Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Back from Pattaya...
Can't say that it was a wonderful trip but it was better than expected. Well, I don't think I've blogged about this but I went on a company's "trip" to Pattaya on Thursday and just recently got back last Saturday, dead tired.
On Thursday, I dragged myself out of bed at a horrible time of 5 am and rushed to the meeting point just a tad before 6.30 am because the bosses told us that "the wheels will start turning at exactly 6.30".. and by 7.00.. we haven't left the meeting point. What's worse is that the bus was full of mosquitoes.. and I never seen that mosquitoes before. It was horrible and annoying, especially when those little insects fly by your ears and make this hight pitch wheeeeee-wheeeee sound.
Anyway, we didn't get any sleep on the bus because the guide kept on talking and cracking jokes and once we reached the resort (and spa... but I was not fortunate enough to get to the "spa" part) the meeting starts and go on until late in the evening. That night my colleague and I decided to visit the most famous club in Pattaya... but it ended up being exactly the same as the clubs in Bangkok. Meh...
To sum up my trip.. it was tiring and full of meetings but it is still a lot of fun. We had dinner party with great seafoods and desserts. On the last day, I played Go-Kart for the first time in my life!! and I was the last one to reached the finish line... LOL.. good effort for someone who doesn't have a driving license and does not know much about driving!!
Well.. I'm at the office so I better finish this blog before they catch me bumming around....but I see that my blog is suffering from severe lack of comment.. where is everybody?
Can't say that it was a wonderful trip but it was better than expected. Well, I don't think I've blogged about this but I went on a company's "trip" to Pattaya on Thursday and just recently got back last Saturday, dead tired.
On Thursday, I dragged myself out of bed at a horrible time of 5 am and rushed to the meeting point just a tad before 6.30 am because the bosses told us that "the wheels will start turning at exactly 6.30".. and by 7.00.. we haven't left the meeting point. What's worse is that the bus was full of mosquitoes.. and I never seen that mosquitoes before. It was horrible and annoying, especially when those little insects fly by your ears and make this hight pitch wheeeeee-wheeeee sound.
Anyway, we didn't get any sleep on the bus because the guide kept on talking and cracking jokes and once we reached the resort (and spa... but I was not fortunate enough to get to the "spa" part) the meeting starts and go on until late in the evening. That night my colleague and I decided to visit the most famous club in Pattaya... but it ended up being exactly the same as the clubs in Bangkok. Meh...
To sum up my trip.. it was tiring and full of meetings but it is still a lot of fun. We had dinner party with great seafoods and desserts. On the last day, I played Go-Kart for the first time in my life!! and I was the last one to reached the finish line... LOL.. good effort for someone who doesn't have a driving license and does not know much about driving!!
Well.. I'm at the office so I better finish this blog before they catch me bumming around....but I see that my blog is suffering from severe lack of comment.. where is everybody?
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Boring boring boring...
Such a slow day... not much work for me to do (which is usually a source of joy) but I feel kind of restless. Maybe it is because it is Valentine's day. A slow..quiet..and eventless Valentine's day for me. People around here have roses and chocolates... and seems to be enjoying this day. Meh..
Currently listening to the song "Smile" written by Charlie Chaplin. Wish a smile will make this day better.
Good thing that I don't have class this evening.
I am jumping from topic to topic here.. not making sense at all.
I should make myself a cup of comforting milo.
and I should write to my friend in UK.
Nam
Such a slow day... not much work for me to do (which is usually a source of joy) but I feel kind of restless. Maybe it is because it is Valentine's day. A slow..quiet..and eventless Valentine's day for me. People around here have roses and chocolates... and seems to be enjoying this day. Meh..
Currently listening to the song "Smile" written by Charlie Chaplin. Wish a smile will make this day better.
Good thing that I don't have class this evening.
I am jumping from topic to topic here.. not making sense at all.
I should make myself a cup of comforting milo.
and I should write to my friend in UK.
Nam
Friday, February 02, 2007
And I say goodbye to ER..
Yes, sad as it is, I have to say goodbye to the 1st season of ER that is currently being play on the Hallmark channel. Unbelievable as this might sound but I never watched ER before until the beginning of this year so you can imagne that I was hooked from the very first episode of the famous 1st season of ER. So goodbye "ER" (I hope they'll rerun it at different times next month).. and goodbye "Kidnapped"... and goodbye "Las Vegas".. and "3 lbs".. and House (I can't wait for season 3 to start!!)
I started work on the 1st of Feb as a Marketing Assistant for pharmaceutical company called Wyeth (Yess!! I got that job!!). The 4 working days that I spent there were good. I like this job and this place for more than my last. Yesterday I get a chance to visit the hospital and see how sale reps function in the real world. It is easy to see how psychology plays a big part in the Marketing realm.. now I am really glad I went to the my Social Psych class on "Pursuasion".
