Back to School and Exams

Recess week was just over, and the beginning of a new school week was celebrated with Process Dynamics mid terms. I don't know what I did, again it was a state of blurriness and a mad rush for time as I struggled to lift concepts from my text book into the answer sheet. (It was an open book test.) I will be having another test on Numerical Methods this Friday.

I suppose it was due to the test and on-off sleeping for two nights running. I developed a headache at the side of my head today afternoon. Fortunately it didn't come till way after my test. I couldn't even fall asleep when it came because it hurt when I rested my head on the pillow and caused me to cough a lot because I was feeling nauseous. In the end I had to take Panadol to ease the pain while falling asleep. I took a good long 4 hour plus nap (thanks Tirza for packing my food) and woke up finding that the headache was gone. Feeling much better now. However, this means that I didn't study for the whole day and I have to mug through the night again. This is a terrible vicious cycle. I wonder if my grades are actually worth this much, but judging by how high the school fees and expectations are... I think the least I can do is try not to do too badly each time.

Yeh Yeh has just revived his blog again after a long winter of hibernation. Pretty long entries he has written too and I was encouraged by them today. :) Lately there are so many reminders for me that I haven't been placing priority in things that matter. The preaching in church about the end times that are drawing near. My own daily devotional about the warnings God gave the wayward people through the old testemant prophets. Jon's praying session with me. And things happening in Campus as well as issues brought up during Bible study.

Jesus coming again is not that far away as we're in the times we're in now. And even as the Bible said he will come suddenly, in a blink of an eye, with no one expecting it; we can't say death will give us the chance to expect it by either. As I lay in bed with a headache today, I thought about how my mum had just fallen in coma in her sleep before she left us, and I wondered for a while (well you do think of things like that when you're not feeling well) if I'll just fall asleep and not wake up again either. Things like that will just leave you unprepared, and right now I'd just be too ashamed to face God and say that my whole life is just centered on studies and exams, preparing for a career, that I might not even live to pursue, forsaking more important things that matter.

Keep thy fire burning
The fire of your faith
The Master is coming
The hour is too late

The battle grows stronger
He told us it would
But Christ is the victor
Will be understood

I can't remember the rest of the lyrics of this song haha. It's the midnight hour of the age of man. Prepare, prepare to meet Him in the clouds.

To someone who just told me she couldn't put down a death - if this helps, perhaps as the times of separation grow shorter, we should no longer quake for the death, but for the living; and for our own selves. Looking forward and no longer looking behind, running for the goal. The right goal.

NUS and its competitiveness has made me love and hate it so. But most importantly, I find it a battleground that has taught me so many things through my weaknesses. For it is through that in our weakness we're made strong. It taught me not to be puffed up, to accept myself as who I am, be it superior or inferior to others. It taught me that responsibilities are important, but not to the extent that I sell my soul chasing after the wrong things. I'll try not to make such a big hoo-hah about exams and just let them be part of my life. And trust God to guide me through and prepare the way ahead for me after doing my best. And doing my best means not compromise other more important things for the books and do just enough for what I should be doing.

23 September 2009

Today is the most fruitful day for studying in recess week. At least I managed to stay up the whole day (up till now) and been studying on and off without sleeping.

Some random issues:

1. I feel like wanting to change my blog template again. I wonder if I should. The current template is nice, but it's a little bit too cute for me now. But then nice templates are really hard to find! And I don't want to give myself excuses to hog on the laptop finding new templates when I'm supposed to be mugging for mid terms.

2. Two mid terms after recess week. Monday and Friday. Plus other non mid term modules and projects to catch up with. Projects! I've been immobile in them except for a bit of fruitless research. I feel like I'm such a let-down as a project mate. Would buck up.

3. I want to put on some weight! But not too much.

4. I felt like wanting to change my blogging style. Note the past tense. Reason for that was I've been hanging around some popular blogs lately (thanks to Dawn's blog roll which I go to if I have nothing to read from my own feed), and some blogs are just so nice to read! Not that the content is thought-provoking and inspiring, but they are just... fun. But then I decided that I'll stick to my current style, because I don't want to turn into a blogger going for hits. I decide that I am not going to blog for hits. Not that that will be of any use even if I tried to anyway, but most importantly, that will take away the whole meaning of my blogging altogether. Won't go for what people want to read, but just what I want to say, and what I think, and who I am. Ahh well, you might be thinking: "Duh, isn't that elementary?!" But then, sometimes I get on the high horse so much that I forget the elementary.

