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Monashian Reunion at TGIF

Linora Low — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:41:04 +0000

After much postponing, another reunion was made for the Monash group. And I was so thoroughly happy to see them all, despite having to go meet them after a day of work. It was worth it. You people are always worth it. Hahaha it was sucha ball. Anyway here are some of the pics we took that day at TGIF One Utama. And I’m waiting for the rest!!!!. Most of it is on facebook, peeps.

The gang before I arrived on the scene lol. Everyone screamed and hugged. Normal group pic

Crazy Group pic. Charlie Angel style with me and Anita

Monash Graduation and people your pics!!!

Linora Low — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:08:16 +0000

Here people, the pics from the convocation and you can head on to these two links, if you want them all. They are all pretty high res, so you can download them and go for printing straight ^_^ first link is To my Picasa album and here on my facebook

My Monash Bears.

Linora Low — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:41:53 +0000

Once again, CONGRATULATIONS GUYS. and here are the pics from the day. But before that… say hello to

Oscar! My Bear! Giden bought it for me, hehe. Cost was ridiculous too! But yay I got a bear!! See him with the whole family. His mom and aunty chu chu, made me a bouquet of bears. So nice!!!

Now on to the real people hehe. In the next post… hehe. Still loading.

Monash Graduation 2007

Linora Low — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:34:39 +0000

I am finally graduating this Saturday from Monash University. Check the link out guys to see if you are in the list. I am going to see all of classmates yay and thankfully those who finished this first semester earlier this year are going to be able to graduate with me. YAY! Way ta go guys! We made it through the three years! Our degree, that darn communications degree that caused us much pain, tears to get through with a lot of headache in between especially from a few ‘Drs’!! Hehe. I’ll post up more on the stuff soon, but for those who are graduating, details are as follows: Date: 8th Sept, Saturday Venue: Sunway Lagoon Resort Hotel Robes: to be collected at 12:30pm at the hotel itself. Ceremony: 3pm (hopefully it’ll end fast) The list of people graduating is as such: Faculty of Arts: Bachelor of Arts Abdullah Bin Abu Bakar Bafadhal Rimla Tariq Changi Anna Filippova: Overall Best Graduate in the Course for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts Lo Heng Loong Carrie Low Mei-Li Cheryl Mohan Oh Sang Yun Ezhili Rajagopall Mohd Syafique Aqmar Shuib Tan Min Chern Tham See Ling Mohamed Yasir Bachelor of Communication Chew Lip Sher Goh Seng Phoon Nikhil Singh Jassal Jenny Saidin Lan Kim Fung Aaron Lee Jun Meng Lee Pei Jayne Linora Low Yin Foong Stephanie Anne Kavita Maialagan Debbie Ng Lai Kuen Matthew Pak Chung Yih Phoon Chi Ho Yaamini Pillay A/P Saravana Pillay Farhah Isyqi Pungut Bhavana Krishna Raj Loshini Selvarajah Suraya Binti Shaipudin Shah Ujval Singh Sidhu-Brar Sun Chun Hua Susana Susindra Timothy Ten Chee Loong Yashidhakumari A/P V Sevakumar Sophia Wong Mee Chiong Honours Degree of Bachelor of Communication Melissa Wong Yuet Fun

What made me smile today…

Linora Low — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:06:00 +0000

I was honestly having a crap day in the morning. But then I saw a walk down memory lane at uni. For those at Monash they are finishing of the last days of the exams. And one of me mates, Kel li, took a walk down the times we had in Monash. As much as they can be consider crazy, immature and “what have you”, it was a fun time. Here’s the link to her Monash Memory Lane. And i’ll just fill in the blanks

