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Carpe Diam…

Carpe Diam… Seize the day…

In Chinese High one of my Social Studies teacher, Ms Esther Cheong told us about the concept of Carpe Diam.. sieze the day. We should live today as if today is the last, so that there will be no regret.

I was totally taken in by this and even went to extent of counting the total number of hours there are in my life, assuming I can live up to the age of 70. I looked back and was astonished by how much I have wasted my life away in the past few years. From then on I decided to be productive as much as possible.

When I go into Army I had difficulties adapting. Following orders blindly and doing the things that Army do isn’t really my cup of tea. And all these things don’t exact fit my idea of Carpe Diam. My life is mine and I get to dictate it. I want to spend it productively and not by running in circles and marching around. I want the 2 years to be over fast, but that itself would contradict in another manner of Carpe Diam… 2 years speeding pass quickly means 2 years wasted quickly.

When I got downgraded due to coping problems I was revocated as a clerk. Then I start to see what other people would do whenever they are free - sleep. During offs, they sleep at home. During lunch breaks, they sleep. During office hour, they sleep. When there is nothing to do, they sleep.

I simply cannot comprehend this. To quote author Douglas Adams, “Time is wasted in sleeping”. If you sleep 12 hours a day, you are only awake for 35 years before you die at the age of 70. If you sleep for 6 hours per day, you are awake for 52.5 years, a significant increase. I started to despise sleep. Every single second I spend awake must be spent doing something.

Travelling to me is another perfect waste of time. To counter that I spent huge cash on portable audio gadgets, giving me superb enjoyment on those boring journeys. Psp and iPod Touch are in as well for watching videos and playing games.

Running my own websites, blogging, designing The Wicked, building Gundam kits, playing with remote control cars. Not a single moment is spent without doing anything. If I am not working, I am enjoying.

Fatigue from the lack of sleep sets in. Signs of insufficient rest. I have been living the past 6 years of my life without too much of a rest except for my daily 6 to 8 hours of sleep. I am now tired.

I will be abandoning Carpe Diam, something that had guided me for the past 6 years. Living everyday as if it is the last is simply too tiring, and it gives me no future to look forward to.

I am going to live everyday as if it is not the last. Things must be done correctly and foundation must be set. There is a future to look forward to and that gives me hope. To live like that everyday is to live like a dying man with cancer. There is no future for him. There is a future for me.

Seize the future.

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I am fucked up

I am fucked up..

Grave mistakes were made, trust was broken, work (shit would be a better word) is piling up and I can feel my brain freezing up.

I used to be unable to make such grave mistakes. Now I make them. And I have broken people’s trust, and my own dignity and reputation. I didn’t even think through what I was about to do, whether I really meant it, its consequences, and whether it is a right or wrong thing to do. My ability to discern right and wrong is eroding.

I do not know if this is because of the grave financial situation I have put myself in… now I suffering the onslaught of my spendings in the past few months. And as a result there are things that I had to give up. Things I dream about every night. Things that bring me joy. Things that provide me a healthy outlet to relieve my stress and give me time to rest my mind and to relax. My mind is in such a mess now.

I love radio controlled toys ever since I am young. I would always ask my parents to get one for me, and due to their love but weak financial capabilities, I often get cheap toys that spoils within a few months. It has always been my dream to get a hobby grade remote control car, one that could cost a few hundred dollars. I got my wish first with the purchase of a off-road buggy, and then an on-road touring car. Running the cars on slopes, doing drifts, getting the cars chased by small children. Sitting alone at an open court undisturbed and unconnected to everything. Just squeezing the trigger and enjoy the speed. Those are the happiest days of my life. But having a $440 monthly allowance pay from the Army does not allow me to substain this. Random repairs and monthly tire replacements can take up to as much as 1/4 of my allowance. Another 1/4 goes to transport. Damn the high cost of public transportation. I only have 220 to spend on meals. That is like $50 per week.

