hmmm.. was inspired by ju-zi's and emu's posts on apples and apple pickers.. so i thought i would just talk a little bit about my personal take on e apple theory.. not really going to talk abt apples per se or wat desirable qualities they should have.. but rather i'm gonna talk abt e apple pickers and e process of apple picking..
anyway, my personal take on e apple theory starts off with e apples and apple pickers growing up alongside each other in this enormously vast apple tree farm.. it is often not understood by e young apple picker tt apples r meant to be picked and consumed.. and majority of e time e young apple pickers would develop close relations with e apples tt they grew up alongside with.. so when it came to e time tt e young apple picker finally understood e apple theory, he would look beyond his part of e apple farm for tt 1 elusive apple with all e desirable attributes, as he would have known tt it isn't really rite to pick those apples which grew up together with him..
i know of this apple picker A who came across this apple picker B who was interested in this apple found in e area where apple picker A grew up in.. nothing wrong there.. just tt e apple wasn't exactly wat 1 would say is ripe for e picking.. which was y apple picker A wasn't really happy that apple picker B was picking on this immature apple growing in his area.. it also turned out tt apple picker B was one who liked playing around with his food (in this case e apple) before picking it.. tt made apple picker A quite pissed, because prior to this incident, he, just like e other apple pickers, thought tt apple picker B was a gentleman..
there is also this apple picker C and apple picker D tt i want to talk about.. both apple pickers were acquaintances.. one day, during a walk in the apple farm, apple picker C chanced upon this apple which he was really interested in.. he was about to set off to gather his equipment for e apple picking when apple picker D came along.. he casually asked apple picker C which apple he was interested in, to which apple picker C pointed towards e abovementioned apple.. e conversation goes on with apple picker D telling apple picker C tt he was interested in this apple on another tree somewhere else in e farm..
so off went apple picker C to get his equipment.. but alas! when he returned to pick his apple, he discovered tt apple picker D had already picked e apple for which apple picker C had set his eyes on.. apple picker C was very angry at apple picker D for such ungentlemanly and rather lowly behavior.. in a similar fashion to apple picker B, apple picker D was seen as a good guy in e eyes of other apple pickers..
having said so much about e stories on 4 different apple pickers, u might have noticed tt there is some kind of a information asymmetry in both scenarios.. apple pickers B and D were seen in a favorable light in e eyes of other apple pickers, but this certainly didn't apply to apple pickers A and C.. so should apple pickers A and C disclose e information they have about apple pickers B and D? would e other apple pickers believe e story?
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
HP202 lect 1 stuff
Genie the feral child
Anna O, patient with the transference phenomenon
"S" the guy who cannot forget
David Reimer, the guy who got sexually reassigned to be a female; David's psychologist John Money
Genie the feral child
Anna O, patient with the transference phenomenon
"S" the guy who cannot forget
David Reimer, the guy who got sexually reassigned to be a female; David's psychologist John Money
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Lyrics chosen for HC805 chinese lyrics appreciation module:
1.
在水一方 - 词：琼瑶 曲：林家庆 唱：鄧麗君
蒹葭 - 诗经·秦风
邓丽君《在水一方》歌词赏析及《蒹葭》赏析
江湖上 - 词：余光中 曲/唱：杨弦
2.
外婆的澎湖灣 - 词/曲: 叶佳修 唱：刘文正
我們這一班 - 词：吴庆康/黄元成 曲：许环良 唱：顏黎明
3.
我家在那里 - 词/曲/唱：刘家昌
橄榄树 - 词：三毛 曲：李泰祥 唱：齊豫
4.
龙的传人 - 词/曲：侯德建 唱：李建復
麻雀衔竹枝 - 词/曲/唱：梁文福
5.
現象七十二变 - 词/曲/唱：羅大佑
梯田 - 词/曲/唱：周杰伦
6.
两岸 - 词/曲/唱：黄舒骏
北京一夜 - 词/曲/唱：陳昇/刘佳慧
7.
驿动的心 - 词/曲：梁弘志 唱：姜育恆
我是一只小小鸟 - 词/曲：李宗盛 唱：李宗盛/任贤齐
8.
箱子 - 词/曲：郑华娟 唱：张艾嘉
叶子 - 词/曲：胡海泉 唱：羽泉
9.
