+ Merry New Year!!

Was packing my place yesterday when I came across my secondary school year books. I picked the one dated 1994 which had statue of St. Gabriel as the front cover.

Memories, sweet old memories poured in as I flipped the pages. I could still remember those faces, teachers and students alike. It felt like one whole big family as quite a number of us are from the same primary school and we went onto secondary school together. So saying, could say that we all grew up together for 10 years. Smiles were brought to my face when I saw my good friends and buddies in their respective ECAs, school activities and in class photos. Wonder how all of them are doing now.

Shall go find out more about the school alumni and make a conscientious effort in gathering my old classmates.

It's good to rekindle old friendships in the new year. Hope they feel the same way too. Oh yes, looking at the teachers did make me feel like being a teacher too. Luckily that thought doesn't come now since I do not look at the year book.

Merry new year to those reading this.......may you have a fantastic year ahead! =)

+ Follow my <3

Gave it much thought last week and decided that I wouldn't follow my mind.

It shall be my <3 that i'll follow.

Here goes nothing then.....

Cheers! [_]P

+ Which wire should I cut?

As I peer down to this box that's filled with wires, I managed to narrow it down to just 2 critical ones: the red wire and the green one. The LED clock however reveals that I do not have much time left. Time is clicking away as I make my decision.

However, this is not a guess. It is a decision in which I have to make. To weigh the pros and cons, the prospects, being practical and not, the familiar and the unknown. I have to think this through carefully.

Now back to the wires. Red one or green one? Red one...or green one? Red? Green? Red? Green? Red? Green? Red? Green? Red? Green? Red? Green? Red? Green? Red? Green? Red? Green? Red? Green? Red? Green? Red? Green? Red? Green?

Least you get confused, I'm not talking about beans.

+ Interviews

Be going for one more interview tomorrow. It's a second round interview and I shall see what's in offer. That will make a total of 5 interviews in 2 weeks, good news for me.

Interviews has it's positive and negative sides. The questions put forth makes me think about what I'm looking for and in turn allows me to know myrself better. But it does also make you feel lousy, especially so when it's a stress interview. It made me wonder what I've been doing all these while with myself. Where am I heading too actually? Why wasn't I able to answer the questions put forth to me?.........Think I don't really know what I want yet. Can't help but feel like I'm falling behind my peers. All have jobs and are pursuing the jobs according to their qualifications. Do I have to join the rat race?

I've got myself a race number.

And I shall be the tortoise who overtakes the rabbit.

+ X-roads II

Once again at the cross-roads.
Left says the path to engineering, common and familiar. Peers and likewise thousands before me went to this path, much expected of most of them to do so anyway. Right is to the unknown, a path I'm not familiar with and only a few like me has gone.
I prefer to take the road less travelled. But I am apprehensive. Maybe I should give myself more time and I should. Is everything so critical? Should I allow myself 2 years to explore? Who am I competing with? I am not too sure if I really know myself well either. Questions and endless more.

Shall sit back, relax so that I may think better once more.

+ Escaping

Been reading a book for the past 2 hrs, waiting for the match to start. And I would like to extract this line taken from 'Life of Pi', which is pronounced as pie, or numerically known as 3.14. Here it is: "...animals don't escape to somewhere but from something..." (referring to animals wanting to escape from a zoo)

This applies to humans as well. We escape not because we want to go somewhere but from something. Something that disrupts from our usual pattern, an intrusion. Anxiety, fear, fear of the unknown is the our reaction. On our minds, we would be thinking: Where would our next safe haven be? Where should we go from here now? Moving from the known to the unknown, that's what we all hate most. This IS the escapism behaviour.

This probably isn't the solution to escaping. However, we should loook into what it is that we are escaping from. Find the root of the problem and arrest it immediately. Are we able to tackle this problem? How can we see it differently? Is there anything that can be changed? If we can't change them, can we change ourselves?

Be confident and face squarely at the problem. Do not run away from it. Acknowledge it. Accept it.

The match has started and scholsey just scored for Man U within the first few minutes =) My mind is no longer here and even my eyes are on the TV screen in front.

I shall be strong.

+ 5plus1

It was a fantastic outing with the guys last night. I have not enjoyed this much in ages and realised how much I have missed it.

I brought them to have steamboat at Golden Mile Towers. The fresh seafood and buzz from the crowd made a lively dinner for us all. I'm sure they all enjoyed the food as much as I do. After which we played pool along the same floor as the steamboat outlet for about 2 hrs. This favourite hangout of mine is a nice place to chill. There's no ah bengs or lians, kids, smoke or other loud people around. We were the noisy ones that night, laughing away as we disturbed one another while playing.

If that wasn't enough, we went on to Serangoon Gardens for prata and soccer. Again, we talked about girls, teasing and laughing away. You must have wondered why 5plus1. 1 is actually a married 36year old who looks equally young, energetic and sporty like us. We were glad to have him around and he expressed that he really enjoyed the outing with us. He let in on us about his marriage life as we listened with some admiration. It's pretty cool to have an equally sporty wife who's not only loving but understanding as well. I secretly wished for this as well =)

By the way, Man U won 3-0.

+ Sports Expo

Sports&Fitness Expo is here at suntec from 1-4 Dec. Admission is free.

+ New Look, New Feel

Finally got the layout done for this site. A new look, a new feel. I tried to keep it as simple as possible and I hope you like it.

Look forward to more useful information here.