running to nowhere...

AHM was on Sun. Crazy build-up to it I must admit. Woke up at 7 to go NUS for make-up lect, went down to King Albert's Park there for tuition after the lect, then made my way back to NUS for CO welcome tea. That's just less than half the programme I had for the day. Next up was OG outing at city hall (at first it was bugis), then followed by esther's farewell and ack's bday celebration at mushroom pot in somerset. Then, went airport to send situ off to US before following the 6A guys out to fengshan market for supper. Reached home at a niffy 12.30 thanks to hasu going out of the way to send me home. Showered, surf net for a while and went to sleep at 1.30 +am, woke up at 3.45am to prepare for the run. Went to wait for NR service only to realise that the website cheat ppl one, the last service ends at city hall at 4.30am not start. Luckily, there were 2 other runners stranded like me and we cab pool to padang. Finally started the run 5.30am. Ran a cui 2.5 hr timing but glad that i even finished it, considering the schedule i had the day b4.

One of my christian friend once told me that running was like having a convo with god. While I do not share the same religious views, I do agree that running allows you to see things differently, especially things that you are caught up with in the heat of the moment. It's kind of like Einstein's relativity, that when you move, you experience time more slowly, so there's a sort of surrealism edge to your thinking, which allows you to separate your short-term emotions from your long term hard standing values. ( this is purely my hypothesis, it is NOT scientifically proven)

One of my epiphanies actually went : You know that only one thing matters, so why bother about the rest of the questions.....

I quote from Kite Runner : "For you, a thousand times over."

the culture factor

" Go to any Western college campus and you'll find that Asian students have a reputation for being in the library long after everyone else has left. Sometimes people of Asian background get offended when their culture is described this way, because they think that the stereotype is being used as a form of disparagement. But a belief in work ought to be a thing of beauty . Virtually every success story we've seen in this book so far involves someone or some group working harder than their peers. " taken from Outliers by Malcolm Galdwell

In short, OUTmug every single one of them... lolz...

entitlement

knowing your own standing and weight, and hence demanding a corresponding amount of attention and freedom - that is.... the modern definition of entitlement. In the general case of successful people, they are usually the ones that can go into a situation with minimum information, extracts the maximum useful information he needs and then input the right amount of "reactive action" to achieve maximum utility(ie,. equipped with entitlement) Information is truly the most powerful weapon and hence only with the empowerment of knowledge will a sense of entitlement be built into people.

mitigated speech

you know... when the words come out all wrong.....

the music lives on

went to watched syf closing ceremony and a performance by this imba china tanbo ensemble... It sparked back the irrational passion and love for CO music once again... Esp 天网.... remembered vividly the time where it brought tears to my eyes just by listening to it....

But then, when you open your eyes once again, you realise that all these were lost opportunities alr... Tied to the present by the ever busy schedules, academics, priorities, the contact with external COs, alumni CO and so on seem ever more transient. Irrevocably, I am drifting away. Organisations never do remain constant, and as such, undergoes the process of eliminating away the excessively old and recruiting fresh blood. However, this is not the same with music - it lives on and is not subjected to the merciless judgement of time.....