Thursday, May 31, 2007
I've been pretty quiet on this blog, so I'm posting this in case any of my dearest friends forget who I am.
Living somewhere else far away from home is something new to me, in fact I hadn't really lived anywhere else in my lifetime. I miss so many things, yet there's also the excitement of experiencing new things you'll probably not get exposed to on our safe sunny island. I wouldn't say it's been radically different, it's America after all; still, you'll be surprised how well humans adapt to environmental changes.
I never imagined myself being able to cook. And now I'm whipping up steak that tastes as good as it looks. I can stir fry so many things with just garlic, onions, oil and a bit of commonsense. I do the laundry now, I log all my spendings onto an excel sheet, I now compare price/quality ratios between Brand X and Y when I do my groceries. I also got really tipsy in a club/pub and now understand how the brain/body works in such opposing directions you'll wonder if you were really you.
I drink more than I do in Singapore. After all, beer costs only 60 cents a bottle. I do control though, and it's only for the occasional gathering. (don't worry Esmond) Most of the time I've become very domesticated. If I have off days I'll probably be on a date with Claire at the nearby cinema, or grocery shopping, doing my laundry, doing dishes, and of course cook. It's a matter of survival actually; the food here's really expensive and they are all junk.
Anyway, since our posts here tend to have philosophical undertones, my post should rightly have one also. After a month spent in America, and I believe I can say the same for Vic and Es, is that you'll never realise what you can achieve unless you break out of your "no I can't do that", or "it's not for me", or "that's impossible" shell. The little world we live in gives us a false sense a security, in many ways also hinders us from maximising our potential because it provides what's considered "sufficient" to us.
Working like a bangla here for a month of so now, doing very menial tasks that just screams hard labour, you also find out how unfair the real world is. Despite doing my best, during ride operations, to smile and greet every single customer, never leaning on the railings, dressing neatly, and even cheer with the kids that take my ride until my voice went hoarse, I didn't win any of the recognition awards that they give out to the employees. Claire had quite a few and she deserved all of them, just that some other people I don't even know how they can win this daily award time after time when they don't do anything spectacular, and I daresay I am on par or more conscientious than them. I'm not raising this up to whine or whatever, I've been reflecting on the psychological effect it was having on me. When I felt my hard work wasn't appreciated, I decided to slack off, but after a while it made me realise that I'm letting no one else down except myself, and that feeling is so much worse than not receiving any recognition.
To be able to recognize yourself in the mirror every morning is more important than any rewards that others can dish out to you.
Hopefully all of you can remember that in your work, particularly those who are having internships now. Whether the internship is slack or siong, whether the boss is nice or fucked up, always maintain a work ethic that makes you proud of yourself. If the boss assigns you a job, do it till you are satisfied with it, not just to meet his/her minimum requirements. If you always try to just meet minimum requirements, you'll always be receiving the bare minimal remuneration, be it monetary, moral, physical or emotional. And let me tell you this from personal experience, every effort you make will make you walk a little bit taller.
I know this is quite unconvincing coming from someone as flippant as me, but just hope this bit of insight helps you get through this summer, at least.
-sq
Living somewhere else far away from home is something new to me, in fact I hadn't really lived anywhere else in my lifetime. I miss so many things, yet there's also the excitement of experiencing new things you'll probably not get exposed to on our safe sunny island. I wouldn't say it's been radically different, it's America after all; still, you'll be surprised how well humans adapt to environmental changes.
I never imagined myself being able to cook. And now I'm whipping up steak that tastes as good as it looks. I can stir fry so many things with just garlic, onions, oil and a bit of commonsense. I do the laundry now, I log all my spendings onto an excel sheet, I now compare price/quality ratios between Brand X and Y when I do my groceries. I also got really tipsy in a club/pub and now understand how the brain/body works in such opposing directions you'll wonder if you were really you.
I drink more than I do in Singapore. After all, beer costs only 60 cents a bottle. I do control though, and it's only for the occasional gathering. (don't worry Esmond) Most of the time I've become very domesticated. If I have off days I'll probably be on a date with Claire at the nearby cinema, or grocery shopping, doing my laundry, doing dishes, and of course cook. It's a matter of survival actually; the food here's really expensive and they are all junk.
Anyway, since our posts here tend to have philosophical undertones, my post should rightly have one also. After a month spent in America, and I believe I can say the same for Vic and Es, is that you'll never realise what you can achieve unless you break out of your "no I can't do that", or "it's not for me", or "that's impossible" shell. The little world we live in gives us a false sense a security, in many ways also hinders us from maximising our potential because it provides what's considered "sufficient" to us.
Working like a bangla here for a month of so now, doing very menial tasks that just screams hard labour, you also find out how unfair the real world is. Despite doing my best, during ride operations, to smile and greet every single customer, never leaning on the railings, dressing neatly, and even cheer with the kids that take my ride until my voice went hoarse, I didn't win any of the recognition awards that they give out to the employees. Claire had quite a few and she deserved all of them, just that some other people I don't even know how they can win this daily award time after time when they don't do anything spectacular, and I daresay I am on par or more conscientious than them. I'm not raising this up to whine or whatever, I've been reflecting on the psychological effect it was having on me. When I felt my hard work wasn't appreciated, I decided to slack off, but after a while it made me realise that I'm letting no one else down except myself, and that feeling is so much worse than not receiving any recognition.
