Sad Memories

Yesterday, out of a sudden my dad started talking about the past. This brings me back to some sad childhood's memories that I have nearly forgotten. One such memory is the incident where my mum had a miscarriage when I was about 8 to 9 yrs old. Even though I was quite young at that time but I remembered it quite well deeply in my heart as I always hope to have a sibling. By the way, I am the only child in my family. At that time my mum was still working at an electronic factory and the miscarriage happened during the 3rd or 4th month of the pregnancy.

Enough of this, the reason why I wanted to blog on this is how human try to or easily tends to forget about sad memories and incidents. Even though I have not deleted this sad incident from my brain, but I had put it aside and never want to touch it. It was only through recall that makes me think of it again. Is it human nature to try to forget sad memories and only remembered the happy ones? Translation from part of the lyrics of Jay Chou's Cai Hong (Rainbow): "Maybe time is an antidote and is also a poison I am currently taking". I find the lyrics are meaningful. Time seems to be an antidote to heal our pain but also as time goes by, human grows numbed towards the surrounding and happening, and thus this is why it is also a poison we are taking.

Thus does the growing up process and ageing process makes us numbed towards everything including love. Is this the reason why some say that they can never put in the same amount of love in a new relationship because of the experience of a failed relationship? If these questions account to a "YES", then I found that as human grows older, they are getting more protective towards themselves; just like a tortoise hiding in its shell, too afraid to get hurt. It seems really pathetic if this is the human nature. Aren't we supposed to be the most intelligent species in the animal world, then why can't we bravely face the sad memories and incidents?

1st Time @ Ladies' Night

Finally went to my 1st Ladie's Night with my army mates yesterday. We went to St James Powerhouse as half a bottle Hennesy V.S.O.P. was left from last saturday clubbing. I joined in as a member of Powerhouse last saturday too, thus I can bring two friends with me and enter free into the outlets of St James. The feeling of 1st time clubbing during wednesday ladies' night was a unique one, as I need to report to camp straight after that and I am used to clubbing only during fridays or saturdays. It filled me with anticipation on which group of gals and guys will actually bother to come since its a weekday. To my surprise, there was a wide group of girls and guys over there; working adults, tertiary school students, aunties and uncles and many others.

After finish drinking the Hennesy, we went to the dance floor at about 12 midnight and started to dance with gals. Soon, one of my favourite clubbing songs, "Because Of You" by Ne-yo was played and brightened up my whole mood. Overall , 1st Ladies' Night for me was enjoyable and my platoon mates and I was discussing of going to Phuture next month.

Astrological Signs

To many, astrology or simply horoscope is all about the 12 signs that are spread throughout the 12 months of a year. Thus when you ask someone for their horoscope, they will just tell you that they fall in one of the signs listed below:

• Aries (21 Mar - 19 Apr)

• Taurus (20 Apr - 20 May)

• Gemini (21 May - 21 Jun)

• Cancer (22 Jun - 22 Jul)

• Leo (23 Jul - 22 Aug)

• Virgo (23 Aug - 22 Sep)

• Libra (23 Sep - 22 Oct)

• Scorpio (23 Oct - 21 Nov)

• Sagittarius (22 Nov - 21 Dec)

• Capricorn (22 Dec - 19 Jan)

• Aquarius (20 Jan - 18 Feb)

• Pisces (19 Feb - 20 Mar)

Note that even though Capricorn fall from mid December to mid January, it is not considered the first sign of the astrological year. Aries is considered the first sign of the astrological year.

The dates that the signs fall in provided above are just a rough guide only as some websites and books are basing it on a certain place on the Earth like GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Thus in Singapore we will have to add 8 hours to it. For example, you were born on 20 April 0300hrs in Singapore, but in GMT, it is only 19 April 1900hrs, thus you are still considered as an Aries and not Taurus. So the easiest and most accurate way is to go to website that let you fill in your birth place, birth date and time to find out your actual sign. One more thing to note is that if you are born within a few days after or before the transition of the signs, you are known as on the cusp. This means that you will have the some personalities traits from both the signs. An example will be like someone born on 17 Apr, he is an Aries but he does have some traits of Taurus on him also.

Until now, all the signs and dates that I stated belong to only a type of astrology and that is known as the Sun Sign or more commonly as Star Sign. What Sun or Star sign simply mean is which sign was the Sun in when you were born. Thus if you can conclude that you are born on 17 June 1984 like me, then you are sure that the Sun was in Gemini zodiac when I was born. Please note that when I mean the Sun was in Gemini zodiac, it does not mean that the Sun was in the Gemini constellation. Rather it means that the Sun was in the Gemini zodiac. Astrologers divided the sky into 12 equal parts of 30 degree and named each part with different zodiac after the constellation but due to the precession of Earth in the universe, the zodiac and constellation locations do not match anymore. What we read in newspapers, magazines and some website all uses the Sun Sign to predict your daily horoscope.

Another more common type of astrology will be the Moon Sign. As the name stated by itself, we know that it mean which sign was the Moon when someone was born. For Moon Sign, the average transition from one sign to another is about 2.33 days thus Moon Sign does not have a roughly fixed date range like the Sun Sign. In order to find out your Moon Sign, you need to go to website that let you fill in your birth place, birth date and time. If you are not sure of the time, it is pretty okay unless the specific day is the transition of the signs then the more exact your birth time is the better.

A site that offer free basic astrology chart can be found at http://www.chaosastrology.net/freeastrologyreports.cfm

So after saying so much about the Sun Sign and Moon Sign, what the differences? The Sun Sign is said to describe your basic nature and the personality traits that remain constant through the ups and downs of life. It is the image you shine out to the world, but it comes from that truest, innermost part of you while the Moon Sign is said to describe the inner life that only close companions get to experience. It’s the private you that reveals itself behind closed doors, when you’ve put on something more comfortable. It’s also the unguarded you that has to act on instinct, the one that comes out in a crisis. Thus, the Sun Sign describe the outer part of you and the Moon Sign describe your inner world of feelings and emotions.

Astrology is not a simple subject as many think, there are still many topics and types related to it to make every individual's personalities unique from others. Doing a complete astrological chart might prove insights to your past and future life but the exact birth time is important because many other celestial objects are considered when making such a chart. Thus uniqueness isn't by choice, it is by fate of your birth place, birth date and time.

A New Start

Hi all, I am Frederick. Gurfield Blog has been setup quite long ago but it is only till now that I actually took effort to revamp the whole blog and start blogging again. I will blog on my interests in astrology, astronomy, clubbing, music and movies and my personal life experiences. Finally, I hope this new start will be a good one.