THE RAIN AND THE LAMP POST

Although I’m probably biased, I can’t help but think that biz students are still the best people to have in your project group, but its probably just my unsatisfactory project group encounters with students from the other faculties thus far. And the midst of all the disappointments and accidents, I still want this semester to start well so I will probably have to work harder to make everything work out. I feel sianz just thinking about it but that’s just the way things are.

I was getting off the bus yesterday night when I happened to see the outline of the falling rain against the glow of the street lamps. I wanted to take a picture of that haha, but my phone was running flat so I had to give up on the idea. The closest I could find to that is this picture of raindrops against a glass pane but its still quite different I guess. I thought that I like going home on a rainy day, as long as I don’t have to wade through rain and mud to get where I’m going.

10-10-10

I went to the library recently and came back with a few promising books, one of which was actually this decision-making book talking about the “10-10-10” method. Basically 10-10-10 means 10minutes, 10months and 10 years, so the book suggests that we can phrase our doubts and dilemma into a yes or no questions, then consider the pros and cons/consequences of our actions in 10minutes, 10months and 10years (arbitral figures to represent immediate, inter-mediate and distant futures btw). Then there’s this additional part about knowing our own values and ideals so that you can use them to weigh and make better judgment after churning out all the consequences. Actually, I think many of us are already doing it partially or unconsciously but the book just makes it clearer and more useful by conceptualizing it into a proper idea. Most of us tend to give considerations to the immediate consequences of our words and actions but not many will go as far to account for the distant future as well. And the bit about knowing yourself and your own values and dreams part is quite useful too, cause we don’t really think so much during our day-to-day routines. Knowing about it is one thing but I can’t really imagine myself consciously doing 10-10-10 everytime cause I don’t think I have the mental discipline to make it into a habit haha. Hopefully I will remember it when I need to deal with the bigger problems/decisions in my way.

School has started! But I only went to school twice this week cause national day holiday on monday got rid of 3 of my lectures haha. And I am attempting to squeeze everything into a 3 days week, that is if I successfully get all my tutorial slots. Results will be out tomorrow night and I think I will have a nightmare if I need to readjust and replan my timetable haha.

IN MY IDLENESS

I changed my blog layout! Partly cause I was extremely free this week and I didn’t really want to idle around online so I went to mess around with my blog. My previous one was really too narrow and it was difficult to read or post longer entries without elongating  everything. I couldn’t adjust the width as well so I thought I might as well do an overhaul and replace it with something new. This was actually done using blogspot’s new template design capability cause I had given up on trying to find a suitable blogskin from blogskins.com. Overall, I’m quite happy with my new layout although I still think the main display picture is still a little off. Its quite difficult to find an appropriate picture that can blend in with the background. And I got rid of the tagboard as well. I thought of expanding my profile information and also trying out some other blog gadgets/tweaks but never got round to doing it haha.

And I suddenly find myself playing Hotel Giant 2! It seems really fun at first cause you get to design and decorate all the hotels and rooms to your liking but as I progressed through the tutorial, its becoming more and more taxing on the brain haha. Pretty much like how they build mazes and cities in Inception except here its all lobbies and rooms and bathrooms. The taxing stuff comes in later with all the financial reports, marketing research and etc, at which point I saved and exited the game before I start getting overwhelmed haha. I shall take a break today and attempt to return to it tomorrow. And it reminds me of the times when we used to talk about opening hotels/resorts and we can like get everyone to come and work together since everyone is studying/specializing in different areas haha. I can help with the layout of the rooms and although I’m a Biz student, I would prefer to give all the management stuff a miss haha.

3 more days to the 1st day of school! I am really dreading all the administrative work, like buying/selling of textbooks, matching timetables and balloting for ALL my tutorial slots! I think I will have a nightmare when balloting for my tutorials, seeing how most people will already have pre-allocated tutorial slots for biz modules and there will probably be really limited slots left for us to ballot for. As of now, I don’t really have the motivation to work through all these things yet haha. Although this has been quite a long holiday, but as I told kwong yuan, I’m bored but content. I’m not sianz of being bored and its also true that I don’t have to urge/desire to go out or do stuff. Its more like idling, when I can just switch off my brain and do things in accordance to my mood and emotions. If school time is like being in control of myself, how i think and act in order to TRY to do well in school, then maybe this period of time is like being out-of-control (in the sense that I don’t need to control anything, things are just there as and when they happen). But annoyingly, there are still a few post-FOC things at the back of my mind and these small little disturbances are quite irritating cause I can’t do anything but wait for other people to settle their responsibilities before I can do my part.

Oh and I really should get down to buying my samsung yp-m1 which I have been eyeing for quite sometime now, but I haven’t come to terms with the $360 price tag attached to it. While everyone is busy changing and upgrading to the latest smart phones, I’m still toying around with mp3 player or PMP (portable media player) as they call it nowadays haha. But that’s really just me =)

INCEPTION

And I finally watched Inception! Not alone cause I went to watch it with kwong yuan and shihui and I must say the movie is nice! It was really engaging and finally there’s a movie with some depth to its characters and plot. I still watch all the action flicks and what not, but they simply aren’t as fun as Inception. Granted I don’t really get some of the more technical bits of the movie but its okay for me haha cause I’m not really someone who obsesses over some incomprehensible “hows” parts in the movie.

Inception aside, I’m starting to lose it again! I think I went out a little too much this week so yeah, perpetual exposure to people is killing my brain. Okay, I’m not sure what kind of sentence is that but i just feel like writing it. My charge time seems to be getting shorter and shorter or maybe i didn’t really charge properly this time round haha. I’m rambling.