Friday, December 18, 2009
On wednesday, one of my colleagues in another team had a fit. I was seated far away thus was spared the agony of seeing her. But I was overcome by a sense of uselessness. I could only see from afar, not being of help anymore, the only thing I could do is google.
This will be my first resolution of new year, learn life-saving skills by Q1 2010. I don't want to remain a passerby anymore.
This will be my first resolution of new year, learn life-saving skills by Q1 2010. I don't want to remain a passerby anymore.
Below is extracted from Postsecret.blogspot.com
-----Email Message-----
She was pretty, she used to climb trees. She made jewelry for her family for Christmas. She was the single mother of a son she loved. She tried her hardest, but just like the rest of us, she made mistakes. And we forgave her for them, just like we forgive you.
-----Email Message-----
I'm a Firefighter/First Responder, and I google their names because I couldn't save them.
-----Email Message-----
I work in the ICU and Google almost all of my patients. I found out one patient adored her granddaughters more than anything, so I made sure that her granddaughters were allowed in before anyone else.
-----Email Message-----
She was pretty, she used to climb trees. She made jewelry for her family for Christmas. She was the single mother of a son she loved. She tried her hardest, but just like the rest of us, she made mistakes. And we forgave her for them, just like we forgive you.
-----Email Message-----
I'm a Firefighter/First Responder, and I google their names because I couldn't save them.
-----Email Message-----
I work in the ICU and Google almost all of my patients. I found out one patient adored her granddaughters more than anything, so I made sure that her granddaughters were allowed in before anyone else.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
relationship requires a lot of scarifices.
Some people may think its romantic or that the couple is very loving when one scarifice his/her time for the other. eg when one cant join a certain activies because he/she doesnt want to leave the other half out. Thats what I used to think too, but now it irks me.
It irks me because you kind of lose a lot of things by doing the so-called "scarifices". And that applies for both parties, because there are just so many restrictions you have to impose on yourself. You put off a trip because of such "rules". You cant do this, nor that. Is this really the best for both parties?
Imagine the possibilities that would have come.
Imagine the chances you would have miss.
Imagine looking back after 10years, and you can't go through your life twice.
There would be so many regrets in life.
Relationship doesn't have to be locked. It is only when free that both parties will enjoy their lives inside and outside.
We are humans. We all yearn to be free.
I realise that now.
Some people may think its romantic or that the couple is very loving when one scarifice his/her time for the other. eg when one cant join a certain activies because he/she doesnt want to leave the other half out. Thats what I used to think too, but now it irks me.
It irks me because you kind of lose a lot of things by doing the so-called "scarifices". And that applies for both parties, because there are just so many restrictions you have to impose on yourself. You put off a trip because of such "rules". You cant do this, nor that. Is this really the best for both parties?
Imagine the possibilities that would have come.
Imagine the chances you would have miss.
Imagine looking back after 10years, and you can't go through your life twice.
There would be so many regrets in life.
Relationship doesn't have to be locked. It is only when free that both parties will enjoy their lives inside and outside.
We are humans. We all yearn to be free.
I realise that now.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
My teacher commented that I like to take photos of happy people.
Conciously n subconsciously, I tend to avoid getting into unhappy situation, nor try to remember them. We all try to make ourselves happy, "look at the bright side" we were told. But we would have missed the other half of the photo. The half that makes up who we are.
Totally no mood to work..
Conciously n subconsciously, I tend to avoid getting into unhappy situation, nor try to remember them. We all try to make ourselves happy, "look at the bright side" we were told. But we would have missed the other half of the photo. The half that makes up who we are.
Totally no mood to work..
Friday, October 16, 2009
It's gonna be a hectic wkend ahead.. One of my close fren's wedding, 10km Solomon trail run, presentation slides to finish, plenty of work undone, revise on my Spanish, and gotta finish up on my weekly regime.
And here's a nice read to end off the post, by Adrian Tan (writer of the Teenage Textbook & lawyer from Drew & Napier) to the NTU graduating class of 2008.
--------------------------
Life and How to Survive It
I must say thank you to the faculty and staff of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for inviting me to give your convocation address. It’s a wonderful honour and a privilege for me to speak here for ten minutes without fear of contradiction, defamation or retaliation. I say this as a Singaporean and more so as a husband.
My wife is a wonderful person and perfect in every way except one. She is the editor of a magazine. She corrects people for a living. She has honed her expert skills over a quarter of a century, mostly by practising at home during conversations between her and me.
On the other hand, I am a litigator. Essentially, I spend my day telling people how wrong they are. I make my living being disagreeable.
Nevertheless, there is perfect harmony in our matrimonial home. That is because when an editor and a litigator have an argument, the one who triumphs is always the wife.
And so I want to start by giving one piece of advice to the men: when you’ve already won her heart, you don’t need to win every argument.
