Ice Cream and Fright Night... Do They Match?

Haha I did a rather silly thing last night. I ate ice cream for supper! hehe... I was very hungry lar, then I remembered I had once asked Kok Yong to have ice cream with me if we wanted to take a break.

And the funniest and most unexpected thing was, Kok Yong agreed to have ice cream with me at 1130pm! =S I meant it as a joke actually, who knew he'd be so game? Haha, and in the end, I had a nice time walking with him to The Sun in the dark. Do you know just walking there in the middle of the night is Fright Night in itself? There were no lights along the squash courts, and I stubbed my toe and tripped over steps a few times. Pain leh!!

Haha so last night was indeed interesting! =)

Writing reports

There are a thousand ways of starting a report, and I am always faced with a dilemma as to which one to choose. Everytime I decide on a way, I find myself getting stuck halfway through, and realize the other method was better. It's always a case of the grass being greener on the other side, and after writing the report, I'd always look back and wonder, "Would I have written better if I had chosen the other way of writing?"

The truth is, nobody knows. And I always think I've done enough lit review, and when the time comes for me to start writing, I realize I always forget the minor things. Well. Writing reports sure is the best way of finding out your faults. But that said, it is a good training ground to familiarize yourself with your faults and then learn from it. I'm still trying to learn from them, but it's going sooooo slooooowlyyyy....

Announcement

As many of you know, being prompt is not one of my strengths. Therefore, for the behavioral modification assignment for Venus' Learning and Behavioral Analysis module, I'm going to eliminate my problem behavior of procrastination. I'll be giving my project buddy, Lin Hong Hui, a lump sum of money, and for every task that I complete, she will give me $1. For every criteria reached in starting a task, she will give me a further $2.

Do encourage me to continue with this behavior modification!! Haha I need encouragement with this, cos it's an inbuilt part of me already!! =p

Impressed

Academics always impress me with how the things they say can have another meaning that can be applied to our daily lives. Here are two examples:

"Optimism is not simply the absence of pessimism, and well-being is not simply the absence of helplessness" --Christopher Peterson, University of Michigan

"Alcohol is a very good solvent, but it cannot dissolve your problems" -- Fred Long Foo Yee

Don't you think they are very good quotes? So:

1) appearing happy all the time doesn't mean one never feels helpless. The happiest people in the happiest lives also feel helpless at times. There are ups and downs in life, remember?

2) Drowning one's sorrows in drinks is not a long term solution for problems.