What's your Holiday Personality?

Your Holiday Personality is Caring

Your holidays are all about connecting and sharing. This is a sacred time of year, and you like to spend it with those who are special to you. You like to make sure everyone around you is comfortable, full of love (and goodies!), and healthy. You love to surprise people with the best Christmas gifts ever. You will search high and low for that perfect present. You are always reflecting on the true meaning behind the holidays. You appreciate all that you have been given in this world.

What's Your Holiday Personality?

Blogthings: Cheaper Than a Therapist

my power element

Your Power Element is Water

Your power colors: blue and aqua Your energy: deep Your season: winter Like the ocean, you evoke deep feelings and passion. You have an emotional, sensitive, and spiritual soul. A bit mysterious, you tend to be quiet when you are working out a problem. You need your alone time, so that you can think and dream.

What's Your Power Element?

What's your Life Mission?

You Are the Leader

You are inspiring and uplifting. You bring out the best in people, through both nurturing and challenging them. You always can see the big picture in life. You are very philosophical and deeply spiritual. You understand people, and you can look at their lives objectively. You can help others grow and heal. People feel comforted by your presence. You help them gain perspective on their lives.

What's Your Life's Mission?

my personality at 35,000 feet

Your Personality at 35,000 Feet Is Thoughtful and Contemplative

Deep down, you prefer spending time alone to spending time with others. You enjoy thinking more than talking. You are good with your place in the world. You are confident and comfortable with who you are. Your gift is having good ears. You are naturally musical, and you pick up foreign languages easily. You are inspired by challenges. If something is hard to accomplish, you want to do it. It's very easy for you to feel happy. You can find peace with any situation.

The Personality Test at 35,000 Feet

25 random things about me

(taken off my fb account. for the benefit of those who don't have fb. :)

1. my Confirmation name is Antonia. named in honour of and for St Anthony of Padua - patron saint of those who misplace/lose their things. i've prayed so much for his help and have had my prayers answered so that naming myself after him was the only proper thing to do.

2. i have been writing poems since i was 10 and stories since i was 7. writing is like breathing to me. i especially love experimenting writing poetry in different forms e.g. sonnet, haiku, couplets and free verse.

3. my favourite number is 7 and i have a strange connection to the same number which i've noticed in my life. :)

4. i don't like horror movies, and i can get nightmares after watching them. i still remember the awful dreams i had after watching Stephen King's 'It'. the book was bad too. i' m still scared as hell of clowns, especially evil demonic children eating clowns.

5. i want to learn Japanese, German, French ... i want to improve my Mandarin, spoken and written. i love languages and i pick them up quite easily.

6. i may be noisy and like to 'buat kecoh' but at heart, i need lots of space and time - silence and solitude are my close companions. and i m really quite shy.

7. coffee drinking is something i only picked up in law school. before that it was milo or other chocolate based drinks all the way.

8. people never cease to fascinate me. i can people watch for hours, and i believe that people are inherently good, and that no matter how awful a person is, there is something worth redeeming in that person.

9. i love nature scenery but not the leeches, mosquitoes and other creepy crawlies i encountered on my jungle trek. :P

10. i would love to spend a beach holiday this way - beachcombing, walking by the sea in the early morning calm and meditating on God and life, lazing about and reading a good book after a delicious meal. there's something about the combination of surf, sand and sun that relaxes and refreshes me.

11. my family (mother's side) has been Catholic for a few generations back and i m thankful for the faith of my forefathers and foremothers to guide and sustain me.

12. i admire Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr each for their humanitarianism and their dedication to their dreams. i can only pray for a fraction of the same in my life.

13. maths is not my strong suit. i remember awful days doing add maths and feeling oh so stupid. ugh. thankfully those days are over.

14. i dislike injustice and unkindness and despise bullies. pick on someone your own size.

15. i was a librarian in school, and i love books an awful lot. i dream of having a giant glass fronted bookshelf filled my texts on law, philosophy, manga books, graphic novels and religious books etc. working on it. :)

16. from no. 15, i have eclectic and wide-ranging taste in books. i don't discriminate, except that maths, engineering, IT and science texts are not to my liking.

