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Personality Test~

ISTJ - "Trustee". Decisiveness in practical affairs. Guardian of time- honored institutions. Dependable. 11.6% of total population. Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI) That's the results of my personality test when I did it. I couldn't sleep and had to find some way to kill time. Friend of mine on the MSN asked to try it out..... Not sure if it is true about me. After all, self review is hardly a review. For those who know me - you be the judge! Try taking the test yourself ;)

**What is a FriENd?**

WHAT IS A FRIEND? Your Heart is your Love, Your love is your Family , Your family is your Future , Your future is your Destiny , Your destiny is your Ambition, Your ambition is your Aspiration , Your aspiration is your Motivation , Your motivation is your Belief , Your belief is your Peace , Your peace is your Target , Your target is Heaven, Heaven is no fun without FRIENDS It's " World Best Friends Week" send this to all your good friends. Even me, if I am one of them. See how many you get back. If you get more than 3 you are really a lovable person...I am waiting F - Few R - Relations I - In E - Earth N - Never D - Die Good friends care for each other.. . Close f riends u nderstand each other and true friends stay fo rever, beyond words, beyond time and beyond di stance...

Trade bans, a blunt tool for saving endangered species?

At one point probably in the mid-nineties, elephants were in the list of endangered species due to poaching for the valuable tusks. The dwindling in number of elephants were mainly felt in Tanzania, Zambia, and Sudan. The common believe is that when the buying stops, the killing stops but history might prove it wrong. Trade bans have hardly work, and it offers a pessimistic lesson. Over the last few decades, the black rhino has become extinct in 18 countries where they were common and their population continue to fall drastically in other countries. The same goes to the Yangzi river dolphin. Even with a fall in consumption, as with ivory, demand - and thus poaching - has a habit of coming back. In addition, contrary to stopping the poaching by way of trade bans, it has actually made poaching more rampant. This is due to the fall in supply, and the very fundamentals of economics explains that continuing growth in demand but with difficulties in sourcing for supplies only spurs the incre...

Love~

"LOVE", something you and I hear very often on television shows, radio shows, songs, movies, books and virtually on every possible media source. I looked it up the dictionary and I got this - " a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.". I believe all of us, if not a huge majority of us have experienced love either on the giving or the receiving end. For most of us, we experience love from our parents. After all, it is our parents who brought us to this very world we live in. Believe you me, it was far from easy for them to bring us up and teach us to be good samaritans; at least for most of us. A friend of mine suddenly pop a question to me a week ago, "why don't you blog about love and see what are your thoughts about love?". Frankly, I never really sat down to think about love. Probably due to the fact that I spend most of time hating my job! So for today, I am going to try to ask myself what is love...

~ sometimes, medication is not the only cure for illness ~

We go about our daily lives and just doing the things we do on a very routine basis everday. Little do any of us know that it is the small little things we do that makes us who we are and affirms our identity/personality/who we are. When you come to think about it, you'd realise there are certain things if not many unique charcteristics about yourself that you cannot change no matter how hard you try, including myself. Just like how we differ from each other in terms of speech, facial features, height and many other features, all of us have habits and routines we cling to dearly. Like myself, I wipe my car everyday unless it rains (my car is parked without a shed). Take that routine out from my life equation and I'd probably feel lost and insecure. I am no medical expert, and neither am I claiming to have any medical knowledge but I think these small little routines can be life saving for a majority of people especially the older age group of people. My grandfather used to clea...

5 Centimeters Per Second, "a chain of short stories about their distance."

5 Centimeters Per Second, subtitled "a chain of short stories about their distance." is a 2007 Japanese animated feature film by Makoto Shinkai. The film consists of three segments: Ōkashō, Cosmonaut, and Byōsoku 5 Centimeter, totaling about an hour of runtime. The plot is set in Japan beginning from the 1990s, with each segment centered on a boy named Takaki Tōno. Episode 1: Ōukashō Ōkashō (Cherry Blossom Extract): Upon graduating from elementary school, Takaki Tōno and his close friend Akari Shinohara drifted apart. Akari moved to Tochigi Prefecture due to her parents' jobs, while Takaki attended a junior high in Tokyo. The two kept in contact by writing letters, but despite the special feelings that existed between them, the only thing that persisted was time. When Takaki became aware that his family would move to Kagoshima, he decided to go see Akari since they would be too far apart to visit each other after he moved. However, when the day came, a severe snowstorm de...