Did time fly or what?


As I'll be on leave tomorrow, I just want to wish everyone a Happy New Year & best wishes always this 2006! Have fun & party safe!

"Nine requisites for contented living:
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real the things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."

- Johann von Goethe

:)

What a pleasant Christmas it has been.


Spent the long Christmas weekend in Penang, gorging on lovely local dishes *drool* Bad news is: I discovered that I may be allergic to asam laksa (or is it the prawn paste?) as I developed an intense itch all over after having it for lunch on Sunday. If there's one thing I hate, it is having a really bad itch :P

Anyways, appraisal (finally) happened today and I must say, I'm very surprised at how things turned out. The boss is happy with my work & with a few improvements here and there, I'll be the CEO of the company one day!! Wahaha. Just kidding :P As long as I get my bonus and increment, I'll be happy. Oh, total time for appraisal? A mere 15 mins.

Got some nice gifts over the past week for Christmas, one being the bottle of wine and pretty nifty calendar as above. I got fruit cake several times from the other department on my floor which I didn't fully appreciate, cause frankly... I despise fruit cake. It's EVIL. There's just something I don't like about raisins in my cake, bread, rice or whatever. Plain raisins are fine, but not with anything else! (Yes, I'm weird that way)

As part of my new year's resolution, I've been sleeping earlier than usual on weekdays - 11pm as opposed to 1230am or 1am. There has been definite improvements in my bodily functions: 1st is having better concentration and the 2nd is less time spent trying not to fall asleep :P Maybe its also cause I havent been too regular to classes. Exercise = higher andrenaline = not being able to fall asleep? Is this true?

Anyways, weird me has to get back to work now. 1 more hour and 40 minutes to go!!!!

Money is a funny thing.

It's funny cause I don't have enough of it when I need it, but when I do have it, it seems like such a waste to not use it!

Arrrrggghhhhh!!!!

Yes, my credit card bill just came... and it ain't pretty :(

*sob*

Dear Boss & wife,

Congratulations on your (first) newborn baby boy Calvin! (14th December 2005)

All the best & god bless.

Just a note before you read this: Don't take it too seriously! :)

The Greatest Insult to a Man

Men are confused. Very, very confused. They have no clue about their societal role. Are they supposed to be tough and macho or sweet and caring?

When 2,000 men in 13 countries were grilled by the Chicago ad agency Leo Burnett with a bunch of survey questions in the "2005 Man Study," it was easy to see that males worldwide fell into one of four categories, depending on their personality, life goals and daily work:

1. Metros
2. Retros
3. Patriarchs
4. Power-seekers

The study concluded that we are now witnessing a new experience of male insecurity and confusion, report The New York Post and Brand Republic. That said, men's sense of what's offensive has certainly become more sensitive than in previous generations. Nearly 75 percent said one of these three statements was the greatest insult someone could throw at them:

* 29 percent say: "He'll never amount to anything."
* 24 percent say: "Everyone laughs behind your back."
* 21 percent say: "You're stupid."

Some surprising findings:

* Just over half of the men surveyed said their role in society is unclear.
* Frenchmen are the most confused at 64 percent, while Indian men are the least confused at 36 percent. Half of American men are confused.
* 10 percent of men of all ages think their role in society is becoming less dominant.
* 73 percent of men prefer to have a job that they love versus a job that pays well.

The ultimate male fantasies were ranked in this (surprising) order:

1. End world hunger.
2. Be a world famous sports star.
3. Marry a supermodel.

What is the cause of this global identity crisis? The study authors blame it on the rise of feminism and empowered women in the workplace.

The study findings were reported at the Cannes International Advertising Festival.