getting more and more busy cos of consultations and classes. so will handle all the quick FS questions first and the long extended ones later.

You can try but if indeed you are not a current student then it would be more challenging to get the internship. in previous years there have been people (not SOT) who applied and did very well for the interview but cos of the contextual difference in understanding, we instead recommended them to work in other places.

getting more and more busy cos of consultations and classes. so will handle all the quick FS questions first and the long extended ones later.

there are but i do not know whether you can get hold of them.

1. you can read 'thinking allowed' by warren fernandez. great book.
2. Ngiam Tong Dow's book is also great.

in fact the SOT library has many books about the Singapore context but till date I have not found any good websites about Singapore.

and no, you cannot borrow the SOT books. lol.. sorry... after 4 years of lending students we have learned that 70% of the time, despite multiple promises that they will return, they usually do not. We have had to re-buy the books. the frustrating thing is that I often imagine how many individual titles are just sitting under a bed somewhere... unread and unappreciated.

getting more and more busy cos of consultations and classes. so will handle all the quick FS questions first and the long extended ones later.

not so sure... have not had time to check in on how I am feeling but ya, getting more and more tired. personally i do not really like the A level period at all cos i am a bit less patient with people who do not think.

like today, i got a student who asked a whole bunch of questions and kept asking even though he knew that I had to rush off to prep for today's content session. So i tried to give a quick answer but read the body language and knew he did not understand. so i stopped and calmed myself and gave him a proper answer... then after everything he says that he was a year one student and just wanted to understand and i really wanted to strangle him cos i was thinking ... "do i honestly care about year one students right now?"

anyhow, cos of that kid I could not get dinner and was slightly late for the content session. so irritating.

so ya, this period is frustrating.

really should not have done the crash course. open can of worms niah...

getting more and more busy cos of consultations and classes. so will handle all the quick FS questions first and the long extended ones later.

but yes, will get what i promised you guys done by the weekend.
initially they were all online but somebody went and deleted it all. very sad.
but ya, will get it done.

it is a natural body reaction. I am not sure why the body does this but the distinction to pick up is a tightness in the cheeks and possibly around the eyes. There are often situations where a smile or a laugh is biologically designed to either ease the situation OR to camouflage the situation. this is similar to how chameleons change colour under threat. the awkward situation in this case is one that is potentially threatening and therefore we hide our real feelings with a smile or laugh.

please note that this is not the person's deliberate attempt to be hypocritical but rather a need to defend. If you are trained to spot this, it can be easily diffused and therefore allow authenticity to emerge.

you really think they so free to track candidates is it?
and this year is only attempt number 7 lah... i think...
i never pick up my certs so i dunno... lol.

seriously... all muah chee is the same lah.
taiwan muah chee is ROCKERS but i do not get regular access to that lah.

that is fine but the general rule that you cannot break is that you cannot start to interpret the subject matter metaphorically. so a question on poverty would be about poverty and not about spiritual / intellectual poverty. doing it metaphorically would constitute as going out of point. also you cannot hold definitions so loosely that they become meaningless. so a question on crimes against humanity cannot be interpreted as simply crime. that is also out of point.

hey....

arrange for consultation bah.
learn from mistakes and move on... eat a little ice cream if you must :)
but ya, cheer up. we will see what we can do.

yes. very much.

have watched

honk
avenue Q
sound of music
fiddler on the roof
oliver
wicked
annie
les miz
phantom
rent
miss saigon
a little night music
mamamia
into the woods
chicago
grease
and lion king

i think that's it. so ya ... i LOVE musicals.
i think i am gay leh.

cos i am old.
and how do you know that i post at 3am in the morning? my responses got time meh?
so ya, later during class I am gonna feel like shit again.

of course it is normal...
and the response is called ... rest.

or

http://www.rwsentosa.com/language/en-US/Attractions/UniversalStudiosSingapore

I have answered this exact same question before...
perhaps (and I know this is troublesome. i am looking into finding a solution to better curate this platform) do a ctrl+F search after loading all questions (700+ now) and type in 'forgive' ... you will find it.

great question.
i believe the entry below will shed some good insight for you. but yes, the heart can be very deceitful too.

the second thing is that emotions do not come from the heart. emotions are merely a response to the context that you live in. emotions are like symptoms ... this is why they point so well in revealing what people really believe.

the heart like the mind is nurtured. feed your heart with insecurity or bitterness over time and it will be a horrible compass for your life. the same goes for your brain when you feed it with cynicism or pointless arguments.

so i would say that before you decide which to follow, you wanna ask yourself what are you feeding them... cos if you are not consciously feeding your heart and head with good things then don't expect them to serve you well.

your heart and brain are both muscles. give them good exercise and nourishment and then work on bringing them together... from what i understand, once you consciously start to feed both good things, you will not have an issue of contradiction.

personally, i trust neither my head nor my heart. I trust that which nourishes, God.

cant really tell ... if i give benefit of the doubt and trust the sincerity of your friend then it sounds like a simple love languages issue. or possible issues of insecurity on your part.

but ya, it sounds like a love language issue.

http://www.5lovelanguages.com/

civic is grassroots growth from institutions of family or community. people are bound by blood relations, or relationships through proximity or sometimes location. interests can be varied.

civil is grassroots growth that is interest driven. it is not tied to proximity or geography or family but rather people coming together from all over to deal with a one common interest. or strategically related interests.

a loose way of seeing is how your classes and CCAs are represented in secondary school respectively.

cos you think but you do not talk.
I need you to see dialogue and declaration as a means to clean up and streamline thoughts and opinions.

So imagine you have a room which you use to store things. except the access to the room is only through a hole by which you throw the things you have bought. so you keep chucking things through the hole, not able to see whet you have already bought, whether they are compatible, or to review whether they are still useful... every once in awhile you walk into that room that "wow... it is such a mess"

you see information needs to get out as much as it needs to be allowed in. having it come out allows us to hear what we have to say, get reactions, streamline thoughts and most importantly allows us to mature our thinking. whether it comes out in the form of speech or writing or whatever form is up to you.

but just remember. easy in but must come out.

come for the centering session that is on the calendar.
it will help. :)

things like this are better experiencing then understood. instead of explained and understood.