Saturday, May 31, 2008
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous 'yes.'
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.
'Now,' said the professor as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things---God, your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car. The sand is everything else---the small stuff. 'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued, 'there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
'Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first---the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.'
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. 'I'm glad you asked.It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.'
08S14 @ 9:43 PM
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Despite how it seems, I am not that free ok! Just compelled to do my part to brighten up this very dark blog. The following joke most of us have already seen it or heard of it before. Just for fun and if u guys have forgotten how it goes. Haha.
The JC Lightbulb Joke
[DISCLAIMER: THE FOLLOWING LIGHTBULB JOKE IS PURELY A JOKE. NO INTENDED SACARSM OR HIDDEN AGEDNA.]
Q: How many RJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: 4 whole faculties. One to design the new bulb, one to manufacture and test it out, one to write a proposal on it and one to market it.
Q: How many HCJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. To compete with RJC
Q: How many VJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. One student to screw it in and the rest to cheer and wave flags and banners to give him/her support.
Q: How many NJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They can study without light.
Q: How many AJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They're too busy trying to be one of the top 5 JCs.
Q: How many ACJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They'll rather use all their money to employ YJC to do it for them
Q: How many YJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Only one teacher to tell them what a light bulb is in the first place and to demonstrate how to change the light bulb. (So how do you think they're able to change it for ACJC?)
Q: How many CJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They'll prefer it to be darker. (Hmmmm?*raises eye-brows* )
Q: How many JJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Their physics is so bad that they made their macho male physics teacher cry.
Q: How many TPJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Would they even bother?
Q: How many SAJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They believe in praying for it.
Q: How many NYJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are still using oil lamps.
Q: How many SRJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Huh, what? litebarb?
Q: How many PJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Heck the light bulb lah, the principal would do something about the rightbarbs. Let's do 300 jumping jacks for not wearing the proper school attire.
Q: How many MJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are too busy trying to get promoted.
Q: How many IJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are Innovians. They'll find ways out of the dark.
Q: Who wrote all this?
A: A TJCian.
Q: How many TJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They think they are already very bright.
Hmm...some of the answers sounds quite true right? But the rest are like...erm...I have nothing to say. Apparently whoever wrote it isn't that creative after all. Anyone has a better version?
Cheerios!
.ion
08S14 @ 8:26 PM
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
HEY peeps! Almost one week of June holidays have passed! How're you guys doing?
Kept hearing that you all have GP lectures and whatnot. Ah, my immense sympathies. :D
Okie-dokie...here's something to distract you with, in case some of you are feeling bored and are sitting glumly in front of your comps. Ahahah...
40 Fun Things to do in an Elevator
1. Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering, 'Shut up, dammit, all of you just shut UP!'
2. Whistle the first seven notes of 'It's a Small World' incessantly.
3. Sell Girl Scout cookies.
4. On a long ride, sway side to side at the natural frequency of the elevator.
5. Shave.
6. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside ask: 'Got enough air in there?'
7. Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
8. Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
9. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
10. Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.
11. On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go 'plink' at the bottom.
12. Do Tai Chi exercises.
13. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: 'I've got new socks on!'
14. When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back, 'Oh, not now, damn motion sickness!'
15. Meow occasionally.
18. Frown and mutter 'gotta go, gotta go' then sigh and say 'oops!'
19. Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected.
20. Sing 'Mary had a little lamb' while continually pushing buttons.
21. Holler 'Chutes away!' whenever the elevator descends.
22. Leave a box between the doors.
23. Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them.
24. Wear a puppet on your hand and talk to other passengers 'through' it.
25. Start a sing-along.
26. When the elevator is silent, look around and ask 'is that your beeper?'
27. Play the harmonica.
28. Say 'Ding!' at each floor.
29. Lean against the button panel.
30. Say 'I wonder what all these do' and push the red buttons.
31. Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.
32. Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your 'personal space.'
33. Bring a chair along.
34. Blow spit bubbles.
35. Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings.
36. Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
37. Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
38. Wear specs labelled 'X-Ray Powered' and leer suggestively at other passengers.
39. Stare at your thumb and say 'I think it's getting larger.'
40. When you unfortunately have to break wind in a crowded ride, just do it! After that, wrinkle your nose and glare at the passenger next to you, saying, "Eeks. What did you eat this morning?"
Some of you may have read it before. For the benefit of the rest, I've posted it here!