Marriage is considered one milestone of life. Some of you may already be married. Some of you may never be married. Some of you will be married. Some of you will enjoy the experience so much, you will be married many, many times. Good for you.
The next big milestone in your life is today: Your graduation. The end of education. You’re done learning.
You’ve probably been told the big lie that “Learning is a lifelong process” and that therefore you will continue studying and taking masters’ degrees and doctorates and professorships and so on. You know the sort of people who tell you that? Teachers. Don’t you think there is some measure of conflict of interest? They are in the business of learning, after all. Where would they be without you? They need you to be repeat customers.
The good news is that they’re wrong.
The bad news is that you don’t need further education because your entire life is over. It is gone. That may come as a shock to some of you. You’re in your teens or early twenties. People may tell you that you will live to be 70, 80, 90 years old. That is your life expectancy.
I love that term: life expectancy. We all understand the term to mean the average life span of a group of people. But I’m here to talk about a bigger idea, which is what you expect from your life.
You may be very happy to know that Singapore is currently ranked as the country with the third highest life expectancy. We are behind Andorra and Japan, and tied with San Marino. It seems quite clear why people in those countries, and ours, live so long. We share one thing in common: our football teams are all hopeless. There’s very little danger of any of our citizens having their pulses raised by watching us play in the World Cup. Spectators are more likely to be lulled into a gentle and restful nap.
Singaporeans have a life expectancy of 81.8 years. Singapore men live to an average of 79.21 years, while Singapore women live more than five years longer, probably to take into account the additional time they need to spend in the bathroom.
So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.
Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.
I’m here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.
After all, it’s calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average.
Revisit those expectations. You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that, as graduates, you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.
That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.
If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don’t need years of education by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average.
What you should prepare for is mess. Life’s a mess. You are not entitled to expect anything from it. Life is not fair. Everything does not balance out in the end. Life happens, and you have no control over it. Good and bad things happen to you day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. Your degree is a poor armour against fate.
Don’t expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today. At this point in time, you have grown as tall as you will ever be, you are physically the fittest you will ever be in your entire life and you are probably looking the best that you will ever look. This is as good as it gets. It is all downhill from here. Or up. No one knows.
What does this mean for you? It is good that your life is over.
Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free.
The most important is this: do not work.
Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable.
Work kills. The Japanese have a term “Karoshi”, which means death from overwork. That’s the most dramatic form of how work can kill. But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there’s nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust.
There’s a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are “making a living”. No, they’re not. They’re dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.
People will tell you that work ennobles you, that work lends you a certain dignity. Work makes you free. The slogan "Arbeit macht frei" was placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps. Utter nonsense.
Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.
Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.
I like arguing, and I love language. So, I became a litigator. I enjoy it and I would do it for free. If I didn’t do that, I would’ve been in some other type of work that still involved writing fiction – probably a sports journalist.
So what should you do? You will find your own niche. I don’t imagine you will need to look very hard. By this time in your life, you will have a very good idea of what you will want to do. In fact, I’ll go further and say the ideal situation would be that you will not be able to stop yourself pursuing your passions. By this time you should know what your obsessions are. If you enjoy showing off your knowledge and feeling superior, you might become a teacher.
Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.
Most of you will end up in activities which involve communication. To those of you I have a second message: be wary of the truth. I’m not asking you to speak it, or write it, for there are times when it is dangerous or impossible to do those things. The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth. Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence.
In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror.
I have told you that your life is over, that you should not work, and that you should avoid telling the truth. I now say this to you: be hated.
It’s not as easy as it sounds. Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many. That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross.
One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong.
The other side of the coin is this: fall in love.
I didn’t say “be loved”. That requires too much compromise. If one changes one’s looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone.
Rather, I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you this. You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. That is false. Modern society is anti-love. We’ve taken a microscope to everyone to bring out their flaws and shortcomings. It is far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable.
Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the truth worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul.
Loving someone is therefore very important, and it is also important to choose the right person. Despite popular culture, love doesn’t happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming. It is not a silly weed, but a mighty tree that weathers every storm.
You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.
You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back.Its value is to inspire you.
Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.
Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.
And here's a nice read to end off the post, by Adrian Tan (writer of the Teenage Textbook & lawyer from Drew & Napier) to the NTU graduating class of 2008.
--------------------------
Life and How to Survive It
I must say thank you to the faculty and staff of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for inviting me to give your convocation address. It’s a wonderful honour and a privilege for me to speak here for ten minutes without fear of contradiction, defamation or retaliation. I say this as a Singaporean and more so as a husband.
My wife is a wonderful person and perfect in every way except one. She is the editor of a magazine. She corrects people for a living. She has honed her expert skills over a quarter of a century, mostly by practising at home during conversations between her and me.
