There are numerous SMS contest and vote now; one can never be able to keep track of all of them. 'Akademi Fantasia' has been over for months now but ASTRO is still try to get something from it via NTV7, asking people to vote for the silliest category. Even the prime time news has their SMS votes. Another one is an SMS contest on finding Doraemon on RTM. I wonder who the target market is; children with hand phones or parents who are bugged by their children to enter the contest.
You can also easily have your greetings or Valentine's wishes shown on TV just by sending SMS. The gullible people who fall for that must have thought the intended recipient has nothing better to do than sitting glued in front of the TV, watching that particular channel only, and waiting for their message to be displayed.
Even when our 'beloved' 4th Prime Minister is stepping down, Malaysians are encouraged to send SMS saying how much they love the Prime Minister. The carrot dangled at the end of the stick is some condo somewhere if I'm not mistaken. I've forgotten. Anyway, looking at it, the only conclusion I can make is the SMS contests and votes must be very very profitable.
But I also wonder why most contest never bother to announce their winners in the same way they promote the contest. Are there ANY winners at all? Who is keeping track whether the organizers really give the promised prizes? I'm still waiting to know who is the winner of the SMS message and what is the winning message like for the now Tun Dr. Mahathir. Or have I missed any of the winner's announcements?
And today's Utusan carry statement by Perak Mufti that all SMS contest are haram if they involve the characteristics of cheating. Well, if element of cheating is involved, the contest are not only haram but the organizers can also be charged for misleading or cheating the public right? No winners for the SMS contest when they have clearly mentioned the prize to lure people to enter the contest in the first place certainly sounds like cheating to me.
Sunflower gives the connotation of cheerfulness, bright, jolly, merry... you get the idea! However, if any content in this blog didn't fit the cheerfulness implied by its name, look at it this way... I'm putting down all the wretchedness, gloom, melancholy feeling in here so I can continue living up to the expectation of making the association to the sunflower.
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Monday, February 23, 2004
Men Have PMS Too!
When women are irritable and moody, men will immediately blame it on PMS. Now, women have something to blame too when men gets grumpy and grouchy. Its called IMS or Irritable Male Syndrome which is caused by a decline in testosterone, and it can happen at any time in any male due poor diet, environmental factors and stress.
Read more at the following links:
1. Men May Have PMS, Too
2. Men May Have Reason To Be Grumpy
3. Some Men Have PMS-Like Syndrome
4. Husband Crabby, Sluggish?
5. Irritable Male Syndrome: High on Stress
Read more at the following links:
1. Men May Have PMS, Too
2. Men May Have Reason To Be Grumpy
3. Some Men Have PMS-Like Syndrome
4. Husband Crabby, Sluggish?
5. Irritable Male Syndrome: High on Stress
A Bleak Future?? The End of the World??
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.
A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.
'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters.
A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.
'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'
Read more here. I've also dig up a few hadith to see what were said about the end of the world.
Sahih Muslim Book 041, Number 6903:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last Hour will not come unless there is much bloodshed. They said: What is harj? Thereupon he said: Bloodshed. Bloodshed.
Sahih Muslim Book 041, Number 6906:
'Amir b. Sa'd reported on the authority of his father that one day Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) came from a high land. He passed by the mosque of Banu Mu'awiya, went in and observed two rak'ahs there and we also observed prayer along with him and he made a long supplication to his Lord. He then came to us and said: I asked my Lord three things and He has granted me two but has withheld one. I begged my Lord that my Ummah should not be destroyed because of famine and He granted me this. And I begged my Lord that my Ummah should not be destroyed by drowning (by deluge) and He granted me this. And I begged my Lord that there should be no bloodshed among the people of my Ummah. But He did not grant it.
Sahih Muslim Book 041, Number 6983:
Abdullah b. 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: You and the Jews would fight against one another until a stone would say: Muslim, here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last Hour will not come unless there is much bloodshed. They said: What is harj? Thereupon he said: Bloodshed. Bloodshed.