To be able to recognize yourself in the mirror every morning is more important than any rewards that others can dish out to you.
Hopefully all of you can remember that in your work, particularly those who are having internships now. Whether the internship is slack or siong, whether the boss is nice or fucked up, always maintain a work ethic that makes you proud of yourself. If the boss assigns you a job, do it till you are satisfied with it, not just to meet his/her minimum requirements. If you always try to just meet minimum requirements, you'll always be receiving the bare minimal remuneration, be it monetary, moral, physical or emotional. And let me tell you this from personal experience, every effort you make will make you walk a little bit taller.
I know this is quite unconvincing coming from someone as flippant as me, but just hope this bit of insight helps you get through this summer, at least.
-sq
# posted by eastsidebackstreet : 10:57 am
Saturday, May 26, 2007
ramblingss again
Hi all,
It has been kinda of quiet in the blog lately, hope everyone is doing fine. Shall we meet tomorrow for dinner? It has been quite some time since we last met. Venue wise I’m easy.
Everyone is busy with their own things now, such as internships. Lam, Ue, Seto, Kow and me. Ivy is busy with her FYP, and Qin, what are you doing now?? Really have no idea le.
Anyway, this blog entry is very random. Haha. I want to ask you all if you are interested in taking diving open water/advance when Xin, SQ, Black and Es get back, or if not diving just chill at the very nice beaches. In the month of September? We could do it at Krabi or something. I hope we dun see sharks. At least it’ll be a very good (and cheaper) get together before I fly off to Paris till February.
And now a bit of myself. I’m having quite a lot of free time in my hands, especially after the completion of my Financial Literacy Project and Zhifa’s exams. W.r.t. the FL project, it has been quite a roller coaster ride. I dun really like the president of my club, but she said something which made sense to me…
“Well for those who have heard us, i think they didn't want it that way too... i mean we can't all have the same priorities and same goals at the same time.. which is why groups fall apart and reform again.. just hope that things and objectives and goals are met in the end with people who have the same heart for this yeah...”
I guess this not only relates to project groups, but also to friendships as well. You know, sometimes we are dulan with one another for not being able to do this, or to commit to that ‘something’ we believe in. How many of us will be together at the end of the day? This sentence ends with a question mark. Our thinking changes all the time, so how much tolerance do we have for one another and how many of us will we want to see together in the end? I used to be quite naïve and have the ‘together forever’ attitude, but I know that sometimes things can’t be helped (due to one reason or another). But I guess there’s always light when there’s someone running the show or putting in that extra effort to make things better.
As for Zhifa, I’m not kidding when I say my blood pressure escalates whenever I have tuition with him. He’s a good boy but slow and forgetful, and through him I realized that I’m actually a rather impatient person. I’m going to stop tuition with him soon as I’ll be going for my exchange, and let’s hope he finds a better tutor who can teach him better. If not, I’ll be back and both of us can continue to terrorize and give each other nightmares!
Haha for those who still do not know, I’m working at the Zoo now. I realize that most of the HODs or Directors are gangsters, or at least they behave like one. Lam you have good potential. I’m working closely with one of my colleagues setting beside me, who is very nice, but I think she has a low self esteem. I guess being nice is really not enough if you do not know how to fight for what you want, cos sometimes the ‘stronger’ colleagues tend to take advantage of her. Hope she learns through her own eyes soon.
Well, that’s about it. Take care and enjoy guys!
Songjie
It has been kinda of quiet in the blog lately, hope everyone is doing fine. Shall we meet tomorrow for dinner? It has been quite some time since we last met. Venue wise I’m easy.
Everyone is busy with their own things now, such as internships. Lam, Ue, Seto, Kow and me. Ivy is busy with her FYP, and Qin, what are you doing now?? Really have no idea le.
Anyway, this blog entry is very random. Haha. I want to ask you all if you are interested in taking diving open water/advance when Xin, SQ, Black and Es get back, or if not diving just chill at the very nice beaches. In the month of September? We could do it at Krabi or something. I hope we dun see sharks. At least it’ll be a very good (and cheaper) get together before I fly off to Paris till February.
And now a bit of myself. I’m having quite a lot of free time in my hands, especially after the completion of my Financial Literacy Project and Zhifa’s exams. W.r.t. the FL project, it has been quite a roller coaster ride. I dun really like the president of my club, but she said something which made sense to me…
“Well for those who have heard us, i think they didn't want it that way too... i mean we can't all have the same priorities and same goals at the same time.. which is why groups fall apart and reform again.. just hope that things and objectives and goals are met in the end with people who have the same heart for this yeah...”
I guess this not only relates to project groups, but also to friendships as well. You know, sometimes we are dulan with one another for not being able to do this, or to commit to that ‘something’ we believe in. How many of us will be together at the end of the day? This sentence ends with a question mark. Our thinking changes all the time, so how much tolerance do we have for one another and how many of us will we want to see together in the end? I used to be quite naïve and have the ‘together forever’ attitude, but I know that sometimes things can’t be helped (due to one reason or another). But I guess there’s always light when there’s someone running the show or putting in that extra effort to make things better.
