Hey Ya'all Foolish People, Come On In! Let's Talk About Sex!

Alright.. I've been bored, stressed out at work. I need a good laugh. So today, our topic is one thing all men (and women, don't cha deny it!) lust for, day and night - Sex.

Yeah, I can see it, you're hooked. Now, you didn't think I'm really going to talk about sex, do you?

Well.. as a matter of fact, sort of, but not the "Sex" you're thinking.

It's about a man who named his dog "Sex".

Ya ready? Alrighty.. read on. *Story begins*

Everyone I know who has a dog usually call them "Rover" or "Boy". I call mine "Sex".

Now, Sex has been very embarrassing to me.

When I went to the city hall to renew his dog licence, I told the clerk that I would like a license for Sex. He said, "I'd like to have one too." Then I said, "You don't understand. I've had Sex since I was nine years old." He said, "You must've been quite a kid!"

When I got married and went on my honeymoon, I took the dog with me. I told the hotel clerk that I wanted a room for my wife and me, and a special room for Sex. He said, "Every room in the place is for Sex." I said, "You don't understand. Sex keeps me awake at night." The clerk said, "Me too."

One day I entered Sex in a contest, but before the competition began, the dog ran away. Another contestant asked me why I was just looking around. I told him I have planned to have Sex in the contest. He told me that I should've sold tickets. "But you don't understand," I said, "I had hopes to have Sex on TV." He called me a show-off.

When my wife and I seperated, we went to court fighting for custody of the dog. I said, "Your honor, I had Sex before I was married. The judge said, "Me too." Then I told him that after I was married, Sex left me. He said, "Me too."

Last night Sex ran off again, I spent hours looking around town for him. A cop came over to me and asked, "What are you doing in the alley at 4.00 o'clock in the morning?" I said, "I'm looking for Sex."

*Story ends*

Stress is nothing but accumulated tensions. Find nitty-gritties, funny lil' stuff to keep you entertained during high-stress period will certainly help keep your emotions in place. I hope you enjoyed my Sex talk, please if you have one, share one with me too.

Peace out, dudes.

Top 3 World's Dumbest Person..

This is a tribute to all my loyal readers and my friends. Please, be my guest, enjoy the clips. - Joe

World's Dumbest Criminal

Get prepared to roll over your stomach while this dude tried sneaking into a store for "free" stuff.

First question wrong on Who Wants to be a Millionaire

"What the hell..?!" You would ask. This guy can't even answer the easiest question for a quick $100 cash! I bet a 3-year old could do better!

Miss Teen USE 2007 - South Carolina Answering A Question

Try answering to this:
"Recent polls have shown 1/5 of America can't locate the US on the World map. Why do you think this is?"

And then watch as South Carolina attempt the question...

Honestly? Transformer Sucks!

If you're looking to watch Transformer, sorry but I'm going to disappoint you by saying this - Transformer sucks, BIG TIME!

Why? It's not the story line, or the characters, but the fact that it just wasted 30++ bucks out of my wallet.. Well, today is the second time I watch Transformer, and guess what? I'm going to watch it again, tomorrow!

Argh! Basically what I wanted was to join my friends, having great time, out there. But everytime someone proposes for movie, it's definitely "Transformer, Transformer.. Transformer!" (Duh~~) So no choice, it's kinda weird if I join them just for the lunch and then go home after that..

BUT, the fortunate thing is, I get to see Megan Fox everytime I watch Transformer, and that's what kept me going (watching 3 times of the Robots fighting wasn't fun, but I don't really mind watching Megan Fox in action, again and again, Hah!)

She's HOT! (You must be Gay to say she's not)

So, after the movie today, I'm supposed to meet up with some primary friends of mine, I did, and guess what? 5 girls attended, and I'm the ONLY guy (lucky dude me, Andrew - you flaked!), had a great time all in all, at least I get to patch up things I've missed..

.. My friends. Old-time friends.

If you're one of them that I've not met, don't hesitate to hit me up, phone, facebook, MSN, whatever.. Just get in touch with me! (I won't hesitate to watch Transformer with you guys, again!)

I Was Conned $400 Bucks Today, WTF?!

Alright, maybe not conned. But rather, sold.

