Thinking Aloud

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:09 PM

DREAMS, ASPIRATIONS AND THE FUTURE

One fine day at work, I found myself thinking about the future.
(I wasn't daydreaming, don't worry!)
I was thinking how I'll never have an office job so I wouldn't have to sorting invoices by alphabetical order like I was doing at that time. Or listen to the melodic background music.. a chorus of phones ringing for the whole day. Or go to work in formal wear, 5 days a week.

Not that it's bad, it's just not my type of work (:
You know what I mean?

The future. The future is tomorrow actually. Yes it's also 10 years down the road and I'll be 28 (wow), wonder what my daily routine will be. Any guesses? Haha (:
But tomorrow.. tomorrow will be a good day. It's friday (end of yet another week), work ends .5h earlier, and the next day would be saturday. Saturday is institute day (last class btw).. saturday leads to sunday. Sunday is church day! Sunday is also a smashing day cause I get to see my lovely churchies (: awesomeness.

Just thinking aloud there haha.

Gosh. Now that I brought it up, I'm really starting to wonder where I'll be in 10 years time. I wonder if I'll be married and have kids by then. heh heh. Also, where manda will be in 10 years time. (Now that was random) I wonder if we'll have another stake. Wooh. Sounds cool yeah? Do you ever let your mind drift and think about your future?

Oh well. I took half day today to choose my IS module for the coming semester. Gotta go to work now.

YES BEFORE I GO, haha. You know i picked this really cool crab claw and stone from convention? I put it in this really really cute glass bottle thingy with like nice and fine american sand. GOSH it's so pretty! at least that's what i think.. I'll take a picture of it soon! Smashing (: Take care ya'll.

"Come What May, And Love It"

Thursday, September 24, 2009 6:00 AM

"It's the inside that counts"

Convention was more than I could ask for. Had the time of my life- made new friends, got closer to my current friends, played the best camp games, got a nice tan, went out to the sea on low tide, enjoyed workshops and played cash&guns (SO FUN. thank you godfather Han).

Besides the theme "Come what may and love it", one other phrase that stuck out to me was "Remember who you are".

Sometimes we get so caught up with work/school, making sure your hair's straight, fitting in and all, that we might find ourselves losing focus on what's really more important: the inside. Check out the shellfish in the picture. It's shell was dry and brown and not so cool, but when you looked inside, it's so reflective and shiny and pretty. I thought that was one of the main points I got out of the convention.

It was interesting to compare YC and Convention. In convention, testimony meeting went overtime (for YC, much time is taken up by the leaders). Guys are so much more gentleman-ly. Bunk mates say morning and night prayers without fail. Leaders trust you more..

No regrets (:

*For Myra: Here's the video of the commercial for the Lollipop phone, check it out!

Breather.

Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:50 AM

Holy guacamoley exam results will be sent to my phone tmr, so nervous. (Ngee Ann Poly service especially for students! Awesome yes?? *GO NP!*)

I've got a pile of pictures STILL sitting in the CF card (not even on my laptop yet). Hopefully I'll be able to do up a couple before heading for YSA/SA Convention, my first convention so I'm pretty excited (except for the fact that the poster COUGH*COUGH*COUGH excuse me haha!). Nah, Kandace doesn't get upset with people so easily (:

This week would mark the end of my third week of internship, I'm learning to enjoy it more, colleagues are so funny! Today while taking a short breather I found out that I had a hidden talent:

I can play the ABC song on a rubberband that's holding a stack of cheques.

(Also, "Mary Had A Little Lamb") There is definitely room for improvement, but I'd reckon it's pretty good for a first try (: Took a short video of it for kicks- I enjoy laughing to myself and at myself. Haha! That's life you see. Some humans are just too serious for their own good, pity.

Oh yes and talking about life, I'll be taking Korean 101 next semester as an additional module (with no credits) just for fun, so I'm really excited!

And of course, wenjie visited Singapore over the weekend! It was really cool to see him on Singapore soil, haha.

Till then, take care and buh-bye (:

Working life is [fill in the blank]

Sunday, September 6, 2009 4:08 AM

(I think this picture is pretty awesome. Took this picture of sam at our Por Por's 81st birthday celebration.)

Anyway, life has been pretty imbalanced to a small portion of a large degree. Work's pretty strenuous (anything after 4 days of relaxing WOULD BE kinda taxing) and sometimes I get back like a piece of jelly.

HAHAHA.

What did I just say, lol.

It's estimated that settling in takes about 2 weeks, according to a book I'd read not too long ago. Quite true I must say. I've been posted to the Finance department so a big part of my work has to do with invoices and stuff like that. And there's this awesome machine I'm so good at using.. heh. I'll get to that some other time (:

Institute on saturday was a big break for me. (suprisingly found several wednesday people there) One point that I found particularly interesting:

"Be able to say that today is a good day to die because all was done the way it should be"

It's those days where you helped mum with the dishes and laundry, was nice to your siblings, shared, pondered on scriptures, and perhaps didn't say an unkind word.

Will tomorrow be a good day to die?

I don't know, you tell me.