sick!! & random ramblings

finally get some rest .. been super sick e past week after getting infected with the same virus as zijia and ginny haha.. i drank their water during ktv (wrong move) but oh well!

So tired from coughing e whole night and not getting enough rest.. and the cough is making my head explode and my ribs too .. this is good exercise for abdominal muscles man!!

anws, duno wat to do now that i've the whole day to rest, and also tmr.. work wasn't fulfilling cos there's always nothing much to do at work, and even though there's nothing much to do, its quite stressful .. haha

anw, i met up with diz online friend in the hope of matchmaking him with my girl friend.. but he failed to meet up to my expectations (And my gal friends') ... but he's in overall a nice guy.. just that probably not same frequency as us lor..

only yesterday did work take on a serious side.. when we were rushing to finalise something and we had to work nonstop for the whole day! that was a nice twist!! unluckily, i was coughing the whole day so dint enjoy it that much ..

Volunteer + travel !!!

check out this website http://matador.org/10-volunteer-opportunities-for-free-travel/

olympics

relaxing weekend..

this weekend was quite relaxing, as I didn't have tuition on Saturday and went to meet my bf.. I watched the Olympic Diving semifinals.. that was SO cool!!

haha

Outing!!

Wow today we had a very fun outing!!

The buffet lunch was quite good.. then we went for Kbox, which was the best I ever had!! We were all dancing and very high!! So so good and memorable! it really was the best ktv ever!! EVER!!

hahahahahaha

so high!~~

Recent Updates

For the past 2 months, I have been busy working in MOE, PARB. For those who don't know, PARB stands for Psychological Assessment and Research Branch. Sounds impressive right? Actually its all just nothing much.. I want to get vulgar at this point in time but I don't know if I'd get caught if I actually do so. Let's just keep this non-vulgar then (Sheesh!). Well, I suppose being a Research Assistant sounds really cool but actually it may be really tiring, boring, and not exactly research you wanted to do. I mean, everyone has his own research interests and educational psychology was never part of my interest. But this job made me interested! However, I want to try new types of psychology, so that I may realise which types I am MOST interested in. Well, that's what I think I should do. I will give myself one and a half years to decide which field I am really interested in.

Anyways, this job is really short - term and temporary. Also, the nature of the job is such that when there's something to do, its really exhausting and tiring. But when there's nothing to do, there's really nothing to do. So, we were all stuck between the extremities of the job scope.

Also, we were not given the pay we were initially promised. The person-in-charge (who is a mysterious person who has not surfaced to show responsibility) seemed to have miscommunicated our pay between MOE's side and the job agency's side.. So we were the biggest losers. Our pay got to an all-time low! OH well, we are just worthless RAs who were dispensible anyways .. The worst was yet to come. On our official 2nd last day of work, we were told early in the morning that TODAY IS Your last DAY! Wow. What a bombshell. Nobody treats their workers more than shit .. Nobody can be compared to this organisation. What integrity as core values? What nonsense.

Aron Lee Ralston

Aron Lee Ralston (born October 27, 1975) is an American mountain climber who became famous in May 2003 when he was forced to amputate his lower right arm with a dull knife in order to free himself after his arm became trapped by a boulder. Ralston documented his experience in a book titled Between a Rock and a Hard Place (ISBN 0-7434-9281-1), published by Atria Books on September 7, 2004.

Ralston, mechanical engineering and French at Carnegie Mellon University, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At Carnegie Mellon, he served as a Resident Assistant, studied abroad, and was an active intramural sports participant. He left his job as a mechanical engineer with Intel in 2002 to climb all of Colorado's "fourteeners", or peaks over 14,000 feet high. While he was on a canyoneering trip in Blue John Canyon (near Moab, Utah), a boulder fell and pinned his right forearm, crushing it. After five days of trying to lift and break the boulder, a dehydrated and delirious Ralston bowed his arm against a chockstone and snapped the radius and ulna bones. Using the dull blade on his multiuse tool, he cut the soft tissue around the break. He then used the tool's pliers to tear at the tougher tendons. After Ralston was rescued, his arm was retrieved by park authorities and removed from under the boulder. It was cremated and given to Ralston. He returned to the boulder and left the ashes there.

The incident has given Ralston something of a folk-hero status and has even inspired spinoffs such as Stanford University's Aron Ralston MAN Game.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The above extract is taken from wikipedia and this man's story reminds me of how strong humans can be in their mind. (Courtesy of my beloved, who emailed it to me..) All of you out there, believe in yourself and fight for what goodness lies in your heart. Life doesn't have to be all bad, reality doesn't have to always hit hard on you. If you can conquer that darkness in yourself, you would have won half the battle.