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Dear Journal,

I'm looking forward to the trip end of this month. I will be needing it to clear my mind and to hopefully come back refreshed and with a renewed perspective on life. A colleague of mine said some things which were very true, and I'm really ashamed. I need to be more proactive. I need to be more effective. I'm going through much stress at work. Am also wondering whether I should switch jobs. But I'm so tired. [insert some Shakespeare-an 2B/not2B...no, that only confuses things] I need to embrace Nike's tagline. Yea, that's it, embrace. As long as I remind myself everyday, it should come naturally. Sure thing.

I've been reading this self-help book by Stephen Covey on being effective. Among others, it persuades us to not let our environment and the weaknesses of others influence us. We choose our responses. We don't say "if only"...

It really saddens me that I know the theories of being effective but I can't seem to have enough courage to put it into practice. Even if I realize my weaknesses, I know what I can do to rectify it, but I just don't. I feel defective.

All this talk brings me back to my formerly favourite quote, "I was born intelligent, but education ruined me"... Education has contributed to my passivity. And my lame attitude. And the fact that I'm saying this makes me lame, and affirms my point. So this is it. To put whatever knowledge I've learnt, all those training in high school and college -- all those years preparing the way for work, and turn it into skills. Will I finally be able to say, education wasn't wasted?

If only.

It probably isn't fair to blame it on education. It's my environment. So much for reading a book which stresses on anything but that.

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Today's reading (from Our Daily Bread) Job 23:8-17
Of which scripture reads, "He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold." -Job 23:10

And the footnote reads, "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without adversity."

It is indeed near, to this chapter in life where I am, interestingly enough.

Guang Liang - Tong Hua

wang le you duo jiu
~Forgotten how long it has been
zai mei ting dao ni
~Since I heard you
dui wo shuo ni zui ai de gu shi
~Tell me your favourite(or most loved) story

wo xiang le hen jiu
~I thought for a long while/time
wo kai shi huang le
~And started to worry
shi bu shi wo you zuo cuo le shen me
~Was it me who did anything wrong

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ni ku zhao dui wo shuo
~You cried and told me
tong hua li du shi pian ren de
~Fairy tales are all false lies
wo bu ke neng shi ni de wang zi
~I cannot be your prince

ye xu ni bu hui dong
~Maybe you won’t know
cong ni shuo ai wo yi hou
~From the moment you told me you loved me
wo de tian kong xing xing dou liang le
~My sky and stars sparkled bright

*wo yuan bian cheng tong hua li
~I’m willing to become in the fairytale
ni ai de na ge tian shi
~The angel you so love
zhang kai shuang shou
~Open up both my hands
bian cheng chi bang shou hu ni
~To become that of wings to watch over you

ni yao xiang xin
~You have to believe
xiang xin wo men hui xiang tong hua gu shi li
~Believe we will be be, like in the fairytale
xin fu he kuai le shi jie ju
~Happiness and joy/gladness is the ending

Repeat # and *

yi qi xie wo men de jie ju
~Let us write our ending together

source :
lyrics : Leo
translation : Diana

A Book! =)

Wow! irene bought a book! =) Fine, this will have to do while waiting for harry potter in paperback..wonder when will that be.