harlowww everrybardieee! im back from Korea! it was an awesome awesome trip. hehe..love the culture, the food, the weather, and the superb company~! havent enjoyed myself this much in a long long time~ whooopeee!
for the first time in my life i saw snow falling~~~!! really beautiful~ was the first day (19th November 2007, 9PM!!) snowing in Korea this year~ so luckkyyy~~~ and and and....i went skiiing at Korea's international skii resort. hehe..li-chan...this is the place where they filmed winter sonata, and where shinhwa did one of their MTVs. haha~ then then then...wore korean traditional costume, hehe..quite farney~ but very funnnn~ then then then...food was awesome..and super healthy la! tried lotsa stuff...woooo~ ate bbq pork and drank shoju (korean wine). super yumss to the max!!
and i bought 2 dozen krispy kremes back (amidst many stuff i brought back...not alot actually..but considering the little time we had for shopping.....hahaha...think i quite power. heheh)~ lOL....anyway quick call me if u want someeeeeee!! heheh =p
okay abit sleepy now, update more with photos next time round!
ooOo oo...my mummy's friend wanna give me her 3-yr-old golden retriever! so excited!!! gonna check the dog out soonish! hope i can click with the dog..hehe. if not im gonna go puppy hunting after convo and when im settled properly in SG~ wheeeee! golden retriever i love!! lovee shelties tooo~~ one of my favourites!!!!!!!! hehe =)
Friday, November 23, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
exclusively swong. part II
isolation says:
HAHAHA. u cannot read shortform ar
isolation says:
hahaha
Jing - corolla hatchback manual 1.8L for sale! says:
-_-
isolation says:
i pply rite all sortfm
isolation says:
HAHAHAHA
Jing - corolla hatchback manual 1.8L for sale! says:
HAIYO!!!
isolation says:
it meant "i purposely write all shortform"
HAHAHA. u cannot read shortform ar
isolation says:
hahaha
Jing - corolla hatchback manual 1.8L for sale! says:
-_-
isolation says:
i pply rite all sortfm
isolation says:
HAHAHAHA
Jing - corolla hatchback manual 1.8L for sale! says:
HAIYO!!!
isolation says:
it meant "i purposely write all shortform"
Saturday, November 10, 2007
second day.
weather's awesome back home. really cooling, and not as humid as i imagined it to be. spent time at home with mum, read books + manga (havent done this in a looooong time~! li-chan, im reading qi ling wang now! haha. makes me wanna learn how to play! cheeem game..i cant even play chess well. heheh) and watching TV at home. nice and relaxing.
was at bugis today for awhile, nice meeting up with a few friends. but oh man....i really hate walking around malls in SG now. so crowded...i feel out of breath! not that me and my friends went window shopping or anything, but like manoeuvering my way to find my friends, then later to coffeebean was bad enough. ugh.... this big part of me wished i was home reading my book on my big comfy sofa in the living room. like seriously.
its kinda....strange. i enjoy catching up with my friends, but at the same time, i found it such a huge waste of time to be in the mall. what popped in my mind then was...i could be somewhere doing volunteer work, helping someone in need. giving my care and attention to the less privileged..and so on. then i started to think about where i could do that, and what else i could be doing. i just can't stand doing things that are non-productive now. somehow if im not learning, thinking, reading or sowing into lives...i feel as though im wasting my time. watching tv + reading manga + spending time with family = rest. haha =p
scene in SG now is pretty much the same 4 or 5yrs back (before i went to Perth). but now that im back, the feeling's somehow different. really really different. im looking at the same things but with very different perspective. more on this next time.
anyway, after im back from Korea, i'll definitely find somethings to do. meanwhile...its just really nice to be home. (:
was at bugis today for awhile, nice meeting up with a few friends. but oh man....i really hate walking around malls in SG now. so crowded...i feel out of breath! not that me and my friends went window shopping or anything, but like manoeuvering my way to find my friends, then later to coffeebean was bad enough. ugh.... this big part of me wished i was home reading my book on my big comfy sofa in the living room. like seriously.
its kinda....strange. i enjoy catching up with my friends, but at the same time, i found it such a huge waste of time to be in the mall. what popped in my mind then was...i could be somewhere doing volunteer work, helping someone in need. giving my care and attention to the less privileged..and so on. then i started to think about where i could do that, and what else i could be doing. i just can't stand doing things that are non-productive now. somehow if im not learning, thinking, reading or sowing into lives...i feel as though im wasting my time. watching tv + reading manga + spending time with family = rest. haha =p
scene in SG now is pretty much the same 4 or 5yrs back (before i went to Perth). but now that im back, the feeling's somehow different. really really different. im looking at the same things but with very different perspective. more on this next time.
