lesson learnt

"Everything unpleasant is developmental.""Kaikki vittumainen kehittää." translated from a Finnish expression by MAPP reader Mika Salkola

-- i needed this. i.need.to.be.a.better.worker. --

along with it, i also found a wealth of really neat quotes : here goes :

"People are able to wonder at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and then pass by themselves without wondering at all."St. Augustine

"If not you, who? If not now, when?"Garry Herbert - 1992 Olympic 2+ rowing Finalist (probably not the first guy to say this)

"If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations."Scott Tinley


"When all you have is no chance, you still have that"unknown

"The view from the summit is worth the effort"unknown

"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."Sir Roger Bannister (hint: under 4 minutes)

"DO or DO NOT. There is no 'Try'"Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back)


"Sweet is Pleasure after Pain"Dirigo Rowing Shell advertisement


"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."Hector Berliaz


"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."Albert Einstein

"A certain amount of opposition can be of great help to a man- Kites rise against, not with the wind."John Neal

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." Sir George Picketing, often quoted by Albert Einstein

"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his
so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand
in favour compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the
plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all
life."T. A. Edison


"Man cannot discover new oceans until he has the courage to lose the
sight of land." Unknown


"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn." The Doors

"You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again" (Alfred Wainwright - perhaps Britain's best known writer of guide books for hillwalkers)

"Show me a man who never failed and I'll show you a man who never tried anything hard enough" Allen Waimsley, a fell runner from England thinks this is his, but admits he may have read it somewhere


"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." Vince Lombardi

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat."Theodore Roosevelt

"There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide."Rolf Arands


"Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. "Chinese Proverb

"That which we achieve too easily, we esteem too lightly "Thomas Paine


"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stilled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a significant glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist...."Jack London


"The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, the important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. To spread these precepts is to build up a stronger and more valiant and, above all, more scrupulous and more generous humanity."Pierre De Coubertin

"Youth passes, but immaturity can last a lifetime."unknown


"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure . . . than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."Theodore Roosevelt


"It is that little bit of insanity that keeps us all sane."MAPP reader Kevin Cunningham

Night out at Sri Tiara | Ivan's

"hey, i think i'm looking at a new business idea here. Shah designs the chicks, Simon does the commercial side. We're actually getting somewhere here, innovation team!"

Owh, you gotta ask this guy over here, he's got the contacts and the numbers.
"No i'm not interested in indonesians"
"Don't worry, he's NOT indonesian ( simon's dark ), but he's got numbers TO indonesians"

Cantonize, huh? eric cantonize, why not you hokkienize as well? might as well,right?

i no speaketh your english.

to boon : grouse, huh? not bad.. is this your first? "no, it's my fifth actually", "holy cow, you've been screwing my bird. "
to bird on bottle - "dear, i can't take you around anymore"


On moving to kulim :
Apparently there's been a transparent survey going around in the office - 90% are in favour of kulim. What is wrong with this people? i lived there for a year.

Ivan : Kulim? where's this?

Mervyn : oh, it's just a little bit lower then Macedonia, u just go down like this, and then you turn left.

"Oh where's my wife? Oh in the apartment? Better get her down here. Any longer and we'll have to buy the apartment " Not good.

Ohw, i thought we could stay in the car and all - but apparently that idea was not very popular.

On playing golf against Ericsson in 4months time.

Shah : oh that'll be in 2007.
Mervyn : Ivan, i think you need to teach your team some mathematics. these guys can't count months.

On biruntha, and drinking/not drinkingness : ( and looking at her husband )
"oh this girl's all confused now, she's not shure who her boss is."


i think now is about time we put on some dance music, jump into the pool, or kill somebody.

ivan : i could jump into the pool.
mervyn : but you live here. that won't be fun anymore.


michelle, out of all the interns i've had, you're different. you're like abnormal. hey ivan, her lecturer's coming on friday - i told her to tell me exactly what answers she wants me to tell him, but maybe we should play teh ducky fast, and the fussy duck game with him first.

office humour =)

ivan : if it rains in the morning, does it mean that it'll be sunny in the afternoon?
mervyn : oh yes, that's EXACTLY what it means. there will be NO rain this afternoon.


mervyn, to a guy who's looking but not looking at someone who's typing a password :

"you can look ok, everyone already knows my password
biru, why don't you send some mails for me to ppl you don't like also."

mervyn, to all of us sitting in a car, after heat became apparent.
"oh yea, ladies - i forgot to tell you : this car aircon ONLY works when we reach the place, wherever-we're-going". before that it won't work.

from john. ;)

If woman didnt exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -aristotle-

Tragedy is when i cut my finger, comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. -mel brooks-

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

comic relief.

everyone's a comic character, some time or another~

:: V ::

"This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

Remember, remember the 5th of November; gunpowder, treason and plot, I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.

Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. There is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.

A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.

Evey Hammond : Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what. And what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond: I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I am not questioning your powers of observation. I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.

Creedy: We've swept this place. All you've got are your knives and your silly karate thing. We've got guns.
V: No, what you've got are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty of them I will no longer be standing, because if I am then you will all be dead before you can reload.

on weed.

"don't look at weed as if it's at a totally new level. it's not a new level. it's not a level. it's suicidal."

- diabolis_interium -

my boss read this from a calender this morning.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men, if they can't get what they want by being smart, they get it by being dumb.

*haha*.

not all wrong, all of the time.

life calls.

i've got to vamoose... life is calling me. ;)

- biggerbag o' bones -

to inspire.

been awhile..

work. but heyy --->

;)

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch. ~Author unknown, from a television commercial

Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect... God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In the inside of your hands you will see the letters M.M. It means "Memento Mori" - remember you must die. ~J. Furniss, Tracts for Spiritual Reading

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank. ~Ben Irwin

Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. ~Author Unknown