The secret to fundamentals in communication

Found a story which enlightened me ;)

Thought it might be good sharing materials~




In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem.

One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said,

"Do you know what I just heard about your friend?"

"Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything I'd like you to pass a little test.

It"s called the Three Filters Test."

"Three Filters?"

"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say.

That's why I call it the Three Filters Test.

The first filter is Truth.

Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..."

"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it"s true or not.

Now let"s try the second filter, the filter of goodness.

Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?"

"No, on the contrary..."

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not certain it"s true.

You may still pass the test though, because there's one filter left: the filter of usefulness.

Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?"

"No, not really."

"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"

Uh... huh... Uh Huh?

What is he thinking?

tell me about it

to be honest with you,

sometimes i don't see the relevance in memorizing mathematical formula.

I'll tell you why,

coz prolly 20 years from now

every single one of us would have a personal robot that tells you EVERYTHING

YOU wanna Know ;)

happy.... NOT

My internet service provider did a pretty lousy job

(should i blame it on them entirely? definitely...)

and now im not able to surf the internet at home which is bad

worse still, im suppose to do a research and hand the materials to my groupmates

ON MONDAY

oh FYI, I'm currently in Monash Library which is about to close in 15 minutes time...

fantastic i would say.

How am i suppose to get my research done without the all mighty INTERNET!!?? ( no im not being exaggerating)

Oh Lord, enlighten me....

just relaxing

It's peaceful here by the pool

windy, tranquil

with a cup of tea

and listen to the song baby - by Justin Bieber (Tiffany Alvord Cover )

2nd home in Penang

Me likey =)

Earth Hour 2010

It's a big world out there,

hundreds of cities

thousands of us

One small planet

So Peeps!

Did you turn the lights off for our mother earth ? =)

life on Campus

You have absolutely no idea where I'm writing this blog post from

sure you don't, how could you? =P

well here's a hint of where am i :skating rink.

Then again, the reason I'm stuck here at the moment is because Monash's Library closes at 9 ( holy *** who would stay in campus at a time like this? =.= well me.)

obviously I was studying (Damn right I am ;D)

and the fact that assignments are piling up (as usual),

means stay back at campus + a lot of whining and cursing, well nothing personal.

It's surprising how time could pass us by that quickly

imagine half a year from now, i'd prolly say the same thing to myself again~ (like deja vu,or not)

anyways, I just wanna drop a pass by "hi" since u know, i've been away for awhile ( omg I just had deja vu, as if i have said this before , in fact I did Lol)

oh gotta run peeps

back to assignment =P