Resist the urge to be average

It's so tiring to type those atricles word by word and checking spelling errors once every 10 secs. How i wish there is a type of reader than can read words through scanning and then type in automatically for me. Even better if it can read Da vin-Tree code

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Everywhere around you are average people. They entice you into being more like them by offering their acceptance and by leading to believe that everyone else is already more like them than like you.
But the "average person sales pitch" leaves out that you will be sacrificing your goals, individuality, and the unique ideas and that you will lead a life determined more by the preferences of the group than by you.
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"A person who wants to be a leader must turn his back to the crowd" says te sign on Ty Underwood's desk. Ty runs a job placement service that works with laid-off and chronically underemployed workers.
"When I got here there was an attitude that this was all a show to keep the agency's funding. We'd show up, have the clients come in to fill out some papers, then send them on their way. Nobody behaving as if there was important work to be done, nobody behaving as it there was potential to be tapped here."
His first task was to change everything. To two-thirds of the staff, he minced no words:"Here's your resignation. Sign it."
Now each day begins with premise that "Everyone who walks through this door can do more. That goes for the counselors and the clients."
Two years later, Ty has taken an office he considered an embarassment and turned it into a model, with a job placement of 71 percent.
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Psychologist have observed that bad habits can spread through an office like a contagious diesase. Employees tend to mirrior the bad behaviors of their co-workers, with factors as diverse as low morale, poor working habits, and theft from the omployer all rising based on the negative behavior of peers.

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It's kinda true when recents news on Obesity is 'socially contagious'. If Emotions and Physique can be socially contagious, then u better watch where you are standing now, you never know you'll turn 200 pounds of beauty overnight.

Today's quite a slack day, but at least did some school work. Thanks for Friend K, otherwise i would have left the project dying around. Also, the following 'handy-crafts" were sent by Friend K too! Freaking najix elephant is the freakiest!

Not to mention my "handy-craft"!!! No offence!!

You can't force yourself to like broccoli

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Certain jobs require a distinct personality. There is a little point in pursuing a job in communications if you are not an extroverted person who loves to interact with people. If your soul bursts with passionate creativity, you are not likely to be content with a job in accounting.
Personalities are like shoe sizes. They are not subject to our choice or preference, but they can be occasionally fudged-with uncomfortable consequences.
It is neither an accomplishment nor a fault to acknowledge that some people can speak before large audiences and be exhilarated by the experience while others would be petrified. Some people can study an equation for years and fascinated by it, and others would long for interaction and variety.
Realize who you are-what your true personality is-and choose a future that fits it.
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Hardly a day goes by without at least one his clientsrefusing to work with him. In fact, sometimes they split uo on him. But photographer Jean Deer loves his job.
He has taken hundreds of children's portraits, and he's well acquainted wit all the tricks of his trade to make a baby smile. Jean's an expert in every funny face and noise imaginable.
"When it's over, everyone-me, the parents, and the children-are exhausted, but that's usually a good sign."
Jean found that getting babies to flash their smiles wasn't the only way to get a great picture and that funny grumpy baby was just another source of inspiration. "I was taking a photo once of this infant who literally wanted nothing to do with me. He would not look up, just stared at the floor." Jean got down on the floor with him, took the picture from a perspective he'd never used before, and wound up with one of the best pictures he'd ever taken.
The job requires two major traits, Jean believes. "Not everyone can just hang out a shingle and call himself a photographer. It's all a matter of being patient and energetic and then capturing the right moment."
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Even as people experience differenct phases of their lives, including career and family changes, their underlying personality remains constant after age sixteen

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I dun quite get today's post, so i'm gonna leave it alone.

Take Small Victories

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Pursuing your goals is much like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. While you ultimately seek the final outcome, you still have to work piece by piece.
Since you will spend most of your time trying to make progress, you must enjoy what you are doing in order to finish.
Take joy from the process, and use the small success to fuel your continued efforts.
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Louis Minella spent a career planning every detail of the presentation of department stores. He knew everything about the business of catching the customer's eye and using the layout to maximize sales.
After thirty-one years in the business, he took nearly retirement. And then he looked for something worthwhile to do.
Louis decided to open a mailing center, where people can ship packages, buy boxes, make copies and send faxes. It was a major adjustment. "I used to be just one member of the team in an international organization, but now I'm in charge of everything."
The hands-on difference was most significant. "Before, I was dealing with group managers. I used to issue reports and orders, but I didn't personally do the work or do anything other than tell other people what to do. I'm in reality now."
He takes great joy from the daily hurdles overcome, like adjusting the hours of his star sixty-six-year-old employee to keep her content or fixing the leaking ink in the postage meter machine or figuring out how to copy a seven-hundred-page document.
"It's a different ball game ere, but it's tremendously satisfying to learn every little thing that your business needs."
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Life satisfaction is 22 percent more likely for those with a steady stream of minor accomplishment than those who express interest only in makor accomplishments

