Saturday, January 21
-8:52 pm
These two songs just speak out to me today, maybe 'cause of the turmoil some things had caused in me. Haha. Just.. love them particular today. -shrugs-
Angels and Devils - DishwallaThis is the last time
That I'm ever gonna come here tonight
This is the last time I will fall
Into a place that fails us all inside
And I can see the pain in you
And I can see the love in you
And fighting all the demons will take time
Will take time
The angels they burn inside for us
And are we ever
Are we ever gonna learn to fly
The devils they burn inside of us
And are we ever gonna come back down
Come around
I'm always gonna worry about the things that could make us cold
This is the last time
That I'm ever gonna give in tonight
Are there angels or devils crawling here?
I just want to know what blurs and what is clear to see
Well I can see the pain in you
And I can see the love in you
And fighting all the demons will take time
It will take time
The angels they burn inside for us
And are we ever
Are we ever gonna learn to fly
The devils they burn inside of us
And are we ever gonna come back down, come around
I'm always gonna worry about the things that could break us
And if I were to give in
I'd give it up and then
Take a breath, make it deep
'Cause it might be the last one you get
Be the last one that could make us cold
Could make us cold
I'm always gonna worry about the things that could make us cold
Amazed - LonestarEverytime our eyes meet
This feeling inside me
Is almost more than I can take
Baby, when you touch me
I can feel how much you love me
And it just blows me away
I've never been this close to anyone or anything
I can hear your thoughts
I can see your dreams.
I don't know how you do what you do
I'm so in love with you, it just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life with you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby, I'm amazed by you.
The smell of your skin
The taste of your kiss
The way you whisper in the dark
Your hair all around me, baby you surround me
You touch every place in my heart
Oh, it feels like the first time, everytime
I wanna spend the whole night in your eyes.
I don't know how you do what you do
I'm so in love with you, it just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life with you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby, I'm amazed by you.
--- Instrumental ---
Every little thing that you do
I'm so in love with you
It just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life with you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Oh, every little thing that you do
Baby, I'm amazed by you...
A little update for the past one and half weeks:
- the sun finally came out after a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong rainy week. =D i'm happy!
- the CO overseas trip is finally settled. somewhat. but i can't go and somemore they are likely to go on my birthday weekend. can't even celebrate with them. so sad. =[
- work can get a little boring at times. especially when i don't know what i can do which is when shannon, too has no idea to give me what to do. Haha. can just nod off like nobody's business just staring at the computer!
- i've been asked to give treats so many times~! now i know how the army guys feel when they are asked to give treats
just because they are given a salary. haha. isn't the monthly allowance given by your parents some form of income hmm?
- had a little gathering with aaron and sharon~ =]
- visited CO today. Haha, had a little practice with my old instrument. Sad to say, my skills has gone from the worst to bottom-pit, incorrigible badness! Haha. saw alot of J1s with experience. good sign. hope they will stay even without some teacher's insistence, or should i say, forceful-ness? heh.
- watched memoirs of a geisha today too! hmm, a little arty-farty but i like the cinematography and zhang ziyi. she's absolutely pretty! blue-grey eyes of sayuri. =] it looked good on her. though it was graded as just average, i think it did justice to the book. pretty well done la, maybe 'cause i didn't want to have much expectations in the first place anyway. i'm satisifed. =] up next, Fearless perhaps? last jet li martial arts epic. he's fantastic man, love his shows eversince the first wong fei hong on teevee. heh.
- wedding dinner was okay. didn't do much as a receptionist. haha. but the angpows earned was HUGE. especially when the $$ only came from 2 sources. dinner consisted of the usual fare la. haha.
- i just can't seem to cut you away from there completely despite the calmness and indifference i can produce. i still think, speculate, and conclude about this and that. is it because that you have turn into some kind of habitual presence? isn't that bad? or is it because i still somehow, on some level of sub-consciousness, can't figure you out? so it's a quest for me to unravel the mystery to satisfy my ever curious mind? but sometimes things happened toooooo coincidentally that they can't be classified as coincidences, at least i don't think so.. my feelings dance to whatever you say or do. maybe not as passionately as they used to be, but they do still react, ever subtly. but there's no point in all these stupid thoughts 'cause nothing will come out of it.
NOTHING. you said so. i think so too. why bother?
or maybe i'm just a masochist 'cause somewhere in my heart, i'm pretty convinced that we won't work out even if we really get together. again why bother? again and again, i'm bothered by these kinds of things. where has my previous absolve gone to? so fast it has deserted me. bleh. and sometimes i wonder what would have happened if things were different.
whatever.
