Good Karma

Been generating a lot of good karma recently. I hope...

But here's the question. Is it good karma if I do it consciously hoping to generate good karma?

You know who you are...

I Secretly Wish...

That someone would catch me before I hit the slippery slope.

But then again...

If no one does, I might have some fun anyways.

Reality Bites

Musing...

I want to be a unique snowflake...

Palin Funny

A Wise Man Once Said...

An old Chinese saying...

The biggest hurdle is usually oneself.

How true...

I've come to realise that in many situations, its what I do which determines whether I get deeper into the problem, or I resolve it.

And as rational as I am most of the time, sometimes, I take the slippery slope.

The greatest hurdle, is... ME.

Sitcoms

Been watching How I Met Your Mother recently...

Its funny how I relate to the characters in sitcoms and let these affect my life (for the better).

Last time round, it was Earl in My Name is Earl with regards to karma.

This time, its Ted, and what happens to him as a result of him being him. Its like watching my life on the television! Very thought provoking.

AWESOME keeps getting more and more AWESOME!

TV

Knight Rider 2008 sucks.

How I Met Your Mother rocks. So does Lipstick Jungle.

New season of House, Grey's, CSI are still great watching.

I think I'm watching too much tv. =P

Motivational Poster

Random Musings for which I have no answers to.

Thoughts over the weekend...

1. Does time really heal all wounds including betrayal? Or do we just become apathetic towards the past?

2. Holding on to hope is not always good for you.

3. Knowing when something is over is the hardest call, and also the hardest one to reconcile with yourself.

4. It shouldn't need that much work for it to work.

Malaysian Cops

As a continuation to my earlier post about the state of the police Malaysia...

Today, we learn something new.

That cops there are moving their station because the area is "potentially unsafe".

So what have we learnt today, kids?

1. That cops are corrupt.

2. That they are scared of crooks.

In conclusion, we beg to ask. Why are the taxpayers paying them for?

Sadness is...

Sadness is...

the despair a single mom feels...

waiting all your life to find your soulmate, only to have her taken away by someone you invited into you home...

finding out that all you've worked for is lost, because of a rouge banker who misrepresented a structured product...

I am not sad. I have everything to look forward to.

Dreams

Dreams.

What purpose do they serve?

Do they serve to consolidate what you have encountered during the day, and install it into your long term memory bank? (like when you dream of something you did, like chairing a meeting)

Do they serve to represent your wants, desires? (like when you dream of walking down the streets of Paris)

Do they serve as a warning of impending events? (deja vu)

Whatever the case, many dreams don't make sense. Your rational brain mixes with your subconcious brain, resulting in a motion picture which is part logical, but mostly illogical. (like dreaming of fish that talk)

Dreams. We can be haunted by them.

Disturbing

Disturbing is when 15 year olds you have on FB match with you on quizzes such as "Favourite Sex Position", "Aphrodisiacs", etc.

Urgh.

Kinda puts me off doing any more such quizzes. But then again, that wouldn't stop them, would it?

Reading

Some days (like today), I amaze even myself at my ability to read people.

But then again, sometimes, the closer they are to you, the harder they are to read.

George Carlin

Chanced upon this list of George Carlin's quotes. This is the guy who created the line, "one tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor."

Its hilarious. Go read.

Getting into the groove

It will take awhile, but I guess there is no choice...

Life as a single person takes a bit of getting used to. Well, in my case, that's perhaps cos I was married for 2.5 years. Heh.

Its ironic that I used to like having my own time... little did I realise that I liked to have my own time, but have the immediate option of doing something else with someone I'm comfortable with.

As CPL said to me on Friday night. It will take awhile, but I'll get there. To be happy being alone, that is. =)

An Eye for An Eye Leaves the World Blind - Gandhi

I may be too vindictive for my own good.

Trust

If there was a theme for this week for me, it would have been entitled "Trust".

The issue of Trust has come up so often this week that it has really got me thinking. In our complex human society, trust is the glue that binds individuals who have come together to interact.

With friends, you share secrets, you act so as not hurt them, you do things for them without them asking.

All these take a certain amount of trust to be granted and received.

What happens when that trust is lost? I have been on both sides of misplaced trust this week, both as the person who lost it because I did something wrong, and as the person whose trust in someone has been misplaced.

Tiring man.

Sigh.

Drama

Why oh why?

Is my life full of such drama? I clearly do not enjoy having to deal with them...

Am I doing things subconsciously for such drama to befall on me? I certainly do not think so, because I don't treat the people involved differently.

Its tiring, and its going to be painful. But this band aid is coming off.

Random Musings III

The longer you leave a band-aid on, the more its going to hurt when you finally decide to rip it off.

So why wait?

Rip it off sooner.

TLC Price Hikes!

This is stupid.

On the back of record profits, all the Temasek-linked companies (who probably got the nod from "up there") are taking turn to raise prices. You wonder if the CEOs were all gathered and given one by one approvals on who can raise prices, the order they can go in and the time to make announcements.

So first we had SPH, then SingPower, then Singtel... what next?

Of course, the reason given is always the increased cost of raw materials, and to maximise shareholder value.

But our market is quite unique.

A lot of these companies are "nationalised" - linked to a government funded company. As such, shouldn't they be made to help check inflation, rather than increase the effects?

Minister says Singapore is likely to face a recession. Salaries are being cut. And the TLCs raise prices. Irony, no?

The Smiling Weasel

So...

We went on a roadtrip to KL. And we were very fortunate that although we were breaking the speed limits both on the way up and way down, there were no road blocks.

But we did have an encounter with the boys in blue in Malaysia.

The situation was this.

Basically, we were having a night out on the town. A local friend had picked us up and being the designated driver, he did not drink. The rest of us had a moderate amount... not enough to get drunk, but definitely enough to develop the late night supper pangs.

And so, we drove back towards KLCC and pulled into an open air carpark to input our destination (some mamak) into his GPS. All of the sudden, a police car pulled over, asked the driver to get out, and upon finding out that we were all Singaporeans, started accusing us of taking drugs.

We were adamant that we were clean, but there Mr Policeman was smiling, shining torches into our faces, saying well we should just follow him back into the station for a urine test. The best part was, he was smiling throughout (like some good service provider) when we were insisting we were just looking for a mamak.

Eventually we got bored and offered him a "tip" to let us off. Do you know what the best part was?

After we paid him off... he gave us directions to a mamak. "-_-

Sigh....

Radish

Men are quite poor things.

Women do expect men to provide for them. Whilst I have no issues with this, fact of the matter is, what is my payback?

Hence, I am of the opinion that if you want me to give freely and willingly, you need to give me something in return.

Complicated

Just when you thought you know someone, you wake up one day, and realise that you don't know him at all...

Life is really complicated.

Confused

Why does something that feels right also feel so wrong?

Shall be looking to take my mind off things....

Catch you all on Monday!