My horoscope for tomorrow
Friday, November 28
If you are single, you may have two different friends who are trying to set you up with a blind date. Go for brains over beauty if you have to make romantic choices right now. Remember that glamour originally meant to "cast a spell of deception" over another.
Hahahaha!! Wheres that two different friends ar I wonder?! beauty and brain, can I have both?!
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Friday, November 28, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Sia sui......I actually accidentally dialed the wrong number and ended up calling my ex (fling) that I haven't spoken to for ages *i swear to god that it was an accident*. To make things worse, I thought I was talking to another friend, and hence, the conversation was very weird........And I was wondering why my friend's Australian accent became so Chinese... -_-"' I blame it on the lack of sleep....and the super hot weather today. The moral of the story, dont store numbers that you shouldnt call inside your phone, bad idea. Especially when u're using Iphone that seems too sophisticated for a simple-minded person like me. *rolling eyes*
Sunday, October 12, 2008
weeeeeeeeeEEeee
i'm anticipating many changes in very near future which make me so excited...new job, new flat, new car...and hopefully a new (compatible) partner. hehehe
oh I went for this seminar, a speaker with very impressive profile. She joined the Royal Australian Airforce in 1996 and studied aeronautical engineering through the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra. After completing her studies she became a Military Pilot culminating in flying aeromedical evacuations for Bali Bombings victims in 2002. her roles include working as an aerial delivery engineer (throwing vehicles out the back of flying aircraft), and an aircraft engineering logistics manager for C130 Hercules transport aircraft. She is also a volunteer yoga and meditation teacher for a not for profit organisation; learning breakdance; studied sustainable socio-economics; volunteered in community development projects in Peru; and spent 6 weeks cross country skiing around Germany, Austria and Italy with the Australian Defence Force in 2005.
What she spoke about is very inspiring
S : As engineers, we can have positive impacts on the world and also the environment around us
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S: We always wish to be limit-less, emotionally, physically etc. To achieve this, we need to have very high emotional and spiritually intelligence
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S : If we're faced with an unhealthy work environment, we can try to change it. And if its really un-fixable, just leave, but at least give it a good kick at the back before you go.
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Three Important criterias for engineers and also other professions at work/life in general:
a. Be your self, dont try to be some1 else just to fit into the community
b.Connect with people, not just superficially, show genuine concern in others, but dont use this to manipulate them and finally
c. Read lots. Everyone is different, is the diversity among us that can make us stronger as a community/organisation. There are alot of things out there that we have not known yet, and we can start by reading about it.
Dad was in the air force (for british when they were colonising Malaysia) before he started working and then later started his business. I always thought that it's cool being in the army and after listening to the talk, I actually pondered over the thought of joining defence, or defence research , but this will only happen at least a few years down the track, hopefully I wont be too old by then. Fickle fickle...
At the moment, I just hope that after starting the new job and getting back to normal 9-5 working hours, I'll be able to take up a bartender course, then the personal trainer certificate. I'm expecting a massive learning curve too with the new position though, which should be fun. I can get back in-tact to my geeky side doing some hardcore programming and database stuff and strive to be the hottest geek alive! hahahah...listening to this makes myself wanna vomit!
oh I went for this seminar, a speaker with very impressive profile. She joined the Royal Australian Airforce in 1996 and studied aeronautical engineering through the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra. After completing her studies she became a Military Pilot culminating in flying aeromedical evacuations for Bali Bombings victims in 2002. her roles include working as an aerial delivery engineer (throwing vehicles out the back of flying aircraft), and an aircraft engineering logistics manager for C130 Hercules transport aircraft. She is also a volunteer yoga and meditation teacher for a not for profit organisation; learning breakdance; studied sustainable socio-economics; volunteered in community development projects in Peru; and spent 6 weeks cross country skiing around Germany, Austria and Italy with the Australian Defence Force in 2005.
What she spoke about is very inspiring
S : As engineers, we can have positive impacts on the world and also the environment around us
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S: We always wish to be limit-less, emotionally, physically etc. To achieve this, we need to have very high emotional and spiritually intelligence
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S : If we're faced with an unhealthy work environment, we can try to change it. And if its really un-fixable, just leave, but at least give it a good kick at the back before you go.
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Three Important criterias for engineers and also other professions at work/life in general:
a. Be your self, dont try to be some1 else just to fit into the community
b.Connect with people, not just superficially, show genuine concern in others, but dont use this to manipulate them and finally
c. Read lots. Everyone is different, is the diversity among us that can make us stronger as a community/organisation. There are alot of things out there that we have not known yet, and we can start by reading about it.