Tuesday, January 10
-9:22 pm
No one seems to care about this trip that I thought everyone wants. Waited for the whole of yesterday and today for the girls to reply. But zlich. Nothing came from them. At least the guys were kind enough to say something. Granted that it's still too early to plan anything, because hey, it's all the way in MARCH. What's the hurry right? But if discussion is going to take up most of the time, then isn't is better for decisions to be made earlier? Just hope no one complains of a sloppy job done then.
Brr, it has been raining for the past 3 to 4 days. It's cold! I can't stand it man. Makes one wanna hibernate for the rest of my life. Haha. My fingers feel like they are going to be snapped off in any seconds now. Papers explained that such weather is brought on by some cold wind coming in from China or North pole or something like that. Wows. Amazing don't you think? All the way up north to here. Some kind chain effect huh.
Yay, got to be a receptionist at my cousin's wedding!=] Heh, it's going to be fun. Not sure if I can do a good job of it, but I'll do my best! =] I mean, nothing much right? Just make sure the guests sign where they are supposed to, keep an eye on the angpows, keep the gifts and present them with my utmost sincere smile. Hahahahaha! Maybe I'll get an angpow out of this? Haha. Kidding la. I'm most willing to do it for free. Heh.
Sincerely hope the trip will be feasible, whenever it's going to be held. Make it a weekend trip if it's going to be in March, preferably my birthday weekend! Haha. Anything's fine la actually. See ya peeps around!
Sunday, January 8
-8:48 pm
March 2004, I did a personality test and got back INFP. Now, I got a INFJ. Maybe I'm really a half INFJ and a half INFP, if that is possible at all.
The Counselor Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in reaching their goals, and directive and introverted in their interpersonal roles. Counselors focus on human potentials, think in terms of ethical values, and come easily to decisions. The small number of this type (little more than 2 percent) is regrettable, since Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare of others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions. Although Counsleors tend to be private, sensitive people, and are not generally visible leaders, they nevertheless work quite intensely with those close to them, quietly exerting their influence behind the scenes with their families, friends, and colleagues. This type has great depth of personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and deal with complex issues and people.
Counselors can be hard to get to know. They have an unusually rich inner life, but they are reserved and tend not to share their reactions except with those they trust. With their loved ones, certainly, Counselors are not reluctant to express their feelings, their face lighting up with the positive emotions, but darkening like a thunderhead with the negative. Indeed, because of their strong ability to take into themselves the feelings of others, Counselors can be hurt rather easily by those around them, which, perhaps, is one reason why they tend to be private people, mutely withdrawing from human contact. At the same time, friends who have known a Counselor for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that they are inconsistent; Counselors value their integrity a great deal, but they have intricately woven, mysterious personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.
Counselors have strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another's emotions or intentions -- good or evil -- even before that person is conscious of them. This "mind-reading" can take the form of feeling the hidden distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types to comprehend. Even Counselors can seldom tell how they came to penetrate others' feelings so keenly. Furthermore, the Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future. What is known as ESP may well be exceptional intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such supernormal intuition is found frequently in the Counselor, and can extend to people, things, and often events, taking the form of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance. http://keirsey.com/personality/nfij.htmlIntroverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
by Joe Butt
Profile: INFJ
Revision: 3.01
Date of Revision: 6 Mar 2005
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Beneath the quiet exterior, INFJs hold deep convictions about the weightier matters of life. Those who are activists -- INFJs gravitate toward such a role -- are there for the cause, not for personal glory or political power.
INFJs are champions of the oppressed and downtrodden. They often are found in the wake of an emergency, rescuing those who are in acute distress. INFJs may fantasize about getting revenge on those who victimize the defenseless. The concept of 'poetic justice' is appealing to the INFJ.
"There's something rotten in Denmark." Accurately suspicious about others' motives, INFJs are not easily led. These are the people that you can rarely fool any of the time. Though affable and sympathetic to most, INFJs are selective about their friends. Such a friendship is a symbiotic bond that transcends mere words.
INFJs have a knack for fluency in language and facility in communication. In addition, nonverbal sensitivity enables the INFJ to know and be known by others intimately.
Writing, counseling, public service and even politics are areas where INFJs frequently find their niche.
Functional Analysis:
Introverted iNtuition
Introverted intuitives, INFJs enjoy a greater clarity of perception of inner, unconscious processes than all but their INTJ cousins. Just as SP types commune with the object and "live in the here and now" of the physical world, INFJs readily grasp the hidden psychological stimuli behind the more observable dynamics of behavior and affect. Their amazing ability to deduce the inner workings of the mind, will and emotions of others gives INFJs their reputation as prophets and seers. Unlike the confining, routinizing nature of introverted sensing, introverted intuition frees this type to act insightfully and spontaneously as unique solutions arise on an event by event basis.
