Monday, February 19, 2007

Had a nice chat with my 'brudder' in Aus last night... at 10 cents a min, its probably gonna cost, but worth every cent, to be able to chat with him again... Poor guy's in Aus and can't really celebrate CNY with anyone, so I tot I'd call him to send my wishes...

We ended up talking for nearly 2 hours... Talked about nearly everything... his life, work, my life, work... future plans... blah lah blah... Hehe... And we both came to a conclusion that its easier to see things from a 3rd person's point of view, especially when you're in the situation as well... It's quite hard to look at yourself from an external view, since your judgement might be clouded... thats y its always good to have friends around who can give you their honest opinions on your actions... And you can see how it looks like from other people's points of view... Call it friendly feedback if you want to... Hehe...

While talking to him, I realised, as did he, what my weakness was... It was a kinda sad revelation, but useful nontheless... and like all the other weaknesses I've overcome, I will overcome this one... Its just too bad I've got to be this brutal about it...

Hope my brudder's doing fine though... Hang in there bro!! 4 months to end of Hons!! Step by step does it... I'll try to come and visit when I can... Haha...

We talked about choices again too... Realism vs idealism... Being realistic vs being idealistic... Both of us are realistic people, we do have dreams, but sometimes, in present society, one has to be realistic in their goals first, to reach those dreams of ours... Like what he said, hold on to those dreams, but set realistic goals as well... Sounds cheem... and maybe its cos I'm still tanked up with cough meds making me drowsy.. Hehe..

But as always, we both learned things from our chats over the phone... It's time I started getting serious and sacrifice some things for the greater good... or rather, MY greater good... Hehe...

We kinda realised we've got some sort of role reversal now... when he was having fun, I was the studying no lifer... and when I'm having fun now, he's the one stuck in lab with no social life... Hee... I admit, I'm somewhat a late bloomer... probably cos I was kinda brought up thinking that there would be time for fun after studies... Now... well... its time to get serious... with my future... there's still time to have fun, just less thats all...

What I'm planning on, is working in SG for a while, then maybe further overseas, or if I really dun see a need to further by then, just stay in SG, work, get a nice bachelor pad, personal transport... and try to give my parents a better retirement life... My dream though, which I will hold on to... is to leave behind some sort of legacy... And show that nice guys can finish first... =)

Thanks for the chat bro... hope everything will get better for you... See ya when I can...

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