Sunday, September 26, 2010

Garlic bread

I miss the garlic bread in Australia.

Don't know why, but i ordered garlic bread on Saturday as soon as i saw it on the menu. Ever since i came back to SG, i only ate garlic bread once in Nando's chicken. It was fantastic! It still taste Australian, that light taste of garlic, mixed with cheese and herbs, oily yet delicious. However, the garlic bread from Toastbox was a total failure. I never knew that garlic bread can be sweet...

I just miss the true western garlic bread. Will Asian ever make the same garlic bread? And i miss the garlic fries in Cedar Point too!
Do i really miss the food, or the good times...

Anyway, don't buy the garlic bread in Fairprice, or you will regret that.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

有些中国人...

在新加坡,很多时候,提到中国人,有些人就会摇头。朋友告诉我,以前,有些社会上的女人败坏了中国人的名声。而受过教育的人,不会被人鄙视。

在SMU,仍然有人鄙视中国人。有些人鄙视中国人,是因为我们进了SMU,而有些新加坡人却无法在本地的大学上学,这些我也不在乎,有些事情,就是命运。而有些人鄙视中国人,却是因为当代的或者说是在我身边的中国人,让人不得不鄙视,从来败坏了中国人的名声,让有些新加坡人见到中国人就不愿跟我们一组做project。

话说我的AFA(advanced financial accounting)一组,4个中国人,我一直没在乎。中国人嘛,大家在一起就用中文商量,什么问题也一起解决。一个presentation,2道题,大家一起把问题解决了,于是也很高兴,觉得合作还不错。然而,这是一个presentation + post answers,所以需要把consolidation worksheets做出来,不只是journal entries.于是乎,我开始了艰难的consolidation worksheets的工程。估计学过accounting的人都知道这是什么样子的。最终跟老师结果有差距,于是我一个个找,另一个组员也帮忙,最终弄妥了,softcopy也弄好了。

我准备PPT,尽心尽力的做了很久,大家都说不错。

于是说,大家分配presentation的内容,我说想做第三部分,另一组员也说要做,于是乎,我说你想做就做吧,我做大家都不愿做的intro+first few entries.结果今天presentation了,另一组员说她做Intro,因为她忘了,问了另外两个人,都说是让她做。然后让我做analytical check, 我最不自信的一部分。分配工作的时候,我第一个就说我不做analytical check,难道你们忘了?于是乎,大家想起来是她们弄错了,接着又劝我,“analytical check那么简单,你照着读不就是了!”天哪!!!“如果让我做analytical check,我就不做了。”我没有让步。

上课了,后面的人叽叽喳喳,我听不下去了,"你们选吧,剩下的我做。”我还是让步了。她们没有太过分,还是让我做了我准备的部分。
之前我问,要不要rehearsal一下,大家都说不用,自己弄弄就行。所以我自己在家里练习怎么讲这个道题,结果她们三个都没有准备。讲起来磕磕疤疤,都没有讲清楚为什么要进行不同的adjustment,大家听得一愣一愣的,我就时不时的补充一下。终于熬完了。。。
中国人,本来英语就不好,表达不清楚,有presentation再不准备,觉得什么都会,一上台什么都不会,还有一个人直接靠着桌子背,PPT为你们准备好,只需要你们配合一下,这都做不好,让人怎么尊重你们!
深感气愤!!!

哪一天,中国人都变谦虚了,都踏踏实实做事了,估计太阳也开始从西边出了!

Friday, September 17, 2010

拿得起,放得下

说来轻松,做起来却不知有多难。
是双子座的缘故吗,还是什么,我永远都无法轻轻松松的拿起,潇潇洒洒的放下。每次都要有人在旁边提醒,劝告,甚至是批评,说服我,我才可以做到。如果没有一个理由,我就会这样一直错过,直到来不及。

Victor曾经提醒我,“友谊并不是用时间来衡量的。”
Edwin在我要走时提醒我,“你跟Mikael关系挺好的嘛!”
因为这样的提醒,我才能拿得起,才会确定我生活中的人,其实不止是平常人,他们是我的好朋友。

琳曾经批评我,“有些人,不值得做你朋友。”
正是因为这样的批评与告诫,我才可以放得下,放弃一些并不值得的自己付出的友谊。

我身边的人从来都没停止提醒、告诫我,但我从来没有被说服过,所以我一直也不敢拿起,也不敢放下,生怕今后又会后悔。或许,我该自己出息一回,这次就潇潇洒洒的放弃。
最后一次,为你留下几滴眼泪,明天开始,我的世界将会恢复阳光,一切如初……

Monday, September 13, 2010

Creativity

Doing Entrepreneurial Finance project, we need to have a creative business idea and implement it. Let me count my ideas:

1. "Post-it". I had the idea after post-it came out. Well, too late.

2. Online 3-D fitting room: I still think this would make a great business. Next time when you go to ebay or taobao to shop, you will be able to "try" on the clothes. Upload your photo, key in your height, weight and some basic information, the system will be able to generate a 3-D photo of yours! Right now, in the market, there is this "My visual Model" which looks like 3D technology, but is not; and the model is just a model, not you. However, this idea was done by another group last term. My professor shared this idea with them. I wonder if any company is doing this, and I hope to see it in the market soon.

3. Recycle paper by deinking. Ever wondered if recycling paper can be as easy as printing? Not sure if such a technology is available or is realistic, but would anything be able to deink the paper, in the same time, recycle the ink as well. Till now, i couldn't seem to find anything that can achieve the simple purpose. My only concern is that, the cost of recycling might be even higher than going through the whole process of recycling paper by current technology, because the later is on a much larger scale.

4. Transform Radiation to electric energy. Lots of radiation is affecting our health everyday. Imagine that there's such a "protector" that can absorb the radiation and transform it into energy, wouldn't life be much better? According to my research, the technology is available now, which uses nano technology.

Still thinking hard... Will i ever change the world by a little bit?

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

恐惧

总会时不时的产生一种淡淡的恐惧,一种真实的不安全感,而现在,这种恐惧感逐渐加重。
我真的很怕自己会回到2年前的状态,每天孤独的生活着,为了学习在学校待到12点多,然后一个人委屈的大哭;平时就算听着周杰伦的歌,也会哭得稀里哗啦,于是,到现在我都不敢去听《蒲公英的约定》,《青花瓷》。
现在这个状态,好像又回到了以前,我不知道自己怕什么,如果说现实残酷,那么对有些人来说,更是甚之。而我唯一能做的,只能每天对自己说一句“娜娜加油!”并且真正努力的去做事情!
”娜娜加油!“