Some things/occasions that make me happy

- a good book
- a bar of snickers almond, the best chocolate ever
- good sunny weather
- when i give and don't expect
- when i get what i don't expect (have i ever mentioned that i love the concept of serendipity)
- when i see and talk to my friends
- when i receive encouragement from people who matter
- when i see and talk to people i care about
- when i dress up for myself
- after i run
- when i see/meet kind strangers
- when i manage to crack sth that was difficult
- after i bathe
- good music
- gorgeous scenery
- calvin and hobbes
- when i am loved
- when i love
- when i am in love


* list is not exhaustive =)

Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

You Are An INFJ

The Protector You live your life with integrity, originality, vision, and creativity. Independent and stubborn, you rarely stray from your vision - no matter what it is. You are an excellent listener, with almost infinite patience. You have complex, deep feelings, and you take great care to express them. You would make a great photographer, alternative medicine guru, or teacher.

What's Your Personality Type?

For a short quiz, the result is quite accurate, I think. But I don't really think much of being an alternative medicine guru. "Alternative" and "guru"? Nah, not my cup of tea. And I think I've told almost anyone who cared to know that I don't think I can teach. I'll die from wanting to whack people when they can't get my message. Haha.

There are lengthier descriptions here and here. I like the piece written by Marina Margaret Heiss at the first link.

I can't remember what I got for the personlity test I took in secondary school though. Haha, but my guess is that it's probably not changed much ;P

Breadth and Depth

It struck me during lab meeting today that undergraduates have a hard time balancing breadth and depth.

On one hand, we are supposed to take several modules every semester spanning a great spectrum of specialities. But at the honours level, at least, textbooks are no longer fully sufficient.

On the other hand, we are required to be well acquainted with one area of research in the course of doing the FYP. It is not enough to read one paper to get some background knowledge to start off. We have to be intimately familiar with what has been done, what it all means, what we can do to move on from there. It's a little bit like postgrad already. Not to the same extent, but quite enough.

The thing is: postgrads devote all their time to understanding their field of research. That is all they do and it is what they are rightly suppposed to do.

But undergrads have to do that and we also have to read papers for our modules. We have to know more than a bit in breadth and more than a bit in depth.

It's between a rock and a hard place, really.

I need time.
And I need the brain capacity!
And then should I finally absorb enough, I need to able to execute.

Argh. Not simple life is.

And vast science is. Really.

But then it's good to learn new things. Exposure, exposure!

Wei Theng, your IQ score is 141
The way you think about things makes you a Creative Theorist. This means you are a highly intelligent, complex person. You are able to process information of nearly every kind with ease, using both creativity and analysis to make sense of the world. Compared to others you also have a very rich imagination.

How did we determine that your thinking style is that of a Creative Theorist? When we examined your test results further, we analyzed how you scored on 8 dimensions of intelligence: spatial, organizational, abstract reasoning, logical, mechanical, verbal, visual and numerical. The 3 dimensions you scored highest on combine to make you a Creative Theorist. Only 6 out of 1,000 people have this rare combination of abilities.

The Super IQ Test