My quietly brilliant phone died a sudden death.
R.I.P.

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精彩語錄（十九）

After I defined the page requirements of reports (ranging from a few pages to 50+ pages), one said --

Omg such torture
It is like giving u a word to elaborate and the word is report

How apt!!

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Gimme a rope!

Pull me outta this mental block!
Gotta do it! Been at least 2 years since I last written any essays!

ADDITION: Now I'm all hyped up after reading a report on previous attending school! Uber cool! (:

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姜太公钓鱼

愿者上钩。

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26.09.12

此鱼非彼鱼，此者非彼者。

彼、此、彼、此—————殊不知兼鱼兼钓者。

大只若鱼，乃至大智若愚，未尝落成盘中餐？ 
顺水推舟，皆大欢喜也？ 

此语实属微妙也。

何方方属愿者？何方实属钓者？皆因利害关系，生于互利之理。
既知钓之、诱之，何为上钩？
己既为诱已，何谓拒上钩？

此鱼非彼鱼，此者非彼者。

独钓寒江雪，独而不孤。

~ whatever happens, happens for a reason. =)

So, people who are defined as positive and jovial are people who smiles and laughs frequently.
Or do they see something deeper than that, just that they don't really express it in words? Or it essentially is what we say aura or a person's magnetic field?

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reality check.

When life becomes too smooth sailing at some point in time.. I always take a step back and preform a reality check on myself.

It won't kill to be a little more cautious, and also reflect on things big and small.
It just ain't the bad things that happened that needed reflections and AFI. Sometimes we should learn from the good things, and remembered why it went well. :)

check.

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my memory is fuzzy (as usual...)

Reviewing / refreshing my memory on what I did last year to get me started.
One emotion: Shocked.
One reason: Unbelievable.
One statement: How On Earth Did I Manage That H*ll Load of Things Running Last Year?
Like what..?! It's kind of amazing I survived in one piece.

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Opportunity.

Whatever happens, happens for a reason.
If I hadn't the mind to ask Mr Elitist then about this one month hiatus' go or no go, this opportunity would never had the chance to drop in my lap.
If I had taken things into my hands then and gone ahead with the haphazard / rushed / piah planning for the hiatus to nail two things at a time, things might have just gotten a total wrong turn, whichever way you look at it.
I'm glad for whatever happened.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

~Mason Cooley

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Another semi-big decision to make...

Should I? This is a once in a lifetime experience. I might not even get this chance next year. And from how I see it, I might not even get this chance to go anywhere near there in this lifetime.
Should I?
Increase my exposure to the big wide world out there?
Am I up to the challenge?

Sidenote: As Technie said, "Whack first. Ask questions later."

Yeah, never try, never know.

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Quote of the day: No one is indispensable.

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There's a way to the madness.

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我欣赏 --

-- 他说到的，都做到。

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よい夢よ。

速水 奨の声がかっこいいです！大好き！
上の言葉が０７－ＧＨＯＳＴのアヤナミです。

よい夢よ。

~ whatever happens, happens for a reason. =)

Before I fell asleep last night, the idea/obsession struck me as an irony.
It's so timely that I've only just read The Zahir.
I thought that this age, kekon was the most natural thing to do / experience.. but then again, isn't this just part of the social stigma and zahir and the obsession to be like others, and to be normal?
It is so natural that perhaps some did not stop to think if that was the correct choice, but simply, it's the time of their life, only then to be swayed by external factors afterwards (if one rethink/regret their choice). Such is the quote I love, "died at thirty, buried at sixty".
This is something to munch on.

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The world full of possibilities.

Indeed.

When I was creating this JPEG based on the quote from The Zahir, I find myself restricted by the canvas, and shifted the words and pictures in the limited space of the canvas. Font faces changed, font sizes tweaked, pictures resized, cartoons cropped, arrangement rotated and swapped. Afterwards, it dawned on me that I've been working too much on the given and limited. Why can't I expand and worm out of the canvas instead of restricting and limiting myself and my creativity freedom and/or simply expand the canvas size?

Think out of the box canvas.  

So, what is canvas? What are the appropriate images? Any font face is great, any font size can be used, any alignment is proper, all in relative to something else you have in mind.

Things just got better. (: (It had better be.)

Disclaimer: All cartoons used in the above jpeg do not belong to me. They are found using Go*gle Image search.


[Addition 150912] 

I remembered these images below clearly. I watched this anime at least 6 years ago, but this particular story arc of my favourite megane never once got out of my mind! On hindsight, that is why I went to search these images, because it has created a resonance in me then, not knowing why.

"Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward." ~ Soren Kierkegaard

The pictures speak for themselves.

These scenes are from ep 24 of Ouran.
(of one of my favourite story arcs of my favourite character Kyouya Ootori.)

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(Still) coming to terms with my decision...
この道へ，今日まで，まだ二十日。。。

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Taboo.

