Heaven Knows

Heaven Knows

Rick Price

She's always on my mind
From the time I wake up,
Till I close my eyes
She's everywhere I go
She's all I know
And though she's so far away,
It just keeps getting stronger
everyday
And even now she's gone
I'm still holding on
So tell me, where do I start
'Cause it's breakin' my heart
Don't wanna let her go
Maybe my love will
Come back someday
Only Heaven knows
And maybe our hearts
Will find a way
But only Heaven knows
And all I can do
Is hope and pray
'Cause Heaven knows



My friends keep telling me
That if you really love her,
You've gotta set her free
And if she returns in time
I'll know she's mine
But tell me, where do I start
'Cause it's breakin' my heart
Don't wanna let her go
Maybe my love will
Come back someday
Only Heaven knows
And maybe our hearts
Will find a way
But only Heaven knows
And all I can do
Is hope and pray
'Cause Heaven knows


Why I live in despair
'Cause wide awake or dreamin'
I know she's never there
And all the time I act so brave,
I'm shakin' inside
Why does it hurt me so?
Maybe my love will
Come back someday
Only Heaven knows
And maybe our hearts
Will find a way
But only Heaven knows
And all I can do
Is hope and pray
'Cause Heaven knows
Heaven knows
Heaven knows

昨天发生的事情(2)

应征结束后，我带着有点失落的身心来到YIH的电脑室，外面有一群人在练习歌唱。我在猜想主唱的队员是不是缺席，因为他们自弹自唱，伴奏（PERCUSSION）做的还蛮不错的，就是没有很好的主唱。

很快地，我用过午餐后，就来到讲堂７A与我的同学回合，进行彩排（为了晚上企业营销课的构思呈现）。我们就在里面彩排了整整６个小时（间中我有离开讲堂，去参与座谈会）。

第一组的组员还未到齐，教授就让我们先开始呈现我们的构思。基本上我们没有面临新的问题，但教授依然建议我们去测试，看看市场的反应如何，再看看我们的构思能否维持。

结束之后，大伙儿都有一定的成就感，而且大家都觉得那部短片制作得很好，哈哈！

昨天发生的事情 (1)

好久没有写日记了，就写一写昨天发生的事情吧！

昨天发生两件事情，先说第一件事情：NOC第二回合的应征。起初回答得还不错，后来其中一位评审员问为什么我退出某社团，我的回答是上个学期的课业太繁重了，５个学科加上１个作业，但是我告诉他说我是负责市场调查的工作，不知道这样的解释会不会被接受。

后来，我再想想，我忘了把一些重要的资讯告诉他们！而且，我还发现一个很重要的事实：那为评审员在某社团非常的积极 （完了，完蛋了， 哀哉！哀哉！）

下午，３时正有一个座谈会讨论有关到上海及瑞典的详情，听了他们的讲解后，我心中在另打算盘。。。。。。

＊好久没有用中文来写日记了 ＞＿＜

Riddle 2 revisisted (English Version)

3 people were get caught in the prison. Each of them is assigned into one room. The duty office said: I have 5 caps in total, 3 Whites and 2 Blacks. You'll be given a cap in random. If you think your cap is WHITE, you can leave the room safely. If your cap is black, you'll be prosecuted as soon as you leave this room."

3 of them took the cap and started to look at each other. After a long while, 3 of them left the room safely. Deduce the logic, how and why do they know that their own cap is white?

Limitation: 3 of them were assigned into 3 rooms with transparent partition: one can see the colour of the caps of the other 2 but not his own. They are not allowed to communicate to each other, as well as the duty officer. No sign language or body language is allowed.

Hint: consider this question in case by case elimination.

Full House aka 浪漫满屋

uh hu! Finally I finished watching Full House (started to watch it since last week, I think). It's the 2nd Korean drama series which I've watched so far. Anyway, my mentors are not around today; feel bored so I am listening to the theme song of Full House while typing this blog here.

