misconstruction

I have been answering several question evolving around how is it like to be back in Paris. It definitely isn't what I have told some of you guys. To clear the air, my life here no where near having "abundance of drugs, booze and meaningless sex". Damn. I wonder who ever gave you guys the idea that I actually lead such a hedonistic lifestyle. If I'm ever on a high, it is probably from endorphin, adrenaline and not drugs. If I'm ever caught between sheets, chances are they are sheets of exam papers and not bedsheets. Life is light years from hedonistic and a step from hermetic. How is my life here?

"the road ahead.."-cj

lonely.

no luck

damn. it just seems like this is just not my year.. yet.

variable change

In the movie 21, we encountered the Monty Hall problem.

"Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?"

What is the right choice to make? What is your choice? Answer.

right foot out

Come Monday, my exceptionally eventful summer holiday will be over. Even though I won't say that the past few months have been life changing, they definitely have changed my priorities. I spend a lot of my time evaluating relationships, debating with people who have values opposite to mine and reading economics books (i wonder why i hadn't considered taking it as a major).

I explore the possibility of not becoming an engineer.

H minus 7

finally a quiet moment. i reflect.

henderson wave 2

"the henderson wave." -cj

"now you know how you look to me when you talk to me."-cj

"weibin and adeline"

"*snap. im faster. *snap *snap"-cj

"youan"-cj

"C for Chia JunYong"-cj

"happy huijin :) "-cj

"aamandaa."-cj

"no nice photos of henry. so anything lah.."-cj

i hope i had brought as much laughter to you as you have brought to me.

henderson wave

...I had began this entry with, "The sun was exceptionally sunny last Sunday". Yes.. I was as appalled as you by the overuse of the word 'sun'. Clearly, the stagnation of my English at primary school level have to be concealed, if not I would be doing great injustice to my GP tutor. So i retyped the opening sentence...

The intensely hot, self-luminous body of gases at the center of the solar system was exceptionally radiant on last sabbatical day of the month. We embarked on our 9km march along the southern ridges..

"boy meets girl. boy chase girl."-cj

"soldiers of the 49th SAR stationed at kent ridge park"-cj

"福 is when you have 2 girls taking photo with you."-cj

"under a rain tree in hort park."-cj

"花。"-cj

"insect death trap.. would be really nice to have a few of these to rid my room of bugs."-cj

"tree top trails. dress appropriately. do not wear skirts. no heels.
ppl would know what's underneath and your heels will be stuck in the holes ;-)"-cj

"reaching the top of telok blangah hill"-cj

"splendid view"-cj

"when i take photo for some people."-cj

"when some people take photo of me.. where is my face?"-cj

"heavy weight"-cj

"its you!we cannot balance because you are too overweight!"-cj

"no lah. not my fault. my shoes are too heavy. there's too much sand inside."-cj

"boy gets girl."-cj

"i will build a house for both of us."-cj

"platoon sergeant lew: hmm.. is henderson wave to the left or right?"-cj

"right!"-cj

next up... the henderson wave!

bites

As described in Dan Brown's Angel and Demons, Cern really has a large Hadron Collider spanning 27km in diameter. And, in fact, the world's most impressive particle accelerator has already just fired its beam! With this revolutionary technology, we are one step into deciphering the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

One creation of a small particle, one big leap into understanding the universe.

jobseeker

Never had unemployment rears its ugly head so close to me. I was flipping through today's copy of Straits Times broadsheet; minding my own business when a svelte lady hurriedly approached me. In crisp English, she asked to borrow the Recruit Section. I gave her a 2 second head to toe scrutiny before coming to the conclusion that she is merely here to just borrow the paper and not to chat me up. =(

She took the paper gratefully when i told her could keep the paper indefinitely. In her eagerness to focus on the small prints on the paper, she failed to notice my incessant you-should-write-your-number-on-the-paper-before-returning-it-to-me winking of the right eye. My undistracted left eye noticed the paper she was clutching in her hand was full of scribbling. As I tried fruitlessly to pierce a hold through the paper with my intense stare, I noticed that it carried a list of job titles with corresponding banks' names. She muttered to herself, as if I needed to know the reason behind her triumphant hisses of 'yes' when she found a matching job code.

In her early thirties, well dressed and probably worked in the financial sector; her silent desperation painted to me the uncertainties of the future ahead. Beginning with reverse causality, I pondered... Was her look of desperation a result of her retrenchment? Or was her retrenchment a result of her look of desperation? Does she have children or elderly dependants to take care of? Is she willing to have her cake and eat it and settle for a lower paying job? Was this the sign of an impending recession? Will i become like her? Would i be able to find a decent paying job? Do i have a retirement plan? I was prevented from sinking deeper into my abyss of self obliteration when she thanked me and took her leave. I watched her leave and hoped that she would be able to join the workforce again soon. I then took the Classified section from the table and flipped through the pages of job openings...

darn.. she didn't leave her number on any of the pages..

kelly

Voila! The photos taken at the department dinner at Royal Plaza on Scott.

"tai"-cj

"nani"-cj

"Tan and Regina. Regina Tan?"-cj

"i got 3 new sets of clean utensils during the dinner."-cj

the last page of a chapter.

bullshit?

dinner

I just came back from a company dinner at Royal Plaza on Scott. The amount of food I ate probably do not justify the price paid, but the company made up for it. During my 2 month stint with Kelly, I developed, inevitably, some emotional attachment to the company and to the people whom I worked with. I witnessed the frustration that comes with the constant influx of requests and inquiries, the occasional laughter from the sporadic jokes and the workings within an IT department. I did learn quite a bit of interesting stuffs and I also did a lot of boring stuffs. In the end, I am regretful of my decision for early departure. I had hoped that I had build more meaningful relationships with the people I worked with.

During dinner, I realized that Boss shares a similar in photography, as I get to manhandle his expensive Nikon D300. After dinner, LT made us laugh so much I almost had stomach cramps. (My bloated belly after the sumptuous buffet surely did not help) His vivid descriptions of his personal anecdotes made a simple daily "squeezing into a lift" affair sounded like a preplanned strategy with "first mover advantage". He was so willing to share his experiences, that we stay until well past 11pm talking about market movements and economics. We bid farewell unwillingly only when his wife beckoned. Wiser and more experienced, there is so much I could learn from them. However, in the foreseeable future, as staffs leaves and new hires joins the department, the group dynamics would change.

I hope the change would be for the better.