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If the above statement about life satisfaction is true for everybody, then with a steady stream of minor defeat decrease my life satisfaction by 22% as well? Cos as far as i can see, there's way too many studious and aggressive result-driven students that I can't feel life satisfaction at all, rather you'll hear them cursing whichever school they have attended and "how i wish...better...so on and so for" End of the day, still an unhappy person when he/she turns to bed and the cycle repeats the next day. Haiz...i admire optimistic people...

The major test for today is over and i'll be laughing if i can pass the test. Friend R, thanks for wishing my luck in my test today, i really need it to pass, haha. Just to update, this week is week 15, projects needs to be handed up by week 17 and the exams are in week 18-19, hopefully i can scrap through. . . for i'm only @ 50% for my project, haiz...

Music of the day
Yeah, it's done by the NYPCO, quality suffers so u gotta swtich to the loudest to hear it, this is also the song that attracted my to join CO, enjoy

Creativity Comes from Within

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Everyone wants to think of something new-solve a problem no one else can solve, offer a valuable idea no one else has conceived of. And every business wants to encourage its employees to have the next great idea.
So when a business offers its employees a bonus for creative ideas, a flood of great, original thoughts should come pouring in, Right?
We think that creativity, like any other task, can be bought and sold. But creativity is not the same as hard work and effort; ot requires genuine inspiration. It is the product of a mind thoroughly intrigued by a question, a situation, a possibilty.
Thus, creativity comes not in exchange for money or rewards but when we focus our attention on something because we want to.
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Japan Railways East had the contract to build a bullte train between Tokyo and Nagano to be put in place in time for the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Unfortunately, tunnels built by the company through the mountains kept filling with water. The companybrought in a team of engineers, who were highly paid to come up with the best solution. The engineers analyzed the problems and drew up an extensive set of plans to build an expansive drain and a system of aqueducts to divert the water out of the tunnels.
A thristy maintenance worker one day came up with a different solution when he bent over and took a large swallow of the tunnel water. It tasted great, better than the bottled water he had in his lunch pail.
He told his boss they should bottled water, and sell it as premium mineral water.
Thus was born Oshimizu bottled water, which the railway sells from vending machinese on its platforms and has expanded to selling by home delivery.
A huge cost was transformed into a huge profit, all by looking at the situation differenctly.
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Experiments offering money in exchange for creative solutions to problems find that monetary rewards are unrelated to the capacity of people to offer original ideas. Instead, creativity is most frequently the product of genuine interest in the problem and a belief that creativity will be personally appreciated by superiors.

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Sorry, no time for any conclusions, tmr there is a major test coming up and i'm burning midnight oil....that's all for today

It's not how hard you try

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Work hard and you will be rewarded. It sounds simple.
But remember what it was like studying for a test? Some kids studied forever and did poorly. Some studied hardly at all and made great grades.
You can spend incredible effort inefficiently and gain nothing. Or, you can spend modest efforts and be rewarded.
The purpose of what you can do is make progress, not just to expend yourself.
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Achenbach's Pasteries was a Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania, institution. The family-owned bakery had a loyal customer base and had operated for more than four decades.
In the 1990s the owners decided to expand-to offer deli sandwishes and other goods and to add new locations for both retail and wholesale sales.
The bakery's owners had never worked harder in their lives than they did after the expansion. And in return for all their hard work, they got less money and the threat of bankruptcy because they could not keep up with debts incurred in the expansion.
Earl Hess, a retired business executive, provided capital to keep the company in business and then ultimately bought the entire operation. He looked at things as an objective observer and found that the bakery was doomed by inefficiencies. "They had too many products. Ninety percent of sales came from 10 percent of the products. They were losing their aprons making low-volume items."
Hess says when he took over the company he knew "These people couldn't possibly have worked any harder, but they could have worked smarter."
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Effort is the single most overrated trait in producing success. People rank it as the best predictor of success when in reality it is one of the least significant factors. Effort, by itself, is a terrible predictor of outcomes because infficient effort is a tremendous source of discouragement, leaving people to conclude that they can never succeed since even expending maximum effort has not produced results.

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I don't wanna admit it, but yeah, there are really sometimes when i study so hard and get shit results and there are also times where i burn midnight oil and still get shit results!? End of the day, determination is a what i really need, but how to maintain that determination is another thing.