On the other hand, I am a litigator. Essentially, I spend my day telling people how wrong they are. I make my living being disagreeable.
Nevertheless, there is perfect harmony in our matrimonial home. That is because when an editor and a litigator have an argument, the one who triumphs is always the wife.
And so I want to start by giving one piece of advice to the men: when you’ve already won her heart, you don’t need to win every argument.
Marriage is considered one milestone of life. Some of you may already be married. Some of you may never be married. Some of you will be married. Some of you will enjoy the experience so much, you will be married many, many times. Good for you.
The next big milestone in your life is today: Your graduation. The end of education. You’re done learning.
You’ve probably been told the big lie that “Learning is a lifelong process” and that therefore you will continue studying and taking masters’ degrees and doctorates and professorships and so on. You know the sort of people who tell you that? Teachers. Don’t you think there is some measure of conflict of interest? They are in the business of learning, after all. Where would they be without you? They need you to be repeat customers.
The good news is that they’re wrong.
The bad news is that you don’t need further education because your entire life is over. It is gone. That may come as a shock to some of you. You’re in your teens or early twenties. People may tell you that you will live to be 70, 80, 90 years old. That is your life expectancy.
I love that term: life expectancy. We all understand the term to mean the average life span of a group of people. But I’m here to talk about a bigger idea, which is what you expect from your life.
You may be very happy to know that Singapore is currently ranked as the country with the third highest life expectancy. We are behind Andorra and Japan, and tied with San Marino. It seems quite clear why people in those countries, and ours, live so long. We share one thing in common: our football teams are all hopeless. There’s very little danger of any of our citizens having their pulses raised by watching us play in the World Cup. Spectators are more likely to be lulled into a gentle and restful nap.
Singaporeans have a life expectancy of 81.8 years. Singapore men live to an average of 79.21 years, while Singapore women live more than five years longer, probably to take into account the additional time they need to spend in the bathroom.
So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.
Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.
I’m here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.
After all, it’s calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average.
Revisit those expectations. You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that, as graduates, you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.
That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.
If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don’t need years of education by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average.
What you should prepare for is mess. Life’s a mess. You are not entitled to expect anything from it. Life is not fair. Everything does not balance out in the end. Life happens, and you have no control over it. Good and bad things happen to you day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. Your degree is a poor armour against fate.
Don’t expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today. At this point in time, you have grown as tall as you will ever be, you are physically the fittest you will ever be in your entire life and you are probably looking the best that you will ever look. This is as good as it gets. It is all downhill from here. Or up. No one knows.
What does this mean for you? It is good that your life is over.
Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free.
The most important is this: do not work.
Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable.
Work kills. The Japanese have a term “Karoshi”, which means death from overwork. That’s the most dramatic form of how work can kill. But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there’s nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust.
There’s a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are “making a living”. No, they’re not. They’re dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.
People will tell you that work ennobles you, that work lends you a certain dignity. Work makes you free. The slogan "Arbeit macht frei" was placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps. Utter nonsense.
Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.
Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.
I like arguing, and I love language. So, I became a litigator. I enjoy it and I would do it for free. If I didn’t do that, I would’ve been in some other type of work that still involved writing fiction – probably a sports journalist.
So what should you do? You will find your own niche. I don’t imagine you will need to look very hard. By this time in your life, you will have a very good idea of what you will want to do. In fact, I’ll go further and say the ideal situation would be that you will not be able to stop yourself pursuing your passions. By this time you should know what your obsessions are. If you enjoy showing off your knowledge and feeling superior, you might become a teacher.
Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.
Most of you will end up in activities which involve communication. To those of you I have a second message: be wary of the truth. I’m not asking you to speak it, or write it, for there are times when it is dangerous or impossible to do those things. The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth. Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence.
In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror.
I have told you that your life is over, that you should not work, and that you should avoid telling the truth. I now say this to you: be hated.
It’s not as easy as it sounds. Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many. That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross.
One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong.
The other side of the coin is this: fall in love.
I didn’t say “be loved”. That requires too much compromise. If one changes one’s looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone.
Rather, I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you this. You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. That is false. Modern society is anti-love. We’ve taken a microscope to everyone to bring out their flaws and shortcomings. It is far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable.
Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the truth worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul.
Loving someone is therefore very important, and it is also important to choose the right person. Despite popular culture, love doesn’t happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming. It is not a silly weed, but a mighty tree that weathers every storm.
You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.
You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back.Its value is to inspire you.
Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.
Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Another week passed. Been feeling a lack of time recently because of recent activities, esp learning espanol. So little time to laze around recently haiz..
Yesterday was Fish n Liz solemnization. Its a long time coming as they are always expected to be the first couple to tie the nod in Kgrp. It also makes me think when will I have the chance and commitment for this.
