Wah lao… when it rains it pours! Well I have only myself to blame considering how much stuff i have pending…
1. BioMEMs test on Tuesday
2. GEK Tut after webcast on Tuesday
3. GEK paper (due on Friday)
4. FYP Presentation (Wednesday)
5. Thesis Draft (OH NO!)
I guess it’s gonna be a hell of a ride for the first half of the week this week… To make things worse, I’m tired and sleepy all through the weekend due to excessive going out. No one to blame there – including myself. Can’t even meet my running milage for the week last week… :S
This song has a lot of memories to go along with… I’m surprised that it’s not on my blog…
Stirb nicht vor mir (Don’t die before I do) – Rammstein
The night opens her lap
The child’s name is loneliness
It is cold and motionless
I cry softly into time
I don’t know what your name is
But I know that you exist
I know that sometime
someone will love me
He comes to me every night
No words are left to say
With his hands around my neck
I close my eyes and pass away
I don’t know who he is
In my dreams he does exist
His passion is a kiss
And I can not resist
I wait here
Don’t die before I do
I wait here
Don’t die before I do
I don’t know who you are
I know that you exist Don’t die
Sometimes love seems so far I wait here
Your love I can’t dismiss
I wait here
All the houses are covered in snow
And candle light in the windows
They lie there together
And I
I only wait for you
I wait here
Don’t die before I do
I wait here
Don’t die before I do
I don’t know who you are
I know that you exist Don’t die
Sometimes love seems so far I wait here
Your love I can’t dismiss
Had a chat with dad about whether staying in the industry or moving out and exploring other options like practically everyone else is doing on the way to the temple today.
He made a few points about core competencies – since I studied BioE for 4 years, I have core knowledge about things people who from other faculties are joining the industry do not. Secondly, if I don’t stay, what is the use of the 4 years or slogging away at horrid modules which I always complain about to him. Also, once I move out, others who are experts in that field are ahead of me by 4 years straight – and I have to spend the same if not more time catching up with them since I don’t have the core competency and foundation that they do. And finally, if I move out, there’s no coming back… and if I can’t make it there – I’ll be nowhere.
He made a very good analogy. ‘Why do you want to take up long distance cycling when you already are good at long distance running and have been training day and night, rain or shine for 2 whole years? Maybe at first you can cycle well since you’re still young and running have given you strong legs but then you have to compete against the maestros there who have been there right from the start, and anyway, you do not have the muscle strength or stamina to last long. Finally, when you decide to give up on that and come back to running, people who were your calibre or even lesser than you would have moved on and have superceeded you and you’ll be caught in the middle, ending up as a half-past-six duathlete.’ Drove the point home straightaway…
I can see how he motivates people to work for him as a Project Manager in IBM. He knows the soft spot and how to tug it – hard.
Although I can cook a few things by myself, I wonder how I’m gonna survive the month alone… eating what little I can cook. Somemore, cannot eat this everyday. Hmmm anyway, here’s my own cooked dinner! =)
Chicken with thai sause gravy with fried rice!
First time I’m trying with chicken nuggets…
And without turmeric powder in the rice…
Now you see it!
Now you don’t! Clean ups ALWAYS take longer and are more tiring than cooking…
Saw this on youtube… exceptional… I love the saying at the end. Exactly how I feel like when I don’t meet my target timing for my runs…
You can’t become a winner overnight, or even acouple of years – it takes time. You will lose races, you will have to accept that and learn from it and believe that you will win the next one, knowing that you’ll probably lose that as well.
All the time you have to keep believeing that one day you will win.
Sometimes, one just can’t help but think about the way things go… And it feels helpless reminiscing the past…
Ronan Keating – This is the Long Goodbye
This is the long goodbye
Somebody tell me why
Two lovers in love cant make it
Just what kind of love keeps breaking a heart?
No matter how hard we try
Youre gonna make me cry
Come on, baby, its over.. lets face it
All thats happening here is the long…long goodbye
I recently went for the first running club run of Punggol Runners.
Although I was the youngest and duh one of the fastest, yet I have learnt to respect the tenacity of the people in the club who being much older than me still train on a regular basis not just for short runs but also biathalons, triathalon, marathons and ultra-marathons (something I do not foresee myself doing). Mind you these are working adults with family and kids and they train hard. I’m humbled that I clock 40km/week milage when I’m still a student. These people deserve more respect – they cover longer distances when they’re at their age.
I forsee myself going a long way with their inspiration. Maybe after all, my last marathon may not be my 13th. I can’t wait for next Sunday to meet the fun runners again! =)
This is probably Rachid Taha’s most famous song…. meaningful too.
Rachid Taha – Oh Emigrant
Oh where are you going?
Eventually you must come back
How many ignorant people have regretted this
Before you and me
How many overpopulated countries and empty lands have you seen?
How much time have you wasted?
How much have you yet to lose?
Oh emigrant in the country of others
Do you even know what’s going on?
Destiny and time follow their course but you ignore it
Why is your heart so sad?
And why are you staying there miserable?
Hardship will end and you no longer learn or build anything
The days don’t last, just as your youth and mine didn’t
Oh poor fellow who missed his chance just as I missed mine
Oh traveler, I give you a piece of advice to follow right away
See what is in your interest before you sell or buy
Oh sleeper, your news reached me
And what happened to you happened to me
Thus, the heart returns to its creator, the Highest (God)
Today was a bad running day… although I did finish my 20km, I whacked my toe on a damn metal stub near LT 27 bus stop and had to endure excruciating pain for the last 8km. Well… considering the fact that i can still move it around, I recon its just a sprain and not fracture! Sheesh!
Now it looks deformed.. and feels horribly sore. I feel dumb…
Dunno how the heck I’m gonna make it for Sunday’s run. :S
