Purpose of human

Have you ever thought what is the purpose of humans in this world?

Maybe you have given thought about why are u here, but why humans? Have you gave that a thought?

All animals exists for a reason, which is to balance the world. I believe that if humans were not to interfere, the system would be on a perfect balance and there would no be extinction nor over population of any certain species. ok la.. maybe there will be, but in time it will balance back itself. for example, if anteaters who eats.. well obviously ants, manage to almost wipe them out in an area, anteaters will go out of food for a period, and therefore they will die. when they do, there will be less anteaters and the ants population will start to grow again..

I think, humans now think that their purpose is survival. People would do many many terrible things just in order to survive and progress. War, deforestation, pollution etc.

but if you look back into the Bible (owhkay.. i not Bible expert so i hope i am not wrong here. Forgive me if i am yea), God created human and asked us to govern the His creation. by govern, i take it as taking care of the animals and the earth

but we are not taking very good care of it are we? instead of taking care of them, we only care about ourselves and in the process, we destroy them. maybe in the first place we would want to take good care of ourselves so that we can take good care of others, but i guess we lost sight of it.

now it's a dog eat dog world, where we don't even care for our fellow humans.

TRULY A VERY SAD TRUTH

humans are over populating the world, and that's not the issue i guess. the issue is we are not taking good care of our world, and nature is coming back to get us. there are many many more 'natural disaster' (i put it in inverted commas because it's not really natural natural. rather it's caused by humans to a certain extent) these days like flood and draught which defies normal parameters.

maybe it's time nature comes back at us so that there will be less of us, then the world will go normal again? only time will tell and only God knows

be watchful therefore, for you know not what time does the Master comes knocking on the door

God Bless~

Wah lao eh... Chap gui ni bo kua teok liao le..

The translation for the title would roughly be.. --> Wah lao eh.. more than 10 years didn't see you liao le.... and that's what it means..

Last tuesday, my grandad's brother passed away. He was 89. I barely know him, but my family and I went down to Kluang (Johor) to attend his funeral. We went down on Wednesday, and reached about 5 something.

It is only during marriage or funeral that I get to see most of my family members (from my mum's side cause they stay in pretty far from each other) come together to attend an event. So this funeral brought together most of my family members together and I would want to highlight the meeting with one of my cousin.

This is Catherine Teo. My cousin.

Really 'chap gui ni bo kua teok liao le'. and after all those years, she barely changed.. didn't seem to grow old.. XD me and my sis were so happy and suprised to see her and her husband together attending the funeral. It's been a looooong loooooooong time since we saw each other. Ashley, their son (my nephew) didn't come along.

This is Ashley

The last time i saw him was when he was about 3 or 4 years old only. That time he was SUPER cute. and he eat lots of chilly for his age. Look at him now.. he's 14 already and according to her mum, he's as tall as me.. aiks..

Guess now I am old enough to say "chap gui ni bo kua teok liao le"

On another unrelated matter... yesterday I went to look out point with Weng Sing. and while walking, i stumbled across a car key. I recognize that it's an Avanza key cause i have 1 at home and i was asking myself, what do i do with the key now? how can i ever give back the key to the owner?

while i was pondering, a little girl came up to me and said

"Uncle, that car key is ours"

Then without hesitation, i passed the key to her.. i didn't even realized that she called me 'uncle' until later weng sing told me about it. point is.. i old dy..

May God bring my grandad's bro's soul to His arm

God Bless~

Tristan's 21st birthday

The other day my friends and I went for my friend's 21st birtday. Oh well.. most of my friends are having their 21st birthday this year.. all the dragons.. mwehehe.. 1988-ers.. It's really rare for me to blog about them.. but got pictures mer.. so blog about it lo.. :p

So the birthday boy's name is Tristan Tang Chan Hoe.

See the guy sitting in the middle? that's the birthday boy.

I shall start explaining my bunch of friends here.. the one on sitting on the left (left in the photo with the specs and blue shirt) is Andrew.. he's a doctor. XD he once was my replacement physic teacher. the one sitting on the right is Wai Shin.. he's.. a friend.. XD studying engineering..

The girl in black sitting right in front, next to me is Joey, the girlfriend of tristan. they have been together for 3 years.. that's what according to her la.. hehe.. the girl on my right is Pui Yan. we use to call her King Kong, or Kong as that's her sir name.. the guy in the middle with blue shirt is Peter :)

The girl behind kong is kei kei.. and the last guy beside her with white shirt is Shawn.. one of my best guy friend..

on that day.. i went there after church, and they had bbq.. i went quite late and i started bbq-ing.. then talk talk talk.. until about 11.30.. it was a good thing that we still can catch up even after secondary school is over. :D

God Bless~

"I am her small friend"

24th August 2009

today when i was chatting on msn with Crystal (not crystal gan, but crystal chua.. maybe most of you don't know who's that..) something really cute happened..

i messaged her with some things regarding scholarship.. and she didn't reply.. then i asked

Mr. T: u there?
Crystal: I am not Crystal. I am her small friend
Mr. T: hahaha.. small friend? friend got difference between small and big 1 meh?
Crystal: .....

then no conversation until the real crystal appeared.. and she told me that just now, the person who replied me was a 9 year old girl. the little sister of her bf.. oh how cute.. 9 years old and she's on msn.. wah lao..

what was i doing when i was 9 years old? standard 3.. and i remember i still wear those shorts to school.. running around playing police and thief, come back from school and then sleep. yeah.. that's how my life was..

God Bless~

Cupid

Yo people,




Today on 8tv, Cupid was aired for the first time and I guess this will be one good show where I can be educated about LOVE. hahaha.





