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All I want is a repeat of last year, passing my IPPT in SAFRA Toa Payoh, the only test centre which is still using a manual system. I even thought of scanning my result slip and publishing it proudly to show the world I passed IPPT. Yea I know passing is no big deal when everyone gets gold or silver and happily enjoying their $200/$400 of monetary incentive, but for someone who rarely passes IPPT, pass is the biggest deal.
But plans are still plans, my achilles heels - standing broadjump is back to haunt me. And this time it's a record low of 207 which I can't believe it myself. The fast few months of gym-ing has allowed me to pass my pull up and run but seems to have no effect on my jump.. ARGH. After the statics station I requested and was granted a third attempt to jump. No miracles. I told the tester I will got one week to try.
"Welcome to RT" was his reply. Screw him. 9 cms is no big deal and I shall grab every opportunity to retake my broadjump. After all I need not take all the other stations again since I passed all my other stations and running. For a start, I've booked the 0730 slot this Saturday. Freaking early but no choice. I'm desperate to not go RT. After that there's still some windows at Toa Payoh, Maju and whereever I can go. I just want to pass the freaking broadjump.
Sadly, my friends all seems to be quite happy for me to go RT. Here's the evidence.
Had a short weekend getaway at Genting with a few of the Greenies. Shall not go too much into detail about the trip since facebook tells most of the picture. Perhaps it's good to share some tips for those who are intending to go Genting in the near future.
If there's one thing that makes me hate internship most, it got to be the MRT. Can't wait for internship to end so that I need not squeeze in the MRT during peak hours in the morning and evening and get squashed near the door any more!!
Talk about graciousness, please don't blame the commuters for everything and look at the state of your MRT traffic before pointing fingers.
Probably one of the best weekends I had, not that anything special happened, but I was pretty much occupied and stress free. Met up with TWC group and decided that they will be going Genting on the same day I am going with the Greenies, so I shall have 2 groups of friends with me at Genting. Yeah! Then had a short meet up with the NPCC peeps to receive the usual inflow of (relationship) updates.
No training on Saturday since it's archery outing! Went prawning (a very short one though) followed by dinner. And today met up with the Greenies to celebrate the July babies' birthday. Good to see those who went overseas intern/ exchange once again after such a long time.
Will be meeting up with the above mentioned groups in the near future soon for more hao chi de dong xi. Another happy thing - it's 3 weeks to Merdeka!!!
If you still remember around ten years back when internet was getting more popular and articles were discussing the advantages of internet, one of the advantages is
"With internet, one will not be restricted to the mundane 9 to 5 working hours and can work in the comfort of their homes."
And ten years later, it is precisely this "advantage" which returns to haunt me. Internet has not liberated me from the 9-5 work (9-6 in fact), but has extended my working hours to 24 X 7. After ending work at 6, there will still be another set of work for me to do at "the comfort of my home." First I will need to check my school email, and when the word 'archery' appears in the subject, that's more or less about it. If I'm lucky I will just need to delegate the job to someone else, if not I will have to follow up on the matter myself. Fortunately as the president, I need not have to consult others when I need to make decisions and that save me precious time and the irritation of people asking me fo r work.
That does not end my working day yet. Exploring into forex will means there is much more work for me to do. First of all will need to read on economic data and news, next will be reading charts and followed by monitoring. At least I am still using the demo account at the moment so I expect things to get worse in the coming months. By the time I finish my trades for the day, it should be about 1am and time for me to sleep.
At this rate I will probably get internet phobia soon. Everytime I log on to the school email I wish that there will be no new email and everytime a MSN window pops up, I pray hard that it is non-work-related. It takes courage even for me to log on to MSN nowadays.
Has the benefits of internet outweighed my freedom? That depends. If I get real rich with the internet, if I have more time to hunt mouse and play blackshot, if I manage to find romance on the net. If all the 'ifs' come true, then I will probably be a willing slave of technology.