Heck, whats a little extortion among friends?

“‘No one else can tell you what to feel. You either do, or you don’t. Though I don’t understand or approve of this, all of you are becoming my friends.
Being a friend means you don’t have to be exactly alike, and you are still friends.’”
- “Blood of the Fold” by Terry GoodKind

The Taiwan trip was good. After losing touch for more than four years, it was good to know my friends again. Some of them haven't changed, while some have.

And in that trip, i think i've discovered how to have fun again. I was appreciated for the things i've done and things which i didn't realise i did.

Happy New Year, everyone. :)

“‘As you learn to be other than Mord-Sith, like I learned as I grew up, you’ll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don’t understand.
The reasons you like them makes the things you don’t understand unimportant.
You don’t have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them.
If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.’”
- “Blood of the Fold” by Terry GoodKind

Santa Claus: kindly old elf, or CIA spook?

"There is no such thing as perfect in this world. That may sound cliche, but its the truth.

The average person admires perfection and seeks to obtain it. But, whats the point of achieving perfection?

There is none. Nothing. Not a single thing.

I loathe perfection!

If something is perfect, then there is nothing left. There is no room for imagination. No place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities.

Do you know what that means?

For scientists such as ourselves, perfection only brings despair. It is our job to create things more wonderful than anything before them, but never to obtain perfection. A scientist must be a person who finds ecstasy, while suffering from that antinomy."
- Twelfth Squad Captain, Kurotsuchi Mayuri in Bleach Episode 200: The Most Hardest Body?! Nnoitra is Cut Down

Merry Christmas, everyone. :)

Even though we’re both talking English, we’re not speaking the same language.

A mental note to myself:

Do not compare your previous company to your current one. Comparisons are rarely healthy and they can create ill feelings among people. Start from scratch and learn the culture in the current company.

I really do need to remember this.

Sometimes I think ALL my friends have been imaginary.

“A tiny spot of light reached through it toward me. I caught it in my hand and sat staring at it for a time. A metaphor for my life, I thought.”
- “Fool’s Fate” by Robin Hobb

Isn't it odd, on how sometimes although you've never personally met some people but when you hear about some excellent news which happened to them, you get this really warm moist feeling of happiness for the said people?

“Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above.”
- “Brisinger” by Christopher Paolini

That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.

"Ward left in. Ward right out. Guard your heart from stone."
- "Temple of the Winds" by Terry Goodkind

"Ward left in. Ward right out. Turn your heart to stone."
- "Enigmas and Musings from the Edge of Insanity" by Ensui

What I like is when you’re looking and thinking and looking and thinking… And suddenly, you wake up.

Something that came up in the discussion board of Facebook...

XXXX XXX (San Francisco, CA) wrote 42 minutes ago:
i have a question...

Why should income wealth and opportunity in life be based on factors arbitrary from moral point of views?

xxxx xxxx replied to XXXX's post 25 minutes ago:
if u tink simply, it happens in our daily lives.

I am currently an engineering student in university. i hate physic and love political science and history but to survive in a economy system such as the one in Singapore, i don have a choice to choose wat i really wanna do. i took up engineering hoping to get a gd job.

i dono, but many of my friends are facing this same issue as me.

You replied to xxxx's post 19 minutes ago:
Actually, i have a friend who is studying history and political science in an australian university. He is almost finishing his Phd, which focuses on Australia's participation in Singapore during WW2.

I believe he's coming back once he's done and i really admire him for doing what he enjoys. I don't think there will be any difficulty in him finding a job. :)

I'm a working engineer too, but i enjoy engineering. :D

xxxx xxxx replied to your post 16 minutes ago:
i think we the younger generation have a lot more choices. but been an asian. my parents and many others are still veri cautious abt what we are going to study. to them, the moral compass mentioned, dont point so much to the arts or poilical scenes.

You replied to xxxx's post 8 minutes ago:
Lol... I'm 27, so i like to think myself as part of the younger generation. xD

But i do understand where you're coming from. Yes, our parents still worry about our future and they want us to have a stable livelihood. I think its the difference in mentality. Our priority is to have a job which we like and love. Their priority is to provide for the family, even if it means that they don't enjoy their job.

We have to respect our parents' wishes because that is part of our asian culture. If our parents support everything we do, including doing something that is uncommon and might mean an unstable livelihood, then we are truly blessed. Few of us have that privilege.

We all have our own individual circumstances to deal with, and i think we make our choices based on those circumstances. :)

Too much thinking on a weekend can really hurt your head. :p

The operative word being “stupid”.

I think i have a new definition of the word "stupid".

It goes something like this:

Stupid is what you are, when you're recovering nicely from a sprained ankle and then you go and play indoor soccer with your new colleagues.

Sigh... -__-