一半 - 词：姚谦 曲/唱：伍思凯
听海 - 词：林秋离 曲：涂惠元 唱：张惠妹
10.
牵手 - 词/曲：李子恒 唱：苏芮
分手快乐 - 词：姚若龙 曲：郭文贤 唱：梁静茹
11.
他不爱我 - 词：杨立德 曲：陈小霞 唱：莫文蔚
雪人 - 词：许常德 曲：李忠平 唱：范曉萱
12.
月亮代表我的心 - 词：孙仪 曲：汤尼 唱：鄧麗君
当时的月亮 - 词：林夕 曲：李冰 唱：王菲
月亮代表谁的心 - 词：陶喆/娃娃 曲/唱：陶喆
1.
在水一方 - 词：琼瑶 曲：林家庆 唱：鄧麗君
蒹葭 - 诗经·秦风
邓丽君《在水一方》歌词赏析及《蒹葭》赏析
江湖上 - 词：余光中 曲/唱：杨弦
2.
外婆的澎湖灣 - 词/曲: 叶佳修 唱：刘文正
我們這一班 - 词：吴庆康/黄元成 曲：许环良 唱：顏黎明
3.
我家在那里 - 词/曲/唱：刘家昌
橄榄树 - 词：三毛 曲：李泰祥 唱：齊豫
4.
龙的传人 - 词/曲：侯德建 唱：李建復
麻雀衔竹枝 - 词/曲/唱：梁文福
5.
現象七十二变 - 词/曲/唱：羅大佑
梯田 - 词/曲/唱：周杰伦
6.
两岸 - 词/曲/唱：黄舒骏
北京一夜 - 词/曲/唱：陳昇/刘佳慧
7.
驿动的心 - 词/曲：梁弘志 唱：姜育恆
我是一只小小鸟 - 词/曲：李宗盛 唱：李宗盛/任贤齐
8.
箱子 - 词/曲：郑华娟 唱：张艾嘉
叶子 - 词/曲：胡海泉 唱：羽泉
9.
一半 - 词：姚谦 曲/唱：伍思凯
听海 - 词：林秋离 曲：涂惠元 唱：张惠妹
10.
牵手 - 词/曲：李子恒 唱：苏芮
分手快乐 - 词：姚若龙 曲：郭文贤 唱：梁静茹
11.
他不爱我 - 词：杨立德 曲：陈小霞 唱：莫文蔚
雪人 - 词：许常德 曲：李忠平 唱：范曉萱
12.
月亮代表我的心 - 词：孙仪 曲：汤尼 唱：鄧麗君
当时的月亮 - 词：林夕 曲：李冰 唱：王菲
月亮代表谁的心 - 词：陶喆/娃娃 曲/唱：陶喆
Monday, January 05, 2009
Friday, January 02, 2009
this holidays went by rather swiftly.. i guess tt's because i managed to meet up with my friends for various outings, from sports to class reunion to chalet overnight stay.. not to mention e genting-KL trip in between.. gonna be a busy jan too.. school's starting.. and my b'dae's on wed.. and my sis is getting married e day after my mum's b'dae.. yup.. there's no typo there.. and btw it isn't a shotgun marriage, just in case u were wondering..
just a little sidetrack here.. had a nice dream yesterday.. always has been when i see familiar faces in my dreams.. e atmosphere is just so relaxed and fun..
anyway b to e hols.. there was also e big 4 interviews which i went for.. or rather e big 3, since i didn't manage to get shortlisted for PWC.. preparing for e interviews was a crazed affair, trying to update and fine tune my resume and cover letter.. not forgetting e preparation of e supporting documents.. actually e preparation was b4 e hols.. its only e interviews which were during e hols.. so in e midst of this craze, some of us found out tt we haven't really accomplished much in our 20+ years.. well, i guess wake up calls are never too late..
had a couple of hiccups in e interview process, some of which were rather serious i think.. anyway, it seemed tt e bleak job market outlook also clouded over this recruitment drive.. some take away from this interview experience was perhaps tt big companies does not necessarily equate to good HR practices.. i'll just give some brief background regarding this recruitment drive.. there r basically 2 rounds of selection/shortlisting.. wat e big 4 does during round 1 primarily involves classifying e interviewees into 3 groups: those who r shortlisted for a job offer, those who r on e reserve list and those who r rejected..
