Quarterly Review of New Year Resolutions 2006!
Going to do a short review of my new year resolutions. As nearly a quarter of the year had passed, it is time to take a quick look on resolutions.
1. Participate in the 21 Km Half Marathon end of the year
Just completed my 16km mark last friday. This is just an approximation according to measuring on the map.
2. Get my GMAT Done
I've decided to push this back a bit. Will try the book's questions.
3. Get my ABRSM Grade 5 Done
I've decided to push this back too. Serves no immediate advantage to my career.
4. Save up for A Trip end of Year 2006
I would still like to do this.
5. Drive Safely
I'm trying!!!! :P
6. Learn to drive with all my different shoes
Yeay!!! I've suceeded. But I think Babet Junior is a bit grouchy.. I've been using her for practice with all my different shoes.
** New Resolutions **
7. Complete my Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD)
Needs two more papers. Doing 70-229 now.
8. Complete Oracle Certification in DB Admin, Forms Development and PL SQL Programming
Started on OCA (DBA) study.
There are a couple of things on my mind. Need time to think over. It's one of those milestones in life. It is like we seem to have so many choices and yet, full of dilemmas. Our hearts yearn for that one thing, and for that one thing our minds is perplexed with its paradox. This state of unrest is good in some ways..
Do I need a sign? A clear signal and indication on what I want OR need to do? Why am I seeking those external signs then? Can't I just work on my feelings? Things which might had seemed so apparent and logical to me, now is botched with my clumsy and indecisive spirit.
Ultimately, it's the internal being, which enables us to be happy. But is this really true? Is it the things that we do for ourselves, which inevitably will be the only thing that can make us happy? I feel like that wilful abandonment sometimes and yet, I laugh at the thought of myself performing it in a deluded and constricted circumstance. I might just play that Samwise-Gamgee. Now, Samwise, I have always felt, was the true hero of the trilogy.
We need that fullness of life. I've always struggled with this balance of tumultuous challenge of ambitions, and the desperation for simplistic and stable living. This short rattling of a series of totally incoherent thoughts, may far well explain how totally dotty I am.
Semplice Simon
Mood - Fabulous!!! : )
Feeling - Happy.. sad.. excited.. anxious... worried.. nervous.. glad...!!
Thinking - How can a big fat woman from China do a split? Incredible!!
Love - My sweet pea...Hey cookie.. will always be around to offer my "help-without-asking" to you. :)
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Déjà vu
It's been more than 1 complete month since I've last updated my blog. Been real busy studying and planning for more certification courses and exams. Will plough through those details soon. Today's a day of déjà vu. The experience of knowing that this new situation had occurred to me before.
Long story short, Marcus application to Harvard got through!!! Woh... now that's something worth noting. Nothing concrete yet as funding is still in question. It’s the prospects of studying overseas, the prestige of a renowned institution and the excitement of a whole new world of discovery. But wait, I had been through this before. It's like “The Matrix” ‘s kitty cat scene, Déjà vu. Spare you my corniness, but it's not the first time when my boyfriend had to spend months away from me for further studies. Hmm.. Let me see, what's the similarities.?.. A 9 months course.. Crazy rush to get funding.. Planning to settle outstanding issues here, planning to shift your life temporarily to another country, settling administration here and there... Gosh.. It's All Coming Back to me now.( .. Celine Dion!! .. ).. I've done all this before!! While the course of events may seems similar, the way we make it have to be different. Different and perhaps, better also.
That is precisely the advantage I have now. I know what to do and what to plan for. I need to plan for visits, pack food for him, open up all available channels of communication with him (ie the cheapest please!!!). Plan religiously to keep each other updated. I have to plan how to occupy my time, get postcards, mail him stuff etc etc…. There are just endless things to do, to safeguard a relationship over a short period of separation.
Now, Please don't presume I’m saying all things in negativity and bitterness. In fact, I am better prepared this time. I think I can handle this separation better than the last. I do feel sad, excited, worried, happy, and anxious and everything rolled into one complete ball of messy wool. But then, Déjà vu!! I'd felt this before! And it’s not new, and I can handle it better. It’s probably more worrying whether Marcus can handle it. Stepping aside and peering over my shoulder, I feel resigned to the fact that this kind of thing happens in most relationships. We just have to work it out don't we? The dynamics of a relationship can really excites me. Ironically the changes that come along can sadden me too.
Well well, today's Mingzhu's Birthday. Happy Birthday MZ!! Thanks for being my good friend for so many years. Since 1990? Gosh.. that would be more than 1 and a half decade!
Semplice Simon
Long story short, Marcus application to Harvard got through!!! Woh... now that's something worth noting. Nothing concrete yet as funding is still in question. It’s the prospects of studying overseas, the prestige of a renowned institution and the excitement of a whole new world of discovery. But wait, I had been through this before. It's like “The Matrix” ‘s kitty cat scene, Déjà vu. Spare you my corniness, but it's not the first time when my boyfriend had to spend months away from me for further studies. Hmm.. Let me see, what's the similarities.?.. A 9 months course.. Crazy rush to get funding.. Planning to settle outstanding issues here, planning to shift your life temporarily to another country, settling administration here and there... Gosh.. It's All Coming Back to me now.( .. Celine Dion!! .. ).. I've done all this before!! While the course of events may seems similar, the way we make it have to be different. Different and perhaps, better also.
That is precisely the advantage I have now. I know what to do and what to plan for. I need to plan for visits, pack food for him, open up all available channels of communication with him (ie the cheapest please!!!). Plan religiously to keep each other updated. I have to plan how to occupy my time, get postcards, mail him stuff etc etc…. There are just endless things to do, to safeguard a relationship over a short period of separation.
Now, Please don't presume I’m saying all things in negativity and bitterness. In fact, I am better prepared this time. I think I can handle this separation better than the last. I do feel sad, excited, worried, happy, and anxious and everything rolled into one complete ball of messy wool. But then, Déjà vu!! I'd felt this before! And it’s not new, and I can handle it better. It’s probably more worrying whether Marcus can handle it. Stepping aside and peering over my shoulder, I feel resigned to the fact that this kind of thing happens in most relationships. We just have to work it out don't we? The dynamics of a relationship can really excites me. Ironically the changes that come along can sadden me too.
Well well, today's Mingzhu's Birthday. Happy Birthday MZ!! Thanks for being my good friend for so many years. Since 1990? Gosh.. that would be more than 1 and a half decade!
Semplice Simon
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