So the story goes like this. There's this guy, who calls himself Cupid, and he was punished to Earth and he has to bring together 100 couples before he can get back to Olympus. His idea of love is more or less pretty 'old school'. And there is this doctor by the name of McCrae, who is a psychiatrist, who is an expert in love relationship.





So McCrae, being a psychiatrist, was assigned to take care of Cupid (cause people think he is coo-coo by calling himself Cupid) and their theory of love sort of collide with each other. I remember some of the words Cupid and McCrae said in the show just now.





Cupid: Love is about passion, heat, the intensity, sex.





McCrae: NO! Love is what's left after the passion, heat or the intensity.





So who's right? Watch the show :)

This is Mr. Cupid

I would like to end this post with one of his other quote:

"Why is it so hard for humans to fall in love?"

God Bless~

History

I don't know since when, but i am starting to miss history. No not the lesson, but my own past experience... as the old people always say 'the good oool days'

life last time was stress-less.. no no.. let me rephrase it.. it's less stress cause as Goh (2009) said, stress is always there, unless you are either dead, or you simply don't care. see.. i blog also need to talk bout Goh.. stress not?

i still remember how college life was so fun and less stressful. during foundation and 1st year, studies was owhkay and eventhough there were some stresses here and there, there is no major stress. as far as i could remember.

volleyball then was stressless. let me repeat this.. STRESSLESS. hahaha.. cause there is no competition, and also, i wasn't the person in charge. So i just go and play, rain or shine, little or many people. i still remember then the court was always filled with laughter. eventhough the turnout might be not encouraging, we still always manage to have fun. that's because we were just playing for fun, and not really training.

nowadays, things are more uptight, more things to achieve, more goals to be met, higher expectations. and ultimately more stress. Study wise, as well as the commitment of being who i am. but although there are more stress, there are also good things.

it's good that we can compete, a lot more than i can ever imagine 2 years back. before this, i could never imagine that i will be always looking out for tournaments to participate in. it's also good that the volleyballers are having quite a strong bond. ok not all of them, but some of them. this really made me glad.

to describe my transformation, i guess it's like a soldier in battlefield, or a young activist. we set out with a big dream, of having something great, of transforming and making things better. thinking of how we can change people's live for the better.

but when reality sets in, things are not as what they seem. soldiers who are suppose to protect civilians kills civilians instead. activist who fight for what he/she thinks is right is sometimes seen as wrongdoers. and in the process of trying to achieve their goal, they themselves have transformed into someone else.

have i changed? i think i have, but i won't put a value of whether it's good or bad. i guess it's just like what Lulu (a character in Final Fantasy 10) said

"If you want everything, you will end up with nothing"

But i really do want everything.. hahaha... well i guess such is life. there is no perfect solution to everything is there?

God Bless~

Responsibilities

It's been a while since i last blogged. There are many things that came to my mind, and sometimes i want to blog about it, but then again, i guessed it's not that significant, and therefore, i didn't blog about it.

Anyhow, today i am going to blog about RESPONSIBILITIES

I think of myself as quite responsible. Or at least that's what i PERCEIVE about myself. I may be lazy, but when it comes to the things that i am schematic about, i am pretty responsible. So what are the things that are schematic to me? I think currently, rank no. 1 on the list is the Volleyball Club. and so i shall rant about it. XD

It's really hard when you are in the position of a leader. Being a leader means that you will have to balance the needs of everyone including my own needs and it's really tough to balance these needs.

1) The need to win vs the need to train
When we send teams out for competition, definitely the goal is to win. Or at least strive to win, which means that the strongest players will be the main players. This will also mean that the reserve players will most likely sit on bench for the whole of competition. Being the leader, I would also want to reserves to have a chance to play, to compete in competition cause if not, then what's the purpose of coming for training week after week? How to balance? Almost impossible cause it will be forsaking a goal for another, unless of course the reserves player are awesomely good, but that's rarely the case.

Solution? - send out 2 teams. But still there are people whom dislike this, cause obviously the strongest team will be in one side (need to win), and everyone wants to play for the winning team (Goh, 2009). The people who are in the second team might feel that they are 'second class' being chucked aside.

Conclusion - Headache

2) The need for real training and the need for fun
Real training is tough, and not many people like it. Therefore there is a need to balance between being too tough in training and between having fun, which is of course difficult because is it's not tough enough, then it's not stimulating enough and nobody will improve. If it's too tough, then it will be demotivating. And stimulating for a person might mean too hard for another.

Solution - The only thing i can figure out right now is that training should follow the person's progression. Of course, it's easier said than done.

Conclusion - Headache

3) Need for inclusiveness vs my selfish needs
As a volleyball player myself, of course i would want each match to be as stimulating as possible, so that I can hone my skills as well as all others on the court. which in this case would mean that everyone on the court should be good players. It would be a good challenge. But at the same time, I cannot sideline other players, cause they should play with good players as well so that they can improve, but if less good players are in, then the match would be less fun (and yes, i know i am being very selfish with this statement). Also, it's extremely important (or at least i think so) to have the main team train together with other people so that they can have cohesiveness between members. Sadly, when the main team group together, normally the other team don't stand a change, and therefore, normally the strength of the 2 teams are seperated

Solution - this 1 is easier to be balanced. have some games which includes everyone, and other games which is like 'all-star' players. so no biggie. Can ask for friendly with other outsiders, so that the main team can train.

Conclusion - hard to balance and need a lot of planning and hard work to ask people to come play friendly with us.

Oh well.. that's not just all but i guess it's enough la. All in all it's headache, but i do love volleyball very much and that's that.

God Bless~