crummy crummy

After a few days of good weather last week- bad weather is back!!! yeaaahhhhh!!! (note sarcasm)

Strangely the electronic system of my car says something is wrong but the service centre can't find the reason and it is in the workshop since yesterday.. so I have to walk to work and back.. of course it is only 10 minutes but the weatherrrrrrr... hahahaha.. and I have meetings tomorrow.. so if I don't have my car yet...... mmm...

Also slowly being 'Germanised' a phrase I use to describe being more like the average German, I got my N1H1 vaccination...

Really?? Yup, it was free, so why not?

So now I am protected from H1N1!! Or so the manufacturer of the vaccine claims? Smart move or overkill? Hard to say.

This weekend I am off to Berlin for a study group meet up. Exams is in 2 weeks so............ keep your fingers and toes crossed for me...

all in good time..?

I am sooo not motivated.... better than the dumps I was in a few days ago as the weather has changed to sunshine instead of gloomy gloomy rain. ppuuhhh... so still not as motivated as I should be but far far better than last week.

The 'highlight' of my year is my exams.. coming soon this 6th- 10th December.. My 'hard work' and of course $$$ that has been poured into my first year of studies will be graded and judged. I really want to get this over with!!

Granted that I still feel so unprepared.. I am getting a serious case of exams jitters... and my of my.. how long has it been since I felt this way :(

Otherwise I have also been busy sorting out loose ends for work, daily stuff, life etc.. organised emails, send xmas cards, getting things in my house fixed, re-potting my plants, censoring and consolidating my online identities etc..etc

making list of things to do...

so that everything is in good order for 2010.. wow.. another year.. when did I become such a control freak? This sickness is from the German air.. it is airborne and slowly infects you.. making you wanting to plan and organise every single aspect of your life.

But often you find that the only thing predictable about life is that change is constant. So why do we bother..? I guess in essence we all need to feel as if we are in control and for those 'events' that we could not, you jolt it down as luck (good or bad), fate or maybe God's grace if you are religious..

but all in good time.. time moves only in one direction and the future will unfold itself as it becomes the present. And here is the ever popular prayer:

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

from The Serenity Prayer --Reinhold Niebuhr

or this wouldn't hurt too:



Although my thoughts on money is that more money cannot make one proportionally happier.. happier yes.. but there is a saturation level.. mm.. should publish this in a post one day 'the diminishing return on happiness through increased monetary prosperity' and use it as a framework for my thesis..

Maybe I just need enough that it nothing makes a difference in any case.. wu ha ha.. I will make an offer to the devil.

Back to work, see you later!

Hello hello..

I made some changes to my blog (as you might have noticed) and is suspending my old blog.

It was a documentation of a better half of my life (I started blogging in 2001)- because it captured so many memories I would like to someday re-read and see how much I have grown or changed.

But I guess as we transition to 2010 and I usher in 30 years of life, it is time for a change.

How will this blog be different from the old? Well the 'me' is generally the same, but I will try to write in 'proper' English. Which means I will try to proof read for once. Instead of only whining about life which I will still do, I would try to now focus on constructive parts of my experiences.. into ahem.. adulthood.. hahaha (and yes, I haven't fully accepted that I am one yet).

I hope to do more reviews, of place to eat, drink, travel, experiences that I had and would like to share. I hope to share meaningful experience of working and attempting a part time MBA, the experience of living in a foreign country, the whole experience of my experience.. haha..

I hope you will still follow me, leave a message or two.. and share my journey.

..and if we don't know each other in real life, I hope we do get acquainted-it is a small world after all. If we are already friends, hope that you will stay with me as we march ahead.