5. I love Country Story! Even though it's getting a bit monotonous playing now. But I'm still a little upset over the fact why the livestock/animals look blur or boring after they mature. They were so cute when they haven't grown up!

6. I'm having my first band practice tomorrow. Never really played in a band before. The closest to it was actually the song 'Zhen de Ai Ni' in church a few years back for Parents' Day presentation. But I like this group of people I'm going to work with for Orange Week performance in Central Forum. They are all very good musicians and Chuanbo sings well. This is going to be exciting. Would be more exciting still, if I don't keep on bringing up the fact to myself that practices may get into the way of my mid term preparations. But then I think they won't.

7. I'm now using rough paper Tirza gave me. There's a whole stack of them and behind some are some Japanese exercises. So when I get bored of calculations, I flip them over and try to copy the Japanese characters behind down, even though I don't know what most of them mean, and I can't read any of them.

This doodling has somehow produced two effects. Firstly, it made me miss writing in Chinese. As in writing Chinese by hand. Not typing it. Half the Japanese words are the same as Chinese ones, only they are pronounced differently, and maybe written a little differently. I want to write Chinese words! Hence I end up writing random Chinese phrases all round the page. The second effect this mindless doodling had on me is it actually caused me to want to learn Japanese! I don't know if it's the doodling thing or if it's a Tirza thing. For those who don't know, I've been psychologically affected by Tirza lately. Don't ask me why, I don't know and it's not really her fault either. I saw her eating cup noodles and I had a craving to eat them too. I saw her drinking 100 plus and I wanted to drink 100 plus as well. Then one morning I woke up seeing her eating McDonalds for breakfast and my mind itched until one fine day I decided to do the same. And Tirza's taking Japanese this semester. Hmm.

I don't really think it's Tirza this time. And I don't believe I'll actually take Japanese as a module anytime in NUS. The learning hours are just too long, and I know nuts about Japanese to begin with (except those few words Tirza repeats to herself in the room). I just want an excuse to write something Chinese, or similar to Chinese. An academic excuse. Something more than teaching Boss how to do his Chinese Language tutorials (not that I have, just recalled that he asked for assistance two weeks back). If the craving gets really chronic I'll borrow all Jap lecture and tutorial notes from someone, mug them through the holidays and take Jap in my Final Year. Chances of that happening is pretty low though.

8. I suddenly lost all passion for ice-cream. Now that's really, really sad.

He Gives and Takes Away

Was singing the song 'Blessed be the Name of the Lord' in church today. There was one line in the song that goes 'He gives and takes away'. A line that was deeply etched into my mind and heart on those days my mum went to heaven last year.

Today is Charissa's birthday, and it's overwhelming to see the number of friends she has who still remember her deeply, and whose life she's still very much a part of.

I received an SMS last Thursday while I was halfway through my bio lab from Matthew saying that he lost his dad to death, following with details of the wake and cremation. My heart just went out to him and his family then. It takes the experience of facing a death personally, to understand what it feels like. There is just this void gap when you lose someone that there's this vacuum in your heart, telling you the person is there no more, and you're so thrown off balance that you just need to fill it with something. With sorrow, with memories? With the assurance of God's promises that there is life after death? With the love of those around you?

I think there is no experience yet in my life parallel to losing the people I love to death. No wonder it is one of the only recorded incidence (at least directly recorded) at which Jesus wept. Yes, there is life after death, but still, death separates and it is very painful. Yet it is still very assuring and comforting to know that death is not the ultimate conquerer.

As I was sitting in the BTC bus on the way to church today, I saw how it was bright and sunny outside on the road. Again nature reminds me that although dust has returned to dust, life around you is still there, and you must somehow learn to move on.