17. sleep is important - i need at least 7 hours to function properly.

18. i have a weakness for bookmarks and love making and collecting them. i also like receiving greeting cards.

19. Hokkien, but can't speak the lingo except bits and pieces. most at home in English followed by Canto, Malay, Mandarin, Hakka ...

20. i am restless and fidgety. altho i can also be completely focused on something and ignore noise and chaos around me to enter into it fully.

21. my idea of a fun time is long, deep and stimulating conversations with a few close friends or best of all, one on one with a close friend. i don't like crowds and noise, and prefer intimate gatherings to large and noisy ones with superficial chatter.

22. music i like is wide-ranging too. as long as it is not distasteful to my ears, i will listen to it.

23. two times when i write best - early morning and late at night.

24. i dislike eating seafood. except possibly fish. (which doesn't really count now, does it?)

25. i knit, and i am looking forward to taking it up again as it is just so relaxing. i used to do cross stitch too, in my younger days. crochet and tatting are beyond me though. :P

the key(s) to my life

The Key to Your Life is Wisdom

Anything good in your life comes from your vision and clarity. You're able to see above all the small things in life and wisely understand the big picture. Anything bad in your life comes from sinking to the level of those around you. Remember to lift people up, and refuse to participate in anything petty.

The Keys To Your Life

what does my birth month mean?

Your Birth Month is July

Introspective and intense, you tend to be a deep thinker. You are quiet and spiritual - and you have a unique perspective on life. Your soul reflects: Lightness, luck and an open heart Your gemstone: Ruby Your flower: Larkspur Your colors: Green and red

What Does Your Birth Month Mean?

What's My Expression Number?

Your Expression Number is 11

You tend to be associated with idealistic concepts and spiritual issues. You have high potentials that are somewhat difficult to live up to. You have very strong intuition and you can be a bit psychic at times. Highly inspirational, you can lead merely by your own example. You have an inborn inner strength and awareness that helps you advise others. Although you have what it takes for a successful career, you belong outside the business world. Overly sensitive and temperamental, you tend to have a lot of nervous tension. You dream a lot, so much so that you may be more of a dreamer than a doer. Fantasy and reality tend to get intermingled for you, and that leads to impracticality.

What's Your Expression Number?

Of the school band and playing percussion

a long time ago , i was a member of the Marian Convent school band, and i played percussion. to be more exact, it was the triangle.

the memories are sweet - staying back after school, practising in our groups in the school hall, and marching on the school field to coordinate our moves, hanging with alison and janis who was with me on the triangle going 'ting' at the right time, messing with it so that it went 'tingtingting' like a crazed alarm clock. doing stunts that involved my legs and hands flying all over the place and watching my fellow band-mates practise when i got bored (the triangle was nice, but it wasn't er, super challenging. funny because i never had that much sense of rhythm)

we played 'long long ago' 'negaraku' and 'wawasan 2020' for sports day, and i was in Standard 4 at that time. marching in our red skirts and white shirts across the school field, i had never felt prouder.

sadly awhile after that, the drum major passed away from leukemia. and the teacher in charge transferred to another school. so our band was disbanded.
and even more sadly, when i went to secondary school in main convent, the 'padang' was hanky sized and there was NO school band at all.
by the time i got to Form 6 and there was a school band, it was a bit too late. having said that, i admired the skills and dedication of the Michaelian Military Band, and i thought they played beautifully at the concert i attended in the town hall 6 years ago.

if i had kids, or if i ever have kids, i'd encourage them to join the school band. it builds rapport, gives you confidence, exercise, exposure. and you get to learn a musical instrument, hehe. hard work of course. but best of all, you get to make all the noise you want while marching around. how's that for cool? :)

45 things about petrina7

45 things you will get to know about petrina7 (by the end of this post)

1. Do you like cheese?
= it's all right, but not too much of it.

2. Have you ever done Heroin?
= no.

3. Do you own a bike?
= not now. i used to, though.

4. What are you doing tonight?
= getting some well-deserved sleep ;)

5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments?
= a bit, but i am most nervous before DENTIST appointments.

