Saturday, January 22, 2005
what can i say. im going NS and everyone's out. im going to be the newbie. everybody's gonna think im a weakling cuz i get the easy way out. jack. im going to be the most chiong shua pes C you will see.
im bringing some food and coins.
god bless
posted by iambrianfu [ 1:37 AM ] |
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
oOOo (O_v_O) oOOo
--------3 more days-------
a little bit of routine is great. it makes you feel organized and puts the big picture into perspective cuz you know whats gonna come next, and what's before and whats here and there. ive been trying to adapt a more stringent daily timetable, adhering to my health lifestyle and also to prepare for NS. At the end of the day, i just feel so refreshed and great.just like a personal victory.. ive completed an Eventful day!
ive been reading R.Covey's principle centred leadership and there are fascinating ideas im coming across. there's one that goes like this (although higly distorted) - we have our core values and we should stick to our principles. however, we often believe that the principles are embedded in our habits. that's the reason why man finds it so hard to change his bad habits. once we attempt to change these habits, we think that we lose our directions and thus we lose our security. we therfore resist changes.
no one can say that he likes changes. changes break our momentum. it forces us into unfamiliar territories and we have to start all over again. we have to learn from scratch and can no longer be complacent.
well, im glad that im setting a couple of goals before i go into ns. goals give u power and direction and i can be proud of challenging myself.
i went to homespun at arts house today to drop by at Aunty Cat's shop. its rather quiet there and to be really honest, i dont think the business is very viable. its more of arty farty and thats it. Singaporeans cant appreciate this type of arts. not that i can really appreciate it too. but the stuff there are beautiful. me was bought a personal pan morroccan pizza there for being a good nephew dropping by. after that, i went to a bookstore for a while and read some crappy books like CHELSKI- THE NEW RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. haaa.
roman abramovich is a russian JEW and he started his first company only at the age of 21. but he is some sort of a crackpot cuz he became russian's second richest man 15 years later.
blah blah.. then i took the lonng train ride to sembawang for me survey part two. tomorrow's the last day.. and im off for a honey mooon
- principle centred people see an acorn tree from the acorn
posted by iambrianfu [ 1:13 AM ] |
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
--------4 more days----------
and counting..
i got back a couple of hours ago from this survey thingy at sembawang. i didnt get to learn much nor earn much but i did experience long bus rides. i always thought that sembawang was a little above orchard but waaay was i wrong. in fact, its slightly less than half an hour from orchard. anyway, it wasnt all that bad afterall because i was doing the survey with this Clarice who was quite chio and cute and interesting. so she told me that she had been doing it for 5 days and 8 day's the minimum to get a pay. but NOno. im having only 4 days left , in fact three... cuz im going to just sleep and lie in the sun on friday. so i told the supervisor and he's going to make things easy for me. oh well. going back for 2nd day tml evening
i went to the gym today with rongs for some bicep-stretching . im glad im keeping up with my fitness routine because i have been running almost everyday. great for someone who's going in with some sick boozos. other than that, today has been a fair day cuz i woke up late and played me computer games and playstation..
actually i dont want to work.. im a lazy shit. i dont like to work for people because i always think im the boss. im a risk-taker and an organizer and an entrepreneur . its only when i know that im the boss, that i stop being me - the lazy shit. but recently, i have become greatly pissed (although i am rather immuned) by the way mama thinks im a useless bum who only knows how to watch movies, stay at home and play computer games, and use the comp to go to undesirable websites ( well, thats her rationale for me going online late at the night.. . . like what the hell?!). No i am not useless.. so i pay lipservice. i do some lame crap work.
but seriously.. if we changed roles, i'd think my son is a useless piece of crap cuz he has been doing almost nothing constructive since the new year, save his proudest i-taught-for-one-day . and thats all. finale
im going to bedok tomorrow to collect my black spects. yay! and get some black tape. and complain about the lousy 100 bucks phone i bought for army. i realized something about trade in phones. that is - NEVER buy trade in phones. they suck. they are bound to be cranky or dirty or even if they look perfectly fine, probably the number 8 button works occasionally or the phone auto-offs at certain times of the day. NEVER BUY LOUSY TRADE IN PHONES even if they are cheap.
posted by iambrianfu [ 1:50 AM ] |
Friday, January 14, 2005
yes.. the past two days have been eventful.
It so happened that Greenview secondary called me two days ago at 7.15am.. there i was sleeping, and then i got a call like ' we need a relief teacher for today'
so in a daze and half somber, i said 'good' .. gonna be 65 dollars richer. .. and i flew down to pasir ris in around 40minutes...
so the students seemed annoying at first and in my hours of sitting-there-doing-nothing, i devised a 3S strategy that would ease my workload..
