December 12 2017

I came up with idea of playing some violin duet Christmas songs so I told my violinist friend about it. I showed her 3 Christmas songs.

So today I went to the house of my friend to play violin together. She showed me her Grade 5 violin exam certificate and results. She passed with merit and I feel happy for her. We played Silent Night and Canon and did some recordings. The recordings today were quite successful. We played Canon together and it turned out pretty good but we will definitely play the duet version of Canon next time. For Silent night, we also recorded some videos.

One kind word could change someone's entire day
One simple action taken for one day could change the fate of the entire year.
One plan fulfilled in one year time could change your entire life.

10 companies that control almost all food and beverages you buy

In today's increasingly corporate world, we all have certain brand allegiances. They (sad but true) make us who we are in today's America. But it might surprise you that the majority of items in American supermarkets are owned by about 10 companies according to a graphic made by the British charity Oxfam. 

• Coca Cola owns more than 500 drink brands, including Dasani, Sprite, and Minute Maid juices. About 1.9 billion Coca Cola branded drinks are served across the globe on any given day. (They also own the sometimes-still-available Surge, which had amazingly bad ads!)

• In second place in the soda wars is PepsiCo, which owns Gatorade and Lays potato chips (including Doritos, Cheetos, and Ruffles). PepsiCo also claims Quaker Oats and Tropicana fruit juices, meaning that they have a deciding stake in most of the orange juice sold in the U.S. And in a cunning/shrewd display of corporate synergy, PepsiCo even owns and markets the Starbucks drinks available outside of Starbucks stores. 

• Nestlé makes Gerber baby food, high-brow fizzy water Perrier, low-brow frozen pizza pockets Hot Pockets, and close to a dozen different kinds of bottled water. They even own beauty companies L'Oreal and Maybelline. Just think of the cross-promotion, Nestlé! Maybe Hot Pockets are born with it!

• Mondelez made about $25.9 billion in snacks last year. You helped contribute to that if you bought Sour Patch Kids, Oreos, Trident Gum, Nilla Wafers, Triscuits, Toblerone, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Wheat Thins, and just about every chocolate sold in Great Britain (they own all of Cadbury). 

• Think Kellogg's just makes cornflakes? Think again. They make over 30 other major cereals (including my beloved Raisin Bran) and also own Pringles, Eggo, and Pop Tart. 

• Danone is best known for yogurt (Activia, Oikos, and their namesake Dannon), but they also produce Evian and a dozen other water brands. They also own seven brands dedicated to medical nutrition should you ever find yourself in a hospital.   

• Unilever owns a vast wide-ranging catalog of brands including Lipton tea, Vaseline, and Q-Tips. They own Axe body spray as well as Dove soap and several laundry detergent brands (convenient if you happen to spray too much Axe body spray on in the club). They are also the single biggest ice cream producer in the world with Magnum, Klondike, and even Ben 'n Jerry's under their belt. 

• Mars owns not only their eponymous Mars bars but also Orbit gum, Altoids, Twix, Snickers, and over 2 dozen popular pet products like Greenies, Whiskas, and Pedigree. They also own about 900 veterinary hospitals across the U.S. 

• General Mills not only owns 25 separate cereals (including Cheerios, which itself has about a dozen different variants), but it also owns Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Totinos Pizza Rolls, and 51% of Yoplait yogurts. It also owns Red Lobster and Oliver Garden. They even own Parker Bros., the makers of Monopoly. Which seems quite fitting.

• Associated British Foods might not be the most visible brand to American audiences but it owns several aisles of the grocery stores abroad. They own Ryvita Biscuits, Twinings Tea, and control the export of massive American brands such as Tabasco hot sauce and Skippy peanut butter; they even lay claim in many parts of the world to the Weber grills brand . In America, their biggest brand is Fleischmann’s Yeast.

Quelques questions aleatoires

1. Souhaitez-vous etre attaque par un grand ours ou un essaim d'abeilles?
   Je prefererais etre attaque par un grand ours.

2. Avec-vous des taches de rousseur?

    Non, je n'ai pas.

3. Quelle est votre plus grand bete noire?

    Personnes irresponsables.

4. Avez-vous jamais compter vos pas lorsque vous marches?

    Oui.

5. Avez-vous deja fait pipi dans le bois?

    Non, je pense.

6. Avez-vous deja danse, meme s'il n'y a pas de musique?

    Non, je ne danse pas.

7. Est-ce que vous machez vos stylos et vos crayons?

    Non, je ne le fais pas.

8. Avec combien de personnes avez-vous dormi cette semaine?

    Une personne.

