good news everyone.

my one and only thumb drive, which stores all my vital data, is officially spoilt. why? i just stuck it in the home com and wet for a 2 hour nap - do u still call a 2 hr nap nap? anyway, when i woke up and returned to the com, it was bent. presumably, someone accidentally forcefully bent it. ARGH. why has all my info gone?!?

haiz. my one and only thumbdrive.

all the info how???

my brother says i shd have backed up. oh well. i think back up is very troublesome!

don't blame me if i don't donate to charities anymore. following the NKF saga, we now have the Youth Challenge mystery. Seems like a cycle, where every few years, a few of these cases will all pop up at once. Who will be next? all the charities had better tighten their control.

how can the CEO of a charity earn an annual salary that amounts to 56% of the total income of the charity? Ridiculous. and he drives in a sports car, lives an a terrace house. and he bypasses all the necessary procedures required to withdraw money and stuff. Who will dare to donate to charities? or volunteer to charities anymore?

let's keep the volunteerism spirit up. These are probably the black sheep that have finally been uncovered. there are still truly needy ppl out there who needs just a little warmth in their lives. sounds cliched, but i think we cannot imagine what they go through and can only help in the best way we could.

and i m looking forward to the end of the week. i m rushing to get all my errands done and spend some time with family and friends before cny comes. before mid terms come. cny is another time to spend with loved ones, after which, is the due dates for projects and presentations. the 2nd semester of the academic year is always the more tensed one as we let loose our guard with cny festivities in the air.

uncle dell is coming in T-H-R-E-E weeks. :)

and my LTM class, for which i am a teaching assistant, has been a delight to me thus far. I m enjoying myself, and siu is enjoying listening to me telling her all about my LTM lessons. and so far, i have learnt a lot from my group (lol-lings or little-lings). plenty of work to do still!!!

went shopping with mama and brother today. very very very rare we get to go out together and just enjoy cruising in the car. my mum is stressed and has slimmed down quitue a bit. she has been working till 2-3am. any cucumbers for her eye bags? what i learn from her is her passion in her work. and i guess that is what keeps her goign and fuels her energy. we shd all live passionately once.

alright. back to audit. auditors are more often than not, stingy, particular, picky and i-dunno-what. i dunno to become like that. argh.

it is too hot in australia and too cold in the U.S.

every morning I wake up early for my morning class, I love the morning sun. I love to smell the grass. It reminds me of my good olf secondary and jc days. when we were sweating in the parade square singing the national anthem, listening to strings of announcements and appeals for students to own up if they had eaten on the mrt or jay-walked.

good old days don't last long. Just like we can't remain in schools for long. It is only week 3 of the new school term and I feel the pressure. 3 more months till the end man. and this will be a tough long 3 months. oh man.

did u read a health survey, on how if u keep thinking abt "living everyday as if it is your last", u will generally live a shorter life? would you put 100% into everyday?

similarly, if u keep thinking that your efforts will not be recognised at the end of the journey, that everything will end up in naught, would you still put in 100% and enjoy the process? i think i won't, because i worry too much. so i don't even bother thinking abt the end. maybe when the final moment come, i will just leave in shock and that is not the best way to leave.

Hell0o everyone
I was at home for the most of today. despite that, it was probably one of the most traumatic days. haha no i m not goign to commit suicide. I m goign to count my blessings, in wing lam's words.

today, i decided to go through all the cards and post cards i have received all this while. there were birthday cards, christmas cards, new year cards, cards from long lost frens. do u believe in karma and affinity? i do. probably in the most superficial sense.

winglam, mei yin and hui yi will never miss my birthday cards. christmas, new year once in a while haha. but i m really thankful for your friendships. whether you are reading this or not.

and there are those really funny cards from siu siu. siu, remember my 20th birthday birthday card? i opened it and i jus burst out laughing. u drew a big smiley face. and sometimes that is all one needs to break into a smile.

had a good time with siu and kc yesterday. somehow we are all growing up too fast. omg. sound so cliched ay? if only we had known one another since 5 years old. then again, believe in affinity?

then there were all the love letters from the sariputta girls. thank you girls. lindy, i must say you are really sensible and mature, opposite of me. i m jus wilful and naggy. jiayi, thanks for your pen. sel and mich, 3 of us being the oldest, thanks for showering care and concern among 5 of us.

and there are those really precious postcards from all over the world from tim, puee and john. i really respect you guys and thank you for remembering me no matter which corner of the world u r at. i have cards from pisa, french alps, amsterdam. could one of u pass me an address so i could send u some merlion cards as well? haha.

and there are cards from songjie as well. the stylo birthday card and all the cards with funny photos of you.

and these is this card from qiantai. think after we graduated from JC.
and this card from ying zi. my long lost primary sch, ex-neighbour, who has moved to sengkang.