Masculinity vs feminity

Linora Low — Tue, 24 May 2005 12:17:00 +0000

What actually constitutes being masculine and being feminine? Masculinity (taken from www.dictionaary.com) The quality or condition of being masculine. From what we have been brought up to know masculinity is anything but weak and girly. It has to be seen as strong, macho, full of testosterone, hard in character…or and moving further…the deep voice, with the buff bod must be the one wearing the pants, will always have it his way, stubborn, and somehow right in the end during some odd situations. Feminity Womanliness What feminity? We have been made to understand, as the feminine, refined, loveable, delicate, tender, soft-spoken, sweet, gentle, caring and understanding….or… the thing in the skirt, which is always whinning away bout something being messy or dirty, and always have to be right….I’m strecthing it. But this is how masculinity and feminity has been viewed in society. Back in maybe the late 1800s and early 1900s, when a women doesn’t have her rights, she will fight for it and will then be considered macho or rough. For a guy it is perfectly normal and even more so that he should do it. These days, females are allowed to voice out their opinion and what matters to them. However, males have always been and always will be scrutinized for being lack of a man if they ever let anyone else put them down, even more so if it happens to be a woman. Take for example, a girlfriend and boyfriend. The boy is being bugged or bullied by friends and girl stands up for him. Or say if the boy is teased by others and the girl steps in to stop it. For some it does seem heroic that the girl comes in. But for others, that might view the boy as a weakling, the one who is not dominant in the relationship. This in the ends results in further teasing by others. Oh the horror! Or take a married couple for example. Husband goes out with friends or even office mates. Wife suddenly calls and tells him to bring home something immediately. Husband loyally and obediantly obeys and leaves company he is with to do wife’s bidding. If a husband is always dominated by the wife, other men will not take him seriously. I think it is a known fact that male figures when they are overthrowned by the female figure, there seems to be an imbalance if not maybe just a funny feeling that somethins is just off. Would one say, a male that doesn’t show his masculine side, to be more feminine or to be lack of masculine? I am generalising here when i say women don’t mind it either way, whether she is the dominant one in the relationship or not. I think women are naturally able to adapt to the positions they are in. Doesn’t really matter too, since all this while women have always been the ones to be dominated, so why even bother wanting or trying to dominate others? To guys what is your view on this? Take the first example of the boyfriend and girlfriend. Would you mind if say your girlfriend did stand up for you? Or it is ok with some rules set down? Or you would not have it at all, as it will make you look as if you are less of a man? Basically, question to all.. does it just seem a little bit “weird” if a guy is not in control? I know we are in the 21st century and yada yada, but to me, it just doesn’t fit in the natural law if guys are not the one in control of..a situation, a relationship..whatever…Girls it is ok, we stil have our independence. Besides as they say, the head may be the man, but there is always one woman who is the backbone. ^_^

Death of an author?

Linora Low — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:31:00 +0000

I must say, at the beginning of my semester, i started with much vigour in being very interested in the topics. I truthfully and sincerely am interested in them, for they are not so much on communication itself.. despite.. it being called ‘bach. in communication’, but more so on humanities and social science. I am still a freshie in terms of my faith, but that is another story. Two of my subjects entitled; Communication research and methodology, and authorship and criticism poses a lot of theories that makes one question the faith they believe in. Doesn’t matter what faith it is, all faiths are questioned and challenged in the authorship class. We’re now goign into what is an author and how they have changed over the years since the enlightenment period to the post-structuralist and post-modernist view. Let me see if i can do my lecturer justice by describing what is an author. What has been perceived to be an author, are people who not only just write, but people who are able to bring forth a story to life through their own feelings. Hmm.. A person who writes against what is potrayed or a norm in society mostly that of the English ideology, showing originality, to be considered a genius. The author is the epitome of that which is refined and sophisticated.. yada yada yada.. There was one i statement i could not help but disagree with. We learnt that the author, a person who has written text is no longer considered original or alive anymore. Whatever that is written these days is just a copy, improvisation, or a thought of another thought. The subconsciousness of the author takes over and then what is written could be not directly what is meant by the author but by his inner feelings. The latter, death of an author, rather meaning that the person who writes his works, is actually not the one doing so, but rather the language takes over the person. I can’t help but disagree with it, because then what about the Bible that is read? The author i beleive is to be God, because it is His Word. But if an author is dead then in the end, there really is no God. Of course one can argue that the Bible is written by humans and not by God directly Himself. But then again it is said it is inspired by God… 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is Godbreathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness… So if the Word is God, so how can they say that the author is dead and language has taken over. Then can that mean that ‘nothing’ has actually created the meaning? I think not.. and i think i’m rambling. I just can’t accept the post-structuralist way. It is so harsh and i think it relates quite a bit with relativism, the idea all systems and beliefs go, as long as it is good for you. Another thing i just can’t agree with is how they question on our very selves. As in everything around us.. all institutions build us up. So if you were to take the analogy of yourself as an onion. The outer skins of that onion are what you believe in to be your original self. But in the end if you were to think about it, try peeling away all that you beleive in because it’s not really from you but from things that influence you. Then you are actually nothing!!!?? Just like the onion which in the end has no core. Sigh.. stupid analogy. So we are actually nothing, our selves don’t exist, we have no purpose cause we are just built up from other things. The last time i faced that statement it was last year, i didn’t know what it means to have a purpose. This time i faced it again just this week, and instead i really questioned. Am I believing just for the sake of believing? Or is because God is really real in my life? I choose the latter for my reasons. God is real and He is very much alive. PRAISE GOD! In anycase i’m just saying that i can’t agree with the posts stuff even if i am living in it. Hehehe i’m retaliating.

