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Opine Here Pillars of Strength Subscribe to this to blog if you would like to be emailed whenever it is updated. | Ironies Thursday. 4.17.14 11:12 pm Comment! (0) | Recommend! Frayed lines Saturday. 4.12.14 11:15 pm It has been a harrowing week. I know not of any other word to describe it. It is... just different from all the other low points I'd ever experienced, or rather, wrought onto myself. Idk but somehow this time it happened before I'd even done anything... substantial (again, is that the right word to use)? There was no casus belli... It is like, to cite another one of my favourite army cliches - simply testing water until you drowned. I'm the sort who will invest a lot of time and effort into maintaining friendships - this was largely down to all that'd happened in the past; companionship (simply being friends) is something close to me. Although I'd spent time with others this week (I'm certain that all those people spent far more time with other, closer, friends though in the same period) - there's something missing... I really missed having the liberty to really talk about super random but interesting things; trading stories of all sorts, feeling that at last someone can actually tolerate my nonsense and my quirks and all the random things I say. - Love is such a malleable word I don't even - mainly the general rule is to love others, like how God loves us... which He does so unconditionally? Caught up on service for the first time in many years. It was the 4th part in a series about fireproofing your faith. This week's focus was on the Holy Spirit; it is not something new, but it served well to augment my erm... non-existent faith :/ - But in the stillness of the moment it takes for a Polaroid picture To capture our faces forever The world has turned a touch on it's axis And the only thing certain Is everything changes ... for better, or worse? Comment! (0) | Recommend! Afterlife Thursday. 4.10.14 10:29 pm If there's one thing I learnt from Chrono Cross.. It would not be about wormholes and love and death and triangles of fate or the beautiful harmony at the end when you get to use the final 'summon' to get a perfect ending at the Darkness Beyond Time - It will be that life goes on - still. As the game went on, it became apparent how the same action, done in two alternate dimensions, produced vastly different outcomes. Still, we are all stuck in one home dimension (bar any wormholes you stumble upon); cause > effect and you can't go back in time, split the dimensions and change things for the better (or for the worse). It has been 4 days since I've visited a snowing Turkey (I was tempted to use my usual 'd' word [cold war reference] to describe this but I thought against it this time haha much ingenuity wow) I'm not how many people know of it... but as usual, the less people know about it the better. Afterlife. Oh my God, what an awful word After all the breath and the dirt and the fires are burnt. And after all this time, and after all the ambulances go And after all the hangers-on are done hanging on in the dead lights of the afterglow I�ve gotta know� __________? Comment! (2) | Recommend! c'est Wednesday. 4.9.14 10:27 pm Felt much better today (prayed for inner peace). Expectations v reality; always good to have some expectations although reality usually carries itself around like a good ol' trump most of the time (think Colin Chan). Key is to manage them both - the greater the deviation, the greater the chances (odds) are of a collapse. Some things are simply too irrational for us to even contemplate putting values and weights on them. And that, simply put, is reality acting like a boss and destroying whatever scale you use to balance the odds of a possibility coming to fruition. No one's loss - you can say it's akin to a deadweight loss. I'mpossible. Comment! (0) | Recommend! Team Wednesday. 4.9.14 12:48 am Hello world; I shall attempt to critique my earlier hypothetical. (Apparently my friends gave it short shrift when I told them about it). I don't think that it's not a case of the firm not giving the applicant a chance but that it had from the very first moment they met and somehow the firm felt that the applicant would not fit well with its ethos and philosophy. But can the rules of natural justice apply? That the firm was guilty of bias when considering the application due to some pre-conceived 'not-so nice' notions? Not easy, cannot prove short of express words to that extent; will not pass reasonable suspicion test (cos the reasonable man cannot be bothered about you). Besides the case does not involve a pecuniary interest anyway. I still think I will fail public law; the helix fossil never gave me much of a chance anyway. Sorry for being affected by Lvl 4 Natural Order the past few days. Fittingly, it's part of the skill set of the least popular (played) hero on Dota 2. Hi friends who're here for the first time. Welcome to my somewhat-personal space. Ok la it's not really obscure since it's so google-able anyway. Top result somemore there's really no We live in cities you'll never see on screen Not very pretty, but we sure know how to run things Living in ruins of a palace within my dreams And you know, we're on each other's team Comment! (0) | Recommend! Game Over Monday. 