Giving yourself a little push

We've been talking about this crazy project for sooooo long, and we're finally going to make it reality soon. People have done it in other countries but nobody has ever tried it here.

Are Singaporeans just too risk averse? probably, who knows what trouble we're gonna get into by doing this. But even lawyers have told us what we're doing is perfectly legal, so let's keep our fingers crossed.

We've been hit by a team mate leaving our team, for greener pastures I hope. Why wouldn't he wanna be his own boss and choose to work for someone else? Maybe it's the way our 3rd university nurtured him. Go join the corporate world, it says, put the grooming and bullshit skills we taught you to good use. He's a capable guy, sad that he has to leave.

It's been a year...

Kinda left this place to rot...

It's weird that I'm not posting anything after I started work...
now that I'm working for myself, maybe I should start posting again...

It's amazing how you can push yourself when u're facing the wall, that's exactly the situation we are at now. A good product, but no income yet, because people are always sceptical if you can survive in the long run.

A huge corporation comes along, slashes the price and expects you to bite. Yes, there are intangibles if they actually become our client, but they are setting a price level where we basically provide a free service. Tough decision, but I shouldn't really be complaining about this problem because other startups have to go around selling, we basically got this chance by just sitting around.

See the Galatasaray emblem? An exclusive club only accessible by water.
Regulars = Models + Football players



A beautiful cafe along the streets of Istanbul



A drug addict getting his fix



A cruise ship with 60 capacity booked by the 13 of us = SHIOK, cruising between Asia and Europe



Saint Sophia: was used as a church and then a mosque, now a museum. One of the possible new 7 wonders. The babe decided to close her eyes at that very moment



The white terraces dyed by calcium XX (forgot the chemical name) in Pamukkale



Coupled with the clear cobalt blue waters



Blue Mosque



A very cute but blind cat in the palace



Welcome to Asia from Europe! Singapore is just across those mountains



Waiting for the balloons to be inflated



How many balloons can you spot?



The genuine fake Grand Canyon of Turkey (Reminds me of the Ayers Rock in Uluru too)



The Ruins of the Library of Epheseus



Grand Theatre (25,000 capacity, built more than 1500 yrs ago)

All in all, Turkey is highly recommended for any traveller. You've got history, culture, scenery, babes. It will cater to any traveller, and Istanbul is just a great city, you've gotta be there to know it.

Show Recommendations

涙そうそう　Nada Sousou has a simple plot and is well acted out by Tsumabuki Satoshi (妻夫木聡) and Nagasawa Masami (長澤まさみ). Too bad it's taken off Singapore cinemas now, probably u can get it off the net or find the DVD.

I got smitten with Masami after this show, and I decided to give the drama that's currently on Japanese TV now a try. It turned out to be a spectacular show. At least it strikes a sense of agreement with my heart.

The show Proposal Dasakusen （プロポーズ大作戦）（求婚大作戰） is yet another simple story. I initially avoided this show cos of this NEWS (bloody boyband) guy was the lead. But heck, I'm lookin at the girl not the guy.

It describes how this guy meets a genie at his best friend's wedding, and the genie brings him back in time in his bid to stop her getting married because he realises how much he loves her. He wasted 14 years and did not tell her what he thought about her.

A bloody human tendency not to look at what's next to you, and regret not telling the people nearest to you how much they matter, only to regret after bad things happen. It's touching and you would stand up rooting for this guy, though I feel sorry for the "husband".

I foresee a typical happy ending, but it's one of the very few recent dramas that make me watch 4 episodes in a row till 4am in the morning.

I've took up the bridgestone offer officially and will start july 2nd. Still trying to squeeze a turkey or eastern europe trip before i start....

Bloody Humans

More choices might not be the best, especially for people like me who doesn't know what's best for himself.

I'm the kind who lets good things slip by, no matter how much I tell my self that's best for me. Just by the fact that it's put right in front of me on the platter, my valuation of it drops drastically.

A girl who's easy to get, or I know I would get her easily, somehow lowers my valuation of her. This happens when there are many girls around worth considering. A job that I think I would like, somehow becomes a bit less appealing once the official offer comes out. Especially when I see many jobs that I have a good chance of getting, with prospects and pay at least as good.

If I take the risk and wait for the next offer, I might miss this offer and it would probably never come back. How many times has this sort of thing happened to our lives? Infinitely many, definitely.

A decision has to be out by Wednesday.... and I really think "Tyres it shall be...."

Meetings

No, I don't mean meetings related to work or for projects.

Something interesting that happened today, I kept seeing people I know throughout the day without arranging to meet. Most of them are my good friends, or we were close friends at some period of our lives, and also my ex-girlfriend while I was in a car and she was in her dad's.

Granted Singapore is small, NUS is small, both she and I live in AMK, but the chances of that happening r still... remote to say the least.

Well this is pretty random, but I guess God likes to make fun of postive and forward looking people. I've almost got over her totally, and I have to see her face, 1 lane away, in a car. Guess she caught a glimpse of me too...

Final semester is fun, translation project may be xiong, but the thought of not finding a job that I won't hate is actually more scary... Let me go through this sem peacefully and enjoy a short getaway in Cambodia, and I am ready to step into a new phase of life.

Bachelor's Club

Met up with a few of the OCS group again,
although the joker who got us there flew our aeroplane, well, we still had 4 people. We said it wasn't a platoon outing, we didn't even have enough to form a section.

Well at least these 3 blokes are people that I got along well with, we don't see each other often, but when we do, we always have tonnes to talk about.

Good things about old friends, you get to hear their stories and track their "progress", in love and studies and careers.

Only 1 out of us 4 are attached. I'm glad that I'm not the only one. The 2 other guys are perfectly great guys. A PE teacher, top badminton athlete in his days, funny, gets along well with people. The other is working in ABN-Amro, bright future, funny guy too, tall, dark, decently handsome, rich family background.

We ended up discussing if we were actually too choosy, or we just simply don't bother. Well we are all optimistic about our future, even if this sounds chauvinistic, in the end, guys are still the ones choosing the girls, simply because girls have to face the biological clock.

Cheers to all my bachelor friends!