A Little Different - Such a understatement :D

And so we have bounced through the first day's festive. Love's in the air! This year's the first for my little-est cousin who is amazingly adorable for a 8 month old. She has everyone coo-ing in her face, making silly faces to tease the Lil' Princess for a smile. She is one of the prettiest baby i've seen. My best friend, Sb, is getting hitched at the end of the year, and I'm so happy for you that you've been blessed with a great guy. And lucky for Wilson to have you also. Esther, is getting married also at the end of the year, congrats!! Its really sweet.


Guess what? I reckoned questions on "where is your boyfriend", "when are you getting married", and the likes will debut this year. True enough! It did. So spot on, its ridic! :D Of which i always give a lame-beyond-words reply, "Yes, end of the year." "I just don't know which year". Sometimes, the ball gets caught, sometimes the ball drops midway in conversation. Of which, it did today. And I overheard the aunt seeking confirmation from my Mum if INDEED i was getting married at the end of the year.

This is hilarious. How about you do the ultimate SG proposal of HDB flat application? Even that takes 3 years right...hee hee..someday someday la. :)

Don't exactly live Life in your terms

Success has a way of building up a fallacy in infallibility.
Replicated success feels the Ego into The State of Hubris.

Exactly. If you think you're the Best, better be prepared to get Worse


Read the papers today and saw depressing figures of SG's GDP growth falling to the negative territory. Virtually unheard of, in SG's terms. Just about a yr back, the papers were heralding about the solid economic fundamentals and the lustre of the IR. Now, its situation reverse. Apparently, services makes up 70% of SG's economy, and the sector is shrinking, which was a factor causing the regression.


BUT! Interestingly enough, financial services wasnt the services sinker. It did pretty decent, about 7% year on year. It was hotel, restaurants that was lacklustre. In fact, it was the most grim. The IR has been hailed as one of SG's concoction of economic "formulaic potential success". Never mind the controversy, how it may weaken the moral fibre of the country, vis-a-vis the lucrative economic potential.

Is it hubris? Well, i don't know. I believe the reason why SG thrived so much relative to our neighbours, it because the country's work ethics on the whole, are built on sound foundations, and morally upright. Face it, we are blessed. Blessed beyond words. Everytime i meet a PR, he/she will ask me if im Sporean, and proceed to say that indeed i'm very blessed. Definitely, i nod to that. How is it then we are spared from the tsunami, when others have their homes wrecked, families splitted, and not a ounce of water spilled more than it should on our shores. This is not luck.


Again, is it hubris? I'm worried really. Seems that whilst SG has become more cosmopolitan, seems that everything else has also become more homogenous, and relenting. Perimeters, constantly pushed back, all in the name of open-arms inclusion. I seriously hope and pray that whatever the Govt leaders implement, it's with the awareness of moral consequence.

Cause problem comes when one thinks that he is too good too fail. And that self-indulgence slackens the conscience into thinking like one's always on top of things. That thought is so not true. Bottomline, Count blessings and attribute it to Above.

The break of dawn to 2009

You know how it is for exercising, gain is not present unless you pay dues, first, in the form of pain.

Future gain, i hope you are somewhere out there, may not see you now, but i certainly hope you're not far away. :)