I finally made up my mind to go for Gym, and I chose Celebrity Fitness for this, I'll be frequenting the branch in 1 Utama.

Now, today what I wanted was to go down, check out the prices and maybe join next week. But guess what? I was sold - the way I used to sell people stuff online.

There was the "sales page" - 1 Indian fella came over took us through the tour and explained everything we needed to know. When I showed I couldn't quite afford the price up front ($800), there goes the "exit page pop up", those pop ups that you see whenever you leave a page saying they'll give you a discount - the price went down to $400 (I knew it, damn..), but I was still contemplating, the guy was so desperate to get my card out of my wallet, he gave me the "scarcity" - he said this offer only last for the FIRST visit. (So I took my Card out, why? he gave me an offer I couldn't resist, especially when I already wanted to join). Then he went processing my details, and here comes the "upsell" - one dude he came over saying hello, explaining the "personal trainer" stuff to us, which costs about $4000+, crazy... And then, when we express that it's too much for us, here comes the "downsell"... He said maybe we could get some basic trainer first for $1,800.. And lastly, after giving me the receipts and stuff, the indian dude perform the "viral" method, he gave me a list to fill my contacts with so he could call them up (great, spot on, I was doing all these things in the Internet..)

All in all, I paid the $400 and that's it. We were sold. I find it funny because I actually LEARN such marketing techniques in Internet Marketing - we do this in Websites. And this is the first time I encounter this in real life.. This is THE system, no matter you're doing your business online, or offline, this is THE system you should think about. It definitely increases conversions, you sales, by a ton..

Just As I Thought I Had Everything I Wanted..

I was too obsessed, I indulged myself too much into my own thing, my own thoughts, and I thought I am happy, but I could've been happier, made all of you happier.

I would say, I would live a leisure life with my Internet Marketing career, I would make friends all around the World when I start hitting the "travelling" route, next few years in my life, I would give my family the best life ever, I would make seminars making other people's life as happy as mine.

All those all those - "I would"s. I totally missed the whole part.

I work my ass off trying to get the wheels rolling for my career, although I work at home, I was working more than 10 hours a day, dedicated, yeah, but after seeing things closely, and finally got rid of my hurdles (my mum shows supportive). I realize - WHAT THE HECK JOE? What is the rush for? It's not like, I'm gonna have a heart attack in next 2 months now.

I missed out many things, precious things, of my life, up til now, some are lost, damages are done, some remained. But there are those that are still neutral out there - My friends, my long lost friends that I've never been able to meet up with after all these years that I was in Singapore.

Seriously? I MISS YOU GUYS

As shameful as I could be, I only miss you guys when I'm back, when I need you all. But still, I'm shouting out to those that are reading this, I know all of you are busy, working, but here I am now, Malaysia, for long. I'm not really sure when will you guys be free, but you know you could always hit me up with a phone call whenever you want, and we're all set to go get a drink. Ya?

I want my life back, my friends, too. Nothing is too late. Just hit the damn call button. (This, I'm talking to myself, be prepared to hear from me you guys..)

Joe

Everything Had Been In Place For Me, But..

Alright guys, it's been a long part since I've updated my blog here.

I hope all of you have been fine. I've finally spilled the beans about my career to my mum after much contemplating - I braced myself, expected some fiery scoldings, showed her my earnings as an "Internet Marketer", she didn't quite understand it but she wasn't angry, at all.

Your future, your choice. She even offered to help me open a bank account.

All these while, I've always linked her with the old scary mum, which would burst out as she didn't like something. But I noticed, I hadn't been paying attention to her, and not only her.. Once I start realizing, she's been supporting all my activities, I got into a small accident which cost her $1000, she didn't say a thing, just a few mumble grumble. I wanted to use the car, she would ask "why" and nothing else, she didn't stop me. I told her, I'm not working, she helped offer me advice and how to settle the bonds that I'm escaping..

If only, I could be more attentive, to my loved ones around me. It all seem SO simple, if only I "talk". I was always thinking too much to myself, assuming this assuming that, I think way too far and in the end? I got everything all wrong.

This is me, my problem, and I've ignored this problem for so long until I finally come back, and SPEND time with my loved ones. Lucky for me, my mum's been tolerated me for don't know how many years and she's still there to support me, forgive me. But there are certain things where damages had been done, and there''s just nothing I could do to heal them...