i really liked the birthday card from USA. it has TLTH, joan, uncle dell, speedy, kima and kipa's signatures and well wishes.

oh yes, uncle dell, i have the card that came with elmo. ur handwriting is real big and cursive :)
elmo has a new partner btw, jus like speedy sir stamford raffles has merlion mona lisa. elmo's partner is stitch the elvis. show u when u get back online from ur road travels or when u get to nice and cool sg.

btw, sg has been flooded and raining to the extent that thomson road outside my house is flooded. perfect for u!

and there is this card from hong li and kaiyi for being a GL in their camp. really sweet of them.

these are all memories. i want to get a box and store them and look at them every month and count my blessings on my blog everytime i read them.

i have gotten to be really snap at ppl. snap at my frens, my parents. i finally got a taste of my medicine when my mum reprimanded me. i guess there is nothing to be shameful abt. i may have been right. but the way i talked to my mum was disrespectful. and i guess i m still a 6-year old inside. i need to grow up quick.

i apologise if i always thank the same few ppl. these are the ppl who have stood by me all these while. with so many ppl behind me in whatever i do, why do i keep wanting more? I used to think that i will be happy once i get something. when i do get it, i start being unhappy again. i gues buddhism is right. sometimes, getting what u want may bring u more challenges than happiness. i m worried and scared that i will just get caught up in the rat race. and i start seeing this in myself. i ask myself why can't i just think of everyone as being nice and all, even if i know they are not. why can't i just be as enthusiastic abt everything as i used to be? i just see this sloppy self in front of me.

SO. i have to snap out of everything i m in now. and try to be more upbeat abt everything. i believe everything starts from me. i choose to procrastinate. let's hope this starts in everyone and there will be spill over effect and spill over to me.

and accourding to a health report, certain activities will prolong ur life while others will shorten ur life. one of the latter is when u think and live everyday like it is ur last. this is most damaging on ur life.

and HAPPY 21st birthday to Ying Zhi, Yi Han, Qian Tai, Renji. Matthew, urs is coming up next!

alright.
down with second week of sch
my more or less finalised time table

mon 830-1145 Lendership and Teambuilding Mentoring
12 - 315 Corporate Reporting

wed 830-1145 Computer as an Analysis Tool
12-315 Finishing Touch

thur 830-1145 Audit

fri 12-315 Entrepreneurial Finance

ANYONE WANTS TO TAKE EMTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE WITH ME?
it is a pretty interesting module. Prof is Winston Koh. young prof with 2 daughters. flies in in the morning and goes straight to sch to teach.

lesson is about venture capital and stuff. project is writing up a business plan.

7 vacancies. come come and write business plan with me!!!

plenty of readings to do. going top tuition gordon tonight. hope all goes well.

hi everyone.
i m in leadership and team building lesson now. basically, no laptop for the next 3 hours for the next 15 weeks! monday blues!
ARGH!
haha. cheers! good morning everyone. i m just going to type nonsense until my members start streaming in. woot!
bleagh. 6 weeks to CNY. how many weeks to uncle dell coming back?

and yup i saw the tags:
jacq, hope u had a happy new year!
uncle dell, hope u had a happy new year in US too. with speedy? or away from home?
puee, happy new year! hope skiing was fun. and thomson clu not bishan club-typo.
and happy 21st birthday john! thanks for the card from the french alps!

Happy new year 2007 everyone!

2-007 must be james bond's year man :P lame

anyway, i managed to meet up with liang si, liang yuan and yihan before sch started, which is good. bishan club meeting up once in a while :) yihan is back from NYU and liang si is back from france. their faraway tales make me want to go see and experience all that for myself.

and yes, thanks to liang yuan, who was late because he was watching one tree hill, you could go to alluc.org to check out serials for free.

sch started. hectic. scary. more heavy, dry boring accouting modules. and bidding for such modules is giving me a headache. since we are paying the same fees whatever prof we get, whatever grades we get, why can't everyone just have the good profs? why can't all the profs give good grades? life is never fair. just like how keira knightley is in harvard(i believe) despite being so gorgeous and successful. merit deposit bank eh?

mel, lion and shaun came to visit me at smu today. cool. think it is good for mel to go ard the unis and decide where she wants to go to.

we watched blood diamond today. it is a good movie. not a brainless action flick, but one with so many people's lifes entqined within. leonardo dicaprio is acting all these emotional movies.

and straits times did a write up on leo. saying he is an A list movie without the stuck-ups and arrogance. i think he may just be my next idol.

44 days to CNY and counting. time for new clothes and more food. but before, let's hope i exercise. and yes, wing lam is still in hong kong. argh.

siu, thanks for the nice pair of earrings, the sweet shirt and all the chocolates! :) yum yum!