Anyway, I had the chance of taking photos for them, thanks to Liz's sis. Was so happy when I have the dslr in my hand haa.. but I think the pics didnt really turn up well, need more training and practice. Waiting for them to post.
"Curiosity kills the dog"
Yesterday was Fish n Liz solemnization. Its a long time coming as they are always expected to be the first couple to tie the nod in Kgrp. It also makes me think when will I have the chance and commitment for this.
Anyway, I had the chance of taking photos for them, thanks to Liz's sis. Was so happy when I have the dslr in my hand haa.. but I think the pics didnt really turn up well, need more training and practice. Waiting for them to post.
"Curiosity kills the dog"
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Learning spanish makes me realise how much time I have wasted for the past 2 years, after I left school and stopped learning. I have almost forgot this feeling. Its important to never stop learning, or one will become stagnant and become obsolete, and life would have lost its meaning.
It is also important to continually be physically active - meaning to keep fit. Stagnant means fat.
It is also important to continually be physically active - meaning to keep fit. Stagnant means fat.
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Before I forget, and the week ends, 2 separate incidents reminded me that life is a little easier if one is not so calculative.
1. a taxi driver who didnt press the meter when I boarded, but instead waited till we passed the first green light.
2. the provision shop uncle who waved me away nonchalantly when I told him he gave me 20cents change for my 90cents drink.
1. a taxi driver who didnt press the meter when I boarded, but instead waited till we passed the first green light.
2. the provision shop uncle who waved me away nonchalantly when I told him he gave me 20cents change for my 90cents drink.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Got my first contact lens, and have wore them yest and today. Its amazing how people can invent such things isnt it? So I went to wiki it, and found the below info
Before touching the contact lens or one's eyes, it is important to thoroughly wash & rinse hands with a soap that does not contain moisturizers or allergens such as fragrances. The soap should not be antibacterial due to risk of improper hand washing and the possibility of destroying the natural bacteria found on the eye. These bacteria keep pathogenic bacteria from colonizing the cornea.
Hand cannot be too clean ya? haa..
Before touching the contact lens or one's eyes, it is important to thoroughly wash & rinse hands with a soap that does not contain moisturizers or allergens such as fragrances. The soap should not be antibacterial due to risk of improper hand washing and the possibility of destroying the natural bacteria found on the eye. These bacteria keep pathogenic bacteria from colonizing the cornea.
Hand cannot be too clean ya? haa..
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
Singaporens' Males life expectancy currently stands at 78.4. Given that I am going to be 26 this year, that means 35% of my life is gone, in the past. And if I estimate that in the last 20% of my life, I will not be in a good enough health to play, that means I have 45% left, and thats only 30yrs! Gotta play more..
And why does Females live up to 83.2yrs, a whole 5yrs longer than Males??
And why does Females live up to 83.2yrs, a whole 5yrs longer than Males??
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
If you know me, you know I watch alot of japanese dramas. What I like about these dramas is it motvates people, and the central focus of a lot of these dramas always revolve around certain jobs.
Code Blue - Emergency doctors
Mr Brain - Police Science
Voice - Trainee autopsy doctors
Nodame Cantabile - Musicians
Buzzer Beat - Professional basketballer
Pride - Ice-hockey
Bambino - Chef
Engine - Racer
Good Luck - Pilot
Attention Please - Cabin Attendant
Rondo - Spy
Attack No. 1 = Vball players
Umizaru - Diver
Seriously, I can't imagine them doing a drama on Product Specialist..
I'm going to look for a new job.
Code Blue - Emergency doctors
Mr Brain - Police Science
Voice - Trainee autopsy doctors
Nodame Cantabile - Musicians
Buzzer Beat - Professional basketballer
Pride - Ice-hockey
Bambino - Chef
Engine - Racer
Good Luck - Pilot
Attention Please - Cabin Attendant
Rondo - Spy
Attack No. 1 = Vball players
Umizaru - Diver
Seriously, I can't imagine them doing a drama on Product Specialist..
I'm going to look for a new job.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Theres a thousand thoughts going through my mind, but I can't grasp any of it.
Its kind of hard, and troublesome, and scary, when you reach the end of a stage of life, and have to take the next step into the next stage. From leaving my pri sch to sec, leaving for college,to army,to ntu. The uncertainty is huge, and a lot of things become out of your control. Leaving your comfort zone, is always a hard thing to do, so it really take a lot of courage and commitment to do so.
Marriage is one of those stages, a big step to a whole new world. Congrats to Shumin for being the first among the vball kakis to make the step.
Career is another stage. If the future is not what you want, then perhaps its time to leave. Another friend left my company last week; every departure gives me something to think about, why the person chose to leave, and whats next. I'm wondering whats next for me.
Life have been mono without your presence..
