One month ago I started on this "project" of listening through all the albums I've bought through the years and listening to them again, one by one.
The difference between downloading a song and buying an album is the DELETE button. You can download and delete songs as and when you like it, but I don't think you would throw away that $20 album you have..... right?
So I was listening to this Valentine's Day Original Motion Picture Soundtrack （做么名字酱长的） and there are many songs that are soothing and peaceful.
Sometimes there are albums which contains what I call "stupid songs", or songs that's just outright dumb and would bring Justin Bieber to shame if you blast it on the bus like how old aunties blast 我问天.
But this is different. Every song seems to be a story. This is one of the most 值得 album I've bought.
Anyway I spent my Christmas on Batam and New Year on Sentosa.
Nothing really much to share, apart from the good food and chillaxation.
And all the lup-sups going on at Siloso Beach last night.
Hmm. Do you know what's a 手帳? It's something like an organiser. Or maybe it IS an organiser, I just don't know how to put it. It's really multifunctional because you can use it like a diary, copy notes, do random sketches randomly anywhere, or list down pros and cons for your own reference. FREAKING COOL RIGHT.
I started using one since J2. Starbucks was selling it at $16 I think and it starts from Sep '09 till Dec '10. I thought it was weird, but now the 山龟 (sua-ku) me knows that it's actually the norm hahahahahaha.
Starting from left: '09-'10, '10-'11, '12.
I still don't know why it starts with September, but there are organisers/planners which start in January. And if you buy those September ones, buy them at least two weeks late into the New Year when the bookstores starts to give discounts, especially those shops that little girls will go in a shout SO CUTE; they gave me a 55% discount for the red organiser. Bought at Parco Marina Bay after Chingay training one day.
Notes that I made when I went to attend thisCiudades Paralelas presentation at Arab Street with Ka Tsun just before Christmas.
Handwriting very 潦草 right. Bopian, the angmohs speak too fast.
A Civilised Disagreement is to be comfortable with disagreements. Bullshit right hahaha.
Maybank branches because they are so hard to find! Hahaha!
I note down a lot of random stuff too:
One day on the taxi back to camp, the Taxi Uncle tried to explain the history of 正华 Zhenghua Village (Bt Panjang) to me.
Nothing to do in camp.
A Dummies Guide to the arcade game of Jubeat. Heeeee.
During my trip to Taiwan in October my dear organiser has been my best buddy providing me with all the tips and routes that I had fed him previously:
Attractions and Makans in Tainan.
My handwriting has never been so legible, because I scared later I can't read my own writing and hilang!
The five main railway lines in Taiwan.
The confusing one is the 縱貫線 because it splits into the Mountain Route and the Seaside Route in the middle.
Japanese 手帳 got all the Subway maps in Japan. COOL.
When I entered NS, I brought my Starbuck organiser wherever I went, to lessons, to the forests, to the marshes, and even overseas missions.
看看笑笑就好啊，别当真！
I think I can be a good doctor.
Can see how 捶心肝 I am when I missed a Gold just by 8 seconds because I stopped and tied shoelace?!
Last days of BMT, reminiscing the times that we had and whatever we learnt.
Because we were uniquely an Encik Company! aka SLACK
My theory of work with play, 劳逸结合, comes from here. :D
Being trained to be responsible and garang.
This October when I went to Taipei I looked high and low for an organiser '12. 诚品 eslite is this very big chain bookstore in Taiwan, just like our Kinokuniya. They sell a lot of Japanese imported stationaries which are both user-friendly and "nice". I bought a calligraphy pen there already.
Nah!My Organiser '12:
Today's FIRST POST. So long already, where got space!
Recently we have a lot of new MRT lines... I used to be able to memorise all the stations but now AIYAH FORGET IT but I don't want to look like a noob traveller walking around with a route map:
Can you read the stations?
Taipei Metro System too!
The design very nice!
The point I like about this new organiser is it's versatility. The entire book is almost blank, albeit with a few random pictures of Taipei around. I have to fill in the blanks myself in any fashion I like.
First post since COVID-19. Not exactly sure what to write, simply because so many things took place--I completed my Masters, I moved house several times, I was promoted, I applied for a new home, I am recruiting, blah blah blah. Just too happening. And time is slipping away fast. Didn't really have time to consolidate my mind, but yes I'm a little tired of managing the expectations of others. I mean, it's my life, I decide, isn't it? 哪儿来那么多事？ Just a random rant for now. A short rant about everything in the last 5 years. 千年後 你我都 仍被豢養
It’s all about the heart. It is obvious, that when you do things with your heart, people recognise that eventually and people respect you for it. Not just about thinking in people’s best interests, but their urge of maintaining everlasting relationships with everyone around them. I may not know some of my colleagues long enough, but through our small interactions they earned my respect. It is important for one to be of integrity and to adopt the right attitude towards whatever that is thrown upon us. (By the way you probably won’t know who you are because 我们真的不熟 but you have shown me how to do things the right way) “If life throws you stones, build beautiful stuff with them.” I am looking forward to the day, when I come become like them. No, correction. Become one of them.
Just ended a 10-day (actually it’s 11 but whatever, I’m an Arts student so I am assumed to be unable to process numbers beyond 9) internship. It was an amazing process of self-discovery I swear. 带了一群大学新鲜人过来我们公司参加十天的商业竞赛，其间还在民丹岛待了三天。 这短短十天真是充满了发现自我的时刻——发现自己的特长、弱点，种种。 Leading a team of interns is nothing like leading a Hall or a student society, because the stakeholders are very different. You’re no longer just responsible to organisational entities but also responsible to tangible successes, which is basically KPIs like profit or manpower. Multi-tasking have reached a new level for myself. Being someone who is extremely haphazard (and messy), leading a team while staying focused on track on what I am supposed to do already as a financial advisor is pretty challenging. 革命尚未成功，林北仍需努力。非常努力。 Being friends and co-workers at the same time brings your relationship to a whole new level. I guess one of the biggest realisation for myself is my lack of patience. I guess the past few years in Hall ...