Pastor's message today was about the second coming of Christ, which is very near, any time from now, because almost all the prophecies of his coming are fulfilled at this day and age. And the idea of Christ coming again any time of now, in a blink of an eye, when we are still unprepared, really blows away my heart and mind. It made death seem so insignificant, and that it is just but a passing moment, when suddenly all of us will be swept into eternity, entering eternal grace, or eternal judgement.

I know Christ is true, and His promises are true, because I always see them unfolding, and coming alive, in my own life and in the life of others. But I shudder yet when it comes to the question on whether I am ready or not, when He comes, or even when my own time on earth comes, should it come before the time He comes again. True, I have already accepted Him as my personal Savior. But have I lived my life in the way that it says and proclaims that I am saved by Him? What have I been focusing on?

Just a reminder to self today to focus on things that really matter now, and looking beyond temporary joys and sorrows - and to make life really count, in the Lord. He's been knocking on my heart these days and I've only to find courage to surrender, and respond.

My Favorite Time of the Semester

My favorite time of the semester is here. Recess week! A break without having the face the pressure of impending finals (think reading week). Every time it comes when I totally need it. And it goes just as quickly as it comes.

I know I have two upcoming tests right after recess week, and I need to study hard for them during this short little one week break. But then again, a one week break is a one week break. It means a week of not needing to go for lectures, tutorials or labs; a week to catch up with piled up work, and a week NOT to have extra work that I haven't finished piled up at the end of it. :)

Convocation dinner was last Tuesday and it is long over. Just wanted to blog about it because it was my first Chamber Music Ensemble (CME) performance of the year. CME this year is really really small, and we have to do these 1-2 person performances now, instead of the 5-8 ones we used to do previously. I paired with Sharon to do Air in D, which she has never heard before at all prior to this. Sharon plays the erhu, and she's used to listening and playing Chinese songs ONLY. So Air in D is what she calls an 'ang moh' song. I say we didn't do too badly considering the times we practiced were very limited. Of course it wasn't a blast, and did pale in comparism with some performances put up by the Rugged Hallways (that's what RH Band is called now), but then it did fish in quite a number of compliments. Even I who was hidden behind the piano and was not seen at all got a personal compliment from one of the alumni :) I think she was very kind.

Separations test is over. It was 25 MCQ questions, and the duration was only 1 hour. As usual panic signals overwhelmed my brain when I saw the question to time ratio, but fortunately, I managed to recover quite a bit when the exam actually started. I guess part of the panic was due to the unusual absence of Mei, my classmate, who was usually very responsible and punctual when it comes to test. Not only was she absent, but she did not pick up all the calls I sent to her! It turned out that she was on the way to the test, but might not have heard her phone on the shuttle bus. I shall decline to comment on all things regarding this 10% test that I have not slept well for the past week for, except this: I think the lecturer was very smart when he asked for us to put our workings down. He could have just marked our answers alone (because the test was multiple choice) but he chose to look through our workings as well, so as to ensure that our results wasn't just a result of sheer luck.

Not sleeping for a whole day for test prep did take its toll for me. I totally blacked out the whole of next day (Friday) and pigged it in peacefully. I missed all my (webcasted) lectures, and my project meeting! And I didn't realize (or conveniently forgot) that there was a meeting going on until Yew Hong called to tell me the meeting was finished. Somehow I had mixed feelings about his calling me after everything was over. On one hand, I thought it would be better if I received the call when it was still ongoing so that I could at least rush over. On the other hand, I was quite happy because I got to replenish lost sleep. Hmms.

Anyway, today is already Saturday, and despite having made up my mind to spend it mugging, the weather was so temptingly cloudy and cool and rainy that I compromised by spending another half of the day pigging it again. When weekdays come I think I'd have to drag myself to some place around school without a bed to mug. Otherwise the allure of sleeping in such a nice cold weather is too much for a tired soul like mine. Hopefully that some place would have a range of nice (affordable) food to go with it too. Won't mind putting on a little weight this week, and food does in a way keep me awake and fuel me to keep on going.