anyway, after im back from Korea, i'll definitely find somethings to do. meanwhile...its just really nice to be home. (:
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
my study.
specially for SWONG! - ehh...tell me how to summarize this into 2 sentence for u on msn. if u can do that..i buy u another pack of gummies from the korean store. okay for all my dear friends who did not request a 2 sentence summary from me....heres an excerpt from the report I wrote for the primary schools i did testings in..basically summarizes the findings of my study....not everything though, but basically trying to tell the principals..hey u've not wasted ur time..ur kids are very smart. thank u. haha... okay...well not really. anyway....heres it.
This study examined how objective abilities and children’s beliefs about their chance of success affected their interest in items on a thinking task. Participants were recruited from four primary schools with pre-primary services, to consist of 2 homogeneous age groups: 40- 5-year olds and 38- 7-year-olds. Specifically, children completed a series of puzzles that increased in difficulty and were asked to rate how confident they were that they could answer each item correctly, and how interesting they found each item.
Previous studies have found that adults generally display an inverted-U relationship between difficulty and interest, that is, low levels of interest in very easy and very difficult tasks and high levels of interest when difficulty is high yet still within one’s perception of being able to cope – when one’s chance of success is about 82%. In contrast, in the present study, most young children’s interest was unrelated to item difficulty. Five-year-old children reported very high levels of interest in most puzzles regardless of difficulty level, and showed a high degree of confidence in their ability to solve puzzles even when they were well beyond their actual abilities. Furthermore, consistent with previous studies, we found that children’s overestimation of their own abilities declined steadily between five and seven years of age – though 7-year-olds were still overconfident.
Results also indicated that, for the 11.5% of young children who showed the adult-like inverted-U association between difficulty and interest, the point of greatest interest occurred when they have relatively low chance of success – 64% for 5-year-olds and 77% for 7-year-olds, in comparison to adults’ 82%. Thus, despite children having lower levels of ability than adults, the puzzles these children found most interesting posed them a greater personal challenge than was the case with adults. Children appear to be more interested than adults in tackling tasks with a high risk of failure – possibly because they consistently underestimate their risk of failure.
actually....can sum it up in one sentence...the degree of kiasee-ness increases steadily with age. i.e., the older u get, the more kiasee one becomes?!? arr...crazy...cannot. haha...
okay. byebyee!
This study examined how objective abilities and children’s beliefs about their chance of success affected their interest in items on a thinking task. Participants were recruited from four primary schools with pre-primary services, to consist of 2 homogeneous age groups: 40- 5-year olds and 38- 7-year-olds. Specifically, children completed a series of puzzles that increased in difficulty and were asked to rate how confident they were that they could answer each item correctly, and how interesting they found each item.
Previous studies have found that adults generally display an inverted-U relationship between difficulty and interest, that is, low levels of interest in very easy and very difficult tasks and high levels of interest when difficulty is high yet still within one’s perception of being able to cope – when one’s chance of success is about 82%. In contrast, in the present study, most young children’s interest was unrelated to item difficulty. Five-year-old children reported very high levels of interest in most puzzles regardless of difficulty level, and showed a high degree of confidence in their ability to solve puzzles even when they were well beyond their actual abilities. Furthermore, consistent with previous studies, we found that children’s overestimation of their own abilities declined steadily between five and seven years of age – though 7-year-olds were still overconfident.
Results also indicated that, for the 11.5% of young children who showed the adult-like inverted-U association between difficulty and interest, the point of greatest interest occurred when they have relatively low chance of success – 64% for 5-year-olds and 77% for 7-year-olds, in comparison to adults’ 82%. Thus, despite children having lower levels of ability than adults, the puzzles these children found most interesting posed them a greater personal challenge than was the case with adults. Children appear to be more interested than adults in tackling tasks with a high risk of failure – possibly because they consistently underestimate their risk of failure.
actually....can sum it up in one sentence...the degree of kiasee-ness increases steadily with age. i.e., the older u get, the more kiasee one becomes?!? arr...crazy...cannot. haha...
okay. byebyee!
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