Finally!!! For more than half a year since I've made that promise. . .I'm in Zhongyin Sheng already!!! haha, but my priority is still Diyin Sheng, NOBODY's fighting with me for that piece of treasure.

Oh well, unfortunately things hasn't turned out good for me. Other than limited funds and huge debts, there's way too much commitments(basically more payments) to make. AAAHHH!!! When will money drop from the sky??? And worst still, because of the FYPJ in BITC in China, either i have to sacrifice regatta'07(DB) or Esplanade's Beautiful Sunday + Annual Concert (CO).
I'm way too tired, have to rest now, hope u enjoy today's today on "how hard you try"

Competent starts with feeling competent

I'm so sick and tired of posting similiar events of eat-shit-sleep-routine again yet again. So, other than putting my daily routines and thoughts bout today, I'll post something meaningful so that it'll at least make readers learn something. Unfortunately, both my spoken languages are of C6 standards, so i might as well rip off from some book.

Just in case some readers have brains but isn't nourished enought yet. . i've turned one big round just to tell u this, I'm gonna 'ctrl + c' and 'ctrl + p' the quotes exactly what i see on this meaningful book named "The 100 simple secrets of Successful People"

Of course, b!tch!ng about today and MUSIC OF THE DAY is also part of the regime, but i shall not say further! read on for today's first topic

Competent starts with feeling competent
How good are you at what you do? Do you have tests or periodic evaluations or some other means to measure your performance? Surely, there is an objective way to demonstrate whether you are good at what you do and whether you should consider yourself a success.
Actually, people who do not think they are good at what they do-who do not think they are capable of success or leadership-do not change their opinion even when they are overrule evidence to the contrary.
Don't wait for your next evaluation to improve your judgement of yourself, because feelings are not dependent on facts-and feelings of your competence actually start with the feelings and then produce the competence.
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Ross, a dancer from Springfield, Missouri, dreams of making it to Broadway. His road to dancing glory began with local amateur productions, the kind of productions in which auditions take place in front of all the other performers trying out. Ross found the experience daunting; it was like being examined by a doctor with all your peers watching. "I was so scared. I felt like I had just come out of the cornfields," Ross said.
Sometimes he succeeded, and sometimes he didn't, Ross was able to try out for different parts in various productions and gain tremendously from the experience. "I have more confidence about my auditioning technique now that I have done it in front of so many people so many times."
WHen he tried out forthe first time for a professional touring company, he won a spot in a production of Footloose.
Ross has one explanation for his immediate success in landing a professional part:"I had confidence. If you want to do it, you have to really want it and believe it. You have to make it happen. You can't sit back and hope that someone is going to help you along."
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For most people studied, the first step toward improving their job performance had nothing to do with the job itself but instead with improving how they felt about themselves. In fact, for eight out of ten people, self-image matters more in how they rate their job performance than does their actual job performance.

Music of the day
Buy me a drink, i'm really poor these days. . .

No Title

OH!!! I must have slept like a log!
**light flashes**
**HP and MP fully recovered**

I really did slept like a log, consider today the first time my sisters woke up earlier than me. . . "opps, i didi it again".

Today's house cleaning and boy oh boy...it definitely looks and smelt much better than yesterday, i'll be able to get a peaceful sleep today. What can expect from a guy who lives in a pig sty for the past 2 months, erm..i mean...forget it.

Now it's time to rush for projects than wasting time here writing diary entries, cya

Hunger Strike Final

Finally! End of being such a poor thing. Saturday is tomorrow and guess what? I can stay at home all day and eat all the snacks at home, ah...bliss...but there isn't any nice snacks at home to munch on, oh well....

recently my hands started to peel off, i mean the skin. Either the skin is having a menopause or the sun kissed way too deep that it's causing the delay peel off effect. and it really looks like dandruff the more i looked at it.

20.07.2007 It's something that's worth dirt and not worth mentioning. Guess it's some kind of anniversary

Music of the day
This music is so...nevermind, it's this song that made me went to CO, haha. But it sounded so different from the CO though...i mean, it's 9 mins long! ours is bout 6 mins but 2x the speed...

Another for CO members, though it's definitely not the usual Matsuri that we've heard, this sounds...good?

