Life happens when you're too busy making plans...

So much to do
So much to see
So much to feel

And yet I sit here wasting life away...

Last Friday my company had a seminar for their Mgmt Trainees on Learning to Learn. In one of the session, we did a quiz to identify our learning behaviour. There are 4 different ways to learn - action, thinking, feeling, accessing.
i) Action: these people belief the best way to learn is by direct experience. Eg: if you want to learn piano, you just play and learn from there.
ii) Thinking: these people learn by reflecting on the past and imagining possible outcomes for the future. Eg: if you want to play tennis, you buy a book on it, then observe a whole season of Wimbledon, then imagine yourself on the court without actually yet being on the court, then finally playing it.
iii) Feeling: these people learn to recognise their emotions or psychology and use this to manage themselves. Eg: if you are nervous about giving a speech, you confront your feelings on why you feel nervous and use this analysis of yourself to overcome or manage it.
iv) Accessing: These people access others by seeking advice, instructions or experiences from others who may have been in a similar situation. Eg: if you want to learn how to play guitar, you get a guitar teacher to teach you.

The quiz says that I am low on action, ok on thinking and ok on feeling, and high on accessing.
I say thats pretty spot on.


So yeaaaaaa.... I gotta start making things happen!


But its not as simple as doing an impromptu trip....sure its a lot of action when I do that... but thats just cheating because no, I dont want to just drift along.

My CEO knew he wanted to be CEO by his mid-20s. But hey I'm only 21 and only 2 months into working so its still ok if i dont know what to do right? Wrong! I'm too easy on myself sometimes. Too easy on myself that I've even convinced myself to think that its ok to not know which department to want to rotate into next.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....ok gotta figure things out...figure out what I want to make happen.
but hehe there I go again - life happens as I make plans. Its a vicious cycle.

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Michael Jackson

Twitter recorded its busiest day and I'm sure my post would be 1 like a billion others out there.
But duh its Michael Jackson!!!You will forever live on in our hearts xxx

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Rise and Shine!

I woke up this morning and guess what I saw right outside my bedroom window...Look closer...I saw monkeys jumping trees! Heh

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P.S. I Love You

Omg omg omg. I found the dvd!

Honestly, this was/is the reason why I want to go to Ireland one day!
1. Countryside Ireland looks so beautiful :) :)
2. Irish accent
3. Gerard Butler (he's Scottish, but close enough!)
4. Irish pubs

Two favorite scenes:
1. (at the start of the movie)
Gerry: I did something bad
Gerry: Or is it something maybe you think I did
Holly: *rolls eyes and stares*
Gerry: No I did it. I did it. Its a bad bad thing I did.
Gerry: I'm sorry, you have to let me in on this
Gerry: Are you going to wait till we get into the apartment to talk to me?
Holly: *furiously nodded*
Gerry: Are you going to make me sleep in the bathtub again?

2. (reminiscing the first time they met)
I'm gonna be greeedy coz I love the whole scene!!! from the walking scene, to the dog scene, to the kiss, to the bet.
Gerry: where you going?
Holly: no stay. stay
Gerry: you have my jacket
Holly. i know. i'm keeping it unless we meet again
Gerry: i bet we do
Holly: thats a bet you're gonna have to win because if we do, if we do meet again, then it'd be the end of it you know.
Gerry: the end of what?
Holly: life as we know it

So, I'm gonna rewatch it like NOW!
Zombie mode tmrw. But its ok, its orientation day tmrw.





p.s: ;)

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#64: Learn Mandarin

In my previous blog, I had a list.
#64: Learn Mandarin.

Last year, I bought a book: Chinese for Dummies!
I must be dumber than dummies coz my Chinese friends had to ask me what I was saying first before repeating it back with the right pronunciation :s

Fast forward half a year, today I had my first Mandarin class!
Its so much easier learning from someone. Pfft not that its easy at all....Ok ok, Think positive!


Yay here is to The List.

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The Good Body

Last Thursday my aunt declared ladies night. She got tickets for all us ladies to the play 'The Good Body'. Its a play written by Eve Ensler and is staged for the first time here in Malaysia.The preface:
In the midst of a war in Iraq, in a time of escalating global terrorism, when civil liberties are disappearing as fast as the ozone layer, when one out of three women in the world will be beaten or raped in her life time, why write a play about my stomach?

