Still Searching For The Warmth In Life :)

Notice the pop-up advertisement that ALWAYS occur when your cursor hover over the advertisement at the bottom of your MSN Messenger window?

This is so classic Microsoft.

It irks me.

We are relatively in the calm of the typhoon last night. This morning wasn't as scary as last evening, where glass were shattering and bits and pieces of our building were falling.

I think a typhoon in the unprotected mountain regions would be many times worse than what we are experiencing.

I am really blessed.

It's definitely the biggest typhoon of the three I have encountered.

Things are really flying now.

Our holiday in Taiwan was cut short by a sudden huge typhoon that appeared out of nowhere. I think it was better that we headed out immediately to seek a air ticket so that Nat could fly off in time. Who knows when this typhoon will be over?

The entire 10 day journey was initially a hot headed idea during one of our email conversations. Nat wanted a holiday and I thought I had enough leave and off days to bring her around. No doubt, 10 days is a long time and I haven't been traveling anywhere that long.

Nonetheless, we travelled from Taipei to Alishan to Kenting and back to the airport again. Along the way, we met nice people, learned tons of new things, got into a little unfortunate car accident but still really enjoyed ourselves. I think I really have Nat's cheerfulness to thank for that.

She's been gone for 10 hours already and I already feel the usual intense feeling you get when someone leaves your life. Yes, you are missed dearly, my good friend.

Back to life I guess. I hope the momentum of my work will allow me to get pass this dreaded feeling quickly.

I realised I was glad to return to camp and meet all those friends that recognise and joke with me. As much as I don't want to admit it, I'm starting to take the camp as home and my friends as family.

Though all this would be over soon, I very much hate the leaving of someone else from my life. Can that not happen too often?

In fact, I feel this even during very enjoyable chalets. Is it a feeling of detachment? Have I grown so much attachment to people when I live with them that not having them around when I wake up makes me feel terrible?

Right now, I just miss the presence of a great friend who taught me a lot over these many days.

Don't worry, I will be fine by tomorrow. I promise.

An unexpected typhoon that hit on the weekend yet again.

I'm safe and sound. Staying in camp prevents me from feeling the full wrath of the storm, which is actually something I wish to encounter for a lifetime experience.

Well, there's only Friday to look forward to now. My whole weekend's ruined :(

I realise simulation games don't stimulate my excitement as much as other more action-packed games. 

Then again, I think I'm too distracted nowadays to focus on any one thing entirely.

Here I go for a three days' work attachment to somewhere south of Taiwan! The decision for me to go in place of my boss came so suddenly I was initially really pissed about it.

But after a while, I think I'm pretty happy I'm going. After all, it's a good opportunity to test my working skills, visit Kenting maybe and take a refreshing break away from camp!

That leaves me one week to someone's visit to Taiwan!

September's gonna zoom past super fast!

My laptop's new look! I think it's pretty, especially with Jeon Ji-hyun at the background.

I think Korean ladies are the prettiest in the world. :)

Picture adopted from Jerry Reynolds.


Abundance and gratitude are inextricably linked. By living with gratitude, you open yourself to life's immense abundance.

If you are a little bit thankful for this, and a little thankful for that, just every so often, you'll have glimpses of abundance. When you enable and allow yourself to be continuously thankful for every big and little thing, your life will be immersed in abundance all the time.

It may seem strange to feel thankful for those events in your life that appear to be negative. Yet it is precisely by being thankful that you can identify the opportunities for transforming the setbacks and obstacles into successes.

You may not think it's worth the time and effort to be thankful for all the little, seemingly insignificant things in your life. However, without the little things there would be no big things.

Seek to develop a depth of gratitude by seizing every opportunity to be thankful. Make genuine gratitude a constant companion to who you are, in all that you do.

As your gratitude grows deeper and more all-encompassing, life's abundance shines more brilliantly for you. Be truly, constantly thankful, and there is no end to the level of abundance that you will experience.

-- Ralph Marston

I like this one.

From Daily Motivator (something refreshing to read every day!).

Picture adopted from Mindef website

The corporal on the right is showcasing the all-new "number 4" for our armed forces.

Looks pretty cool in the jungle to me. But I don't think likewise on the MRT.

It was all over the news yesterday, and I downloaded it the moment it was out.

Have you used Google Chrome yet? It was possibly designed to stop Microsoft's IE domination.

If you didn't know, Google and Microsoft are the hottest technology rivals now.

I like the effort and the promise. But for now, I will stick with Firefox because I need the extensions and compatibility with websites.

I actually got down to starting on my pre-university studying today, starting with understanding the weird system of double-entry accounting.

And to tell you what, I think I actually love studying. I like the rush of tons of explanations in my head to try to understand a concept, the satisfaction of both understanding it and productively using my time and the increase in intelligence/knowledge.

I think one of the reasons why I'm unhappy these days is... (shockingly) I miss studying.

Now I'm back to it! :)

I hope this self studying thing works!

First, Microsoft Excel began crashing whenever I opened a document or closed one. I tried to switch to OpenOffice but found it too graphically-inferior and lacking of the cool features Excel had. So I stuck to Excel and had to open files by opening Excel first and using the open document function in it.

Then, clicking certain programs from the start menu produced a crash. It tempted me to switch to Linux.

Finally, I tried to open Excel files and the next thing they prompt me was that the program couldn't find the file although I obviously just clicked on the file to get into Excel.

Three minor but extremely irritating problems that were hampering my perfect user experiences.

So I spent 3 hours determined to solve these problems.

I'm happy to report that all 3 problems have been solved, and all thanks to searching them on Google and for millions of other users worldwide who stated their problems and provided solutions to them!

Thank God for the sharing of knowledge and the arbitars of the sharing of knowledge, which is in this case, Google.

Thank you so much.