Sahih Muslim Book 041, Number 6906:
'Amir b. Sa'd reported on the authority of his father that one day Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) came from a high land. He passed by the mosque of Banu Mu'awiya, went in and observed two rak'ahs there and we also observed prayer along with him and he made a long supplication to his Lord. He then came to us and said: I asked my Lord three things and He has granted me two but has withheld one. I begged my Lord that my Ummah should not be destroyed because of famine and He granted me this. And I begged my Lord that my Ummah should not be destroyed by drowning (by deluge) and He granted me this. And I begged my Lord that there should be no bloodshed among the people of my Ummah. But He did not grant it.
Sahih Muslim Book 041, Number 6983:
Abdullah b. 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: You and the Jews would fight against one another until a stone would say: Muslim, here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.
Source: SAHIH MUSLIM, BOOK 41: The Book Pertaining to the Turmoil and Portents of the Last Hour (Kitab Al-Fitan wa Ashrat As-Sa`ah)
Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 88, Number 213:
Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
I heard Allah's Apostle while he was facing the East, saying, "Verily! Afflictions are there, from where the side of the head of Satan comes out."
Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 88, Number 237:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established (1) till two big groups fight each other whereupon there will be a great number of casualties on both sides and they will be following one and the same religious doctrine, (2) till about thirty Dajjals (liars) appear, and each one of them will claim that he is Allah's Apostle, (3) till the religious knowledge is taken away (by the death of Religious scholars) (4) earthquakes will increase in number (5) time will pass quickly, (6) afflictions will appear, (7) Al-Harj, (i.e., killing) will increase, (8) till wealth will be in abundance ---- so abundant that a wealthy person will worry lest nobody should accept his Zakat, and whenever he will present it to someone, that person (to whom it will be offered) will say, 'I am not in need of it, (9) till the people compete with one another in constructing high buildings, (10) till a man when passing by a grave of someone will say, 'Would that I were in his place (11) and till the sun rises from the West. So when the sun will rise and the people will see it (rising from the West) they will all believe (embrace Islam) but that will be the time when: (As Allah said,) 'No good will it do to a soul to believe then, if it believed not before, nor earned good (by deeds of righteousness) through its Faith.' (6.158) And the Hour will be established while two men spreading a garment in front of them but they will not be able to sell it, nor fold it up; and the Hour will be established when a man has milked his she-camel and has taken away the milk but he will not be able to drink it; and the Hour will be established before a man repairing a tank (for his livestock) is able to water (his animals) in it; and the Hour will be established when a person has raised a morsel (of food) to his mouth but will not be able to eat it."
Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
I heard Allah's Apostle while he was facing the East, saying, "Verily! Afflictions are there, from where the side of the head of Satan comes out."
Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 88, Number 237:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established (1) till two big groups fight each other whereupon there will be a great number of casualties on both sides and they will be following one and the same religious doctrine, (2) till about thirty Dajjals (liars) appear, and each one of them will claim that he is Allah's Apostle, (3) till the religious knowledge is taken away (by the death of Religious scholars) (4) earthquakes will increase in number (5) time will pass quickly, (6) afflictions will appear, (7) Al-Harj, (i.e., killing) will increase, (8) till wealth will be in abundance ---- so abundant that a wealthy person will worry lest nobody should accept his Zakat, and whenever he will present it to someone, that person (to whom it will be offered) will say, 'I am not in need of it, (9) till the people compete with one another in constructing high buildings, (10) till a man when passing by a grave of someone will say, 'Would that I were in his place (11) and till the sun rises from the West. So when the sun will rise and the people will see it (rising from the West) they will all believe (embrace Islam) but that will be the time when: (As Allah said,) 'No good will it do to a soul to believe then, if it believed not before, nor earned good (by deeds of righteousness) through its Faith.' (6.158) And the Hour will be established while two men spreading a garment in front of them but they will not be able to sell it, nor fold it up; and the Hour will be established when a man has milked his she-camel and has taken away the milk but he will not be able to drink it; and the Hour will be established before a man repairing a tank (for his livestock) is able to water (his animals) in it; and the Hour will be established when a person has raised a morsel (of food) to his mouth but will not be able to eat it."
