A "contentment" a day makes the doctor goes away

Perhaps I should start to practise this. After the "7 bliss in 7 days incident", I tend to look for more good things in my life, even with some last minute assignments that i got last week. Well, life does look more pretty with a more positive outlook. I think this was one of the points brought up by Bro NW in the Buddhist Devotional Practices talk which I attended last week in BGF, part of the 6 series of EMT. And I did managed to look for something good, at least one thing, in every day of my life.

20071209 (Sun) - Attended the Buddhist Devotional Practices talk by Bro. NW at BGF. Was good, either I was prepared to listen or he was really very good in his talk. Reminded me of how I've tried these practices about 10 years ago, but somehow I have "forgotten" about it along the way. I must make some effort to get back on the path...

20071210 (Mon) - Had dinner with WS at the Jap restaurant at Bugis Junction, and bought my Christmas gift for DC's Xmas Party on Sat, and also a small souvenir for myself. I was very happy with my purchase.

20071211 (Tue) - Nothing much happened, actually, it was quite a full day and we ended up going home at about 9pm. Had soup at Bugis Junction with TC.

20071212 (Wed) - Went to Bugis Junction again to get the same Xmas gift for my parents. Then went to Long Beach at East Coast Park for chilli crab, with EF, AT, DN, and HL.

20071213 (Thu) - Went to Bugis Junction again! This time to change the Xmas gift for another set, cause it was a bit faulty. And I bought a few more pieces of Xmas gifts for my colleagues. After that... another chilli crab dinner at Jumble, Clarke Quay, with EF, AT, DN and DL... it was DL's birthday!

20071214 (Fri) - Managed to crunch out some numbers yesterday night (which resulted in only 2 hours sleep). Anyway, quite happy with it though I was quite tired the rest of the day. PM treated us to Egyption lunch at Cafe La Caire. Then - I wonder what luck we had - at the airport, we were queing for check-in, for security check, and had to rush to buy some alchoholic drinks and then rushed to snap a few pictures, and rushing to the gate for boarding... but it was fun, haha, doing this with DN and DL.

20071215 (Sat) - Xmas party at Izzi, KL! Games were fun... good company...

20071216 (Sun) - Attended the last of the EMT series, which was on "Time Management". Interesting... a lot of very good ideas brought up by the speaker TK Chan.
I should do this more often, reflect on the good incidents every day, appreciate my life now, and look forward to life with a good purpose every day!

20071217 (Mon) - Came back to MY office... Quite good to be able to have a reunion with my previous project team. A couple of surprises (good and bad) in store for me as well.

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There's an end to everything good

After my 7 blessings, I do not know how to describe what my next 7 days will be. It started on Friday night actually, with a phonecall at 8pm, "can you work tonight"? Today I get a list of things to do. I guess after the initial project peak and the sudden off-peak I had last week (which I'm very thankful for), the exhaustation is kicking in, feeling tired these few days.

Not good... dont' feel like working at all.

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7 Blessings in 7 Days

From last Sun to this Sat, there are "7 blessings" in total which I've counted on my flight back to Malaysia on Thu. This is triggered by blessing #6. While I'm on the flight after that, it made me think that I should maybe really learn to let go of the past and to live in the present. After all, the world's not going to cry with you...

1. Attending BK's and CJ's wedding dinner - reunion with coursemates was a bonus.

2. Free lunch by a Malaysian colleague (EF) at Sushi Tei near Singapore office.

3. Lunch with 2 ex and 2 current colleagues (SL,WS,DL,DN), who were/are all in the same project. Venue: some Jap restaurant in Chinatown Point.

4. Lunch with ex colleague (WS) at Raffles City Plaza, again, Sushi Tei.

5. Catching a musical performance by a trio (soloist, pianist, bass cellist) at Changi Airport. Very impressive rendition of Hopeless Devloted to You, Stand by Me, Under the Boardwalk, etc.

6. Meeting my coursemate (SL) on SQ airline when: (1) I seldom take SQ, it's like 10% of my total fligts, (2) I have not met SL for years, I just met her at BK's and CJ's wedding dinner, and I met her again less than a week later (3) She's the flight attendant at the row I'm sitting!

7. Get to attend 2 days training on Fri & Sat

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Random Points

1. Singapore weather - It has been very windy the past few days, and finally it rained the whole day today. Office was so cold!

2. New shoes curse - This has happened to several of my new slippers. Whenever I wear new slippers, I will get caught in rainy day and there goes my new shoes... their first "shower"...

3. Walking in the rain - I used to want to walk in the rain when I was young, because I was not allowed to, and all the movies with walking in the rain scenes, seem fun. Now that I get to walk in the rain, alone, just to cross the road to get some food, approximately 300-400m from the hotel, it's absolutely miserable! It's cold, with heavy rain, the wind is blowing, my clothes and shoes were soaked :( I guess walking in the rain is only fun if (a) you are still a child (b) you are walking with a bunch of friends (c) you are walking with that special someone...

4. New working style - I'm still trying to get used to not feeling uncomfortable coming to work after 9, with odd working hours, 3 weeks peak then off-peak, and working past 24 hours when it's peak, then you get a day off...

5. Life's kinda... just passing by... I seem indifferent to things...

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