Its kind of hard, and troublesome, and scary, when you reach the end of a stage of life, and have to take the next step into the next stage. From leaving my pri sch to sec, leaving for college,to army,to ntu. The uncertainty is huge, and a lot of things become out of your control. Leaving your comfort zone, is always a hard thing to do, so it really take a lot of courage and commitment to do so.
Marriage is one of those stages, a big step to a whole new world. Congrats to Shumin for being the first among the vball kakis to make the step.
Career is another stage. If the future is not what you want, then perhaps its time to leave. Another friend left my company last week; every departure gives me something to think about, why the person chose to leave, and whats next. I'm wondering whats next for me.
Life have been mono without your presence..
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Monday, July 06, 2009
mj
Listening to his songs, and watching his videos on youtube kind of brought back memories. I remember sitting in front of the tv on holidays, because they will always show michael jackson concerts. Whoever watched his dance before will definitely try to imitate him and his moonwalk(not the crouch grabbing part though, that I always find weird).
Hes a legend now. And whatever negative news about him doesnt really matter now, cos all I watched is the guy on stage.
Listening to his songs, and watching his videos on youtube kind of brought back memories. I remember sitting in front of the tv on holidays, because they will always show michael jackson concerts. Whoever watched his dance before will definitely try to imitate him and his moonwalk(not the crouch grabbing part though, that I always find weird).
Hes a legend now. And whatever negative news about him doesnt really matter now, cos all I watched is the guy on stage.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Part of Steve Jobs speech in 2005, which I find inspiring:
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Time
I once read an article on the paradox of time, you might have seen it in one of those forwarded emails; that technology advancement means we have more machines that do our work in less hours, but humans have less and less time instead.
Truth is, while we have machines that make things easier and save more time, we also see some things created that take up even more of our time. The black box that human know as tv is one of them. So is the computer. Though these stuffs have it's usefulness, we unconsciously spend thousands of hours on these when the time could be put to better use. It also reduces human interaction to a min, some on a virtual level. Somehow lol is supposed to mean the person is laughing out loud, but it is not hard to find the person expressionless in front of the screen.
Joyce bf doesn't have a tv at home, because he thinks it's pointless to waste your day that way. I think it's a good thing. It's time we make use of our time to better use.
On a sidenote, I brought my iphone to the service centre today, because only one side of the speaker seems to be working, only to be told by the singtel guy that the other side is the mike.. how embarassing.. -_-..
I once read an article on the paradox of time, you might have seen it in one of those forwarded emails; that technology advancement means we have more machines that do our work in less hours, but humans have less and less time instead.
Truth is, while we have machines that make things easier and save more time, we also see some things created that take up even more of our time. The black box that human know as tv is one of them. So is the computer. Though these stuffs have it's usefulness, we unconsciously spend thousands of hours on these when the time could be put to better use. It also reduces human interaction to a min, some on a virtual level. Somehow lol is supposed to mean the person is laughing out loud, but it is not hard to find the person expressionless in front of the screen.
Joyce bf doesn't have a tv at home, because he thinks it's pointless to waste your day that way. I think it's a good thing. It's time we make use of our time to better use.
On a sidenote, I brought my iphone to the service centre today, because only one side of the speaker seems to be working, only to be told by the singtel guy that the other side is the mike.. how embarassing.. -_-..
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Office Politics
Every office have its politics, and mine is no exception. While I often stay out of such discussion, it is still discerning to hear people engaging in such. We all know it is not nice to talk behind someone's back, but why do they still do so? If there is a problem, we should always face it head-on. Such discussion only serve to sway public opinion against the subject in question, and he/she does not even know what goes wrong. Its just not fair.
Every office have its politics, and mine is no exception. While I often stay out of such discussion, it is still discerning to hear people engaging in such. We all know it is not nice to talk behind someone's back, but why do they still do so? If there is a problem, we should always face it head-on. Such discussion only serve to sway public opinion against the subject in question, and he/she does not even know what goes wrong. Its just not fair.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Just saw this in Straits Times today.. ridiculous..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8107039.stm
South African rape survey shock
South Africa's government has been urged to solve the rape epidemic
One in four South African men questioned in a survey said they had raped someone, and nearly half of them admitted more than one attack.
The study, by the country's Medical Research Council, also found three out of four who admitted rape had attacked for the first time during their teens.
It said practices such as gang rape were common because they were considered a form of male bonding.
The MRC spoke to 1,738 men in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces.
The research was conducted in both rural and urban areas and included all racial groups.
Using an electronic device to keep the results anonymous, the study found that 73% of those who admitted rape said they had carried out their first assault before the age of 20.
Almost half who said they had carried out a rape admitted they had done so more than once.
FROM BBC WORLD SERVICE
More from BBC World Service
One in 20 men surveyed said they had raped a woman or girl in the last year.