Source: SAHIH BUKHARI, BOOK 88: Afflictions and the End of the World
Thursday, February 19, 2004
From My Inbox: Miscommunication
Someone once said to me, you should be lucky if you can get across 80% of what you mean when you communicate with someone. When you think of it, there is some truth in it. The listeners will translate the words they hear based on their limited knowledge, experience, assumptions and understanding of an issue.
An example to illustrate the point, recently a friend bought a new handphone of the latest model (at that time). He said he didn't have infrared to transfer things to the handphone. Luckily he's using Maxis line so he can get some cool things via MMS. I know he didn't have a computer at home and didn't have internet access at the office. I also assume that his PC will be from one of the ancient model since he once mentioned the PC didn't have a CD drive. Many companies operate and survive with ancient model PCs so that's not news to me.
I heard him clearly the first time, "didn't have infrared to transfer things to the handphone", I immediately thought whenever I lug my notebook around his vicinity, he can transfer some cool things via infrared using my notebook. How nice of me! You can get some nice photos for wallpaper via MMS but you can't transfer personal photos and cool, free ringtones converted from MIDI files. Furthermore, we can save a lot of money transferring things via cable or infrared connection as compared to MMS or WAP right. It never occur to me even once, it’s the handphone that did not have infrared, not just his PC at the office.
Duh! How shallow of me. If I can't get by without infrared handphone doesn't mean others can't either. If I thought infrared and Bluetooth is necessary in every new handphone and gadgets doesn't mean the manufacturer will agree with me. If I thought internet is a staple when you have a computer, some company didn't think so ('we hired you to do specific work and an internet connection is not required for you to perform your job efficiently and effectively', so no internet connection). And a lot of people didn't see the need of having computers at home too.
The incident kinda makes me realize of the things I take for granted and not to mention, how much I've misinterpreted a simple sentences based on my own assumption. Can you imagine what happens when it comes to more important things like communication between spouses or CIA and US President on Iraq's WMD for example. This forwarded email I receive perfectly illustrates how simple communication can go awry. So the next time you think you understand something, think again.
An example to illustrate the point, recently a friend bought a new handphone of the latest model (at that time). He said he didn't have infrared to transfer things to the handphone. Luckily he's using Maxis line so he can get some cool things via MMS. I know he didn't have a computer at home and didn't have internet access at the office. I also assume that his PC will be from one of the ancient model since he once mentioned the PC didn't have a CD drive. Many companies operate and survive with ancient model PCs so that's not news to me.
I heard him clearly the first time, "didn't have infrared to transfer things to the handphone", I immediately thought whenever I lug my notebook around his vicinity, he can transfer some cool things via infrared using my notebook. How nice of me! You can get some nice photos for wallpaper via MMS but you can't transfer personal photos and cool, free ringtones converted from MIDI files. Furthermore, we can save a lot of money transferring things via cable or infrared connection as compared to MMS or WAP right. It never occur to me even once, it’s the handphone that did not have infrared, not just his PC at the office.
Duh! How shallow of me. If I can't get by without infrared handphone doesn't mean others can't either. If I thought infrared and Bluetooth is necessary in every new handphone and gadgets doesn't mean the manufacturer will agree with me. If I thought internet is a staple when you have a computer, some company didn't think so ('we hired you to do specific work and an internet connection is not required for you to perform your job efficiently and effectively', so no internet connection). And a lot of people didn't see the need of having computers at home too.
The incident kinda makes me realize of the things I take for granted and not to mention, how much I've misinterpreted a simple sentences based on my own assumption. Can you imagine what happens when it comes to more important things like communication between spouses or CIA and US President on Iraq's WMD for example. This forwarded email I receive perfectly illustrates how simple communication can go awry. So the next time you think you understand something, think again.