As for Zhifa, I’m not kidding when I say my blood pressure escalates whenever I have tuition with him. He’s a good boy but slow and forgetful, and through him I realized that I’m actually a rather impatient person. I’m going to stop tuition with him soon as I’ll be going for my exchange, and let’s hope he finds a better tutor who can teach him better. If not, I’ll be back and both of us can continue to terrorize and give each other nightmares!
Haha for those who still do not know, I’m working at the Zoo now. I realize that most of the HODs or Directors are gangsters, or at least they behave like one. Lam you have good potential. I’m working closely with one of my colleagues setting beside me, who is very nice, but I think she has a low self esteem. I guess being nice is really not enough if you do not know how to fight for what you want, cos sometimes the ‘stronger’ colleagues tend to take advantage of her. Hope she learns through her own eyes soon.
Well, that’s about it. Take care and enjoy guys!
Songjie
# posted by eastsidebackstreet : 11:44 am
Friday, May 18, 2007
this is facking funny
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Wa lau... i'm damn free...
Seto, I understand what you mean… I guess it is just the shit Marists attitude of being late… Difficult to change, but all of us have to make a conscious effort. I used to be damn punctual until I realise there I’m most of the time stupidly arrive the first and end up waiting damn long. Hence, nowadays I try to factor in the “Marists” late factor, but still I think I reach early most of the time.
Anyway, as friends, you just have to trust that everyone has been making their best efforts in finding out more about each other’s of our life, constant reminders like your post would also help. It would be best if anyone at any point of time, feels that we are drifting apart, remind all of us to put in effort.
I have to admit that I’m not exactly making the best effort too. I’m a rather lazy and a bit of self-centred person, once achieve a certain status quo which I deemed fit, I tend to shy away and become lazy in making effort. Just ask Fiona… I have recently been too lazy to coax her and go the extra mile to make her happy, something which I have to change, because she don’t deserved this as she is very important to me.
The same is happening here on how I’m treating you guys or maybe how we are treating each other nowadays. Perhaps we have been all too comfortable with each other and knowing that we can rely and fall back to each other in difficult times, this makes us take for granted and we have stop asking each other “how’s life?” except for the time that we actually meet up. We should try to change things la.
But I think the truth is that, it is very difficult for us to go back to what we once were. We have to face it. 1 day got 24 hrs. With more work, gf and sch and etc coming in, no way we can spend the same amount of time and effort into our friendship. Just like anything in the world. Everything will have to reach its peak and stay there for a while or it may even go down. But the idea here is to ensure that it doesn’t go down to beyond that threshold level of “Good friends” or even worse, “Friends”.
With regards to unresolved issues, yes, I think we have a couple. In my opinion, there are still certain standing issues between the two UK pple since I last heard, or maybe things has already improved la. See, this is an example of not making effort in finding out about each other’s life. Maybe there might be certain issues about me too, I dunno. If there are, please let me know directly. I think we are all matured and known each other long enough. If in any point of time anyone buay song each other, I think the best is to tell the person directly and not put it off just because you are afraid of antagonising the other person. But one thing we have to remember is that each of us have different priorities in life and what you think is right may not be what another person think is right. With this in mind, even if two person have varying extremist beliefs, “cold wars” should not ever happen again.
Anyway, as for heart to heart talks, I agree totally. So when is the next all guys nights out aka drinking nights out again?
Here is the list of participation points, applies to pple in Singapore (which I still can remember):
Songjie: St James May 5th
Me: Brew-works on April 30th
Seto: Dinner on May 1st
Lam: Cannot remember la, but I think you chalked up enough points liao la
Qin: That time at the Mount Faber there during Lam’s and Youyi’s B-day
Youyi: IF anyone can remember, please help me fill this in…. hahaha (ok la, can count Jacq’s birthday surprise if you really want to la)
So you all agar agar yourselves la.
Terence
Anyway, as friends, you just have to trust that everyone has been making their best efforts in finding out more about each other’s of our life, constant reminders like your post would also help. It would be best if anyone at any point of time, feels that we are drifting apart, remind all of us to put in effort.
I have to admit that I’m not exactly making the best effort too. I’m a rather lazy and a bit of self-centred person, once achieve a certain status quo which I deemed fit, I tend to shy away and become lazy in making effort. Just ask Fiona… I have recently been too lazy to coax her and go the extra mile to make her happy, something which I have to change, because she don’t deserved this as she is very important to me.
The same is happening here on how I’m treating you guys or maybe how we are treating each other nowadays. Perhaps we have been all too comfortable with each other and knowing that we can rely and fall back to each other in difficult times, this makes us take for granted and we have stop asking each other “how’s life?” except for the time that we actually meet up. We should try to change things la.