I learned this the hard way, but it's still not too late. I will get better, and even better. I won't give up, improving myself.

I've Sinned.. With No Turning Back

Alright, first off I must thank you for coming back to my blog again, I've not been updating it as frequent as expected.

Many things had happened since I last posted. My professor kept pointing me the "wrong" direction, almost had my final year project (FYP) failed, luckily I'm still able to patch things back right before my exams, which eventually led to a lack of time to study for my exam, seriously I don't really know how did I survive last 2 weeks, I slept 4 hours each day, working on FYP, assignments, and exam.

But now, it's all over... I still had to continue my FYP due to incomplete of results, but that's another thing, I'm a free bird now!

To be honest, I have never gave myself in when I'm studying, not a time in these 4 years in NTU. I never got an A, except for lab sessions. I've defeated the purpose of mum sending me to university, it's like dumping her $10,000/$20,000 per year into the sea.

I'm glad she trusted me, for not asking for my result transcript all these years, answers I gave were extremely simple, "OKOK lah~", "Won't fail lah~", "Quite fine lah~".. My mum knew nothing about my routines in NTU, my life in NTU, what I've done, what people I've met, and yet she trusted me on these words, or say, she had no choice but to trust because that was all I told her. I've tried telling her that "my grades are not-so-good lah~" everytime she asked, but I got the feeling that she still thinks that I'm doing "OK" in my studies, which is totally not. Ha...

I've sinned mum, forgive me, for I will make it up for you, I will excel in my careers than many others that had paid more attentions in studies than me. For this, I have a truck load of faith.

Before anything, I want to extent my utmost gratitude for someonethat's been standing by my side for the worst time that I've been through -- My dear Gillian. Although she's not been physically "standing" by my side (we're 5 hours apart...) but I felt her words everytime through phone, it's been 2 months plus since I last met her. And guess what? I'm coming back soon! Probably this Sunday, which is tomorrow.

Many had asked me about what I'm going to do next, after the graduation, I've gave tons of different answers, because I don't know how to answer these people, even though there's only 1 answer in my heart -- I'm not working, anymore.

Keep coming back, or you can get alerted by emails using the "Get Updated" icon top-right. And I'll expose to you my plans.. my thoughts, and my future careers....

Until then, see ya!

Joe

I Am Sexy, Are You Sexy..?

Well, yeah, guess what? I'm sexy. Honestly, it's what people always say to me!

They'd say, "Oh Joe, you've got a "Sexy"... tummy."

Ha.. Sexy tummy. I like it.

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OK, you can call it "cute", I have a "Cute" tummy. Hmm, I... sorta like it, too...

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OK, ok.. I'll admit it. I'm fat, and I have a big tummy, that's for true.

But guess what again? I'm not gonna let that happen! Err, I mean, I'm not gonna let that stay! The tummy must go! Alright, so I'm working on it, in fact, I've already got it all planned: 

I'll be going swimming at least 3 times a week, jogging at least.. 1 time a week (Ha, don't laugh), gym-ing at least 3-4 times week. I guess that's a good start, I've been doing them on and off but haven't really got it "stabilized" and "systemized" it, yet.

It's exactly just like what I was always saying, 

• "I need to get my FYP report done by this week!" (I've written only 7 pages and it's been 5 days)
  
• "I have to start working on my Offshore engineering assignment, due next Monday" (I've not even started looking into the questions)
• "I have to start cleaning up my study table, I feel really lazy at the moment, can I do it tomorrow?" (I recall me saying that since last 2 weeks..)

I could go on and on for a few hours but I guess I'd just stop. This is how I lived my life with, I guess I should stop too, being this way.

Oh wait, I almost forgot, can I ask you a question? Do you like me? NAH-- OF COURSE you like me! I was gonna ask, 

Are you like me?

If you nodded, or at least you whispered "Yes! Yes!" in your heart but you're embarrased to say so, then I think you should stop too. Stop being that way.

I want to change, but I want you to come with me. Can you do that with me? It's hard for me though, to do it all at once, I mean, there are sooooo many things waiting for me to do, or finish up, I have to prioritize. I figured, health is ones most important aspect , so I'm FIRST going to start changing, by getting rid of my tummy(It's an excuse, I rather exercise than doing my homeworks)!

