Notes to myself

Recently, the pace has been getting faster and faster. New students and rotators are coming onboard and apparently, many are coming to my section to replace those who have opted to "advance".

It is not easy to keep a perfect balance on things happening around us. There are simply too many balls to juggle. There are apparently also some people who seem to enjoy dipping their fingers into every soup. This makes matters worse. Sometimes ridiculous. I will steer clear from the yarn that they spin.... don't get entangled but try have a good life and be good.

"The heart is deceitful above all else, deceiving even its own master." sometimes we should really spend enough time with ourselves, for ourselves and by ourselves. Be frank and clear with ourselves. Avoid justifying and rationalising every stupidity we demonstrated. Then soon, we will start to do things right.

The Prophecy I, II, and III

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Saturday Blog

Read something interesting from someone's blog a few days ago.
"Reasons have expiration dates.
Rely on them too long and they harden into excuses."

Ah, another saturday is almost gone! How time flies!
"A folding of the hands, and the day is gone." (Bible)

I had a very nice time with my "coach" today, although it did feel a little awkward and embarassing initially. But I was actually surprise I could focus better than I had thought. I really feel like an old man sometimes. Should consider Tai Chi class maybe.

We will know how things turn out in the end.

Weekend ranting....

(Picture taken along the streets in HCM)

Went out pretty early on Saturday morning. AAS, Jln Bukit Merah and Alexandra Village for brunch. After that, proceeded to Shineshine Plaza, Peace Centre and then followed by Bras Besar Complex. Unfortunately, that last leg got me photographed by a CISCO officer because I had accidentally filtered into the buslane, I suppose. He seemed rather surprised by my waving to him and saying "sorry". Saw on my rear-view mirror that he actually went to check his camera and turned again to look at my back.. Hopefully, he could not catch my license plate number!!!


Accomplished quite a lot of tasks on Saturday. Also went for late lunch cum dinner with 2 friends on Saturday - Bugis. By that time, one group must have already arrived and settled down into the hotel in HCMC. HY has gotten the nec tickets for all 5 of them. Hope they will have a wonderful trip. (They should be snuggling up at the hotel in Dalat now.)


July's got another group. August, yet another! Should really learn to organise this much better.


HY is very shy, but hope that given time, she will have the courage to speak up more and make friends. She's very concerned about how the trip went and kept asking me to find out.

Today, I packed a lot of stuff and began to hate this little bad habit of mine. Realised that knowledge is a very expensive item to collect but if it isn't applied, it's all but expensive scrap. Mum had given me some boxes to collect them but I think I should've at least tried to sell them away, even if this could be for anything between $2.50 to $15. Mr Koh is willing to help me but half the proceeds will go to charity. Next few days I will be working at breakneck speed I guess. Will need a good cataloging system in place.

Concerning work, it makes me wonder how I've managed to have spent so much time and money into a future no one seems to be interested in. There are right things to do, and there are also things that need to be done right. Sometimes, we get tossed about between the two, which I feel can be comical at times when you look back and realise jus how it is like when 2 guys throw the freesby around and you are the dog. And so I have been, chasing the cheese that gets moved around. Gurus call it "the art of motivation". But I am already a sickly old dog who can't take too much wagging and skipping in the air anymore. It's just hard plastic. At least, the dog must have actually felt that the attention was on him!


Anyway, no more cheeses, which was what the dr advised me. I will work on my 7 habits for the rest of this year. If I can, perhaps the 8th as well.

Childhood memories

Just got a little bag for Yen. Hope she likes it. It is "cheap" but its material is of the Kimono kind. Silky and turquois.. nice.

While doing up my resume, I suddenly realised what my uncles and cousins were trying to teach me when I was young.

Can't really remember the age, but i was probably 9 then. I had to work separating rusty curtain pins from shiny ones. Hated the task because it was too menial and boring. My other cousins my age were having football most of the time. I had to sit at a small table with boxes and boxes of those pins waiting for me to complete. Can't really recalled how I got rid of the "job" or I just ran away each time my aunt called to me. As I got older, they upgraded me to follow them on their job - interior decors. Saw plenty of rich folks' houses. There was this house somewhere in Orchard with a swimming pool and a little farm. It was actually more like two buildings with a swimming pool in-between. And the two buildings were jointed by a little arch- bridging the two - above the pool. Wow...

Had actualy seen a few variations tho. Carpeted stairs and huge cinema-featured rooms.... I can't imagine myself so rich. I have met rich men, except that since I have met them when I was much older than a 10-yr-old boy then, I don't get invited into their homes. Anyway, I have digressed. The fact is, I don't think I will ever be rich. Maybe perhaps, if I get cancer or something and get to see my lumpsum payout before I actually die. Maybe, I will die a rich man after all... perhaps, there are only a few things I could have done right, after all.

It's now all for my mum and Yen.