But I think the truth is that, it is very difficult for us to go back to what we once were. We have to face it. 1 day got 24 hrs. With more work, gf and sch and etc coming in, no way we can spend the same amount of time and effort into our friendship. Just like anything in the world. Everything will have to reach its peak and stay there for a while or it may even go down. But the idea here is to ensure that it doesn’t go down to beyond that threshold level of “Good friends” or even worse, “Friends”.
With regards to unresolved issues, yes, I think we have a couple. In my opinion, there are still certain standing issues between the two UK pple since I last heard, or maybe things has already improved la. See, this is an example of not making effort in finding out about each other’s life. Maybe there might be certain issues about me too, I dunno. If there are, please let me know directly. I think we are all matured and known each other long enough. If in any point of time anyone buay song each other, I think the best is to tell the person directly and not put it off just because you are afraid of antagonising the other person. But one thing we have to remember is that each of us have different priorities in life and what you think is right may not be what another person think is right. With this in mind, even if two person have varying extremist beliefs, “cold wars” should not ever happen again.
Anyway, as for heart to heart talks, I agree totally. So when is the next all guys nights out aka drinking nights out again?
Here is the list of participation points, applies to pple in Singapore (which I still can remember):
Songjie: St James May 5th
Me: Brew-works on April 30th
Seto: Dinner on May 1st
Lam: Cannot remember la, but I think you chalked up enough points liao la
Qin: That time at the Mount Faber there during Lam’s and Youyi’s B-day
Youyi: IF anyone can remember, please help me fill this in…. hahaha (ok la, can count Jacq’s birthday surprise if you really want to la)
So you all agar agar yourselves la.
Terence
# posted by eastsidebackstreet : 5:15 pm
Friends
Hi Guys
I am at work and i am so daamn bored...And so being Seto...i started to think about our frendship. And as usual i oli tink of the negative aspects. We have been frends for many years. The minimum being 4 years? The maximum being 18 years?
All of u are the longest frends i have had n i relli dunwan to lose any1 of u. All of u r dear to me. We have gone thru much together. More for some of u guys. My entire life, i have alway been a negative person. I alway tend to tink 2much. Ivy alway tells me not to tink 2much. But sumtimes i jus cant help it. Some of u might tink i am alway causing trouble and being controversial. But tt's just me. I cant give inspirational quotes or fake support n love. What i can give you guys is the cold hard truth seen in a more negative than positive light.
I guess its right to say that we have drifted apart over the years as all of us pursue our own lifes and dreams. Most of us now have gerfrends and wan to start planning for a life of ur own. Most of the people in this clique have not much close frends outside this clique. I am not shy to admit i am 1 of them. I don't have much frends outside u guys. U guys were my life. But i have learnt to accept u guys even though it has been hard to accept. I cant expect u guys to be wat i wan and i cant be wat u guys wan also. But as frends, even normal frends i tink we have all failed as a group. We are supposed to be a clique. Best of frends who share everyting. But i hardly know anyting about ani of u these days. None of us make an effort. Seriously.. How many of u even bother to chat to each other when u r online or even bother to jus take up ur handphone and sms ani1 in the clique jus to ask how r u? How's life? I did try to do that but after awile i stopped cos nobody bothered to do that back to me. It takes 2 hands to clap.
When we arrange to meet, people will alway be late. Y? Cos of alway some last minute reason or they jus cant b bothered as they are spending time with their gfs, i don't know. But it relli irks me. Is it so hard to be on time for our gatherings? Let me ask u guys, if u were meeting ur gfs would u dare to be late for even 15 mins? No rite? So y do u guys do it to frends that you have known for years? I am not perfect myself. Sometimes i jus dun bother to meet u guys even though some of u have taken great deal of time n effort to plan it. For that i apologize. I jus hope that all of us put in an effort. Gf are important, work is important, studies are important, but i mus emphasize that frendship is equally if not more important. Frends are alway there for us when we have problems.
Maybe sum of u tink i am v extreme. But tink about it. I tink i am rite. There are unresolved issues that we have in the clique that we never bothered to clear up. We jus brush them away and chuck it away n try our best to forget it. I relli hope tt we can have a heart to heart tok 1 day n clear all the issues. There are different groups in the clique and i relli hope that 1 day we can put all our differences aside. Misunderstandings, stereotypes, lack of concern.... these are jus sum of the tings... I miss the good old days where we share our problems. Maybe u guys do but not with me but as long as its with the clique i am happy.
I made a new group of frends while drinking and they are v young. Around 18 to 23. I am the oldest. But they have taught me alot. They alway sms me no matter how busy or wat. They have gfs but they still have a guys nite out maybe 1 or twice a week n all of them are working or serving NS. If they can put in the effort, y cant we? Lets jus try n put in sum effort.
I relli hope that we can return to the good old days...If ani of u guys tink that what i have said is untrue then jus ignore wat u read
Cheers
Seto
I am at work and i am so daamn bored...And so being Seto...i started to think about our frendship. And as usual i oli tink of the negative aspects. We have been frends for many years. The minimum being 4 years? The maximum being 18 years?