Alright... that's my first goal, lose my tummy. So, I'm going swimming tomorrow, 8.30 in the morning, and start off with that.

What is your first goal?

BooYah! Valentine's Surprise!!

Alright, so in short, I came back from Singapore, thinking I could give a *little* surprise to Gillian, but then, things turned out kinda messy the night before I reached KL (13th Feb), and then even messed up when Gillian's disappointed on THE day (14th Feb), she HAS NOT YET received her surprised I've been hinting her about (which is me meeting her up), I can imagine her looking like a sad stick during her class. HA--HAAA----

Okay, but things got under-control, by me, and her best friend, Joanne, Phew~

She was surprised as hell that day, I couldn't explain her expressions but I thought she looked... Dumb. (Too excited maybe?) Haha.. Sorry dear!

Well, I guess my plan worked, although a bit different from what I initially planned but things went well eventually..

Anyway, I'm not going into details here, Gil said she'll make a detailed report about this somewhere next week, around Monday, maybe, so if you want to know the details then be sure to look out for Gillian's Latest Posts.

I personally don't think it's a SUPER- GREAT- surprise. All I did was come back, told her some lies in the beginning, and show up at the right moment, with flowers of course. However, I'm glad she appreciated it, and she obviously liked it, and.. I think she would be expecting more next time (Darn! who's the dumb one now, I'll have to think harder next time..)

To sum it up, I'm not saying that I'm THE man of the night, or something else good about me, but instead, I'm trying to get the message across to all guys out there, as I've mentioned in my earlier post, Valentine's is a day where you'll have to do MORE, but that doesn't mean you'll have to do LESS for the rest of the 364 days..

Wish ya'll HAD a Happy Valentine's Day. I had a good one, seeing her smiling her way back. Cheers

Younger Than He Would Be, Older Than He Would Seem..

I watched "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" this night..

In case you don't know, it's a story about a boy, borned old, and grew young.

"How remarkable it would be to growing younger by days!" Some might think. But not as it is seemed to be. You would be growing "young" enough to watch your loved ones died upon you, as all it would be, you ended up lonely.

In this movie, Benjamin, he loved a woman, they've met when she was a kid, and he was an "old man", but then they got seperated all at last, they were together again when their age finally met, right in the middle of their lives.

We all have things to treasure, or say, people that we love. Anything, anything at all, our surroundings, or even ourselves, the look that we had, they change, things you can barely resemble, but, some things don't change. Something tells me that it's not about what would we be, but instead, what do we have in our lives, right now, at this moment.

Even if things are going the total opposite way, what would you have done at the period of time? Would you have accepted it? Would you have escaped from it, and let it go? Choices be made, and live still goes on.

Trying my best not to be a spoiler for this movie, Benjamin died peacefully in her arms, at least I thought he was, wasn't quite easy to tell... When ends meet ends, all we've got to do, is to be happy about it, because we've taken every single thing in our lives the best, in the worst cases ever, even with regrets.

I have lots to speak about this,but until you've gotten through the movie, I shall keep them for myself, wondering.. Though I don't really know if I could still remember the pieces when you want to talk about it, I wouldn't mind spending another 3 hours on it, rather than on some other movies which are as long as it is, for this, I recalled... 

Titanic.

Being With You Everyday Is Like Valentine's To Me

This specific post is a response to Gillian's post about Valentine's.

Relationship is the one thing that has never changed ever since human beings have evolved through so many decades. Now there are all kinds of relationships that we can speak about but this post today, is dedicated to Relationships between a couple (male and female only, I despise 'gayers') for Valentine's day is near.

I was looking for Valentine's origin when I stumbled upon an interesting paragraph:

"An alternative theory from Belarus states that the holiday originates from the story of Saint Valentine, who upon rejection by his mistress was so heartbroken that he took a knife to his chest and sent her his still-beating heart as a token of his undying love for her. Hence, heart-shaped cards are now sent as a tribute to his overwhelming passion and suffering."

Most of the people have taken as granted that Valentine's, 14th Feb, is "The Day", and you have got to show your significant other how much your passions goes upon him/her only on that day itself. 

