Rick’s Tid-bits

I will start tonight’s topic with directions in life. There are 3 simple views to life, the easy one, the hard one and the one that’s in between.

The easy life. You don’t have to be very good in what you do but you are just going to wing it and decide what to do when things come up. This one often changes to hard life when you least expected. Then the occasional easy lucky life do kick in. If you let your life take control your destiny like this, there will be so much ups and downs and so many unforeseeable future ahead of you that will screw you up royally. Unless you are super lucky but you know you can’t be this lucky.

The hard life. This not the opposite version of the easy life. This is where you think you are in control of your life but let the truth be told, you are still just struggling to find out who you are and clearly your life is totally out of control. Where this point is going is once you find out where your goal is and who you really are, your life will slowly shift into something amazingly different yet interesting. If you are on the right track it’ll lead you to my third view of life.

The life that’s somewhere in between.  This is where you are trully and totally in control.  When things start to slide off hands you know where you need to stand and bring the balance back in.  When things are looking way too bright, you know when to be humble and not let it take the best of you.  This is the stage where you look forward to your new day when you wake up in the morning, this is where you’ll be trully happy and love the people that surround you.

Thoughts: Why do write these stuff? And no, i’m no where near “somewhere in between” stage yet.  It will be my paradise, my paradign, my parabola

Last night I had a lot of fun, it was my first time attending a concert while the performer was also first time performing in North America. His name is David Tao in case you are wondering

I feel a bit more connected back to my root last night, 13 years in Canada had left me unable to relate myself as a Taiwanese or Canadianese (Identity Crisis??!?) ahhh… heck with it.

Thoughts: Sing along with David Tao in concert is like singing kareoke with subtitles!

Today is Wednesday, other calls it hump day, I call it.. hmm.. Wednesday.

I enjoy spicy food, but I think I need to cut down.  It gets me sick the next morning, that burning sensation at the rear end is extra painful… haha, for those that are reading this may find this offensive, but it’s the TRUTH!

Another issue is I need to sleep earlier.  8 hours don’t seem enough, I’m still tired, even girls’ beauty sleep doesn’t require more than 8.  And I don’t like drinking coffee, the after taste is too sour.  Unless it’s Second Cup coffee

This entry isn’t too insightful, I apologize, I find this one boring too.

Thoughts: burning ass, farting fire…. pink peptobismo y’all, DT in the house next Thursday night!

This weekend definitely ended with a good note.  Friday night was panaroma night with few amazing friends from work.  Being it was Vincent’s birthday I decided not to drive and just drink happily.  It’s good to do this once in a while I really enjoy drinking and not worry about driving home afterwards.

Saturday came, I studied, attempted my assignment and had a farewell dinner with Patrick whom will be heading back to HK to search for a new career path.  All of the best goes to him!  haha, we played ping pong with Sergio’s cat, the feline was unbelievably talented at whacking the ball with its paws.

Comes Sunday I finished my assignment 1 hour after lunch and decided to join friends for some intensive brainstorming on the upcoming project.  It wasn’t productive but I hope everyone got their points crossed.

Thoughts: How was your weekend?  Crap… in 8 hours gotta go to work again.

Things that will happen in the next few days (haha I sound like an oracle):
- Friday: lounge for Vince’s birthday
- Saturday: Yoga
- Weekend: 2 chapters: 2 assignments
- Monday: Tutoring, resume studying afterwards
- Tuesday: More studying
- Wednesday: Midterm #2!

Thought #1: no more FB/MSN/GTalk until after midterm unless I’m at work
Thought #2: maybe I shouldn’t work from home on Wednesday
Thought #3: the devil is scary, as usual

So it has finally hit hard at work.  CR test cases, regression tests, documentations, new process change… it may not seem much but the detailed work is probably going to be insane.  Today’s team meeting was probably a bust, everyone’s face look very tense.  Like taking a dump kinda tense. XD

Our big boss is surprisingly an understanding person and very rational at best.  I’d look up to that.  I hope the project goes well *fingers crossed*

I gotta start sitting down with our BA and the developers to make those test cases, you know who you are and I am coming to hunt you down!

It feels like winter is slowly leaving; forecast for the next couple of days is 10+ degrees.  At yoga class today I couldn’t last all the way to the end because of the heat.  It was my first time feeling the heat and causing me a bad headache… o_o  tofu, that’s what my parents used to call me.  Weak and useless.  lol.

As of lately, reality really hits hard.  Like REALLY hard.  Everything I see and or everyone that I talked to really gives me a heavy dose of reality check.  I’m constantly being reminded that I could do better, but what the hell does it mean?  What can I do to make myself feel I have accomplished something in my life, or perhaps this sense of accomplishment is just something that is just toying with me.  I really don’t like this feeling… not at all.  I need a push in the right direction, anyone?

One of those blah day again.  I wonder how many I will have in one life time.  Today I started to tutor a second high school student.  A good kid that’s actually hard working but just lacking a bit of courage to ask questions.  I think I was like that too when I was in high school and uni.  Probably worse in uni where I just don’t ask questions and trying to figure things out on my own…  bad move there.  See all these young ones going through their high school and struggling on what they want to do in their lives really change my perspective towards everything.  People at different stage do different stupid things, if there’s no one there to guide them it’s like stepping into a dark room searching for the light switch, but with lots of spikes on the ground.

Do you wish there’s a time machine? I certainly do hope there’s one for me.  I will go forward and stop looking backward.  My time machine will let me see the future, not the past.

Thoughts: 300 Spartans tomorrow night, 1 spartan tonight fighting against his engineering econ textbook.

Well, I think I held off one week without writing anything.  The weekend just passed was great.  I went backpacking in downtown Montreal for the weekend and really got a good exercise out of it.  So much walking starting Saturday morning until Sunday afternoon.  Things not to bring on the next backpacking trip will be laptop and textbook. o_o silly me.  After the weekend I kinda got used to all the bon jour and au voir stuff.  Everywhere I see was French this French that.  It’s fun in a while to not understand what people are saying around me.  Oh and I forgot to bring extra socks!  O_O
Next trip will be at NYC for the Easter long weekend.  I wonder if we also get Monday off that way it’ll be 4 days off :)  And the next next trip will be Japan, I might need to put away all of my vacation days this year into that…

Thoughts: good luck with the result of interview, I need to put more effort at work, I need to study more (as usual), less facebooking, more music, still can’t stop thinking about you… bah!

I got this souvenir from a coworker and it’s a Bruce Lee hanging on the side of your cell phone thingy.  I don’t like things dangling on my cell phone, so maybe I’ll put it on my key chain.

These days I don’t have much to write about on my blog, head is blank most of the time.  I’m at the bottom of a sine wave right now.  I’ll write more when I’m at the peak again.  For now I’ll let the articulate side of me take some rest and more thoughts will return laterrrr.

Thoughts of the day: Montreal trip, assignment, textbook, breathing