air so fresh

it's nice looking out from the balcony, fresh air, light drizzle, green green trees, misty faraway.... (though it might be haze!) so rare nowadays.

i remember a time when i would wake up in the morning. my mom would take us (monster and i) to the garden opposite my house. we would walk around the garden, smell the fresh air, poke at the snails and touch-me-nots, surrounded by tiny sunflowers....

all that, no more....

road trip

this is an interesting road trip. inspiring...

http://www.bybike2malaysia.com/

what is it that women look for???

gosh... if i'm a man, i would have just retreat into a cave in the remotest lands in sarawak and meditate. that would have been easier than being a man in places where are there are women. because then, due to basic instincts, i would then fall for one, and have to figure her out!! figure out what she's looking for, what she's thinking of...

then again, a man don't really have to figure the woman out. i suppose if it's that difficult, it's not meant to happen?? afterall, most of the men out there probably have not done so! or is still in the process of trying?? or have already figured out that it is never going to happen.. ?


or are there are men out there, who would like to claim to have figured us out?? :)

mclaren

i'm racing my virtual mini cooper... because my brain is doing it's daily debate with the rest of the organs as to whether i should go to the gym.

my virtual mini is now ranked number 8. it's climbing very painstakingly slowly... but surely! :) it's a very very boring game. not unlike those rpg games where upon a click of the mouse, little graphic martial arts person walk up to another little graphic martial arts person, slash/ kick/ punch the fella and then u wait. u wait for the other little graphic martial arts person to retaliate. and it goes on and on as u progress through the various levels.... in search of ... i dunno... a sword maybe???

does not require thinking really. no difficult hand eye coordination kinda maneuver... just clicking and waiting for pages to load...

but i want my mclaren. so i play...

self employment... means working for me... why not?

i have always wanted my own business. for as long as i can remember. i wanted to see my ideas come to live. even if sometimes it seems a little bit out of this world. (though nowadays my ideas are more grounded... i think i only get out-of-this-world kinda ideas when i'm stressed out, or when i have no time to pursue them)...

then just a couple of days ago, i met this fella who seems pretty knowledgeable. and so i ask the question that i have asked a couple of hundred ppl... "knowing what u know now, if u are brought back to x number of years, when you were still working for another person.... would you have quit corporate world, and do your own business? or would you have stayed on?"

he says he would have still made his exit. because he does not like the politics one has to face when in corporate. he would also have left because he wanted the work life balance he has, the freedom to choose how hard he work. but he says... to be rich... the certain route will be to work higher management in corporate world. then invest the money saved in properties. due to low likelihood of a business surviving nowadays...

sounds reasonable.

but i still want my own business. time to re-read blue ocean strategy...

anyways, business and investment is not mutually exclusive rite? all the wise ppl out there... what say u?