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Can you imagine yourself burst into laughing continuously for 400km? My journey from Penang to KL was a good experience. I laughed till burst into tears non-stop throughout the journey. It was the happiest moment I had with my boss and colleagues (Dawn, Susan and Roger) ever since 2007 in my working life. It’s definitely memorable as I usually sleep throughout my journey most of the time. I broke my own record. The journey was definitely polluted with sound of our laughter.

Aw…It's tiring on the hiking part. I had sprained my ankle but somehow I couldn't let it stop me to have some fun with all my colleagues since I'm already there. 

Netball is a team game, played by two teams of seven players and based on throwing and catching. A team may consist of up to 12 players. Each player has a playing position that is determined by the areas on the court where she may move or play. The playing position is shown by identification letters worn above the waist, on the front and back of the player, for example, GA, C, GK.

The major aim of the game is to score as many goals as is possible from within an area called of the Goal Circle, which is a semi-circle, centered on the goal line and measuring 4.9 meters in radius (16 feet). Only 2 players from each team may score goals, the GS and GA. The team in possession of the ball is called the attacking team and the team trying to intercept or gain control of the ball is the defending team. Each team has specialist attacking and defending players even though each player both attacks and defends throughout the game. The winners of the game are the team that has scores the most goals within the allotted time.

 

The Ball

The ball is made of leather, rubber or similar material.

Size 5

690 to 710 mms (27 to 28 inches) in circumference

400 to 450 gms (14 to 16 ounces) in weight

 

Playing Time

A match is divided into,

4 x 15 minute quarters

3 minute break between quarters 1 and 2; and quarters 3 and 4

5 minute break at half time

Up to 2 minutes for injuries

 

The Rules

Netball is about running, jumping, throwing, catching, attacking, defending and scoring or stopping goals being scored. It is a fast game requiring players to have excellent skills and good team work.

The Rules are meant to help the players show their skills and be able to compete against and opponent in a fair way. The 2 major rules are those of Contact and Obstruction and if those rules are broken, the player breaking them is penalized with a penalty or shot and must stand out of play, alongside of the player taking the penalty, until the ball has been released. The penalty may be taken by any player in the non-offending team and it must be taken from where the person who broke the rule was standing.

Contact is when one player unfairly impedes the play of an opponent by physically contacting them in some illegal manner. There is a list of what is not allowed in the Rule Book. Obstruction is about being within the distance of 0.9 meters, using arms in actions away from the body and of interfering with an opponents passing or shooting action, or their ability to release the ball.

All the rest of the rules, even though they make up 90% of the rule book are called the minor rules because they are only penalized with a free pass, which means no player has to stand out of play while the penalty is taken, and this penalty is taken from where the infringement occurred. A few of the more common minor rules include;

Stepping – fast, precise and clever footwork is the basis of the game and there are many variations possible which are legal under the rules. Basically, the principle of the footwork rule is, that once the ball is caught, the first landed foot may not be lifted and re-grounded before the ball is released or the player will be considered to have stepped. Therefore, a player who catches the ball in the air may land on one foot, keep moving and land on the second but must release the ball before the first foot is back on the ground. Pivoting is possible, as it both one and two feet landings. More detailed information on the footwork rule may be found in the rule book.

Held ball – the ball, having been caught or held, must be released within 3 seconds

Over-a-third – when the ball is thrown, it must be caught or touched in each third of the court by player who is standing or who lands in the correct third 

Short pass – when a ball is thrown between team mates, there must be enough room on the court, between hands of the thrower and those of the receiver for a third player to move between

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Something simple, yet so many of us forget this everyday: Cup or Water?

 

A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer.

The Lecturer was happy to see them.   

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

 

The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of cups – some porcelain, some in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking and some looked rather expensive and exquisite.

 

The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to get drinks for themselves. When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the

Lecturer spoke: "If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all you wanted was water, not the cup, but we unconsciously went for the better cups."

 

"Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups.  They are just tools to hold/maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change."

 

"If we only concentrate on the cup, we won't have time to enjoy the water in it."

In front of the person you love, your heart beats faster
But in front of the person you like, you get happy.

In front of the person you love, winter seems like spring
But in front of the person you like, winter is just a beautiful winter.

