Hold On By Jet

So recently, I did my reflection journal for my Cognitive and Problem Solving module and it turn out to better than expected to the extent where I'll post it in my blog.

Opinion is more important than facts because opinions affect facts. For example, Republic Polytechnic is located at Tanglin Campus before. However due to opinions that RP needs to expand and Tangling Campus is small, the fact now changes to RP being located at Woodlands. Another example is the relative atomic mass is found by adding the weight of the neutron and proton and not electron because scientists think that it is too small of a number, and this are the scientist’s opinion.

Moreover, facts implies that we know everything about the universe and this isn’t so the case unless we are god. Facts are based on observations of how it has behaved in the past, and theories derived logically from those observations that predict how it will behave in the future. For example, earth is warm because of the heat from the sun, but with advancement in human technology, we may find that it is not the sun but it is from the core of the earth. This means that facts are never immortal except for historical facts. For example Singapore Polytechnic is the first polytechnic erected in Singapore and this are facts that are created by human themselves.

I am not a factual person because factual people are those who just take those numbers without appreciation of how those numbers are derived. The process of knowing how this numbers are derived is more important than the number itself because we can apply this process to other scenarios and also for our use. HOLD ON, facts are still important because it is the end product of an opinion and these facts are used to create more opinions which then, create more facts. For example, the relative atomic molecule is found by adding all the relative atomic masses of the atoms present in the molecule.

Just Breathe By Pearl Jam

I started swimming around the age of 10. I was thought by a swimming instructor and so were my two younger siblings and we all started swimming at different ages. It was on every Saturday afternoon and I quitted swimming when I passed my gold test. I remember my first lesson where I was quite scared of drowning but I just told myself to stay calm and JUST BREATHE. My mother told me to continue to gold star but I see no point in getting it and I was lazy. My fastest 100m time is 2 minutes and 28 seconds and that was when I was swimming for my gold test which was when I was about 12 years old. My borther Akashah has taken his gold star certificate last year and he is alos in water polo so that makes him a better swimmer than me. My younger sister, Shahzani, is about to take her gold star test in a few months' time.

The most irritating about swimming for me is that I never really learned how to swim freestyle and butterfly. I was always the last when the coach told us to swim freestyle. Until now, I still do not know if I should bend my elbows when it's in the water, bend my knees and feet. After watching a few videos at youtube, I found out that my body needs to twist in accordance to its own axis and that I also needed to look forward when my head is in the water. I never learned butterfly because my coach never even thought me and I really regretted not asking him.

When I go swimming, I realize that my body is more toned. Compared to gym, let's take for example the scenario where you carry only dumbbells, your arm size would increase, however for swimming, the whole body is toned and thatis what I like about swimming. It also increases my stamina, reduces stress and also enlarges our lung capacity. With huge lung capacity, you have more endurance, blow wind instruments and sing better. For me, the best thing about swimming is that you do not sweat. The worst thing though, there is never the perfect goggles for me. Water will always seep through it. Even if I can swim without goggles, it is bad for my eyes because of the chloroform present in swimming pools and also the salt in the sea.

These are surely moments when I was swimming. When my family and I went for a vacation at Penang, my father, Akashah and me went for a swim at the hotel's swimming pool. Back then, we didn't know how to swim so our father warned us not to swim without his advice. I and Akashah were at the edge of the swimming pool holding onto the edge, but Aka, being smart, decides to go for a swim and then losses his breathe. Adding on to his intelligence, Aka dragged me along and so I was also in the midst of drowning. Luckily my father came to the rescue.

When I was in secondary two, all secondary two students had to attend basic swimming classes. The advanced were in different classes from them. One thing I remember from there was that I was just about three seconds away from Syazana when we were swimming 100 meters. After the 2008 Sports Day, I had intially planned to swimming all alonr to just relax and laze around. There were these 2 normal technical girls from secondary two at the swimming complex and we mixed around. The best part was when they two poured water from the swimming pool onto the back of my body as I was sitting at the edge of the pool. They couldn't enter the pool because they did not have swimming attires, and it would surely have been much more fun if they brought it.

