fable
A fable is a animal story that usually tells us a lesson in life. Below is one story which i found rather applicable to me... and maybe for you.. just read on :)
The Moth and the StarA young impressionable moth once set his heart on a certain star. He told his mother and she counselled him to set his heart on the street lamp instead. 'Stars aren't the thing to hang around, lamps are the things to hang around, you will get somewhere this way' His father said 'You won't get anywhere chasing stars'
But the moth would not heed his parent's words and every evening at dusk when the star came out, he would start flying towards it. Every morning at dawn he would crawl back home worn out with his vain endeavour.
One day his father said to him 'Look at you! you haven't burned a wing in months and it looks like you were never going to. All your brothers and sisters have been burned and singed flying around street lamps. Now get out of here and get yourself scorched! A big strapping moth without a scorch mark on him!'
He left the house but he would not fly around street lamps. He went right on trying to reach the star which was four and one-third light years away or twenty-five trillion miles away.
The moth thought that the star was caught in the top branches of a tree. He never did reach the star but he kept on trying, night after night, and when he became a very old moth, he began to think that he had really reached the star and he went around saying so.
That gave him a deep and lasting pleasuer and he lived to a ripe old age. His parents and all his brothers and sisters had all been burnt to death when they were still young.
Moral of the Story'Who flies afar from the sphere of our sorrow is here today and here tomorrow'Basically it means to leave our well-trodden path in life and our old miserable ways and to try something new and make turn somewhere along the road. It might have unexpected results that might be just what you want.
Just my 2 cents, heres food for thought :)
'I Love You' - Sarah MclachlanI have a smile
Stretched from ear to ear
To see you walking down the road
We meet at the lights
I stare for a while
The world around disappears
Just you and me
On this island of hope
A breath between us could be miles
Let me surround you
My sea to your shore
Let me be the calm you seek
Oh and every time
I’m close to you
There's too much
I can’t say
And you just walk away
And I forgot
To tell youI love you
And the night’sToo long
And cold here
Without you
I grieve in my condition
For I cannot find the strength to say
I need you soOh
During my secondary school times, i've always listen to this song whenever i'm feeling down and depressed. Its sounds even more emotional than 'Angel' and the mood just suits more to me lah. I'm always the depressed sort in secondary school because i'm always this ugly nerdy specky guy with hair combed with a comb with lots of water and gel. Girls will like go EEeee.. it happened once though. It wasn't exactly a pleasant feeling. You will feel the same too when someone walks up to you and tell you earnestly in the face that you look disgusting.
Well.. time passes and it seems like eons have gone by without a reminder. People changes and so have i. Life's experiences have inevitably taken a toll on me and im constantly adapting. That explains the constant reading up and self-upgrading i'm trying to do now. I resolved to work hard and even harder than anybody. Mark my words. All talk and no action is nothing. I will do something.
One of this days i'm gonna get crazy with all the thinking :P
the letter..
*writing this blog to the tune of 'i love you' by Sarah Mclachlan**Disclaimer* - This blog is not meant to attract or invite any form of pity or sarcasm. This is just an attempt on my part to convince myself to work even harder. Thanks.got this in the mailbox today.. wasn't exactly my day
APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2005-2006Thank you for applying to NUS.
Due to the extremely tough competition, I am sorry that your application for admission to National University of Singapore (NUS) has not been successful.
Please be assured that your application was treated carefully and throughly. Admission to NUS is very competitive as a large number of talented students, such as you, apply each year. However, the number of places for the course you have applied is limited and hence, we have arrived at this very difficult decision.
We appreciate your interest in NUS and wish you all the best in your future endeavours.
Yours sincerely
Assoc Prof Tan Thiam Soon
Dean of Admissions
Somehow.. this letter is the exact replica of the same rejection letter i recieved last year. Upon recieving this letter, i felt bitterness and sadness at having been rejected of the chance to study. I have the heart to study... yet i do not have the chance. So if you guys were given the chance, treasure it please. Thanks a million.
To the other souls out there on this night having the same predicament as me.. do not despair because if theres a will.. theres a way. God Bless :)
the rat race
Recieved a call this morning, informing me that there might be a ops this afternoon... so i went to iron my no4.. prepare my tis tat misc stuffie ... bath.... and fold my no 4 nicely.. so that i can throw everything into my duffel bag once i got the activaiton..
The activation never came.. *grumble*
Anyway... at least i can still spend the nite sleeping at home :) sometimes i wonder why i don't play computer games like what other guys do... i guess i've grown out of it.. i sometimes do play some games that appeal to me.. like wwII genres .. but i don't belive in interacting with the computer. Spending hours interacting with the computer in games.... no way.
Surfing the net is an entirely different ball game... you do not interact with the computer entirely... you still get to interact with real people on msn at least.. :)
Carried on reading my 'personal financial planning' book. Finished the chapters on liquid assets management and credit management. the only liquid asset that i have would be my savings deposit.. argh. It would be sufficient for me at the moment for my planned expenditures but it gives the least interests as compared to other liquid assets like fixed deposits and ACU deposits etc. So far i managed to grasp roughly the gist of Asian Currency Unit (ACU) Deposits. I nearly went crazy staring at the figures and formulas. Anyway, it has to do with buying foreign currency, wait till maturity and compute the interest based on the appreciation(depreciates) against the Singapore dollar amd the bid(ask) quotes of the particular bank you chose to invest with. I do not think i would have the money and the sufficient know-how yet for this kind of investment... so i guess its good at least i made an effort to know something about it.
Credit management... i have one too. That would be my poly tuition fee loan that would be payable upon my ORD date. mm.. now i wonder whether it was a monthly-rest loan.. or is it not?? The monthly-rest loan is the cheapest compared to the rest according to the book.
really learn alot from this book... hightly recommended for you peepz out there. I also placed another reservation for 'financial planner's view on MLM' from the library. Althought i have reservations about MLM.. but before i condemn it or it proves me wrong.. i must read it up and understand the big picture. I'm not letting people tempt me by telling me that through MLM, youngsters like me have made it rich. I still belive in working hard to earn your keep. Convince me and i might even work hard at MLM. Right now, i'm still a skeptic.
Sometimes i wonder how come i don't think of all this financial stuff when i was younger. Come to think of it, i'm really wasting my time in secondary school and polytechnic. Plain wasted. I've to try harder to catch up on the lost time. At least this 2 years of NS woulden't be such a drag and a waste. I must really make my life worthwhile from now onwards. mark my words.
Got a friend who started out when he was 14 and have earned US$60,000 last year alone. Read more about it at
http://youth.zaobao.com/pages2/people050404.html heres also the webhost he created,
www.27hosting.comFelt that im sooo pathetic compared to him. Having accomplished much already and me? nothing... plain pathetic. i need to work doubly hard. Thats why i work so hard at work nowadays. I'm going to get promoted before my cohort. Thats my goal.
But i have something he doesn't have. I have God in my life :) Amen.
In spite of all the goals and whatsoever workplan i'm going to have, there will always still be a place for God :)
cya all laterz ..