Memo from CEO to Manager:
Today at 11 o'clock there will be total eclipse of the sun. This is when the sun disappears behind the moon for two minutes. As this is something that cannot be seen every day, time will be allowed for employees to view the eclipse in the parking lot. Staff should meet in the lot at ten to eleven, when I will deliver a short speech introducing the eclipse, and giving some background information. Safety goggles will be made available at a small cost.
Memo from Manager to Department Head:
Today at ten to eleven, all staff should meet in the car park. This will be followed by a total eclipse of the sun, which will appear for two minutes. For a moderate cost, this will be made safe with goggles. The CEO will deliver a short speech beforehand to give us all some information. This is not something that can be seen every day.
Memo from Department Head to Floor Manager:
The CEO will today deliver a short speech to make the sun disappear for two minutes in the form of an eclipse. This is something that cannot be seen every day, so staff will meet in the car park at ten or eleven. This will be safe, if you pay a moderate cost.
Memo from Floor Manager to Supervisor:
Ten or eleven staff are to go to the car park, where the CEO will eclipse the sun for two minutes. This doesn't happen every day. It will be safe, and as usual it will cost you.
Memo from Supervisor to staff:
Some staff will go to the car park today to see the CEO disappear. It is a pity this doesn't happen everyday.
Today at 11 o'clock there will be total eclipse of the sun. This is when the sun disappears behind the moon for two minutes. As this is something that cannot be seen every day, time will be allowed for employees to view the eclipse in the parking lot. Staff should meet in the lot at ten to eleven, when I will deliver a short speech introducing the eclipse, and giving some background information. Safety goggles will be made available at a small cost.
Memo from Manager to Department Head:
Today at ten to eleven, all staff should meet in the car park. This will be followed by a total eclipse of the sun, which will appear for two minutes. For a moderate cost, this will be made safe with goggles. The CEO will deliver a short speech beforehand to give us all some information. This is not something that can be seen every day.
Memo from Department Head to Floor Manager:
The CEO will today deliver a short speech to make the sun disappear for two minutes in the form of an eclipse. This is something that cannot be seen every day, so staff will meet in the car park at ten or eleven. This will be safe, if you pay a moderate cost.
Memo from Floor Manager to Supervisor:
Ten or eleven staff are to go to the car park, where the CEO will eclipse the sun for two minutes. This doesn't happen every day. It will be safe, and as usual it will cost you.
Memo from Supervisor to staff:
Some staff will go to the car park today to see the CEO disappear. It is a pity this doesn't happen everyday.
Monday, February 16, 2004
The Road Not Taken
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Source: The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost (1874-1963), Mountain Interval 1920
Related Entry: Crossroads
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Source: The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost (1874-1963), Mountain Interval 1920
Related Entry: Crossroads
Saturday, February 14, 2004
Crossroads
You're wondering whether someone WILL lead you on a certain route;
You're wondering whether you WANT someone to lead you on a certain route;
You're wondering whether you WANT to be lead anywhere;
You're wondering whether you WOULD follow.
Monday, February 9, 2004
Someone You Can't Live Without
I've heard of this saying, "Don't marry someone you CAN LIVE WITH! Marry someone you CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT" and recently a friend reminds me of it. I'm wondering whether "someone you can't live without" exist. I've had past relationships where I thought I wouldn't be able to live without him... wouldn't be able to go on without him... and after the break-up, it feels like that initially. But after some time, I pick up the pieces of my life, get back on my feet and never look back.
If I ever think of those times now, all I'd think is how stupid I was. No one is going to live your life for you. You are. There are so many things worth living for other than someone who don't appreciate you or is not compatible with you. If anyone says what I feel or have experienced didn't count because I'm not married, well... there are many divorcees out there who have also managed to pick up the pieces and go on. Many become much stronger, wiser and happier after their ordeal, a relationship which begins with 'true' love, can't-live-without-you and ends with separation, better-off-without-you. So I don't think there is such a thing as someone you can't live without.