Dad was in the air force (for british when they were colonising Malaysia) before he started working and then later started his business. I always thought that it's cool being in the army and after listening to the talk, I actually pondered over the thought of joining defence, or defence research , but this will only happen at least a few years down the track, hopefully I wont be too old by then. Fickle fickle...
At the moment, I just hope that after starting the new job and getting back to normal 9-5 working hours, I'll be able to take up a bartender course, then the personal trainer certificate. I'm expecting a massive learning curve too with the new position though, which should be fun. I can get back in-tact to my geeky side doing some hardcore programming and database stuff and strive to be the hottest geek alive! hahahah...listening to this makes myself wanna vomit!
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Finding my way
Manager, M walk over to my desk and asked
M : Hey Wai how r ya?
Me : I'm good thanks
M : Have you got your results?
Me : Ya, I've passed :)
M : Congrates! You can email me your phd credentials, I'll pass to the headquarters HR. There should be openings in other countries. I'm sure Israel (Tel Aviv) always have openings
Me : ISRAEL!? Errr...........
M : Oh ya, you might not wanna go to Israel, maybe US might have vacancies too. Alan will let you know about it.
Me : Cool, thanks!
And suddenly I felt like it was a slap on face that woke me up. All this while, I was in a dilemma trying to decide whether to stay in Melbourne or to go back to Malaysia. The rush of adrenalin that I had at that very moment, and the passion and dreams that I have when I first submitted my thesis, starts coming back to me. I'm officially Dr Yau, I dont have anymore excuses not to pursue what I want by claiming that I'm waiting for results and yada yada. I forego the opportunity offered by German Pof to work for a year or 2 in Stuttgart with the reason that I've stayed in Germany for a short period before. I was late for the application to join Kyoto Uni (not sure whether i did it intentionally subconsciously). I did not respond to the Austrian postdoc application with the lame excuse that I cant speak German and I dont wanna stay in Uni, that I wanna be in the industry.
I just realized, all this while I've been looking at things at the wrong angle. I dont wanna stay in Melbourne nor Malaysia. The 3 years I sacrified for my doctorate, was for me to get a 'passport' that makes it easier for me to work in other countries. I wanna go to San Francisco, Berlin ( I love Berlin...it's so interesting...very...extremely), Copenhagen, Lisbon(all right , nobody migrate to Portugal cause it's like one of the poorer Western European country), Barcelona, Brazil, London or even Sydney....and the list goes on. Theres so many cities that I would love to live in. And now is the best time to do so, when Im still young and adaptable to changes. Recessions and everything are just the most lamest excuses that I tried to come up for myself. Nothing will come to me if I dont put in the effort and strive to achieve it. Yes I can stay in Melbourne, living a moderately comfortable lifestyle, or I can go back to Malaysia, earning an income higher than the average people (but not rich la of course) in both industry and unis and constantly relying on parents to help me solve all my problems. But NO! Thats not really what I wanted or hope for or dream of. I dont know since when, I've lost myself, my dreams and my goals. Now is time to pull up my socks, putting things in places... I love my family and friends back home and also my friends in Melbourne, but I dont think I will be happy later on in life knowing that I give up without trying, to see and feel the world.
M : Hey Wai how r ya?
Me : I'm good thanks
M : Have you got your results?
Me : Ya, I've passed :)
M : Congrates! You can email me your phd credentials, I'll pass to the headquarters HR. There should be openings in other countries. I'm sure Israel (Tel Aviv) always have openings
Me : ISRAEL!? Errr...........
M : Oh ya, you might not wanna go to Israel, maybe US might have vacancies too. Alan will let you know about it.
Me : Cool, thanks!
And suddenly I felt like it was a slap on face that woke me up. All this while, I was in a dilemma trying to decide whether to stay in Melbourne or to go back to Malaysia. The rush of adrenalin that I had at that very moment, and the passion and dreams that I have when I first submitted my thesis, starts coming back to me. I'm officially Dr Yau, I dont have anymore excuses not to pursue what I want by claiming that I'm waiting for results and yada yada. I forego the opportunity offered by German Pof to work for a year or 2 in Stuttgart with the reason that I've stayed in Germany for a short period before. I was late for the application to join Kyoto Uni (not sure whether i did it intentionally subconsciously). I did not respond to the Austrian postdoc application with the lame excuse that I cant speak German and I dont wanna stay in Uni, that I wanna be in the industry.
