Thoughts on the 44th

I was reading a paper article today about Barack Obama and his working style in the office. Apparently, he wears sweater and a bit less formal than his predecessor George bush...he also finds it better to walk to his aides office rather than call them over as well. A particular incident is when a particular high post guy puts his feet on his table then the president just walk in and he saw the comical image. He jokingly said' Wow. First day in office and your feet is already on the table'...lol

This definitely shows us a lot gd qualities of the 44th president...one he is trying to relive the tension of working in the white house so that(hopefully) everyone can work to their best of their abilities. Two he walks around the white house, it shows that he wants to know the situation around the white house as well as providing the personal touch that the boss is around. As well as check up on his subourdinates =P....Three apparently he always start meetings on time and ends way past the timing...which under the bush adminstration this is unheard of. Again it shows that the president is truly concerned about his work and is not afraid of extending hours of work.

Of course, this might just be another media propanganda lor....but hey I still remember that when bush took over, there aint much news about his working style...this president is almost like a celebrity sia...anw noticed that he is the 44th?? 4+4 =8...and he is a cow...so this year may see the more of him and as well as having 8 in this period of 8 , it may turn out to be a long term presidency we are looking at here....bt like in my previous entry, one thing I dont like is that he is kinda protectionist by nature...and slowly the US is turning that way...yes its gd for them now...but it sucks for the rest of the world....anw we all know that protectionist isnt really good for the long term and all....wonder this will mean a shoft of economic power over to the China market who though predominately is 'protectionist' by nature but is slowly opening up to the world....and recently its crowned the 3rd biggest economy in the world.

hmm....if US is really going protectionist...hmm it means that US firms will be recovering in the future??as it confirm that there will be demand for them mah with US ppl using their products...and if like that it means that china will be growing even faster?? as MNCs are shifting operations to the east...interesting man....

1st New Year Week....

Well...another a year has finally passed..and now its the Moo~~~Year liao...good bye rat!!!! Hmm..this CNY was kinda quiet and seem to pass by fast..well for me lor...lol...but this year on chu yi..not bad my earnings for the year...hehe been some time since I last made a substantial profit thru gambling...of cuz must thank darren for the opportunity and the cash=P...haha..must go and make a donation soon=X...lol....Then at night went to River Hongbao with my uncle,auntie and my cousin(Bao Bei!!)...hehe and my bro. ( my sis went dating with the bf....wad to do...just came out from army mah)....haha anw not bad lor...the floating platform was windy and cooling, took some pics but ended quite cui...(AND its not my skills lousy!!!)...rofl...then went back to kovan to eat at Xin Wang...back home around 1.30am cool....lol...

2nd day didnt do much....

3rd day went for Fish and Co training but quit after like 4 hours because supposedly be a waiter, ended up as kitchen crew...experience was not bad lah..made a couple of fish and chips and the new york ones....but felt it didnt suit me lor...so just quit lor... Next day, went to bishan with ly and kel..and u know wad we camp the entire day there...ROFL...dun knw how we did it...we spent most of the time in library lor....found a book that I wanted to read a long time...though got scolded by my mum for borrowing..sianz...and morning we shoot hoops at arcade followed by another round in the evening....hehe thot my percentage of ins were gd ...we also had an early dinner at sakae...ahaha jap fanatic sia..woohoo!!!...

today nthg much lor...just went down to return the fish and co stuff and I got the ez link job le....see how bah..hopefully can get the IRAS job or MJ job or other jobs before the feb 13th lor...if not I think quite diff to find le after that....see how bah...

Did anyone notice an Unicorn around you lately??

I was just reading the papers and I came across this article of a correspondent for the Straits Times but is based in Japan. There is a rumour or a saying in Japan that their beer ' kirin beer' logo actually has the word 'kirin' in katahana in it. So it set her thinking about the myths and legends about kirin or its more western counterpart, the unicorn. It is said that the unicorn is impossible to find cuz its has this mystical power to remain invisble or moves quickly away. Maybe one might have passed it , but mistaken it as a horse and carry on with his/her affairs, thats why Unicorns are always impossible to noticed.

This brings us to the notion that as we grows up, we are less and less able to stop and appreciate the things that we have in life. For example, a well known singer was singing in the underground but no one except for kids seems to bother about him..and he is a WELL KNOWN SINGER man!! this shows that even if something magical or beautiful is in front of us, society has made us rush so fast that we cant even see it even if its besides us...

