Two festivals, Two countries, Same time.

In Canada, I will be celebrating Halloween !




In Singapore, I will be celebrating Deepavali ( Festival of Lights ) with my Indian Friends.



Ah.. the amazing goodness of multicultural me ! hee heee

Here's wishing all my friends celebrating Halloween / Deepavali that they have a good time and party it up guys !

the world's greatest !

its down time again.. ahhhh....how nice.

i am listening to R.Kelly < the world's greatest > and i am still smiling from tonight's gathering with the world's GREATEST friends. MY friends !

I know i have the world's greatest friends because
- we care enough about each other to make time out of our busy lives.
- its been 6 years and we have not run out of things to do together.
- we laugh , till our sides ache.
- we tease each other and dont get offended.
- we motivate and inspire each other !

To my dearest Barker Boys, you guys have given me a new goal, a little bit of hope, you have given me motivation and inspired me again !

Luv ya guys !


I think I just might be singing to myself in my dreams tonight. Smile..

a quiet night..

its 2am and i just got home.

It is going to be a long and quiet night. I just stepped out of my shower and I am sitting on my bed, reading personal emails from friends. I got a million thoughts on my mind. My hair still smells of the 'mint' shampoo I used this morning. MTV is playing in the background, the other source of noise is coming from my air-condition. Its crazy quiet but I am enjoying this down time.

I am looking forward to next weekend of down time at the resort...

The sun, the sand, the sea, a good book and Just Me.... Just Celine

Quarter Life Crisis

A few of my friends are going through their quater life crisis. I think I am done with my crisis and this was stuck on my wall when I was going through it. So.. maybe this will help my friends .....

The Quarter-Life Crisis
by Brenda Della Casa

It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn't know and may or may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you do not realize is that they are realizing that too and are not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job. It is not even close to what you thought you would be doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and are scared.

You miss the comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same people on a constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren't so great after all. You are beginning to understand yourself and what you want and do not want. Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging a bit more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and add things to your list of what is acceptable and what is not. You are insecure and then secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.

You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you or you lay in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough to get to know better. You love someone but maybe love someone else too and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you are not a bad person.

One night stands and random hook ups start to look cheap and getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision.

You worry about loans and money and the future and making a life for yourself and while wining the race would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!
What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out.

i need this in my life...

I need a SLR Camera, I need a focus on my life..
my thoughts are EVERYWHERE !
ARGH !

But i am ok ! no worries people .

GEEK ALERT

Talk about Geeky-nesss......

I took the Nerd/ GEEK Test !



Your Score Summary

Overall, you scored as follows:

12% scored higher (more computer geeky),
0% scored the same, and
88% scored lower (less geeky).

Compared to those in the same age group as you:

16% scored higher (more computer geeky),
1% scored the same, and
83% scored lower (less geeky).

What does this mean? Your computer geekiness is:




High-Level Computer Geek. All of those below you are envious of you! (...Well perhaps not the cool people)



In Summary, it means that I am pretty Geeky. STATS shows that

The average score for the gals is 38, while the guy average is 56.

Geeky Celine Signing off for the night !

Nothing beats this...

Nothings beats having friends visiting you from half-way across the world. Over the last 7 weeks, I had Justin visiting... it was nice to have someone to talk to when I came home from work. I wasn't around very much but at least i know we were living under the same roof.

Justin left Singapore yesterday morning and somehow.. i wish i left with him ... I want to go back to Canada. Is this home-sickness ?

SIGH !

On a lighter note, Jen Wilson ( SN from AIESEC Victoria ) visited over the weekend with 6 other trainees from Malaysia. I am working on putting the pictures up on my flickr account. It should be there within a few days ! But for now... here's a few ! the rest of you AIESEC Victoria people should come visit too ! Of course, the other Jen ! ( you know who you are ! )



Visiting the famous Merlion and doing the merlion pose !



The Singapore Skyline - Singapore's Central Business District



'Jumping' off at the Singapore River



Two Canadians Tea-Egg Toasting !


Well.. I have about 50 more pictures to upload .. can't do it tonight... you guys just have to wait for the sequel to this blog !

Take care !

stupid test

Just the other day.. i sat down at my office table and wondered...

We do all kinds of silly tests ( i have to admit that I actually dont mind doing them ! ) and people are always on a 'quest' to score better on a ' which animal are you test', ' how smart are you' ,'the country test', 'which horror movie are you test'... BLAH BLAH BLAH...

so.. being the Celine I am, I went to goggle for a ' STUPID Test' To see how stupid I am !




90% scored higher (more stupid),
2% scored the same, and
8% scored lower (less stupid).

What does this mean? You are 8% stupid. This means...

You are our next Einstein. Wow! Keep up the great thinking.




