It’s Official

Dear Blogders,

I have made up my mind that the time has come. It is time to end it. Time to stop what I have done it for almost a year now. It started off at a very fast pace and slowly and slowly I decelerated and now I am at a stop. Thousands of people visited me and thousands more left. Some were friendly some were, well, not so friendly. But many thanks to all of you that visited. Without you, it wouldn’t have started at all in the first place.

As of today, Thursday, 19th January 2006, 1616 hours, I declare to officially stop blogging. It started off as a passion. As time took its course, my passion for blogging dimmed and my inspirations slowed to a halt. This blog will not be closed, it will still be here for you to read my posts posted in the past.

Besides, I find that managing this blog is just too tedious and time consuming. To add to the load, I have my university assignments and studies to catch up with.

So once again, thank you all blogders out there that visited this blog, whether it’s your first time or second, for sharing my once held passion in my heart which has run out of fuel to go any further. Again, thank you all.

The Author,
Qi-Guang.

2006

P.S. - if the opportunity comes, I may continue to blog again in the future if time permits me to. Until then, take care!

Mensa

I’ve just completed the Mensa Fun Test. A test that tests your IQ capabilities. Some of you will be asking, “what the hell is Mensa?!”, so here’s a brief story about the Mensa organization.

Mensa was founded in England in 1946 by Roland Berrill, a barrister, and Dr. Lance Ware, a scientist and lawyer. They had the idea of forming a society for bright people, the only qualification for membership of which was a high IQ. The original aims were, as they are today, to create a society that is non-political and free from all racial or religious distinctions. The society welcomes people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population.

There is simply no one prevailing characteristic of Mensa members other than high IQ. There are Mensans for whom Mensa provides a sense of family, and others for whom it is a casual social activity. There have been many marriages made in Mensa, but for many people, it is simply a stimulating opportunity for the mind. Most Mensans have a good sense of humor, and they like to talk. And, usually, they have a lot to say.

Mensans range in age from 4 to 94, but most are between 20 and 60. In education they range from preschoolers to high school dropouts to people with multiple doctorates. There are Mensans on welfare and Mensans who are millionaires. As far as occupations, the range is staggering. Mensa has professors and truck drivers, scientists and firefighters, computer programmers and farmers, artists, military people, musicians, laborers, police officers, glassblowers–the diverse list goes on and on. There are famous Mensans and prize-winning Mensans, but there are many whose names you wouldn’t know.

Back to the Mensa fun test. It’s a 30 question quiz that tests the maximum capabilities of your IQ. The questions are just mind-wrecking and confusing. Anyway, I did the test, survived it for 30 minutes and I got my results. Here’s the quote:

Your score was 21 out of 30. That is a very good score, you would have a good chance of passing the Mensa test.

Wow! I can’t believe my eyes! I scored 21 questions correct out of 30. They even said that it’s a very good score! I could pass the Mensa test and be part of the organization of the top 2% of the most intellectual people in the world! However, I’m not that interested in boasting that I am in the top 2% of the highest IQ people. If I do, I think my circle of friends will shrink drastically. So I’ll just pass the test. I’d rather be a normal person together with all my friends together achieving the impossible together. Besides, it’s not a 100% confirmation that I’ll pass the Mensa test in the first place. At least I know my IQ is above average, that’s all. Nothing more.

Interesting Read

I was just surfing around the local internet sites and I came across a site, The Cicak, a place where people write article on just about anything. Well actually, it’s somewhat similar to blogging. Anyway, this post on the site was about the Malaysian political system. To be more specific, its the higher education system. He addressed the so called “rules” not written in the constitution of the country that we non-bumis (non-Malays) face when we want to apply for tertiary education in a local university. To read more about it click here to find out! Happy reading!

Decisions

Decisions, decisions, decisions. It is one of the most unavoidable obstacles of life that each and every human being from every single walk of life from the tribes deep inside the jungle to the common public in the country and cities to the leaders of nations and international associations. All must face the inevitable doom of making decisions. Decisions can’t be just made without putting any thought into it. Making a wrong decision not only can affect ourselves but the people all around us and throughout the whole world. If the right and correct decisions are made, then, you will be one step closer to a better, happier and harmonious life in which will also impact the people around us to a positive direction.

