What a great start to a new year...

when...

- I've been told by my cell leader to quit BB and join as GKidz leader.

- I missed classes today.

- I'm still in my holiday mood.

- My team got a D+ for UID project. (which is still unbelievable even as im blogging this)

- My sleeping time is majorly screwed up.

- Have yet to prepare songs to play for Open House.

I could go on complaining about how bad things are for me...

But i'm gonna stop complaining, do something about it...and appreciate the things that went well for me. This ain't gonna be easy cuz my thoughts are messed up with many things.

but im learning right?!!

I realised I've been drifting along whatever that came by last year. From studies to bb to gkidz to church to family. I'd say...things went pretty bad last year.

But then again, It's those bad rides you had that actually helps you to grow in maturity.

If everything in life went along your way & the way you want it, I guess it would be pretty boring

and you'll learn nothing. So... I should thankful for whatever that happened..be it good or bad.

Also, I realised that alot of my blogposts are filled with melancholic thoughts..

im gonna try to be more optimistic in future haha.

SO...I'm gonna go on blogging abt smth interesting abt yesterday..

Rennie held a 144 meeting. He was talking about the importance of goal settings in life.

Here's what I captured and rephrased in my own words.

A survey was conducted years ago in Yale University. (1 of the top universities in U.S)

Amazingly, They found out that only 3% of students in yale university set goals in their life.

Many years down the road, they noticed that the 3% turned out to be more successful in life than the other 97%.

I guess what I'm trying to point out here is self-explanatory..
It still amazes me though.

"If you do not plan your life yourself, someone else will do it for you, and it will not be beneficial for you. (i.e. your boss)"

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An interview was conducted on top 3 AIA agents(insurance agents).

They were interviewed on how they became so successful.

1st person said,

I aspire to be the top agent so I could stand on stage every year to receive award/prizes and people would recognize me for my contribution. (driven by fame and recognition)

2nd person said,

I am a single mother and have kids to feed. I need the money to support my family.

(driven by the need to support family)

3rd person said,

When I was young, my dad died without any coverage of insurance.

Thus, I want to become an insurance agent to help as many people without insurance as possible so that they would not go through the same hardship i had.

(driven by empathetic emotions)

How many of us are actually driven by something to achieve our goals? Or do we just say it and not act upon it? Do we sometimes just feel the need to go school because our parents forced us to. Or do we sometimes go to school asking ourselves "why?". What are the goals in our life we want to achieve? Do we just treat everything in life frivolously?

Here's a joke i like

"The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures."

Woke up in the morning 9am+ today to meet HQ.

Went to the 'Levites Gathering' for all musicians/vocalist/worship leader.

I'd say it was pretty fruitful. The usual stuff...resolution...reflections..etc.

Played with other band members today for a considerably long time.

I'm damn tired..probably gonna sleep after i blog finish.

I still think the musicians I like to play with are Rachel/Crystal, Cordelia & Marissa.

Too bad Marissa isnt playing with us anymore :(

An addition of bassist(joel) would be good too. but he isn't in our team..so yeah :(

After that, had dinner at Carl's Jnr with some other musicians..and chatted till 8pm+ or so.

I ate Portobello Mushroom Burger. Tasted like the 'super upsized' version of BK's Mushroom Swiss. Very nice :P

So anyway,

on the way home in the train...it was a nightmare.

There was this chinese guy in his 40s or 50s...with an appallingly horrifying foul smell on him.

His body odour was so terrible. It smelt like rubbish chute literally.

I mean come on...not to be mean, but people need to know that..when they smell bad, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PUT DEODORANT !!!!! SO WHAT IF ITS AFTER WORK? YOU ALMOST !@#@!$#@'ing MADE ME PUKE OUT MY DINNER.

Then this Auntie was so funny..she was standing beside him. I was about 2 metres away from that guy. The auntie kept frowning and murmuring to herself. She looked like she was gonna puke anytime. I kept looking at her and laughing to myself. she didn't notice me lol.

Till now, I can vividly remember the smell...and it irks me.

When the train comes to a halt in a station, a small breeze will pass by you.

And when that happened, I had to hold my breath until the breeze stopped ..or else i woulda puke.

Okay enough whining..im feeling sleepy...my dad just bought me supper though. :P

Went to Wanru's house with HQ & Colin @ 6pm.

It was kinda boring at first..just sat there and ate.

After awhile, more ppl came...and they brought liquor.

So I ended up drinking wine & vodka.

Played board games/wii with wanru's girls. I got a little tipsy.

so..i don't remember what happened after that.

NAH JOKING.

Anyway..after I got home, I started talking nonsense on msn..

sigh. embarrassed myself.

Okay, See ya.

Walked around plaza sing...and Cathay for awhile...until 8pm+

then went into the theatre. SC's gf joined us.

Well as for the movie Avatar itself,

I think it was really good. I wanted to watch with CPC but the outing was cancelled and Tricia was reluctant to watch it anyway cause the characters look like what she described as 'insects' !! lol.

I must say that, the storyline is predictable and trite like most movies are..

But i'd gladly give 2 thumbs up just for the CGI & well-developed characters & despite its simple plot, It was really well done.

Although the movie was 162 minutes long, I pretty much enjoyed every minute of it. I didn't even realise it was that long until the movie ended and SC told me, its almost 3hours long.

So anyway,

I believe it's best that you watch the movie without any prior knowledge of what it's about. Only then will you be kept in suspense of what's gonna happen :)

We're living in a world where people around you are pretentious, be it good or ill intentions.

It could be just people trying to impress you, or being somebody else when they know they're not.

Often, people & things that happen around us are not conceived by our thoughts.

It's only after awhile or moment when that incident happened, that makes us think about it.

No matter how introvert or extrovert you are,

the fact is, we're continually looking back at the past and regretting or laughing at the ludicrous & silly things we've done.

And I suppose it may or may not matter, since its the past and whatever that had happened that brought you to

where and who you are now.

Nonsense aside, I think I've studied too much and I'm really sick of it right now. I'm irked just by the thoughts

of mugging on books/notes & powerpoint slides. I'm glad its over. Geez! Holiday is only 2 weeks! :(

I'm pretty disappointed with my CT's. For every paper, there would be a particular qn I wish I could have done better.

Then again, I reckon everyone thinks that way too..

I think my biggest disappointment is OOP(programming) paper.

I didn't have time to finish it. The last question is worth 15 marks and I totally left it blank.

It freaking upset me. It's about how fast you can write & think. But I was literally writing as fast as I could!

During the CT, I kept hearing grumbles from 1 particular person which I couldn't figure who it was.

(psssst. I think it was brian). It sounded desperate. And I think it made me panic even more, knowing that people are also panicking.

Whatever it is, HORRIBLE PAPER.

And...there goes my A's. I was hoping to score well this sem, to recoup back my loss last sem.

The CT is 30% :(

I guess I'll have to depend on my exam(40%) and assignments/classwork(30-40%).