It's like, when a girl says to her boyfriend, "Why it seems as though you don't love me as much as you said you will?!" then the guy goes, "Wait til it's Valentine's and I'll SHOW you how much my love it is to you!" Exaggerated, but true in a sense, have such thoughts ever flashed into your mind before..? 

You've probably forgotten that Valentine's is merely one of the days that help reminds you of the fond memories between both of you, it's just another memorable day to tighten to knots, dispell misunderstandings, and most importantly, it's a proof that you've been walking the "Correct" path down the road.

However, I wouldn't deny the fact that, you'll have to be "EXTRA" passionate to surprise your partner during Valentine's day. Why? It's simple. If you can't win a person's heart in ONE day, don't expect too much for the rest of 364 days. Valentine's if you ask me, is a day where you should do MORE than you usually should, but that doesn't mean you are ought to do LESS for the other days.

Being in a relationship, is a process of learning to be responsible. At least that's what I think. Again, it's simple. If you can't be responsible in a basic boy-girl relationship, don't come telling me you want to be a successful man, businessman, or, whoever you want to be, won't happen in a million years. I bet you.

We all make mistakes in relationships, but most importantly we learn from them. The one BIGGEST mistake almost everyone makes is that - they look at other people's mistakes all the time! What do I mean? I don't need to explain much, try recalling, the moments when you were fighting with your partner, what comes into your head? Yeah, the wrong doings, the bad habits of your partner, never had it been you in the first place, huh?

Wait a minute... I'm not asking you to put the blames on yourself! But just think, if everytime you wanted to start an arguement, and all that shows up in mind, are YOUR faults, YOUR mistakes, will you want to bring the arguement further? No, it stops, naturally, because you're ashamed to insult yourself any further as you speak. See, there's where the key to communication lies..

Mark my words, and try it, next time whenever a fight is starting, do this, and you'd find both of you sitting down working things out - the good way.

As for Gillian, I admit I hadn't been doing much lately, no excuses for that, I'm not a saint, I've made mistakes, I've been forgetful, I hadn't been planning for surprises like I used to, I apologize for that, but I definitely will do my best, as time goes by.

To all that read this post, I want you to have a Great Valentine's, whether you are single or not, and most importantly, I want you to treasure every single relationships that you have, with your friends, your siblings, your parents, your loved ones for the things that I've mentioned above are applicable to most cases.

Joe

OMG! I Failed My Final Year Project!

Nah~ Guess not. The subject above is no longer a threat for me!

It's 2am now but I'm so happy I don't know if I can sleep right now.. I am finally able to run the FYP data on the program, WITH results!!!

But that leads me to another leash of fury, actually me and my team mate did got the correct data input last November itself. So why is it we can't run it, until now..???

Yeah, the reason is simple, at some point you might think it's crap too. But I don't care because I've found out what happened! 

...The only reason why we weren't able to get the results from the program, is because that lousy C++ program that our professor gave us, run the datas TOOOOO SLOWLY. Honestly, we NEVER got the patience to wait, like for 2 minutes? Because everytime it runs half way and hanged, our professor will say it's our data that's incomplete, and he never warned us about the "speed" of the program.............

So what say now? I'm gonna screw that old man over now but giving him the results! I WILL NEVER FAIL MY FYP!

and I finally did it!

Congratulations Joe!

Bloody Careers...

Okay, so yesterday and day before yesterday was Career Fair.

Now since you all know I'm graduating REALLY soon (if everything's fine with my FYP), most of my friends have been spending hours in the Career Fair, trying hard not to let the best opportunity slip out of hands, some already have their resume written, interviewed on the spot, some even got their job before this Career Fair thingy...

Where was I?

Nice question. I was the one that has not written my resume, has not got into any interviews, has not been looking for jobs! Hmm, well, at least I've been to the Career Fair, for half an hour..

After the walk out of the Fair, I do realize most companies nowadays, despite the bad economy, are paying Fresh grads quite well(SGD2,700 - SGD4,000) REGARDLESS of their results. At least that's what they say, according to them Government has around 800 vacancies left for us... All above I'm refering to civil engineering posts.

Lucrative, I would say..

But what's holding me back? I don't know. I don't have the motivations to work, not only as an engineer. More specifically, I'm not buying the ideas to work 9-5.. I like & love what I'm working on now. What the hell, I'm risking my future for this shit! 

