Today's horoscope:
Encouragement can be an extremely powerful thing. After all, if you think back a few years, you will be able to remember someone whose encouragement helped you keep a positive attitude when times got very tough. If you feel grateful for that help, you should 'pay it forward' today by encouraging someone else to hang in there. A very beautiful diamond needs to be brought out into the light so it can be appreciated fully.

Yay two more papers to go, to go, to go.

No mock prelims please.

At this point of time, someone else in another continent might be struggling with life, or even battling death.
I'm fortunate to be here typing this. You are fortunate to be reading this.

May the world be blessed with a better tomorrow.
For all the people out there who is under fate's toment, stay strong.

Now, something to celebrate. http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/index.html

Aww man, I thought Javin would proceed to the next round. : He sang pretty well today. Oh well.

A carrot, an egg and a cup of coffee...

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word.

In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.

Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what you see." Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.

Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.

Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, "What does it mean, mother?"

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity... boiling water. Each reacted differently.

The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.

The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.

The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.

Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on our door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?"

Think of this: Which am I?

Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?

Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?

Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you.

When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity?

Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.


May we all be COFFEE.

I'm literally talking to myself. Sick.
Shit, I think the whole school is ready to get flying colours for their MYE except for me, probably a monotone AGAIN. I'll prolly have coffee with the P.
Damn, I feel useless. Sigh, I think I can go fly kite.

Who says big girls don't cry? I do. ):

Nauseous all day. I think I'm gonna die. AHHHHHH!
I feel sick. Sigh. Dinner made its way out.

No passion, no nothing.
Nothing for me to hang on to.

QY totally ignored me for the first one hour or so. I think she hates me. That's not surprising since I was rude to her :, and late for a couple of minutes for the first lesson. Poor Quelyn. Oh well, try to do my work well to make up for it.

Been rather down for the past few days but I'm feeling better now after having a good laugh and trying to dance like the guy in the 'Gatsby' commercial.

NYJC BBGT are in good hands. The juniors are great, I'm proud. Definately true winners.

WTF is wrong with me? Sigh.

Can I hate, blame and totally ignore you forever? I think not. Sigh
FUCK EXAMS
FUCK A's
Useless bitch - me.

Kill Math please, I don't even wanna touch it at all!!!
Too lazy to practise and manipulate equations. RAHHHHHHHHHHHH!
HOW? Maybe I'll wait till next week. Sigh
Yay, physics is my new found friend. (:

Maybe, sometimes I shouldn't try so hard to impress cos I can never excel like the rest. Sigh

Attack of the Z monster!!! Dang, I slept more than 12 hours today. :

New found hope in physics. Yay Robin to the rescue. ((:
Mugging time.

Thanks Coach ((:
NY Basketball BBQ tmr. Hope that it'll be, fun? Sigh, maybe I should give it a miss.