My opposition party is spending too much time refuting untrue claims. This time could be better spent on useful stuff instead of defending themselves against baseless attacks!

http://wp.sg/2011/08/media-release-on-untrue-claims-of-curtailment-of-pap-grassroots-activities-in%E2%80%A8-hougang-smc/?awesm=fbshare.me_AdRqE&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=fbshare.me-facebook-post&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=fbshare-js-large

i hope you're doing well.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/a-love-letter-to-a-friend/

oh no... I missed it.. =(

Forgiveness is one thing. reconciliation is another.

http://thinkpoint.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/a-closer-look-at-forgiveness/

forgiveness doesnt depend on the offender, reconciliation does. carefully observe changes in attitudes and behaviour before reconciliation.

because life is too difficult

dumb little man and their useful tips for life

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2011/06/powerful-ideas-that-will-bring-greater.html

Women. we can turn the world around. by being women, not by taking on characteristics of men.

blessed beyond belief

for a wonderful lab, amazing supervisors

for insightful discussions, great companions and great friendship

for perfect timing

for the lessons in life

today's message says...

that strong family makes a healthy foundation for life's adventures.
Family to support you in times of need, to challenge you to grow, to celebrate with you in times of victory. sweet.

so I'll stand

with arms high and heart abandoned

graduate school applications

i havent even started and i'm already headaching.

i feel like i know enough things in enough depth that i dunno what to do my phd in (cos i dun wanna study all the immunology again or all the individual infections again)

but i don't feel like i know how to be a scientist yet, ask questions, design experiments, make sure i have all my controls, think about all the confounding factors..

vaccine trials?

more infection immunology?

...structural biology?

what about pharmacology..

bookmarked for reading

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201104/6-clues-character

Attributes in people that are generally accurate in the long term

my facebook status

i wasn't expecting great popularity, likes and comments on my status.

it reads: after 2 days of scrubbing my toilet is SHINY =D

so many people came to 'like' it, i think people who like it, like it for at least 1 of 3 reasons:

1- they like my standard of cleanliness, ie shiny

2- they like that i care about the cleanliness of the toilet

or 3- they like that i was honest about the previous state of my toilet (it really wasn't that bad, if it was bad enough i would have been unable to sleep, my housemates can testify to me sleeping late because i was cleaning the loo)

i didn't think i needed a particularly good reason for cleaning up the house before i have guests. mum or friends, i always thoroughly clean up the house before my guests come: my room, the kitchen, the toilet. (yes i have an obsession with the loo)

and the reason is not about being 'fake'. i may be comfortable living in 'dirty' conditions, but my guests might not, and as a host my primary responsibility is to make sure my guests are comfortable. the toilet is an intimate area, you don't want to worry about getting fungal/bacterial/viral infection because you used a dirty toilet. the kitchen is where you prepare food, you don't want your guests coming to see the state of your kitchen and wondering if the food you cook is really properly edible or whether they will get food poisoning from poor kitchen cleanliness.

and then theres the discussion about being a woman:

basically my 'defence' to cleaning my toilet before my mum came was that i didnt want her going on about how i'm not fit to be a woman, which i said in a half joking manner. clearly it didnt quite come across as a joke cos my friend was appalled: "utter rubbish, ur fitness to be a woman bears no relation to the state of your toilet; u do not have to make ur toilet sparkle just to prove to society or ur mum that u r a woman." my darling mum has her curious definitions of being a woman, like knowing how to wash dishes in her unique systematic way, or combing your hair every morning, or having a neat room. it probably rubbed off a little on me and my definition of being a good woman includes having a proper standard of hygiene. maybe i'm the only one going to people's houses and passing judgement on people's standard of hygiene based on kitchen and toilet cleanliness. i'm not doubting that i am a woman, and i'm not proving that i'm a woman. i have my personal principles and i keep by them.

besides, if my mum, after seeing the state of my toilet, decides to scrub it down for me. she's not going to stop just because i say so, and her scrubbing down my toilet is going to make me feel awful. doesn't that kind of show that I still need my mum to clean up after me?

coffee and baileys is keeping me up longer than i should.

wisewords

Winston Churchill: "One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."

music genius

the lyrics are amazing. and so is the use of 5/4 beats in the verses, and the seamless transition from 5/4 to 6/4.

exams

bane of my life.

i don't know whether i wish for them to be more drawn out. just don't have enough time, brain space and brain power for the last 2. argh effects of exhaustion. and now i'm tired before lunch, my tummy feels strange when it is hungry and still feels strange when i eat, and because i'm already tired i think post prandial lethargy will be worse. maybe i need some chocs and brain stimulants.

make the deaf hear, make the blind see

Today I watched videos from a couple who have lots of tattoos and piercings, their videos was about their really cute babies..

and I watched a couple of videos about pink dot 2010.

and I thought sometimes the people who look flawed on the outside, are the people who are least flawed on the inside. and those who look perfect on the outside could be motivated by all the wrong things, they are merely building up a kingdom of self.

and I realised that my ability to embrace people who are different from me, who are different from the norm, reflects what I value on the inside..

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3

are you only listening to what you want to hear?

this is so true.

when sin dehumanises people..
Because sin is antisocial, it tends to dehumanize the people in our lives.
No longer are they objects of our willing affection. No, they quit being the people we find joy in loving.
Rather, they get reduced to one of two things. They are either vehicles to help us get what we want or obstacles in the way of what we want.
When your wife is meeting the demands of your wants, needs, and feelings, you are quite excited about her, and you treat her with affection.
But when she becomes an obstacle in the way of your wants, needs, and feelings, you have a hard time hiding your disappointment, impatience, and irritation.

This is where another eloquent biblical observation comes in. It is that we are kingdom-oriented people. We always live in the service of one of two kingdoms.We live in service of the small, personal happiness agenda of the kingdom of self, or we live in service of the huge, origin-to-destiny agenda of the kingdom of God.
From TGC

on womanhood

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2011/05/05/susan-hunt-redeeming-womanhood/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+between2worlds+%28Between+Two+Worlds%29

i'm going to need to start enjoying writing..

"I think it's far more important to write well than most people realize. Writing doesn't just communicate ideas; it generates them. If you're bad at writing and don't like to do it, you'll miss out on most of the ideas writing would have generated." http://www.paulgraham.com/writing44.html