4.7.14 11:40 am You just want to live your life The best way you know how But they keep on telling you That you are not allowed I woke up this morning with a theory/analogy. TC > Associate > Partner When applying for TCs, firms either have an ideal perfect candidate in mind; or are holding out for someone more qualified. And then when you have a TC, it doesn't even mean you are guaranteed employment at the firm - it's only a short-term contract for them to evaluate you and ultimately make the decision whether to retain you. There is a difference between saying "we are holding out for someone better" and "I will never consider your application at all". The latter ground is perhaps amenable for review under GCHQ; illegality (fettering discretion) and procedural impropriety (bias). It's quite ironic if... let's say, the firm rejects your application because they think you know too much about it; when all the info you know are things the firm tells you at social gatherings and on their website. Imagine the scenario as such: You have a firm where you know you will enjoy working at because you know what to expect from all your interactions with it, be it through social media, career fairs and networking sessions. In order to apply to that firm for a TC (not even an official job position!) you pretty much shut your eyes to other firms because you are not supposed to get a TC from e.g. Firm A, then apply to Firm B and if the latter accepts you, you ditch the former. It is all-or-nothing; you put all your eggs into one basket. Imagine the firm as a person. And the firm never gave you a chance. This pain It is a glacier moving through you And carving out deep valleys And creating spectacular landscapes And nourishing the ground With precious minerals and other stuff So, don't you become paralyzed with fear When things seem particularly rough Comment! (0) | Recommend! 4/2014 Thursday. 2.6.14 12:22 am Preamble I happened to visit Nutang's homepage just now and I felt like I'd stumbled upon a (virtual) rustic village; where traffic is at a minimum and people generally recognise and know each other('s existence, at the very least!). I'd blogged here for close to 5 years now (it's long; and most of the regular bloggers are regulars) and witnessed first-hand the decline in the rate of new blogs and posts that are sadly indicative of how social media platforms have evolved over the years. I hope that (dare I speak it out loud) this site will not close down; especially since a quarter of my life's memories are stored here Distant memories I clicked on '30', '31' and was instantly transported back to 2009. I relived the events as I'd described them; felt the very same emotions and thought the very same thoughts. Time seemed to stop still across the blogosphere when we entered this decade. I tried the links on my old blogger site. Many were dead. Others were stagnant. A few were still live - such as chai(jy)'s, waimin's and annabel's. I guess it's time to 'fess up; it'd been long enough. There's no point trying to hide the references in my prior posts - to the point that I can't even remember what they represented in the first place. Every story needs an ending. No cliffhangers. It's been 10 (ten!!) years since I stepped foot into nh for the very first time. It was to be the start of a bittersweet journey that has both hurt and taught me much in equal measure. A lot of posts were directed specifically at certain persons who played key roles at the various stages of my life. I could do so because this blog was created (in secret) in a bid to escape from the old one while at the same time allow me to restrict the visitors to this site. Some in the class were on it from the start - I think it was joo, jtay and aaron? Others were friends whom I trusted and confided in - jos (who never as much as left a trace; my staunch Scramble with Friends buddy - and I hope we can meet up for a long-overdue date with moppie as well) and c, the someone to someeight who allowed me to end those days in army with a smile on my face each time. I'd never properly thanked her; I guess we suddenly drifted apart? She moved on with her life and I guess I'd to accept that things will never be the same now that circumstances had changed. This site was (and still is) a place for me to express my inner thoughts (just like weird-ish for you). In some ways, the shift from blogs to instant social messaging platforms has allowed me to achieve my original vision for this blog: Since no one can be bothered to blog (and search for blogs) nowadays, only my closest friends (and of course the Nutang community) are privy to my rants/expositions/prose. Everyone has a past. We are (inevitably) coloured by the sum of our experiences. Sometimes, a trip down someone else's memory lane enables you to empathise with his/her character and points-of-view. [Confidantes] listen to each other while making the other person feel like they�re worth listening to. And not treat them like shit in return. Yep. Comment! (0) | Recommend! | Categories: Reflections [t] 3/2014 Wednesday. 1.22.14 9:34 pm I think that at the end of the day, I'm just a super uber confused person. Deep down inside, what do I really want? The rumours and anecdotes floating around make for some grim reading. The urgency of it hasn't totally set in yet. I need to think, and pray. And catch up on public law. Comment! (1) | Recommend! |
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