9.27.2009
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everybody everybody!
we are so colourful!!!!
but where's En En!!!! =(
look how cute Kaiting looks! heehee.
love,estelle
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felt very challenged by pastor kong's message.
praying that the hurts that i caused in others during the times that i flippantly said something with no intention of carrying them out can be healed by god.
and the realisation that it's the smallest things that cement or cut or a friendship aches my heart too. bcos too often, we forget this fact and hurt the people around us unknowingly and in pastor kong's words, 'pretend nothing has happened'.
when we say 3pm, do we disappear from earth and appear only at 3.15pm?
do we not turn up when we said we would?
do we mean it when we said we would return the call?
let us all rise up to this challenge, and become people with such steady character that others find so easy to trust. =)
love,estelle
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9.23.2009
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Hi Guys, this is my entry 2, where I will be giving certain tips on what should you do before you enter an exam hall:p. Indeed its the most nervous time, some of us will keep flipping notes, some of us will feel dead due to the burning of the midnight oil, while some of us may suffer panic attacks just before we enter the exam hall. So what should we do really?
If you find really got to remember one thing from this post..remember this
TIP 2: Confidence!!!
2 Timothy 1:7 - For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Yes, there was once a soccer coach who said this to his dispirited team, "In everything, in life, you need confidence, and right now, if the players get the confidence, I'm sure they will perform".
If you are feeling down and out, and not having a single belief that you can handle the exam ahead of you..guess what, all the more you need the confidence just before entering the exam hall.....
"But I didn't study le...."
Well being nervous will just make you forget the basic things that you have learnt. 有信心已经是成功的一半。。。So be confident no matter what. But confidence isn't just something you say, it's something you build
So then the question comes...how to build that confidence before entering the exam hall?
Here are some of the steps that I take to build my confidence before entering the exam hall and during the exam and after the exam.
a) Organize and put what you've learnt neatly into a few pages of notes. Don't learnt new things before entering the exam hall. This is especially true 1 hour before the exam. If you try to learn new things, you will put in a lot more effort to try and memorize it. The result is you will usually forget what you have learnt previously and remember what you learn one hour before the exam instead...
So what you need to do is to recall what you've learn and not to learn new things. So you become very clear headed about what've you learn and hence you would not be nervous.
b) Tell yourself, whatever you've never learnt, it would never come out. Usually its true:p unless you totally never study at all.....
c) Reach the school early, for the N levellers, know your seatings. Being 15-30 mins early helps to settle you down and prepares your for the battle ahead.
d) When you start doing the exam paper, don't start doing blindly. Instead, scan through the paper and look through the questions!. Look for the easy questions and do them first. Once you can solve some questions, it builds confidence in you.
e) If the paper's really tough for you, it will be tough for others do:p. Don't have ideas like "Why am I so stupid, cant do these question" and all sorts of thing. You just need to skip that question.
f) Check exam paper, if possible, for the last 15 mins. (For questions you know, you should have completed them, for questions you have no answer to, staring at them would not help, might as well check your answers to prevent any careless mistakes)
g) After the exam, don't discuss the answers.....no one has the answer sheet, save your breadth and go home and sleep. If you want to relax, you can go out and have a good lunch with friends.
h) Lastly, don't think about the questions on the exam paper that you've completed because most likely, you have another paper ahead of you. Focus on the next paper. You do not want your confidence to be sapped away by your previous paper!
Well I think I have give enough suggestions for this entry. Just wanna say that certain simple things, like arriving early, scan the exam paper and do the easy ones first, convincing yourself that what you've learn will come out for exams are simple steps, that can make you more confident during the exam:p
So be confident and again I say to you, be confident!!!
Jacob aka Kwong Hui
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9.15.2009
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Hey guys, at the request of our dear cg leader, I have decided to put up this entry to help all the students who are taking exams. It is indeed stressful....but definitely we can come out of it victorious!!!
So the first thing that I did was to find out ...WHY WE FAIL..I msned a few of my friends ans ask then why did they fail their test and I realize the number one reason was....
Number 1: They just weren't prepared for it.....
Sounds so simple but yet so true...we failed because we fail to prepare for it. So here are a few tips that I am giving you guys, my "secret manual" muahahahaha....