ENJOY~
Loves,
.ion
08S14 @ 6:24 PM
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Dear NJCians,
We would like to invite you to acknowledge your teachers who through their daily deeds and actions exemplify CARING, SHARING & CONCERN for the ACADEMIC, MORAL, SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL welfare of their students...YOU:)
Who can nominate?: Students, Teachers, Parents & even the public!
Who can be nominated?: Full time teachers with at
least 3 years of teaching experience
How to nominate?: Download the attached nomination form and fill it up! Nominate your teachers as a civics class! - Forms have been given to your civics reps. Alternatively hard copies can be picked up at our General Office.
How to submit nomination?: In hard copy form, with your signature, in a sealed envelope, into
the box at the General Office
When to nominate?: NOW! Closing date is 23 May
Join us to encourage our deserving teachers by nominating them for this award!
THANK YOU!
LET'S NOMINATE MR GILBERT LEE FOR THIS AWARD!!!
08S14 @ 8:59 PM
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
This is funny, everyone kept bugging me to give them administrator rights, to let them post etc.
However, this blog is so dead!!! Why is there nobody to post!!!
If this goes on, then whats the point of having a blog? So post, people, POST!!!
Girls = Time X Money
Time = Money
Girls = Money²
Money = √All Evil
Money² = All Evil
Girls = All Evil
Therefore, Girls are all evil
08S14 @ 2:25 PM
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
This is why we're hot (hot)
This is why we're hot (hot)
This is why, this is why
this is why we're hot (hot)
We're hot cos they're not (not)
We're hot cos they're not (not)
This is why, this is why
this is why we're hot (hot)
We're hot cos they're not (not)
We're hot cos they're not (not)
This is why, this is why
this is why we're hot (hot)
Ignis Oei!
Oei!
Ignis Oei!
Oei!
Ignis Oei!
Hot sia!
Yo! this is the ignis cheer we gonna do next wed for relay championships =) nice right! You guys only needa shout the parts in red, very simple yea. the song it was inspired from can be heard on the ignis blog.
Anw, do rmb to make the shakers, and do come down tmr, 5 may, from 8am onwards til afternn if u can, to paint the banners =)
Also, rmb to buy the formal house tee at the bookshop to wear on wed afternn!
Oh yah, shawn is running 4x400m for ignis!
ignis all the way!
08S14 @ 7:58 PM
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
Good job for college day! though we didnt get to sell our own food, great job at ushering, and for the few of us, at collecting money too!
Anw, next wed is relay championships!
so there's some stuff i need u guys to help out with.
1. Get an empty drink can, wash it, dry it. And put beans/rice in it. Then seal it. And bring on tues =) haha i m sure u all can guess what it is for. i'll bring red paper on tues so that we can wrap the cans to make them red!
[must do ok! it's just a simple thing yea. thsk!]
2. The ignis hat is painting new banners for relay championships next monday! do come down to the banner-painting area and help paint if you're free =) will update tmr abt the time that we'd be around.
3. Go memorise the ignis cheer k. i'll ask for permission if can put the new cheer on this blog, n if can, i'll put it up by tmr =)
ignis all the way!
08S14 @ 11:49 PM
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
30 April
House session! this was the first for the pae-non-ignis pple right? hope u all enjoyed it! i think the game was very funny [with n.vidhya having the longest hair in ignis n sean having the largest bicep muscles in ignis] but yeah i dunno what happened after i left for the other LT, but hope u all had a good time cheering. and hope u all enjoyed the pringles =)
1 May
Happy Holiday!
2 May
We are all dismissed at 2pm tmr! really really. BUT [there's always a but] we all have to go set up the ignis stalls at the canteen for college day! i know many of u really dun wanna help, BUT [see there's always a but] come on, dun u feel bad if u dun do anything at all? so come down to the canteen area by 2.15pm yea! we will have to collect tables n benches for the stalls, and put up the banners, and make menus, and posters to advertise too! our class is in charge of deco after all, but well we havent been helping much with the banner-painting, right? so tmr afternn, for IGNIS!
3 May
College Day! we arent preparing food, but still we all have to be down ok!
Take note take note: those who have security duties with mr lee, pls know what u must wear. The others we will all be at the ignis stalls, so we can wear half-grey-- that means, informal house tee =)
7 May
Inter-house relays championships! 3.30pm, be there!
our new cheer is nice yea! so u all better cheer loudly k! must support those from our class running n all the other ignis runners!
ignis all the way!
08S14 @ 9:30 PM
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