I grew up with my parents and two brothers, I studied in a Chinese School, where I had the chance to learn 3 major languages, Chinese, English and Malay. I play the piano till grade 8, I watch both Chinese and English movies, I listened mainly to English songs, and I spend a huge amount of time obsessing through Wrestling during my high school period. I became the Head Prefect, Scout Secretary and Club President during high school, but I also skipped class, swore and watched stuff I knew I shouldn't.
Looking back, I always felt that I was the bridge between two different worlds. I'm a pianist with a laborer's body, I'm a head prefect which would skip classes, I'm the English speaking Chinese who could mingle with English and Chinese educated people. Yes, I can mingle with both sides, but sadly I'm best friends with neither. I prefer my own life style. I like the good guy attitude, but I don't like to be "pure", I like the bad guy attitude, but i don't like the activities that come with it: drinking, smoking, going to dance floors, stuff like that. Surprisingly I like pets, I can't get enough of em, first the dogs, then the rabbits, later maybe ferrets, I don't know. I tend to like stuff that show others show no interest to.
Actually I tend to have an odd personality, for example, I put these really odd sentimental feelings in my life up in my Facebook status, and I tend to get embarrassed when my friends talk to me about them. Not to say I'm ashamed, it's just not one would do normally I guess. I don' know, maybe I'm just different than anyone else. I'm 25 and I have a girlfriend whom I've had for 9 years now, and I'm proud of that. But how many 25 year olds really have I have now? I would say it could be because of this relationship, my thinking, my priorities may differ than others. My mind is to be happy, have a successful career and have a great life with my princess. But of course, it comes with hard work, priorities where I can't spend where I could enjoy myself more and less time with friends (cause let's face it, going out with friends tend to empty your wallet abit).
I'm getting the hang of writing a blog, since I don't link my blog to anywhere (no FB, no friendster), I'm guessing not many people I know would really read my blog anyway, so I kinda feel comfortable writing my feelings here. Like I said, this is my palace, where I can really express myself and feel this place really belongs to me :)
Friday, February 19, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Temptation and Opportunity
I've been on hiatus for quite some time now. Been busy with work and trying my best to balance my working life and my personal life. Thank god my princess works in the same company as I do, at least she'll always be there, instead of me always needing to make up for lost time with her. I've been in IBM for 5 months now and the expectations for my performance has gotten more and more. I'm not the new kid in the block, still having the chances to screw up or make mistakes. They expect me to do my best and do the right thing. And most importantly, they expect me to be better. I have nothing to complain, I'm in one of the largest IT corporations in the world, supporting one of the most demanding countries, learning more than most of my peers and more importantly I have the best seniors and teachers, willing to guide me all the way. But my frustrations, has always been towards myself, my weakness, my inefficiency. My manager has always told me that I need to overcome my weakness and change them to be my strength. When would I really be capable of doing that? 5 months already, and I still doubt myself sometimes. Asking questions to confirm with seniors, when actually sometimes I know the answers. Maybe I'm afraid that if I make a mistake, I'll be blamed for not asking. Better safe than sorry right?
As I approach my mid twenties this year, I start to think of better ways to earn more financially. My salary is good enough for not only my expenses but also for savings, but I still need more for the life that I want for me and my princess. And also, we're planning to move out and live together, alone. It's a big step for both us, heading towards the marriage life that we've been dreaming of. I can really start to see, the life with my princess, the house, the car, the pets, the life that I really want. But nothing comes for free, it always starts with hard work I guess.
"Temptation will lean on the doorbell, but opportunity may knock only once." I've started to understand chances don't come as often as you got older, you just need to take every chance you get, and make the most out of it. Kinda sadistic kind of blog I've posted eh?
Happy Chinese New Year, everyone!
As I approach my mid twenties this year, I start to think of better ways to earn more financially. My salary is good enough for not only my expenses but also for savings, but I still need more for the life that I want for me and my princess. And also, we're planning to move out and live together, alone. It's a big step for both us, heading towards the marriage life that we've been dreaming of. I can really start to see, the life with my princess, the house, the car, the pets, the life that I really want. But nothing comes for free, it always starts with hard work I guess.
"Temptation will lean on the doorbell, but opportunity may knock only once." I've started to understand chances don't come as often as you got older, you just need to take every chance you get, and make the most out of it. Kinda sadistic kind of blog I've posted eh?