All of u are the longest frends i have had n i relli dunwan to lose any1 of u. All of u r dear to me. We have gone thru much together. More for some of u guys. My entire life, i have alway been a negative person. I alway tend to tink 2much. Ivy alway tells me not to tink 2much. But sumtimes i jus cant help it. Some of u might tink i am alway causing trouble and being controversial. But tt's just me. I cant give inspirational quotes or fake support n love. What i can give you guys is the cold hard truth seen in a more negative than positive light.
I guess its right to say that we have drifted apart over the years as all of us pursue our own lifes and dreams. Most of us now have gerfrends and wan to start planning for a life of ur own. Most of the people in this clique have not much close frends outside this clique. I am not shy to admit i am 1 of them. I don't have much frends outside u guys. U guys were my life. But i have learnt to accept u guys even though it has been hard to accept. I cant expect u guys to be wat i wan and i cant be wat u guys wan also. But as frends, even normal frends i tink we have all failed as a group. We are supposed to be a clique. Best of frends who share everyting. But i hardly know anyting about ani of u these days. None of us make an effort. Seriously.. How many of u even bother to chat to each other when u r online or even bother to jus take up ur handphone and sms ani1 in the clique jus to ask how r u? How's life? I did try to do that but after awile i stopped cos nobody bothered to do that back to me. It takes 2 hands to clap.
When we arrange to meet, people will alway be late. Y? Cos of alway some last minute reason or they jus cant b bothered as they are spending time with their gfs, i don't know. But it relli irks me. Is it so hard to be on time for our gatherings? Let me ask u guys, if u were meeting ur gfs would u dare to be late for even 15 mins? No rite? So y do u guys do it to frends that you have known for years? I am not perfect myself. Sometimes i jus dun bother to meet u guys even though some of u have taken great deal of time n effort to plan it. For that i apologize. I jus hope that all of us put in an effort. Gf are important, work is important, studies are important, but i mus emphasize that frendship is equally if not more important. Frends are alway there for us when we have problems.
Maybe sum of u tink i am v extreme. But tink about it. I tink i am rite. There are unresolved issues that we have in the clique that we never bothered to clear up. We jus brush them away and chuck it away n try our best to forget it. I relli hope tt we can have a heart to heart tok 1 day n clear all the issues. There are different groups in the clique and i relli hope that 1 day we can put all our differences aside. Misunderstandings, stereotypes, lack of concern.... these are jus sum of the tings... I miss the good old days where we share our problems. Maybe u guys do but not with me but as long as its with the clique i am happy.
I made a new group of frends while drinking and they are v young. Around 18 to 23. I am the oldest. But they have taught me alot. They alway sms me no matter how busy or wat. They have gfs but they still have a guys nite out maybe 1 or twice a week n all of them are working or serving NS. If they can put in the effort, y cant we? Lets jus try n put in sum effort.
I relli hope that we can return to the good old days...If ani of u guys tink that what i have said is untrue then jus ignore wat u read
Cheers
Seto
# posted by eastsidebackstreet : 2:49 pm
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
photos
Hihi Guys,
Hope all of you are doing fine. It's late now.. but I thought I'll just post up some pictures before I bathe and sleep..
First up, my workplace..
Tonnes and tonnes of work..
The mini pantry at my desk.. most of the times my mouth is working harder than my brain..
The count down calender Laura drew for me.. though it's still a little early.. but might as well.. 63 more 'working' days to go.. excluding MC
SQ, I thought since all of us miss you, I did a mini collage of your photos in different expressions..
Ter.. you know him?
3m tall Inuku.. very playful polar bear.. talking about bears.. Xin and SQ don't think i'm talking nonsense when i say bears cause many deaths in USA.. got time you all should google 'how to fight a bear' or something like that.. esp when you are work in parks.. dun play play
Rhinos can charge up to 100km/h when provoked.. but only for 40m. I dunno why but the first person that came to my mind when I heard this commentary was Lam hahaha
Shao Lao Shi..
Some of the 'perks' you get for working in the zoo..
Anyway just a short update about my life.. been pretty busy.. with my financial literacy project and tuition.. dun realli have much free time either.. exchange is more or less confirmed.. i'll be going to Dauphine, Paris.. not alone though.. I heard someone will be going with me.. which is good..
All the best guys,
Songjie
Hope all of you are doing fine. It's late now.. but I thought I'll just post up some pictures before I bathe and sleep..
First up, my workplace..
Tonnes and tonnes of work..
The mini pantry at my desk.. most of the times my mouth is working harder than my brain..
The count down calender Laura drew for me.. though it's still a little early.. but might as well.. 63 more 'working' days to go.. excluding MC
SQ, I thought since all of us miss you, I did a mini collage of your photos in different expressions..
Ter.. you know him?
3m tall Inuku.. very playful polar bear.. talking about bears.. Xin and SQ don't think i'm talking nonsense when i say bears cause many deaths in USA.. got time you all should google 'how to fight a bear' or something like that.. esp when you are work in parks.. dun play play
Rhinos can charge up to 100km/h when provoked.. but only for 40m. I dunno why but the first person that came to my mind when I heard this commentary was Lam hahaha
Shao Lao Shi..
Some of the 'perks' you get for working in the zoo..
