Sunday, April 30, 2006
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4:51 pm
Laughter is no longer the best medicine. [Shopping + Laughter] is.
i've been on a few shopping trips the past few weeks and I felt satisfied & refreshed after each. new shoes! new bag! new top! new shoes again! another reason i felt so SATISFIED was because i had finally succeeded in my quest to quit my ugly habit of - impulsive shopping -. Meaning: I see, I like, Got money, I buy, Later broke, nevermind. It's rarely ever been a happy ending.
who would've thought i'd be so happy to come home on Friday without a single shopping bag after a whole day of trying on so many different tops and jeans and bags and accessories and shoes. NOTHING. the sense of satisfaction i got upon realizing my precious moolahs had been left untouched. i told myself, i'd go home and sleep an if i can't stop thinking about a particular item, i'd go back and get it. well done!
so, i'm going out in ten mins to go get that top i couldn't stop thinking about. =)
oh yeah. and i'm gonna teman the cousin to the padang to catch 3dash1. if i had it my way, i'd skip it altogether and go ahead with the shopping but i quote the cousin, " i'm not really the gig-ing type. just the supportive girlfriend who goes to her boyfriend's gigs..."
Well, she had never once complained when i brought her to walk for hours during our many shopping trips. the least i could do is to accompany her support her boyfriend, who had also been a victim of my shop-a-thons. So, go Ashik! Heh.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
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11:46 pm
i had to help my mom fry some eggs earlier today. and i hate it. not the eggs, the frying! you're probably thinking i'm such a bimbo who can't even fry eggs, who shrieks upon being asked to cook. well, think whatever you wanna.
i realized i have a fear of being scalded by the boiling hot oil. dammit. it happened to me a few times when i attempted to fry something and the oil went *POP* *POP* *POP-ING* and hit my bare arms (and face) and ended up with a scar which -THANK GOD- eventually faded. i don't have that low a pain threshold. in fact, i used to get really annoyed with those girls who cry wail when they fall and get a barely visible wound. it's not dislike/fear of heat either. i suppose it's the combination of:
[the shock i get when the oil suddenly pops] + [ the painful sensation once the scorching hot oil lands on the bare skin] + [the possibilty of getting permanent scarred]
i'm not a wuss. i just hate frying.
my mom thinks i'm not lasak (rugged?) just 'cause i refused to fry the rest of the eggs. and i'm lasak lah okay. just don't make me fry anything.
in fact, don't make me do any form of cooking at all, please. (maybe baking...) i used to think that cooking was fun. well, not anymore. i'll help you prepare the ingredients, sure i can do that, but that's it.
i suppose that's one of the criterias i'd look for in a future partner. he should love to cook (well). he should love to cook so much that he wouldn't allow me to step in the kitchen to do any cooking of my own. and i'd happily oblige. heh.
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Monday, April 24, 2006
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1:38 am
NUS Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2006 ( Jan 16 & 17)
http://www.nus.edu.sg/nec/nges/spkprofile.htm
there were less than 10 students ( we were referred to as "budding entrepreneurs") in the hall filled with mostly old farts who were/are still either really rich or really smart. we sat amongst these 'angel investors', 'venture capitalists', 'entrepreneurship professors' and the 'successful entrepreneurs' themselves, trying to fit in and pretend to understand everything they were discussing. it didn't help that they came from different parts of the world and brought with them their thick accents.
it was a definite eye-opener, but i suggest a crash course or at the very least, a handbook which some clueless individuals could refer to when faced with rather obscure terms. 10 minutes into the first plenary session and i started to wonder if entrepreneurs used some kind of alien language non-entrepreneurial-by-blood people didn't know about. they started breaking out into some kind of code-breaking game! i started panicking 'cause i thought the whole 2-day summit was gonna be 2 days of deciphering alien languages and codes, but it turned out fine. i found myself enjoying the summit. partly 'cause we students only had to pay $100 while the old farts had to pay $400 each. 2 days of talk & good food.
my favourite speakers would have to be:
Bob Lin, Co-Founder & General Partner, Acorn Campus
Mark Chang CEO and Founder, JobStreet
these two men are rich, successful, humble and inspiring. i was so inspired when they were making their speeches and kept going (silently) 'WOW".
oh and not forgetting,
Wong Meng Weng CTO, Karmaspere, Inc
(he had hair when we met him)
i saw him moving around in his human transporter during one of the many tea breaks and i said to no one in particular, "Hey, that looks like fun."
He heard and replied, "It is fun. Wanna try?"
Heh. of course, i tried it. it really was FUN.
Another thing that amused me during the summit was how it seemed as though the more highly educated + older the speaker was (namingly the professors), the more monotonous, dull, boring their presentations were. Hello Uncle, being extraordinarily smart is no excuse to be boring.
And there were more than a few spelling errors too.
You see? Even old rich geniuses make mistakes. So, we got nothing to worry about. Heh.
The guy sitting on my left is an entrepreneur from France. His accent wasn't that bad, so I was able to understand him when he introduced himself. The guy on the right is Magnus Aronsson. Managing director, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute, (ESBRI) from Sweden. Dead ringer for Chris O'Donnell.
An overall enriching experience. Definitely worth skipping 2 days of school for. |
Sunday, April 23, 2006
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3:35 am
Welcome to she-nanigans.blogspot.com
unlike the other blog, which didn't quite work for me, i spent a lot of time and effort on this one. im not the most IT-savviest of people, so this is definitely an achievement. and i love it. i especially love the main picture i got off Getty, which by the way is a picture of Las Vegas. beautiful, ain't it?
so, what happened since my last entry on 1 January 2006? to my dearest cousin, i don't know whether to be flattered or sorry that you've read that entry "over & over again". anyway, so much has happened. in fact, i hate myself for not noting it all down when it happened, 'cause i don't have the best memory and i just can't be bothered to update my planner every single day.
some events/whatever-ness worth highlighting would probably be:
Global Entrepreneurship Summit
Urban Playtime 2006 (Events Management)
BumBoat Trip
Leadership Camp @ Sentosa
ADM Bonding Session @ WCP
Inter-ITE Enterprise Competition 2006
Rivermaya @ Mosaic Festival
Campus Superstar
Ari Wibowo in Singapore
"Flowers In The Desert" - Drama Production by CeMTA
Giraffe
whoa. okay, that's a lot for "some". but these are the ones i can remember for now. im gonna write about one event per day (unless i get tired and decide to talk bout all at one go). so if you wanna know what i've been up to (or just plain bored), come back and find out =)
more than anything, i'm blogging so that i can remember how i spent my days, the little details and the emotions involved.
later!
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