MsSheepy

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Sometime in March, my school has nominated me to attend an external course entitled ‘Systems Thinking‘.

After attending this course, I realized that my life is filled with balancing loops. I would like to elaborate on one of my own version of balancing loop.

Analogy 1: my savings account. I am personally comfortable with having a balance of $x amount in my account. Whenever i receive any small bonus or any other minor benefits, say $y, i will have a balance of $(x + y) in my account. Of course i will be very happy of my own achievements, and most of the time, i will spend the extra $y to pamper myself or to treat my hubby and so on. So i am always back to $x in my account, because $(x+y-y) 

Analogy 2: my hobby. Being one who loves to travel around the globe, i will surely book a tour to go somewhere far away during the school holidays whenever time allows.  The tour package will cost $p, which is way more than my $y (Pretty Yucky). Thus having $p > $y, my bank account will be left with an even smaller balance of $(x-p). I hate the feeling of being back from my holidays, because this is the period which i will usually announce to my friends that i am pathetically poor, so no more outings for me. I had to scrimp and save all over again in order to reach my comfortable level of $x again.

My savings graph, when drawn, could look something like this:

Sounds familiar? I am sure many of you out there have your so-called comfort zones. Whether it’s in school or at work. Once you are out of your comfort zone, you will feel uneasy or feel threatened. Most of you will strive hard to bring yourself back to the comfort zone level, by resigning or quiting school etc…

I personally think this is a bad kind of loop. After listening to the trainer’s explanation, people who followed this loop are doom to fail in life. We should always strive for the better and aim high. In order to succeed in life, we need to break out of the comfort zones.

That’s all i have to share here. Enjoy!

Have you ever tried the Viwawa game called ‘Sushido‘? That is one of my favourite games in Viwawa. Reasons being:

1. It’s not so brainless

2. It can take a minimum of 2 players

3. It’s hilarious to see how the customers flare up in anger when you don’t satisfy their orders

I personally don’t like the other games because either they are too ’stressful’ for me or you need a minimum of 3 players to play the game.

The purpose of this post is to elaborate on the simple game rules of Sushido. Having the need to explain to my friends over IM is really frustrating without something to refer to. I hope you will find this simple MsSheepy’s very own guide useful.

Here goes…  once you click on the Live button to get into Sushido, you will be prompted to select a channel. For me, i will select the very first channel for Newbies and will be greeted by the following screen. Your avatar will appear on the bottom left corner of the page.

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I think you already have noticed. I’ve made some changes to my blog:

1. Changed my layout to my favourite color scheme

2. Added Feed subscription form

3. Realigned some of my sidebar items

Work is so stressed up, to the point that i have to do something to de-stress myself.

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I have another book to recommend - Seven Ancient Wonders. It’s another book written by the author Matthew Reilly. In this book, the hero is not the usual Schofield as introduced earlier in Ice Station.

This hero is another good guy named West. Being a well trained military guy, he led a team of elite members from 7 other countries, in search of the 7 pieces of capstones.

The 7 capstones, when combined together, can produce tremendous power to rule the world. The French, Europeans etc are all eyeing the seven pieces. And together with West team, they set out to race against one another in search of the seven wonders which had been placed all over the world as ordered by the late Alexander the Great.

The adventures are exciting and hair raising. Feel the perspiration, the frustrations as you ‘follow’ the group get pass their enemies and the deadly traps while in search for the capstones - along with a little girl.

Have sometime to spare while waiting for friends at Outram Park North East Line station? Or are you one of those who love to play face-to-face with friends? If yes, why not patronize this newly opened cybercafé inside the very heart of Outram Park NEL station?

I was there to have a look recently and was attracted by the cozy atmosphere inside the cafe. They have web-cam facilities too; so if you are one of those who love to use a web-cam via MSN/Skype to converse with friends from overseas, here is also a good place to settle for a nice chat before taking the train home. But one thing to note, it’s first-come-first-serve .

This cybercafé charges $1.95 per hour. This can be considered one of the cheapest hourly rates you can find in the market.

Full day packages:

Monday to Thursday: $15

Friday and weekends: $18

Shop Operating Hours: 10am to 11pm

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Some of the popular games available at this cyber cafe are:

* Audition
* Cabal
* CounterStrike
* Maple Story
* MuOnline
* Ragnarok
* Silkroad
* World of Warcraft
* and many more….

Where to locate this shop?

Leave the station via the gantry at Exit H in Outram Park NEL station. Go all the way up, the shop is just right in front of the escalator inside the station.

*Disclaimer: The above information is accurate at the time this post is published. Rates and promotional items are subjected to changes by cybercafe owners.