Extraverted Feeling
Extraverted feeling, the auxiliary deciding function, expresses a range of emotion and opinions of, for and about people. INFJs, like many other FJ types, find themselves caught between the desire to express their wealth of feelings and moral conclusions about the actions and attitudes of others, and the awareness of the consequences of unbridled candor. Some vent the attending emotions in private, to trusted allies. Such confidants are chosen with care, for INFJs are well aware of the treachery that can reside in the hearts of mortals. This particular combination of introverted intuition and extraverted feeling provides INFJs with the raw material from which perceptive counselors are shaped.
Introverted Thinking
The INFJ's thinking is introverted, turned toward the subject. Perhaps it is when the INFJ's thinking function is operative that he is most aloof. A comrade might surmise that such detachment signals a disillusionment, that she has also been found lacking by the sardonic eye of this one who plumbs the depths of the human spirit. Experience suggests that such distancing is merely an indication that the seer is hard at work and focusing energy into this less efficient tertiary function.
Extraverted Sensing
INFJs are twice blessed with clarity of vision, both internal and external. Just as they possess inner vision which is drawn to the forms of the unconscious, they also have external sensing perception which readily takes hold of worldly objects. Sensing, however, is the weakest of the INFJ's arsenal and the most vulnerable. INFJs, like their fellow intuitives, may be so absorbed in intuitive perceiving that they become oblivious to physical reality. The INFJ under stress may fall prey to various forms of immediate gratification. Awareness of extraverted sensing is probably the source of the "SP wannabe" side of INFJs. Many yearn to live spontaneously; it's not uncommon for INFJ actors to take on an SP (often ESTP) role.
Famous INFJs:
Nathan, prophet of Israel
Aristophanes
Chaucer
Goethe
Robert Burns, Scottish poet
U.S. Presidents:
Martin Van Buren
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fanny Crosby, (blind) hymnist
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Fred McMurray (My Three Sons)
Shirley Temple Black, child actor, ambassador
Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, martyr
James Reston, newspaper reporter
Shirley McClain (Sweet Charity, ...)
Piers Anthony, author ("Xanth" series)
Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie)
Tom Selleck
John Katz, critic, author
Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul and Mary)
U. S. Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL)
Billy Crystal
Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury)
Nelson Mandela
Mel Gibson
Carrie Fisher
Nicole Kidman
Jamie Foxx
Sela Ward
Mark Harmon
Gary Dourdan
Marg Helgaberger
Evangeline Lilly
Tori May
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Introverted iNtuiting Feeling Judging
by Marina Margaret Heiss
INFJs are distinguished by both their complexity of character and the unusual range and depth of their talents. Strongly humanitarian in outlook, INFJs tend to be idealists, and because of their J preference for closure and completion, they are generally "doers" as well as dreamers. This rare combination of vision and practicality often results in INFJs taking a disproportionate amount of responsibility in the various causes to which so many of them seem to be drawn.
INFJs are deeply concerned about their relations with individuals as well as the state of humanity at large. They are, in fact, sometimes mistaken for extroverts because they appear so outgoing and are so genuinely interested in people -- a product of the Feeling function they most readily show to the world. On the contrary, INFJs are true introverts, who can only be emotionally intimate and fulfilled with a chosen few from among their long-term friends, family, or obvious "soul mates." While instinctively courting the personal and organizational demands continually made upon them by others, at intervals INFJs will suddenly withdraw into themselves, sometimes shutting out even their intimates. This apparent paradox is a necessary escape valve for them, providing both time to rebuild their depleted resources and a filter to prevent the emotional overload to which they are so susceptible as inherent "givers." As a pattern of behavior, it is perhaps the most confusing aspect of the enigmatic INFJ character to outsiders, and hence the most often misunderstood -- particularly by those who have little experience with this rare type.
Due in part to the unique perspective produced by this alternation between detachment and involvement in the lives of the people around them, INFJs may well have the clearest insights of all the types into the motivations of others, for good and for evil. The most important contributing factor to this uncanny gift, however, are the empathic abilities often found in Fs, which seem to be especially heightened in the INFJ type (possibly by the dominance of the introverted N function).
This empathy can serve as a classic example of the two-edged nature of certain INFJ talents, as it can be strong enough to cause discomfort or pain in negative or stressful situations. More explicit inner conflicts are also not uncommon in INFJs; it is possible to speculate that the causes for some of these may lie in the specific combinations of preferences which define this complex type. For instance, there can sometimes be a "tug-of-war" between NF vision and idealism and the J practicality that urges compromise for the sake of achieving the highest priority goals. And the I and J combination, while perhaps enhancing self-awareness, may make it difficult for INFJs to articulate their deepest and most convoluted feelings.
