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The first 3 weeks of schools, to put it mildy, has been crazy.
I had a rude wakening when I realised my design project will last only 4 weeks (read: 4MCs in 4 weeks === 24/7 in lab) and my supposedly free-er days suddenly evaporated.
Coupled with BCA competition and YEP stuff, I am trying to catch up with my commitments as effectively as if I were to catch air.
I hadn't even had time to think about anything other than what I have to do, lest to write anything.
Been blog hopping and I realised I have a tendency to go through histories and histories of people's blogs once I get hooked (even if I have no idea who they are). But I go through years of posts in way too little time and then I need to find more stuff to read and then I just end up with toooo many blogs I have read before and I end up forgetting which ones are worth revisiting or even end up forgetting they exist. Which kind of bug me if the writing has been really good cause I may never visit the blog again if I don't remember it exists!
Just a pile of rambling which makes me appear like I have a lot of free time o_O
But I don't. Doing 1 tutorial and 3/4 of an assignment has taken me all day. But at least I managed to get through it (:
Back to work.
Quote by Immanuel Kant - “Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for."
I think I have a weird problem.
I think I am addicted to doing things which I think will make me happy instead of just being happy.
I studied hard all my life to get good grades thinking it will get me to where I want to be and I will be happy.
But I am not happy studying so hard. And good grades only make me happy for at most.. a day?
I travel, join events, learn stuff, thinking the achievement will make me happy.
But I become impossibly busy and I am not happy doing what I signed up for.
I went into a relationship thinking another person will be able to make me happy.
But I realised I was not happy in or out of that relationship.
And I am sure the list goes on.
Maybe being happy means being happy even doing what you are doing to become happy.
Maybe there's a gene for happy and I am missing it.
I was parked in front of the mail wiping off my car. I had just come from the car wash and was waiting for my wife to get out of work. Coming my way from across the parking lot was what society would consider a bum.
From the looks of him, he had no car, no home, no clean clothes, and no money. There are times when you feel generous but there are other times that you just don’t want to be bothered. This was one of those “don’t want to be bothered” times.
“I hope he doesn’t ask me for any money,” I thought. He didn’t. He came and sat on the curb in front of the bus stop but he didn’t look like he could have enough money to even ride the bus.
After a few minutes he spoke. “That’s a very pretty car,” he said. He was ragged but he had an air of dignity around him. His scraggly blond beard keeps more than his face warm. I said, “Thanks,” and continued wiping off my car.
He sat there quietly as I worked. The expected plea of money never came. As the silence between us widened something inside said, “Ask him if he needs any help.” I was sure that he would say “Yes” but I held true to the inner voice. “Do you need any help?” I asked. He answered in three simple but profound words that I shall never forget. We often look for wisdom in great men and women. We expect it from those of higher learning and accomplishments.
I expected nothing but an outstretched grimy hand. He spoke the three words that shook me. “Don’t we all?” he said.
I was feeling high and mighty, successful and important, above a bum in the street, until those three words hit me like a twelve gauge shotgun.
Don’t we all?
I needed help. Maybe not for bus fare or a place to sleep, but I needed help. I reached within my wallet and gave him not only enough for bus fare, but enough to get a warm meal and shelter for the day. Those three little words still ring true. No matter how much you have, no matter how much you have accomplished, you need help too. No matter how little you have, no matter how loaded you are with problems, even without money or a place to sleep, you can give help.
Even if it’s just a compliment, you can give that. You never know when you may see someone that appears to have it all. They are waiting on you to give them what they don’t have. A different perspective on life, a glimpse at something beautiful, a respite from daily chaos that only you through a torn world can see. Maybe the man was just a homeless stranger wandering the streets. Maybe he was more that that.
Maybe he was sent by a power that is great and wise, to minister to a soul to comfortable in themselves.
Maybe God looked down, called an Angel, dressed like a bum, then said, “Go minister to that man cleaning the car, that man needs help.” Don’t we all?
--http://encrypte.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-07-30T18%3A04%3A00%2B08%3A00&max-results=5
2-3th Aug
Bintan with the gang! This time I hid in the shade. No sunburnt! ((:
Connecting rooms are awesome. Watching ridiculous local dramas and playing a SUPER MINI monopoly is certainly a wonderful way to nua.
5th Aug
Lunch with Yan and Bedok's pizza hut. Can't remember the last time I was there. Perhaps during JC times. Nostalgia. It is nice and quiet though.
6th Aug
Movie with Dan. I felt so burnt out by my internship ppt that we went home after the movie at 8pm+ on a friday night. Like some old lady.
7th Aug
Lunch with MY, Vita, JW, HX at Aston. JW's dog is UBER cute. I need to get myself one. Someday.
And since my hols are over, to revisit my to-do list...
1. try dragon boating! FAIL
2. get a one star kayaking cert FAIL
3. dabble in photography/photoshop SEMI-FAIL
4. do internship
5. win BCA competition! IN PROGRESS
6. win S bridge competition! FAIL
7. complete vertical marathon
8. plan YEP
9. go have fun, I mean, go for an industrial visit in Taiwan
10. catch up with people (yes you, you and you)
11. Put something down
12. Explore Saturday dining options
13. Get off the virtual world and live in the real
Not as bad as I thought! But now I want to...
14. Plan grad trip
15. Take up muay thai
16. Learn horse riding
17. Scrapbook my overseas trips
Mwahaha. Will need 3 lifetimes to get things done.
Haven had time to update my blog and I doubt I will have any time to do that for some time to come so here's a super summary:
7th July
Dinner with SSR and TB at saizeriya at liang court. It is fast becoming my favourite food hang out ever since NYDC....
12th July
Dinner with Jie Hui and Thao at Handburger.
16th July
Dinner with Hanxi at TM. Met HY also to discuss Indo trip. Movie with HY.
A revelation and another load off my mind.
18th July
High tea with Yan at equinox. Awesome view but the weather was crap. Food was good but there's not enough time to grab everything from the buffet tables! And this kueh squirted brown sauce all over me o_O
22-29th July
Taiwan trip! Awesome! Another post for another day. Maybe.
30th July
Lunch with Vita, JW, HX and to grab tix for Bintan.