If I ever think of those times now, all I'd think is how stupid I was. No one is going to live your life for you. You are. There are so many things worth living for other than someone who don't appreciate you or is not compatible with you. If anyone says what I feel or have experienced didn't count because I'm not married, well... there are many divorcees out there who have also managed to pick up the pieces and go on. Many become much stronger, wiser and happier after their ordeal, a relationship which begins with 'true' love, can't-live-without-you and ends with separation, better-off-without-you. So I don't think there is such a thing as someone you can't live without.
Word Warrior
I got this from here who got it from here and it seems many have been trying because of the two :) Including me of course!
Your IQ score is 127
During the test, you answered four different types of questions — mathematical, visual-spatial, linguistic and logical. According to the sorts of questions you got correct, we can tell your Intellectual Type is a Word Warrior.
This means you have exceptional verbal skills. You can easily make sense of complex issues and take an unusually creative approach to solving problems. Your strengths also make you a visionary. Even without trying you're able to come up with lots of new and creative ideas. And that's just a small part of what we know about you from your test results.
That is a very very polite way of saying I'm maladroit in mathematical, visual-spatial and logical skills isn't it. Duh! Try it.
Your IQ score is 127During the test, you answered four different types of questions — mathematical, visual-spatial, linguistic and logical. According to the sorts of questions you got correct, we can tell your Intellectual Type is a Word Warrior.
This means you have exceptional verbal skills. You can easily make sense of complex issues and take an unusually creative approach to solving problems. Your strengths also make you a visionary. Even without trying you're able to come up with lots of new and creative ideas. And that's just a small part of what we know about you from your test results.
That is a very very polite way of saying I'm maladroit in mathematical, visual-spatial and logical skills isn't it. Duh! Try it.
Friday, February 6, 2004
All About Color
There are some colors that we like and can give us a boost of spirit when looking at it or wearing it and some colors are like the bringer of doom. I guess this very basic human reaction to color brings about 'Color Therapy' though that is not what I'm going to discuss here. Color also plays a very significant meaning in some culture that companies have to be very careful when launching their products internationally. For example, the color of mourning in South Africa is red, blue in Iran, yellow in Egypt and Myanmar, and in China and Japan, its white. In Thai, widows mourning for their husbands' death will wear purple.
Red is the color most commonly found in national flags. In China, blue is for little girls and black for little boys. Cleopatra loves purple. It’s a royal color. In ancient Greece, green symbolized victory. “Yellow journalism” refers to irresponsible and alarmist reporting.
Click here for more. Find out what your favorite color means around the world.
Red is the color most commonly found in national flags. In China, blue is for little girls and black for little boys. Cleopatra loves purple. It’s a royal color. In ancient Greece, green symbolized victory. “Yellow journalism” refers to irresponsible and alarmist reporting.
Click here for more. Find out what your favorite color means around the world.
Think of a color and recall the first product/brand that comes to mind. Red reminds me of Coke, orange reminds me of Sunquick and Lux and Cadbury comes to mind when I think of purple. Even if my life depends on it, I can't seem to associate any other products/brands to other colors right now. I'm either too lazy to think or color association to other brand/product has not been emphasized or not successful.
Color can also improve our mood. In color psychology, light consists of seven color energies (think of the rainbow). Using the right color can give a boost of energy to fight that Monday blues. Here's an extraction from Heavenly Ideas :: Color Psychology website.
Red Color Psychology - VITALITY, COURAGE, SELF CONFIDENCE
Red Personality Traits: Courageous, confident, humanistic, strong-willed, spontaneous, honest, and extroverted.
Orange Color Psychology - HAPPINESS, CONFIDENCE, RESOURCEFULNESS
Personality Traits: Enthusiastic, happy, sociable, energetic, sporty, self-assured, and constructive.
