Finally, a moment to breathe!

Boy do I look like the living dead.

Anyone who tries to be smarty-pants and tell me what's already so obvious...
I'll set your pants on fire.


One more month to freedom.



James 4:14- Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Here's what I saw two sundays ago just before I entered the ladies at Pandan Calvary Church. I thought it was a meteor at first, but decided it shouldn't be since it was GREEN. What do u know? It is!

Green streaks seen in sky on Sunday likely a meteor: astronomersBy Wong Siew Ying, Channel NewsAsia Posted: 09 January 2007 1925 hrs

If you are among many who sighted green streaks in the sky at about 7.30pm on Sunday, astronomers say you had probably seen a meteor. James Chong could still visualise the green streak when he shut his eyes. What he saw on Sunday evening was also spotted by many others in Singapore. "I've seen shooting stars from the beach. It's sort of like an arc and it's glowing, but this one doesn't. It was not the same, it was green. The first time I saw it, I thought it was a plane trying to land," recounted James Chong. But this was no plane, and experts tossed up a couple of theories. One was that the green flash could be associated with the rising or setting sun, where the sunlight was scattered or refracted in the atmosphere, casting off a green glow. Many astronomers here said the sightings could not have been a green flash because it lasted for some 10 seconds and presented streaks and trails in the sky. A green flash only appears for a split second. "The timing is important. If the sun was down by the time people saw it, it probably wasn't a green flash. Some people could have seen just a small dot, others a bigger area. They may have seen it through a layer of cloud," said Dr Andrew D Giger, Senior Assistant Director for Education Programmes at Singapore Science Centre. The Astronomical Society of Singapore is certain it was a meteor. Two of its members sighted the green light and the group plotted the south-bound trail of what they call a bolide. Albert Lim, president of The Astronomical Society of Singapore explained: "As it moves in the atmosphere, it gets heated up because of the friction in the air molecules, resulting in the melting or destruction of the object. This leaves a bright trail, commonly called a shooting star. "When an object is bright enough and coming at high speed, you create a much brighter shooting star which we call a fireball. When the fireball explodes in the atmosphere, it becomes a bolide." Astronomers said meteor sightings are uncommon in Singapore due to the high level of light pollution. For this meteor to be seen, it has to be very large and close to the brightness of the moon. - CNA /ls


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A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, scientists said.The mass of ice broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 800 kilometers (497 miles) south of the North Pole, but no one was present to see it in Canada's remote north. Scientists using satellite images later noticed that it became a newly formed ice island in just an hour and left a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake. (Watch the satellite images that clued in ice watchers)Warwick Vincent of Laval University, who studies Arctic conditions, traveled to the newly formed ice island and could not believe what he saw."This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years. We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead," Vincent said Thursday.In 10 years of working in the region he has never seen such a dramatic loss of sea ice, he said.The collapse was so powerful that earthquake monitors 250 kilometers (155 miles) away picked up tremors from it.The Ayles Ice Shelf, roughly 66 square kilometers (41 square miles) in area, was one of six major ice shelves remaining in Canada's Arctic.Scientists say it is the largest event of its kind in Canada in 30 years and point their fingers at climate change as a major contributing factor."It is consistent with climate change," Vincent said, adding that the remaining ice shelves are 90 percent smaller than when they were first discovered in 1906."We aren't able to connect all of the dots ... but unusually warm temperatures definitely played a major role."Laurie Weir, who monitors ice conditions for the Canadian Ice Service, was poring over satellite images in 2005 when she noticed that the shelf had split and separated.Weir notified Luke Copland, head of the new global ice lab at the University of Ottawa, who initiated an effort to find out what happened.Using U.S. and Canadian satellite images, as well as data from seismic monitors, Copland discovered that the ice shelf collapsed in the early afternoon of August 13, 2005."What surprised us was how quickly it happened," Copland said. "It's pretty alarming. "Even 10 years ago scientists assumed that when global warming changes occur that it would happen gradually so that perhaps we expected these ice shelves just to melt away quite slowly, but the big surprise is that for one they are going, but secondly that when they do go, they just go suddenly, it's all at once, in a span of an hour."Within days, the floating ice shelf had drifted a few miles (kilometers) offshore. It traveled west for 50 kilometers (31 miles) until it finally froze into the sea ice in the early winter.The Canadian ice shelves are packed with ancient ice that dates back over 3,000 years. They float on the sea but are connected to land.Derek Mueller, a polar researcher with Vincent's team, said the ice shelves get weaker and weaker as the temperature rises. He visited Ellesmere's Ward Hunt Ice Shelf in 2002 and noticed it had cracked in half."We're losing our ice shelves, and this a feature of the landscape that is in danger of disappearing altogether from Canada," Mueller said. "In the global perspective Antarctica has many ice shelves bigger than this one, but then there is the idea that these are indicators of climate change."The spring thaw may bring another concern as the warming temperatures could release the ice shelf from its Arctic grip. Prevailing winds could then send the ice island southwards, deep into the Beaufort Sea."Over the next few years this ice island could drift into populated shipping routes," Weir said. "There's significant oil and gas development in this region as well, so we'll have to keep monitoring its location over the next few years."

