Category: Life

What ever it is that you like to do.

Give it your 100%.

Commit.

Enjoy.

And be nice.

We all feel jaded someway or another.

I thought if I studied hard, I’ll get into a good school. I thought after I graduate from school and did well, I’ll get a good job. I thought that if I’ve put in enough effort at work I’ll be better paid. I though if I had a fantastic idea, I’ll change the world.

I thought if I treat them nice, they would treat me nice. I thought if I was interested in his stuff, he would be interested in my stuff. I thought if I loved her, she’ll love me back.

I’ve been mixing with a lot of very good people. Very nice and very good people. Unfortunately their circumstances are not so good. Family issues, money issues, sickness, accidents, tragedies.

I ask why.

I don’t think its fair.

Some crash and burn. Some fall into depression. Some lock themselves away in a tower and throw away the key. Some simply give up.

I feel so jaded for them. Its not fair.

But then again… Will it ever be fair.

I’m sorry. We don’t live in a storybook. There is no fairy tale.

The prince charming on the white horse could possibly become a drunk pedophile in the future.

The princess can grow old and become the wicked witch. The damsel could possibly not get rescued and got ran over by the train. The prince charming on the white horse could possibly become a drunk pedophile in the future.

The world doesn’t owe us anything, nothing at all.

If that’s the case, then how?

Then I realize what kept them going. They stay positive. They do what it takes. They keep trying. They don’t give up. They enjoy trying. They enjoy those around them trying together with them. They appreciate what they have. They count their blessings.

They don’t let what happened in the past affect what they are doing to achieve what they want in the future.

Resilient.

Focused.

They see the Jade in Jaded.

In your face b*tch.

Everyone seem to be upgrading to iOS5 without any problems, but I was plagued with “Unknown Error -23”. Searched online for a few days, asked a few friends and finally found a solution which was to update it manually.

1. Download the iOS5 manually. See iOS 5 Now Available [Download Links]
2. For Mac users, copy the iOS5 file to “~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates“. Win XP users “\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Update” and Win Vista / 7 users “\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates“
3. Go back to iTunes and hit “Update”.

Yay. iOS5-ed. Next up iPhone4S.

I’m simply disappointed in myself. I lost things two days in a row.

First, on saturday, I brought the kids to see Smurfs and after the 7:30pm movie, we went to do groceries. Only when we got home at 11pm, I found out that my wallet is missing. The last I remembered of my wallet was that I put the movie tickets in them when I was in the cinema.

So after a long tiring day, Pearl and I went back to the cinema in the hope that its there…

The guy tearing ticket stubs for the midnight crowd was busy, but he got his colleague to help. They took out a lost and found file and… :) they had my Montblanc present from wife wrapped in a nice zip lock bag. Thank God… It had a few hundred dollars in it, all my cards, IC and all and not to mention the wallet itself. We got home way past midnight…

The very next day, we had to run some errands at Takashimaya. After getting what we needed to get, I went back to the car to get the cash card to redeem some parking thing. I put the cash card in my pocket and while walking back to the customer service counter, I stopped by Pass The Juice to get a Banana Orange Juice. When I got to the customer service counter, the cash card was not in my pocket!

I was super disappointed with myself. How can this happen again! My wife did not know what to say…

I tracked back where I came from and was sure that the cash card fell out of my pocket when I pulled my wallet out… *sigh* My wife told me that her September transport claims for ERP / parking were not done yet… this meant a few hundred dollars just went up in smokes.

All we could really do was to report lost.

AMAZINGLY, they said someone just reported finding a cash card and they pulled out a form to ask us a few questions. At the back of my mind, its like how can this person find and report this so quickly? It could not be…

But it was. The cash card came back. A lady from Customer Service from another level brought the cash card up and we were sure it was the one.

They got the particulars of the person who went out of her way to make this report. I gave this honest person a call to thank her. And commended her for her honestly and just being so nice.

Thanks Farah. Thank you so much.

What a klutzy weekend. I feel like i’m slowly turning into a Homer.