There is a momentary silence -- my gamble is not paying off. The other people around the table are looking at me with startled eyes: asking about someone's financial situation is a bigger taboo than sex, more frowned upon than asking about betrayals, corruption, or parliamentary intrigues. ~ The Zahir by Paulo Coelho, p.256

That brought back a hypothetical incident to my mind.
Yes, it is indeed pretty much like a taboo, and a not-so-spoken-in-specifics topic, with all the haze and estimated figures.
And all the more it is a taboo to talk about that to a lady, that just proves you aren't interested in them per se. It's either you talk about the economy in general, or you had better not delve into how her salary pays. That's downright offensive and an extreme put off.

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惜才

我真係唔明……佢咁好，咁叻，真係好好人才，點解會咁瀟灑？
企到佢身邊，就好似無助咁……輸得好遠好遠……
依傢我明啦…點解佢會咁寬容大量…佢係惜才添…啱先錫佢嘎…

我會繼續努力。
私もガンバろ，彼のために。それだけ。

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Questions asked, with no answers.

Is it purely inefficiency, or purely bogged down with a lot of tasks to be cleared, or purely silliness and foolishness on one's part, or purely a sense of responsibility?

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Everyone's back in Work Mode around 9+pm.

a. I was "monitoring" my email inbox for the past hour, and emails have begun streaming in. (just when I've just cleared my inbox this afternoon, dui!!)
b. I was replying all sorts of SMSes and whatsapp about what's in store for tomorrow, what number of the week is it? (Ultimate oddity and how odd to ask about the oddness of the weeks)

hurhur, reality strikes.
Alas, I have yet to start my spring cleaning.

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哈哈哈，这是个特别诡异的事！
原来，当年的蒙娜丽莎，讲述的也不就是现今〈步步惊心〉的冰糖葫芦！
原来是人，就会犯一样的毛病…

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What is stress?

Recently, the topic of "stress" came out at The Workplace. Inevitably, the psychology student in me popped out, and I dug my memories of where I saw this text below. Lo and behold, it's within reach (both physically books-wise and mentally memory-wise), and there it is: 

Chronic stress is another serious form of stress. It refers to stress that does not end. Day in and day out, chronic stress grinds us down until our resistance is gone.
....
It seems that the major sources of stress in most people's lives are what are termed daily hassles. While only minor, daily hassles can be chronic and repetitive. Examples of daily hassles are: having too much to do all the time, having to fight the crowd while shopping, getting stuck regularly in heavy traffic, having to wait in lines all the time, having an unpleasant boss at work, and having to worry over money. Such daily hassles can be chronically irritating, though they do not initiate the same general adaptation syndrome evoked by some major life events. The results of research on daily hassles have shown that, similar to major life events, persons with a lot of minor stress in their lives suffer more than expected from psychological and physical symptoms. (Larsen & Buss, 2008)

Some what, stresses have additive effects too. Perhaps, the little stresses have proven to be a little more than overwhelming for her that she displays all sorts of defense mechanism.
Well... we can only advise. They are the only ones who can work out of that zone on their own, by changing their perspectives of the world.
As the definition has it,

Stress is a physical and psychological response to perceived demands and pressures. In the stress response, people mobilize physical and emotional resources to cope with the demand and pressures. A stress response that is frequent, extreme or prolonged can place a large demand on, or even deplete, a person's physical, social and psychological resources. ... Our bodies express this distress in a variety of ways, often in the form of irritability, anger, anxiety, depression, fatigue, tension headaches, stomachaches, hypertension, migraines, ulcrs or colitis. Eventually, stress can lead to even more serious illnesses, such as cancer, diabetes, or thyroid dysfunction. (Larsen & Buss, 2008)

Please be well.

(Quotations from Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature)

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genkai desu.

Ko no onna de, aitsu no meeru de tasukete kudasai.
Honki no baka no koto desu.
Nande aitsu no te ni, jikan ga takusan ka.

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精彩語錄（十八）

will have a hard time...

So now you see why...? Haha.

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ROARRR!

- pulls hair -
Spent a whole day on the scripts!!!!!!!
Totally spoilt all my other plans.
WHAT IS THIS?!?!
tsk.

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在一篇文章读到这段话:
有一个销售人员说：『如果你有一万元，四个"零"代表了钱、家人、房子和车。而"一"代表了健康。没有了健康，即使你有多少个"零"，拥有的东西就会变得一无所有！』

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整理自己。

该是时间来整理自己，整理自己的办公桌及文件，整理自己的私人文件，整理自己的思绪，整理自己的生活作息，整理自己的需求，整理自己的一切。
忙忙碌碌地过了大半年，真的无暇关照自己的心——要的是什么，想的是什么，做的是什么。
随波逐流会到我想到的地方吗？

想停，却一直没办法停下脚步。
想睡，却一直不敢尽兴睡到自然醒。
想玩，却一直无暇玩/无友伴陪玩。
想看，却一直懒地踏进戏院。
想动，却一直无友伴鼓励共享受运动。
想想，却一直找不到那根筋。
想唱，却一直唱不到我要的。
想喊，却一直不甘寂寞。
想放肆、想放纵、想关怀、想关爱、想超脱、想探险、想颓废、想撒娇、想奢侈、想自由、想转变、想王维、想野分氏、想金陵人、想为所欲为、想无忧无虑、想义无反顾……

剪不断，理还乱。

想放下。

不再执著任何虚无缥缈，

既有既无，本非独立有

之物。

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