There was this 2008 barbeque gathering where we just chilled out at Zhuang Xian's condominium and also wished farewell to our history teacher who trasnferred to Yishun Junior College. When darkness conquered the blue skies, I stripped in front of Juliana and swam into the pool with my jeans and so did a handful of my friends. Zhuang Xian told us not to swim but we just ignored him. The last of these moments were when I went for my business club activity at Sentosa. After the activity, I planned to go swimming all alone but I asked two girls if they wanted to come along because they also wanted to laze around, and they did. The scenery was beautiful because the sun was setting and the sleazy environment. Both of them however did not swim but just played with the water because they did not know how to swim. It was a memorable moment because it was the first time I swam with strangers and chatted with them at the sea. Ending off, I would like to encourage people to get off your facebooks and online games and go for a swim right now!

Heaven By Bryan Adams

Well after the one week of school holiday, I find myself very busy. This is because of school, and I've been playing Age of Empires 2 expansion and also GTA 4 side missions. Some of those side mission are quite fun actually.

During the December to March holidays, I have drawn three sketches of my dream house. I took my time to generate ideas because perfection can never be rushed and I am fussy with my ideas. The final blueprint sketch was finalised on the 4th of March 2011. All those ideas were fondled around in my mind when I am about to sleep. I hated this because it made me hard to sleep. I loved it because they were really great ideas. I took some ideas from MTV's Teen Cribs and modified it to totally different thing. The crib of soccer superstars and famous adults are nothing compared to teen cribs.

My HEAVEN isn't a castle or something as huge as Oprah's house. The reason for this is that it would be hard to maintain it and I want my family to stay close. The house is of jaw-dropping French architectural influence on the exterior and of luxurious modern Arabian interior. Like all high-class houses, my house will have a cool swimming pool and it is of an irregular shape. The shape of my house is like the Mercedes Benz logo except without the circle. It's like three lengths of buildings spread outwards at an angle of 120 degrees. The first choice to erect my house would be in Canada, the second would be in Dubai, the third would be in Russia, the fourth would be in Spain and the last would be in Malaysia. It would be located between light forest and behind my house would be an untouched beach where you just lay in the sun and throw all your problems away into the ocean.

In one of those 120 degree spaces, There is a swimming pool which envelopes a tree house. In this get-away tree house, there will be a simple table with four wooden chairs. When there's a swimming pool, there's bound to be a slide to that swimming pool. So where's the slide? It is joined to the tree house of course! This slide is of a high-gradient for maximum thrill and there will be some turns in the slide. There will be a training swimming area in the pool and you train yourself by swimming in those simulated currents. Besides the pool lies a barbeque pit escorted with a handful of lazy chairs. Near it would be an ordinary changing room, nothing special about it.

In the next 120 degree space, there would be my own farm. There will be chickens, horses and also cows. Chickens and cows because I am a meat lover. Horses because I love riding them, and they represent speed, freedom and medieval warfare. Behind the farm would be an open trimmed Greenland and some flowers would be grown beside fences.
In the last 120 degree space, would be the carpark. This is located at the entrance of my house. I plan to fill it up with luxurious cars, a family car and also some motorbikes.
In the first building row on the left, you can find a balcony, kitchen, dining hall and a toilet. On the second floor would be bedrooms, multi-functional court and shower rooms. In the second building row on the right would be jamming studios, gaming room and a toilet. On the second floor would be bedroom, a gym and shower rooms. The last building row at the back of the house would be hall, toilet, and table room. In this table rooms, there is an adult size pool table, air hockey table, carom board and a table-tennis table. On the second floor would be the master bedroom and stairs leading to the 3rd floor.

The 3rd floor is the roof and only accessible from the staircase in front of the master bed room. At the ground floor, in the centre of the three buildings would be a reading area and two staircases leading to the 2nd floor. The basement level consist of a 20 seat cinema under the car park. There’s also a bowling alley under the third building row. Beside that alley, you can see people swimming through a window that show you the basement level of the pool, so don’t be distracted by the people swimming when you are bowling.

If the house is erected in Canada, I only know that it’ll cost more than 20 million US dollars and let’s hope that my dream house is erected.