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No, I’m not suffering from a permanent bout of cholera or anything. Sanguine-choleric happens to be the major and minor temperament group that I belong to thanks to this personality test I took (link taken from Hendrik’s blog).

Your personality is Sanguine Choleric.

Your scores are below
Overall:
Melancholy:4
Phlegmatic:8
Sanguine:15
Choleric:13

Strengths:
Melancholy:1
Phlegmatic:4
Sanguine:8
Choleric:7

Weakneses:
Melancholy:3
Phlegmatic:4
Sanguine:7
Choleric:6

For those not familiar with the four temperaments or have not read Tim LaHaye’s book called “Why You Act the Way You Do”, allow me to give a quick definition of the 4 temperaments:

• Sanguines – Cheerful, enthusiastic and outgoing but tend to be disorganized, forgetful and superficial.
• Cholerics – Leaders, decisive, task oriented and competive. They can be bossy, insensitive and unflexible.
• Phlegmetics – Contented, patient and consistent but can sometimes lead to laziness, indecisiveness and indifference.
• Melancholics – Creative, analytical and sensitive people. They can also be moody, hard to please and introverted.

So, as you can see, each temperament has plus and minus points so it doesn’t mean one temperament is better than the other. But, if we know which temperament we are, we can try to control the weaknesses inherent in our behaviour and try to be better, and more Christ-like people!

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Take out the champagne! INK is now legally an adult and can do tons of cool stuff like:
(1) Vote
(2) Get married without parental approval
(3) Watch R(A) shows
(4) Qualify for the death penalty

*POOF*

Wakes up to reality and realizes:
(1) He doesn’t vote
(2) He is going to celebrate his 2nd wedding anniversary soon
(3) Would not watch R(A) shows unless there’s a strong historical lesson behind it
(4) He still qualifies for the death penalty (we all die from old age right? what were you thinking! *tsk*)

Oh well, it was nice being 21 again for a brief few minutes. Take this interesting test (pulled off Hendrik’s blog) to see what age you act as.

You Are 21 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view – and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what’s to come… love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You’ve had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You’ve been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

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“Alas, poor Pizza! I knew him, Horatio: a pastry of infinite taste, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne my stomach on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rims at it. Here hung those crusts that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your olives now? Your oregano? Your funghi? Your flashes of mozzarella, that were wont to set the table on a roar?” – Adapted from Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1

Crime scene of Pizza, brutally microwaved to death without prejudice for 12 minutes.

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I’d look like this!

Harro take-a your orrer prease?

Make your own at http://www.vexatori.de/zib/spstudio.html!

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What happens when Star Wars Episode 3 is translated to Chinese and then back to English. Click on the image below for the full post.

Yoda: Premonitions? Premonitions?

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My name in images…

Try yours here!

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After suffering from many days of braindeadness, I’ve finally managed to muster up enough willpower to make another post, this time using the power of pictures to help me along (though, how I managed to be braindead for the last eleven days without anyone pulling my feeding tube is beyond me).

Anyway, da-da-da-dum, here are some funny pictures I took of Engrish in action during my recent trip to Tokyo. For the unitiated, Engrish refers to “humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design.” (definition taken from Engrish.com)

Who needs coffee when you have burgers that can do the job! Really needed this after a 7 hour overnight flight.

I wish all my snacks were produced with natural light and “wind in the greenery”.

Yes, Tokyo already feels like my hometown. Just a century more advanced…

I never cease to be amazed at Japanese innovation, like how they keep their used eggs fresh.

Ok this is not really Engrish, but it’s amazing how much Japanese love smoking that they even have bars for that.

Now, just what do you mean by hair “cut”? Am I MAD enough to find out?

Can’t stand being the other guy? I can’t even stand myself!

Happy bathday to me, smell me once and you’ll flee…

Speaking of bathday, I mean birthday, today we celebtrated the birthdays of Yixi and Alfred, a dear sister and brother in our caregroup. I must say how joyful it is to have these two folks in our CG as they are always so gentle, honest and sincere. Congratulations and Happy Birthday guys! Hope this coming year is the year that the Lord has made for you both, as you continue to walk and put your trust in Him.

Photos are up on PBase! Click on the pic below for the pictures.

And to wrap up this very Engrish post, this one’s for you guys:
Only one candle for each,
Only one decade apart,
Only one lifetime to outreach,
For the one God that lives in our heart.

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Just when you thought you’ve seen em all, these crazy Japanese come up with yet another invention that takes them one step closer to world domination. Behold, all ye Robotech and Mechwarrior fans, I present to you…

LAND WALKER 2005 – the latest and greatest in ultimate fighting machines. Endowed with a blazing top speed of… um… how fast to turtles walk again?, it comes equiped with it’s own nerf guns! Yes, I can see how rubber balls will be devastatingly effective against enemy armour columns in times of war. Perhaps the only thing missing from making it unstopable is a super soaker array.

With Japan now petitioning to be included as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, this invention could not have come at a better time. Imagine world peace being enforced by an army of mecha – providing security to the innocent and striking terror into the heart of terrorists! Failing that, at least it’ll work as a babe magnet.

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Are you the sort of person who has trouble getting out of bed? Do you constantly put your alarm clock back on snooze? Does your alarm clock even work after all that banging?

Well, worry no more! Check out this latest innovation straight from the MIT labs.

My room is so bare, I wonder where it’ll hide…

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Ever look back at your life and wonder how much of the world you’ve seen?

For me, no.

But!

Paying a visit to Hendrik’s blog and noticing this cool link, I decided to take stock of all those exotic destinations on this planet I’ve set foot on. The results? I need to get out of the house more.

The red spots you see account for all the places I’ve been to. Using complex mathematical and graphical analysis (aka sophisticated guesswork), it is not difficult to see that I’ve visited only 3% of the countries in this world. With much luck, and a fat pay rise, I might be able to colour more of that map red in the years to come.

Well, at the very least, I’ve gotta go Disneyland.

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