My very first yoga lesson

I was (or I should say still am) having very stiff bones. I can't do bending exercises as easily as someone of my age. So, I finally plucked up my courage to take up Yoga lessons.

My goals for learning Yoga:

1) Make my body more flexible

2) Strengthen my bones

3) Flatten my (growing) tummy


Today is my first lesson at Sengkang CC. Hence, my petite teacher shared alot on what she knows about Yoga, how will it benefit us, more talks than actions for the first lesson. But, it really widen my impression of Yoga.

The first thing we learnt is breathing.

Take a deep breath now.

Do you feel your breath from your chest?

Do you feel your breath from your stomach?

Or you don't feel anything? Lol, are you sure you are alive?


Many may have short breaths, which means breathing from our chest area. In actual fact, we should be breathing all the way from our abdomen. The longer you can breath, the longer you can live. I am not sure if that is scientifically proven, but, longer breath makes you relax and allows you to control yourself better at difficulty situation. The next time when you are feeling very angry or nervous, take in a few deep breaths.


Inhale and exhale slowly~























#Take one minute off what you are doing now, close your eye and relax your whole body.

Falling snow globes

A cute little house~





























The result after "Photoshop-ing"

My falling snow globes~





















Participated in a Photoshop Contest against excellent "Photoshopper" here.

My final score is 51% as voted by 300+ "Photoshopper". This is my fourth and best entry so far. Received positive comments from the rest too! =)

It isn't easy to score well for the contest as there are so many experts out there. What may be great to yourself may not be that great to them. The top score is 68.2% and the lowest is 42.4%.


My target for now is get a score above 60% as that is what they consider really good entries. hehe. ^.^



# Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.

What will you do?

On a stormy night, you drove past a bus stop where there are three people waiting for bus.

The first person is a sickly old lady;

The second person is a doctor who has once saved your life;

The third person is your dream girl/boy.

Your car is a two seater, who will you first pick up?


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Suggested solutions:

Give the car to the doctor and let him drive the old lady to a hospital. You can stay back and enjoy the night with your dream girl/boy.

- From the [Happy Little Stories] =)
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#If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

The Starfish Story

[As the old man walked the beach at dawn, he noticed a boy ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea. Finally catching up with the boy, he asked why he was doing this.

The answer was that the stranded starfish would die if left until the morning sun. "But the beach goes on for miles and there are millions of starfish," said the old man. "how can your effort make any difference?" The boy looked at the starfish in his hand and then threw it safely into the waves. "It makes a difference to this one," he said. ]

- A story from the MOE : Touching hearts, Engaging minds.


As a Cognitive Math trainer, sometimes I do wonder how much I can help my students, how many can I help?

Some of them refuses help whereas some accepts it little by little.


It really hurts when I have to give up helping those who choose not to help themselves and refuses help from others. I understand that there's a limit to what I can do, after all, it is their choice.


But, I know that I have made a difference in those who accepted me. =)


Happy learning together! =p




#You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Lion + Tiger = Liger?

In the wild, a Liger would never have (or super rarely) appeared! It is not the natural way of life.

But, under the (cruel/ creative) act of human, a male lion and a female tiger mate and give birth to a Liger. Not one, it happened to many around the world. There are also Tigon which is the offspring of male tiger and female lion. Unfortunately, due to the special genetics it has, Ligers and Tigons do not seem to have a long life. Mostly was born with defects and died young.

"A liger looks like a giant lion with muted stripes but like their tiger ancestors, ligers like swimming. This goes against the nature of a lion but is what makes creature special. It gets the best of both parents."






















I was totally surprised when I saw this from the Channel U documentary show - Approaching Science.

An eye-opener indeed.


What is human doing?


Many said it's part of the ways to understand human genetics. Is that true?



Another selfish act of human or foolish act of human?




#There are two sides to every question.

Music Notes - Learning it differently

Never have I thought that I would be able to read music notes so easily! =)

In my secondary school days, I joined porta sound (digital keyboard) as my CCA. It was a torture for me to read the music notes. I had no idea on how to remember them. So, I used a "shortcut" way to understand the notes, which is to simply write the notes in the letters representing them. It may seem simple, but it took me quite a long time to even do so. And, another issue is that I am not able to remember which key on the keyboard represents which letter. So, again, I used a "shortcut" which is to paste the letters of the key it represents on the keyboard. This may be useful in the short run, but it is definitely not going to help me in the long run.

However, I didn't get the chance to play much as my CCA was closed down. It was sad as I did enjoyed the times although it wasn't easy.

Until recently, I finally got my hands on a digital keyboard. Yes, I own one right now! haha

I started to explore new ways of reading the music notes.

And, to my amazement, I manage to read it easily without having to write it down. I also learned how to identify the keys on the keyboard. Yeah! =p

This what I do originally:

Refer to the standard notes, and fill in each letters to the song I am learning. This is what I call matching. Lol..







This is what I do now:












For each alternate dots in between the lines, it would read F-A-C-E.
For each alternate dots on the line, it represents Every Good Boy Does Fine.
(Got this great info from Youtube videos!)

Now, whenever I cannot remember the letter, I would start to think of the sentence and it works! =p


As for the keys on the keyboard, this is what you can use to remember.
These are the 7 keys that repeats throughout.

C - Chopsticks
F - Fork



to represent the black keys.













So, if you see "chopsticks", the white key will start with C. Same trick goes for "fork".
(thanks to a friend who shared this with me~)


Learning music notes can be made easier when you know the right way or the suitable way for yourself. The same goes for learning other new things!



#Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

Hate something, Change something

An interesting commercial from Honda : The Power of Dreams~

When you hate something, change it! Presented in a very colourful and vibrant manner.

Honda's disel engines were supposedly slow, dirty and noisy initially. The engineers didn't like it and they improved and changed it to the new disel engines that is cleaner and quieter.



Hate something, change something~ Hate something, change something~


#Change your thoughts and you change your world. =)

Smile - the Perfect Makeup

What makeup could beat the sincere smile one has?

Little girl with Big smile




















Little boy with Big smile
































#A smile is a curve that makes everything straight. Have you smiled today?