6. What do you think of hotdogs?
= not bad at all. i like 1901 new york chicken.

7. Whats your favorite Christmas song?
= Christmas isn't Christmas till it happens in your heart ...

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning?
= Milo for normal days, Ipoh White Coffee for days when i need that extra boost.

9. Can you do push ups?
= not really.

10. Is your bathroom clean?
= yes.

11. What's your favorite piece of jewelry?
= a red and silver choker.

12. Do you have friends?
= hahahaha. OF COURSE. :)

13. Do you miss someone?
= not really.

14. Middle name?
= Antonia (my confirmation name - after St Anthony of Padua, patron saint of those who always lose their things and need help looking for them!)

15. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment
= tired, want to sleep and lazy.

16. Name the last 3 things you have bought
= hairpins, stockings and biscuits.

17. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink
= water, coffee, milo.

18. Current worry?
= ... too many to list. which may explain why i m so tired.

19. Current hate?
= instructions which are unclear/vague.

20. Favorite place to be?
= home i.e. ipoh.

21. How did you bring in the New Year?
= oh yeah, i was in ipoh, in church for the midnight mass.

22. Where would you like to go?
= anywhere but here. ;)

23. Are you hungry?
= no. just had a good dinner at izzi's with alicia, ai ling, wan san and kar heng.

24. What made you laugh last?
= conversation with abovementioned parties (please refer to answer for question no. 23)

25. Do you own slippers?
= oh yes. can't do much without them.

26. What shirt are you wearing?
= a shirt. period.

27. Do you burn or tan?
= not really.

28. Favorite colour?
= blue

29. Would you be a pirate?
=what? a vcd/dvd seller? no - i don't do the whole blonde hair and talking in canto loudly thing.

30. What songs do you sing in the shower?
= sometimes - old songs, sometimes hymns. depends on my mood.

31. What did you have for lunch?
= today? oh - daily's kopitiam at the weld. usually i eat in the office though - wholemeal bread and an apple.

32. Is there someone who has changed your life?
= yes.

33. What's in your pocket right now?
= no pockets la, friend.

34. Best bed sheets as a child?
= the green one which showed the road to the beach. i used to imagine where it led to, and what a person going down the road could do.

35. Worst injury you've ever had?
= can't say, have had quite a few these years.

36. How many TVs do you have in your house?
=one. i only have one pair of eyes anyway.

37. Who is your loudest friend?
=AHAHAHHAHAAH. i better not say. i know too many loud people (myself included!)

38. Who is your quietest friend?
= moony.

39. Do you wish on shooting stars?
= if i see one, i might.

40. What is your favorite movie?
= silence of the lambs.

41. What is your favorite candy?
= nothing in particular. i prefer chocolate.

42. What song do/did you want played at your wedding?
= His Love - it's a church song.

43. What song do you want played at your funeral?
= One Sweet Day.

44. What were you doing at 12 AM last night?
= continuing my research on strata titles. damn! we're 20 years behind singapore. and NSW.

45. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up?
= do i REALLY have to get up and go back to the office??!!!

What my name means

What Your Name Means

http://www.paulsadowski.com/Numbers.asp

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You entered: petrina tan tjin yi
There are 16 letters in your name.
Those 16 letters total to 79
There are 6 vowels and 10 consonants in your name.

What your first name means:Greek Female Feminine form of Peter: Stone; rock.


Your number is: 7

The characteristics of #7 are: Analysis, understanding, knowledge, awareness, studious, meditating.

The expression or destiny for #7:
Thought, analysis, introspection, and seclusiveness are all characteristics of the expression number 7. The hallmark of the number 7 is a good mind, and especially good at searching out and finding the truth. You are so very capable of analyzing, judging and discriminating, that very little ever escapes your observation and deep understanding. You are the type of person that can really get involved in a search for wisdom or hidden truths, often becoming an authority on whatever it is your are focusing on. This can easily be of a technical or scientific nature, or it may be religious or occult, it matters very little, you pursue knowledge with the same sort of vigor. You can make a very fine teacher, or because of a natural inclination toward the spiritual, you may become deeply emerged in religious affairs or even psychic explorations. You tend to operate on a rather different wavelength, and many of your friends may not really know you very well. The positive aspects of the 7 expression are that you can be a true perfectionist in a very positive sense of the word. You are very logical, and usually employ a quite rational approach to most things you do. You can be so rational at times that you almost seem to lack emotion, and when you are faced with an emotional situation, you may have a bit of a problem coping with it. You have excellent capabilities to study and learn really deep and difficult subjects, and to search for hidden fundamentals. At full maturity you are likely to be a very peaceful and poised individual.

