Language of Flowers

某天，翻箱找东西时，偶然发现摆放在柜子里的旧纪事簿。随意翻阅纪事簿让我想起以往的一段对话：

"Why not roses?"

"Because roses are common and they are associated with elegance, beauty, and classy"

"Why tulips then?"

"Contrary to the roses which doesn't really reflect my personality, tulips reflect my personality better - simple yet pretty in their own way, 而且给人一种很 ‘邻家女孩’的感觉。。。"

Marking Entertainment

Reading the FB posts of answers given by students of a fellow ex-classmate who's teaching at another school, I suddenly felt that marking Biology scripts is a very entertaining business as opposed to Chemistry .Here's sharing some of the excerpts of answer which gave me a very good laugh every time I read it:

"Smoke me not: 'jujodeum'; 'duoilleum'; 'oephathogus'; 'oe#+{^%+#*]gus'; 'gall duct'; 'bile gland'; 'intestinal tube'... Best, what is hormone Y? 'Pathogen'."
(Really kids are good at inventing terms; Correction: 'jejunum', 'duodenum', 'oesophagus', 'gall bladder', 'bile duct', 'intestine')

"oestrogen gives a girl the urge to have intercourse" (o.O, LOL...)

"Vasectomy is the cutting and tying of the penis."
(**Ouch...!** If that were the case, the guy would probably die of bleeding with the intense network of blood vessels down there...)

"Ligatomy is the removing of oviduct"
(Ligatomy = new invention of 'ligation' + 'vasectomy'???)

"Q: Explain the appearance of RBCs when placed in distiller water.
A: The RBCs are red."
(-.-)

Comparing the now me to the then beginning teacher on marking of scripts:

Beginning teacher me: answers like this would most likely frustrate me.
The now me: LOL! Marking is sure an entertainment with answers like this.

HAHA....

개인의 취향

He is a good designer.

He is a very focused on his career and ambitions.

He is very particular about the organization of things and neatness.

He is very close and loves his mother very much.

He has a stoic poker face most of the time, it's often hard to read his expression.

He always takes it upon himself to solve his own problems, never asking for help.

He is not easily drawn by women though he attracts quite a few around him, except for that one and only...

The Lesson of Life

In the recent week that had passed, a fellow staff had collapse and passed away in line of duty. His passing on had been a shock and a terrible loss for the whole satff population for he had been a jovial kind-hearted colleague. He never failed to make newcomers like us feel at ease in settling into the environment. The announcement of his passing on 2 hours after sending him to the A&E was simply too much for staff to take. Many of us grieved the rest of the week

The sudden loss was hard for us all to deal with. Everyone of us had our own coping mechanism with the loss - us cubicle mates had not cleared his things, somehow it made us felt that he was just on leave or MC, his jovial good buddies at work who often would crack jokes to lighten up the day suddenly became people of few words, working hard away to keep themselves occupied....

As we sent our dear colleague off on the last day of the funeral, the staff could not help but let our tears fall once again. But strangely enough somehow, there was a sense of peace on our way back to the office from the cemetery. My senior told me that she felt that sending our dear colleague off on the last part of the journey had been sort of a closure for us, hence we felt more peaceful.

The whole week was a mourning week for the staff as we don colours of black and white in memeory of our dear colleague. In our own way, we prayed the best for his wife and two young kids and that he has called home to God in peace.

I once read this somewhere: "it is not wrong to grieve the loss of someone close to us. Grieve it the right way and give ourselves time to grieve so that we can all move on and let the memories of that someone live in our minds forever"

After this eventful week, it was also one that was really reflective for me. A dear friend asked me today: "What's with the forthcoming attitude?" Well I just thought that life is really unpredictable, if I really felt like expressing my love or emotions to you today why not? Afterall dear friend, you've been through almost every stage of my life with me till now.

I used to think it was cliche reading stories about people telling me to express my emotions or do the things that I want to do for my loved ones before it is too late. But with my dear colleague's incident, I no longer find it cliche.

There are many a time that we perhaps think of many things that we want to do in our mind but ,may probably not end up accomplishing them for whatever reasons. For all we know, we might not get a chance at it, so TREASURE and DO WHATEVER WE NEED TO DO...