Let me write a short synopsis on that drama and my thoughts after watching that drama series. The story started with a lie (or in a more serious sense: betrayal). Anyway, it's not a bad thing after all, due to this lie, Ji-Hyun and Yung-Jae knew each other! Yung-Jae bought Full House from Ji-Hyun's friends and both of them stayed under the same roof. Also, both of them had a fake marriage (or contract-based marriage).

Even though it's a fake marriage, they showed concerns and cares to each other. They have gone through a lot of difficulties and hard times, yet, the happy moments that they have shared together in Full House overide all the tears they've shed. Eventually, they become the real couple.

I can't recall much from the entire drama series; anyway, what I can remember is some scenes which are really touching: whenever they fell sick, the healthy one will cook porridge for the sicked one; in the final episode, when both of them skated together; in the first few episode, when Yung-Jae taught Ji-Hyun to ride a bike and after which both of them cycle together and watch sunset together; when either one of them is upset, the other one will comfort him/her; and not forget the scence when both of them were separated (I think the last time when Yong-Jae left Full House), that is when both of them were recalling all the moments and times that they shared together. And a lot more scenes which I can't recall now (aiks.......poor memory).

Another comment on this drama series, in fact not only this drama, but I believe most Korean drama series, the director is so good that he knows what background songs to play in what scene, that makes a lot of differences in the whole drama series. To the director: Good job!

Today is Valentine's Day. Also, I don't have marketing lecture this evening (or not I should have left my office by now). Again, no group meeting for the marketing project (all my group members are gentlemen, most of them are busy, my guess). Till now, I don't have any plan in mind yet, perhaps it's a good time for me to read up my readings for marketing and HR. (have been slacking around so far)

Roadshow @ Matrix Lvl 4

I've attended this roadshow at Lvl 4 of my working place. To cut the story short (a bit sleepy and tired now, yawn~~~~~), I just list down some of the nice quotes spoken by the speakers:

1) Entrepreneur does NOT aim to earn a lot of MONEY. It is the JOURNEY or PROCESS to CREATE something NEW on YOUR own.

2) Entrepreneur needs a lot of helps from others. PARTNERSHIP is an important issue. Build up your network extensively and know who are the people who can help you under all circumstances.

3) Bear the ETHICAL issues in mind while you are creating your business.

4) You may end up with something which is totally different from your initial objectives; that's fine.

5) An entrepreneur does NOT always win. If you want to win always, join the Civil Service. Instead, an entrepreneur should be someone who covers the most and recovers the fastest whenever he encounters failures.

6) Always humble and open for critisism.

7) Paying back to the society whenever you have succeeded.

Ok, these are what I would like to share here. Of course there are more to elaborate, but my eyes just do not allow me to do so. Anyway, the first 6 points above were spoken by Prof Edison Liu (Executive Director of GIS) who has never started up any business (well, I'll just take it as another perspectives, as in what's entrepreneurship is about from the point of view of a research scientist).

耐人寻味（四）

电池厂：

某电池厂生产干电池。工厂里面有10台包装机器。机器负责把4粒干电池包装成一包（如市面上的干电池）。为了出销活动，该公司决定把包装改为全黑，亦即如果不把包装打开就无法知道里面有几个干电池。但10台机器里面有其中一台是坏的：它包装的每一包干电池都少一粒。试问：如何利用一个重量称，只需称一次就可以知道那一台机器有问题？

注：干电池的重量全部一样，我们知道一粒干电池的重量。

耐人寻味（三）

聪明的盲人：

两个盲人在超市各别买了3双袜子，甲买红，蓝，黄；乙也买红，蓝，黄。可是不知怎么的，两个人的娃子掉落在地上，6双袜子都混淆了。试问他们应该如何不借助别人的帮忙，来分配他们的袜子？条件：只要两人各自拿到红，蓝及黄即可。

complicated family (2)

Let me continue here.

I shall skip all the details from my departure from JB and arrival at KK and the day time which I've spent in my uncle's house. Move to the night time (on the day of arrival) in when my auntie invited my paternal relatives for the dinner.