If there is an over supply of the number 7 in your makeup, the negative aspects of the number may be apparent. The chief negative of 7 relates to the limited degree of trust that you may have in people. A tendency to be highly introverted can make you a bit on the self-centered side, certainly very much self-contained . Because of this, you are not very adaptable, and you may tend to be overly critical and intolerant. You really like to work alone, at your own pace and in your own way. You neither show or understand emotions very well.

Your Soul Urge number is: 7

A Soul Urge number of 7 means:
With a number 7 Soul Urge you are very fond of reading, and retreating to periods of being alone and away from the disruptions of the outer world. You like to dream and develop you idealistic understandings, to study and analyze, to gain knowledge and wisdom. You may be too laid back and withdrawn to really succeed in the business world, and you will be much more comfortable in circumstances that are tolerant of your reserve, your analytical approach, and your desire to use your mind rather than your physical being.

You are very timid around people that you don't know very well, so much so at times that casual conversation and social situations can be strained. You tend to repress your emotions to the extend that some people have a good bit of difficult understanding you. You tend to be very selective with friends and you don't easily adapt to new environments or to new people very quickly.

The negative traits of the 7 include becoming too much the introvert and isolated from others.

Your Inner Dream number is: 9

An Inner Dream number of 9 means:
You dream of being creative, intellectual, and universal; the selfless humanitarian. You understand the needy and what to help them. You would love to be a person people count on for support and advice.

first month of chambering/ joining the gym/ bbq nite

soon my first month of chambering comes to a close...

prize quote from last week - after all the tortuous negotiation in a meeting room, a man raises his hands, looks me in the eye and says

"AFTER YOU SEE ALL THIS, YOU STILL WANT TO BE A LAWYER AH?!"

...

it's the sort of thing that demands a smile. because you know, words fail me at the moment.

i can't believe how quickly time flies. i still have a lot to learn, and everyday i make new and sometimes quite horrible mistakes. well, nevermind, it's been quite a ride, and learning is part of living. only dead people stop learning. and i m very much alive, thank you.

on another note, i joined the gym. yes. i did. i m not joking - it's a pretty far cry from sedentary and lazy petrina.
so yeah, i better put it to good use. because i don't want to let work consume my life.

bbq nite last sat - thanks for making it rock! :) the pics will come by real soon. and thank you also for all the lovely pressies. hehehe, i have 3 pens now. and a watch. and homer's odyssey with Lat was Here - what strange bedfellows! and yes, my lovely spongebob squarepants doll .thank you ... :)

Yet another quiz from petrina7

1) 4 names in your hp inbox?
Yin Harn, Siew Wee, Sze Han, Raja

2) Your ringtone?
nostalgia

3) What did you do at 12 last night?
was doing work on my laptop

4)When and who was the last person
you went out with? Where?
yesterday, with Alicia for lunch at midvalley

5) The color of the t-shirt you're
wearing now?
dark blue

6) the last thing you did?
eat a Nice biscuit

7) 3 of your everyday favorite things?
hp, wallet, handbag

8) The color of your bedroom?
white

9) How much money in your wallet now?
i think i will adopt Ching's stance on this. i m not telling...!

10) How's life?
ok ok lah, but more on the side of good.

11)Your favorite city?
kl. it's not like i've travelled that much to do sufficient comparative study though.

