Woods - Wine Company

my 2nd drinking session with the HR-AA is at Woods @ Dempsey Hill on a thursday night no less. 吃喝嫖赌。its just short of the 嫖. there are some serious mahjong tai-tais in this clique. i know better than to play with them!

hello goodnight

"life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult"
.... Hippocrates

this is what you get for doing your reading at such hour, at least i got a good line. man, i really hate insomnia especially when you REALLY want to sleep. (thank God for online streaming & One Tree Hill ) now i got to get ready for class in an hour's time.

i hope we never be disillusion

Peyton: Are you happy, Brooke?
Brooke: Sometimes. Not always. Are you?
Peyton: No.
Brooke: Okay, then let me ask you something. What is gonna make you happy, Peyton? Is it how you look? Or the car you drive or the people you know? Is it money or celebrity or power or accomplishments? Because I have all those things and I don't think it's enough.
Peyton: Well then, what is?
Brooke: Love, I think. And that love can be for a boy or a girl or a place or a way of life or even for a family. But where you find it is up to you. So where are you gonna find that love, Peyton?

One Tree Hill - Season 5

perhaps we already are.

Great big hug

to jan, for helping me out with the feedback and saying nice things about me. although, somethings she said i have no recollection of at all. but thats just me. i have short-term memory remember?

to the rest of you.... quick boost my ego! or rather, send it back to me ASAP because I was filling in all the project deadlines and midterm exam dates today and its freaking me out now cos its all due one after another in mid-feb which means CNY and i have to start getting my ass to work NOW.

feb 2008

2 feb (sat) - dinner @ peishan's
6 feb (wed) - 除夕 reunion dinner
7 - 9 feb (thurs - sat) - @ muar
15 - 17 feb (fri - sun) - cds dinner + chalet

oh no, and there's many things due before term break.

job search

weekends = job search

what a pain in the ass. oh job, fall on me.
no wait, oh money fall on me.

smouldering hot weather

am enjoying my final term in school. probably because the stress period isn't here yet and im basking in the happiness of the upcoming chinese new year. during the 3hr break, its eating and shopping & feeling blessed because.... maggie, yieng & yongbin came down to have lunch with me yesterday & on wednesday jan, liping & i went down to orchard to lunch together with gan ann.

we also visited richard at his BE studio yesterday. first time i've been to a studio & listening to the DJs record their show (*although it is a radio show that maybe 6 people tune in to, most probably ah tiongs too)

there also seem to be hope for a taiwan trip! perhaps perhaps perhaps

material, immaterial

spent a nice day today eating, shopping and then ending it off with a 3hr + long movie about Gandhi back in school.

the newfound shopping place is ....................... CHINATOWN.

i was pleasantly surprise with an entire floor of shopping, good material (even if aunties dont share the same style as you, they sure as hell appreciate better material) and good prices. needless to say, that made me very happy!

The Gandhi film was a to-watch for the leadership module which i am actually glad that it is so since it wouldnt be some movie i'd pick to watch. as the movie started in a flashback and began with the assassination of Gandhi, hx asked why was he assassinated. to my horror, i realized that i didnt really know the details. everyone knew who Gandhi was, but really WHO IS HE, i think there are people, like me, who never quite bothered to find out.

this whole issue of human conflict for religion, for land just presents itself in this movie and makes me wonder why do humans not see things the way this man did. the call for equality, unity and his belief in non-violence. if people could see the way he did, all the wars then and now would be uncalled for.

send the terrorists some dvds please.

nature & nurture

my gene cell prof echoed my thoughts about human beings being too complex such that it is impossible to understand someone fully. he added that relationships are too fluid and that you can't say someone is your wife until the day she lies there dead.

a morbid way of putting it, but true.

yes, i am studying DNA. and my takeaway is that....

for everything you are now, blame it on your parents!