Yellow Color Psychology - WISDOM, CLARITY, SELF-ESTEEM
Personality Traits: Good-humored, optimistic, confident, practical, and intellectual.
Green Color Psychology - BALANCE, LOVE, SELF CONTROL
Personality Traits: Understanding, self-controlled, adaptable, sympathetic, compassionate, generous, humble, nature loving, and romantic.
Blue Color Psychology - KNOWLEDGE, HEALTH, DECISIVENESS
Personality Traits: Loyal, tactful, affectionate, inspiring, inventive, caring, and cautious.
Indigo Color Psychology - INTUITION, MYSTICISM, UNDERSTANDING
Personality Traits: Intuitive, fearless, practical, idealistic, wise, and a truth seeker.
Violet Color Psychology - BEAUTY, CREATIVITY, INSPIRATION
Personality Traits: Inspirational leaders, kindly and just, humanitarian, self-sacrificing, visionary, creative, and strong mentally.
Red Personality Traits: Courageous, confident, humanistic, strong-willed, spontaneous, honest, and extroverted.
Orange Color Psychology - HAPPINESS, CONFIDENCE, RESOURCEFULNESS
Personality Traits: Enthusiastic, happy, sociable, energetic, sporty, self-assured, and constructive.
Yellow Color Psychology - WISDOM, CLARITY, SELF-ESTEEM
Personality Traits: Good-humored, optimistic, confident, practical, and intellectual.
Green Color Psychology - BALANCE, LOVE, SELF CONTROL
Personality Traits: Understanding, self-controlled, adaptable, sympathetic, compassionate, generous, humble, nature loving, and romantic.
Blue Color Psychology - KNOWLEDGE, HEALTH, DECISIVENESS
Personality Traits: Loyal, tactful, affectionate, inspiring, inventive, caring, and cautious.
Indigo Color Psychology - INTUITION, MYSTICISM, UNDERSTANDING
Personality Traits: Intuitive, fearless, practical, idealistic, wise, and a truth seeker.
Violet Color Psychology - BEAUTY, CREATIVITY, INSPIRATION
Personality Traits: Inspirational leaders, kindly and just, humanitarian, self-sacrificing, visionary, creative, and strong mentally.
There are also few other interesting points about colors raised in this website.
- Red clothing might not help people in negotiations or confrontations.
- Pink is tranquilizing. Sports teams sometimes paint the locker rooms used by opposing teams bright pink so their opponents will lose energy.
- People are more productive in blue rooms. Studies show weight lifters are able to handle heavier weights in blue gyms.
- While yellow is considered an optimistic color, people lose their tempers more often in yellow rooms, and babies will cry more. Yellow enhances concentration, hence its use for legal pads. It also speeds metabolism.
I should be asking the entire color psychologist out there this question though, what happen to all the other colors? There ARE many shades of blue. What about pastel colors? If I like light blue, it doesn't mean I'll have the same liking to navy blue.
Find out your personality based on this Color Quiz. Again, the colors are so limited. But just for fun, do it anyway. My result, wow looks like I have quite a problem there. I changed my mind. Don't take the test. The results not fun. I like bright and cheerful colors so it’s only logical I choose these type of colors first and leave the dark colors in the end. Unless, they did not use web safe color and the original color is displayed differently in my browser. This situation is explained here.
Your Existing Situation
Unwilling to extend herself or exert undue effort (with the possible exception of sexual activity). Feels that further progress requires more from her than she is willing or able to give. Would prefer reasonable comfort and security rather than the rewards of greater ambition.
Your Stress Sources
Seeks independence and freedom from any restriction and therefore avoids obligations or anything which might prove hampering. She is being subjected to considerable pressure and wants to escape from it so that she can obtain what she needs, but tends to lack the necessary strength of purpose to succeed in this.
