Scouty’s Weblog

Been feeling kind of down recently, perhaps thats what the youngsters called being emo nowadays. Well don;t know if its due to the recent news of all the disasters happening around the world that is also affecting my mood, especially now that I do have a few friends living in China, it does make the anxiety level kind of higher than normal. The reason why I am saying this is that, over a period of 2 days I had almost cried while watching TV.

Once was when the news were showing reports of the China disaster area, and the footage of their Premier encouraging the victims, it kind of sent me to a sad mode and I start to feel the tears forming in my eyes.

The next occurance was while in the midst of searching of a song, I chanced upon the clips of the latest China production of The Condor Heroes, as I had missed the last episode when it was showing here, so I just start watching the clips on You Tube so as to ‘complete’ the whole series. Well, as expected during one part of the show, I guess I must have been too engrossed that I also start tearing….  

The last one was when I was watching the re-run of the Korean drama, Da Chang Jin today. When the old lady that is like the Top Lady of the Royal Kitchen (Not sure if I get it right, but they sure have tons of titles for a whole lots of ladies) died, and you have Chang Jin and the other lady crying like mad, that also sent tears to my eyes. For a moment I was kind of stunt by what had happened. Weird feeling I must said.

Also had met up one of my friend last week and had a good chat, basically its more of me being a listening ear while she share her ’story’. So in the midst of her sharing, she requested the below song to be played over at the pub’s karaoke system. Though she didn;t sing, as we ended up listening to the song and the lyrics. I must said, its a very nice song with very meaningful lyrics. A totally sad song to listen ( you have been warned). Again, while searching for the song and listening to it over on my laptop yesterday, again tears formed in my eyes.

Well.. seems weird to me to be feeling like that, but I guess that has always been a problem with me, for being emotional and sentimental. Good thing or bad thing?? I also don;t know… but am feeling puzzled by the sudden change of mood recently… Signs of aging??

The Link to the song that I had been listening since yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgjVF-ePD-Y&feature=related

Had a great reunion with all my Pri school mates from Thailand. He had came back for a short visit for 2 days and took the opportunity to meet up as I hadn’t seen him for almost 10 years.

As he had stayed over at our ex-scout teacher’s place, it ended up as a big gathering for all of us, as our scout teacher had managed to get some of the old boys to drop by her place last night. It was indeed a great reunion as not only I met up with my pri school mate, but also some of the seniors from my scouting group as well.

I guess the best part of the whole reunion is also to see my scout teacher, whom I last visited her was 7 years ago before I got enlisted. We had a good time talking about the days we had during our scouting datys and how all of us had grown up to be what we are today. Somehow despite the fact that I only met one of the senior for the 1st time, as he was like a few batches before me, and thus had never seen him before during my scouting days. However, when we introduce each other and know that we were all part of the big family, somehow we can just interact and relate to alot of things with regards to our scouting movement.

It was indeed a very nice reunion and also seeing my scout teacher in good health. Will be looking forward to more of such reunion, as all of us had exchange contacts and agreed to keep in contact and meet up at our scout teacher’s place often.

Had been feeling damn pissed after lesson today. Just when I thought Mr S from last Sem was anal, damn this P guy is worse!! Not only he seems to be making our course work and stuffs more ‘challenging’, he also seems to like sending subtle verbal threats that we are kind of under his mercy if we want to clear his subject.

What pisses me off today is they way he handle our project title selection and also on the articles selection for our individual journal.

First, we were told that we are not allow to use the same company for both our Sales Mgmt and CRM report. As according to him there will be overlapping and stuffs. But what I believe he really want to convey is that we will be having an easier time, especially in the research portion as we are sort of killing 2 birds with 1 stone. So while he tries to put his message across in a very tactical way, but it is quite clear that what he meant was he do not want us to leverage on doing one research for 2 projects.

Second, when one of the classmate asked him about the use of online articles for our Individual Journal, he disapproved the idea of us submitting online articles. He had insisted on all hardcopy articles from newspapers, magazines or journal. While we try to clarify on the sources of our online articles, (CNN Online, Channel News Asia, and even Harvard Business Review Online). But he was insistence on not allowing them, until we reach a compromised that its 1 online and 1 hardcopy. While we try to seek the rationale of it, since the source of articles are pretty much the same, except for the format. He became rather pissed and to quote him word for word, he start to say this ” Ok, if that’s how you all want to challenge the decision, you can submit all 2 articles from Internet, and I will see about it”. I do not know if I am being to sensitive, but somehow by saying that, its as good as telling us that whoever wants to challenge him can try. Now who in the right sense of mind will still dare to submit 2 articles from the Internet after hearing this.

I do not know if we are all being spoilt too much by the previous few lecturers who tend to be abit more lenient with us since we are part-time students. But what I can say about this P guy is that, he sure is being difficult. Now I am keeping my fingers crossed that my group will not get him for our project consultation.