Had dinner with Wai Pheng, Tirza, Zjun and Jon today at Thai Express, which Wai Pheng insisted on treating. I forgot to took pictures though. :( Last time I had laksa, so this time I tried their green curry. It was super delicious when ate together with rice. Zhi Jun appeared to be quite fond of my curry too, and since there was a lot of it, both of us splashed generous amounts on our rice. Oh no, just blogging about it has aroused my taste buds. Tirza's tomyam soup should be nice too, but it was so unusually hot that I couldn't stand it. There was this little baby next to us, with the most expressive eyes ever. The mother pointed out that the shirt he was wearing had the words 'Big Flirt' on it. Haha. I think it was rather an apt statement because you could really describe his eyes as 'seductive'. He kept on staring at us and allowed Zjun to hold his hand.

That's for the beginning of my recess week. I wonder how it would end. Hopefully with the blog post saying that I am well rested and at the same time well prepared for my tests. =p I hope this won't be wishful thinking.

Canada Blog

Behold, Swee Yee's blog link! She finally started blogging in Canada!

http://sycanada.blogspot.com/

Will enjoy reading this. But first, I'd better finish up my help sheet for tomorrow's test.

Weekend of Week 5

Week 5 is over and I'm now in week 6. By the time this week is over, half my semester is gone. Can't really believe that... and it seems that I still have so much to learn!

The industrial attachment company list is out. There are so many choices I don't know which to choose! Will settle that this Thursday after my Separation Process Engineering test. Thursday is going to be super packed. Test 8.30 am to 9.30 am. After that rush to lab to analyze batch fermentation results. Immediately after that 3 hours of HYSYS computer lab. An hour after that Numerical Methods tutorial. 1 hour break for lunch (or for me to flop down in exhaustion). Finally I have my Separation tutorial at 5-6 pm.

I must really set my alarm not to faint on that night because I still have to select my IA options!

As mentioned, Separations test is on Thursday, and I'm not really that prepared yet. I've gone through all the notes but haven't done the help sheet nor read the text book. Almost done in tutorials. The most noteworthy thing that I've learnt in this module is separations is not spelled as 'seperations'. =.= Imagine going to school and learning English for this many years, and only to rectify the mistake now. I suppose I'm not going to get it wrong again after this because that word always appears when I make my notes.

I moved into my new room on Friday night. Moved from 10 pm till 4 am, with breaks in between. I was really tired and felt so dirty after that. But I like my new room! All the furniture smells new, and it's clean. I won't say it's tidy because I haven't fully unpacked yet. And being me, it's hopeless to think that the room would even be really tidy. But then my shelves are quite neat, only my table top is rather messy, as usual. I changed my bed sheet and washed my blanket to fit the occassion. Now everything smells nice.

I like the view outside my window. It's a patch of green trees, and the paved steps leading to Block 2. It's not as 'kepo' as my previous room in Block 5 (meaning I can see what everyone is doing), but a lot of people go up and down the steps and I get to observe them. Of course that means they see me from my room too.

Moving was quite fun especially the fact that I have 5 cute new neighbours now apart from Zhi Jun and Wen Qiao. I wanted to call them the 'Bond Girls' because I couldn't recall 'Charlie's Angels'. But Zhi Jun said 'Kero's Angels' is cuter and since they are Chin Wee's girls we called them that. Haha. Zhi Jun doesn't mind rooming with them beause the space they take up are quite negligible. :)

Okies that's all my updates for today. Back to the books again. I wonder why my blogs always end this way.

New Rooms!

Before I go on about new rooms, I quote my HYSYS computer lab tutor: "These guys (meaning my class) come 20 minutes early, don't go for break (lab is 3 hours), and don't want to leave after lab is over! I'm so glad I'm not in their cohort when I was an undergraduate!"

Too bad I'm in this cohort when I'm an undergraduate. And I leave a little later not because I'm that hardworking, it's because I cannot finish my work on time. T_T

Today was super duper tiring. Slept around 6 am yesterday (don't ask me why, it's a result of heavy workload and messed up sleep time table). Had classes non-stop from 9 am - 3 pm, which, I miraculously managed to keep my eyes open for all the time with a little help from coffee (1 cup only). Had lunch and excitedly went to get keys for my new room in Block 4. Tried to complete Separations tutorial before going for class after that, but was too tired that I had to take a 15 min nap instead. After that I had tutorial from 5 - 6 pm, and came back to view the new room.

