Monday, August 25, 2008
oh my goodess.. i din know my 3 close friends know me so well. they can actually know me inside out.. which i'm also very glad about.. this is jus a small test for them.. whaahaha...
i'm so proud to have them. it is my life time happiness to have them around. i simply love them so much.. whahahaha... no words can describe how grateful I am to them.. lalala...
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kathleen was here writing on 8/25/2008 09:15:00 PM
Friday, August 22, 2008
try this out and check out how well you know me. if can, do the test on my friendster. =]
Create your own Friend Test here
kathleen was here writing on 8/22/2008 11:05:00 PM
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Keep humming "Don't Worry Be Happy". The 1980s New Age-inspired hit got it right. New research shows being happy can add several years to life.
"Happiness does not heal, but happiness protects against falling ill," says Ruut Veenhoven of Rotterdam's Erasmus University in a study to be published next month.
After reviewing 30 studies carried out worldwide over periods ranging from one to 60 years, the Dutch professor said the effects of happiness on longevity were "comparable to that of smoking or not".
That special flair for feeling good, he said, could lengthen life by between 7.5 and 10 years.
The finding brings a vital new piece to a puzzle currently being assembled by researchers worldwide on just what makes us happy -- and on the related question of why people blessed with material wealth in developed nations no longer seem satisfied with their lives.
Once the province of poets or philosophers, the notions of happiness and satisfaction have been taken on and dissected, quantified and analysed in the last few years by a growing number of highly serious and respected economists -- some of whom dub the new field "hedonics", or the study of what makes life pleasant, or otherwise.
"The idea that there is a state called happiness, and that we can dependably figure out what it feels like and how to measure it, is extremely subversive," says Bill McKibben in his 2007 book "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future".
"It allows economists to start thinking about life in richer terms, to stop asking 'What did you buy?' and to start asking 'Is your life good?'."
Growth in material wealth adds little to happiness once buying power hits 10,000 dollars a year per head, according to such research.
But happiness can be bolstered by friendship and human community, as well as larger social factors such as freedom, democracy, effective government institutions and rule of law.
In Veenhoven's findings, published in the Journal of Happiness Studies, a scientific publication founded in 2000, the strongest effect on longevity was found among a group of US nuns followed through their adult life -- perhaps reflecting the feel-good factor from belonging to a close-knit stress-free community with a sense of purpose.
While the lyrics from the Grammy-award 1989 "Be Happy" hit were inspired by popular Indian guru Meher Baba, nowadays, in more than 100 countries, from Bhutan in the Himalayas to the US and Australia, economists are working to put "happiness" indicators (a new kind of quality-of-life index) into the measurement of growth.
Happiness itself, according to the specialists, is generally accepted as "the overall appreciation of one's life as a whole", in other words a state of mind best defined by the person questioned.
In his paper, Veenhoven first looked at statistics to see whether good cheer impacted on the sick, but concluded that while happiness had helped some cancer patients suffering from a relapse, in general "happiness does not appear to prolong the deathbed."
Among healthy populations, on the contrary, happiness appeared to protect against falling ill, thus prolonging life.
Happy people were more inclined to watch their weight, were more perceptive of symptoms of illness, tended to be more moderate with smoking and drinking and generally lived healthier lives.
They were also more active, more open to the world, more self-confident, made better choices and built more social networks.
"For the time being we know that happiness fosters physical health, but not precisely how," he wrote.
"Chronic unhappiness activates the fight-flight response, which is known to involve harmful effects in the long run such as higher blood pressure and a lower immune response."
To improve good cheer, he said, there needed to be more research on the impact of residential conditions or on the long-term effects of school on happiness. And studies on job-satisfaction failed to address the question of life-satisfaction at work.
But these findings, he said, opened new vistas for public health.
Governments needed to educate people in the art of "living well", helping to develop the ability to enjoy life, to make the best choices, to keep developing and to see a meaning in life.
"If we feel unhealthy we go to a medical general practitioner," he said. "If we feel unhappy there is no such generalist. We have to guess."
"Professional guidance for a happier life is unavailable as yet. This is a remarkable market failure, given the large number of people who feel they could be happier."
kathleen was here writing on 8/14/2008 09:50:00 PM
have not been blogging for a week plus. i'm so lazy to blog nowadays.. hahaha... let me try to back date some of my day-day happening...
6 Aug - 8 Aug (Wed - Fri)busy like crazy in work.
9 Aug (Sat)it was raining when i reach sembawang for my swimming class. then i have to detour to go home. so i manage to meet my lovely sister, bev and her bf, jacob to go out together.. gladys need not go for dancing so she also went along.. four of us went to NewYork NewYork for dinner.. it was on jacob.. so paiseh.. then actually we wanted to catch a movie but it was all sold out.. sad.. so we have to head home to rest
10 Aug (Sun)i feel so happy. i spend my day with my lovely sister, bev.. hahaha.. cos her dear boy boy was on duty.. he was sad and i was happy.. hahaha...