Before it all began, Before it all made sense, Before every single prayer, Before every single plea, Before my very breath..You knew how it would start, You knew how it would finish, You heard before I cried, You heard before I thought, You created me and moulded me.. It all began with You, Your Love, Your Grace, Your Mercy, Your Word!

prayer

Science versus philosophy

Linora Low — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:39:00 +0000

Science seeks to know more and more about less and less until it knows everything about nothing. Philosophy seeks to know less and less about more and more until it knows nothing about everything. How many of you can agree with these…statements? Or just this line for that matter? I buy the first one, in where science is meant to find out more about something, until all has become revealed. But where philosophy seeks to know less about more? I feel it contradicts. First let us understand what is philosophy. A combination of two greek words. Philo means love and sophia means wisdom. Hence you get philosophy = the love of wisdom. The meaning base on www.dictionary.com = “The rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics; Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning rather than empirical methods.” To not get to studious here. Already it explains that philosophy is the ‘investigation’ of the subjects stated above, then how can it be considered to be knowing less and less. If one loves wisdom, how can they seek to know less as compared to knowing more. In other words i don’t agree with the statement on philosophy, stating in the end they know nothing about everything. Maybe if one were to make the statement “That person has his own philosophy”, and if that philosophy to begin with is rather premature and nothing, then yes you can say that philosophy for ‘that’ person is redundant and he knows nuts about anything. Ok so fine maybe my opinion here is rather shallow.. feel free to sue me. Philosophy is considered to be the irrational and science the rational, because it claims to be objective since they do not involve theology or the mercy feelings for the perceiver. Does tha tmean we think therefore we are considered to be irrational? If anything, we think and therefore we become logical and rational because it involves everything, from facts to the human feelings. Science however diregards human faith, emtion and thought, so actually they are not really objective either..just int he discoure of science they are considered to be. They’ve put up a barrier that goes “Ok that is theological, we won’t have that kinda talk while we do our rational and serious research.” Philosphers questions and answers base on their surroundings and the relationships around them. Science is more of an empirical structure. My whole point? Well i don’t know .. maybe it’s because i’m thinking less and less now on more and more of the subject therefore, i have come up with no point. I’ll say this. Science may fail when there is no one to think up of the theory,philosophy will fail when no one continues thinking of the theory. Science without philosophy is lame, philosophy without science is blind.

Just a quick thought

Linora Low — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:57:00 +0000

It’s been a while since i updated.. yes i am aware… It has come to a point where i can finally take a rest…meaning…. MY UNIVERSITY SCHEDULE HAS STARTED. Call me a killhoy, but i have just finished one of the longest holidays ever..minusing the 6 month break after A levels. This is the second longest. So i would just like to say i am going to enjoy going back to studying. Even more so because, i know people who are soon to be graduating from their university days. It is going to be a new journey for my fellow friends and new experiences to walk along the way. The stage of studying in a class is over for them. No more rushing for classes in the morning, trying to figure out their class regime, no more trying to rush for assignment deadlines, no more cramming at night or burning the midnight oil,… no more socializing with friends you hav emade close bonds with. It is going to be a joyful and sad time all at once. So i am still in univeristy life..the second year to be exact.. starting in another 3 days and 15 hours more or less. Because of the friends i know who are finishing and leaving their uni life. I have come to yearn more for my studying lifehood. The seniors will be steppign out into a new sphere now. The working atmosphere. Some would have some experiences, others would not. But more so they will face new stresses in life. Its jsut another phase to go through. My graduating day will come soon.. well not anytime soon, but they will come in the coming future. No more will i be a student. and finally the minute i start working, i can come out of the shell i call home sweet home. I would then see whether i can prove myself, my family and friends, wrong by being able to survive on my own. More so myself. Let Gods will on my life be done. Until then… i’m going to enjoy what i ahve left of my studying days. And the people who surround me everyday. Ok fine so my quick thought turned out to be a long one…Sue me. ^_~