keep moving

Being complacent is a very dangerous state to be in.

While you are so satisfied with your stable life and everything, people around you are actually moving on and getting better. I have seen too many examples of employees in the company being complacent and they are used to it. If you don't catch up, you will be losing out after that it will be too late to catch up.

So never be complacent. Keep moving.

new hair

I'm not known to take selfies but I need to prepare in case I have Skype interviews. Just bored and testing out my webcam quality and how to upload a webcam pic to blogger.

New hair and eyebags.

It's time to do everything

I feel like I'm in a good place now.

I have youth, time, money and freedom.

Time to do everything before it all runs out!

Strange encounters

sore habits

I have a bad sore throat because I went to Cindy's house for Valrhona chocolate ice cream and I had a few scoops. and got to see Orange!

Sunday was studying day and caught the movie Her, which was really something. The emotions and acting is so real and I saw some very familiar background scenes and found out part of it was filmed in Shanghai!

I have to kick the very weird and bad habit of playing my right thumb with my index finger. It's like whenever I have nothing to do, my index finger will trace circles on the nail or just go round and round the finger without me knowing. 

My right hand is still sore and I still need to cut my hair. Maybe tomorrow. 

wrecked my body

I'm gonna pay for what I did to my body today

Golf in the morning - lower back, right hand, left arm

Swimming after golf- shoulders, triceps, back

Working out after swimming - whole body
Fapped - whole body

I can't wait to wake up with a sore body tmr!

On a random note, I really miss wearing a hoodie/jacket in the spring/fall weather. 

I'd just go out in a teeshirt, jeans and an outer wear and feel so cool. 

getting philosophical and better

why is it that the older I get the more philosophical stuff is appearing on my blog? I used to just plainly write about me going to the mall, getting a drink at mcdonald's etc etc and now it's like oh... should I change myself to suit the work environment or like conform to social norm etc etc...

I never used to think about such philosophical stuff when I was younger, I just do what I want and who cares? and now it's like everyone's eyes are on you, you are more aware of the things around you. Yeah now I'm doing the philosophical thing again.

Anyway, I am getting better at golf, I can hit the sweet spot and swing the right swing at most times and I hope I can really maintain this position! Golf made me train my lower back and thighs and I have also been working out and stuff, but I wonder if I'm getting more fat or bulky because some of my pants felt a little bit tight.

And I need a haircut soon. Time for a trip down to Kovan

Sending offs

Pear is going Australia to study for another 4 years but she was engaged with her husband before flying off. I'm going to miss her! We had a farewell, with special guest JR whom we connected with recently, and planned our Sept trip to Melbourne to find Pear!

Met with the Shanghai gang, Jael, Jac and Evan at the Jamie Oliver because they are flying back to Shanghai this week and Jael is flying to Netherlands to work for the next 3 years!

Alwyn and PS is getting engaged this wed but their wedding is next Dec so we'll have to wait till then.

Everyone's moving very quickly with their lives!

with a pinch of salt

Sometimes when people say things that you already know, you could tell how they like to use their words. Exaggerating things, twisting words, making himself look better or simply the truth.

But sometimes when they tell you things that you don't know, it's better to take it with a pinch of salt, until you really experience it yourself or ask questions that relates to it or consult an expert or somebody who is really good at it.

So when my uni friend told me he's getting 5 figures in his next job, I was very troubled, like how can that be? So after consulting an experienced HR, it seemed that he has exaggerated, using his annual income to divide. and then he continued to say about how working in the banking industry is like etc etc.

and I also got misguided a few times when I was working in Shanghai, people promising things they can't fulfill, or saying things that are unreal all that.

The morale of the story is, do not trust anything you are told. Look for facts and back it up with data yourself, or experience it yourself. 

-_- moments of CNY

In the morning I just sat down at the table for breakfast my grandma was already there and the first thing she asked me was "有没有香烟？" -_-

and then she was chewing something for a few minutes already so I asked her what she's eating, she opened her mouth to show me the meat she had been chewing. -_-

We were playing fire crackers in the badminton court and one of my cousins put a packet drink with a shooter on top of the net pole. After he shot the fire cracker, the youngest proposed a challenge to kick down the drink from the pole. The pole was almost 1.8m high I think. He did a kick but could not reach the drink, so he asked me to try. 

I swore I kicked the packet before the "CLANG! AWWW" and I fell to the floor. I cut my foot and they were laffing. The second oldest went on to try. "CLANG! AWWWW" and he fell rolling on the floor and the laughing could not stop for at least 15 minutes. -_-