The new blocks certainly look new, although they don't look that nice from the macroscopic point of view. We get longer tables! And a nice view. :) And good lights, and wonderful toilets! The toilets really rock! All the bathroom cubicles are functioning at last! I actually feel like moving in right away although i need sleep and I need to study tonight. I'll be moving part of my things in at least. And my new neighbours are awesome too. But I miss the grass patch all around the block area. That certainly is a loss to be lamented indeed. But they'll grow back fast enough. I hope! :)

Post 9-09-09

It's now 10th of September... past the all hyped and auspicious 9 September 2009 (or 9/9/09). Actually I think the date is very much overrated, and it is amazing how many people find it an interesting date. Part of the reason I suppose is the Chinese think 9 is an auspicious number (it signifies longevity, or 'lasting-ness'), and I suppose that means it's a good day for marriages and renewal of vows (or maybe even birthdays). You can see the home page of my facebook being flooded with comments about this special date. Wayne texted me a forwarded message (I think) about what we're doing on 9:09 am on this date. I'm quite ashamed to say I was sleeping in, but that ws because I had a late night studying before. I almost wanted to blog on it, but procrastinated and ended up blogging now instead. Anyway, it's no matter.

What happened on my 9-09-09 was firstly, I slept in, and later went to lab to do batch fermentation. I quite like my lab sessions this year, because my lab partners are very entertaining, sabo-ing each other (which means Kasun sabos Michelle and me, in essence, and we sabo him back). The lab officer was very amused by our group because most of the time we were giggling non-stop (and the experiment was so boring!). After our fermentation, Kasun and I were supposed to return to check if nothing spills out from our culture, but it turns out that the machine that our batch culture was in wasn't even turned on! Someone must have turned it off by mistake because we all saw that it was when we left. So the two of us forfeited a nice afternoon's nap to come back and check instead. :( Well, I suppose that's better than having to redo everything.

Band's sending two teams to represent hall in the Youth Talent concert. I had to decline my role as a pianist in one of the teams because I have a text in the week we're supposed to do recording, and I already have had to commit to CME practices. It was such a pity, because it looked so exciting! :( I hope I get chances to work together with them again for other occassions. Sigh. I can't seem to spend as much time on my studies as I could because of hall activities, and I can't enjoy my hall activities to the fullest because of studies! I would have so much liked to start writing Phoenix articles now and get interviews in while everyone's memories are still fresh, but unfortunately I have no time to do so. I can only mentally structure the articles when I'm in the bathroom bathing.

We're able to get our new room keys today and we're going to move to our new rooms to blocks 2, 4, and 6 within these two days! Exciting as the prospects may be (new, clean rooms with more places to stack belongings), it's still very troublesome to move my whole room a whole block and two storeys away. I don't like the new doors of the new blocks! Kasun said he thinks he could break them down by smashing hard on them haha. The old doors are so nice and sturdy. But they are all going to be done away with when we move over. Will miss them. I also like the old balcony rails (wooden) which we can just sit at and swing our legs. The new ones are proper iron rails whereby we can't sit on them. I suppose they are safer, but they are so less fun. The roof also looks different. It's all so white and new and safe and less old. I'll miss the old outlook of RH after the complete renovations are over. I'm so glad to be part of RH before rennovations! The new generations of Rafflesians won't know what they missed.

I'm supposed to be working through my Seperations project, but we're kind of stuck. And now I'm a little behind HYSYS lab too. I'm falling apart in all the modules I'm studying! I hope to regain momentum somehow. That's why I'm still awake near 3 pm now haha. My sleeping hours are officially upside down. Just drank some coffee and now the prospects of studying doesn't look so bad after all. Coffee cheers me up a little. Hope I won't be sleepy tomorrow. I actually like going through Thursdays, just that they are so long. Three hours of lecture back to back, HYSYS computer lab right after (another 3 hours). Then I get two hours break which I usually go back to hall to nap and have an hour's tutorial after that.