At this time of the year, most students would have finished their college courses and programmes. It is the time to decide where he wants to further his studies. This decisions is one of the major decision we all have to make in life. The two most important decisions we make in life is related to our tertiary education and the other is medical decisions for ourselves. These two decisions can only be made once.

Once you have decided that you want to further your studies to a university whether it’s a local or foreign university, it can only be made once. Once you’ve got your degree, it’s out to the wild wild world of industry and commerce. There is no turning back to change your degree to another degree in a totally different field. If a person is diagnosed with cancer, it is his decision whether he wants to take chemotherapy. If he decides not to go through chemotherapy, he may die tomorrow or live another 10 years. If he decides to take chemotherapy, he may die after the first dosage or he may be cured for life.

You’ll never know what will come next after you’ve made the decision. The only thing we can do after making an important decision in life is to accept whatever consequence that may happen after the decision and try to improve the situation whenever possible. Don’t just stand there and grumble about your past, but move on and look into the future. Try to make the world a better place to live in no matter how small the deed may be. As long everyone contributes a small deed to make the world a better place, the world will be a better place for all of us to live in.

Decide. Decide with a little pinch of wisdom. Decide for the betterment of the people all around you. Decide for the future of the younger generation. Decide for mother nature’s sake. Decide for your own future and health. Decide for a better place called Earth.

New Blogging Powerhouse

Just found a new blog publishing tool from a site. It called WordPress. It’s for people that are html, css etc illiterate. It’s a very easy to use publishing tool which doesn’t require you to edit html to change your theme of your blog. It all there. All you need to do is to click a few buttons and whoala! No more deciphering the hyper text. All easy. I’ve reserved a name for a blog there however, I will move my blog to WordPress anytime soon as, Blogger is still fine for me. If any problems arises when using Blogger, I may decide to shift to WordPress. No panic, I’m sure it will not be happening anytime soon.

Assignments

As the year progresses, one by one, all of us will enter the university that will lead us to our dreams. As for me, all of you know that I have started university already. And I have already been assigned with my coursework on the second day. So I do apologize as my speed in blogging will now slow down temporarily. When my assignments are completed, I’ll be accelerating back. So come back now and then for updates!

Now This Is What I Call NICE!

Our lovely neighbour, Singapore, has finally out done our New Year’s celebration here in Malaysia this year with even more spectacular fireworks! Here’s just a short clip of it.

First Day in University

So it was. Today was my first day in university (technically, it’s still in a college). Well, although today was the first day , it was really almost an uneventful day. It was orientation day and we had to go through the same thing that we went through last year when we first joined SAM. We got our Student IDs, brand new and still shiny, endless and boring speeches by the you know whos, and even more boring introductions to services provided by the college we I have all gone through last year. We already know all the services provided by the college. We do not need anymore elaboration and repetition of it.

Luckily, the campus tour, all the returning students of Taylors College are extempted from it. Thank goodness, if not we have to go through all the places that we already know and went through for the past year. Later had lunch at McD, and bore bore bore until we got desperate. We decided to play some pool. Went Asia Club. Terrible place. Full of smoker bastards that just don’t treasure their lives and others around them. Anyways, just ignored that part for awhile. We played a round of foosball and wasted our RM2 in just 3 minutes. Then we got a pool table and started taking turns. Me and Karen as a player and Tian Chi as one player. Well, the game went pretty well I could say except the occasional utterly embarrassing moments which I would not want to say here.

Went back to continue our orientation. Met our Chemistry lecturer Dr. Lee! Got our timetable and Syllabus booklets. Got some briefing about the course and asked a few questions. And guess what? My group under Chemical Engineering has only 8 students! Unlike Mechanical and E&E Engineering which has 25 and 15+ respectively. We found out that the timetable is pretty relaxed. Monday lectures only start at 10am. Yay! But the other 4 days starts at 8am. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday I end at 3pm (this is soooo like SAM) but on Wednesdays I may end at 3pm or 5pm! OMG! 5pm!! So late! But one good thing is I end at 12pm on Fridays!!! Yay again!

Oh yea, 3 out of 5 of my lecturers all hold Ph.Ds. At least I know, I’m going to have good lecturers and not some part time lecturer that just wants to get some money out of the college. Anywayz, university will be another challenging year for me like SAM last year. I really do hope I do well as well as my friends so we all can graduate together! Good luck to all and study smart!