男朋友

Just read a very nice notes. Wish to share here.

愿天下的有情人终成眷属！

男朋友就是每天不厌其烦的陪你吃饭、送送你上下班的那个人；

男朋友就是虽然身上没什么钱，也会请你吃饭的那个人；

男朋友就是早晨你醒来时第一个想到的那个人；

男朋友就是能跟你打电话聊到半夜都舍不得挂的那个人；

男朋友就是在你最艰难的时候陪伴在你身边的那个人；

男朋友就是为了不让你担心，无论出了什么事都要自己默默承担的那个人；

男朋友就是手机里总是存满你给他发的短信，直到信箱满了都舍不得删掉的那个人;

男朋友就是无论你是不是漂亮都会夸赞你漂亮的那个人；

男朋友就是在你任性、耍小脾气时，也会忍住脾气不会冲你发火的那个人；

男朋友就是看到你流泪时，为你擦去泪水给你一个温暖拥抱的那个人；

男朋友就是就算你犯了错误，也舍不得骂你的那个人；

男朋友就是可以在车站等你很久也不会介意的那个人；

男朋友就是明明最不喜欢逛街，还能陪你一家一家的逛到你觉得满意为止的那个人；

男朋友就是有着宽厚的肩膀可以让你随时依靠的那个人；

男朋友就是吃饭时放慢速度等你的那个人；

男朋友就是总是让你走在马路内侧的那个人；

男朋友就是过马路时会紧紧拉住你的手的人；

男朋友就是就算情人节也不会买花给你，让你对他又爱又气的那个人；

男朋友就是深夜为你开着手机的那个人；

男朋友就是当你读到这篇文章时立刻会想到的那个人！！

Nice sharing from Friend

Actually, we will never know how pain other people are having. NEVER.

We thought we knew, but we are wrong.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=174035816099&ref=mf

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=152072974817577

Life should be wonderful

If our lovely Najib, or all those YAB(Yang Amat Berhormat), really care about their citizen, wanna know what is their citizen's problem is, the best way they should do is, go take train, bus, or stand at bus station, listen to people gossip, know what people's concern now.

If I still at Malaysia, I will not have chance to take public transport everyday. But now I at Singapore, and do not have enough money to have a car, (car is a luxury here, for me), I had to spend around an hour everyday, taking bus, train, then bus again to reach office.

So I meet a lot of people everyday, listened to their conversation. And as expected, 90% of their conversation are more toward complaining. Complain about boss, colleagues, life, house-owner, etc. Ya, life is never perfect, and we have tons of reason to complain, when things turned against us. But there are so much of wonderful things happen everyday too. But people tend not to discuss about that, maybe complaining will bring sympathy from other people. People like to be comforted.

But, when u see teenagers, they are so happy normally. Chit-chat each other, playing around, talking about wonderful things, etc. We had time like them before, but since when we start to lose our sense of being happy, always look things at negative perspective, not considerable, etc? Life pressure changed us? I dunno.

Life should be wonderful. Being alive is already wonderful enough.

Work Life Balance

Time flies, Opps, I should say "rocketed" since start working. It had been 4 years working.

When looked back, how much things I had achieved for my 4 years in secondary schools, 4 years in University, but I hardly wrote out anything what I had achieved in 4 years time of working.

4 years in secondary school, I had my wonderful times in school, grew from a small young boy, too a matured teenager. Bulid life-long friendship with best friends, doing a lot of crazy/stupid things.

4 years in University, grew from a small kampung boy, to a hot-blood young man. Knowing how corrupt our country are, start care about others, etc. Build strong, good friendship with course-mates, while build my profession in career.

4 years working life, we got money, but in-exchange with our time. We had miss out so much of great things. Our life become machinery life, morning wake-up, go work, fight fight fight, at night back home, dinner, sleep. When schedule a meet up with friend, the schedule is by months. Even very close friend, we might meet up 6 months once, 1 years once. Everyone is busy.

So how to motivate ourselves during weekend, or maybe after work? If you work until 11pm everyday, you will slowly lost all your friend, because you are so hard to be invited, sooner or later, your friend will give up on you, and you had to spend your whole life in office.

Having a relax dinner with close friend helped. At least they remind you that, your life is not only work. You can talk about all things other than work, complaining to each other, talk about old sweet time.

Listen to some soft music. It helped to remind you that, you are not machine, you still have feel, you still know how to appreciate good music. My way of express thing is so terrible, and I guess nobody will able to feel what I wish to say now. Maybe is due to language, or maybe is due to I am really not a good writer. Just give me some times, I will improve.

中产游子的心境

康利给我发了这篇好文章。对我们这些在槟城，新加坡工作的外地人的心境，形容得入木三分。

一起分享。共勉之。

http://forum.esm-cn.com/FORUM_POST_1000010011_1200593843_0.HTM?BJTJLT20100825

NUS

Start study my postgraduate of Electronic Engineering at NUS. It is actually a Master of Science by coursework, so I just need to finish 10 module, by minimum CGPA 3.0.

The tuition fees is SGD 1990 / semester, and the is PR rate. For international student, I think the rate will be higher. So it depend how long you needed to complete it, for example, you take 2-3-2-3 course per semester, then you will need need 4 semester, but if you take 2 courses only per semester, then it would need 5 semester.

My classmate are mostly from India and China, most of them. Every year, NUS sponsored many scholarship for foreign student, mostly from China and India, to attract them to study at NUS. But they need to work at Singapore for > 3 years, after graduation, unless you can prove that you are unable to be employed.

According from my Singaporean friend, sometimes they felt like NUS is not build for them, but for all foreigner. In order to get into NUS, they either need to be high-flyer at JC (Junior College, A level, just like STPM at Malaysia), or they had to study at Singapore Polytechnic, and score a very high pointer. But for foreigner, the standard seems lower a bit. So it is not easy for Singaporean to get in to NUS, for those who get in, most of them are high-flyer during JC.

Sometimes I feel sorry about Singaporean, because the community is very competitive, and the government doesn't really have protective measure to protect them for all outsider. And they had to push themselves to be competitive, and this whole thing bring the small country up to 1st class country. So the government shape the people.

Failure

Just read a good magazine. "Frozen Thought". Is some sort like motivation magazine. But dun read it whole day, just read 1-2 article once, else will be boring. Some good phrase from this magazine, which I wish to put it here to remind myself.

Failure does not mean I'm failure:

It does mean I have not yet succeeded.

Failure does not mean I have accomplished nothing:

It does mean I have learner something.

Failure does not mean I have been a fool:

It does mean I had enough faith to experiment.

Failure does not mean I have disgraced:

It does mean I dare to try.

Failure does not mean I don't have it:

It does mean I have something to do in a different way.

Failure does not mean I am inferior:

It does mean I am not perfect.

Failure does not mean I have wasted my life:

It does mean that I have an excuse to start over.

Failure does not mean that I should give up:

It does mean that I should try harder.

Failure does not mean that I will never make it:

It does mean that I need more practice.

Failure does not mean that you have abandoned me:

It does mean that you must have a better idea.

共勉之。