I saw all most of my relatives of my father's side. Other than them, I saw another family, 3 kids, a pair of middle-aged couple and an old lady. At first I thought they were the boss of my auntie in her company, but I didn't think too much about them.

After we left, on the way back home, my sister started to ask my mum who are those people.
Sis: Mum, who are those people?
Mum: The middle-aged man is your father's younger brother!
Sis: WHAT!? How come!?
Mum: Remember last time during your grandpa's funeral? They were there! Your late grandpa married with another lady.
Me: So.......the middle-aged man is daddy's brother, same father but different mother.......Then what about the old lady there? Is she grandpa's wife?
Mum: Nope, she's the middle-aged man's sister. Same mother but different father (as in not your grandpa)
Sis & Me: WHAT!? .............

I never know that I have such complicated family background. Anyway, my dad wasn't very happy with their presence on that night, while my aunties (my father's real sisters) were talking happily to them. Oh well, how's this going to affect me as the 3rd generation in the family tree? Not at all, perhaps.

complicated family (1)

I guess most of you have already known that I've gone back to my hometown (in Sabah) during the past few days for CNY. It was a last minute decision on last Friday when my super duper very kind boss let me go for holidays, yeah! Luckily I managed to book the air ticket, left on Monday morning and returned on Friday afternoon.

Let me spent some words to describe what happened on my journey to the airport. Since the flight was 7:15 am and the airport is at Senai, JB, so I have to take bus from S'pore all the way to the airport the night before the flight and stayed overnight there. The whole journey took about 3 hours, from Kent Ridge Terminal to Senai Airport. When I arrived, immediately I ordered claypot noodles which is the most expensive claypot noodles I've ever eaten so far. Then I started to read some books and notes. Around 1am, all the shops started to close. Also, that's the moment I, (oppss.. not only myself, but we, rather) have waited. We (6 of us including myself and another 5 strangers) were sitting (or lying) on the bench with VERY-thin cushion and waiting for the coming of 'silence'. It happens after all the shops were closed and the lights were off. Ok, we can sleep now.

There were 2 rows of benches, both rows were placed side by side and each rows is about 12 chairs with VERY-thin cushion. It was a bit horrible to sleep on this VERY-thin cushion chairs, I just couldn't sleep long and tends to wake up after 2 hours sleep (or lie). Also, the room temperature was not regulated well, sometimes too cold, freezing......

Around 5am, they turned on the light because there were a group of people who will depart for Kuching arrived to check-in. When I looked at the monitor there, it shown that their flight time is 7:15am! I was thinking: what the heck these people come so early to wake me up while your flight is so late! With lots of unwillingness, I woke up, stretched my body and a big YAWNNNNN~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Next, I went to the washroom and washed up. That was the irst time I brushed my teeth in the airport, everyone was looking at me, haha! So embarassing :P After that, I drank the most expensive teh tarik, sigh.......

Oppss... a bit too long, stop here first.

除夕夜晚餐

今年的除夕夜在姨婆的家度过。今天晚上的晚餐都由从厦门来的两位大厨师精心准备。因此，晚餐的佳肴是在比得上山珍海味，其美味的程度更是前所未有。我实在是太有口福了！他们准备了大约6道菜，我不晓得各佳肴的名称，这6样菜包括：五香，肉卷，清蒸鱼，古老肉，还有一道汤。也许是我对食物比较敏感，有些食物我一看就猜得出它的味道，这6道菜的味道却差强人意，比我想像的可口多多倍！

我们边吃边聊天，只可惜，我听不懂闽南话，不能与前辈们共享乐趣。但从他们的谈话中，我略知一二。我看见2对夫妻，他们是我的姨婆及她的先生（以辈分来称呼应该是我的叔公吧！）；另一对夫妻当然是名厨及她的太太（就称他们为伯父，伯母吧！）伯母说了一句话：我可以放弃很多东西，唯独我要求丈夫陪在我身边。之后又是听不懂的闽南话。接着，她又对叔公说：您就定下来，不要再回印尼了，留下来陪姨妈吧！现在我们都不年轻了，留下来好好的一起度过晚年吧！流浪的日子是年轻的时代，但我们已经不是了。