Professor Rachel Jewkes of the MRC, who carried out the research, told the BBC's World Today programme: "The absolute imperative is we have to change the underlying social attitudes that in a way have created a norm that coercing women into sex is on some level acceptable.
"We know that we have a higher prevalence of rape in South Africa than there is in other countries.
"And it's partly rooted in our incredibly disturbed past and the way that South African men over the centuries have been socialised into forms of masculinity that are predicated on the idea of being strong and tough and the use of force to assert dominance and control over women, as well as other men."
She added that all the victims in the main survey were said to be women, but participants were also interviewed about male rape.
'Sad state of affairs'
The study found that one in 10 men said they had been raped by other men.
I don't think it's cultural per se; I think it has to do with how a lot of us men worldwide were raised
Mbuyiselo Botha
South African Men's Forum
Some 3% of the men interviewed said they had coerced a man or a boy into sex.
The participants were also tested for HIV and the authors of the survey were surprised that men who had raped were not more likely to test positive for the virus.
Mbuyiselo Botha, from the South African Men's Forum, which campaigns for women's rights, told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that any view of women as "fair game" had to be challenged.
Mr Botha, a father of two girls himself, said: "I think that yes, the figures are that high and for us, for me in particular, that is a very sad state of affairs.
"It means that we continue in South Africa to be one of the highest capitals of rape in the world.
"I don't think it's cultural per se; I think it has to do with how a lot of us men worldwide were raised. The issues of dominance against women, issues of inequality, are pervasive and you find them throughout the world."
South Africa's government has been repeatedly criticised for failing to address the country's rape epidemic.
A recent trade union report said a child was being raped in South Africa every three minutes with the vast majority of those cases going unreported.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8107039.stm
South African rape survey shock
South Africa's government has been urged to solve the rape epidemic
One in four South African men questioned in a survey said they had raped someone, and nearly half of them admitted more than one attack.
The study, by the country's Medical Research Council, also found three out of four who admitted rape had attacked for the first time during their teens.
It said practices such as gang rape were common because they were considered a form of male bonding.
The MRC spoke to 1,738 men in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces.
The research was conducted in both rural and urban areas and included all racial groups.
Using an electronic device to keep the results anonymous, the study found that 73% of those who admitted rape said they had carried out their first assault before the age of 20.
Almost half who said they had carried out a rape admitted they had done so more than once.
FROM BBC WORLD SERVICE
More from BBC World Service
One in 20 men surveyed said they had raped a woman or girl in the last year.
Professor Rachel Jewkes of the MRC, who carried out the research, told the BBC's World Today programme: "The absolute imperative is we have to change the underlying social attitudes that in a way have created a norm that coercing women into sex is on some level acceptable.
"We know that we have a higher prevalence of rape in South Africa than there is in other countries.
"And it's partly rooted in our incredibly disturbed past and the way that South African men over the centuries have been socialised into forms of masculinity that are predicated on the idea of being strong and tough and the use of force to assert dominance and control over women, as well as other men."
She added that all the victims in the main survey were said to be women, but participants were also interviewed about male rape.
'Sad state of affairs'
The study found that one in 10 men said they had been raped by other men.
I don't think it's cultural per se; I think it has to do with how a lot of us men worldwide were raised
Mbuyiselo Botha
South African Men's Forum
Some 3% of the men interviewed said they had coerced a man or a boy into sex.
The participants were also tested for HIV and the authors of the survey were surprised that men who had raped were not more likely to test positive for the virus.
Mbuyiselo Botha, from the South African Men's Forum, which campaigns for women's rights, told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that any view of women as "fair game" had to be challenged.
Mr Botha, a father of two girls himself, said: "I think that yes, the figures are that high and for us, for me in particular, that is a very sad state of affairs.
"It means that we continue in South Africa to be one of the highest capitals of rape in the world.
"I don't think it's cultural per se; I think it has to do with how a lot of us men worldwide were raised. The issues of dominance against women, issues of inequality, are pervasive and you find them throughout the world."
South Africa's government has been repeatedly criticised for failing to address the country's rape epidemic.
A recent trade union report said a child was being raped in South Africa every three minutes with the vast majority of those cases going unreported.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Saturday, June 06, 2009
//Food//
This post is about food, food that Kris and me cooked together. You see, we have been preparing for life after marriage..
No lah!! Just that we like to do some cooking ourselves once in a while. And cooking does bring our the character in you. You see, we have different styles of cooking, different school of thought (from different mums), what I think is right she thinks it shouldnt be that way. So sometimes we have disagreements over how big the fire is, how long the duration should be, etc etc. But at least the food turns out ok so far, we are still alive.