On a different note, last Saturday me and my friends went to La Rueda, a latin club on Sukhumvit Soi 18. Before La Rueda, we had dinner at a German restaurant called Bei Otta which I get a chance to sample this really weird mashed potato. It tasted like little bit of mased potato mixed with a large bit of flour.. however the waitress insisted that it is real 100% potato but I was silently rebuking.. I know what potato taste like woman!! You can't fool me!! Anywayyyy.. I had my first class of beginner Salsa at La Rueda. It was so much fun! I think that dancing is what I am good at.. and I am happy when I dance. I got introduced to a few people, Arnie the instructor (real cute), Wit the Med student (not bad either), a japanese guy whose name escapes me... and oh..hmm.. I think that's about it. Later in the night I get a chance to watched Gold medal dancer showing off her style on the dance floor. I can't wait to go back to La Rueda this Saturday!!
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
I look at the calendar today and it says 31st of January 2007... and my instant reaction was: it is the end of the month ALREADY?!
and now it is only 11 months left in 2007
So many things happened in the past 30 days that I seems to forgot to stop and just cherish the fact that I am alive. I got lost in my own thoughts and fantasies and just simply forget what it means to be alive HERE and NOW. I am preoccupied with uni, crocheting, and thinking about what do I want to do after I graduate (hopefully) in August. My thesis is going no where and I feel that I unconciously trying to avoid the anxiety directly related to my thesis and distract myself by crocheting, crocheting, and crocheting. Since last December I have made 1 shawl, 1 tissue holder, 1 sunglasses case, and now I am making another shawl. The crochet is fun and a useful skill to know but I don't think that it is actually helpful at this point in time.
My mother, on the other hand, is worrying about my social life... the lack of social life to be exact. I wonder why I don't get along with people here? Why did I start keeping to myself? When did I stopped having fun?
One thing that I am trying to understand is the three signata of Buddhism. "Anicca Dukkha Anatta". Annica means impermanence, Dukkha means unsatisfactoriness, and Anatta means insubstantiality. These are called by many as the Universal Laws.
I don't think I can explain to you what "Annica Dukkha Anatta" really means since I don't understand how it works myself so here is an excert from a website I found (while trying to find the correct english pronunciation for those words).
The three signata refer to the three essential marks or characteristics of all "compounded" things, animate or inanimate, microscopic or macroscopic. Because of the universality of their applicability they could be considered as having the force of universal laws. These characteristics are impermanence (anicca), unsatisfactoriness (dukkha), and insubstantiality (anatta). As these translations of the basic Pâli terms are only approximate, a further elaboration of these basic concepts of the Dhamma is necessary.
(1) Anicca. The law of impermanence asserts that all phenomena are subject to constant change, to rise and fall, and no permanent states, either physical or animate, exists. The dynamic nature of phenomena is today a commonplace of science. But until quite recently many physical features of the universe were considered immutable, and in the human plane the belief in enduring states or characteristics is still an article of faith in many religious systems. The law of anicca establishes impermanence as the basic universal law.
(2) Dukkha. The law of dukkha states that all complexes of phenomena, are in the final analysis unsatisfactory. It means that no compounded thing or state could be considered as a universal norm of goodness or beauty. It imparts the normative dimension into the consideration of objective reality which is the hallmark of the Dhamma. The law of dukkha is usually considered in relation to the human situation, and here unsatisfactoriness manifests itself as "suffering", which is the popular rendition of the term. It is in this sense that it constitutes the first of the four Noble Truths.
(3) Anatta. The third law states that there is no permanent essence, "self", ego, or soul in phenomena. The term originates as the negation of the concept of atta (âtman) which was the equivalent in the old Brahmanical religion of the Buddha's day to what other religions have called the "soul". The Buddha advanced psycho-physical explanation of the individual which leaves no room for a soul. The Buddha recognised that the delusion of self or ego was one of the most powerful of human instincts, and at the same time one of the most potent sources of ignorance and wrong action. In applying the anatta doctrine to the phenomena of the external world some care mush be exercised. Early Buddhism did not deny the reality of the external world. It argued that the phenomena of the external world could be broken down into its constituent components, and that nothing else other than these components existed. It was only in this sense that the phenomena of the external world were declared to be empty (suñña). Some schools of Mahayâna Buddhism have taken the doctrine of emptiness (suññâtâ) to imply a denial of the reality of the external world. This interpretation is foreign to early Buddhism. Early Buddhism only asserts that there is no fixed essence or being in phenomena, but only a process of becoming (bhâva).
and now it is only 11 months left in 2007
So many things happened in the past 30 days that I seems to forgot to stop and just cherish the fact that I am alive. I got lost in my own thoughts and fantasies and just simply forget what it means to be alive HERE and NOW. I am preoccupied with uni, crocheting, and thinking about what do I want to do after I graduate (hopefully) in August. My thesis is going no where and I feel that I unconciously trying to avoid the anxiety directly related to my thesis and distract myself by crocheting, crocheting, and crocheting. Since last December I have made 1 shawl, 1 tissue holder, 1 sunglasses case, and now I am making another shawl. The crochet is fun and a useful skill to know but I don't think that it is actually helpful at this point in time.