A new Era of Change

Yesterday 20th Jan. 2009 is the day in which President Barack Obama became the 44th and the 1st african american to be nominated into the oval office. He epitomized the struggles of the minorities, the coloured people who were slaves in the past, the racism that they faced...and now he is in the hottest (needless to say the most powerful ) seat in the world...

He like one of the greatest american presidents of all time, President Abraham Lincoln, took over the power of the nation at one of her most trying times and like Lincoln is a powerful man motivator. As for whether he can live up to his name and the hopes that America..no the world pinned on this very man, we shall see. There is bound to be hiccups and rest assure the vultures will swooped down whenever they got the chance.

Change. Thats the world has embraced, and now we see where Change will lead us to. I have to admit, I am rather scared of changes and what it will brings because of its uncertainties, the uneaziness it brings to me...I woke up today to find the drift between another and me, the gap in our understanding of each other...events changed, world embraced changes, human relationships also changes...to move forward...but maybe one thing to console me is that there is always at least some things that will never changed...Change, we just have to live with it.

Museum of Broken relationships

Yesterday, had a fun day out with pig , going over to the exhibition called Museum of Broken Relationships. Thought will be kinda emo. but it turn out to be..well...quite interesting to take a look at other's lives and stuff that they hold dear or have memories about...there were seriously some weird stuff as well..lol...mannequin hands and bras and hand cuffs...lol...as well as the normal letter writings and stuff...haha...anw pig, if u want me the photos, just tell me , i send to u next time u online lor=)...

CHAnGes

I found this portrait in dev-art..its really cool...and no photoshop man...this guy was passing by in the nature reserve park and he just took a pic and when he reached home, he realised it was tht cool...the change in seasons over a river stream...the way nature works , change...it will come when the period is up...and start a new season...its nature...

Even us humans, there are changes everyday..be it the routine tht u do, the mindsets we think and even we dont wear the same clothes to go to work everyday....things changes, it could be for the better or the worse...depending on the perspective of our mind and emotions...we change due to events and situations around us also changes and thats natural. Constantly, we , you me are changing...I have changed, for better or worse ...I dunno...relationships changes...regrets come in...again its because of change...as humans as an evolved species, we may have 2 legs, weak strength...but what we have is adaptability. And thts why with changes, we can do what we have been doing for the past million zillion years, adapt.

Definition of adapt is to fit for a suitable situation
However, I think adapt is to use the necessary skills or even thoughts that one possess and fuse with the old self and in the end emerge as a new and improved self. Thats why, when confronted with changes, one must try to see the' skills' needed to fit in the situation as well as to use our past self to enhanced it. In the end , its all about balanced...maybe with change we also need acceptance as well...to accept it and come into a balance within one's self

Well...I cant find any entries for on changes though its smthg that I have been touching on for a couple of times le thru out my blogging career...lol...today sam told me stuff that I passed before...the feeling of being lost and so separated from the dreams that we once had as a young teenager..the naivety as well as the idealistic aims. I think thts the same for every human when they passed certain age, u began to realise the harsh realities of the world...and i think its hard to balance ur dreams as well as to managed ur loved ones as well....i think thts the downside of being attached but hey...there are some whom have been able to do it....

Why are you running away?

The time is now 7.40am..u all must be wondering why am I awake so early...there is no reason...just that cannot sleep lor...slept ard 3 am this morning....the HK milk tea is really strong sia...drank with samantha and her bf at kovan yesterday...wah kao...always thot such things cannot work on me de...I was wrong man....

Well if u look at my previous posts over the years regarding her...its has always been I couldnt face her and her bf...but it seems like that I can now...its just smthg whether I want to a not...so realised that I have been running away from it for quite awhile..come to think of it...I have been running away from a couple of things in life...things I want to do, things that I had drag over time...things that I cannot decide seemingly...maybe thats why I am always unhappy with things that I couldn't do...its not I couldn't do...it's just because I did not make the effort to do...and thats why some things which I put my heart and soul in doing, that I am successful that I enjoy doing...example my time with samantha...I always thought that she was someone special to bring out the best in me...but actually on hindsight, its because I wanted to...last time was I love her thats why I open up to her, I do various stuff and all...now its another kind of bond that I have for her...its friendship and the diferent kind of bond we had that none have with me yet. With my platoon mates, because again I opened up to them..the trust I had in them...the times we shared...once with zhenni, celebrated her birthday...though I dun think it was that successful in my opinion but she said its was great and everything..maybe cuz its the thought I put it in and I felt accomplished about it.......or even when I was alone at the sales training at Sitex last time...If I didnt make the effort to talk to tiffany..maybe my work there wont be so enjoyable liao as it wont allow me to at least have a friend there....it was all about choices, even when I was depressed in 2007...