If you look into the eyes of the one you love, you blush
But if you look into the eyes of the one you like, you smile.

In front of the person you love, you can’t say everything on your mind
But in front of the person you like, you can.

In front of the person you love, you tend to get shy
But in front of the person you like, you can show your own self.

Then person you love comes into your mind every 2 minutes.
You can't look straight into the eyes of the one you love
But you can always smile into the eyes of the one you like.

When the one you love is crying, you cry with them
But when the one you like is crying, you end up comforting.

The feeling of love starts from the eye
And the feeling of like starts from the ear.

So if you stop liking a person you used to like
All you need to do is cover your ears,
But if you try to close your eyes
Love turns into a drop of tear and remains in your heart forever after

1. Afrikaans – Ek het jou lief

2. Albanian – Te dua

3. Arabic – Ana behibak (to male) Arabic – Ana behibek (to female)

4. Armenian – Yes kez sirumen

5. Bambara – M'bi fe

6. Bangla – Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi

7. Belarusian – Ya tabe kahayu

8. Bisaya – Nahigugma ako kanimo

9. Bulgarian – Obicham te

10. Cambodian – Soro lahn nhee ah

11. Cantonese Chinese – Ngo oiy ney a

12. Catalan – T'estimo

13. Cheyenne – Ne mohotatse

14. Chichewa – Ndimakukonda

15. Corsican – Ti tengu caru (to male)

16. Creol – Mi aime jou

17. Croatian – Volim te

18. Czech – Miluji te

19. Danish – Jeg Elsker Dig

20. Dutch – Ik hou van jou

21. English- I Love You

22. Esperanto – Mi amas vin

23. Estonian – Ma armastan sind

24. Ethiopian – Afgreki'

25. Faroese – Eg elski teg

26. Farsi – Doset daram

27. Filipino – Mahal kita

28. Finnish – Mina rakastan sinua

29. French – Je t'aime, Je t'adore

30. Gaelic – Ta gra agam ort

31. Georgian – Mikvarhar

32. German – Ich liebe dich

33. Greek – S'agapo

34. Gujarati – Hoo thunay prem karoo choo

35. Hiligaynon – Palangga ko ikaw

36. Hawaiian – Aloha wau ia oi

37. Hebrew – Ani ohev otah (to female) Hebrew – Ani ohev et otha (to male)

38. Hiligaynon – Guina higugma ko ikaw

39. Hindi – Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae

40. Hmong – Kuv hlub koj

41. Hopi – Nu' umi unangwa'ta

42. Hungarian – Szeretlek

43. Icelandic – Eg elska tig

44. Ilonggo – Palangga ko ikaw

45. Indonesian – Saya cinta padamu

46. Inuit – Negligevapse

47. Irish – Taim i' ngra leat

48. Italian – Ti amo

49. Japanese – Aishiteru

50. Kannada – Naanu ninna preetisuttene

51. Kapampangan – Kaluguran daka

52. Kiswahili – Nakupenda

53. Konkani – Tu magel moga cho

54. Korean – Sarang Heyo

55. Latin – Te amo

56. Latvian – Es tevi miilu

57. Lebanese – Bahibak

58. Lithuanian – Tave myliu

59. Malay – Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu

60. Malayalam – Njan Ninne Premikunnu

61. Mandarin Chinese – Wo ai ni

62. Marathi – Me tula prem karto

63. Mohawk – Kanbhik

64. Moroccan – Ana moajaba bik

65. Nahuatl – Ni mits neki

66. Navaho – Ayor anosh'ni

67. Norwegian – Jeg Elsker Deg

68. Pandacan – Syota na kita!!

69. Pangasinan – Inaru Taka

70. Papiamento – Mi ta stimabo

71. Persian – Doo-set daaram

72. Pig Latin – Iay ovlay ouyay

73. Polish – Kocham Ciebie

74. Portuguese – Eu te amo

75. Romanian – Te ubesk

76. Russian – Ya tebya liubliu

77. Scot Gaelic – Tha gra\dh agam ort

78. Serbian – Volim te

79. Setswana – Ke a go rata

80. Sign Language – ,\,,/ (represents position of fingers when signing 'I Love You')

81. Sindhi – Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan

82. Sioux – Techihhila

83. Slovak – Lu`bim ta

84. Slovenian – Ljubim te

85. Spanish – Te quiero / Te amo

86. Swahili – Ninapenda wewe

87. Swedish – Jag alskar dig

88. Swiss-German – Ich lieb Di

89. Tagalog – Mahal kita

90. Taiwanese – Wa ga ei li

91. Tahitian – Ua Here Vau Ia Oe

92. Tamil – Nan unnai kathalikaraen

93. Telugu – Nenu ninnu premistunnanu

94. Thai – Chan rak khun (to male) Thai – Phom rak khun (to female)

95. Turkish – Seni Seviyorum

96. Ukrainian – Ya tebe kahayu

97. Urdu – mai aap say pyaar karta hoo Vietnamese – Anh ye^u em (to female)

98. Vietnamese – Em ye^u anh (to male) Welsh – 'Rwy'n dy garu

99. Yiddish – Ikh hob dikh

100.  Yoruba – Mo ni fe

By Dave Cheong

1. Write out a daily task list and plan your day. There’s nothing like a task list sitting next to you to keep you focused. When you have a list of the things you need to accomplish in a day, having that close to you constantly reminding you of what needs to be done is a great way of keeping on track.