Anyway just a short update about my life.. been pretty busy.. with my financial literacy project and tuition.. dun realli have much free time either.. exchange is more or less confirmed.. i'll be going to Dauphine, Paris.. not alone though.. I heard someone will be going with me.. which is good..
All the best guys,
Songjie
# posted by eastsidebackstreet : 11:45 pm
Monday, May 07, 2007
Long awaited post
Hi readers of back-side-east-street,
Finally I have found time to come online to post. Been in my office for the past 2 weeks without internet has made me realise how I have much I have been relying on internet to get me past the lectures in school. These 2 weeks without internet in office, with little to do, except to act busy in office is almost killing me. Sometimes, I wonder whether I’m really cut out for working or not. My attention span is really damn short. Every half and hour or so, I have to move around, and to make matters worse, the room I’m sharing with another colleague is located at the furthest end of the office. So whenever I have to move around such as going to the toilet, I have to walk pass all my other colleagues room and my supervisor room. Well anyway, internship has been sucky till now. Hope that improves the next few weeks though.
Anyway, for those who do not know still (just let me brag once about it and forget the whole thing), I got fantastically lucky result this semester. GPA 3.9/4. Overall managed a 3.75/4 which effectively gets me to the dean’s list. Why lucky? Because I have put it less effort than what I did last semester and frankly speaking, I went into the exam much less prepared and not much confidence. However, the only thing I was confident about was that there are classmates who knew much lesser than I do. Hence, in that sense I was lucky because my classmates were relatively lazy and put in even lesser effort than I do, resulting in my good grades. I doubt that I will ever get that lucky again.
Side-track: Hmm… This suddenly brings up one point which I didn’t intend to blog about. Remember the time I won like super lots of money in CNY last year? NNB, that was the semester I achieve the lousiest result of all time. This year, the past 2 semesters in fact, I have been losing in gambling (Song, although I won in Genting and recently win a bit in soccer, but the overall damage to my pocket is still substantially large for the year).
Verdict?
My gambling luck and grades and inversely co-related. (Please fill in the blanks for me) F_ _ _ I N G KN_ _CC _ man! Haiz… Like my dad told me before, life is a zero sum gain at the end of the day. Bo bian…
Anyway, back to the original topic. I realise in SMU, class participation is very important. Speak with confidence and a bit of intelligence in class and it will greatly help influence your grade. Song and Youyi, please apply that in your future classes, esp Youyi, for all the talk cock ability and shit talk you can talk to us about, you are too easily pai seh and maybe that makes it difficult for you to really speak up in class. Just like the time when during your birthday you had to go up to the front of the café at Mount Faber to dance and sing abit, u totally speechless and tongue tied. This is so unlike you. Be more thick skinned than you already are. Just a bit more will do.
This brings me to the main thing I want to talk about.
CONFIDENCE
This word is easy to say and yet often, we find it difficult to exhibit correctly. Most people will say that there is a thin line between confidence and arrogant. But to me confidence is basically being arrogant in the right way. Arrogance comes about when you explicitly exhibit to other people that you are more superior than them. The form of arrogance here that I am saying is to strongly believe in your own ability psycho yourself that you are the best in the world. Tell yourself that the people around you are inferior to you and really cannot make it (they are pathetic losers) and you are the best for the job *IF* you in enough effort (of course, please do not explicitly exhibit to the world that you are the best, as that, I feel is, arrogance). Without confidence, you would not be successful in anything. In fact, you are nothing without confidence.
Some of us have probably lots of experiences with failures and find it difficult to believe in whatever I just said. Probably you may just give it up and tell yourself that I will just do enough to get a decent grade. There is probably my maximum ability and just get on with life. That is basically just lying down and take whatever destiny throws at you. If that is the case, what is there to live for? You are better off being dead. Fighting for the better and fighting is the only thing that truly makes us feel alive. If you were to day in day out doing mundane things, wouldn’t that makes you a zombie? Fight with confidence and believe in yourself that you can do better. With confidence, almost anything is possible. If you do not have confidence to do a huge task, break it up into smaller parts and accomplish them to gain your confidence bit by bit.
Confidence can bring you anywhere you want to go. Just use soccer for example. Why is it, one same team, having the same players, just keep on losing, until a new manager comes in and transform them? The answer is because of confidence. A manager greatest job is to instil that confidence in his players. Tactics change here and there more or less the same one la, and each team got 11 players on the field. Just look at Sunderland, Roy Keane change a few players and stick to same formation. He recalled bench players who had the hunger and instil much needed confidence in them. Sunderland from shit team become a good team. Once again, you can see what confidence can do.
The idea is to tell yourself you can do it and never let anyone or anything (results, destiny or whatever) put you down.
Like what Will Smith said to his son in the movie, “Pursuit of Happyness”(No, I did not spell this wrongly…), “Never let anyone tell you that you cannot do it. Not even me.”
This sums up everything that I want to say.
Believe in yourself and be confident.
And yes, to me you guys are all losers.
