A funny image:


For Juli:
      She really needs some financial support in this time. She's moving to a new job and her old office would do many (harmful and unnecessary) things to keep her in the old business. For now, I have given her as much as she needed to carry on to the new job, but the amount of money I gave her was not little. Moreover, it is not my own money, but my parent's money that was given to me. Although officially it's my money now, I will still get flamed by my parents if they know I'm giving that much of money to "no one" (they don't know about Juli yet).


For myself:
      I have just found out that I cannot take my Master of Business Administration (MBA) next year. To be accepted in the MBA program of the National University of Singapore (NUS), you need to have at least two years of work experience in the business management field, a TOEFL minimum of 620 and a GMAT minimum of 600. I don't have all of them. I have never been working in a management field before, my TOEFL of 640 expired last year and I don't even have the latest amount of skill necessary to pass a GMAT test (I don't have any managerial skill at all). So it will take maybe a few years more for that. And I don't know what to do in the meantime, because my parents don't want me to work before I get my MBA. And don't even think about the four years marriage plan... it must be changed somehow, don't know when.


••• Thursday, July 29, 2004 •••
Got this from my friend Venety... and I encourage you to read this too...

"There are only two kinds of people in this world-the realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they're going. The dreamers have already been there." -- Robert Orben


Where have you been lately in your dreams? Your future is likely to be only as exciting as your answer to that question. Explore your possibilities in your thoughts. Take the journey in your dreams. Then wake up and PREPARE to make them happen. -- John C. Maxwell , Your Bridge To A Better Future


"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't" -- Richard Bach


Never give up on your dream. And don't expect to one day "arrive" so that you can stop living or growing. Live each moment, day, week, year, to the fullest. Your mission in life isn't through until you're through. -- John C. Maxwell , Your Bridge To A Better Future


"To bury our dreams is to bury ourselves, for we are really 'such stuff as dreams are made on.' God's dream for us is to reach our potential." -- Author Unknown


All you do in life depends on you - on what you think you can do. The size of your dreams determines the scope of your accomplishment. Your potential has no limits. You are capable of climbing a thousand Mount Everests. -- John C. Maxwell , Your Bridge To A Better Future


"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however." -- Richard Bach


The road to your potential is open and waiting for you. It offers you the opportunity to travel to almost everywhere. But just a trip cannot be made until you take the first step, so your dream can only come true when you start to work at it. Don't let your dream remain just potential. Start working today. Do what you can at this moment. Don't worry about what you can't yet do. Tomorrow will come soon enough. -- John C. Maxwell , Your Bridge To A Better Future


"Dreams become reality when we keep our commitments to them." -- Judy Wardell Halliday, Weight Control Expert

And there's also another Friendship Award from Chette. Sorry that I have to convert your original PNG format to JPG and downgrade the quality, because your PNG's size is too large...




Well that's it for today's (long) update. See you next time with another post in another time...


••• Sunday, July 25, 2004 •••