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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

Screen Draw

Linora Low — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:32:00 +0000

Have you noticed that half the time we are not always unified with one another. May it be for a country, an idea or whatever. But i’d like to point this out with the idea of a country. The other day I was at Souled Out watching the football match between Manchester United vs Arsenal. The room was pretty much filled with Manchester United fans. A rooney here, a O’Shea there, a Ronaldo here and another Rooney there. Whatever the name, the place was Man U supporters. It was just a screen with a projector used to project the game. Whenever Rooney would try for a goal and the ball would go over the goal post,the crowd will go “OOOOOHHH” and one Arsenal fan/moron would go “Oi American football ke?”. Then when Rooney scored a goal, the audience at Souled was like “Whoaaaaa”. Then when Park scored the crowd went mad cause that was the goal to secure the win of the match. When the match was over, the camera panned on Park, then the audience who were leaving Souled Out all turned around and started clapping for him. Ok fine, I did it too. But that’s my point. It’s as if the screen is the one tihng that unified these strangers for a brief period in time. After that everyone went of on their way. I mean hello it is a screen? A piece of some sorta special cloth that is just white. Park wasn’ even there. Take the home for example, where do the family gather besides the dinning table. The tv room, or if not gather at the dinning table where the tv is there too. Cinema, everyone is there for a common thing. Again a big screen and people are drawn to it. What is it about the screen that attracts? When was the last time, everyone felt united like that? When others actually came together saying, we are of the same country, the same homeland? Ok granted it still does happen..when one is away from home and they go click with the same people from their country, when they are given the chance to mingle with others over seas. But when you are in your homeland, when you have different races, maybe it doesn’t become so easy to say of we are all one and the same. The different ethnicity maybe just separates us at times. Being Chinese, being Indian, being Malay, or of another ethnic kind. Probably when there is some sorta war and there is a similar enemy, then we come together as a united nation. What is a nation anyway? Is it a term coined up by the politicians and media to try and bind everyone together? An imaginary binding? I have suspect there is more unity when people watch a football match. Screen draw power. Heh.

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. ^_^

Truth is questioned in History?

Linora Low — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:07:00 +0000

I haven’t blogged for a while all thanks to assignments and just more assignments. This partically entry isyet again related with one of the subjects but more so a question my lecturer had posed to us which has rather shaken, if you will, if not made me a little uncomfortable. History is considered to be made up of many stories all happening at once. Whatever thought, action, event that has happened is past and has become history. We are all ourselves part of that history, whatever it may deemed to be. So now it just so happens most of the time the history that we read now, is a compilation of the ‘victors’ of history or if not probably people who have made a define mark in the timeline. So if history is made up of many stories all happening at once, which in the end is the real story? Which in the end is the real truth? Our bible is history itself. I can believe that it is dejure (by right) to be truth. But the question which given, has somehow blurred that understanding. Everything is a history and so is the bible and we know it is truth, so how does one as a Christian defend that statement. The bible is history but it is the ultimate truth. Now this has gotten me shaken, as the thought maybe just scares me a little. But i’m willing and very much eager to hear other people’s thoughts on this.

Math of a big picture

Linora Low — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 23:52:00 +0000

This was originally a draft but i’ve decided to finally put it up.
Just yesterday, i was helping my lil sis out with a maths question. She is now doing circles and angles, where it involves knowing the basic angles when lines are drawn in a circle. Anyhow to not get mathematical cause i wouldn’t know how to explain it without a diagram let alone in simple english. I said to her i won’t help you for this question because it is easy, and the diagram is staring back at you in the face,it is very clear what the answer for the angle is if you know how to look at the diagram in the right way. Sometimes i wonder whether that’s how we look at life. We can know the basics, but in the end is our life like that diagram which we just can’t seem to understand? Or despite knowing the basics we just can’t be bothered to engage in further thoughts about them and how to put them into practise? Like how my sister knew the basics that was taught to her, but her mind either refuses to think or just can’t comprehend the beauty of how the final answer is related with everything she has already learnt. The simple stuff are easy to decipher because in the math examples they are all spread out and neatly written to just focus on the particular formula or question. Take for example algebra. Usually what we look for is the “x” in a question given. eg. 1. 4x = 8 x = 2 2. 4x + 6 = 26 4x = 20 x = 5 3. x² = 4 x = ?4 x = 2 Very simple and straight forward. But now if you were to include other ways or even combine all the questions up above, then the answer becomes harder to find. Consider now a math question like so. (x² + ?36)(4x – 29)x = 158 x = ? I’m not going to do the calculation for the last question. But ultimately in the end you will get on definate answer. In maths anyway you always get one absolute answer. Because all the methods or deductions point to only one answer. But when placed with other questions on angles she just couldn’t make conclusion of how to get the answer. Is that how we are sometimes as well? Are we so surrounded by too much influences from the media that we can’t seem to focus anymore or even know how to differentiate from that which is real or fake or true and untrue? Now say if we were to replace the “x” with the word truth. Then we can look at it in the same way. There is only one truth and only one way isn’t it. The other numbers and symbols next to the “x” can be considered as external input that just makes the “x” more difficult to understand, comprehand and also to finally conclude. If truth was anything like maths, there would be one answer. Naturally in a Christian view, we can say that truth is God. He is our big picture that we have to come to see. So now i would like to believe that everyone else out there, is pretty much like the person doing the math question. Everyone is trying to figure out what is truth and what is it they are missing in life. Along the way they have other input to help them finally come to a conclusion of their own. But in the end is that conclusion of “x”, the real answer? It could just be part of the steps to getting to “x” but some would think they already have all the answers to life in their hands. Pretty much like the post-modernistic time we are living in now, where science is believed to answer all that questions. It should also be noted that the supernatural can’t be answered by science alone. Our biggest picture and biggest truth, lies in the hands of our Father in heaven. Need i say more?

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. ^_~