I’ve recently changed my office cubicle. The new cubicle was more conducive and I finally can have some space for my music. I tend to focus better on my work with some light-hearted music in the background.

To add some spice to my office life, I’ve done something which I’ve never done in my previous offices. i.e. I bought myself a cute cushion !

Isn’t it kawaii???

You can find more cute cushions here:

It’s Labour day today and it’s also a perfect day to celebrate mum’s day as well as to catch up with ex-school mates. I spent my whole afternoon at Chinatown-Outram area.

I celebrated Mother’s day with the in-laws and had a great dim sum lunch at one of the teahouses in Chinatown. MIL is also considered my half-mother.

We went shopping around OG and the new Chinatown market before i left to meet my buddies at Outram.

Today, we went to a new KTV lounge situated along Teo Hong Rd. The lounge had a cool name called ‘Crystabelle‘. We got there via exit H at Outram NEL station. The KTV is right in front of the mrt exit.

From the outside, the entrance does look rather sleazy, but once you stepped into the shop, you will be greeted by a friendly uncle.

The price is quite reasonable. There were 7 of us and we spent 4 hours in the ktv (from 3pm to 7pm). The whole room cost $75 nett for 8 people. This price is inclusive of 2 plates of small tidbits, 2 plates of fruits and one drink each.

Name card of KTV Lounge

Their menu

Interior of KTV room (Quite big ^_^)

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Do you know that one can get sued for slander by blogging about the ‘wrong’ and abusive stuff about a person? In my free time, i did some googling and i came across websites of students blogging badly about their lecturers or teachers — brainlessly. They go to the extent of placing the teacher’s face, full name etc on the blog. I could easily use this as evidence against the blogger if i want.

What’s worst is, these students actually put their real faces on the blog , together with the school name and their classes. I am not going to name those students here though, if they happen to stumble upon this blog, they should know who they are.

Whatever things you have placed onto the net, it will eventually surface out in the search results; especially if the key words used are common. We teachers do read public blogs too.

As a blogger myself since i was a student, i do censor what i really write in my blog. If you have noticed by now. I kept all personal and touchy stuff in my private blog where it’s only viewable by my close friends.

Let me give you some tips on how to ‘bitch‘ without getting yourself into big trouble; especially if you are those who feel better after sharing and writing it down:

1. Lock up the entry and make it visible to only your good buddies. You can swear or bitch whatever you can in there. However, do watch your words too. Anything that is listed on the net is still not-so private. Best is to take them offline.

2. Do not reveal your real name and face on the blog if you don’t want people to find out who you really are. And especially if you want to write terrible negative comments about the people around you. Well, unless you want attention and don’t mind being a net whore. But strangely enough, people who do this tends to get a lot of attention from other bloggers. I loved reading bloggers flaming one another. it’s so entertaining and it drives traffic too

3. Leave out the company or the victim’s real identity. Instead, drop subtle hints on who the victim is. The victim will definitely react if he/she finds your blog entry description familiar. :X But by then, you could simply deny that you are referring to him/her, since no names are mentioned.

Last but not least, the best way to deal with your problem and anger is to speak to the ‘victims’ personally. We teachers are human beings after all, and can never be perfect. We do appreciate feedback from others too.

Life can never be perfect.

Do you enjoy playing board games with friends? Then i am sure you have not missed the popular board game cafes in Singapore. Heard of the Mind Cafe and the Settler’s Cafe?

This evening, my two buddies and I decided to hunt for another board game cafe called the De Coder’s Cafe. I only heard about this place from my school’s monthly e-bulletin promotions. I myself have personally went to the old Oasis Board game Cafe along liang sia street some years back, but I doubt it’s there anymore.

What I love about this cafe is, the food is nice and their service is good. The place is kinda cramp and noisy today due to its good business. In order to secure a good place, I would suggest that you make a reservation before going down.

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It feels so good to be at home today. I hardly had the time to do my own personal work ’seriously’ since school reopened. And today, after releasing my students’ grades online early in the morning,  i make it a point NOT to check the school email nor do anything that’s school work related.

True enough, this little diversion has allowed me to focus on my personal tasks. I completed quite a number of things today:

1. Blog

2. Iron my clothes (more than usual)

3. Whipped up a simple lunch with hubby

4. Made jelly (a simple task but took me so long to squeeze sometime out of my forever tight schedule)

5. Make nice tea and have a relaxing afternoon reading my new book (will review about it when i finish)

Wooo, i really have a relaxing day at home. But the weather’s kind of irritating, don’t you think so? The temperature stood at 31 degrees the whole afternoon.