I thought I've already sorted it out within myself, that I'd never put myself in such dilemmas again, to work or not to work. But this Career Fair ignites the fear deep down my heart, once again, especially seeing so many of my surroundings looking for jobs, newspapers, online, resume writings, they even talk about it most of the time! 

Furthermore, I'm not only bearing my own consequences, this decision of mine, involves my parent, my uncles and aunts(they ask everytime!), my friends, my girlfriend, and also her parents(lol..).. I'm not making this decisions alone.

All these thoughts, they'll come blowing my mind once in a while, and I'll have to shoo them away each and everytime. Why am I so different than others, I'm putting my future at stake, am I missing something? Did I get the whole concept wrongly? I'm not doubting myself, I know I can work this out, but it seems that with my current progress, time is a significant factor. The fact that I'm graduating soon.

Argh~ I'm Held At Gunpoint!

Well, yeah, the few days that I'm back here, in Singapore from my CNY vacation at home town(KL) have not been kind to me..

I'm literally gun-pointed by my Final Year Project towards the cliff.. What's the fuss you might ask? Just get the god-damn thing DONE, and settle it! That's what you were thinking, yeah? Well I can't really explain things here but my stuff is related to some kinda data extracting, and inputing them into a program.

Argh crap, you're getting boring here.. So in short, the datas are not working, no matter how I've checked, in and out, and my prof is always B.S-ing about my progress. It's only 1 month more to submit my First draft and heck I still have not gotten ANY results to write about..

Despite my "not-good-looking" results, in all honesty, I have NEVER failed any subjects in my Uni life before, no offence but really, it's TOO DAMN HARD to fail in NTU.. But why do I have the hinge that I'm going to fail my biggest project ever, in my FINAL semester?! How laughable..... 

Ha-Ha-HAAAAAAAA...

But, the problem is, I won't let this happen, I have no more intentions to extend my studies. I will try each possible ways to solve this, and if, by all means, they still won't work. I will have no choice but to"go-around" the system... 

Until then, let's see what happens.

Oh, and, Happy Chinese New Year for you guys! (It's still not over yet!)

...and I'm missing Gillian, already(I'll be back!). 

I'm all locked up, outside!

Yeah, today is a funny day. I came back room after my meeting with professor, and then walked out to Zhuobin's room (just opposite my room) topless. After fiddling a bit with his computer and all I decided to get back to room to charge up my LG Handphone.

Now here's where things get screwed. I tried opening my door and guess what? The door was locked! OMFG the door was locked! I called my roomie he said he thought I went out (yeah, went out topless huh..). He probably didn't notice me. Now he's outside, some place far..

Argh! All my FYP datas are in the room, guess I just got to call it a day off today huh, my roomie will be back late, as usual.

Good thing is, I'm going out for Steamboat soon. I'd probably got to "borrow" Zhuobin's towel and all, oh and his shirt too. The destination today? Hmm, let me think, if I'm not mistaken it's called "Tian Tian Huo Guo". One of my friend says it sucks big time. Ah well, no choice, I think my gang's got the tables booked already.

And as Zisan's SMS reminder to the rest of people that's going:

"Dear al, tis friday 630pm sharp sharp we gather boonlay mrt. Then go day day steamboat eat til we al die! Thanks."

Steamboat, here I come!

Bad Economic? Good Money?

Bad economic, and yet good money? Is there any relation between them? What the heck am I talking about?!

Well, maybe I should put it this way. What you perceive as a "bad" economic, might just be what you're seeing on the surface. Yeah, it's true, there are news about retrenchments everywhere. and many fresh grads can't even find a damn job! 

I've even overheard the conversations myself in the LRT, one dude was telling his friend about his uncle and the family is coming down to Malaysia for vacation, because his boss in Singapore just issued a non-paid "holiday" for the uncle! Wow, why am I not surprised about this...

However, I've got a whole different perspective about this issue. If you're thinking carefully, what makes a market? I'm not majoring in Econs but I do know it's a simple supply and demand issue. No matter how good or bad the economy is, you can make good, or extremely good money, if you KNOW what people want, and GIVE them what they want - or, say, you have a SOLUTION to a problem, that people want it SOLVED! 

Simple?