Hunger Strike episode 01

As mentioned in the previous post, i've named today's post u-know-what-you-can-see. Well..i did brought money but it was JUST nice for a meal + 1 serving fruit + another 60c crap. In case you are wondering what is a 60c crap, that's what i named it for the tim sum stall in KoFu, from the nickename i gave it, yes, it's all 60c

FINALLY!!! I'm out of handicap situation, thanks to Friend R for the advise to stretch, it's works wonders! although the initial process nearly ended my dear life...

speaking of process, as we all know the secret to mini magical fountain with just mentos and coca cola, here's some real magical fountain!! Enjoy

Money Management

everytime "I realize" something, it so late that it's not evern worth mentioning but still , writing it here shames myself and enforces myself to remember not to make a stupid mistake again. Today, "I realize" . . . money management is important Full Stop.

Guess what? it's only Wednesday and I've already spent all my allowances on food, just F.O.O.D
So Thursday's and Friday's blog will be titled "Hunger Strike episode 01" and "Hunger Strike Final"

handicap-ABLE part 2

GOD!!!! I've experienced enough cramps!!! But why does it seems to be more readily frequent today as compared to yesterday? not to mention my typing speed is greatly reduced

Enough of complaining, i would like to ask, is there any point in life where all of a sudden, there's a rush of enthusiastic to do something but just dunno what to do? I've been feeling this all of a sudden to do projects but just that i have no idea where to start, haha

end here...hand pain...seems like handicap-able going handicapped tomorrow..

I'm handicap-ABLE!

Sunday definitely took my arms away. And i'm amazed that i can still use I.T. to take my entrepreneurship test + another horribly done logistic practical test. What's worst is i have no idea what is the purpose of implementing such a program in logistic. But i do learn some Indonesian words today, hehe

few keys points today!!!

• HaPpY M18 BiRtHdAy Sheessta A!!! I know it's been alot of ups and downs for you, but don't worry! Brother Tree is here for ya
• Thanks Friend K for teaching me Indonesian!! It's an invaluable asset for me! oh god, learn Spanish with me can??? PLLLEEEASE...
• CO is coming le...but unfortunately i cannot go for combine these time round, i'm changing to Zhongyin sheng and i need time to get used to it before officially to come to combine practice...sorry...to all sheng members..
• There's way too many projects to do and i'm suffocating to my death...I NEED SOME BREATHING AIR!

Music of the day

takes those clothes OFF!! it's freaking hot in SG!

La la lala~

I know it's a stupid title for today, but I couldn't squeeze anymore brain juice for a better title, there's a reason behind it.... it's L.A.Z.Y

I'm suppose to study for my test on monday, but i just slept for the whole day in my pig sty and once i woke up, it's breakfast, flop and 2nd wake is dinner. Yes, it's not healthy but honestly, I hadn't had a nice sleep for the past few weeks, thanks to my beloved darling called Project, FULL STOP.

I'm off to sleep now, tmr is sun tanning session again, no lah! It's the DB first session for me! So excited, but needed to sleep as early as possible.

Music of the day
I know copying sources from others isn't nice, but listening to this song really 'ringed' my heart and i wanna share it with all of ya

12 Girls band gone crazy

I seriously don't understand! Is that really fighting against speed? or what!

I really should'nt blog now but....

... I just wanna blog to say afew things

• Friend K! Take care of your eyes! I'm really thankful to Friend K, throughtout these years in poly, she has really helped me out alot, just wanna say, Thank you. Not very sincere though but just felt like saing it
• I'm really poor right now! In superb tight budget! needs to save + preserve + usage of 3R + Live Earth campaign for me!!!!!
• Oh . . . my darling!!! you're always there since year 1. I've learned alot of things through you. You've been such a great help and every semester, you never fail to give me new surprises and heart attack pressures. I . . .Hate . . . Projects
• Recently joined a dragonboat, it's so fun and such, the company, food, time and Red Hot Passionate kiss with the sun. . .at the expense of expenses(if you read it literally)

enuff said, it's turning all my fan si off

Music of the day
this song really made my day

1 Hell + 1 Hell....is.still.Hell

Taking a break to Sydney is worth the experience except the red-light district location, Ba Da Bing, the cheater's community club, shi..no Pie Face, midnight runaway to escape 713, beggars crap and total lost of appetite. To conclude, it's a well done up trip. I mean we got a GOD COLD GOLD!!!! YAYYYY!!!! AND MORE PROJECTS TO DO!!!! BBOOO..00..oo..o..o... *Sobs...

Anyway, yeah, u can pretty much guessed, missing an additional 1 more week of class can spell doom for any student, especially me...

Back to basics, after back to SG, I went to took up an external sport, will keep you all updated cos it's so fun to be in there!! Unfortunately no juicy sips as far as those who are reading it is concern. To add on to my misery in school, I lost my eyes!!! I mean my specs...can't believe that i have to donate it to mother nature...will get one soon enough

Music of the day
This song really hypnotized all my senses, listen and understand