so for KPMG, i was 1 of e unfortunate (or otherwise) ones who was rejected (i later found out tt their focus was on e accounting grades and not GPA.. and it was on such basis tt they based e starting salary tt they offered to successful applicants).. anyway, i got to noe of e rejection through an email sent by e HR manager.. strange thing was, not too many days after, another rejection email was sent.. this time on a mass send basis, with e recipients clearly stated in e TO: fill.. well.. somebody clearly didn't remember this thing called e BCC: fill.. (sidetrack: e recipients were clearly identifiable through their email address, as it is e norm in such professional correspondence, to provide professional looking email addresses.. this means email addresses which spell out yr full name) and it was weird to find tt such an email of, presumably significant importance, was (re)sent by an intern no less (considering e fact tt e HR manager had previously sent an email of e exact same content).. butched HR job.. period.
and no.. didn't post tt cos i was having a case of sour grapes.. anyway, tt wasn't e worst to come.. was over e moon when i received DT's call of offer on e day of e EY interview.. so i thought oh well.. i could still go for EY's interview (although i was sort of settled on going to DT) to gain some interviewing experience.. turned out tt all tt i heard from my friends didn't happen on tt day.. there was no seniors in e waiting room to talk with e interviewees (which was not e case for KPMG and DT) and there was no office tour.. and during e interview itself, e words from e interviewing manager made me think tt i was at e wrong place.. stressing on (school) grades and performance every now and then, i had e urge to blurt out halfway through e interview: "hey.. i think i noe where u r getting at.. u want grades.. and my grades r not good.. so wat am i doing in this interview room?" TOTALLY NO SINCERITY. if it was grades tt they wanted so badly, den dun waste everybody's time by shortlisting me for e interview.. and just to add, e EY interview schedule was arranged in a declining GPA manner ie. those with poorer GPA were interviewed last..
not tt it was e end of e whole thing though.. it happened tt in round 2, where e big 4 call up those on e reserve list, EY gave me a call (of offer).. rather surprised cos 1) of e above mentioned event 2) it wasn't supposed to happen, as i had notified my school of my preference, which was den supposed to have been communicated to e companies.. just so happened tt it was a missed call btw.. and so i waited for them to call me back again.. which, as it turned out, nv happened.. and which, i attributed to e reason given above: NO SINCERITY.. anyway it was perhaps only good tt they nv called again.. cos i might have given them a crappy reply for e treatment given to me on tt interview day..
e primary school outing was beer at club iguana at clarke quay and desserts at e nearby TCC.. quite an impressive turnout with 10 ppl present.. nice to meet up with them after like 11 years.. although i still sorta keep in contact with some of them once in a while.. talked abt a lot of stuff.. some of which i dun quite remember being a part of.. like going to tommy's place for computer and board games.. although i do remember him bringing those stuff to school after exams.. anyway, some updates.. turned out tt ruth was e new face for new paper in '07.. and chee hui had scored some 9 distinctions for his As.. haha.. still as brainy as ever.. and laisan was actually alex's ex.. and joshua sounds so ang mo now, after having spent (still spending) a decent amount of time pursuing 3 majors (in a span of 5 years) in UWA..
thought this post was a bit long.. and yup.. it's over a thousand words le..
deleted maplestory from my laptop e other day.. well, haven played it for like months already anyway.. come to think of it, maple really turned out to be too much of a money churning machine for asiasoft and a ground for those ginnas to show off their uber godlike wow prowess.. puts me off really.. can't stand e monotony of staring at e same monster for hours, only to see e exp bar raise by some miserly %.. which den leads me to think abt slpinstory, a private maple server.. haven played tt for months too.. haiz.. to think of all e time spent on e game.. seems like a insatiable quest with no end in sight.. e time spent might have been put to better use and i prob might not be facing e grades tt i'm having now..