9. Quelle est la taille de votre lit?

    Taille de reine.

10. Quelle est votre chanson de la semaine?
      Parce qu'il vit, en violon.

11. Qu'est-ce que vous buvez avec le diner?
      De l'eau.

12. Qu'est-ce que vous trempez une pepite de poulet?
      Je prefere le tremper dans la sauce barbecue.

13. Derniere personne que vous avez embrassee?
           Mon petit ami.

14. La derniere personne qui t'a embrasse?
      Mon amie.

15. Quand a ete la derniere fois que vous avez ecrit une lettre a quelqu'un sur papier?
      Il y a 3 ans.

16. Type prefere de sandwich?
      Sandwich a la mayonnaise aux oeufs et aux legumes verts.

17. La meilleure chose a manger pour le petit dejeuner?
      Patates!
     
     


     


     

     

     

    

Vesak day 2017

Good morning! 😄
Today is a public holiday called Vesak Day.

I've planned to make good use of the day to finish some homework and study. To make sure that I'm able to concentrate in order to complete my work successfully, I've come up with an alternative solution than hanging out. That is, to get some snacks. This is what I always did during last year to help me focus on studying. But I rarely did this for this year because one of my plans for 2017 is to avoid eating snacks and I obeyed it quite well during the past five months. However, I decided to do this for today because it really saves time by replacing the need to hang out, although it is bad for health. 😩

Well, wish me luck for today! I hope that I will be productive. Have a good day! 😊

9th May 2017

Today I was told that tomorrow is a public holiday and so that I will not have to go to the University tomorrow. To me, this is quite boring. Because staying in the room is extremely boring.

I usually like holidays because I get to study at home for the whole day.
Until lately, I realized that staying home for the whole day doesn't make studying productive. This is because, again, staying home is boring!
Most of the time when I do not need to attend classes at University, I would plan to stay home for the whole day. But, lately, I feel regret for not going out at all for the entire day because it makes me feel really hard to concentrate on studying as I feel really bored. And when I get bored, I would start fidgeting around and have great difficulty on concentrating on doing anything. The fact is, making some time hanging out for the day would actually help you to become more productive for the rest of the day. This might be due to the positive effect from the satisfaction you get when hanging out.
Therefore, after that day, I swear that I will get out of the room for at least one day during the weekends.

Also not socializing for the whole day also cause me to be unable to do things productively due to the feeling of lifelessness. Anyway, hanging out can partially substitute the need for socializing. Better than not talking for the whole day and not going out for the whole day.

I am working for one goal with three aims.

Why do people need to think about future?

People need to think about future so that they know what they should be doing now.
So that they can start planning for it.
It's important to know what you want as early as possible, so that you can start working on it earlier and hence get to achieve it sooner. 

I'm working for one goal  with three aims.

3 things to keep in mind from time to time

1. Know the limit.
2. Keep a low-profile.
3. Constant self-reminder.

I am working for one goal with three aims. 

5 positive qualities

Be mindful.
Be grateful.
Be positive.
Be true.
Be kind.

Year two first semester holidays

The holiday of this semester starts right after Friday. Studying in KL, I came back to JB.
My plan for is holiday is to study as much as I could as during the semester, I barely have time to study because there are lots of homework. My University keeps us so busy.
Honestly, I won't be able to finish everything even if I'm spending 100% of possible time to study. The textbook are thick and each page is full of words!
But Why am I so dedicated?

Besides studying, one best thing of being home is:

I'm always over-nourished at home!

The fact is, I will never get hungry when I'm home. I will be fed from time to time, and there is always something to munch. Come to think of it, seriously, I had not had a meal that really makes me feel full during the past few weeks when I was in the University!

But now I know why. It is because that whenever I'm having a meal at home, I'm allowed to get extra portion of food after I finish.

Lastly, beside studying and eating, there's nothing much.

I'm a failure in social life. And this is one aspect that I need to work on to make myself more well-rounded.

I am working for one goal for three aims.

Be organized

I am still struggling to learn how to be really organized when dealing with complicated tasks. This skill is essentially important. As an example, when writing an essay, you need to get your ideas organized before you pen. One way to start getting organized is to group and list your ideas down into several main points, and then further elaborate each point. Same goes to dealing with complicated tasks. First what to do mainly, and only then start involving trivial details for each task. By grouping ideas into just a few main points, you get yourself a clear mind on what to do and it eases the process upon accomplishing the goal and also avoid any hassles on what to do next as minor points will automatically be pictured along with the main points. This is especially useful when you are doing something with an aim which there are many steps upon achieving it.