KI lessons have been less than ideal. I hope that time would be delegated to discussion students indviduals before the issues are discussed as a class.

I could still remember a funny thing that happened during one KI class. The class was discussing whether you can know something but not believe it. Alwyn, Zilin and I (ZAI) agreed that it is not possible while the class was discussing, and we thought that the whole class thought so too. Then Wangrui overheard our discussion and tried to convince us otherwise. In the end, the whole class awaited while we were trying to persuade wangrui to take our stand. After we managed to convince her,

KI teacher:"ok, class, so we have resolved the part on knowledge and belief"
ZAI: *nods*
KI teacher:"that you can know something but not believe it"
ZAI: "WHAT??!!"
wangrui: "see i told you that's what the class thinks."

Then ZAI spent the rest of the lesson trying to convince the class that it is not possible. Then we finally agreed, albeit reluctantly, that it depends on what you mean by "believe". ahh well... its not all black and white I guess. Especially since we are using an imperfect language.

Is curiousity a negative attribute?

Would you rather be curious about something and know that you can never find out the answer, or to not have heard about that subject ever before? Curiousity seems like a bottomless pit. The more you find out, the more you want to find out. The sense of satisfaction from finding out something is only temperary, the feeling of not knowing something would just chew at you for as long as you are aware of your ignorance.

Ignorance of ignorance is true bliss. The frog in the well should never have seen the turtle. Now, the frog knows he is ignorant, and can't do anything about it. He'll live in pain for the rest of his life.

My my my... evil turtle.

Oh well, now there's no turning back for me!

Give a man a value, and he can use it once;
Give a man an analytical solution, and he can use it for the rest of his life.

Till now i'm still unable to differentiate between cheryl quah and nicole quah. this has interesting implications. only when i thought a little longer about it on the mrt today as i was going home, i realised that in my mind i've been treating them as though they were one single entity! yes, "the quah sisters" as one single entity. it always feels like i'm seeing double, instead of seeing two different people. which also means that if i told cheryl something, i'll somehow expect nicole to know that as well... unreasonable, yes, but it is only today that i realised that i have been viewing them this way all this while.

i don't know them... but whatever cheryl says i can conceive of nicole saying it, and vice versa. but then again, i wouldn't know who's saying it! HAHA :oP

before i know them well enough, each of the quah sisters seem to exhibit cheryl-nicole duality.

Four very short and random stories.

Story one. There was a girl who went overseas alone to study. On a train she met an old lady who wanted to give her an apple. She declined because she didn't trust the old lady. But the old lady insisted she accept. So she reluctanted accepted, but she left it somewhere and didn't eat it, and went to sleep. Next morning when she woke up the old lady was gone and there was a note on the apple. On it the old lady explained that she had a child who study overseas too, and she was trying to show care and concern for her. The old lady also expressed disappointment that people nowadays are too distrusting of each other. The girl was kinda sad after reading it.

Story two. There was a girl who went overseas alone to study. On a train she met an old lady who wanted to give her an apple. She declined because she didn't trust the old lady. But the old lady insisted she accept. So she reluctanted accepted, but she left it somewhere and didn't eat it, and went to sleep. Next morning when she woke up the old lady was gone. The girl read from the news there was an old lady going round poisoning people in trains with apples and she was glad she didn't eat the apple.

Story three. There was another girl who went overseas alone to study as well. On a train she met another old lady who wanted to give her an apple. She was touched and she ate the apple and the old lady was very happy. This incident touched the girl's heart and she became a very nice person.

Story four. There was yet another girl who went overseas alone to study. On a train she met yet another old lady who wanted to give her an apple. She was touched and she ate the apple and the old lady laughed out loud. Next morning the girl died.

Whatever you do you never really know what may happen.

i remember i ordered coffee at swenson's yesterday. The coffee did not have sugar in it, but it still tasted pretty good. So i added some sugar and it tasted slightly better. The problem came when i had to decide whether to add any more sugar at a certain point in time. If i add more sugar, the already nice-tasting coffee may taste better. yet it might taste worse too. If i don't add enough, i may never know how nice the coffee can possibly taste. yet if i add too much, i may regret adding so much that the remaining coffee doesn't taste as good anymore. even if i reach the optimal amount of sugar, i might not even know it, and the curiousity of finding out whether the coffee can still taste better must just overwhelm the current taste of the coffee.

on a random note my mother noticed that both my pinkies stick out when i type.

This year is probably the most eventful v-day i had ever experienced so far.

i think the cutest thing that happened was when the girls received the HUGE stuffed toy dogs and their faces were all really like ^_^ and during chem lecture the girls sat in a row and hugged the dogs, gaining much envy from the ppl around them.

and i received quite a lot of candy from everyone. but i didn't give anything, so i had a net gain. thanks ppl! sorry for not giving anything... it didn't occur to me that v-day is such a big thing now.

later we went swensons' to have class lunch, only 4 ppl didn't go, so it really felt like a class thing. the big thing that happened was of course zhang jin wei's surprise for a certain mysterious girl. he explained to us that it was really random (use stopwatch to time something, take down the number and divide by 9, find the remainder and go down the class list), and the mysterious girl is larrisa! anyway he gave her a pair of pretty big (yes, pretty and big) earrings (from perlinis silver), and the class took pictures of him kneeling down for larrisa to accept. you could see larrisa's hands trembling and her face was especially ^_^ when she accepted the earrings. seeing girls ^_^ really makes my day. which is why i like to sit with yunlin cos she always ^_^

on a sidenote yunlin is violent. the whole KI class can testify to that. and shaosheng you rock.