BBQ Debrief

This post is just to serve as a reminder of the PRSTC Rota 3 BBQ outing.

Total budget: $850

Food - $500

Chalet - $150

Utensils - $200

Food for the event
- bee hoon goreng
- hot dogs
- mee goreng
- seafood fried rice

- mee goreng

- satay 200s, gravy

- chic wings 10 kg worth

- stingray 

- prawn 

- clayfish

- sotongs

- fishballs

Sauces & gravy 
- chilli

- sambal

- tomato
- mayo
- limes
 
Desserts/ drinks
- Canned cocktails, 
- marshmallows
- bottle syrup, 4 bottles

Utensils
- charcoal, 5 packets
- tongs, 2 large, 4 small
- plastic cups 150, plates 150, forks 150, spoons150

- wire mesh, 2 large
- fire starter, 40s
- tumbler, 2 small
- margarine, 1 large
- lemon grass, 3 set

- ice, 2 packs, (1 set of plastics)
- trashbags, 1 set
- aluminium tray, 2 large, 2 small, 6 medium
- aluminum foil, 1 set
- tissues, 2 set
- scoop, 3

- newspapers
 
Activities items
- movie CDs
- soccerball
- slackline

- laptop
- harddisk

- laptop-tv adaptor

- iPhone & laptop charger

- stereos

- extension plug

- chalet receipt

- boardgames

- playin cards 

Schedule 

3pm
- Canoe
- slackline
- beach soccer
 
6pm
- BBQ
- board games
- card games
- games room
 
8pm
- group activities
- forfeit games
 
10pm onwards
- movie

Happy Thoughts

Time and time again we fret and complain about our daily life. The tendency of finding comfort in letting our negative emotions go make us forget that it is truly better to think on the bright side.

Yes, sharing with our close ones the thing we hate the most is good. Good to open up about our problems, to let out those bottled anger and sadness of our miserable life. But, have we ever realised the no. of times we been doing that compared to the no. of times we talked about how good life was?

Think about it for a minute. Reflect back through your recent conversations. And see yourself as who you are. Optimistic or pessimistic? Or even optimistic pessimist?

Let us now change the way we are, by reminding ourselves that we SHOULD think happy thoughts. Hey, at least save our friends ass off from the emotional chatter that we often make shall we?

Got problems?!

Believe not that there are always problems with the world but yourself.
- A.N.Iman

Sometimes your life may seems perfect, so much so that you forget that there may be gaps. Hence, judging that the problems may not rely within you, was actually the basic mistake you made.

What's more, you are not the only one leading the perfect lifestyle. There's more than a billion people in the world, so how can there be only one.

Therefore, why not shape yourself better first rather than shaping the world better. Hypothetically speaking, the world will be much greater if you had change yourself exceptionally.

Visual Artist's Dilemma

I took a note, from a digital art book, which states that most artists are visual creatures. What I believe they meant was that artist see things in their head, visions of what is to come or how an idea had blossomed to form a complex picture. The overall big picture that is the end product of whatever they had ponder about.

Once that picture/vision has been shape, it forms to be the goal of the artist, and then it will be his duty to do what is necessary to reach it.

However, the difficulty for the artist is during the need to explain or portray that mental picture to anyone. It requires the help of detailed drawings, specific words descriptions, and other related-media. What's more, if the artist himself may not be that intellectually capable, then it distorts the way he describes them.

One analogy is like when an architect of engineering, who is capable of visualising how a complicated new machine works, but may not necessarily know the right technological terms to explain his creation. Hence, his peers/workers may not be able to comprehend what he is trying to achieve nor can work toward that particular goal.

In the end, the artist does most of the leg work for his own creations, and even if he achieve it, ages will have passed. But then again, he would have been crowned a genius.

Psychedelic

A simple research on brainwaves gave a surprising link to my current sleeping disorder.

Here is a a quick summary:

Beta:
- strongly engaged mind
- mental activities
- arousal
- active debate

Alpha:
- reflect or meditate
- non-arousal
- a walk in a garden

Theta:
- daydream
- can't recall what happen a few mins/secs ago
- tasks so automatic, that can mentally disengage from them
- achieve mental relaxation
- prone to flow of ideas

Delta:
- deep dreamless sleep


What seems to be the case is that since I daydream frequently and often full of ideas, Theta brainwaves are roaming through my mind on most occasion. Due to the this fact, my brainwaves can easily switch to Delta mode causing me to feel sleepy despite the hour of that day. Therefore, providing a vague yet meaningful explanation of my sleeping disorder.