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Healthy Relationships Essentials (0 ♥comments)

Posted on Sunday, Feb 3 at 12:40 am

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Yesterday after work, I went for a seminar talking about Healthy Relationships Essentials.

Life is about relationships - with God, with others, and with us. This seminar consists of 3 sessions (monday, wednesday, friday), and I managed to go for the last session which talks about Identifying character traits and behaviours that reflect unsafe and unhealthy relationships in ourselves and others, and Learning how to manage such relationships.

The two most important aspect I look for in a friendship
I dont care whether he/she is plump/short/ugly.. As long as he/she is:

1) Trustworthy: Someone who can be a confidante, someone who is willing to listen to me and give me suggestions to get away from the situation, someone who will not spread my secrets to other people.

2) Supportive (Petrol Kiosk): Encourage me to do what I want, instead of giving cold shoulder. Unless I’m doing something that is immoral, I would apppreciate friend to be there for me, supporting me. A pillar for me when I feel tired.

The world of victims

Not everyone in this world is nice. There are always people who victimised the “weak” ones and took advantage of them. I was once a victim when I was in primary school. I was bullied by those ah bengs in my class. Events like using pencil to poke me, use water bottle to hit me. In the end, my parents had to write a letter to the form teacher and confronted those ah bengs’ parents. This is not a healthy relationship. Healthy relationship comes when my protection is not at risk. Since then, I told myself to be strong and to protect myself from the evil.

Preventing others to become the victim

As I was once a victim of such abuser, I tried to protect people around me to become the next victim. When others see us “weak and soft“, they will make use of this opportunity to make us be their slaves. (in school, at home, at the workplace) In this society, when we meet these scheming people, we have to play SMART.

I really hate people who pester me to do their things and claiming that it is urgent. Then when I ask them to do things for me, they will come out with different kind of excuses to drag my time or even, best, ignore me.

My thoughts

I like this seminar because it really teaches me how to create better relationships with people around me, and how not to become a victim of unhealthy relationships. Like a Libra balance, there must be a balance point between you and your friends. No one should take advantage of each other. It’s a mutual give-and-take between you and your friends.

Bangkok/ Pattaya Trip Day 2 (1 ♥comments)

Posted on Sunday, Dec 16 at 12:58 am

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Day 2 27 Nov 2007
Hotel>Ferry>Floating Market>Temple of Dawn> Sriracha Tiger Zoo>Pattaya Caesar Palace Hotel> Ah Gua Show>Walk outside Hotel>Hotel-sweet-Hotel

Woke up around 6:30am, and packed our luggage for checking out. Then, went to the highest level(Level 43) for buffet breakfast. In Baiyoke Suite Hotel, the food provided meets the needs of all tourists from different countries. From Western food..to Eastern.

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Section 377A (0 ♥comments)

Posted on Monday, Oct 22 at 11:08 pm

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What’s 377A?
The Penal Code of Singapore, in Section 377A, provides for a jail sentence for up to two years should a man be found to have committed an act of “gross indecency” with another man.

Here, are we talking about equality? or values? Ruth Nanda Arshen once cried out, “Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.” Family is the most fundamental block of society that provides love, emotional and financial support.

Recently, there’s a lot of argument on whether should be keep Section 377A or to abolish it. To get a better understanding of both sides of the argument, you can go to www.technorati.com, and type in “Section 377A” in the search box. The bloggers showed their point of view on this issue.

Some aruged that we should lift the ban as everyone has his own rights. Any state should give its citizens justice and the same human rights.

While some may argued that if we remove 377A, it threatens the foundation of the family. Traditionally, the idea of family is to have a mother, a father and a child. Government stand firm on Section 377A as Homosexuality Issue is against one’s culture, religion.

For , they made this video on the issue of Section 377A.

Like what our General Paper teachers told us, we must not be biased and should give both sides of view. So, besides showing you the website on repealing 377A, there’s also a website, Keep 377A @ http://www.Keep377A.com

So, what’s your stand? For those who are lost, perhaps, you can try reading this website. A balanced report to show why people support/oppose 377A. View here and here.

Disclaimer: Above is just my sharing of information i saw. =)

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