"How have you been?"
"What're you doing?"
"Been busy?"

Alright. Here it is-

I'm laden with much work, everything's up to my eye sockets.

Tonight, there was a sudden influx of things, a MOUNTAIN load, to edit, re-edit, write out and blardy bla.
Not just tonight. For the many days that were over, and for the many days to come.

Why do I even bother to feel so shitty like I do.

Quit asking how I am already. Quit acting like you care. Or if you do, save it.
Honestly, I don't have a care for whatever.
I don't care if anyone cares at all anymore.

I'm feeling shitty. There you have it.
If you feel that you are the one who possess the power of taking that away, you may do so if you please.
Then again, I might not be appreciative. So save that too. Here's a wonderful suggestion. Why don't all of you just leave me be until after February. Perhaps there'd be no need for questions like "How are you?", "Been busy?", "Things aren't well?".
I'm sick of answering that.
Till after February...

NLP on Perceptual positions

Perceptual Positions

The basis for the various perceptual positions comes from the fact that relational experiences always involve more than one individual in the communication loop. The ability to understand the communication loop, and the ebb and flow of events that occur within the loop, is a powerful tool, enabling people to both improve communication and produce ecological outcomes. Even when the participants within the communication loop do not agree, their relationship is enhanced and the possibility of future cooperation is created when they are able to shift perceptual positions is referred to as “triple description” because there are, minimally, three different perceptual positions occurring within a communication loop at any time: those of me/myself (first position), the other individual (second position), and the witnessing of the interaction between these two (third position).

One powerful way to increase your effectiveness in relating to others is to extend your information about the way they behave and how they make their choices. The NLP technique called perceptual positions provides a practical way to do this. On those occasions when you seem stuck in your communication, it can be very valuable to change your position (literally and figuratively) and take different views of the situation. This is sometimes called second guessing. If you can understand their thinking and work out their positive intentions, then you have added knowledge to take you forward. People often use phrases which refer to positions, such as saying, ‘ If I were in your position ’ or ‘I can see your point of view’. However, it is not always so easy to really understand how another person thinks, feels and acts. Perceptual positions offers ways of making such shifts of perspective.

There are three basic viewpoints, three ways of looking at any communication:

There is your own reality. What you think as an individual from your personal experience. This is known as first position.
Then there is what it looks like from another person’s point of view: this is second position. Many people are uncomfortable with this, thinking that understanding and agreement are the same, i.e. that if you look at something from another’s view, you have to agree with it. However, although you need to understand another’s point of view, you do not need to agree with it. Unless you understand it you will not know if you agree with it anyway.
Lastly there is what is called the third position or metaposition. This is the systemic view that looks at the relationship from the outside.


First Position

First position is you, standing in your own physical space, in your own habitual body posture. When fully associated in first position, you will use words like “me,” “I,” and “myself” when referring to your own feelings, perceptions and ideas. In first position, you are going through the experience of the communication from your own perspective: seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting and smelling everything that is going on around you and inside of you in that experience from an associated perspective. If you are truly in first position, you will not see yourself, but will be yourself, looking out at the world through your own eyes, etc. You will be fully associated in your own body and map of the world.

Second Position

Second position is being able to assume another person’s perspective within the interaction. (If there is more than one other person in the interaction, there may be multiple ‘second position’.) This is a temporary, information gathering position in which you shift to another person’s perceptual position, taking on his or her physical posture and world view, as though you were that person. You see, hear, feel, taste, and smell what the communication loop is like from that person’s point of view; i.e., ‘walk a mile in his or her shoes,” “sit on the other side of the desk,” etc. In second position, you will be experiencing the world through another person’s eyes, thoughts, feelings, beliefs, etc. In this position, you will be disassociated from yourself and associated into another person. You will address your ‘first position’ self as “you” (as opposed to “I” or “me”), using “second person” language. Temporarily assuming another person’s position is a wonderful way of evaluating how effective you are on your side of the communication loop. (After you have stepped into another person’s perspective, it is important to make sure you return to yourself fully cleanly, and with the information which will aid you in your communication.)

Third Position

Third position, or ‘observer position’, puts you temporarily outside of the communication loop in order to gather information, as though you were a witness to, and not a participant in, the interaction. Your posture will be symmetrical and relaxed. In this position, you will see, hear, feel, taste, and smell what the communication loop is like from the position of an interested but neutral observer. You will use “third person” language, such as “she” and “he,” when referring to the persons you are observing (including the one that looks, sounds and acts like you). You will be disassociated from the interaction, and in a type of “meta” position. This position gives you valuable information about the balance of behaviors in the loop. The information gathered from this perspective can be taken back to your own first position and used, along with the information gathered in second position, to assist in enhancing the quality of your state, interaction and relationship within the communication loop.


-Modified by Mr Chan Y.K