13) when was the last time you met
your mother?
2 weeks ago

14)Where is she now?
ipoh

15) When is the last time you talked
to her?
last night at 8

16) Who is the last person who smsed
you?
yin harn

17) Where did you have your dinner
last night?
at home. i cooked

18) The last gift you've got?
i dunno. i can't remember

19) Last thing you borrowed from your
friend?
Howl's Moving Castle, the novel - courtesy of Yin Harn

20) How do you feel now?
want to finish up my work ... a bit hungry, since it's almost lunch time, and a little sleepy.

21) What do you order at McDs?
depends on my mood. but usually the grilled chicken foldover

22) The last time you felt sad?
last sunday

23) What is your wish for now?
to cope well with chambering, and to settle what needs to be done

24) last person you talked to at school?
technically i m not studying anymore, but i think Jong, Yee Keat and Ariel would fit in, since we were chatting outside the library yesterday.

25) what makes you happy?
small blessings. :)

where to eat??!!

i don't know if you or your friends have ever faced this problem of deciding where to eat.
for what it's worth, this is the problem which has plagued my kawan-kawan and me every time we go out to lepak in a shopping mall.
someone will go "oh, it's time for lunch. where should we eat ar?"
fast food, 'expensive' food, chinese, indian, malay, western? japanese...? just kidding - you guys know i hate eating raw food!
followed by lots of walking around, trying to decide what and where to eat. sometimes it can get to ridiculous lengths of time. like a half hour to 45 minutes. all the while we are getting hungrier and hungrier. and the crowds are piling up in all the makan places.

which is why i have been designated 'Official Food/Meal Decider'. except where someone has a craving for a specific type of food, i decide where we all eat. and that's that.
the decision making process involves collecting and collating data from my friends such as e.g.
"you had kfc the other day? ok, scratch that!"
"right, you're allergic to beef."
"on a tight budget ka? i see. so that leaves out Restaurant ABC"
whereupon, after balancing all the factors, i will decide. ha, and my decisions/recommendations re eating and good food seldom go wrong. maybe almost never (perasannya...! :P)

it came to a point this that my absence resulted in the suggestion of "Let's call up Petrina and ask her where to eat" after a lingering in the valley of indecision. ahahah, too bad i wasn't around.

man, i like my job ...!

Another one of those survey thingies ...

1.Your name plus "o" ?
= Petrinao (which funnily enough, was the name one of my classmates back in fm 5 gave me)

2. Two feelings at the moment ?
= slightly bored, wondering about why my mp3 player is acting up on me

3. What are you listening to right now?
= nothing

4.A part of a song lyric that's in your mind right now ?
= 'thank you for the music'

5. Describe where you are right now ?
= sister's place, at the dining table

6. What is your highlight of the week ?
= going shopping at kinokuniya, klcc

7. What are you craving to have right now?
= nothing in particular. :)

8. Any unforgettable childhood memory?
= acting in my kindergarten play as the rear half of an elephant

9. A not-so-good childhood memory ?
= having 5 stitches on my chin after a fall

10. What are your nicknames ?
= Pet, Trina, Patty, Pat, Peter Anthony, Petronas, (the list goes on...)

11. Your plans for tomorrow ?
= will be heading to the faculty

12. Your plans for today ?
= cook spaghetti and watch 'Heroes'

13. Are you thinking of someone right now?
= no

14. Do you party ?
= define 'party' first

15. Do you like twins ?
= i have twin brothers, and i live with them. 'nuff said.

16. Fill in the blank "I am ..
= a human being. period.

18. Say anything you like to say to whoever is reading?
= thank you for your time. i admire your dedication and your patience.

19. Are you feeling hungry ?
= a little, but dinnertime will be coming soon...!

20. Who do you miss right now ?
= family members back in ipoh

21. Last friend you saw online ?
= er. from last last night, kai ling

22. Are you in love?
= no.

23. What do you like about night ?
= the peacefulness, the stillness. the way things seem to wind down and become more at ease.

24.If you were in a farm, what do you want to see ?
= nothing in particular. first off, i don't like farms very much.

25. Last person who gave a testimonial to you ?
= Guat Cheng

26. Did you like it ?
= it's all right.

27. Do you play an instrument ?
= the piano, the organ and the recorder. in that order.

28. What song did u last hear ?
= some classical piece on Opus

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence

You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary. You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?