1) Sit
2) Silence
3) very Simple
and if they couldnt understand
4) STAND
yes.. it did work quite well. though some didnt get my idea because they SAt on the table and played silent games like arm-wrestling.. so it did reach a point that pissed me and i shouted a couple of times but overall no one was left to the stage of Standing. or maybe its because im a nice guy. then there was this girl who was bugging me to give her tuition because being a nice relief-teacher who isnt supposed to teach at all, i helped her solve her maths problem. but obviously im going into the army and so i said no but i have friends who can teach. unfortunately, she decided only me makes a best tuition teacher, so she said no. then when the students got all friendly and 'close' to me, they started probing me about my life. and being a 22 year old, i started talking about the true stuff like my secondary school life, jc , psle, olevels, how to study for o levels.. blah.. and the untruthful stuff like my 4As, my NS days, how i got to be a sergeant without going to sispec, how i loathed going for my NS, how im going for universities in a months.. blahh
after that, i realized that teaching is so not my cup of tea. teaching is boring and monotonous.. u meet kids you dont really want to meet. you teach them the stuff that they will never apply. you repeat yourself over and over again. and you have to go to a depressing, claustrophobic work environment with lousy facilities and boring friends. most teachers are boring. ok... thats my point
today has been fun.. i brought Dean to Mac for breakfast and he eats a cow. after that, he had to go to school and i had to play my computer games. so i played till 3plus, and went to school for some piano ensemble tea party. ended up in suntec for dinner and visiting annette who works in some winter wear company..
im thinking of organizing a party next friday. its a fortuitous time . the army boys are coming out and i havent heard of any other parties tt week. i'll probably do a small scale one at clarke quay.. no uber funk hyper mania at zouk or soul-rocking tantric psychedelica at chinablack. just me small party to send meself off to army.. 22nd!! and to welcome our tired comrades home from their wargrounds. also.. girls please.haa
i dreamt i opened a pub last night. it was real nice cool slim shady chilling booOoze-out. good music, good friends.. too bad, it was just a dream
posted by iambrianfu [ 1:59 AM ] |
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
It's Mom's bday .. yay!
wassup again.. the weather's so cold at night these few days. talk about chill man.. it really chills.
life has its ups and downs and its the down side for me now. cuz there isnt really many things i can think of doing everyday. im getting more and more bored. i am not working. i am just lazing around.
lets see..
to make me look forward to each passing day, im gonna count down.
------11 days--------
anyway.. mama is screaming at me day after day to run errands for her.. and i just pretend not to hear anything. and then she starts scolding me.. and tells me to go do something constructive. and not be good for nothing, and not this and not that . and not that and not this.. and im getting nuts.. drving me crazy already.
so guess what..
i just pretend to fall asleep when she talks to me and then i begin sleeping and wake up at times like this and i guess what i do???
OH my god
i watch the primera liga.. god!
espanyol.. mallorca.. de-ballstivo!!
no one understand the woes of my idle mind... sighhhh
posted by iambrianfu [ 1:10 AM ] |
Monday, January 10, 2005
Hi dear old blog
i went to church today. so i realized that glory sanctuary is a Pentacostal church of which its true meaning, i am not too certain. anyway, it does explain why the people are so jumpy and loud over there.
i do believe in the Lord. and that everything is governed and destined. but i dont really know where im heading to. im in a state of searching... i want to know more. i want to experience different things. afterall, i've got lots of time to see where my faith lies in.
a few wks back, i went with jakey to some st xavier francis. i like the catholic youth group. they're lively and focused. not too over-zealous...
- Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hate the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
posted by iambrianfu [ 1:50 AM ] |
Saturday, January 08, 2005
Its Dean's birthday today
YAY!
posted by iambrianfu [ 2:38 AM ] |
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Hi. I met an impressive young man today. His 29, his company is 5 years old and last year's turnover for his company was a million. well, his job is to manage your carreer and make a carreer out of your idea of a carreer. smart guy. He does jobsfactory.com, the walking man, brightsparks. Enterprising, but a really too money minded though. I like people like him. His got his ideas, and he puts them into practice.
so i went to the brightsparks scholarship talk today. I saw our dear old classmates yiting too! haa.. looking at the turnout, i was wondering if i was at the correct place. yes. our dear instructor who happens to be the boss is quite an intelligent economist because he hikes the price of the course so that he gets his small group. his inelastic few. so we are the dumb old few who paid a hundred and twenty to looksy looksy. the course was general superflous, but it did answer a few question i had in mind. generally a course to understand myself better. i give me the kick and drive i had since...... . since me superteen..haaa
so i realize that i didnt really want a scholarship afteral. but im still going to take one anyway. we discussed this question over and over again. for me.. its prestige. its making me parents happy. its a long held idea that i cant let go la.. so whats the point? just grab your MAS GIC EDB SIA DBS PSC ABC whatever..
well check it out.. Ciboy is online now. zhirong msn sia
posted by iambrianfu [ 11:55 PM ] |