Jakarta

Yup. The tickets has been bought. I am definitely going Jakarta next month. 9 years ago, Khendy was there for me. 9 years later, I am returning the favour.

Thanks bro. :)

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Vices

Went on Star Cruise last weekend. Quite a nice trip. Excellent company. (though lousy food and accomodation.. and would be great if there was someone special there too.)

Went to the casino to see see look look. Not my first time there, but never really gamble at casino before. On my first night, went to try my luck on the jackpot machine. Wanted to play rouette, but was put off by the min bet. S$10.. Then while I was comtemplating, the results of the second roll was what I wanted to bet on.. S$350!! Almost won that.. hhaa, but with a lot of things in my life, I lacked the guts to make that move. So in the end, I just played the jackpot machine and lost $31...

Second night, went to the casino again. After some heavy drinking (first time I ever drunk so much ever since I got drunk at Madison), I was surprisingly quite awake. Went with Sutowo to try our luck at the dice game. Got lucky, won $120 before I leave the table. Got lucky because this time, I won my lucky combination :)
Went to finish my credits in my card at the jackpot machine. Lost another $19. But that was expected. Since I just wanted to kill some time. Overall win: $50. Not a lot, but good enough for me. Beginning luck maybe. Good start. :)

Went to bed at 4am. Woke up for a brief while to catch the sunrise at 7am. Went to the deck, saw that it was raining...!@#$%^ went back to sleep..

Came back home at 1pm. Went to sleep at 3. Woke up and have dinner at 6.30. Went to sleep again at 8pm. Woke up at 7, then went to work.. wth right... must be super tired i guessed..

One more vice I indulged in when I was in Star Cruise: alcohol..
I'm not really a drinker, since it is so expensive to drink here in Singapore. And also I drink for 3 main reasons: 1) Social drinking; 2) to get a better sleep; 3) to get high.

So anyway, since drinks was on the house, I had quite a fair bit of alcohol in my system. Maybe that's why I slept so much yesterday..

First night:

Volka Red Bull
- Volka
- Red Bull
* Not a bad drink. Good to drink when you want something really sweet.

Burburn Coke
- ?
* Think i must have written the name wrongly. Anyway, Shruti's fav drink. A lot of my friends don't like it. oddly, I quite like the acquired taste.

Second night:

Hot Chocolate with Cognac
- Hot Chocolate
- Cognac
* The Cognac goes well with hot chocolate. Good drink to warm up the body, but not the stomach. Good if slightly hungry...

Long Island Iced Tea
- 0.5 Shot Vodka
- 0.5 Shot White Rum
- 0.5 Shot Gin
- 0.5 Shot Tequila
- 0.5 Shot De Kuyper Triple Sec
- 1 Dash Coke
- 1 Teaspoon Caster Sugar
- 0.5 Shot Lemon Juice
* Nice and strong.

Gin and Tonic
- 1 part gin
- 2 part tonic water
* Recommended by Shruti. Highly not recommended by Alid. Results: Shruti is right! Wonderful drink. Would love to try it again soon!

Teaquila Pop x 2
- 1 shot tequila
- 1 shot lime cordial
* Tot this is an ah-beng drink. But turns out very nice. Nice enough for me to have two. (thanks sutowo!)

Mai Tai
- 2 Shots Woods 100 Dark Rum
- 1 Large Dash Angostura Bitters
- 0.5 Shot De Kuyper Dry Orange
- 0.5 Shot De Kuyper Apricot Brandy
- 0.5 Shot Pineapple Juice
- 0.5 Shot Lime Juice
* Girl-ly drink.




-- This blog is totally dedicated to my vices.. --

7 months

Just came back home from little india. Showed my colleague ard the place, and did some shopping. It has almost been 7 months now. This year has been pretty happening. Dave came to visit me during CNY. Then Oscar came and we went to visit Dave together. Then Yuko came last month. Then Maggie and David came as well. And of cuz, Mansi, whom I was out with just now.

Went to Macau with family in Feb. Then Vietnam with Oscar in April. Then a short diving trip to Dayang for my certification. Then Bintan with Yuko. Then Krabi last weekend. Then going to Trip to Nowhere on Star Cruise this weekend. Then Bintan in Aug. Then Jakarta on the following weekend. And hopefully another location for Innovation InFusion in oct. And maybe one or two more backpacking/trekking/diving trips. It has almost been 7 months now.

Can't recall how I spent my xmas last year. Can't remember whether if I went to any countdown for the new year. Can't remember much about last year, except for late nights in my previous project. But I remember one thing. First things first. It has almost been 7 months now. But I still remember it.

7 habits has been a tedious book to read. Took me more than one month I think. Order of the Phoenix took me one day. I remember all of the habits, and bits of DA. So I guess life is fair. It always has been. First things first. This is the book which I started reading last year. Haven't finish half. Can't remember even a quarter of what I read. This was the book that ended my reading steak. I was reading, on average, 3 books per month then. This year, up to now, less than 10.

Case in point. Pyramid principle. Sex, lies and handwriting. Investment Fables. Valuation. Anatomy of the bear. Sun Tzu. Catch 22. Wisdom of the crowd.

Wanted to do my goal-setting for 2007, when I picked up ftf. Was trying to finish reading ftf before the end of 2006. So that I can do my goal setting for 2007. It never happened. Ftf is a tedious book to read. It is like a company manufactoring life vests with concrete, applying for ISO9001. It is like winning the competition for the Zen contest. (Read: what's the point? What's the point of moving forward when you don't know where is north. 0-15, 0-21, 0-4...) I still have the draft sitting on my table as I type. It has almost been 7 months now.

Without looking at the list, I look at what I have achieved this year, vs. what I wanted to achieve. Definitely not what I had planned. Traveling was not my priority. Life happens when you least expect it. How I wish these 7 months can be explained so easily.

Education is a wonderful thing. Yet, it is also a burden. Knowledge is not power. Applied knowledge is. Having knowledge means you have the obligation to apply it. Having the ability to apply it means you have to take responsibility for it. A module I took in Wisconsin introduces me to the Knowing-Doing Gap. A discussion with Prof Chai one afternoon leads me to understand the graph which continues to hide at the back of my mind. Combining these two, it helps explain these 7 months.

I know what I should do. Yet I didn't do. That's the knowing-doing gap.

As for the graph, let's just say that I'm not on the line that has a constant slope...



It has almost been 7 months. 5 more months to the end of 2007. Will I be able to figure out what I truly seek? Recalling a conversation with Khendy, nothing sums up this blog entry better than this diagram:



How to interpret the diagram? Simple. You are at the green dot. Your destination is the red dot. The arrow shows the path you take to reach your destination. Which of the 4 diagrams show the best path to take?


Knowing which path to take is the key to what I can achieve in the next 5 months.