So heres what we have for the last few months:
Pineapple tarts, from my mum formula of course. (We are just workers here haa)
Thats how fast her hand is on the dough
Assorted Tempura
Pad Thai, from the mixture I bought from Thailand
This is Alric Speciality Fried Rice, recommended by chef
And heres the chef I mentioned abt, Teriyaki chicken comes from her
And our latest venture, Pasta =)
This post is about food, food that Kris and me cooked together. You see, we have been preparing for life after marriage..
No lah!! Just that we like to do some cooking ourselves once in a while. And cooking does bring our the character in you. You see, we have different styles of cooking, different school of thought (from different mums), what I think is right she thinks it shouldnt be that way. So sometimes we have disagreements over how big the fire is, how long the duration should be, etc etc. But at least the food turns out ok so far, we are still alive.
So heres what we have for the last few months:
Pineapple tarts, from my mum formula of course. (We are just workers here haa)
Thats how fast her hand is on the dough
Assorted Tempura
Pad Thai, from the mixture I bought from Thailand
This is Alric Speciality Fried Rice, recommended by chef
And heres the chef I mentioned abt, Teriyaki chicken comes from her
And our latest venture, Pasta =)
Friday, June 05, 2009
//Random//
I like to people-watch. Used to do it alot in the past, but not so in recent years. Its kind of intriguing to think what other people are thinking, what type of lifes they are leading, the future they are looking towards to. Becos it can be so completely different from what you been through. Changi Airport is a good place to do that, cause you see the behaviour and language of people from different countries. Some of them here for work, some returning home, and also those going on a vacation. Happiness, sadness, relief, concern.. all the different emotions are written on their face if you look hard enough.
Oh yah.. my MD just announced yesterday we are going to move office, to Tampines, jus beside the interchange. Sianz..
I like to people-watch. Used to do it alot in the past, but not so in recent years. Its kind of intriguing to think what other people are thinking, what type of lifes they are leading, the future they are looking towards to. Becos it can be so completely different from what you been through. Changi Airport is a good place to do that, cause you see the behaviour and language of people from different countries. Some of them here for work, some returning home, and also those going on a vacation. Happiness, sadness, relief, concern.. all the different emotions are written on their face if you look hard enough.
Oh yah.. my MD just announced yesterday we are going to move office, to Tampines, jus beside the interchange. Sianz..
Monday, June 01, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Nvr been so tired travelling
For those of you who don't know, I just came back from a 10-day trip from Vietnam. Been travelling so much for the past year, that I actually feel tired on this trip, and actually feel glad to be back home.
Maybe cos this marks the first time I ever been out of country for so long, without kris (other than her exchange).
I need some rest.
For those of you who don't know, I just came back from a 10-day trip from Vietnam. Been travelling so much for the past year, that I actually feel tired on this trip, and actually feel glad to be back home.
Maybe cos this marks the first time I ever been out of country for so long, without kris (other than her exchange).
I need some rest.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
I had a nightmare last night.. a strange one it is.. because a lot of things doesnt make sense -_-
1. I was at a company event in Shenzhen.. but I think some of my colleagues are there.. but strangely, there are some people who are late.. and they came arriving in motorbikes, and I recognised them as sergeants/technicians from my camp.
2. We were near this large lake/river/sea, and the water was very clear, and deep, and some of the guys started jumping in. And there was a bridge at the side which i vaguely remember it look like causeway
3. Then I saw these double deck bus(looks like SBS) which drive very fast, and it drifted at a turn, without crashing! (yes yes.. i know.. how can a double deck bus drift..)
4. Ok, heres the highlight.. I got kidnapped!! I dun remember the exact circumstances of how, but I think I was in a van or something..
5. Next I run away! And I run into a forest, a not very tall one.. and there was this black bear chasing me!!!
6. I woke up.
Ok man.. can someone make some sense out of the above senseless stuffs????
1. I was at a company event in Shenzhen.. but I think some of my colleagues are there.. but strangely, there are some people who are late.. and they came arriving in motorbikes, and I recognised them as sergeants/technicians from my camp.
2. We were near this large lake/river/sea, and the water was very clear, and deep, and some of the guys started jumping in. And there was a bridge at the side which i vaguely remember it look like causeway
3. Then I saw these double deck bus(looks like SBS) which drive very fast, and it drifted at a turn, without crashing! (yes yes.. i know.. how can a double deck bus drift..)
4. Ok, heres the highlight.. I got kidnapped!! I dun remember the exact circumstances of how, but I think I was in a van or something..
5. Next I run away! And I run into a forest, a not very tall one.. and there was this black bear chasing me!!!
6. I woke up.
Ok man.. can someone make some sense out of the above senseless stuffs????
Friday, April 17, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Have you heard of 阿桑?
I just got to know today that she died last Monday, at only 34years of age. Diagnosed with terminal breast cancer last October, it seems she kept the news from most people.
