Life was like a box of chocolates.

Today there is a debating competition taking place right here in UCL, unfortunately I am not taking part. Well, actually I was supposed to be in it, but something happened hence my team decided to pull out. I was not at all disappointed to be honest, because I am not that keen to joining it in the first place. Well firstly, I know I am going to lose anyway, so why bother competing. Secondly because debating only brings back bad memories for me. Few of you know this, but the last time I joined a debating competition in 2008 during HKSBP, I did something so stupid, but never regretted until today. During that time I was so into this girl that whenever my team had no matches, I would go and look for her and watch her debate instead. I could still remember myself in a blazer borrowed from a friend of mine, rushing to find out where her school was having a match. Ah, the good times. I did debating though, the adrenaline rush whenever I am out there speaking, unfortunately the memory w...

I had the strangest dream last night. I dreamt that I was back in KL for Easter. I went back on my own, without any friends along with me whatsoever. I saw myself in the car, driven by my dad while my younger brother was sitting in the back of the car together with me. Unfortunately I couldn't make out what they talked to me about, something about me being back just for a short while. I remembered how happy I was as I saw the two of them waiting for me when I stepped out of the arrival hall. I honest thought that it was for real until I realized that it couldn't possibly be real because I have not enough money to afford the ticket home. As I opened the two of my eyes, finally awoken to face reality, I was not at all disappointed, really. Because I know that this is how my life has been for the past seven long years, always on the go. Not that I regret how my life turned out to be, but never staying put does feels a bit boring at times. It almost felt like as if I never had th...

Last night right after I got back from playing squash with my friends I ran into a very interesting article on introversion. I was not in a mood to read anything serious at the time, but I was somehow intrigued by the topic of introversion since I rarely come across it much these days especially when most of the things you read are closely related to the financial world.  Everybody knows what an introvert is, an individual who is more inclined to being left alone, who prefers peace and quiet rather than to go out to the bar and hang around. I do agree with the writer, the world we are living in right seems to put a much higher value on extroverts as they are believed to make better leaders. This is attributed by the fact that nowadays people likes to work with doers rather than thinkers. Fair enough, if one is a huge fan of 'actions speak louder than words', then yes, by all means, extroverts are amazing people. But that does not mean introverts are any less incredible.  ...

Today is the 26th of March. For those of you out there who does not know, today is Sabrina's birthday. How can I still remember? To begin with, I did not have the heart to delete all of the reminders I've set both in my iPhone as well as my e-mails. Frankly speaking, I've been receiving reminder e-mails since last week, which explains why I am a bit emotionally on edge these past few days. I know that by now I should have learn to forget her as she already did forgot about me. So much for being friends, huh? Guess I am the fool who took her words seriously and tried to be a friend to her, while she on the other hand completely erased my existence. Today is a sad day for me. I could still remember how I planned to celebrate her birthday back in September last year. I wanted to let her know though we are far away from one another, my heart still belongs to her. But given what has happened between us, I've lost hope for ever finding love, live goes on. So today for...

As I said yesterday, I had my oral exam earlier today. Please don't even bother asking me how it went. As always, things didn't go as I had planned it to. I mean, of all things, I didn't expect myself to stumble upon plural conjugations as well as the basic command words such as 'what' and 'how'. Lucky for me it went by pretty quickly that it ended before I even realized it. Well at least I got hold of a decent conversation with Luay Hasan, the other Arabic lecturer before my exam started since I got there earlier than expected. The rest of my afternoon was spent on biting away my Subway while watching a new episode of The Apprentice UK followed by another show about the preparation Venice undergo through last year when the Pope came to visit, then just before the sun sets for the day I managed to finish one more documentary about Britain's monarchy, highlighting the era of its Queens. As the night falls, I realized that I had not only wasted my time w...

Sorry for the long absence! Here is last week's Song of the Week! Why I like this song:   This is a sad and lengthy song, if you ask me. But nevertheless, the lyrics are very deep and it touches my heart. To be honest, I never liked this song the first time I listened to it, but now, given the circumstances, all those rough times I've been through lately, this song finally makes sense to me. There is also an English version of it, but somehow, I feel that this Malay version seems to be more meaningful, try and pay attention to the words. They'll touch you, believe me...

Forgive me for the long absence, it's been weeks since I last posted anything here and for that I am truly sorry. My life seemed to have caught up with me; preparing for my Macro exam, finishing up Google analysis for Management class, plus an Arabic oral exam is coming up tomorrow. Ah, oral exams. My last oral exam has got to be IELTS, which went horribly wrong as much as I could remember. The panels were not only unhelpful with their unfriendly face, being cut off when you are trying so hard to impress them was even worse. Surely that was all in the past now, but if I for one thinks that I could have done better than in my IELTS though, not that I am ungrateful or anything. I know I can do better than that. Guess luck was not on my side a couple of years ago, huh. Besides, I never did like the whole idea on IELTS anyway as I disagree with the whole exam being the yardstick of measuring one's proficiency in English, that has got to be the biggest regret of all. Anyway, let...

Last couple of nights I went to yet another Malaysian Night show, this time it was King's College's turn. They had a musical entitled Uniform: A fable of distinctions. A musical, now that is something different, hence I told myself to give it a go. Besides, quite a number of my friends are involved in it too. They have been telling me how awesome the show is going to be, so I can't afford to not go, can I? Turns out, it was totally mind-blowing. As always though, I am not here to write about my whole experience that night. If you wanted to know about that, then you just have to ask me personally. I am here to write about what I thought about it. What does it mean to be friends with someone? We all started off as friends, everything was simple. We have each others' back, or so we thought that we did. We confided into one another, share with them not only our stories, but our dreams and secrets too. We trusted one another as we knew that they would always have o...

My Managements Principles classes are a bit dull, if I may say so myself. Do not get me the wrong, the subject is interesting, but the materials we have to learn about are most of the times are daunting, what more when the lecturer himself is much too talkative. It still is a fun thing to know about, at least I got a break from all those Economics concepts. I guess, to be put down into words, I would have to say that learning Management is more or less is the same as Economics in the sense that both of them requires me to be logical and analytical. They will force me to read all those theories, both new and old, then I need to see them through, observe their limitations as well as attempting to put them into place whenever possible.   The above was my notes during my previous seminar. One of the questions being discussed was about Human Resource Management (HRM). To start off, the lecturer drew this on the board, saying that these are the two main notions on the topic...