2. Allocate time slots colleagues can interrupt you. In a busy work place, people are moving and talking all the time. If you play a role in a team where others need to interact with you, try allocating a time slot they can interrupt you. Instead of having people stop by your desk every 10 mins and asking you questions, let them know of a time in the day, say between 2-4pm you can be interrupted. At all other times, you can really get some work done.
3. Apply time boxing. Time boxing is about fixing the time we have available to work on a given task and then doing the best we can within that time frame. So instead working on something until it is “done” in one sitting, we only work on it for say 30 mins. It is either marked as done at the end of this period or we commit to another 30 mins at a later time or another day, to pick it up again. This way, you keep your work fresh and engaging throughout the entire working day.
4. Setup filters in your email. If you spend a lot of your time communicating and planning in front of your computer, chances are you deal with emails on a frequent basis. Setting up filters in your email client can be a great way of sorting out what’s important and urgent from personal stuff which can wait. Instead of dealing with a single Inbox with hundreds of unread email, you only need to deal with smaller folders categorised by project, priority and context.
5. Do not check personal email in the morning. Checking personal emails can be very distracting even with filters setup. This is especially true when your friends send you links to interesting articles, jokes or videos on YouTube. If you’re not careful, you can get side tracked for hours. Instead of checking your personal email as soon as you get in, try starting work straight away. This will build up some momentum as you ease into your work day. You should check your personal email only after you have a few tasks completed or underway. Also, if you don’t want to perpetuate a particular distracting email thread, just don’t reply to it until after work.
6. Set your IM status. If you use Instant Messenger, when you don’t want to be disturbed, make use of the status and set yourself as being away or busy. Your friends and colleagues will honour that. They can either send you an email or look you up later when you aren’t as busy.
7. Listen to the right types of music. Music is a great way of settling into the working routine. In addition, having music can drown out office noises like printers and background chattering. Be careful though, depending on personal preference, some types of music are not particularly conducive to productive work. For me, I can’t work when listening to songs with lots of lyrics because the words interrupt my thinking process.
8. Use the headphones but leave the music off. Some people prefer to have absolute silence when working. I think that also depends on what kind of work you are doing. If you’re doing some serious planning or something computational, having music blasting in your ears may not be the best thing for keeping focused. Try using headphones or ear plugs to block out the background noise but leave the music off.
9. Fill up a water bottle. Keeping yourself hydrated is pretty important for all sorts of health reasons. Instead of going to the water cooler with your glass every hour, try filling up a water bottle at the start of the day. This does a couple of things – firstly, it limits the starts/stops associated every time you get up for water and secondly, it avoids being sucked into lengthy discussions around the water cooler.
10. Find the best time to do repetitive and boring tasks. No matter how much you try to avoid it, you’re going to have to face doing things which are either repetitive or boring. For these tasks, I find it is best to choose a time in the day to work on them. For example, I’m more alert at the start of the day, so it’s better to work on things which require brain power early. Working on boring tasks that can be done via auto-pilot are better left towards the end of the day when I’m usually tired.
11. Bring your lunch and have it at your desk. I’m not suggesting you do this every day, but if you really have to focus and are trying to meet a deadline, having your lunch at your desk really helps. The normal one hour lunch break can really interrupt any momentum you might have built up during the morning. I find when I’m eating lunch at my desk, my lunch breaks are shorter and I can get through a few emails while I’m eating. After I’m done, I’m straight back working on the next task.
