:: as the day goes.. ::

The initial plan was to start the morning early - hit the school gym, collect the club reports from office, get a good lunch before heading off to the mass meeting.
But the procrastinator self snoozed the alarm a few hours later - plan foiled, skipped the gym and only managed to squeeze in a good half an hour lunch with one of the classmates before the meeting.

Driven by guilt & the image of the man nagging about 'discipline', I dragged myself to the NTU sports hall after the meeting instead. Sweat it out on the treadmill & thought of reading the club reports while running only to discover Her World is the only thing I could read while on the treadmill.
In need of a personal time (after realizing I've avoided work too long and time is flying fast), I headed to Starbucks and was greeted by my favorite baristas who told me I needed a haircut badly & my look was one of a woman who has ten kids (the crazy bunch exaggerated but i love their company, no less).
Grabbed my usual dose of coffee and went through all the reports, least I'm prepared for tomorrow's selection & further realized I can never bring myself to choose who truly deserves the award.

It came to a point when after all the experiences working in organizations that I realize in our working world now, everything becomes a 'selling' point.
The favorite question is 'What's in IT for me?'
Even in denial, we know at times we are lured into one of working life's trick.
Promoting ourselves - giving credits to what we have done because at the end of the day reports need to be prepared and bosses have to give appraisals and find victims for D's.
As virtuous as we want to be, the ranking & award system left us with little choice but to perform well and made it known to others that we cannot be easily trampled.

Though there's nothing wrong with healthy competition, its the participants in every working organizations that determine whether the setting is a game where people come together to win or where people outdo each other to achieve personal glory.

Dad left me with a list of something to ponder just last night and I could not agree less.

1. Today we have bigger houses and smaller families, more convenience but less time.
2. We have more degree, but less common sense, more knowledge but less judgment.
3. We learn to make a living, but not a life, we've added years to life, not life to years.
4. We have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeway but narrower viewpoint.
5. We have been all the way to the moon and back, but we have trouble crossing the street to meet the neighbor.
6. We've conquered outer space, but not inner space. We've splits the atom but not our prejudice.
7. We've learned to rush but not to wait, we have higher incomes but lower morals.
8. No one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from a brand new beginning.
9. When you feel down because you did not get what you want. Just sit tight and be happy because god is thinking of something better to give you.
10. I used to complain because I had no shoes, then one day I met a man with no legs.

And my favorite was.

'This are the the time of fast foods and slow digestion, tall man and short character, steep profits and shallow relation, more leisure and less fund, more kind of food but less nutrition, two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses but broken homes.'


This morning at the bus stop, I witnessed a toddler trying to initiate a conversation with a very old man.
I could not help but smile.
I was caught in between - thinking how once, I was a toddler with all her innocence and imagining in years to come, how I am going to like as an old lady wrinkled with all the experiences life have granted her.


On a lighter note, the dad brought home a list of jokes.
Army jokes are damn lame & corny!

Q : Tarzan and the animals went to the river to take a bath. Tarzan removed his clothes. All the animals laughed at Tarzan. Tarzan asked 'why'?
A : The animals told him 'Your tail is in front'.

:)