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just a little sidetrack here.. had a nice dream yesterday.. always has been when i see familiar faces in my dreams.. e atmosphere is just so relaxed and fun..
anyway b to e hols.. there was also e big 4 interviews which i went for.. or rather e big 3, since i didn't manage to get shortlisted for PWC.. preparing for e interviews was a crazed affair, trying to update and fine tune my resume and cover letter.. not forgetting e preparation of e supporting documents.. actually e preparation was b4 e hols.. its only e interviews which were during e hols.. so in e midst of this craze, some of us found out tt we haven't really accomplished much in our 20+ years.. well, i guess wake up calls are never too late..
had a couple of hiccups in e interview process, some of which were rather serious i think.. anyway, it seemed tt e bleak job market outlook also clouded over this recruitment drive.. some take away from this interview experience was perhaps tt big companies does not necessarily equate to good HR practices.. i'll just give some brief background regarding this recruitment drive.. there r basically 2 rounds of selection/shortlisting.. wat e big 4 does during round 1 primarily involves classifying e interviewees into 3 groups: those who r shortlisted for a job offer, those who r on e reserve list and those who r rejected..
so for KPMG, i was 1 of e unfortunate (or otherwise) ones who was rejected (i later found out tt their focus was on e accounting grades and not GPA.. and it was on such basis tt they based e starting salary tt they offered to successful applicants).. anyway, i got to noe of e rejection through an email sent by e HR manager.. strange thing was, not too many days after, another rejection email was sent.. this time on a mass send basis, with e recipients clearly stated in e TO: fill.. well.. somebody clearly didn't remember this thing called e BCC: fill.. (sidetrack: e recipients were clearly identifiable through their email address, as it is e norm in such professional correspondence, to provide professional looking email addresses.. this means email addresses which spell out yr full name) and it was weird to find tt such an email of, presumably significant importance, was (re)sent by an intern no less (considering e fact tt e HR manager had previously sent an email of e exact same content).. butched HR job.. period.
and no.. didn't post tt cos i was having a case of sour grapes.. anyway, tt wasn't e worst to come.. was over e moon when i received DT's call of offer on e day of e EY interview.. so i thought oh well.. i could still go for EY's interview (although i was sort of settled on going to DT) to gain some interviewing experience.. turned out tt all tt i heard from my friends didn't happen on tt day.. there was no seniors in e waiting room to talk with e interviewees (which was not e case for KPMG and DT) and there was no office tour.. and during e interview itself, e words from e interviewing manager made me think tt i was at e wrong place.. stressing on (school) grades and performance every now and then, i had e urge to blurt out halfway through e interview: "hey.. i think i noe where u r getting at.. u want grades.. and my grades r not good.. so wat am i doing in this interview room?" TOTALLY NO SINCERITY. if it was grades tt they wanted so badly, den dun waste everybody's time by shortlisting me for e interview.. and just to add, e EY interview schedule was arranged in a declining GPA manner ie. those with poorer GPA were interviewed last..
not tt it was e end of e whole thing though.. it happened tt in round 2, where e big 4 call up those on e reserve list, EY gave me a call (of offer).. rather surprised cos 1) of e above mentioned event 2) it wasn't supposed to happen, as i had notified my school of my preference, which was den supposed to have been communicated to e companies.. just so happened tt it was a missed call btw.. and so i waited for them to call me back again.. which, as it turned out, nv happened.. and which, i attributed to e reason given above: NO SINCERITY.. anyway it was perhaps only good tt they nv called again.. cos i might have given them a crappy reply for e treatment given to me on tt interview day..
e primary school outing was beer at club iguana at clarke quay and desserts at e nearby TCC.. quite an impressive turnout with 10 ppl present.. nice to meet up with them after like 11 years.. although i still sorta keep in contact with some of them once in a while.. talked abt a lot of stuff.. some of which i dun quite remember being a part of.. like going to tommy's place for computer and board games.. although i do remember him bringing those stuff to school after exams.. anyway, some updates.. turned out tt ruth was e new face for new paper in '07.. and chee hui had scored some 9 distinctions for his As.. haha.. still as brainy as ever.. and laisan was actually alex's ex.. and joshua sounds so ang mo now, after having spent (still spending) a decent amount of time pursuing 3 majors (in a span of 5 years) in UWA..
thought this post was a bit long.. and yup.. it's over a thousand words le..
deleted maplestory from my laptop e other day.. well, haven played it for like months already anyway.. come to think of it, maple really turned out to be too much of a money churning machine for asiasoft and a ground for those ginnas to show off their uber godlike wow prowess.. puts me off really.. can't stand e monotony of staring at e same monster for hours, only to see e exp bar raise by some miserly %.. which den leads me to think abt slpinstory, a private maple server.. haven played tt for months too.. haiz.. to think of all e time spent on e game.. seems like a insatiable quest with no end in sight.. e time spent might have been put to better use and i prob might not be facing e grades tt i'm having now..
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