students may earn surprisingly low grades while slackers in other departments score straight As for writing book reports and throwing together papers about their favorite zombie films.

Some professors view undergraduate education as a type of natural selection, but their analogy is flawed. Many of the brightest students may struggle while mediocre scholars can earn top scores because they have a larger group of supportive friends to or more time to dedicate to studying.

1. Every Assignment Feels the Same
Nearly every homework assignment and test question is a math problem. Only a few courses require creativity or offer hands-on experience.

If you want to complain about your education, or our list, this is your chance. Leave a comment!

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The point of this entry? no real point. Just to say i was moved and was a bit teary eyed by a lecture. But I'm good. I'm no wimp waha. I want to write something about my learnings on a 121 session but I feel too tired and must go to sleep. I apologize. But first, to those who don't know 121, it's a form of discipling wherein a one-to-one communication of biblical preaching is happening between a preacher/discipler and a listener/disciple. It's a notion or better a practice known in the VCF. And yes, I'm currently participating the services of VCF and hopefully it continues.

P.S. Lord, make me strong.
121 121 121 ... that's like almost a group discussion but with pairs. wahaha
(o well, I know, nobody got the joke)

The book

Now I'm sitting here with the book laying in my lap and the music gently playing in the background,
And I wonder if, at this very minute,
I wonder if this is what's running through your mind right now
I bought the book you showed to me the last time we met.
And there's the music you were listening to and I downloaded it, too.
I got broke after I bought the book.
Now I'm sitting here with the book laying in my lap and the music softly playing in the background,
And I wonder if, at this very moment,
we're on the same page
and on the same line
reading the same word
listening to the same track and the same verse
I feel closer to you now.
Like I'm with you.

Old Testament ways to get a wife

Psst, guys! Didn't our religion teacher, priests and pastors told us that the bible is the source of knowledge and contains answers to our questions? Well, I bumped into a blog called Neatorama (http://www.neatorama.com) and got this post which originally belongs to Ian McKenzie of Ian’s Messy Desk blog and tells us 14 Old Testament Ways to Get a Wife. Here are the first five:

1. Find an attractive prisoner of war, bring her home, shave her head, trim her nails, and give her new clothes. Then she’s yours. - (Deuteronomy 21:11-13)

2. Find a prostitute and marry her. - (Hosea 1:1-3)

3. Find a man with seven daughters, and impress him by watering his flock.- Moses (Exodus 2:16-21)

4. Purchase a piece of property, and get a woman as part of the deal. - Boaz (Ruth 4:5-10)

5. Go to a party and hide. When the women come out to dance, grab one and carry her off to be your wife. - Benjaminites (Judges 21:19-25)

I personally find no.5 funny but I'd go for no.2 for practicality. wahah =p