watched "Yes Man" with the usual suspects yesterday and it proved to be much more interesting than i expected it to be. some people might say that this show is pretty similar to "Liar Liar" but it's pretty different in a sense that this show's not over-the-top and i guess we can all relate to it in our everyday life. it's definitely one of jim carrey's best show in a long while (number 23 was pretty good too though)

saying yes opens up opportunities. i must say that i totally agree with this, although you weigh your options and priorities to what you're saying yes to instead of just saying yes to everything that comes your way like how carl did in the show. if the opportunity that comes your way would not hinder your original schedule or affect some things that are important to you, you should say yes, even if it's something that you only have a little interest in, you'll never know what you'll get yourself into (although it's not all the time that good things will happen).

a lot of times we dwell too much on the outcome of an activity even before we engage into it (aka thinking to much) and being brought up in a largely conservative environment doesn't help this cause. people tend to think of the worst case scenario when presented with an opportunity that they didn't expect or foreign to them. it's sort of like predicting failure even before you start on something. or the other kind of person would try to predict the permutations of scenarios that might happen depending on his/her actions.

it's during the times that we think too much while deciding to do something that we miss a lot of opportunities, be it learn a new skill, meet new people, gain new things, or even a chance to know a girl that you like better. even if you're who thinks alot, it would really help to not think when deciding and you can ponder what you've done after you've actually done something instead of trying to thinking of what would eventually happen and end up not doing it.

the only pitfall of this is not knowing when to say no (no man no man no man no man), like how carl didn't know how to say no to the old lady (gross).

so why did i end up writing this after watching yes man. i was talking to anand about some stuff when i was driving him back. the conversation kind of intrigued me as i thought about the movie and how it could happen in our everyday lives.

all i can say is that when making a decision, just do it first and think about it later. even if it's a project, it might turn out bad or not as well, but at the end of the day, you'll definitely benefit from it, somehow some way.

Labels: holidays

pretty bored right now, so i decided to make a random picture (and 1 video) post. oh yeah and results were just realized. nothing good or too bad. looks like my CAP's not going anywhere anymore. oh well..

Labels: holidays, misc

i know in the last post i said that i virtually ran out of things to do after i finished all my exams. life can be a bitch sometimes, after being "bored" for a while, im really freaking busy right now.

IHG (inter-hall games) is an important part of a hostelite's life as it is the pride of the hall and especially so in a sports hall like the one that im in now (temasek hall). being a slut, i have to do all the sports that i like, which turns out to be 4 sports (basketball, touch rugby, handball, track).

so far, out of the four, only 2 sports have started intensive training and i already have 2 trainings like almost everyday. i can't imagine what my training schedule will be like when all the sports go full steam ahead.

as much as i would like to train very hard for each sport, my body feels like a rag doll in recent times. it all started out with a back problem i picked up in HK after one of the ultimate competitions almost 3 months ago, then because of the back problem i hurt my knee and i got an unrelated injury on my bicep tendon after a knock during a league game, i can barely raise my left hand above my left shoulder after basketball training just now. the feeling of not being able to go all out really sucks.

i really just hope this body of mine can recover amidst the abuse it's still subjected to and make it in time for the IHG.

Labels: hall, misc

the past week has been pretty boring and exciting at the same time, boring cos of the fact that we've virtually exhausted the list of things to do while expending the least amount of money. we're all in hall, being bored, tired of playing of dota and just hanging around thinking of what to do.

we were just sitting around and ruing at that fact that we didn't break the lock to the rooftop of discreetly. the hall office found out about it and ended up chaining and pad-locking the gate to the rooftop. i guess boredom drives people to do the strangest things, we decided to break the lock again, so that we can drink on the rooftop again.

we tried an array of tools, scissors, metal rulers, an even bigger scissors to no avail. we suddenly thought of all the tools used of the hall float and we managed to get a big ass metal cutter from the room and the lock was at our mercy. before we know it, we were drinking at the rooftop with sofa sits, candles, music, chips and drinks until almost 6am.

drinking to 6am was pretty much a bad mistake for me because i was suppose to meet up with the guys and lecturer from my photography module at 10am the next day to check out the photo gallery that we're going to have our public exhibition in feb.

the gallery owner walked us through the gallery, explaining how we could use the place and the place is just fantastic. it's really getting me excited about the whole exhibition already and i volunteered to help out with the publicity (what's new?) of the exhibition, so be prepared to see a lot of promotions of the exhibition when the date gets nearer.

i need to head out to shoot some stuff soon. it's calling out to me.

Labels: design, hall, personal, school

hey people, i did a mini revamp of my site to accommodate my portfolio for my freelancing stuff so now the address of the blog has been changed to:

Labels: misc

as you can see, im extremely free these few days now that my exams are over and my friend just introduced me a site called karaokeparty.com.

everybody should go try. it provided me a few hours of mindless fun just singing the songs, regardless of whether i can hit the notes or not. think we were so loud while playing the game that we would have woken up the dead. haha