砂漠のJeffire

Jeffirean Stories

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Today is a really bad day. Wasted a whole day off, less the beauty sleep I got (slept like a log till 10am), nothing went right for me. The main culprit of course was my 2nd attempt at the driving test. Was pretty alright in the warm up but started with a gross mistake in my first item in the course - vertical parking. I did it FOUR times before I succeeded in getting my car into that parking slot...damn. A poor start that was confidence shattering. The next item was the reverse and turn (can't rem exactly the term) and I hit the kerb while turning out....curse it... with the two poor starts i had lost all my concentration and the rest I shan't relive it in my memory. I guess I broke the record among my friends! FORTY SIX points plus 1 immediate failure (undue care prior to lane change) oh man, what less can you ask for?

Yesterday was much more fun... after work I walked along with Wenhui back to the rear gate. He told me he was going to the pasar malam as he was finally free, so I asked him if I could join in. Haha. Another 'date' huh! I parted with him from the rear gate as I wanted to go swim, and also I had to go Chris' home to help solve a computer problem. Yeap. The swim was ok, 25 laps. Fixing the computer took me another hour. Then I cycled back home and bought fishballs as instructed by my mother, but when I reached home she had yet to reach home! So there was no dinner and I thought I could fix it but there wasn't enough time to fix cos Wenhui said we could meet after he finished watching Feng Shen Bang, and some washing up. In the end we met up at McDonalds around 8.30pm. Of course I did ask Chris to join us during the course of the repair...he had his dinner real fast..and came down straight...haha. We had a great time at the pasar malam. Some stops we made 1. the pirated jerseys stall - oh man, i wished i could buy one or two, $15 each. 2. auction stall - some 'lucky' items were on auction and the slashing of the prices was so fake that i thought the items on auction were all cheap stuff from China...3. Handphone covers stall - A whole slew of covers but none suitable for us.... 4. medical ointment stall - woah. this one we spent nearly 1 hr watching a supposedly martial arts display...it was a farce as in the end it was a sale gimmick for medicatd oil...Chris got a dab of it on his hand and he said he felt it was good....$10 for 1 bottle, what do you think? So in the end we parted at the overhead bridge after Chris tried to persuade us to accept his treat but to no avail..haha. Sorry to Chris.. And I went with Wenhui to the supermarket...spent 30mins there...it was certainly a great time to spend...too bad for them cos they had to go back camp early the next day, sighhhhhhhhh...... but fret not, we gonna go Wenhui's home on Wed!

ehhhhhh, so another off day gone and i only have 1 more off day left. i intend to use it on my next driving test (Apr 27) so i guess this month will be a lenghty wait. Anyway for me now, each day passed is one day nearer to ROD...heee.....i do hope things will change for the better as the days go by. This year won't be exactly a good year by chinese beliefs cos this year i 'offended' the Tai Sui god (due to my chinese zodiac sign) so probably i just gotta work harder and not be complacent to achieve my goals this year...

Here I provide you the 10 not-to-dos if you dun want to be a failure.

YOU WILL BE A FAILURE IF YOU ARE

1. OVERCONFIDENT
- Never underestimate any task/test/exam put to you.
2. INSOLENT
- Being rude to anyone is a great way to find yourself isolated without any potential aid when you need it
3. LAZY
- Failure to prepare, practise and revise means a sure fail.
4. INSENSITIVE
- Not knowing all the tiny details means a possible loophole in the course of planning and preparation.
5. COMPLACENT
- Failure to know your own shortcomings is invitation to doom...
6. DOUBLE CROSSING
- Disloyal people never end up living it good...
7. INDECISIVE
- Hesistate and ponder till the next second. Hesistate somemore means immediate failure.
8. HYPOCRITIC
- Saying something and doing something else is never a good example to tell people how much of a failure you are.
9. STINGY
- Being stingy is a double edged sword. Usually you end up bleeding because saving a little usually means losing a lot in the future.
10. UNREASONABLE
- Nobody has the right to decide except logic, sense and just.

Jeffire, if you still have the 10 characteristics of a failure by next week, I shall see you on your knees cringing, slumped on the floor a la the New Paper cover of Van Nisterooy when they were knocked out of the Champions League....

Sure I must vanquish myself of the 10 evils....may I succeed.

Regards
Jeffire

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