sorry mama i'm so lazy

i am eunice i am very busy too

学生很穷
曲：周杰伦 词：me

chorus:
不用麻烦了不用麻烦了
不用麻烦不用麻烦了不用麻烦了
别再考虑，我在赶时间
在等下去我心都碎了颈项也长了
不用麻烦了不用麻烦了
门票不多给我几张让我去就好了
掌声能靠我尖叫交给我
学生很穷的

与杰伦快乐的园游会。生日快乐！

its just a ride

im excited about a course assignment. and yes, you heard it right.

i'm taking this half module called leadership practices and skills. because...
1) fulfills my credit for OBHR major
2) no exam
3) no group project

happy enough. even happier when we found out that our prof was super nice & charming. but still, leadership skills and practices still sounds like a bullshit course where u throw up leadership theories and go through some case studies of leadership.

week 2 of class, the major individual assignment was revealed to us.
it surprises and delights me because it is MEANINGFUL & i feel that it wraps up my academic life nicely. Now, what a way to describe an assignment.

its a assignment much related to self-discovery & awareness. we are supposed to get people to tell us "how we are great", and how they see us at our best. and from here, we are supposed to present a summary on what is said about us, discover our strong points and how that applies to leadership.

now, after 4 years in here. maybe only now i can manage to coerce myself into saying we are different in a positive manner.

i've always felt that its impossible to understand someone completely. you cannot even understand yourself completely. because (1) we do not usually take the time to reflect on why we do the things we do and behave the way we are, (2) our logic and behaviors are erratic merely because we are too complex a creature that we cannot strictly place ourself into nicely segregated types. we are abit of everything, full of overlaps and contradictions.

when we do take time to think through what kind of person we are, it does make u proud and scared are the same time. self discovery is like a neverending rollercoaster ride, it never ends and you feel proud and scared apeshit at the same time.

let's end this off with a parable prof mention in class (its interesting)
Parable: The Cracked Pot

espresso

besides it being tiring to wake up at 6.30am and having to be in school from 8.30am to 6.45pm (with a torturous 3hr break in between), everything else is normal. final term in school so nothing should quite faze me anymore, i hope. and my profs seem normal enough.

got to know a korean exchange student today cos she was sitting right next to me in class. for some reason, im quite happy about that. i guess i've secretly wanted to have a korean friend all along. hahaha.

on a somehow related note, coffee prince is a really good show that got me laughing and good shows have been lacking for a while now. nothing beats watching a good show and having a good laugh to end your day.

p/s: i finished the show. love love love love love

beginnings

beginnings are like unsealing the cookie box. with that comes anticipation & hope of something good - until it proves otherwise, or until it turns sour. or soft.

so now we are all at the unsealing part, let us all remain hopeful. im living in the hope of going beautiful places & having a fulfilling life.

a fulfilling life, it all just boils down to that isn't it.

monster fish

dlb is gone. it was painful watching you go. goodbye.
im sorry they gave u such a horrible name.

final term!

mon:
3.30-6.45pm: Gene Cell

tue:
tutor

wed:
8.30-11.45am: Managerial decision making
3.30-6.45pm: Business Process

thurs:
8.30-11.45am: Training & development
3.30-6.45pm: Leadership skills & practices

fri:
4-6pm: tutor

friends and magaritas

this is my HR clique @ Cafe Iguana - just feel very fortunate to know them & to be able to go for classes to see familiar faces. in the past, there was always apple & wz. with these people, u can share jokes, horror stories, good food, magaritas.... i know friendship has reached a certain level when i get goofy and start flaunting my muar/hongkie/thai accent & hokkien just to give them a good laugh.

that's something that i appreciate because i've always felt that it is not that easy to make good friends in university that go beyond projects. i suppose, we could all say cheers to that.

desserts at riccotti was chocolately divine. and i really like cafe iguana, i guess mostly because its spanish! i was secretly happy when i realized that i understood the spanish on the menu and the toilet sign.