My mother, on the other hand, is worrying about my social life... the lack of social life to be exact. I wonder why I don't get along with people here? Why did I start keeping to myself? When did I stopped having fun?
One thing that I am trying to understand is the three signata of Buddhism. "Anicca Dukkha Anatta". Annica means impermanence, Dukkha means unsatisfactoriness, and Anatta means insubstantiality. These are called by many as the Universal Laws.
I don't think I can explain to you what "Annica Dukkha Anatta" really means since I don't understand how it works myself so here is an excert from a website I found (while trying to find the correct english pronunciation for those words).
The Three Fundamental Laws of the Buddha
The three signata refer to the three essential marks or characteristics of all "compounded" things, animate or inanimate, microscopic or macroscopic. Because of the universality of their applicability they could be considered as having the force of universal laws. These characteristics are impermanence (anicca), unsatisfactoriness (dukkha), and insubstantiality (anatta). As these translations of the basic Pâli terms are only approximate, a further elaboration of these basic concepts of the Dhamma is necessary.
(1) Anicca. The law of impermanence asserts that all phenomena are subject to constant change, to rise and fall, and no permanent states, either physical or animate, exists. The dynamic nature of phenomena is today a commonplace of science. But until quite recently many physical features of the universe were considered immutable, and in the human plane the belief in enduring states or characteristics is still an article of faith in many religious systems. The law of anicca establishes impermanence as the basic universal law.
(2) Dukkha. The law of dukkha states that all complexes of phenomena, are in the final analysis unsatisfactory. It means that no compounded thing or state could be considered as a universal norm of goodness or beauty. It imparts the normative dimension into the consideration of objective reality which is the hallmark of the Dhamma. The law of dukkha is usually considered in relation to the human situation, and here unsatisfactoriness manifests itself as "suffering", which is the popular rendition of the term. It is in this sense that it constitutes the first of the four Noble Truths.
(3) Anatta. The third law states that there is no permanent essence, "self", ego, or soul in phenomena. The term originates as the negation of the concept of atta (âtman) which was the equivalent in the old Brahmanical religion of the Buddha's day to what other religions have called the "soul". The Buddha advanced psycho-physical explanation of the individual which leaves no room for a soul. The Buddha recognised that the delusion of self or ego was one of the most powerful of human instincts, and at the same time one of the most potent sources of ignorance and wrong action. In applying the anatta doctrine to the phenomena of the external world some care mush be exercised. Early Buddhism did not deny the reality of the external world. It argued that the phenomena of the external world could be broken down into its constituent components, and that nothing else other than these components existed. It was only in this sense that the phenomena of the external world were declared to be empty (suñña). Some schools of Mahayâna Buddhism have taken the doctrine of emptiness (suññâtâ) to imply a denial of the reality of the external world. This interpretation is foreign to early Buddhism. Early Buddhism only asserts that there is no fixed essence or being in phenomena, but only a process of becoming (bhâva).
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
What you should not do before your interview..
paint your nails - serious!! about 5 min ago, I decided to vamp up my nails before I leave home for my 2nd interview with Gfk. I finished my nails in record time and damn, they look good. However, when I decided to put the manicure-related stuff away the worst possible thing happened. Yes yes.. I scraped my nails and now all my work is ruin. I panic and I don't have enough time to repair the damage. So I walked around collecting my things.. I suppose to leave home @ 4 pm.. the clock read 3.57 pm. Then I sighed and glanced at the computer screen and it read 2.57 pm!! Thought that my eyes is pulling prank on my caffeine-deprived brain, I turned around to the big clock by the wall (which is not digital).. yeah.. the damn computer is right. It is indeed 2.57 pm... *sigh* now I have plenty of time to re-do my nails and write a blog about my meh-ness...
paint your nails - serious!! about 5 min ago, I decided to vamp up my nails before I leave home for my 2nd interview with Gfk. I finished my nails in record time and damn, they look good. However, when I decided to put the manicure-related stuff away the worst possible thing happened. Yes yes.. I scraped my nails and now all my work is ruin. I panic and I don't have enough time to repair the damage. So I walked around collecting my things.. I suppose to leave home @ 4 pm.. the clock read 3.57 pm. Then I sighed and glanced at the computer screen and it read 2.57 pm!! Thought that my eyes is pulling prank on my caffeine-deprived brain, I turned around to the big clock by the wall (which is not digital).. yeah.. the damn computer is right. It is indeed 2.57 pm... *sigh* now I have plenty of time to re-do my nails and write a blog about my meh-ness...
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