My savings soon dripped from 5 digit to 4 and when my radio control set developed problems, I held back my tears and told myself, this is it. I love remote control cars, and I love audio gadgets. But I had to sell them. I have to control my spendings. Off goes my Koss PortaPro headphone of 4 years to some lucky buyer. My girlfriend misses it too because in my JC days, she would always help me fold and keep it neatly in its pouch when I was too lazy to. She loves its sound and even its look. I sold off my $300 brushless motor for $165. I sold off Lipo batteries and charger for my remote control. I sold off the only portable headphone amplifier I currently own. I sold off my interconnect cables. I sold off the MylarOne X3i that I so happily keep in an Impact Candy case and love to surprise friends by pretending to offer them sweet and then opening the box to reveal the earphones.

I watched in misery as all these items I so loved landed onto other people’s hand. Once I sold my stuff to a buyer I would turn around and walk away quickly, fighting the terrible urge to turn back and get my stuff back from them. For many weeks I forgetfully open the drawer where I always kept my Koss Portapro and want to use them, only to remember that I had already sold it. For many nights I dream about playing remote control car. The first few dreams I dreamt that I was playing with my own. In the subsequent dreams, I dreamt that I had to borrow cars from my R/C buddies and play them. Whenever I pass by Saujana court, the place where I always play with on-road car, I would feel sadness overwhelm me and I had to turn away. Once I saw an Uncle playing with an on-road there, I walked over to him and asked if I could join him, only to check myself and remember that the only R/C stuff I have left are a few unused wheels.

All these somehow threw me out of whack. I begin to lose interest in what I do. Nothing feels worth doing in this world anymore. With stupid excuses I delegate all my office work to my understudy. I started to treat my friends badly. When an error-filled submission from an Admin Specialist arrive in my mailbox, I would email back in a very “chee bye” manner and CC the email to my superior and his. When Jaben Forum banned me, I went crazy and posted a silly thing on another forum. When my understudy to ask me things he obviously did not know about while I was on leave, I scolded him. I know it is obviously I am becoming what I know I am not and I could not help it.

My hobbies and obsessions and silly spendings had bled my wallet dry, and when I tried to fix it, I bled my soul dry.

I don’t know what to do anymore. I know that not knowing what to do is a common excuse for doing wrong things, but I really mean it when I have no idea what to do.

Can someone please help? What is right? What is wrong? What is my core personality? What should I believe in? Can I ask for forgiveness? Can I ever get out of this rotten feeling and state of mind?

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My online shop has launched!

My online shop has launched!
Check out www.sgshoppin.com

More details soon!

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Server move completed

The server move is completed. I will be launching an online store soon!

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Stop making me take out my earphone!

As you all know I am using a rather unique piece of in ear monitor, the Ultimate Super.Fi 5 Pro which costs almost as much as an iPod and sounds simply fantastic. It has very good seal (meaning when you wear it, it blocks out most of the sound outside and hear nothing but your music). Of course, this had led to many moments where I suddenly notice those around me looking at me and then “soundlessly” wagging their mouth at me. What I normally do is to point at my earphone stuck deep inside my ears and they would give up and wag their mouth at someone else instead.
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Blogging from my ipod touch

Hehe I’m blogging from my ipod touch using the official open source wordpress app!

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100% proven and tested way to boast your blog traffic with minimal effort

After visiting Ping.sg for a couple of time and getting a few “test” entries ponged on the site as well, I begin to realise there are indeed very cheapskate and evil ways of driving tonnes of traffic to your blog, although some come with unwanted side effects. These are retarded method but 100% proven working methods (as seen from other blogs that employ them) which I do not use myself because they all seemed too… unethical and stupid. I call all these blogs retarded blogs.

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100% proven and tested way to boast your blog traffic with minimal effort

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My jaw!

I have no idea what happened, but recently I have lots of pain in my gum at the right and back of my mouth. My teeth keeps brushing against the side of my mouth, and the resulting pain caused me to be unable to close my teeth and I had to swallow my food without chewing much.

After looking at the mirror for awhile, I discovered that my left jaw is now LOWER than my right, and slanted to a side. This is damn weird lah. What is wrong with me?

I do not know if the jaw problem is due to the sore gum or that the sore gum is due to the jaw problem.

PS: I didn’t get into any fight or fall or it couldn’t have been due to an impact.

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I should be more positive

While on the phone with my girlfriend just now, she commented to me that recently my blog entries have been getting more and more critical of society, showcasing all the bad things that happen in real life.

Being such a happy, cute and innocent Si Hui, she certainly hopes that my future blog entries will be more positive.

I can’t promise, but I can always try:)

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