IQ, EQ test

Who You ?

Put yourself in the patent leathers of Miss Little Red Hoodwinked and see how you fare.

These days, brains alone aren't enough to get you through the trials of life. When we talk 'wise', we mean lQ, EO and street smarts all rolled into one. That's the package ,fI most of us would give an arm and leg l/ for. But alas, our beloved director ("ALL the world's a stage", remember?) has his taste for little imperfections, and most of us aren't destined to have it all. But we're bound to have some. Thing is: "Life's a box of chocolates; you never know what you're going to get." So is it IQ, EQ or street smarts that you have in your box of chocolates? Take our test!

1)Alone in the forest on your way to your grandmother's place, you are chewing on a truffle from your box of chocolates. Suddenly you spy Big Bad Wolf peeking at you from behind a bush with malicious intent. You:

a) Smile and offer him a truffle as a peace treaty.
b) Smile and offer him a truffle, laced with arsenic.
c) Shout "1 could take you to court for invasion of privacy, under the Provision for..."
d) Give a soft strangled shriek and pass out.

2)You reach your grandmother's three-room flat in the Woodlands and you find the door closed, a phenomenon most peculiar since your grandmother has always been a firm advocate of neighbourly goodwill. Head swimming in anxiety, you:

a) Open the door gingerly, and peek through the hairline crack. Being an avid reader of famous children's
stories, you expect to see Mr BBW dressed up as your grandmother already.

b) Board up the place. If there's someone dangerous in grandma's house, you need to stall for time while
you get help from the nearest Neighbourhood Police Post.
c) Pretend nothing's amiss. You knock on the door, just in case the doorbell circuitry sets the gas alight.
(What gas? Who's hyper? It does pay to be careful - you never know!)
d) Press the doorbell.

3) You are now face-to-face with Mr BBW. Indeed he is dressed in grandma's garb, his cur face horribly large and hairy, vying for attention with grandma's loud floral prints. You:

a) Rehearse your lines from the complete and unabridged version of LittLe Red Riding Hood so as not to give the game away.
b) ''I'm afraid you will have to work a lot more on that make-up if you are going to pass off as my grandma. Here's a business card. Remember to mention my name..."

c) Take a quick digital shot of Mr BBW. The latest technology will be able to decipher from the shot that this is no grandma, but a well-fed adult specimen of canis Lupus. (Didn't you watch Enemy of the State?)
d) Wonder where grandma is.

4) Mr BBW insists on going through the entire script. After a gruelling 22 minutes 6 seconds, he finally gets to the point where he explains to you why his teeth are so big. "ALL THE BETTER TO EAT YOU WITH!" he growls hungrily. You:

a) Rub the leftover arsenic (see qtn 1, ans b) all over yourself, Tiger-Balm style.
b) Remind him that no creature gets away with putting a human on his dinner plate in this lawful country!
c) Remind him of the times when you were both tots in kindergarten. "Grandma Wolf was so pleased to see the two of us getting along and playing catch!" (She didn't know Little Bad Wolf was playing it for real.)
d) Remind him to brush his teeth after chewing you up. He's bound to get some cavities if he doesn't, because you are such a sweet little thing. *Sniffle*

5) Mr BBW suddenly decides that this age-old story has been going on for far too long and that it's time for a change. He lets you add a character of your choice into the story to up your chances of survival. You:

a) Stick to the woodcutter. If it worked the first time round, why shouldn't it continue to save your neck?
b) Stick a gun to BBW's head the second he lowers his skull to ponder his own choice.

c) Choose to add a femme fatale of a wolf who knocks the socks off Big Bad Wolf. She also happens to be your best girl friend who will never forgive any wolf who dares eat you up. *Smirk*
d) "Uh..."

Now, measure yourself up!

16-20 points: You are Street-Smarter than the Inquisitive Police Detective. Nothing on this planet fazes you. Heck, you could easily deal with an alien invasion with your cool. sharp wits. Hoodwinking is your forte - you pull the wool (your red hood would do too) over the eyes of your enemy easily, with time to spare for a killer wink.

11-15 points: You are Far More Intelligent than the Closet Professor. The grey matter housed in your head is Grade A, and you are seldom stumped. However, you could get a better deal if you could bend your ways a little. The Earth is round and you will only find yourself coming back to the same point if you keep walking the straight route.

6-10 points : You are Better Attuned Emotionally than the Expert Psychiatrist.
You are intuitive and in tune with the subtle airwaves that people call thoughts and feelings. It's an asset, of course, to be able to tune into your enemy's thoughts and feelings so as to forestall their next move. But what if your enemy neither thinks nor feels before he acts? Ah...

0-5 points : You are Immensely Luckier than the Guy Sleeping on the Train Tracks. Plain luck has taken you this far. You have no reason to have survived in this harsh world. save for an amazing and constant supply of good fortune. You'd better not run dry on your credit balance.

Disclaimer: All characters and scenes featured in this quiz are fictional. Any resemblance to real-life characters and situations is purely coincidental

BY LIM YIG LIN

Love

Faith,Hope,Love
These Three;
but the greatest of
these is Love.

1.

THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

4.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

5.
Does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

6.
Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

7.
Bears all things, believes all things, hope all things, endures all things.

8.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

9.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part. And we prophesy in part.

10.

But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

11.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I become a man, I put away childish things.

12.
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

13.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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