nothing spectacular actually...

have been busy with invigilation for national exams...

invigilation is rather monotonous... imagine looking at a class of strangers for hours without talking at them... making sure that they make no attempt to cheat..
i try to keep myself alert by observing their behaviours while they attempted their exams...i was fortunate to be invigilating a class of private candidates with different characters...

one of them fell asleep while attempting maths paper... woke her up by nudging her elbow... she suddenly springed up and frantically got back to work :P

one of them acts like a punk... tries to be cool while attempting the exam papers by having his collars up and wearing a bandana...

one of them is rather stressed...he started biting his nails when he can't answer...by the end of the paper, he finished doing "nail spa" for both his hands!

one of them is a "professional" candidate... he wears long sleeve shirt, pants and shoes while attempting the papers even though it is hot and humid!

one of them has tatoos all over... he asked to go to the toilet and i had to accompany him... he took a long time... i was thinking if he may attempt to cheat by looking at some materials hidden under his shoes or something... he came out rubbing his stomach, looking rather embarassed that i was waiting all this while and said that he had a bad stomachache... i gave a smile and believed him...

one of them looked like a chinese swordman with his golden hair and long fringe.... he left early during the english comprehension paper... i took a peek at his answer sheet and he only answered a few questions... some of his answers were "can't find out" and "why don't you tell me?" and the most interesting is his final answer for the last question. he wrote "dear teacher, this is my first time taking o levels exams. i don't know anything. i am like a baby. i will be back next year for o levels exams again. see you" :D

i wish him all the best for his attempt next year! :D

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with a little imagination, you can work wonders with your fingers and sand alone:

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ANSWER
GERMAN

How i solved it:

STEPS (START WITH A EMPTY 5 by 5 TABLE)
1. Start with Hint 9.
2. Link this to Hint 14.
3. Neither Green nor White can be the colour of the 1st house since these two coloured houses has to be together (Hint 4).
4. Since the owner of the 1st house is not a Briton (Hint 1), the colour of the 1st house must be yellow (All other colours have been taken).
5. Green house can either be the 3rd or 4th house (based on Hint 4) but since Hint 8 says that the man in the middle (3rd) house drinks milk, Green house cannot be in the middle since the owner of the Green house drinks coffee (Hint 5). Therefore, the Red house has to be in the middle, followed by the Green and White houses.
6. Use Hint 7.
7. Use Hint 11.
8. Looking at Hint 2, only the 4th or 5th house can satisfy the condition since the owners of the 1st and 3rd houses are not Swede and owner of the 2nd house rears horses. Randomly selected the owner of the 5th house to be a Swede.
9. Looking at Hint 3, the owners of the 1st, 3rd and 5th houses does not satisfy the condition since they are not Dane. The owner of the 4th house cannot be a Dane either since he drinks coffee instead of tea (Hint 5,3). Therefore, the owner of the 2nd house must be a Dane.
10. From Hint13, there is only the German left. Therefore, the owner of the 4th house must be a German who eats lamp chops.
11. Looking at Hint 6, The Norwegian and German cannot satisfy the condition since they eat other dishes. The Dane and Swede also cannot satisfy since they rear other pets. Therefore, the one who eats pork chops and rears birds is a Briton.
12. Looking at Hint 12, The Dane, Briton and German cannot satisfy the condition since they drink other beverages. The Norwegian also cannot satisfy the condition since he eats fish & chips. Therefore, the one who eats grilled chicken and drinks beer is the Swede guy.
13. From Hint 10, only the Dane guy can satisfy this condition since he is the only one without any dish. The one who lives next to him and rear cats must be the Norwegian guy since the other neighbour (Briton) rears birds.
14. From here, only the German guy is left without a pet and it must be the fish!
15. Hint 15 can be used to counter check that all the conditions are satisfied.

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2% Riddle by Albert Einstein
It was rumoured that only 2% of the people in the world can solve this puzzle within 30 mins. can you?

FACTS
1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colours.
2. In each house, there lives a person with different nationality.
3. These 5 owners drinks a certain beverage, eats a certain favourite dish and keeps a certain pet.
4. No owners have the same pet, eat the same dish or drink the same drink.


HINTS
1. The Briton lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who eats pork chops rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house eats fish & chips.
8. The man living in the house, right in the middle, drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house (from left).
10. The man who eats beef steak lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses live next to the man who eats fish & chips.
12. The owner who eats grilled chicken drinks beer.
13. The German eats lamb chops.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who eats beef steak has a neighbour who drinks water.


HERE’S THE QUESTION:
WHO KEEPS FISH AS A PET?

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What is my view about death?

on one particular night, when i was 14 years old, i remembered vividly that i was terribly upset and started tearing when i considered the matter of death in my room... i was totally uncertain about what is going to happen to my parents and I when anyone of us dies... i was fearful of dying for it brings so much uncertainty... i told my mom about it and to the best of her knowledge, she was only able to pat me on my shoulders and comfort me by saying that things will be fine... she was not able to offer me an absolute answer...at that point in time, i ask myself if i will ever get an answer?

within a matter of weeks when the daily hustle and bustle of life slowly distracted me from the fear of death, the answer came in the most unexpected way... i love to eat candies and i frequently patronised a candy store near my house. the middle aged lady who was maning the store eventually became my friend. it was on an ordinary night when i was having a conversation with her that she provided the answer to the biggest question in my life: it comes from a bible verse from the Gospel of John chapter 3 verse 16, For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life! call it simple faith or a desperate acceptance of any desirable answer but the verse really liberated me from the fear of death!

the rest is history as i found out more about God and why death has to come... i now have the fullest confidence in where i would be going after i die and i am now brave enough to confront death face to face! In fact, i have accepted it as a part of life and not a mysterious full stop. God has shown me that He has put eternity in the heart of man... we are created to live on forever... our body is just a shell to hold our spirit.... when we die, our physical body may be cremated or buried but our spirit, our soul lives on... where we spend eternity will simply depend on what we believe when we are alive today... the physical brain of einstein is still perserved and studied today for special characteristics but they failed to realise that the genius is no longer there when death cometh... he had left... what is left is just an empty "sponge"...

death is no longer a taboo to me. I don't feel unlucky about attending a funeral... in fact, as far as possible, i would usually bring all my kids along as well and carry them to view the face of the deceased in the coffin and explain to them about death. i wanted them to accept the idea of death with open arms...

nevertheless, i now treasure my life more, not because i am afraid of dying but simply realising the fact that death marks the end of a short and only chance to live this physical life chapter in the span of eternity and begin the new chapter of my life in eternity future...

next week, let's talk about family... :D

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Special Olympics...



Slow Down...

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