Overall, its the choice that I have...its simple...when at a situation, event, dilemma or..circumstances...what I want to do...to run away or to take the problem by hand and do it right...Come to think of it...I have been running away basically all my life...I have always thought that if I insist my way in some things, I felt it was great and right...but its because I like the feeling of being control, because I am not running away like normal...thats the reason for the euphoria when I switched courses in Sec 3 and the reason why I pushed ahead for blue mountains in sec 4...

Its such a simple MAJOR problem in me, that I dun even recognise it beforehand...and it needs a cup of milk tea and a outing with 2 persons. Maybe even the reason why I was so biased and at times negelected ernest is that I am running away because I dun want to face the fact that he is growing up and that he still wants the attention that I always give him when he was younger...And there are other things as well...which I always thought I was lazy which my mind will always bring me back to the scene when my mum told me that the feng shui master last time say to me that I will be very lazy and that she need to push me. So in mind, I was always like I am lazy lor what u want me to do...but actually, I am just running away...I knew I must chiong and work hard...I ran away...using laziness as an excuse...why some things I can do well, and most I flopped and end up my closed ones say that I am blur, slowed, zoned out...and I always accept that and some things in life I gave up upon...again I ran away...I chosed the easy way out...I became a coward and ran. How interesting to have oneself realised that he had been running away for 20 years of his life and now thats like a fifth of a human's life span sia!!...

Maybe thats the reason why sometimes I am ever so in awe by samantha and jon tan and wei ren and my sis...cuz yes I am sure there are times where they might also take the easy way out but most of their time they didnt...they have the strength to do what they wanted and got it right...

I realised that I had an entry about choices in life...after reading so many self help books and stuff...the simple answer that I couldn't find...the question which I always thought was " Whats your goal in life?" , " What you wanted?"........the questions was all wronged...its should be " Do you want to sit down and carry on doing it?", " Are you scared of doing it?" .........In the end, it all boiled down to one simple question....To run away or to stand your ground...yes or no...choices...see how a simple question could run a person's life. But of cuz, I dun mean that one shiuld never ever run away..like a taoist wisdom that says" A step back means that you could adavance many more steps forward"

So do u run away? I have been doing it all my life...its the main problem that I had for years...looking for the easy way out...it wont be easy facing the wind...but that's the choice I have made...enough of being a coward...this is my goal for the year, the new year resolution...I will move forward by whatever means it takes....and I hope whoever reads this post, no matter what situation u faced, do not run away from it...ok even if u do...do not drag too long...it might become 2 big a problem to face and u end up running a marathon...so lets have the courage to face the wind together=D

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Well well...being unemployed is seriously sucks to the core...just a while ago I was cursing and emo-ing about the lack of jobs for me...come to think of it...there are jobs for me but I dont want only....seriously, there are quite a number of sales jobs...dunno if I want to take sales again lor...ever since after Sitex 2008. Sent like around 10 appications le...but of cuz this is nthg compared to my ORD mates who some have been unemployed for a month le...whereas for me its only 3 days and I KBKB le...lol...On hindsight, there is more time to chase other stuff that I want to do last time...like read up back on feng shui(though if I can sustain the interest in it), like going back to my financial markets study, chiong a bit of sec 2 maths ( cause tuition I tink most prob. will be teaching for the next few years)...but the worse part now is the feeling that $ goes out and not back in...lol

Yesterday, seems to offend kelly quite easily...LY called me around 10pm, didnt hear my phone ring...called back at 1050pm...they asked me to go mac and meet them...but was thinking if I go out then parents sure worried again..then my mum will be paranoid...and she wasn't feeling tht well somemore...so decline offer...then kel sent me a msg says near serangoon and she stay AMK somemore...so I reply..'lol...u make it sound like my fault'....then she reply that everytime they asked me out then its like I dun make it work out de...ok...if u asked me, I was a bit put off by that remark...cuz most of their meetings were like damn random out of nowhere de...but will always try to meet up lor...its not as if that I never ever go out with them..ok maybe I am a bit at fault for not always asking them out and stuff...its always them..so yeah I lose there...quite a random discussion thou if u ask me...

Just watched finish Ef- a tales of melodies...its a freaking super duper emo. show to the max but the values or rather the lessons that they give out..is kinda good. I wont go into the details of each individual character here but behind all of them there is a past and somehow it shows that everything in this world is link by something. It could be from your past, you might have met someone before and meet tht person again later on. Its a really good anime to watch though its freaking emo to the max.=)