Happy Chinese New Year, everyone!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Resolutions
No, it's not the New Year's. New Year actually passed more than 2 weeks ago, but I haven't actually had any resolutions so far. So here goes...
1. Be good at my job. This is my official job in my career and I find I kinda like it. Sure, the hours are long but the career opportunity is so good, and I really hope I don't screw it up. Besides, my boss really has expectations for me so I really don't want to let her down. So far, the job and the office has been nothing but good to me, so, being me, I want to live up to the expectation and really be recognized by my peers.
2. Get another pet. Yes, I have a pet rabbit already and I plan to get another pet, hopefully an exotic type so I can learn how to be a breeder. Being a breeder is not just about the money (besides, the money isn't really attractive anyway) but it's more of an interest. Since I don't go out much, I might as well be good at what I really like and start from there.
3. Workout more often. I've not been exercising much since last month, due to the workload and laziness. So I've decided to go for jogs more often. It's not only about looking good, it's more of a health thing. I'm not getting younger you know?
4. Becoming financially stable. I know, I'm having a job with a stable income, what I meant was that I want to make sure I minimize my expenses, save more, so that I can have better options in the futures. Maybe I can invest, maybe I can have a small business, maybe I can go into real estate. I don't know. But what I do know is that money brings in more money. So I've gotta save more for the future.
5. Be more knowledgeable. I need to read more, research more, study more. Not because I'm a nerd, because I wanna know more. I find that I really don't know how to start a conversation, not only with strangers but also to friends. But at least if I know more stuff, I could talk to people. And plus, it's kinda cool if you know everything.
6. Rejoin my musical roots. I was a pianist, around 9 or 10 years ago. After my Grade 8, I never did seriously go back to Piano. Hopefully, I can get a piano within this year, so I could play more and rejoin my musical senses. Plus, my princess likes me playing the piano, hehe.
So that's all I can think of for this year's resolutions. Hopefully I can achieve most of them but you know, Cest' La Vie. Oh yea, hopefully I could learn one more language this year, but that for now still remains a dream I guess :P
1. Be good at my job. This is my official job in my career and I find I kinda like it. Sure, the hours are long but the career opportunity is so good, and I really hope I don't screw it up. Besides, my boss really has expectations for me so I really don't want to let her down. So far, the job and the office has been nothing but good to me, so, being me, I want to live up to the expectation and really be recognized by my peers.
2. Get another pet. Yes, I have a pet rabbit already and I plan to get another pet, hopefully an exotic type so I can learn how to be a breeder. Being a breeder is not just about the money (besides, the money isn't really attractive anyway) but it's more of an interest. Since I don't go out much, I might as well be good at what I really like and start from there.
3. Workout more often. I've not been exercising much since last month, due to the workload and laziness. So I've decided to go for jogs more often. It's not only about looking good, it's more of a health thing. I'm not getting younger you know?
4. Becoming financially stable. I know, I'm having a job with a stable income, what I meant was that I want to make sure I minimize my expenses, save more, so that I can have better options in the futures. Maybe I can invest, maybe I can have a small business, maybe I can go into real estate. I don't know. But what I do know is that money brings in more money. So I've gotta save more for the future.
5. Be more knowledgeable. I need to read more, research more, study more. Not because I'm a nerd, because I wanna know more. I find that I really don't know how to start a conversation, not only with strangers but also to friends. But at least if I know more stuff, I could talk to people. And plus, it's kinda cool if you know everything.
6. Rejoin my musical roots. I was a pianist, around 9 or 10 years ago. After my Grade 8, I never did seriously go back to Piano. Hopefully, I can get a piano within this year, so I could play more and rejoin my musical senses. Plus, my princess likes me playing the piano, hehe.
So that's all I can think of for this year's resolutions. Hopefully I can achieve most of them but you know, Cest' La Vie. Oh yea, hopefully I could learn one more language this year, but that for now still remains a dream I guess :P
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The New Page
After my last post, Revival, I thought I'd give an update of how I am currently. It's been more than six months since my last, official, post, so I'll give an update first. I have had my internship in Malaysian Industrial Development Finance(MIDF) from June till September. Nice place, the people there are nice, just the only thing bad was that I was transferred from the Investment Banking part of the company to the Sales part of the company, which was kind of a waste of my talents, hehe *evil grin. I had signed a 6-months deal with the company as an intern, but my internship course for MMU was only 3 months plus. So after the 3 months of internship, I've decided to leave the company for better offers.