11 Aug (Mon)C.Y called me.. lols.. we chatted for abt 1.5 hours.. jus random chatting.. nothing much.. lols.. and i get to know that he is sick, having flu and cough. poor him... i tink he didnt take his medicine regularly accordingly to our conversation.. i was like on cloud nine. =] and know what, actually i was so tire that i need to slp already, apparently, i cant get to slp.. so i have to make myself sleep by listening to my mp3.. lols...
12 Aug - 13 Aug (Tues - Wed)nothing much.. work as usual.. getting tire tire lately... i should say i'm getting alittle lazy.. llols.. excuses man.. naughty me...
14 Aug (Thurs)C.Y called again. of course, this time is due to offical work. hahaha... he doesnt say well.. still having flu and cough..
that's my bloggie for the past few days... short and sweet rite??? wahahahah... jus being funny lor.. nothing mcuh...
kathleen was here writing on 8/14/2008 08:23:00 PM
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
what is good deeds???
what is karma???
i explain good deeds as
i know i have to do good deeds for the welfare of my next generation or many some luck for my family and my generation.i explain karma as
you do something bad and you should be prepared to know your own consequences.
i seriously dun understand why there are such pple in the world that can hoax all the elders $$$ and leave them in the lurch when they have gotten what they want. I SIMPLY HATE THESE PEOPLE. i categories them as idiot. heartless creature. and whatever i think that i can name them as.
i also seriously dun understand my paternal cousins, uncles & aunties. where must they come up with so many excuses when they dun wan to fetch paternal grandmother from hospital to home??? all jus know how to say and do nothing in action yet claim the credit. idiots. darn it. i despise you pple. dun mum and i have to work as well??? dun mum and i take the initiative to take time off from work to fetch grandma??? dun we have tons of works to do and aint we busy at work too???
now then i finally release i have been going to adult (child) care everyday which can allow me to take time off as and when i like. darn it, idiots. arghhh.... I'm fuming and i have enough of all your nonsense. i respect all of you thus I NEVER say a single word BUT DUN TAKE ME & MY FAMILY FOR GRANTED. i do all these little things for paternal grandma not be'cos i want to claim credit or get rewards from her nor any one of you. i / my family did it jus cos of piety. we will grow old one day and i believe we wouldn't want our children nor grand-children to treat us badly. why not start to do a little bit to earn alittle 公德 for yourself and your next generation???
I'm trying my best to do alittle more for my paternal grandmother. visiting her weekly. buy her special food.. etc.. etc... this little bit of effort, i hope it can touch her heart and warm her alittle. as mum said, do as much as we can for paternal grandmother as we duno know how many years we have with her... with her around, she might be a pest due to her flick-minded, absence-minded, longwindedness, nagging etc... but have you ever think.. without her around, you will never experience this anymore. so try to cherish all the times you can spend with her. nothing is more important than kinship and the closeness, a closed knitted family can have.
i believe in 因果. i believe in retribution. i want the best out of the best for my family and my next generation. i know what goes around comes around............................................
P/S : my apologies to all patrons who have visited my blog for being very crude in this entry.
kathleen was here writing on 8/05/2008 10:33:00 PM
Sunday, August 3, 2008
It gonna be and has been a fatigue week this week thus i would not elaborate more cos IT IS STRESSFUL...........
this week, boss meet us for performance appraisal. i told her my views and she told me her. it was a fruitful one but work load gonna increase slightly till end of the year and more for next year, i suppose. i was some how prepared for the increase of work load cos being of the year or somewhere last year, we have a change in big boss and my lady boss did highlight to me saying she duno wat the big boss working pattern like and ask to be prepared for more work load.. hahahah.... i'm loving it cos i HATE TO SIT IN office doing nothing...
enough say of work... let's say some on my life and study and home..
1. my life is still as boring as before... lols...
2. my study so far so good and horray to it as it is my last module for CBA. It is on Elements of HRM.... kinda interesting... then Oct should be able to get the certificate and i'm prepared to
enrol for my dip. I'm still contemplating to take Dip in Business Adminstration OR Dip in Hospitality & Tourism Management/Advanced Dip in Mgmt. so i hope by end of the year, i'm able to decide so that i can get my enrollment done.. lols...
3. my home is still as noisy as before. paternal grandma was sick. send her to TTSH yesterday at abt 8++ at nite. my cousin, ivy drove us there. and we waited till quite late.. i reached home with mum only at abt 4.30am this morning.. i was super duper tire, so was mum.. she needs to stay over at the hospital for observation by doctor due to some problems. kinda complicated hence i dun not wish to elaborate on it either.. going to see paternal grandma later... hope she gets well soon... =]
random
i left with three months to work hard... wish me luck...
kathleen was here writing on 8/03/2008 11:21:00 AM
