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To Shell or Not to Shell

Seriously…. I really think Singaporeans really love to complain….

The other time Shell gave a discount, people complained that the timing was too short, too inconvenient and many other reasons.. Now when Shell extended their fuel offer from 10am to 6pm, people complained AGAIN….

I heard that the average waiting time for getting in line for the fuel was about 30 to 45 minutes, varying from different Shell outlets…. Though I am an avid supporter of Shell, I didn’t think it was worthwhile for poppy and me to spend an hour waiting in line for cost saving of around $15-$20 (as my car was at 1/3 tank) when we both had hell of a lot of work to do….

Back to the topic of the complaining Singaporeans…. People who live near the outlets complained of noise, congestion and how it ruined their weekends….  My answer to that is MOVE OUT…. We have to learn to live with the environment that we are in…. It is not as if it is a daily thing and that it is affecting your whole way of life….

I am sure those drivers who got the savings are not the one who send it the letter to Straits Times Forum…. Apparently the one who sent in the letter have been a supporter of Shell and he was quite disappointed with Shell. We have to live with the fact that something like this will definitely attract a crowd and cause congestion. I must praise Shell for hiring axillary police officers to deal with the congestion and that was perhaps the best Shell could do…. But seriously, it will be quite silly to expect that there will be no congestion or queue…. I am sure the writer was quite pissed that he could not get into the queue for fuel and hate the fact that he has to face the congestion….

This is so similar to the things I had to deal with when I was doing my national service…. During briefings before the patrol team leave for their duties, the team leader will remind the team of “certain notorious residents”. These are the sort of people that will complain at everything that they see…. They will complain about students being noisy when they are in school (which is quite stupid as that is what you get for living next to a school). They would also complain about the mall being too bright, congested and noisy and how it affected his sleep. But seriously,  we do get such shit calls and we have no choice but to attend and “appease” them because the calls will just keep on coming….

Seriously, if they really like his peace and quiet, he is living at the wrong place as he should stay near places such as bukit timah or botanic garden, where he can enjoy the peace and quiet (with the occasional monkey screaming). Rather than making grumbles that will help nothing, perhaps it would be better if he put his head to better use on how to earn some dough and move to a quiet location….

Oh well, this is life.. There will be the normal people and there will be also the SHIT people who complain at anything they see….

Stoning Poppy

She just loves stoning so much=)

Swensen Ice Cream Buffet

After 2 sleepless nights, we finally got a chance to relax and went for out long awaited ice cream buffet:)

Queue was quite long and it took us a while before we could get our seats..

Oh my oh my….

There are so many choice of ice cream that we are familiar with and also new creations by swensen.. Slurp:)

But the best part would be having the opportunity to go out with poppy and take our minds off our busy schedules..

So glad that we went early as we were shock at the length of the queue.. I’m sure there is at least 50 queuing up for the buffet..

After some shopping, I could not take it as it felt that I can fall asleep while standing.. We decided to head home so I can have an early night..

Dive Dive Dive

I am suppose to be doing my literature review but I just cant seem to concentrate as in a few hours time, I will be leaving for Pulau Aur for my dive trip =)

From the pictures I have been seeing, Pulau Aur seems to be a great place to dive as the water are crystal clear, not like the milo water we have in Singapore.

Having kind of a mixed feelings to it. On one hand i am damn excited about diving down and see all the fascinating things underwater, on the other hand, i am being constantly reminded how unforgiving can the sea be.

Because of this trip, I am missing out on a lot of things, namely the photoshoot at Dar’s place, paintball with ODAC, Commex Fair and Ben and Jerry Chunk fest. But there is only this much time for this much activities. We cant possibly have everything that we want.

Hope that everything goes really well=)

Procrastination to Motivation

This is really a struggle for me.

I can’t seem to find the kind of motivation I need to carry out what is need to be done. I chanced upon this website which help to identify what is impeding my progress.

Action Driven Procrastination

• Seeking Perfectionism and Micromanaging (This is a problem that I have always faced, I will try to do the best in something and I will keep redoing it, though I should try to complete a draft of the task and work on improving it instead)
• Over Planning (I will plan and plan what I want to do but always fail on the execution)

Feeling Driven Procrastination

• Feeling of Frustration (The feeling of not able to do something that I think is within my capability, I get frustrated if I am not being able to do something. I can’t seem to redirect the motivation to something positive)
• Feeling of Boredom (I admit that I hate repetitive things. I need stimulation to the mind and have problem motivating myself doing such stuff.)

Procrastination Triggered through Lack

• Lack of Focus (I get distracted easily, my attention span towards things varies and I have problem focusing on task on hand unless it is due in a short time)

Analyse, Think, Prepare, Motivate and Act

The five important steps identified in the mind map below.

• I have to find the drive in my life, in order to motivation myself.
• I need to know what I want and work towards it.
• I need to discipline myself to ensure that I keep to what I set myself out to me.
• I need to pick myself out of the slump I am in now.
• I NEED TO ACT NOW

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From Procrastination

To Motivation

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http://blog.iqmatrix.com/mind-map/procrastination-to-motivation-mind-map

I hate being sick

Feel like a freaking corpse now!!

Our First Lecture

Our first lecture together!

Tekong

24 July.. The very day that my bro enter army.. My mum and Dar wanted to follow also but they only allowed certain number of ppl to follow due to to H1N1.. That’s why only Annie and me follow him in.. But it seems that no one enforce the two person restriction as I saw up till 4 ppl accompanied the enlistee in.. Quite dumb that such thing is allowed to happen as it is supposed to be an army camp.. I even saw ppl taking pic in the camp which is supposed to be banned.. No one seems to be doing anything at all..

Much has changed.. Training staff seems to be getting younger and equipments are better..

It is good that he enter now as he will be back before National Day.. Will be looking forward for that day..