...And better offers did come, I went for an interview at IBM, International Business Machines, one of the biggest MNC companies in Malaysia. Successfully, I got the job. What I really loved about this job was that instead of wasting around 2 hours of my time in public transportation, I could drive and reach my work in around 5 minutes! Not to mention, the environment is so much better...
Well, I can't discussed to much about my work (scared that I might disclose sensitive info, right?), so what I can say is that I'm supporting China, which is kind of ironic since I'm better in English than in Chinese. But I did choose China myself, cause I think the market there is terrific and I want to be part of it :P.
So far, my colleagues and seniors have been treating me nothing but nice. What I really like about the environment is because the people really treat you as a fresh graduate and teach you. In addition to me being a complete stranger to everything and me being dumb (sometimes), they really put a lot of effort to train me. For that I really thank them.
Oh yeah, before I go any further, I forgot to mention I'm living in Petaling Jaya now, SS23 to be exact. Never thought that I'd be living in PJ area, but the rental here is really worth it, cause I'm just 5 minutes away from the Market and LRT, 10 minutes away from One-Utama, 15 minutes away from Sunway Pyramid and 20 minutes away from Midvalley Megamall. There are quite a few choices for food, ranging from cheap to extremely expensive. So living here is kinda nice.
There's a small park near my place, so I've started to jog. I ain't getting younger so I've taken up exercising and cutting on certain types of food (oily stuff mostly).
So there you have it, my updates until now. I'll keep on updating if I can, cause sometimes work can really get the best of me.
...And better offers did come, I went for an interview at IBM, International Business Machines, one of the biggest MNC companies in Malaysia. Successfully, I got the job. What I really loved about this job was that instead of wasting around 2 hours of my time in public transportation, I could drive and reach my work in around 5 minutes! Not to mention, the environment is so much better...
Well, I can't discussed to much about my work (scared that I might disclose sensitive info, right?), so what I can say is that I'm supporting China, which is kind of ironic since I'm better in English than in Chinese. But I did choose China myself, cause I think the market there is terrific and I want to be part of it :P.
So far, my colleagues and seniors have been treating me nothing but nice. What I really like about the environment is because the people really treat you as a fresh graduate and teach you. In addition to me being a complete stranger to everything and me being dumb (sometimes), they really put a lot of effort to train me. For that I really thank them.
Oh yeah, before I go any further, I forgot to mention I'm living in Petaling Jaya now, SS23 to be exact. Never thought that I'd be living in PJ area, but the rental here is really worth it, cause I'm just 5 minutes away from the Market and LRT, 10 minutes away from One-Utama, 15 minutes away from Sunway Pyramid and 20 minutes away from Midvalley Megamall. There are quite a few choices for food, ranging from cheap to extremely expensive. So living here is kinda nice.
There's a small park near my place, so I've started to jog. I ain't getting younger so I've taken up exercising and cutting on certain types of food (oily stuff mostly).
So there you have it, my updates until now. I'll keep on updating if I can, cause sometimes work can really get the best of me.
The Revival
On May 27th, 2009, I've blogged for the last time in my previous long-term blog. http://project-t.blog.friendster.com. It was in a Friendster account, so after I've ditched Friendster and started to get addicted to Facebook, I've let go of my blog as well. It was kind of a waste too, I had some people reading that blog... Anyway, it has been more than six months since i've blogged under this title, Las Noches. I've tried to blog using several catchy names, but I just didn't feel it, it wasn't the right name that I'd like to use. So each time I would create a blog with a catchy name, then just abandon it before I really had a chance to like it.
Then, today, I went back to my Friendster and just recalled that I had a blog there and went back to read the entries I've had. Man, it was nostalgic to see what I've been through those days in my university life. Sigh, I miss those days.
Well, enough with the old days, I've decided to use back Las Noches as my blog once again, but unfortunately, the name Las Noches was taken (probably by a Latino, since it's Latin), so I've taken Las Noches Palace instead.
Instead of my studying life, it's all about a whole new me now in working life so I hope I get to blog all I want in this whole new blog!
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