They beat compatriots Lee Jae Jin/Hwang Ji Man 21-16 21-15 in 29 mins!not sure if i can get a game this week. badminton and tennis are like the only things keeping me sane these days. with most people being to busy to hang out, sports proves to be the best excuse i can give to meet up with my pals.
gerri's birthday this week. meeting roon and her for dinner this thursday.
my korean teacher has emailed me saying she understands my predicament but that she hopes i can still go for the remaining classes so that i won't feel so bad. hmmm. i don't know how i can not feel bad when i don't understand anything that's going on. haha. ok time to mull over it again. haha.
was talking to gerri the other day and we were on the subject of wanting things and sacrificing time for the things we want. is it really a proper gauge of how badly we want something? perhaps. the man who really wants to climb the coporate ladder will sacrifice time with his family to achieve his goals. the boy chasing after a particular girl will sacrifice as much of his time as possible in order to spend it with her. the single mom who wants to send her kids to the most expensive universities will sacrifice her time to take on 2 jobs just to make enough money to realise her dream. yes perhaps this is an indicator of how much one desires something.
it's common for everyone to have dreams. i want to do well in my studies. i want a good job. i want a happy life. but the question is this: when does the 'want' become so strong that you would sacrifice another part of your life for it? life's all about discovering for yourself what you value most and how you go about protecting your interest.
does one value money over love?
does one value freedom over companionship?
does one value fun over success?
these are things we need to sort out, before we can move steadily along the course of life.
heading to school now to sacrifice a bit of my own entertainment time for working on my thesis. haha.
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What constitutes the notion of sacrifice?
Today, my team and I will convince you that the term 'sacrifice' has become overexposed, overused, antiquated and totally passe.
So a single mum wants to send her kids to university. So a guy lists ladder climbing as his CCA. They set different priorities. These are not sacrifices! They are standard operating procedures! You choose this path, you aim to complete it. Don't talk to me how much you have to sacrifice your own mahjong time just to do something else you CHOSE to put priority to. Can't do it, don't aim for it. Do it another time.
A guy not watching man u vs liverpool, just so that he can accompany his girlfriend. I don't call it a sacrifice.
A sergeant jumping onto a hand grenade with split seconds left to explosion, saving most of his platoon. Perhaps that's sacrifice.
Due to time constraints, my team and I shall now end with a beautiful quote from Mahatma Gandhi: "The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice."
(No time to talk about the relevance of the quote. It just sounds deep. =x )
*ahem* And so with that, clearly our notion must stand.
Thank you.
[wah lau now I gotta rush for my grammar class BORING!]
By 
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9:32 AM
point of contention sir...
the definition of the verb "sacrifice" is to give up something for the sake of something else according to the OED.
as such, technically, whenever we make a choice between two things, we will inadvertently end up making somesort of sacrifice.
certainly it makes sense to say that in most cases we rarely have to actively decide what to do because among the options presented to us, we already have a natural preference.
however, in making a specific choice, a guy choosing to spend time with his other half will losesthe chance the watch man u vs liverpool LIVE. Even if, to him it might not be considered a loss because he would rather spend time with his gf anyway, the fact remains that he can no longer catch the match life, and in making his decision, he has given up that option for the sake of another.
AKA a sacrifice.
and so the house must agree that the motion cannot AND MUST NOT stand.
Thank you!
[haha... i get to play badminton later... haha...]
By 
20 sec interval... fire!!, at
11:28 AM
I'm back!
Round 2 fight!
First, arghghg no oed I hate oed please don't mention oed =x
Anyway, I know what the word means lah!
But is it just as simple as giving up something for something else?
Examine this scenario:
There is an apple and an orange on the table. Mummy says, "Boy boy ah, you can only take one fruit today ok?"
So Boyboy chooses the apple.
Does that mean you are sacrificing the orange? (I mean in that moment. Please don't tell me boyboy can choose the orange tomorrow.)
Minutes later, boy boy smses his best friend : Wah lau just now I had to sacrifice my orange just so I could eat the apple. Sigh.
Boyboy has given up the option of the orange, for the sake of another option - the apple.
The word has increasingly become more trivialised.
By , at
4:51 PM
haha... haduken!!! sonic boooom!!!
no seriously. it may sound as if the word has become increasing trivial, but the matter of the fact is, it is. That's why people don't usually talk about the sacrifices they make, they talk about HOW GREAT the sacrifices were.
choosing between an apple and an orange. well if the boy liked the apple better and he chose the apple, then the sacrifice made is minimal. if he liked them both equally well, then he would have to lose out on the tasting an equally tasy fruit. if he prefered the orange, but chose the apple, for whatever weird reason, then the sacrifice is great and these are the thing we talk about.
what is important is not the sacrifice, but rather the magnitude.
if we were to only call sacrifices of great magnitudes sacrifices, then we could argue then that there is no such thing as a sacrifice. the sarge throwing himself on a grenade made a choice to protect his men, something he put priority to over his own life.
hence we can only take the word in its most trivial and basic form, and leave the discussion to the degree of the sacrifice.
K.O.
By 20 sec interval... fire!!, at
5:19 PM