Saturday, November 29, 2008

woowee.
time flies and yes.
one year of internship ended like that.
eh WAIT WAIT WAIT.
not for me but for bulk of the NCSH peeps.
damnit.
i still have one more week to go and darn.
i seriously think i will be so dreading to crawl outta my bed when everyone has the luxury of sleeping till midday before they starting yawning in their beds.
ROAR.
but still. i have a job to complete and i will do them all :)

oh yes.
some backdated pictures.
nanjing revisited.
my last business trip for this internship
come to think of it, i think its quite a conincidence.
nanjing is the first city(outsideshanghai) that i have visited during my noc stint.
and i believe its the last chinese city i will visit before i embark on the flight back singapore. :)

traveling alone and with a group of people is very different and never could i expect quite some fun when traveling around with my bosses. HAH.
we were waiting for our train back to shanghai and with like more than 2 hours to spare, these 4 funky dudes decided to rent a boat and self-drive around the lake.hohoho.interesting experience as we shared lotsa shit and personal stuffs as we were cruising down the waters. somehow i feel, the relationship btwn us has far surpassed that of normal colleagues and im seriously grateful for that.:). this is something that i have appreciated alot, going past the superficial front and learning the real deal of one another. and definitely, something i will push for in the future, no matter whether im working for other pple or building my own empire. :)
and yes. some pictures we have gotten here :)

james and christy girl. woohoo : ) i realise ah tiongs like to do the 'twist' sign alot.HAHA.

you have yy on the boatie.

and ure not seeing double. this is allen. twin brother of james :)

hoho. a group shot of the team that clinched the L'Oreal deal. rocks :)

and i really love such pictures, reflections off the lake of the nanjing cityscape. china aint just about cows and plantations and farmers okay. i think everyone shud see china someday. :)

i wanted to leave and dedicate this post for prolly say the last day of my work or last day of my shanghai stay. but since im pretty free right now, waiting for ernest adn ckm to get our big vain plan underway, i decided to blog!
my friends have always mentioned how much one year abroad could grow someone ALOT. and yes, although i am still the same old crappy me who characterised as mr talkative, i do feel some changes within myself.:).

i could still remember before i came to shanghai, zhang mummy brought me to some fortune teller down at pulau ubin and there's smth he mentioned. 'you have the potential to be successful in the future but what's really stopping you is the lack of focus, you tend to do a little here, a little there and usually end up a jack of all trades but could never really focus on being the best of smth, often not absorbing the full desired amount of knowledge.' i believe that describes me alot before i came over. I used to read books halfway, never finishing to the end and so is that for magazines and newspapers.even when it comes to work and project, i usually hop over to something more interesting and leave out alot of details and information. Yup, this one year in shanghai has really taught me how to focus, especially with the thought of other people doing well and all, it just motivates me even more. i could still remember holding a mid-term review of myself when i realise, there is so much more i cud have done if i can get my ass to work and stay focused when it comes to something. well at least, im proud to say that. nvc has been the perfect platform for me to show that, yes, i can focus much better on my job and everything right now. and tt prolly explains why our prof mentioned that we duly warrant the best presentation of NVC (so far). :)

alot of things have been learned from experiences working and associating with people. friendship and bonds made and lost.
cherishing the loved ones.
and most importantly, i really learned a great deal on forgiving.

in the real world, bearing grudges will get you nowhere as it has been so proven in the past that 仁, or rather, being magnanimous is what makes a great man. I'm not trying to bullshit that i am that great (i still recognise im a teeney weeny character in this world) but the mention of the above is simply my way of sharing experiences. The feeling that you get when you choose the path of forgiveness and letting go has never felt so great. The way one feels when u choose to let go far surpasses that of bearing grudges and hating someone for life. :)

Seriously, if anyone of you here had thoughts of
'I will never forgive XXX,YYY,ZZZ',
or said something like,
'I will never want to see her/him again because he caused me deep shit and hell'
or even
'i dont think i can ever talk to him/her again'

think again, you do what you choose, and ur mentality and actions are fully dependent on urself. take a step back, think again. and seriously, forgiveness is yards ahead of vengeance. :)

woo. its 4 and i think they will be coming pretty soon. shall just end it off here and more thoughts to come when i get emo someday. AHAHAHA :D


happy thanksgiving :)
posted by deschutz. on 11/29/2008 03:30:00 PM