(a) I want you to recommend one of each to me:
1. A movie
2. A book
3. A musical artist, song or album
(b) I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less.
(c) I want you to give me the best advice you think that you have to give to me.
(d) Copy and paste this into your journal like i did, and see what kind of responses you get!

Scorpio Horoscope for week of May 26, 2005

One of Sesame Street's most recognizable characters is Cookie Monster. After years of feasting on all the cookies he wanted, the fuzzy blue puppet has recently been forced to limit his intake. In an effort to teach kids better eating habits, the show's producers even require Cookie Monster to sing a song called, "A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food." I vociferously protest this action. Born November 2, Cookie Monster is a Scorpio, and Scorpios shouldn't be compelled to tone down their desires as long as their desires aren't hurting anyone. You're on this earth to explore your cravings, to be led by your cravings to the frontiers of understanding. That's the only way they can teach you all they have to teach. Now go and commune with as many cookies (or your personal equivalent) as you need to.

Free Will Astrology

is this like a license to indulge, much like bond's a license to kill? :D

http://nytemare.lobang.net/Maldives/

Selected pictures from my Maldives trip

once in a while i get the opportunity to speak to some of my senior colleagues, and the negativity they project is somewhat disturbing. there is a lot of resentment in the job, and due to contractual obligations, these people are unhappy with their work, their workload, the lack of adequate financial renumeration for a perceived higher workload as compared to other streams of controllers... and it does show.

overly concerned with impressions, it shows how the stresses at work have caused some of them to fall over the edge, and border on being crazy. but it's a good way to deal with the stress.. someone once said you have to be crazy to survive in this job

but it's the same in every workplace, the impression you give people will determine how they respond and work with you, how much cooperation they want to give you, how much knowledge they want to share with you.

there is a need for an overhaul of the way people deal with impressions, and also some consideration of how to deal with the unhappiness caused by the way the job is organized....

if things don't pick up, it is indeed a slow poison that will eat away at even the most enthusiastic, and in the end will just cause the system to crumble on it's very foundations that are already shaken

i'm back from my trip to the maldives.

after ending my course at SAA on 6th of May with a nice afternoon tea reception and certificate presentation ceremony, i went home to prepare and pack for my trip, which was postponed from febuary due to my primary atc course.

saturday afternoon came and it was to be a nine hour trip to the maldives because of a transit in sri lanka. the transit was pretty boring, but since i was travelling alone, i managed to find time to do some reading, which i hardly find any time to do nowadays. the trip to male was certainly more inviting, and i was travelling back in time the whole way, given colombo is 2 hours behind singapore, and male is 3 hours behind.

arrived at male, was picked up by the local recep and transferred onto my dhoni for the handhu falhi, which was to be my home till the 14th. it's a nice boat, with great air-conditioned cabins, with an even nicer crew.

well, some things didn't turn out right this trip, and some things did. i didn't bring my dive comp, but i managed to rent one, and i did get to see whale sharks, which was my primary purpose of the trip. and i think i spent a bomb on my phone bill too.

the maldives is a wonderful place to do a diving safari off a dive boat like the handhu falhi, but the best time to go would be january and febuary. so i'm going to try and get a trip organized to go there next year, and this time, with more friends. so those who are intending to pick up diving, please do so, and we can make a trip out to the maldives next year. (i may just have another trip to manado or kapalai/sipadan this year end anyways).

it's back to work for me, but not at SAA, but at changi airport. it'll be a nice change before my next course, which is tentatively scheduled to start on june 26th, and by then we'd be able to see the next batch going through their primary course, and hopefully all of my senior batch makes it through the aerodrome course as well.

will update again. it's great to be skating happily again, without worrying about politics in the skating scene once again.

Your brain: 160% interpersonal, 140% visual, 40% verbal, and 60% mathematical!

Congratulations on being 400% smart! Actually, on my test, everyone is. The above score breaks down what kind of thinking you most enjoy doing. A score above 100% means you use that kind of thinking more than average, and a score below 100% means you use it less. It says nothing about how good you are at any one, just how interested you are in each, relatively. A substantial difference in scores between two people means, conclusively, that they are different kinds of thinkers. Matching Summary: Each of us has different tastes. Still, I offer the following advice, which I think is obvious: Don't date someone if your interpersonal percentages differ by more than 80%. Don't be friends with someone if your verbal percentages differ by more than 100%. Don't have sex with someone if their math percentage is over 200%.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 97% on interpersonal You scored higher than 89% on visual You scored higher than 57% on verbal You scored higher than 56% on mathematical

Link: The 4-Variable IQ Test written by chriscoyne on Ok Cupid