August 14, 2003

07/08/2003, Thursday



went for a talk recommend by my brother at tanjong pagar, keppel towers... actually it's a free preview o f a program known as "Patterns of Excellence", which gives you a NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) certification.... don't misunderstand, this is not computer programming, this is an inspiring about programming your brain to lead you to the success of ANYTHING! too good to be true right? the talk was given by Adam Khoo and Stuart Tan of the company, Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group (http://www.akltg.com.sg)... ok, now i share with you some things I heard from him (he talked about a lot of things, i am only able to reproduce a little)



1. first step in suceeding is to have Correct BELIEFS, you MUST believe you CAN succeed

2. which leads you identify your Correct GOALS, and you MUST COMMIT to achieve these goals

3. then come out with Correct STRATEGIES, you can learn from successful people

4. then leads to taking Correct ACTIONS, but you have to control STATE (or emotions) first, and also controlling the factors that contribute to state



a lot of testimonials had shown that this works, so I could guarantee this is not a prank... they holding these kind of talks occasionally, visit their website for updates...



08/08/2003, Friday



went to borders tp continue reading "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", it's simply a book that got me addicted (you might i'm weird and crazy right?)... head for home after dinner when my friend jio me out for a midnight show... the show was "Homerun", a great local show by Jack Neo, as usual putting political issues betweent the lines of moving stories with some humour... we went for supper at Newton Food Centre after that... and as usual go home (at 4am) when we found there's no place to go



09/08/2003, Saturday, National Day



today is National day, but I prefer to stay at home rather than going out, where it's crowded everywhere...



10/08/2003, Sunday



planned to go cycling... but got heachache today, most probably because yesterday slept too much...
04/08/2003, Monday



met 1 of my good friend, Da Wei, for lunch at wisma... had a good chat and he go off for work... i went to borders alone, to enrich myself with some books... spent a few hours reading "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", by Robert Kiyosaki... a very interesting book on financial knowledge, which is just a right book that answer my question i ask my years ago, "Why study so hard when little of these skills apply to the really world?"... I strongly recommend you to read this book if you want to gain financial freedom... anyway, no harm reading right? this is the official website of the book, http://www.richdad.com



05/08/2003, Tuesday



went jihao's house for mahjong in the late afternoon to about 9pm... quite tiring...



06/08/2003, Wenesday



planned to go for a jog today, but didn't go... haha.. too reluctant to leave my bed... haha... think i really need someone to motivate or accompany me in sports... anyway, also too late to exercise liao.... for the rest of the day, basically stayed at home...

August 05, 2003

28/07/2003, Monday



receive a leaflet yesterday, saying "Great Shoes Sale at Tion Bahru Plaza"... so I went to tiong bahru plaza to have a look, to look for sandals and slippers (for NS)... but cannot find any I like, too bad lor... but at least i got a copy of a dictionary from Popular, quite expensive ($24), but it comes with a CD-ROM that will definitely help me in pronuciation of english words... great! well.. and of course, i go there alone (again?) since my friends are either not interested or not free...



29/07/2003, Tuesday



wake up early in the morning (7.30am is considered very early for a slacker), went to Lakeside for my 2nd bicycle lesson, finally I cold make at least 2 revolutions on the pedal, but that's not good enough, I must at least cycle a distance (my target).... but i had yet to achieve, maybe because of my balancing problem... well, the weather is not very good (raining heavily), so we stopped the lesson and went for lunch....



30/07/2003, Wednesday



went for a jog in the morning... cant run much also... spend rest of my day at home...



31/07/2003, Thursday



stayed at home whole morning and afternoon, went for a business talk introduced by my brother, quite a fruitful evening...



01/08/2003, Friday



accompany my mama to Carrefour (at Suntec) in the evening, or should i say night (because we only reach there at 7.45pm, due the dragyness of my mama)... it's so unbelievable that we could shop until they close shop, when we buy only some groceries and a standing fan... and luckily my brother got a car to transport all these things... or we will be taking MRT and it's a toture to me to carry so many canned food and a standing fan and walk a long distance...



after reaching and unloading the stuff, my whole family embark on a journey to a mignight supper at Cheese Prata Shop behind NUS... prata not bad, but the curry not so good... it's so amazing that i still got energy to watch VCDs until 5am...



02/08/2003, Saturday



went to meet my gang in the late afternoon at suntec... walking around, sitting down to talk and then xiang drove us to beach road military market (Golden Mile Food Centre)... we all bought some stuff and had dinner there...



03/08/2003, Sunday



slacking whole day at home.. nothing much...