Your Restrained Characteristics
Believes that she is not receiving her share--that she is neither properly understood nor adequately appreciated. Feels that she is being compelled to conform, and close relationships leave her without any sense of emotional involvement.
Willing to become emotionally involved and able to achieve satisfaction through sexual activity, but tries to avoid conflict.
Your Desired Objective
Over-imaginative and given to fantasy or day-dreaming. Longs for interesting and exciting things to happen and wants to be admired for her charm.
Your Actual Problem
Feels restricted and prevented from progressing; seeking a solution which will remove these limitations.
Your Actual Problem #2
The tensions induced by trying to cope with conditions which are really beyond her capabilities, or reserves of strength, have led to considerable anxiety and a sense of personal (but unadmitted) inadequacy. She reacts by seeking outside confirmation of her ability and value in order to bolster her self-esteem. Inclined to blame others so that she may shift the blame from herself. Anxiously searching for solutions and prone to compulsive inhibitions and compulsive desires.
Unwilling to extend herself or exert undue effort (with the possible exception of sexual activity). Feels that further progress requires more from her than she is willing or able to give. Would prefer reasonable comfort and security rather than the rewards of greater ambition.
Your Stress Sources
Seeks independence and freedom from any restriction and therefore avoids obligations or anything which might prove hampering. She is being subjected to considerable pressure and wants to escape from it so that she can obtain what she needs, but tends to lack the necessary strength of purpose to succeed in this.
Your Restrained Characteristics
Believes that she is not receiving her share--that she is neither properly understood nor adequately appreciated. Feels that she is being compelled to conform, and close relationships leave her without any sense of emotional involvement.
Willing to become emotionally involved and able to achieve satisfaction through sexual activity, but tries to avoid conflict.
Your Desired Objective
Over-imaginative and given to fantasy or day-dreaming. Longs for interesting and exciting things to happen and wants to be admired for her charm.
Your Actual Problem
Feels restricted and prevented from progressing; seeking a solution which will remove these limitations.
Your Actual Problem #2
The tensions induced by trying to cope with conditions which are really beyond her capabilities, or reserves of strength, have led to considerable anxiety and a sense of personal (but unadmitted) inadequacy. She reacts by seeking outside confirmation of her ability and value in order to bolster her self-esteem. Inclined to blame others so that she may shift the blame from herself. Anxiously searching for solutions and prone to compulsive inhibitions and compulsive desires.
Other interesting reads about color:
From My Inbox: 25 Strange Deep Thoughts
- If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.
- Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Going to a church/mosque/synagogue doesn't make you a Christian/Muslim/Jew any more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic.
- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
- If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
- My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
- Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
- It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
- For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
- If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
- Bills travel faster through the mail than checks.
- A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
- Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
- Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
- No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
- A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
- Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
- Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
- Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
- There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
- Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it.
- By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
- Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.
- Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.
- Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Wednesday, February 4, 2004
My Chinese Name
I found a very interesting website that can convert English names to Chinese names. Give it a try! My Chinese name is Su Shihan. There are 1001 combinations actually depending on your personality chosen and Chinese characters with similar meanings available. I like Su Shihan the best as it means 'honest writing' :) I do want to be an honest writer. I also found out Su, when converted to Chinese as a first name, can be Su, Xu, Shen, Sheng, Shi, Sa, etc.
Of course anyone should know by now that such tool should be use for entertainment purpose only. If my Chinese name is analyzed by someone knowledgeable in the language and have the experience of finding a good name, it might have different meanings.
Of course anyone should know by now that such tool should be use for entertainment purpose only. If my Chinese name is analyzed by someone knowledgeable in the language and have the experience of finding a good name, it might have different meanings.
Tuesday, February 3, 2004
New Home
SuNfLoWeR.cOm has moved to a new home at http://sue.frens.net. I hope all friends and those linking to SuNfLoWeR.cOm will change your bookmark/favorites/links OK.
Thanks for all your support so far.
Thanks for all your support so far.
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