12. Don’t make long personal calls. Most of us have a good separation between our working and personal lives (or a least try to). I think we can all agree we should avoid having work intrude on our personal time as much as possible. The reverse of this also applies. Try limiting the time you spend doing personal things during work as they can be distracting and draining on your motivation. For example, you do not really want to be thinking about your weekend away with your spouse when you really need to get things done.
13. Clean up your desk. Some of you may have desks which can only be described as ordered chaos. That’s not necessarily a bad thing as long as you can find what you need without too much digging around. However, if you can’t, I suggest cleaning up your desk. That doesn’t mean having an empty desk, it just means having neat stacks of paper, all filed in the correct location. It also helps tremendously having all the things you need easily within arms reach. For example, if you need a place to write, having your pen and notepad close by and easily accessible is incredibly useful.
14. Get a good chair. If you sit for long hours at your desk and I’m sure some of you do, you might find it helpful to get a good chair. I find it’s pretty hard to stay focused when my neck and back are sore because I have a bad setup at my desk. A good chair can eliminate this, allowing you to work for long stretches without breaks and physical distractions.
15. Use shortcuts on your computer. If you find you do the same thing with your computer more than once throughout the day, you might find it helpful to look for ways in which you can do them without too much manual repetition. For example, if there’s a project folder you access all the time, try adding a shortcut to your Explorer or Finder so you can get access to it with a single click, instead of expanding folder after folder in the tree panel.
16. Close programs you’re not using. As a software engineer, I use a lot of programs important to my work. However, in most cases, I only need a few applications open at the same time. Instead of Alt-Tabbing constantly and fighting the computer to locate the program you need, try only having the applications you need open. Close everything else. For example, if you have already located a file and no longer need a particular Explorer or Finder instance open, close it. There’s no reason to leave it around at all.
17. Limit time on Digg, Delicious, news sites and blogs. I don’t think I need to say too much about this. There are so many sites on the Internet worth looking at, including this site . Digg, Delicious, news and blogs are great from an interest perspective, but they can really take you away from the work you should be working on. Try to limit going to these sites during the working day. If you really have to, try doing it during your lunch time. No, you don’t need to have your finger on the pulse every single minute of the day…
18. Change your mindset and make work fun. For me, I find it difficult to stay focused on doing things I’m not by nature interested in doing. In most cases, there’s probably nothing I can do about it. However, be mindful of the fact that your perception of work is something you can control. For my last tip here, I suggest you try changing your mindset or turning work into a game. An unfocused mind, is an unchallenged mind. So make things fun!

To all my dear friends, this is specially dedicated to you.

A Friend is…. 朋友就是 ….

Accepts you as you are 接受原本的你
Believes in "you" 相信你這個人
Calls you just to say "Hi" 打電話給你就是想說聲"嗨"
Doesn't give up on you 從不放棄對你的信心
Envisions the whole of you 預期你總是盡全力

Forgives your mistakes 原諒你的過錯
Gives unconditionally 無條件地過錯
Helps you 幫助你
Invites you over 邀請你
Just "be" with you 靜靜地在你的身旁
Keeps you close at heart 靠近你的心

Loves you for who you are 因你原來的樣子而愛你
Makes a difference in your life 使你的生活與以往不同
Never judges 不間斷
Offers support 支持你
Picks you up 扶你一把
Quiets your fears 止息你的懼怕

Raises your spirits 鼓舞你的心靈
Says nice things about you 跟別人述說你好的那一面
Tells you the truth when you need to hear it 當需要時會告訴你實情
Understands you 懂你
Values you 看重你

Walks beside you 與你同行
X-plain things you don't understand 解你的疑惑
Yells when you won't listen and 在你聽不下時會大吼一下
Zaps you back to reality 把你拉回現實