TIPS 1: Study hard is study smart...
Ever had the experience where you?
- I spend hours studying, but so sian, nothing went in lo...
- I just keep writing the notes but I don't know what Im writing
- I studied but the things never came out...
Usually, you hear people say, "you need to study smarter" but I can tell you this..studying smarter is studying harder!!!
People who study smart do study very hard...just that they get maximum effect from whatever they are studying while others may not.
So then what is the smart way then????? I realize this "smart way" is a very cliche word without people actually telling one another what is smart. So here are the few things you can do.
a. What topics are to be tested
b. What are the important tips that you teacher gave but you never catch(good friends are very helpful here..especially studious and nerdy ones:p)
c. Ask your teachers, wait for them after lessons if neceesaary and ask them questions(Duh, they are the ones who set the paper, they can give you the most valuable tips, you just need to pester them...like the woman in the bible who pester the judge. Tust me, they will budge..)
d. find you what are your best topics,
e. Spot questions, but study everything. So that you will be able to answer everything that comes.
f. Test yourself constantly(Are you able to explain the science la, history la or anything without your textbook at your hand) If you can, you are pretty prepared. Because exam is not testing your understanding only...they are tesing if you still can understand without your textbook at hand.
Ok, that shall be all for today...I shall break it up into a few tips and not give everything one shot so that it will be more easier for you guys to read...:p
Cheers
Jacob
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9.09.2009
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I mentioned my old blog at cgm on Friday.
Decided to open it up once again.
I read through my entries… entries when I was 19 to 23.
wow. A record of 5 years of my life.
As a student, I reflected more, I thought more…
I’m glad I read books,
I’m glad I was fed God’s word,
I’m glad I watched some good movies,
I’m glad I had great people around me…
because all these shaped who I’ve become…
I wanna invite you to my life... when i was 19,20,21, 22 and 23...
Welcome to my life! =)
http://estelleapplebee.blogspot.com/
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9.06.2009
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HELLO! it's Jovy posting.(: i didn't know what to post. so here are some christian jokes i got from the internet.(:
A friend was in front of me coming out of church one day, and the preacher was standing at the door as he always is to shake hands. He grabbed my friend by the hand and pulled him aside. The Pastor said to him, "You need to join the Army of the Lord!" My friend replied, "I'm already in the Army of the Lord, Pastor." Pastor questioned, "How come I don't see you except at Christmas and Easter?" He whispered back, "I'm in the secret service.
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Harold and Jane was not a very religious couple but tried their best; they only went to church once a year. As they were leaving the church, the minister said, “Harold, it sure would be nice to see you and Jane here more than once a year” “I know,” replied Harold, “We're very busy people, leading active lives but at least we keep the Ten Commandments” “That's great,” the minister said. “I'm glad to hear that you keep the Commandments.” “Yes, we sure do” Harold said proudly, “Jane keeps six of them and I keep the other four”.
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A minister told his congregation, "Next week I plan to preach about the sin of lying. To help you understand my sermon, I want you all to read Mark 17." The following Sunday, as he prepared to deliver his sermon, the minister asked for a show of hands. He wanted to know how many had read Mark 17. Every hand went up. The minister smiled and said, "Mark has only sixteen chapters. I will now proceed with my sermon on the sin of lying."
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A man sobering up from the night before is sitting through the Sunday sermon, finding it long and boring. Still feeling hung over and tired, he finally nods off. The priest has been watching him all along, noticing his apparent hangover and is disgusted. At the end of the sermon, the preacher decides to make an example of him. He says to his congregation, "All those wishing to have a place in heaven, please stand." The whole room stands up except, of course, the sleeping man. Then the preacher says even more loudly, "And he who would like to find a place in hell please STAND UP!" The weary man catching only the last part groggily stands up, only to find that he's the only one standing. Confused and embarrassed he says, "I don't know what we're voting on here, Father, but it sure seems like you and me are the only ones standing for it!"
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"Be grateful for all that the good Lord had done for you," the minister told his flock. "Surely each of us should give one-tenth of all we earn to the Lord." "Amen!" shouted a particular fervent church member. "I say let's raise it to one-twentieth."
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