Randomlies

Something random to fill the last 15-mins of work for the week.

1. nothing comes close to the satiated feeling of an evening out with girlfriends. Hours fly by and before you know it, you’re heading home with a slight smile playing on your lips the entire way. It’s food for the soul.

2. i really really really miss taking photographs.

They’ve taken over the world

Just how friggin’ brilliant can Starbucks get??

“… if you drive toward the downtown core of any major American city, you’ll see that almost every Starbucks you pass is on your right. Why? The company’s real estate team long ago figured out that the hassle of making a left turn across traffic to reach a Starbucks, then another left to get going in the original direction again, could be enough to dissuade a hurried morning commuter from stopping in. By building each store to the inbound driver’s right, the company made that daily latte even more (wait for it…) convenient.

Here’s another one: Why would Starbucks want to locate its cafes next to video stores and dry cleaners? Because they double a potential customer’s contact with a given Starbucks. The company knows that cafes draw patrons in proportion to the number of people who happen to walk by, and unlike any other businesses, video stores and dry cleaners require two visits: one to drop something off and one to pick it up. So for every time a prospective customer needed to rent a movie, he would have two chances to buy a Frappuccino.”
- extracted from Starbucked, Taylor Clark

Get a move on

I’ve been sitting on my ass for too long; I’m craving for something .. challenging. Something to make me question, amidst all the pain and fatigue, why did I decide to do it in the first place. Something that makes me feel alive. Like a triathlon or something (but hefty participation fees is pulling me back).

I think that quest to search for a bigger someone has surfaced again.

No one really stops hoping

Work has robbed me of all whimsical contemplation of life at length; the only times I was struck by inspirations was just before I fall asleep, and it gets promptly forgetten the next morning with all the rush to get to work.

Photo courtesy of Deviantart

I thought I had stopped hoping and beliving; but I recently came to realise that that’s not true. I think no one really stops hoping to be silly in love.

I believe that all these smiles and laughters, all the flutters in the stomach, all the gazing into each others’ eyes are the memories that you hold on to that reminds you to keep faith when it’s time to weather the storms.

“Faith makes things possible, not easy”

It’s not the extravagant romancing that is the most etching. It’s the comfort being entwined in each other, the constant warmth of a hand in yours, and the dreams of a possible future together.

Hope. No one really stops hoping.

It’s just something about TP

Recently, I’ve been tasked to gather some information from the tertiary institutes in Singapore. It’s not that I’m biased, but I really think people in Temasek Polytechnic are just a class above all others.

The lecturers I spoke to at TP said they’re more than happy to help, and I know that they meant it. They spoke with such enthusiasm about their courses, answered my questions eloquently and flawlessly, and they didnt make me feel like I was stupid. They addressed me by my name, and they insisted that I called back if I had anymore questions.

Others on the other hand, weren’t so generous with the sharing of information. Some sounded rather bland, like it’s just another job obligation to talk to me, and their “I’m happy to help” really didnt reflect in their voices. Some can’t wait to get off the phone.

I dont know what is it with TP, but time and time again, I’m assured that I graduated from a pristine institute of education who walk their talk.  Whatever they’re doing, it’s sure as hell working in the right direction.

I need to learn to eat less

For breakfast today, I ate:
- 1 bowl of oatmeal with raisins
- 1 slice of toasted kopitiam bread with my feel-good Goober peanut butter & grape jam (because this is comfort food)
- $1.20 chee cheong fun from Amoy street (because I just felt like it)

And then I happen to see a person’s blog, who happens to have a great figure/is very conscious of her outlook, and she commented that she dont eat carbs.

Oh, tell me about the guilt.

How time flies

I can’t believe..

.. it’s my fourth week of work. It seems like I was feeling the butterflies of the first day of work just yesterday

What have I learnt in this past 3 weeks? Quite alot, really. I was so bent on wanting to prove myself, I wonder if I’ve hung myself up for people to take advantage of. Everyday, that motivation to do my best gets a little bit harder to muster, but nonetheless, this is something I strive to do.

 

.. it’s almost a year since we embarked on Alaska’s soil; the memory of it all is still so fresh.

What happened in this 1 year? Nothing seemed significant enough compared to this. It has profoundly changed my life; to believe that nothing is impossible. To believe in myself; to strive for more.

After watching Everest: Beyond the Limits, and reading about the Singapore Women’s Everest Team, hmm… maybe, maybe.

Welcomed 1st of May

One doesn’t fully appreciate a public holiday until… well, until it’s a welcomed break.

 

Although reading can be done anywhere, we decided to be a little more romantic and cycle to East Coast and settle down with a book (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for me; and John Grisham: The Firm for him), a bag of Super Rings and some drinks.

The person who entertains my boredom seriously with many ideas. (=

East Coast on a balmy evening

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And on Saturday, upon certain level of boredom (on my part mostly), we decided to bake chocolate chip cookies.

 
Searched for a recipe on Msn.com…

First batch of cookies – FAILED. The cookies were not supposed to be square and stuck together.

Second batch – way better. (=

 

The long weekend served to be of days to ponder and reflect. But that will come later.