Oh yes, I'm doing Industrial Attachment next semester after all. I emailed the person in charge and he swapped my grouping for me. I wonder what IA would be like. Heard that it's pretty tiring, but I seriously need some work experience before I go out to work.

OK, back to tutorials :)

Sleepy Days

These days I just keep on feeling so sleepy. Was just telling my friend that if you're sleepy at the beginning of the semester, that means too much of sleep during holidays; but if you're sleepy during the semester, that means too little sleep.

Unfortunately, I think for my case it's the case of too much sleep. I slept a whole lot from last night all the way to this morning because I was feeling that my body was starting to heat up internally the previous day and I don't want to fall sick. Now I have that funny feeling again :(

Nothing too much happened these two days. Phoenix has had its first meeting and through that first meeting I finally had that sense of belonging to Phoenix. The workload is not too bad either, just three articles for one whole academic year! More like writing three project reports (around 5-8 pages), but loads more fun! I know I don't write spectacularly, but I think it's easier to write things from a Year 3 student's point of view rather than from a freshman's. I remember struggling in RH-Ed because of that. And oh! There's no stipulated deadline until next semester! Oh joy! :D If you're Jerome, and you're reading this do note that I'll try and hand in my articles early, and will get things done properly. Haha.

I just gone my lab report done yesterday. Labs are kind of interesting this year. We get to do 'role play' and we rotate four different roles each week: Leader, Experimenter, Analysts, and Researcher. For 5 member-groups like mine, there are two analysts per session (which seems to bring more trouble than convenience). I was leader for the previous report, and the horrors of compiling rojak work was so terrible that I thought I'd rather do discussions instead. LOL

Hmm. Can't think of what update already. It's half way through Week 5 and soon I'll reach recess week which means it's half way through the semester already. I thought I was going to do Industrial Attachment this coming semester, but it turns out that I was allocated to do IA in my final year instead. Trying to appeal for a change now, but might not be able to get it. The prospects of doing IA for half year then returning to do FYP presentation and then graduate doesn't sound quite so fun. But then again, if my performance is good, the company will only have to wait for another half a year for me to work.

Decisions, decisions. Praying and waiting for God's lead.

Worry Not

Today's sermon was about not worrying to live a live of joy, because worrying kills joy. Quite apt because I've been losing sleep lately worrying about numerous things, which is quite uncommon. :( I used not to lose sleep over things.


I like pastor's pink elephant illustration. :) If I ask you to think about a pink elephant vividly and suddenly ask you to stop doing so, you can't really stop. Unless you're thinking of something else.

And if we're worrying the only way to stop thinking about what we're worrying about and replace it with something else. Paul tells us what to think instead:

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

Phil 4: 8-9

The fact that we worry is because our focus is on the problem but not on God. An elementary fact, but often forgotten. And another thing is, if we're worrying chances are our relationship with God is in trouble, hence we know that He won't bless the work of our hands when we're not walking right with Him.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Phil 4: 6

Hopefully I can take these verses to heart and worry not, instead of being a worry wart :) Hey, they rhyme! Kind of.

On a side note,

1. I'm keeping all the campus song books! That means I can bring a book down to play whenever I want to. :) I always forget the melodies of the songs but now I have all the lyrics I can play everything! Well, not really everything, just everything I know how to sing.

2. First CME meeting today and I showed that I'm Most Enthu Member of the cultural group for being the only member that turned up. Somehow I have this feeling that it's Farid who made CME what it is and all hyped and enthu and from the time the baton passed to me, enthusiasm ebbed away. Maybe is started with my leadership, maybe it did not. But CME is the only comm I have joined for 3 years running and I'm planning to enjoy being in it no matter what other people do or don't do.

The things I'm fretting over are still there. But I know God is there above them too.

Personality Test

The results say that I'm Phlegmatic Melancholy. Melancholy! I thought that's the last thing I am because I never seem to get depressed. =p If you want to take the test please click here.

Anyway most of it is quite accurate. Here are the four personalities and my results.

