was gym-ing on sat, and came across this quote on someone's water bottle:

you're what you do repeatedly
excellence is not an act, but a habit.

hmm.

this is why people who succeed in one thing, seem to do well in every other thing also.

it's not just the aptitude that matters, but the attitude.

i need to buck up.

after so long, why do i feel like i'm back at square one again?

have i been circling? have i made no progress?

sigh.

Mauritius

Arrival at the Mauritius airport - we were welcomed with fantastic weather!

My boss dying for a smoke, after the 7 hrs long flight

we stayed at sofitel resort, wonderful hotel with the most COMFY BED i've ever slept on. the room was very nice, too nice for one person...

the balcony at the end of the room opens up to a sea view, (although it was kind of blocked by some coconut trees), the perfect place to chill with a glass a wine..

a huge pool, but a pity the water was ice cold, probably because it was winter. my teeth starting chattering the moment my whole body was submerged in water, had to keep swimming laps to generate heat. brrrr...

cold it might be, but i still couldnt resist it.

horse-riding in the sunset -a heart-achingly romantic moment

watching the sky translate into different shades of purple and orange


blue blue crystal clear waters that put sentosa to shame

soft fine sand that collaspes under your feet

in the presence of such pristine beauty, there stood a lonesome figure...THATS ME!!

couldnt resist taking a few more pics of the sea, just to give proof to myself how BLUE it really was.

to be honest, i kind of thought the beach and the sea look better in the photos than in reality...but who is to know until you go there and see for yourself. i dont want to burst anyone's bubble!

taken to lunch at a restaurant surrounded by nature

me on the streets on port louis, the dusty and congested capital of the country. roads have been laned since the colonial times.

new showroom showcasing toshiba notebooks

my boss and our mauritian partner

all in all, i must said i had a good trip, although it was really more work than play. i treasured the little time i had by the beach, and the peace and tranquility one can almost never get in singapore. it was just me, myself, my thoughts, and the sun, sea and sand standing witness to my presence.

life in mauritius is obviously slower paced. the people there are also more carefree and easy going. when it relates to work, there is a lack of tension and stress that we would normally feel in singapore.

i wish i could stay there longer; to enjoy the illusion that i'm living in another world.

happy happy

2 weddings and a trip to mauritius in the past 10 days!

jasmine lau tied the knot with fm last sat at grand park hotel

and last night, our dearest rachel hoong got married. ooh she looks all grown up now....haha...

happy happy for them
to have found the love of their lives.

makes me come to the next question,
who amongst us will be next?

i've been working so hard for the past 3 days, close to midnight on mon and wed, and until 1.30am on tues.

i'm so tired today.

there are always things cropping up to keep my head occupied. there has been a rather huge inflow of information these days, and i know i should take some to digest and analyse, so that i wont forget these lessons learnt, but am just too tired to do so.

anyways it's off to mauritius next week for a short biz trip. looking forward!

of death and existence

someone reminded me tonight, that love in today's world is so complicated.

he commented that women are acting like men.


women sleeping with married men.
women sleeping with about-to-be married men.


on top of that, there are teachers who sleep with students

women sleeping with women
men sleeping with men


in this crazy world, let's all try to maintain that bit of sanity.

***

yesterday, i told someone that i was fearful of death, because in death, we dont exist. and the knowledge of non-existence, scares the hell out of me.

he then posed this question back to me: do you believe in soul?

do you believe that after death, your soul goes up to heaven?

i said, i dont know, do you?

he then replied, yes, because i'm a christian.

he then went on to explain, how do we know that the soul that is rising to heaven, is really you? there are 2 ways to verify, ym is ym because ym looks like ym, and because ym has memories of what ym did a second ago. hence, point no. 1, if ym's soul looks like ym physically, then ym's soul is ym. however ym's soul takes on no form, and therefore we cannot use this point for verification.

point no. 2, ym's soul must have the same memories as ym for ym's soul to be ym. but memories fade with age. how do we verify if ym's soul is ym even though ym's soul does not have the same memories as ym? at the age of 60, we probably lose some of our memories too. does that mean that ym at 60 is not ym at 21?

conclusion is, we dont know whether ym's soul is ym.

similarly, in startrek, how do you know that the spock on the planet is the same spock that appeared in the spaceship a second later?

like the truman show and the matrix, how do we know that the world we are living in is the real world? maybe everything doesnt exist.

how did the big bang occur and how was the universe formed? was it a mere coincidence?

how did life come about? how did i come about?

indeed, there are TOO MANY questions with NO answers.

which is why scientists believe there must be a greater force out there.

which is why we have religion.

to answer my very first question, how do we know that after death, our souls go to heaven?

the answer is, faith.

faith dispels fear.