I like her songs, because she have a really good voice, especially when she sang 叶子。
What would you do if you have only 6months left to live? I wonder what she did in that 6 months.
I just got to know today that she died last Monday, at only 34years of age. Diagnosed with terminal breast cancer last October, it seems she kept the news from most people.
I like her songs, because she have a really good voice, especially when she sang 叶子。
What would you do if you have only 6months left to live? I wonder what she did in that 6 months.
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Life goes as quickly as it comes.
My boss just texted me this afternoon, that one of my colleague in NZ passed away cos of heart attack. If I remembered correctly, he was only 38 yrs old, kind of young to leave this world like that.
I knew him since more than a year back, though it was only through email, and maybe phone. The news was shocking because I only met him one and a half week back for dinner. My thoughts immediately went to what he would have think of just before he died, the stuffs he would have like to do. Being pulled away so suddenly is just so cruel.
I should have brought him to try durian when he was here too.
And I was still thinking at that time; I know someone in NZ who can actually bring me around if I go there. From my short conversation with him, he shared the same interests as me, nature and travel.
Its strange to talk about him in past tense now.
Rest in peace Roger.
My boss just texted me this afternoon, that one of my colleague in NZ passed away cos of heart attack. If I remembered correctly, he was only 38 yrs old, kind of young to leave this world like that.
I knew him since more than a year back, though it was only through email, and maybe phone. The news was shocking because I only met him one and a half week back for dinner. My thoughts immediately went to what he would have think of just before he died, the stuffs he would have like to do. Being pulled away so suddenly is just so cruel.
I should have brought him to try durian when he was here too.
And I was still thinking at that time; I know someone in NZ who can actually bring me around if I go there. From my short conversation with him, he shared the same interests as me, nature and travel.
Its strange to talk about him in past tense now.
Rest in peace Roger.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
--Mark Twain--
I guess I miss the days in yellowstone, when everyday is a holiday, and every free time is a time to discover and see something new. Grand prismatic, fairy falls, kapler cascade, storm point.. we live the motto of 青春不流白. But now back in Singapore, life seemed so monotonous, its like going from colour tv back to black n white. Everytime u try to switch on the tv, there will be people reminding you Singapore is a BnW world.
Whatever happened to 青春不流白?
why postpone your life?
Like my colleague said, others wont understand.
--Mark Twain--
I guess I miss the days in yellowstone, when everyday is a holiday, and every free time is a time to discover and see something new. Grand prismatic, fairy falls, kapler cascade, storm point.. we live the motto of 青春不流白. But now back in Singapore, life seemed so monotonous, its like going from colour tv back to black n white. Everytime u try to switch on the tv, there will be people reminding you Singapore is a BnW world.
Whatever happened to 青春不流白?
why postpone your life?
Like my colleague said, others wont understand.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Endurance weekend - Paintball + Night Cycling
First up on saturday was going for paintball in JB.
Met at JE,
board the bus to JB via Second Link,
Drop by Jusco since its still early,
ate A&W and talked about reopening it in Spore,
moved on to battle ground,
donated blood to mosquitos,
start off by losing 1st 3 matches and getting shot in the back,
turned our fortunes around by adopting a diff strategy,
Chiong!,
won our remaining 2 matches,
advanced to semi though not sure how,
won the semis,
lost the final,
went over the dinner at Queens street or something,
back to spore,
had lots of fun.
All smiles after the game
Next up is night cycling, first time I did this, and for such a long distance. Starts off at 11pm, ended back home at 730am..
Total Damage - 43.6km
Total Gains:
Experience,
cycling at orchard Road,
see lots of Babos,
eat Mac at Orchard at 2am,
esplanade at 3am,
exremely long journey back,
slept for half of Sunday,
butt still hurts,
FUN!
Shorter journey next time please? And a better bike too.
First up on saturday was going for paintball in JB.
Met at JE,
board the bus to JB via Second Link,
Drop by Jusco since its still early,
ate A&W and talked about reopening it in Spore,
moved on to battle ground,
donated blood to mosquitos,
start off by losing 1st 3 matches and getting shot in the back,
turned our fortunes around by adopting a diff strategy,
Chiong!,
won our remaining 2 matches,
advanced to semi though not sure how,
won the semis,
lost the final,
went over the dinner at Queens street or something,
back to spore,
had lots of fun.
All smiles after the game
Next up is night cycling, first time I did this, and for such a long distance. Starts off at 11pm, ended back home at 730am..
Total Damage - 43.6km
Total Gains:
Experience,
cycling at orchard Road,
see lots of Babos,
eat Mac at Orchard at 2am,
esplanade at 3am,
exremely long journey back,
slept for half of Sunday,
butt still hurts,
FUN!
Shorter journey next time please? And a better bike too.
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