Phlegmatic: 63%. 13 strengths, 12 weaknesses.
Melancholy: 20%. 1 strength, 7 weaknesses. I'm not only melancholic, but on the dangerous end too. =.=
Sanguine: 15%. 5 strengths, 1 weakness.
Choleric: 3%. 1 strength, no weaknesses.
I'm just going to post the characteristics of a few more dominant features and comment about them :)

Phlegmatic Strengths

The Phlegmatic's Emotions

• Low-key personality - Accurate
  
• Easygoing and relaxed - Quite
  
• Calm, cool and collected -Only when there are no deadlines and exams.
  
• Patient well balanced -Err... I suppose you can say that.
  
• Consistent life - Hmm. Ya. Consistently messy table.
  
• Quiet but witty - I like dry jokes but does that make me witty?
  
• Sympathetic and kind - Errr...? To a certain limited degree.
  
• Keeps emotions hidden - Yup I suppose so. I'm very careful of what I blog about.
  
• Happily reconciled to life - Yea true!
  
• All-purpose person - What does this mean? All purpose. Hmm.
  

The Phlegmatic As A Parent

• Makes a good parent - Ahem. But I thought I'd never want to be a parent.
  
• Takes time for the children - *Imagines.* Doesn't sound like me. =p
  
• Is not in a hurry - No! I always want to arrive early.
  
• Can take the good with the bad - OK I think so.
  
• Doesn't get upset easily - Yup :)
  

The Phlegmatic At Work

• Competent and steady - I hope so! Please please let this be accurate.
  
• Peaceful and agreeable - Definitely.
  
• Has administrative ability - For small stuff at least.
  
• Mediates problems - Yup I do.
  
• Avoids conflicts - Yes yes yes!
  
• Good under pressure - Errr. I think so because no matter what I always depend on God to somehow help me through a jam. And He has been there always so far.
  
• Finds the easy way - YES YES YES. But that's sometimes bad isn't it?
  

The Phlegmatic As a Friend

• Easy to get along with - Yup
  
• Pleasant and enjoyable - Depends
  
• Inoffensive - Always. Unless you're too close to me, you might get bombed.
  
• Good listener - Maybe.
  
• Dry sense of humor - Yup yup.
  
• Enjoys watching people -Yes :)
• Has many friends - Hmm. I know many people but I can't say I'm close to many.
  
• Has compassion and concern - I can't say this is accurate but I try.
  

Phlegmatic Weaknesses

The Phlegmatic's Emotions

• Unenthusiastic - nods enthusiastically. =p
  
• Fearful and worried - yup a lot too
  
• Indecisive - you know how long it took me to finish this quiz?!
  
• Avoids responsibility - how does this quiz know me so well?
  
• Quiet will of iron - OK maybe it doesn't know me that well, or do I have a will of iron?
  
• Selfish - Yes, how did they know I'm compassionate AND selfish?
  
• To shy and reticent - Yup sometimes.
  
• Too compromising - Depends, but yep I do overly compromise.
  
• Self-righteous - Gulps. I ... suppose... so.
  

The Phlegmatic As A Parent

• Lax on discipline - Hmm. Perhaps?
  
• Doesn't organize home - NODS fervently.
  
• Takes life to easy - NODS NODS NODS.
  

The Phlegmatic At Work

• Not goal oriented - haha my goal is to finish the work ASAP.
  
• Lacks self motivation - but I do try! I do!
  
• Hard to get moving - hmm this explains a lot.
  
• Resents being pushed - this explains even more!!!
  
• Lazy and careless - Sigh. *hides face*
  
• Discourages others - I hope not. (Maybe I sigh too much though)
  
• Would rather watch - Argh. This quiz ISSS accurate.
  

The Phlegmatic As a Friend

• Dampens enthusiasm - Sadly yes, I am seldom enthu over other people's interests.
  
• Stays uninvolved - Half the time?
  
• Is not exciting - I know I'm dull. :(
  
• Indifferent to plans - Well, unless it's a really, really good plan.
  
• Judges others - Nods.
  
• Sarcastic and teasing - YESSSS :(

I wanted to do the rest but I'm lazy now. (Was there something about laziness at the top?) Anyway if you want to know more just go and do the test yourself and look through the list. Haha. Thanks Tirza for recommending the quiz. It was quite accurate after all. :D