And if you think that in your mind now that you have just spend your last 5 mins of your pathetic time to read a pathetic loser’s post, then you have already taken your first step towards a confident you. =)
Terence
Finally I have found time to come online to post. Been in my office for the past 2 weeks without internet has made me realise how I have much I have been relying on internet to get me past the lectures in school. These 2 weeks without internet in office, with little to do, except to act busy in office is almost killing me. Sometimes, I wonder whether I’m really cut out for working or not. My attention span is really damn short. Every half and hour or so, I have to move around, and to make matters worse, the room I’m sharing with another colleague is located at the furthest end of the office. So whenever I have to move around such as going to the toilet, I have to walk pass all my other colleagues room and my supervisor room. Well anyway, internship has been sucky till now. Hope that improves the next few weeks though.
Anyway, for those who do not know still (just let me brag once about it and forget the whole thing), I got fantastically lucky result this semester. GPA 3.9/4. Overall managed a 3.75/4 which effectively gets me to the dean’s list. Why lucky? Because I have put it less effort than what I did last semester and frankly speaking, I went into the exam much less prepared and not much confidence. However, the only thing I was confident about was that there are classmates who knew much lesser than I do. Hence, in that sense I was lucky because my classmates were relatively lazy and put in even lesser effort than I do, resulting in my good grades. I doubt that I will ever get that lucky again.
Side-track: Hmm… This suddenly brings up one point which I didn’t intend to blog about. Remember the time I won like super lots of money in CNY last year? NNB, that was the semester I achieve the lousiest result of all time. This year, the past 2 semesters in fact, I have been losing in gambling (Song, although I won in Genting and recently win a bit in soccer, but the overall damage to my pocket is still substantially large for the year).
Verdict?
My gambling luck and grades and inversely co-related. (Please fill in the blanks for me) F_ _ _ I N G KN_ _CC _ man! Haiz… Like my dad told me before, life is a zero sum gain at the end of the day. Bo bian…
Anyway, back to the original topic. I realise in SMU, class participation is very important. Speak with confidence and a bit of intelligence in class and it will greatly help influence your grade. Song and Youyi, please apply that in your future classes, esp Youyi, for all the talk cock ability and shit talk you can talk to us about, you are too easily pai seh and maybe that makes it difficult for you to really speak up in class. Just like the time when during your birthday you had to go up to the front of the café at Mount Faber to dance and sing abit, u totally speechless and tongue tied. This is so unlike you. Be more thick skinned than you already are. Just a bit more will do.
This brings me to the main thing I want to talk about.
CONFIDENCE
This word is easy to say and yet often, we find it difficult to exhibit correctly. Most people will say that there is a thin line between confidence and arrogant. But to me confidence is basically being arrogant in the right way. Arrogance comes about when you explicitly exhibit to other people that you are more superior than them. The form of arrogance here that I am saying is to strongly believe in your own ability psycho yourself that you are the best in the world. Tell yourself that the people around you are inferior to you and really cannot make it (they are pathetic losers) and you are the best for the job *IF* you in enough effort (of course, please do not explicitly exhibit to the world that you are the best, as that, I feel is, arrogance). Without confidence, you would not be successful in anything. In fact, you are nothing without confidence.
Some of us have probably lots of experiences with failures and find it difficult to believe in whatever I just said. Probably you may just give it up and tell yourself that I will just do enough to get a decent grade. There is probably my maximum ability and just get on with life. That is basically just lying down and take whatever destiny throws at you. If that is the case, what is there to live for? You are better off being dead. Fighting for the better and fighting is the only thing that truly makes us feel alive. If you were to day in day out doing mundane things, wouldn’t that makes you a zombie? Fight with confidence and believe in yourself that you can do better. With confidence, almost anything is possible. If you do not have confidence to do a huge task, break it up into smaller parts and accomplish them to gain your confidence bit by bit.
Confidence can bring you anywhere you want to go. Just use soccer for example. Why is it, one same team, having the same players, just keep on losing, until a new manager comes in and transform them? The answer is because of confidence. A manager greatest job is to instil that confidence in his players. Tactics change here and there more or less the same one la, and each team got 11 players on the field. Just look at Sunderland, Roy Keane change a few players and stick to same formation. He recalled bench players who had the hunger and instil much needed confidence in them. Sunderland from shit team become a good team. Once again, you can see what confidence can do.
The idea is to tell yourself you can do it and never let anyone or anything (results, destiny or whatever) put you down.
Like what Will Smith said to his son in the movie, “Pursuit of Happyness”(No, I did not spell this wrongly…), “Never let anyone tell you that you cannot do it. Not even me.”
This sums up everything that I want to say.
Believe in yourself and be confident.
And yes, to me you guys are all losers.
And if you think that in your mind now that you have just spend your last 5 mins of your pathetic time to read a pathetic loser’s post, then you have already taken your first step towards a confident you. =)
Terence
# posted by eastsidebackstreet : 4:30 pm
Friday, May 04, 2007
Blogging as i WORK
Hi guys
Long time nv blog n relli bored at work...work sucks...i feel like i am a alien here...nobody wans to tok to me...oli my supervisor not bad. He let me go out with him to meet clients!!! Anyting man to get out of the office... Work is so boring mabe cos i am an intern so nobody bothers to befriend me but then again if i look like james lye then different story la(hahaha, rite Laura?)
