(2012-05-12 20:34)
在成为上班族的这段时间里，我终于体会到为什么很多人在开始工作后，健康状况就每况愈下。一般上班族每天坐着面对荧幕八到九小时，回到家吃完饭后已经疲倦不堪，再加上因为平日都很操劳，周末也时常喜欢慵懒着在家。这种幸好，我有一群不介意在周末早起去健行的大学同学。从年初到现在我们探索了双溪部洛赏鸟区、武吉知马森林步道和乌敏岛等等。我非常喜欢这些踏青的活动，因为这是我难得可以到户外呼吸新鲜空气和欣赏大自然的机会。
上周六至本周一，我们乘船到印尼民丹岛(Bintan)过了三天两夜的短暂假期。这是我第一次来到此地。岛上所有的餐厅和娱乐项目都十分昂贵，摆明就是要赚取新加坡游客的钞票。我觉得我花13新币划一小时的皮艇已经算是那里最划算的了。不可否认的是，民丹岛上有怡人的风景和美丽的海滩，度假村也有很多具创意的服务，像是麻将租借和烤肉材料外送等等；我们自己也带了很多游戏和零食，白天去海滩，晚上做室内游戏及看电影，非常轻松写意。最难得的是我们九位上班族都成功的在星期一请一天假！
期待下一次的旅行
(2012-04-02 23:12)
Disclaimer: This post contains a certain level of partisan
angst. Read it at your own peril.
As is common to most passing fads on facebook, people like to
re-post things that their friends post while staking a claim that
they subscribe to the messages contained. If only that's true, then
this post would have been unnecessary. Recently, the above picture
caught my attention, and if you know me well, it is not hard to see
why.
I secretly laugh at most people who tell stories about how
their lives are characterized by awkward moments. That's because
apart from the 25% (statistically) of the population to which I
belong, nobody is reall
六个月的试用期终于结束了，我已经名正言顺的成为正式员工。忙碌的时间总是过得特别快，老实说我觉得我半年以来虽然很努力，但是很多东西却还是学得半吊子货。不过这六个月的时间却让我对半导体工业工程师这行工作有了充分的认识。我所在的部门虽然不常进入厂区，却掌管所有控制厂内自动化仪器的软体逻辑，以及所有反映生产数据的报表。基本上我的工作一半是在维持及改善上述的中枢系统，另一半则和客服员有些雷同，就是解决生产部以及物流控管部所丢过来的问题。这些问题的频率和难易都没有任何规律，一多起来却能让你手忙脚乱。所以我的工作最具挑战性的部分，就是如何在手头上有多份案件的时候有效安排自己的时间，甚至在必要时‘选择性拖延’那些比较不紧急的东西。至于要如何说服我的‘顾客们’暂缓那些我认为非紧急的问题，就是我正在钻研的另一门艺术了。
很庆幸的，我的公司没有所谓的加班文化，通常最晚傍晚六点我都会离开公司。我也有一帮聪明且风趣的同事。从他们嘴里三不五十就会冒出一些经典语录，顿时让紧蹦的神经轻松不少。老实说，在听了许多新人在职场上骇人听闻的故事后，我现在的处境似乎比我六个月前所预料的还好一点。希望这样
昨晚夢見什麼
剛剛發生什麼
快樂或不快樂 在這一秒重頭
早餐想吃什麼 yeah 星期六去哪裡過
我和全新的我 在下一秒碰頭
有時候衝動 偶爾會迷惑
There is a limit that an undergraduate engineering education can
take you, and that's caused by the limitations of theoretical
knowledge in painting a good picture of what engineering is all
about. At least for my degree--IOE, college taught me that it
comprises crucial tools to improve the efficiency of processes. The
problem was that such concepts were hard to quantify, and non of
the projects I did could really allow me to visualize the impacts
an Industrial Engineer has in production and process flow.
During my days as a college student, I did consider entering a
couple of fields, most notably consulting and finance, partly
because of the high pay and partly because I was not sure what I
want to do as a profession. To digress, I think that one of the
greatest weaknesses of the Asian tertiary education is that it
forces students to choose a career path too early even when most of
them are unsure (judging by the inflexibility of changing one's
major in NUS and
开始工作后，我虽然在上班时间努力奋斗，但是假日却变得有点懒散，时常把想做的事搁在一旁。我觉得这是因为我还未完全适应一个上班族的生活节奏，导致一下班就感到浑身疲惫而提不起精神。不过，最近因为有圣诞节和跨年的连续假期，再加上陆续有几位朋友从国外回来，让我的12月过得蛮精彩的。
如果说2007-2008年是我人生的低潮，2011则像是在坐云霄飞车。不管是大学毕业、找工作和面试，学打网球，或是在纽约曼哈顿观赏独立纪念日的烟火，都是我人生的初体验。这些经历中有些让我开心，有些让我扼腕，
但是没有一项不是宝贵的。整体来说，我对我的2011年感到满意，希望2012年会更好！
虽然结果不理想，我仍然坚持
I bought this book more than 5 years ago but postponed reading it
until recently. It turns out to be a good move, because the novel
dedicates substantial pages to illustrating US landscape and
people, which I can appreciate better now having spent 4 years in
the United States.
The novel employs a tone that almost makes me feel that I am
reading a diary or documentary, despite the fictional characters.
It describes the arduous migration of an Oklahoma family westward
towards California to seek better living in the trying times of the
Great Depression. While the family moves from one city to another
in the book, I find myself typing the names of the places they've
been to into Google Map, tracking the paths of migration on the
map. The plot differs from most other books in that it is not a
typical story with one or two expected highlights. Instead, the
story delves into the delicate relationships and interactions
within and among the poorest families as everyone fi
五个月前，我不报任何希望的说，但愿机会能第二次来敲我的门。我万万没想到，这个愿望居然实现了！上一回我把我的失败归咎于自己尚未准备好，这次我绝对不会让这种悲剧再度重演。我相信现在的自己比当时更有筹码，也更有胜算。毕竟，那个主要对手已经奇迹似的自动引爆。
喔对了，我的那两个‘邀约’，目前已经摆平了一个，另一个正在进行中。。。