Usually self-expression comes more easily to INFJs on paper, as they tend to have strong writing skills. Since in addition they often possess a strong personal charisma, INFJs are generally well-suited to the "inspirational" professions such as teaching (especially in higher education) and religious leadership. Psychology and counseling are other obvious choices, but overall, INFJs can be exceptionally difficult to pigeonhole by their career paths. Perhaps the best example of this occurs in the technical fields. Many INFJs perceive themselves at a disadvantage when dealing with the mystique and formality of "hard logic", and in academic terms this may cause a tendency to gravitate towards the liberal arts rather than the sciences. However, the significant minority of INFJs who do pursue studies and careers in the latter areas tend to be as successful as their T counterparts, as it is *iNtuition* -- the dominant function for the INFJ type -- which governs the ability to understand abstract theory and implement it creatively.
In their own way, INFJs are just as much "systems builders" as are INTJs; the difference lies in that most INFJ "systems" are founded on human beings and human values, rather than information and technology. Their systems may for these reasons be conceptually "blurrier" than analogous NT ones, harder to measure in strict numerical terms, and easier to take for granted -- yet it is these same underlying reasons which make the resulting contributions to society so vital and profound.
Copyright © 1996-2005 by Marina Margaret Heiss and Joe Butt
http://typelogic.com/infj.htmlI don't know if I'm supposed to look into careers in the financial field. There are signs pointing to me in that way. Treasurer for YF, temp job as an account assistant, 2 day job as a cashier?! All related to money stuff and all have happened within these few months. A calling perhaps? Should I? Should I? *tears hair* My personality type doesn't seem to fit this job. Oh no. How?!
Saturday, January 7
-1:04 pm
after one week of this thing called working, i figured out what some people said studying is so much better than working. the feeling is more defined once you have experienced it. now i can't wait for july/august to come so that i can go back to school. it's so much simpler. haha.
there are so many things to learn in this job of mine. it is not simple admin/data entry stuff where some had said that it would get boring after a while. gotta deal with money, money and more money. purchase ledger, sales ledger, cashbooks, invoices and what nots. i'm so scared that i'll forget some part of the process then in the end bring some trouble for the company. now maybe not that bad cuz the accountant is still around but after she leaves? i really don't know lor. statement of accounts are still fine. as long everything tallies it should be just fine. but finance statements? argh!! so many things to do! kinda hard for a first timer with zero experience in accounting.
but i still think this is a valuable experience. at the end of the day, i still learn something. actually, alot of things. it's not something simple and mundane like data entry, admin stuff.. not to give offense la, but i think i'm lucky to have landed with this job. it is really interesting cuz it's like more specific? and if i am to pursue a course in accounting, the experience these four months will bring is going to be put into good use. =] isn't that great?! haha. one week down, 15 more weeks to go. hmm, but if you are to add in all the holidays, especially this month's, maybe i'm left with about 14 weeks? haha. still not sure how things will work after the accountant leave for her maternity leave, but hope the days to come will be good, cuz at least i'm starting to get a hang of how things work now. but i still don't want january to end. =[ because it will mean shannon will leave me all to myself, chinese new year (no cause of unhappiness though), and the impending A level results - doomday. =.="
anyways, got several movies i wanna catch.. wonder who i can call. who's available for evening shows on weekdays or weekend shows? hahaha.
Monday, January 2
-10:14 pm
haha, tomorrow start work liao. i'm feeling the adrenaline man and it's all because i'm plain nervous about it. ~~!!! i wanna sleep tonight!! or else i'm so going to be zombified man. didn't sleep enough yesterday night because went to ben's place to ton. hmm. not many people turned for it. thought it was going to be some humogous party with all the adults coming. but in the end? che.. haha. didn't do much. played some games, watched tv - i've a date with the vampire 3 and the island. the vampire show quite nicel leh, maybe i'll continue watching to see the ending.. but it's until 1 pm leh. like quite siao lor, next day still got work lor. aiyes. see first ba. got vcds can borrow mah.
bought some clothes today again. hahha. sort man. think i'm on a shopping high. see nice and cheap clothings must buy already. haven't start earning money already start spending. dots lor. hmm but they are pretty decent enough for new year ba. shall wear them for chinese new year then. haha. got new tops and bottoms, what more can a girl ask for?
egads.. i don't know if i can sleep now. i don't wanna sleep so early! it's so bloody weird! haiz haiz. i'm breaking down into a nervous wreck sia.
shiat.
anyway, i pray that 2006 is going to be a fine year ahead! not too much surprises, but hope it doesn't bore the hell outta my mind as well! heh. oh yeah, have fun in the army guys! hope to see you guys soon!
