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The earthquake
Sunday. 5.18.08 10:13 pm
I'm late. Too caught up with my own life, as I was shopping and enjoying the buffet yesterday, more pple died in the rubble of the China Sichuan 7.8 Ricter earthquake. I know it happened, but i did not want to read about it on the newspaper. too much death and destruction. 30 000 victims. mostly children.

Schools were in full session when the earthquake hit. Thousands of young students as young as 6 were all trapped and buried when the schools collapsed. Countless hospitals were hit too.

I teared up, reading Rong's entry, where she copied and paste from a China blogger. What else but deaths of innocent children can pull at heartstrings as this disaster did? Torrential rains have started in China, with the authorities predicting more heavy rains to come. How many pple buried in the rubble can stand the coldness of the rain. Waterloggged and will little will to live, will they give up?

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partial translate of the 2nd part of the text (i will try to translate as close to the text as i can):

"donations poured forth, one eighty year old pensioner walked for nearly 2 hours to reach ground zero, offering her donation of her and her 90yr old partner's 2 months living expenses. Even mercenary businessmen, gave up their profiteering and offered places to rest and water. The rain seem to wash away the hardness and defences of the people seeking shelter under the make shift tents. At a collasped hositpal, a father rushed there only to find his daughter, an 21 yr old employee of the hositpal already gone from the world. This father, with tears in his eyes, threw himself to the excavation efforts, all the while shouting his daughter's name, trying to save someone else's child. Another father, saw his son's legs clamped under a fallen stairway. But as the injury seemed non life threatening, he tried to help those more in need first. A few hours later, when his son was finally rescued, the leg muscles have already decayed and his son will never be able to walk again. A girl trapped under a rubble of her sch, confessed that because she couldn't stand the pain she tried to smash her head with a rock, hoping to die, to end the pain. A weak tiny voice from a fellow student consoled her,"we are still so young! we must live on! we must live!" She gritted her teeth and was rescued. During the split secound when the earthquake struck, a female sch teacher used her body to shield 4 young children. When the rescue team got to her body, the children were found unharmed. A youngster escaped from his collasping home, but when he realised his aged grandmother didn't make it out he went back...."

With credit to: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_58daf66701009bg5.html

personally, I am not partial to Cinas. From my own experience, I found them greedy, arrogant and offensive. but nonetheless, this earthquake have revealed another side of the Chinese. I cannot help much. But i hope with all my heart that they will find more survivors. Human beings are the only species who will help another in need at the expense of their own suvrvial. This is what makes us human.

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profile of an ESTJ
Sunday. 5.18.08 8:51 pm
one of our lecturers made us do a personality test to see how different personalities affect work teams.

i came out as an ESTJ aka Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging person.

some of the Personality things i found so true for me

ESTJs live in a world of facts and concrete needs. They live in the present, with their eye constantly scanning their personal environment to make sure that everything is running smoothly and systematically. They honor traditions and laws, and have a clear set of standards and beliefs. They expect the same of others, and have no patience or understanding of individuals who do not value these systems. They value competence and efficiency, and like to see quick results for their efforts. (ya.. and thats my downfall..everything chop chop till i chop off my own hand also dunno)

ESTJs are take-charge people. They have such a clear vision of the way that things should be, that they naturally step into leadership roles. They are self-confident and aggressive. They are extremely talented at devising systems and plans for action, and at being able to see what steps need to be taken to complete a specific task. They can sometimes be very demanding and critical, because they have such strongly held beliefs, and are likely to express themselves without reserve if they feel someone isn't meeting their standards. i know i'm damn pushy and i prob piss pple off all the time when doing projects and stuff, like i was telling Lindy and Jaye, plz forgive me, I can't really help myself! But at least their expressions can be taken at face-value, because the ESTJ is extremely straight-forward and honest.

The following list of professions is built on our impressions of careers which would be especially suitable for an ESTJ. It is meant to be a starting place, rather than an exhaustive list.

Possible Career Paths for the ESTJ:

Military leaders (i'm a General! Jiang Jun!)
Business Administrators and Managers
Police / Detective work
Judges (how the hell do u start directly as a judge??)
Financial Officers
Teachers
Sales Representatives (hhmmm.. next job?)

ESTJ Weaknesses

Tendency to believe that they are always right (I know everyone's nodding their heads vigourously now!)
Tendency to need to always be in charge
Impatient with inefficiency and sloppiness
Not naturally in tune with what others are feeling
Not naturally good at expressing their feelings and emotions
May inadvertantly hurt others with insensitive language
Tendency to be materialistic and status-conscious (its a material world, no running from it)
Generally uncomfortable with change, and moving into new territories
May be unaware or uncaring of how they come across to others. (uncaring mostly)
May quickly dismiss input from others without really considering it. (oops, not on purpose though)
May have an intense and quick temper. (well..........no excuses for me here)

Abt Partners
ESTJ's natural partner is the ISTP(BINGO! now i know why, i can stop trying to figure out what happened..LOL ), or the INTP. ESTJ's dominant function of Extraverted Thinking is best matched with someone whose dominant function is Introverted Thinking.

Friends
ESTJs will have little patience with people who seem frivolous or extremely untraditional. They like to hear good jokes, and enjoy telling them as well.(not so much the telling part, but i really have no patience with idiotic lame ass dumb jokes, vs witty jokes) They're valued by their friends for being dependable and upbeat, and easily engaged in various pursuits. (yup, Pple can talk to me abt planes, bikes, model building and the like, I'll be interested to listen)
ESTJs are likely to bond best with other ESTJ, or with people of any type, if they share a common interest or goal.


what so u think? i think its pretty accurate.

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