K. My work has 2 gers i relli find so annoying...even if strip naked in front of me i would beat them up.... There is tis ger we shall call her Miss Angry...Alway blackface esp to me...KNN. I didnt even do anyting to her walk pass me look at me then blink away. WTF!!!! and then there is another ger Miss Butch. FFF.. Don't vent ur anger on me jus cos u hate guys and love ger...Y? Scared of the competition ah? HAHAHAHAHA.
Work relli sucks la...the oli time i look forward to is lunch with laura n a nice guy called andy...and going home....HAHAHA. Thanx Laura for eating with me or i will relli die of boredom...But everytime lunch is like a cat n mouse game. call u then u call me duno where r u or where the place.hahaha... Hope the rest of u guys are at least havin fun... I noe Song is having fun with Ah Meng's grandchildren.hahahahahaha....
Aniwae i will post the photos of our outings when i get it from my bro. We had a great time drinking tt day. Laugh like hell mostly cos of UE, Lam n Ah kow.hahaha..UE pls learn to drink abit la...u not man le...Next time ur boss ask u entertain customer how? Order orange juice? N pls next time dinner canot make it call us..dun wait for us call u...its v rude ok...
Aniwae the star of the nite for our drinking nite out at Breworkz was of cos none other than LAM KEE SIONG TERENCE.hahahaha. Hero la he...drink so much so fast then wan act tough.hahahahah...but in the taxi become like pregnant woman...hahaha..wan to vomit.hahahaha...
Ok guys tts all la...my colleagues are cumin back in...
P.S: drinking nites are extended to woman who are not gfs of our frends(so oli ivy,hahahahahaha)
Cheers
Seto
Long time nv blog n relli bored at work...work sucks...i feel like i am a alien here...nobody wans to tok to me...oli my supervisor not bad. He let me go out with him to meet clients!!! Anyting man to get out of the office... Work is so boring mabe cos i am an intern so nobody bothers to befriend me but then again if i look like james lye then different story la(hahaha, rite Laura?)
K. My work has 2 gers i relli find so annoying...even if strip naked in front of me i would beat them up.... There is tis ger we shall call her Miss Angry...Alway blackface esp to me...KNN. I didnt even do anyting to her walk pass me look at me then blink away. WTF!!!! and then there is another ger Miss Butch. FFF.. Don't vent ur anger on me jus cos u hate guys and love ger...Y? Scared of the competition ah? HAHAHAHAHA.
Work relli sucks la...the oli time i look forward to is lunch with laura n a nice guy called andy...and going home....HAHAHA. Thanx Laura for eating with me or i will relli die of boredom...But everytime lunch is like a cat n mouse game. call u then u call me duno where r u or where the place.hahaha... Hope the rest of u guys are at least havin fun... I noe Song is having fun with Ah Meng's grandchildren.hahahahahaha....
Aniwae i will post the photos of our outings when i get it from my bro. We had a great time drinking tt day. Laugh like hell mostly cos of UE, Lam n Ah kow.hahaha..UE pls learn to drink abit la...u not man le...Next time ur boss ask u entertain customer how? Order orange juice? N pls next time dinner canot make it call us..dun wait for us call u...its v rude ok...
Aniwae the star of the nite for our drinking nite out at Breworkz was of cos none other than LAM KEE SIONG TERENCE.hahahaha. Hero la he...drink so much so fast then wan act tough.hahahahah...but in the taxi become like pregnant woman...hahaha..wan to vomit.hahahaha...
Ok guys tts all la...my colleagues are cumin back in...
P.S: drinking nites are extended to woman who are not gfs of our frends(so oli ivy,hahahahahaha)
Cheers
Seto
# posted by eastsidebackstreet : 1:11 pm
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Aloha from USA
Hey people!
now. Things are still going slow because holiday season hasn't started yet. That's on Memorial Day, which is this big thing in US where everyone "commemorates" the war veterans who died. Anyways, it's just a day for them to come out play. So that's on the 25th of May, which is a few weeks away. Meanwhile my orientation starts tomorrow, and we'll be doing cleaning up and stuff.
I know many of you wanna view photos of my trip, but posting on blogger's a pain in the arse. So please get a facebook account @ http://www.facebook.com alright? Add me, my email is s*h*a*n*g*q*i*a*n.x@business.smu.edu.sg. remove the * from the email. That was added to prevent those spybots from spamming my email.
now. Things are still going slow because holiday season hasn't started yet. That's on Memorial Day, which is this big thing in US where everyone "commemorates" the war veterans who died. Anyways, it's just a day for them to come out play. So that's on the 25th of May, which is a few weeks away. Meanwhile my orientation starts tomorrow, and we'll be doing cleaning up and stuff.
I know many of you wanna view photos of my trip, but posting on blogger's a pain in the arse. So please get a facebook account @ http://www.facebook.com alright? Add me, my email is s*h*a*n*g*q*i*a*n.x@business.smu.edu.sg. remove the * from the email. That was added to prevent those spybots from spamming my email.
# posted by eastsidebackstreet : 10:29 pm
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