time really does fly very very quickly.. in the blink of an eye, i'm starting another phase of my life - a 40-year marathon. thou actually i'll be really happy if it ends up anything less than 40 years. starting work tmr. for those not in the know yet, i'm working at...... a bank. the one that never sleeps (hint- it's their advertising tagline). thou hmmmm i sure hope that's not how my job will be like!
tmr will start with an official meet-and-greet session, and i will guess it will be followed by more getting-familiar-with-workplace kinda thing. and yeah, i still have classes on tues n thurs at 7pm. i'm thinking of making mondays n wednesdays gym days. so that leaves me with fridays and saturdays free (sunday is no-touch-except-if-bo-bian day).
well well... i suppose tmr is another milestone in my life. what can i say.. i love collecting milestones.
thou whenever i think of milestones and turning points, i think of this sentence in "The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, which i will end this post with:
"I only speculate over this now because in the light of subsequent events, it could well be argued that in making my decision to [do something], I was perhaps not entirely aware of the full implications of what I was doing. Indeed, it might even be said that this small decision of mine constituted something of a key turning point; that the decision set things on an inevitable course towards what eventually happened.
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere."
well said indeed.
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11:11 pm
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
comme d'habitude
aujourd'hui dans la classe:
angelo nous voulait pratiquer notre compréhension orale donc il nous a laissé écouter une chanson française: "comme d'habitude". nous avait trouvé la paroles et après, il nous a voulu chanter ensemble. voila, c'est le résultat!
today in class:
angelo wanted us to practise our listening skills so he let us listen to a french song - "comme d'habitude"*. we figured out the lyrics and after that, he wanted us to sing together.. voila, this is the result..
*"comme d'habitude" literally translates to "as usual". this song is actually the original version of a very famous song - "my way" by frank sinatra
[[.ran.]]
1:15 am
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Monday, June 23, 2008
yv is back.. welcome home!
haven't been watching a lot of euro 08 now, mainly cos they play at 2.45am, and doesn't help that les bleus didn't make it past the group stages, and the oranje lost out to russia. nothing much to watch for anymore.
met my girls for shopping and chilling on sat.. not a bad day, hauled in quite a bit at very good prices. and as usual, love the conversations at pac coffee. i think we were almost laughing non stop for an hour. i've been watching sex and the city online and us 4 girls together remind me of the 4 girls of satc. just that.. no one's a samantha. hahaha.
anw.. nth much these days.. just awaiting the first day of work, which by the way, i'm quite nervous.. what if i suck at it? meanwhile, i've gotta go for my medical checkup tmr.. haiz i'll hate to have my weight taken, i'm pretty sure i weigh about 80kg right now :(
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10:28 pm
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
got back all my results, and i must say, i was aiming for a min of A-, B-, B- for the unholy trinity of AFA, AA and AT.. and i got it. outperformed in fact. hahaa. i got B! never so glad to see a B before.. i was talking to a good friend.. he said "i'm still sore about the 3 B+ i got in smu, although i know it sounds qian bian". i can understand him cos he's always been striving for perfection and anws, i'll like to think that i know him well enough to know that he is not boasting about his grades, in fact he is humble and in his words.. "la sap". me... all i can say is... "i'm still sore about the 3 B- i got in smu!". yes i'm sore about them.. FA, FT and tax planning. esp tax planning, very sore. but hahaa.. big picture wise, i am not fretting about them now.
talk abt big picture wise... i just watched the season finale of greys anatomy (yes, slow i know!) and miranda bailey was talking to a trauma patient about the importance of big pictures. and her analogy about hans solo totally rocked.
you're going to make a lot of mistakes in your life. But mistakes are.. they are just pieces. Like, this is the.. foolish piece but you know, it's just a piece. you need to be proud of the whole picture. the whole picture defines you, not just this one piece.
(trauma patient, a star wars fan who got encased in cement as a dare, continues to lament about being a loser and his vital signs go haywire)
hey, listen to me. Hans Solo is not a loser. Hans Solo got encased in carbonite and that was a big mess, but that's not what he's remembered for. He's remembered as the guy who made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs, and who braved the sub-zero temperature of the ice-planet Hoth, in order to save someone he cared about from the big, ugly Wampa. He's remembered as the guy who swooped on at the last minute, blasted Darth Vader out of the skies, so that Luke could use the Force and destroy the damn Death Star. Princess Leia saved him from the carbonite, and they fell in love, and they saved the universe, and had twin Jedi babies that went on to save the universe again. Now that's the whole picture. The carbonite is just a piece, okay ?
(silence from miranda's colleagues)
Well, so I like science-fiction, anyone got a problem with that ?
much better than rose's "stuff of legends" and derek's "i failed her again and again" poof!
so yes, big picture terms.. i'm done with school. so starts another phase of life.
my turn to say what every 4th yr student has been saying since late april - finally done with school! triple whammy with AA, AFA and AT on consecutive mornings, but ok la, get them over and done with. speaking of which, must really thank leonard for AT hahaa. we were talking abt fair value accounting on our way to lunch on tues.. and it came up for q1 of the paper. we were talking about earnings quality over msn at nite.. and it came up for q2 of the paper. and there were only 2 questions for the paper LOL.
anw. am a professional bummer now. been feeling very tired actually, tired to do most things. totally not in a "YAY let's go party to celebrate end of exams" mood. man... what happened?!
anw went for french class today and angelo lent me the dvd which he promised to lend me after i've finished my exam yay.. it's a documentary called Sicko written and directed by Michael Moore, the same guy who wrote and directed Farenheit 9/11 about the sept 11 bombings.
this time, mike goes about comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and exposing HMO horror stories. angelo showed us a clip in class, and it looks like a good watch, very michael moore style of documentary.
