28 June 2004

As the saying goes, everything that has a beginnning has an end...It ends next month...
What i'm saying here is actually about my first semester in Germany...
Understandably ,there'll be a so-called ''end of semester Examination'' before that...
Thus i'm literally studying like hell at the moment ,with pressure piling up gradually
in a rate proportional to mental fatigue ( After all, learning a science subject in a language that one has studied for 3 years is not easy at all man).....
just hope that all my efforts will bear fruits and not in vain....
Well, what else could i say??.....looking forward to the days after that , when i'll be touring around in Europe and going back to Malaysia for holidays...

13 June 2004

Cooking....just what does one know or understand about it???????
Although i have not done any survey or questionnaire at all regarding this , I suppose the norm is that people always define it as a “self-surviving skill” or rather, “an art” ,at which one needs practice and talent to do it to perfection….
Well , I agree utterly with the above-mentioned definitions , but on the other hand , I reckon that the definition of ‘cooking’ goes far more beyond that …
To be precise , I think that cooking is not only a universal way of feeding oneself , it’s also a test of personality , a means of gauging one’s mental strength , and likewise , a way to weigh one’s power of determination……..
As the saying goes , Rome was not built in a day. The same theory applies to cooking….
Apparently , one is not born with the skill of cooking…. As far as I’m concerned , I did not have the slightest idea of how I could cook for myself when I first reached Germany…and now after hours of trials , minutes of experiments and seconds of failures, u know what ?? I’m still NOT good at cooking ….( I apologize for giving u the impression that I’m already very good at cooking  hahahah……….)…
Nevertheless , an incident happened today that prompted me to write something about cooking….For the first time in my life , the curry that I cook is edible!!!!!...wah gempar lah….Yeah , no joking…before this, I have cooked curry for 4 times and all the outcome were unbelievably terrible….Had I given up on cooking curry , I would not have achieved the success today , albeit a minor success…..With that , I could say that my renounced confidence has been reinforced and at the end of the day , I finally understand that perserverance is the only key to success !!!!
One more suggestion for those companies which are looking for CEO’s with distinctive capabilities , perhaps the time has come for them to use ‘cooking’ as a filter to pinpoint the suitable candidates …..


04 June 2004

Touring around in Europe has always been a dream to everyone , i reckon.....If you told me 2 or 3 years ago that i would be able to do that , i would have laughed incessantly and begged u to stop cracking such a lame joke . But at this very moment , i could say that it's indeed a dream come true for me. Having already been to some of the cosmopolitan cities in Europe , namely Hamburg ( Germany ) , Amsterdam + Den Haag + Rotterdam ( Holland ) , Strsbourg ( France ) etc.... it's definitely not exaggerating to claim that i'm indeed touring around in Europe. Just for the sake of telling, my next destination will be Paris , France and though it's in August during my summer holidays , i'm already looking forward to it . Having said that , i got to thank JPA for awarding me this scholarship to study in Europe...Had it not been for it, i wouldn't even dare to even dream about going round backpacking in Europe...Anyway , hope that the rumours about the allowance which say that it'S going to be cut is not true....