I just realized, all this while I've been looking at things at the wrong angle. I dont wanna stay in Melbourne nor Malaysia. The 3 years I sacrified for my doctorate, was for me to get a 'passport' that makes it easier for me to work in other countries. I wanna go to San Francisco, Berlin ( I love Berlin...it's so interesting...very...extremely), Copenhagen, Lisbon(all right , nobody migrate to Portugal cause it's like one of the poorer Western European country), Barcelona, Brazil, London or even Sydney....and the list goes on. Theres so many cities that I would love to live in. And now is the best time to do so, when Im still young and adaptable to changes. Recessions and everything are just the most lamest excuses that I tried to come up for myself. Nothing will come to me if I dont put in the effort and strive to achieve it. Yes I can stay in Melbourne, living a moderately comfortable lifestyle, or I can go back to Malaysia, earning an income higher than the average people (but not rich la of course) in both industry and unis and constantly relying on parents to help me solve all my problems. But NO! Thats not really what I wanted or hope for or dream of. I dont know since when, I've lost myself, my dreams and my goals. Now is time to pull up my socks, putting things in places... I love my family and friends back home and also my friends in Melbourne, but I dont think I will be happy later on in life knowing that I give up without trying, to see and feel the world.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Why should I apologize........WADDA F*CK!?
Okay now this is way too much....after insulting people saying that all the Malaysian chinese are immigrants and we shouldnt be given equal rights as Malaysian....That's f*cking absurd...after so many blardee generations we've been there, holding the passports of Malaysia, contributing to the economy and development of Malaysia, and now this is what we get. And best still, here's the politician response-> "Why should I apologize, I didnt do anything wrong! All you chinese should apologize to me instead." Good, sweet, good on you Mr mad! If government really tolerate this type of extreme racism, then I dont see any hope for Malaysia anymore. Probably I should just get Australian citizenship too. Sigh.
Back to a lighter note,
W: its different , when you meet someone with physical, mental , EMOTIONAL connection
and followed by lotsa ...bla bla bla...lalala.... What even if tomorrow you walk out the street and got bang by a car and died, you wont regret too
*Me looking puzzled and starting at her blanky, completely speechless*
Me: Okay......*uttered with great cynicism, trying to hold my laughter* *choke*
Interesting, someone more than 5 years older than me, can still be so optimistic and idealistic.
And you know what, when I was reading the papers the other day,
apparently girls will look for someone with facial features resembling their dads; similarly for boys, they actually pick someone like their mums. Some researchers from somewhere in Europe (European seems to be quite free and have plenty of money to invest in research) found the appearance of partners of a bunch of women is highly correlated to their dad. Likewise for abunch of guys. but for girls, they seem to be focusig on the nose, the distance between mouth and eyes etc. How bizarre....Staring at my dad's photo....hhmmmmm...........Nah I dont think so. However, when I was a kid, I did say that 1 day, I wanna marry someone like my dad with glasses. Nevertheless, after 20 years, I dont have this thing for people with glasses anymore :P
Back to a lighter note,
W: its different , when you meet someone with physical, mental , EMOTIONAL connection
and followed by lotsa ...bla bla bla...lalala.... What even if tomorrow you walk out the street and got bang by a car and died, you wont regret too
*Me looking puzzled and starting at her blanky, completely speechless*
Me: Okay......*uttered with great cynicism, trying to hold my laughter* *choke*
Interesting, someone more than 5 years older than me, can still be so optimistic and idealistic.
And you know what, when I was reading the papers the other day,
apparently girls will look for someone with facial features resembling their dads; similarly for boys, they actually pick someone like their mums. Some researchers from somewhere in Europe (European seems to be quite free and have plenty of money to invest in research) found the appearance of partners of a bunch of women is highly correlated to their dad. Likewise for abunch of guys. but for girls, they seem to be focusig on the nose, the distance between mouth and eyes etc. How bizarre....Staring at my dad's photo....hhmmmmm...........Nah I dont think so. However, when I was a kid, I did say that 1 day, I wanna marry someone like my dad with glasses. Nevertheless, after 20 years, I dont have this thing for people with glasses anymore :P
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
I've had one of the worst hang over yesterday, it was so bad that i vomited and was having diarrhea. i think i've came to the point where I felt that binge drinking and smoking is disgusting.
My birthday resolution : to improve myself, in all aspects (appearance, knowledge, career, lifestyle quality, standard of living etc). and most importantly, I shall make sure that I spend more time for my family and I shall surround myself only with true friends that really care.
My birthday resolution : to improve myself, in all aspects (appearance, knowledge, career, lifestyle quality, standard of living etc). and most importantly, I shall make sure that I spend more time for my family and I shall surround myself only with true friends that really care.
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