While I was doing the test, I was confused for a moment, I didn't know if i was suppose to score higher ( to be stupid ) or beat the test ! Hmmm........
( I came to the conclusion that I am so glad that I am NOT stupid ! BUT there is still 8% of the world's population smarter than me.... )

Its a small world.

I've always operated on a belief that everyone knows everyone ( in the same age group - give or take 1 or 2 years ) in Singapore. Today, I found out that 2 of my co-workers knows another of my friend.

Interesting

Work

I am really not very good with keeping my blog updated the past few weeks.... sigh....

I get Dilbert Comics delivered to my inbox everyday !


I found this today.

2 months into work and I am enjoying EVERY seconds of it. Like any other 'normal' person. I have UP days and I have DOWN days.

Last night, I gave myself a night off. I went for a very delicious italian dinner ( LOADS OF SEAFOOD ) and watched a movie with a very old friend... It was 'suppose' to be hilarious. NOTE the use of word SUPPOSE.

I realised that from this day on, I should be walking into cinemas with no expectations. I get disappointed time and time again.. SIGH...

It was good catching up with old friends, slurging on good food and treating myself nice to a night off... I am looking forward to a weekend on the beach... kick off my shoes and just relax......

For now.. its back to work.

ESREVER

,yadot leef i woh siht
emit drah a evah uoy wonk i, seY
ti gnidaer.


The whole day feels like I am reverse.
I dont know why, so dont ask me. Its just me.
A shitty feeling...

I will be ok. No worries..

Thoughts and memories.

The weekend is rolling by again and another week is going by so quickly i've forgotten how fast time passes. I am consumed with work and 'learning' at work.

Sometimes, I sit at my office desk and I feel that I am working in Corporate AIESEC. the cheers and the music my office plays at the training rooms and the things that we say, the spirit and our very unique office culture. It made me think of AIESEC.

Kudos to MSN, I am still in contact with a few LC members from AIESEC Victoria.

WRC is this weekend and being an AIESEC Alumni, nothing makes me smile more when Dave ( the current LCP ) tells me that we are bring 15 members to a conference ! ( i think there is more now ) I remember the days when Victoria sent 2 delegates. I remember the times when we have to pay for our conference fees without subsidation. I remember how at legislation, we keep our LC open.

Following tradition, my msn name says : Go to WRC - the west, the west, the west is the best. I first learnt this cheer at WRC 2001 - Saskatoon. Today, it rings silently in my head with so much pride.

I am so proud of AIESEC Victoria, the LCPs after me have done a very good job. I am most proud of the members we have sent on CEEDs and ITEP.
The LC has come a long way and I am extremely proud of them. Victoria will always have a very special place in my heart.

Speaking of AIESEC and Singapore, I have a few AIESEC friends from the Coast visiting Singapore ! Justin is already here , Hoan will be coming in November, Jorge plans on visiting in April. Jenn W. is in Malaysia for exchange and I know there are many more coming... I am so excited. I feel like such a tour guide ! i wonder when Kimchi is going to come !

To sleep and to work.....

crazy test I did

THE COUNTRY TEST

You're Canada!

People make fun of you a lot, but they're stupid because you've
got a much better life than they do. In fact, they're probably just jealous.
You believe in crazy things like human rights and health care and not
dying in the streets, and you end up securing these rights for yourself and
others. If it weren't for your weird affection for ice hockey, you'd be
the perfect person.

Just me, Celine..

The past weekend, I have been occupied with training, from 9am to 11pm.

The past few days, I noticed how much my dad appreciates that I am home from Canada. It has been a few months since I came back and things are now less hectic. And it is a TOTAL BLAST hanging out with the barker boys all over again. Life is settling but I realise how much I loved school.

Over the weekend, i took a few hours at night to rethink my personal goals and I have added a timeline to each goal. I feel better having a direction and goals, on the other hand, i felt that my goals are not as ambitious as they were in the past and i know now that I need to go in search of that ONE ambitious dream.

Justin is here to visit Singapore. I love the fact that the house is not so quiet and that I have someone to talk to when I go home. But he is off for Australia today and I will fall back into my regular routine of work, home, sleep, work, home, sleep.

Some of my week's drama include :

1 ) A site-trip to P.Ubin and biten by 6 mozzies, with the whole dengue fever episode in Singapore. I am just weary of my temperature.

2 ) Spending 7 days a week in office for work and Coach Training on the weekends

3 ) Deciding to volunteer again in Singapore.

4 ) Fighting the urge to donate blood because I am not feeling well, BUT i reckon that i need to do it soon. Its a commitment I made some time ago to be a regular blood donor.. I am going to stand by it.

5 ) Celebrating a friend's birthday at work.

I wonder what's up for the rest of the week, I wonder what Jen is up to in Kimchi-land.