A day before work life begins

The last entry was so outdated! In these 2 months since my last entry, I had another exam, in which I also did not score well and had scoreless of interviews. Maybe the consolation is that the dust has settled and I have landed myself in an OK job. =) But I'm quite sad that I'm leaving my friend's start up... learnt quite a lot there. here're my colleagues =) Pretty fun loving crowd...



















Tomorrow will be a significant day, where the 'practicals' end and the real test begins. After 16 years of education, my work life is going to begin. It feels strange and I have this constant feeling of denial. Yet, that wouldn't come as a surprise for someone who has yet to graduate, with the final year project report and presentation in the toll, due for submission less than 2 weeks later. I hope it will start off well tomorrow and by the time I depart for Hong Kong on 16 Jul, a few hours after my last school presentation, I'll be leaving with a contented smile.

Friends would question: why do you start work so early? Not taking a break? It's not a matter of choice to me, though the inertia in me would happily assume status quo in my life. But I'm too eager and impatient, to join the working world outside, to be viewed as an adult, someone capable of putting food on the table. It has been a torture for too long to see my parents toil and struggle to make ends meet. I'm too, tired of holding 3 or 4 part time job all while juggling my studies to support myself. Anyway, since this management trainee program longs only 15 months, it'll be great if I realise that it is where I want to be and continue on the fast track. Else, hopefully, I would have gained enough skills and experience that makes me more marketable for my next career. By then, I should have found out for myself the direction I should head into.

last day of exam!

as usual, I lie here, eyes wide open, unable to go to lalaland no matter how hard I try :( something that excites me is sleeping me up- the last exam that's chemical engine related for my entire life is tmr! I really can't wait. The tortuous 3 yrs, it's been so long. at least now I know how to appreciate chem engine and even understand my notes. Hope that's enough for tmr. Wish me luck!

Disturbing news these days

I can't help but grinch in dismay as I flip the papers these days... Red shirts chaos in Thailand, countless people dying cos of Tamil Tigers, the ever gloomy economy, deaths from food poisoning, monk cheating money, even suicide rates on the high... I wonder if these are all bad signs for the world but maybe these kinda news have always been exaggerated and sensitised by the media... I shall just take one piece of news to comment or share my ideas... good for detering my brain from becoming senile i guess haha

Same Name, different lives

Was googling on my name cos i was so bored and I found this... Go read it!
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20071029-32858.html

Finally readjusted my body clock

I feel a sense of euphoria, as I awoke to see glistening rays of the morning sun streaming through the window this morning at 7am. I made it! Finally readjusted my body clock to what I would call normal... Mum has cooked a fab breakfast and I simply gobbled them down, hungry from the 7h of 'fasting'...

Just so coincidentally, on the zen habits blog, there is a post about being a late riser. The blogger talked about, how like me, he equated rising early to being productive-- exactly how I thought! But he realized that it's not really relevant, the link between rising early and being productive, cos you can wake up late and sleep late rite? But I just like the smell and coolness of the morning air, cos it's really uplifting to my spirits... and I have to stop all the sleeping at 4am routine, which is taking a toll on my eyebags( they're bad enough)

And being going to bed and rising early, I am going to blog either online or in my book regularly, all through my summer term... It'll be great to reflect daily and hopefully I'll come out as a better person! To think I used to submit a weekly report to my boss last year, I should be more disciplined now! It really helped in thinking through what I have done for the week, allowing myself to quickly rein in on the 'bad habits' and congratulate myself for the new breakthrough I have made in life.

And you might ask, isn't this your reading week? Time to study! Why are you blogging... But I only have 2 exams to mug for, both 3 MCs, so it's like just a 1.5 regular module. Yup, I still prefer to do things last min to keep my productivity high haha... oh I remembered that I dreamt that I was late in handing in a report... gosh... all the reports writing must be getting to me haha

I realize that my blog has been pictureless so far... let me add some recent photos like those my friends and i took at the Pump Room, clarke Quay-- it's certainly a night of harvoc!