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Sunday, October 24, 2004

Today gonna redesign a dynamite , mightly resume again.
Since I am so veteran in being an interviewee cum resume cum cover letter composer and researcher :) ---Maybe this will spark a new career direction to me ; I can earn big bucks in being a career counselor cum career author cum editor. Start writing a book of "100% SURE -TO-WIN RESUMES and INTERVIEWS FOR 100% KIASU SINGAPOREANs "- followed by a winning tagline " LEts Uphold a True SIngapOREAns SPirit By FOllowing this book To An Endless resumes writing and INterviews.....Never LOSing and COmpeting to A better JObS and PAys ....BECAuse U Worth it !"

Brilliant Ideas.

Looking though the newspaper recruit...big ad in front of u tat have been repelled u for a long time and maybe new opportunity and maybe exciting as much as u loved them ...IS there omen?
Times are bad and we shouldn't trap ourselves in conventional and stubborn thinking. Self- deception is the worst lies in the all sort of lies.
As what my dear funny (not really) bioinfo project supervisor , LAWERENCE (not mine) said:
"WE MUST PRACTICE LATERAL THINKING !" . He asked everybody in the lab on what is it and when he asked me, I pulled down the earpieces , offensively interupted by the question and gives him a monosyllabic reply " FLexible, flexible thinking." (applause by the lab ) .
Let me see what is laterally thinking on the web :

a heuristic for solving problems; you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

yes, it's a critical tool but yet the basic skill to survival in this toughest of fittest is to change your mind , frequently , and leave no trace of emotion unnecessarily. Emotion , is irreverent (catchy phase inspired by The movie " Village of the Damned" screened last sat night at channel i.

What is the movie about?
Imagine a scenario where our next evolutionary successors are emotionless, telepathic, and highly intelligent. Village of the Damned presents such a scenario and details the struggle of this "superior" race against the humans.

John Carpenter has taken the original 1960s screenplay and gorified it in this version, but the ideas in the movie are still captivating. A higher lifeform impregnates the females of the Damned Village one night, resulting in the births of nine platinum-blond-haired babies and one stillborn, all of which are siblings. What's more, they are telepathically linked and have the power to control people's minds. According to the movie, they are emotionless, but they do seem to get angry for trivial reasons, they seem to have a great drive for survival, and they are intelligent.
The basic flaw in this story seems to be that you can have intelligence without emotions.

I believe this to be a contradiction because any reasonable definition of human-like intelligence requires a drive, a curiousity, and a passion, that goes beyond mere survival. But besides this, the picture the movie paints is rather reasonable. One of the main ideas is the notion of a "collective soul", which I think is indeed a feature of higher intelligence (low level examples include our own brain which is simply a collection of smaller "intelligent" units, neurons). However, rigourous conformity, which is one of the aspects of the children in the movie, is not a necessity and is certainly not a sign of higher intelligence. Without allowing for change within such a collective, there is no room for evolution. A sucessor species to us would have emotions, intelligence, telepathic powers (allowing for complete freedom of information), and individual free will, thus enabling Thomas More's vision of Utopia coming true.

If you do see Village of the Damned, see it not just for the way Carpenter kills off the cast, but for the lesson it teaches us about what our next evolutionary successors might be like.
IS it an omen to me?
I shall see.

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