3rd day of work...

Already work's accumlating.. building up...

Taking a breather now that nobody's in office for a while. Hah!

Anyway, have 4 assignments on hand... and can see it keep coming. Things are still ok for now, when I'm taking it in my stride, prioritizing... seeing which is due first, which goes first...

Just finished writing a blurb, an EDM and a simple VOD synopsis. So I guess there's no problem in taking a short break... Haha...

Anyway, I can't seem to settle down to work properly knowing that my laptop (office) needs to be reformatted and reconfigured. Ain't too assured in pumping in too much info and storing stuff when I constantly need to back it up on my thumb drive... So yeah

Hopefully my laptop can be settled by tomorrow.

Anyway while work's going tough (for a start), the future does seem a little exciting. Haha... Was out for lunch with boss for a while and she kept getting calls for new business... Oh wells...

While that means more work, it also means more opportunities for more work, which also means I'll have more work... which means I'll soon be able to live up to the speed of work here... *hopefully*... Wait... do I make sense?

Argh nevermind... Hahaah... Am blabbering... I know.

Well, I'll be off now, to digest all those techy thingys..... Ta for now...

Tuesdays with Morrie...

"An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson"

A fantastic book!

I've not read a real meaningful book as good as this in a long while... While I would not like to say too much about the book, (the book's too good to be reproduced in summary), I would like to share some of the quotes that I find most meaningful here...

Definitely brought enlightenment to me in some sense... just hoping I'll always keep them in mind...

How often have we felt like this? - "Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?"

Yet, how it should be - "I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life."
- " How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day."

When right perspective to death - "To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living"
- "Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody belives it."
- "Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
- "Everyone knows someone who has died. Why is it so hard to think of dying?"

A lesson on Love - "Love each other or perish."

Sensible maturity - "Do not stop your lives. Otherwise this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one."

The beauty in Aging/ Dying - "As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it."

Why the wish to remain young? - "Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. you can't wait until sixty-five."

A lesson on our culture today - "People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god."

Last but not least, a really nice story from the story...

"The story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh air - until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore.

'My God, this is terrible,' the wave says. 'Look what's going to happen to me!'

Then along came another wave. It sees the first wave looking grim, and it says to him, 'Why do you look so sad?'

The first wave says, 'You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't it terrible?'

The second wave says, 'No, YOU don't understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'"

My first day of work...

SOBZ!

That pretty much describes it. I mean... it seems worse than I thought. Or maybe it's because I was overwhelmed by all that they said I had to take over eventually...

But it IS bad when I had to bring work home to do on the 1st day of work! Already!

I don't suppose I HAVE to do it but being new, I don't know what they think about if I do not bring work home to do, and try to manage my time and get stuff done during office hours. OH well... Reading Tuesdays with Morrie has taught me that there are many many other things apart from work that matters....

Anyway, I felt so stressed yesterday that I felt so miserable! Couldn't stop the tears from flowing down my cheeks... seriously... There's so much technical writing to do! No joke... It's all about technical writing... at least that's what I see now...

Back to work today, and I'm currently left alone in office for now till my lady boss comes in at 11am. So well, just leaving some updates here and I'm back to work... Got stuff to CLEAR already.... Wish me luck guys....

Butterflies in my tum tum...

That's how I am feeling right now. Ok, perhaps it's not that bad but do feel a little like that...

Just anticipating how my new career will go... how the new work place will be like... how my work load will be like... So guess it's normal that I'm feeling kinda anxious...

But am still looking forward to it! For sure! And am pretty sure that I will have no problems trying to get to sleep tonight too...

Feeling rather sleepy already.... hahah... Wish me luck guys... wish me all the best!

The fairy tale dimension...

Just finished reading two books lately. Mitch Alboom's "The five people you meet in heaven" and "Girl with a pearl earring" by Tracy Chevalier.

Both books are very different. And yet both books are beautifully written.

Every book that I read, I can't help getting intricately interwoven with the characters and the plot in the book. I just love reading.

Sometimes I feel that it is because reading provides me with another dimension that I cannot gain access to in reality. That's what reading is all about for me. It is a vicarious experience through the author's eyes, through the author's thoughts. In reading a piece of work by other authors, I can't help but have my own thoughts evoked as I go through their experience. I like it... Removes the mundane from my life... It's almost like a fairy-tale dimension. The same reason why people like watching fairytale cartoons or movies.

Most of the time, when I do chance upon a really good book, I can't help feeling sad and reluctant to put the book down when the story has ended.

Just like the "Girl with the pearl earring".



I love books with a cultural background to it and this one has one. It's a book about a girl who's father went blind, due to an accident when working with the kiln. Because of the loss of income, the girl has to work as a maid, for a rather famous painter. And the story goes on and on about her life as a maid, and the plot more or less hinges on her attractiveness, her humbleness and the jealousy others have of her.

Anyway, what I love about the book is that I did learn something from it. I learnt about painters and pictures. I discovered certain features of paintings. Also of how a painting is not just a painting because of the work processes, the thought processes that takes place before a painter can lay down his first strokes of the paintbrush on the canvas. Beautiful...

Sigh.. but the book has ended... life must now go on... to other books! Am going to start reading "Tuedays with Morrie" by Mitch Alboom! Heard it's better than "The five people you meet in heaven". Hehe... Off I go...

So Scchhwwweeettt......

Heheh, my little niece had her 2nd birthday over the weekend... and boy it was so sweet....

Check out the cake and you can imagine....

Birthday Cake!


Not only was the cake sweet.... Her place was really nice too! So happens that they just shifted into their new place earlier this month. So her parents took the opportunity to hold her birthday and a housewarming (2-in-1) kinda thingy....

Anyway, the weekend at her place was pretty nice. It's right beside Parkway Parade and opposite East Coast. Just imagine (of course I don't have to.. I'm asking you to!) the seaview and all! Delicious! Have already warned my cousin to be prepared for me to drop by if I do go East Coast to blade at times! Hehehe... because... just check out her POOL!

Cote D'Azur


Shiok RIGHT? And there's sauna and all... OooOohhh...

Anywyay, stayed up till 5.30am playing games yesterday! Don't think I'll do the same thing today... so shall be going off to bed now... it's now 2.40am... Heheh...

Till tomorrow... more to blog! Ta...

Addiction...

ARGH!

I've got a new addiction thanks for YAU WEI LIANG!

He registered me with his online games site recently, testing out his new feature whereby the site is able to capture your high scores for the games on his site. This would mean that competition amongst registered users is now possible.

While I'm not out to beat everyone who play the games on the site, I've been trying to play the games and beat my own high score... AND since I reached home and started playing at 10ish, I've been playing non-stop trying to beat my own highscores... it's well over 3 now.. so you can imagine... ARGH!

TO think that I've got so many things to blog about. Well, guess I shall do my bloggin tomorrow...

Haha.. back to beating high scores for this game I'm currently playing.

For those who are interested, feel free to visit http://highscores.arcadeonline.com ... Hehehe.. Have fun!