About Everything and Nothing at All
Been sitting here for more than an hour already, shuffling through ideas and actions. Nothing concrete has come out of it yet. Liken myself to a mad scientist at the moment, with paper strewn across the floor and my desk.
Finally managed to get my work computer to connect from home and there is a slight satisfaction from seeing email pop up in my Inbox. Heh, want to spend a little time working in the New York and London time zones, so I can get some issues resolved a little quicker. Work is picking up a little, and while it’s still the same old things, it seems to make a little more sense now and being able to grasp the concepts on how things work is just quite exhilarating.
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Flooded with spam on this website and if it wasn’t because my side blog would break if I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, I’d have done it a while back. This is why I’m stepping up the process of redesigning my blog. Was looking at an online interview about a guy who learnt how to draw in 2 years, and I’m really impressed. I’ve been wanting to sketch an original piece of artwork for my website, but lack the know how to do so. I’ve been flipping pieces of paper, and the only things I remember how to draw date back to when I just started college. It does seem that when you grow older, you become fixed to certain ways of doing things. Am trying to break free of that mould now and see if I can ‘relearn’ how to draw from an artistic perspective.
I suppose the next design is too soon to feature anything thoroughly original from me. Heh, have some ideas, but will not try to be too ambitious at the moment.
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It was only a couple of weeks ago that I was still fretting on whether to take up the CFA course. The notes arrived a few days ago, for my colleagues who are taking it. If four phone directories don’t intimidate you, I’m not sure what will. Heh, the recommended hours allocated for studying should be 10 to 18 hours a week for 18 months. I’m thinking that’s 2 plus hours a day for 5 days weekly if you ever intend to finish up that kind of load. You could probably cram for the exam in the last 3 months before it happens, but cramming was never my ideal way of studying. Heh, it’s been quite a while, but generally for exams I tend to not study the day before the exam. By this time, if you are still trying to understand the concepts behind the theories, you might not have enough time to adequately figure it out (I also do believe that the mind has its own way of understanding things given time).
It is intimidating.
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Vyanne has been destressing from her exams through cooking. Heh, been getting a lot of exotic meals of late. Today it was wild mushroom soup (a mixture of mushrooms, from the Swiss variety, to your everyday Australian variety, to the Chinese and Japanese varieties all mixed together) with meatball pasta. She likes the challenge of whipping something different and exciting in the kitchen. She is a good cook, the food is good, what more can I say? 
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Still sitting here idling and scheming. *minute update* Friend is stressed from exams. Engineering is one of those degrees that if you get through, I consider you to be quite amazing. I never understood how the lecturers could assign exams all back to back. 3 exams in a row, where is the time to loosen up and concentrate for the next paper? I am not a student anymore, and they say to enjoy life as a student while you can. They are right. And this is so wrong as well.
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