Maybe because my stomach is one thing I feel I have control over, or maybe because I have hoped that my stomach is something I could get control over. Maybe because I see how my stomach has cometo occupy my attention, I see how other women’s stomachs or butts or thighs or hair or skin have cometo occupy their attention, so that we have very little left for the war in Iraq—or much else, for that matter.

I sat right up after that. Hey, sometimes a breakout on the face does seem like the biggest problem in the world... and now that its being compared to a war in Iraq, I am rather shameful of it. But then the play goes on and on about how obsessed some women get and I suppose it must relate to most women in the audience because they were truly moved by it (It didnt help that I was pretty much possibly the only woman there from my generation). But I shouldnt think it too silly too soon... two decades down the road and with gravity working its magic, I may as well think ahead.

The play goes on for about 90 minutes making a point of women's obsession. It forces us to look at ourselves who may be in denial....Alas, exhausted by all the self-body hatred I was left to draw only one conclusion: love the imperfections of yourself and only then will it be hidden; either that or take those imperfections as those things that defines you.

At the end of the play, there were some short monologues of women who actually loved their body as it is. They were not the 'ideal' beauty but their self-loving ways and their confidence and optimism made them very beautiful. So you see, anyone with the right mindset and attitude can be beautiful. Very beautiful indeed ;)

The play runs till the 28th of June. Click for info.

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This time around last year...

I would have been studying my ass off in Baillieu (lib).



Typically,
10.30am: wake up, shower, get dressed, cross the street, battle for my spot in the lib (2nd floor to the left...ouh cyeaaah)
before lunch: you see the same library faces slowly coming in. its a weird feeling. its like an acknowledged silent bond btwn strangers.
noon: long lunch with whichever other friends that are also nerding it out :)
3. 30pm:coffee break. time to talk talk talk about everything and nothing.
7pm: go home, dinner, shower, watch 2+1/2 men
9pm: head back towards library. one of the best feeling in the world is to walk across the dimly litted uni lawn on a winter day heading towards the brightly litted building at the end. you know, if you picture it, it'll seem like you're walking towards the light at the end of the tunnel. please dont quote that to me ever again. but truth be told, without fail, everytime i make this journey, a huge rush of emotions flood in. its happy and sad. happy coz i feel proud to be part of this larger dream of education, academics, and the future. sad coz I know that I'll move on... away from an ideal.
before midnight: sleepily attempt to work. procastinate by browisng through any random books on the shelves and get hooked on to it. promise self that after exams i'll come by and borrow (never happens).
midnight: everyone starts leaving. my pace of studying picks up to meet my target of the day. i need time pressure to work.
2am: done.

point of story? hmmm none... except that i miss Baillieu, i miss the company, i miss studying and arguing over solutions, i miss procastinating over coffee breaks....aaand i miss everything else in btwn.

Good luck to everyone else :)

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Clark Little

• Its so pure. I'm in love.
  
• Outrageously mad skills in capturing G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S pictures of the waves
• If I had all the money in the world I'll pack up and fly to Hawaii now...even if for a bit :)
• Think sustainable living!
• Wishlist: 'The Shorebreak Art of Clark Little'

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An Itch to Blog

Its only been a month and I’m back.

I’ve been itching to blog ever since I quit but I gave myself a month thinking that it could be post blogging-everyday-for-a-year syndrome. But truth is, I want to write, to share, to explore

The concept for the new blog is that it shall have no structure.

Hoho i’m a genius for coming up with that ;P

But seriously that concept came about after many more sophisticated concepts which I’ve eventually crossed out. Thing is...when I came up with concepts, I couldn’t choose to go with one and not the other. I want to write, share, and explore everything! So this blog will be just like last time. Maybe more random even and it’ll definitely be more candid coz now I can blog whenever- everyday, monthly, 10 times a day....whenever! Heee I’m so excited coz then it’ll never have to be me blogging for the sake of blogging.

1 major rule to my blog: Do not ever use my real name. I know the people reading this probably knows me but I’ll feel freer and less characterised if you refer to this blog as Cee’s.

Happy browsing =)

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