These guys, that are retrenched, they are not anymore "demanded", supply is excess. Same thing, if you look at the market now, this bad economy, what is the "most demanded thing" among these people, especially the retrenched, or those afraid of being retrenched? Think hard, I mean really hard... And imagine, if one guy comes in, telling you that he's able GIVE you what you want, and provide you the SOLUTION to it.. I can be definitely sure that he's among the ones that are cashing in the lion's share when you're not earning any!

Simply said, bad economic is just another can-opener for another opprtunities. STOP blaming on the economy down turn, and better still, open your eyes wide for these opportunities. You'll be shock on what you'll see when you're looking from a different view.

What say you?

I've been busy, and extremely frustrated! But..

Argh! Alright, it's my FYP (Final Year Project), it's some kinda "steel welding" stuff if you're curious. With all the hectic troubleshootings and checkings I still couldn't find out where the problem is, hence, No Results! Gosh, what's worse, my professor thinks that we're just a bunch of lazy monkeys that did nothing about it..

That makes me wonder, what am I looking for, during these years in University. I'm studying Civil Engineering, but I don't foresee me being a Civil Engineer, not a moment. So what for? 

Why am I here? 

I wouldn't have known how to answer, if you've asked me 1 year back. During the moment, I was constantly complaining, about my dislike in this course, I wanted out, to quit, but what have I left after that? That's the point. The real deal. I didn't have a plan, on what I can do, what I have to do, I know I wanted a way out, but I didn't have the map! And therefore, all I could do was to stay put, and pass through my exams.

However, for now, 1 year later, not only I can visualize it, I'm actually paving the roads ahead - my way out. In short, I've found the reasons to quit my studies. I didn't need the "paper" anymore. 

So, why the hell am I still here?! 

Well, what the heck, I'd kill myself if I quit during my final semester, definitely makes no sense at all! That's one good point, but not the main one, during this one year I've seen things through.. That this "paper" still serves it's purpose.. It's the "value" underneath the paper, if I hadn't been in NTU, I wouldn't have known the extent of my capabilities, not in studies, but instead, Event Organizings, team coordinating, and my talents, drumming, etc. These are the real values I treasure(this way I'll have excuses to counter my no-eye-see results) and I'm very fortunate I didn't give up on myself..

For those that are lost like I had, your future, careers, dreams, I truly wished that you hold on to what you have now and work the best out of it, until you've finally found your "way out", plan it, and on your way to crystalize it. Dream and Reality, I believe, is separated by one fine line, they don't make friends. No matter how big your dream is, Reality still hits you as hard as it could in your everyday life. 

If you don't have a plan, don't talk about your dreams because it will never happen. 

Right, you're busy with your everyday chores and all and you don't have time to plan for something you can't foresee - your dream, see, that's the reality, it holds you back, but play around it, put extra efforts to just THINK, and PLAN. Slightly get into motion and you'll find yourself adapting to it. A little effort a day, and your dream will come true, I promise, but before that, don't let the reality sink you first! Hold on to what you have now and don't ever quit!

Finally, I Started Speaking...

Ah.. finally here am I! After a long and disgusting comtemplation, I've finally decided to speak. Please don't get me wrong here, I've been speaking since I was 2 but now, here I am speaking over the internet, to the world.

Despite already having a few active blogs on hand, I've been telling Gillian that I want to start a blog about myself, and yet I'm still not seeing myself jotting it down within my daily schedule.. 

I guess, no, I'm 100% certain, that my old friend, Mr. ProCrast is in action, and he certainly plays a major role on this.. And yes, he almost did it again, I almost gave up when I was unable to register a new blog named under my own name - joetan.blogspot.com, it's being taken! It seems to me that it's been taken by some guy that's trying to get into blogging in 2003, and finally found his "way out"(look at his last post), and never came back in 2004.. So there goes, my new blog's gone(I have a bad habit for registering new blogs).

Well nevermind, I thought, so I went along, looked into my blogger dashboard and AHA! I found this old blog of mine, joejoechen.blogspot.com.. In fact, it's my very first blog that I've started, and the very first blog that I've abandoned as well. So, after deleting a few old irrelevant posts, it's now a spankin' new blog with a whole new meaningful mission - to jot down my lines of thoughts, and preserve them.