这两句话在我脑海中一直盘旋着，也令我领悟一些道理：真爱不是虚幻的，而是实体。真爱不需要有情人用头脑来想象另一半对自己的爱情，反倒是用实际行动向对方展示关怀及眷顾。还有，年轻的时候我们大都被其他事情忙得团团转而忽略了对方，这往往造成认知上的误解。比如：当上爸爸的男人会在事业上更努力，为的是支撑家庭，应服物质上的需求。因此，他们往往忽略，在女人心中：精神上的支持远比物质上的支持重要的道理。于是，刚当上妈妈的女人可能会多疑，如果处理不当，可能因而产生误会甚至不愉快的事情。

因此，常听别人说爱情其实很简单，甚至是勇敢去爱，我不完全否认他们的论点，但在爱情的世界里，千万要记得时常关注对方的感受，尽管是已经很要好的伴侣。

farewell (2)

After he left, I boarded the skytrain to travel from T1 to T2 (where the mrt station is located). On the way from T1 to the mrt, though I was listening to music via my mp3 phone, I had a strong sense of loneliness for no reason. It was the earliest mrt service, not many people was on the train.

On the way from Changi to Buona Vista, I told myself: I must grab a chance to travel to other country to enjoy, especially those 4 seasoned- countries. Not only to relief from the high stress level here, but also to fulfill my dream (which I had looking forward since I was a kid). It's just a simple dream, I want to play with snow and experience the windy atmosphere during autumn.

Anyway, during the train transition at Tanah Merah, the next mrt was filled with lots of passengers. Most of them are students who stay far from their schools (uh hu......) After another long journey, finally I came to my office, my cubicle. That was around 7am, my first time to arrive at office so early, perhaps it's going to be the last time as well. I was trying to take a nap before the official office hour started, but thanked to the cafe mocha which kept me in the excited state. Anyway, I managed to force myself to rest my eyes and my brain for about 20 minutes before office hour started.

I was not in any mood, too tired to show any expression on my face. Luckily I was able to wake myself up when I was meeting with my mentors. Finally, just before 6pm, immediately I started to pack my stuff and ready to leave, I guess that's also the first time I left the office sharp at 6pm. After bathing and dinner, ZzzzZzzzzzz NICE SLEEP ZzzzZZzzZZzZZZZzzzZZz

Farewell

Ok, this happened 2 days ago. It just happened that I have the time to write it now. My friend or my old classmate since secondary school was leaving for Hong Kong for student exchange. He was in my room the night before the flight. On his request, he would like to know what's D-O-T-A about. So I turned on my PC and showed him. After a few minutes watching, he fell asleep zZzZzzzZzzZZZ..... After the game, it's around 1am. My turn to sleep. Around 4pm, he woke me up and he was ready to go to airport.

Without much delay, I changed, washed up and took my bag then we left the room. Again, without waiting too long, a cab came. We took the cab and travelled all the way from NUS (or PGP rather) to Changi. We didn't talk much on the journey, I was trying my best to sleep -> to restore my vitality as much as possible. However, this funny taxi driver turned on the volume of the radio to maximum. The songs were nice but those songs were good to him but bad to me! Oh well, I supposed he's sleepy (coz he's trying hard to talk to us but we didn't response much coz both of us are half-awake), so he needed the loud music to keep him awake.

Ok, so much about the taxi driver. We came to Burger King. It was around 4:40am and that was the first time I had EARLY breakfast in BK. The flight was 6:50am, which is another 2 hours time. The 2 hours flashed and dissappeared in a blink (we were chit-chatting there without knowing that time passed so fast).

Finally, he left. That's the end of the story. All the best to him in Hong Kong, till we meet again :)

P/S: Thanks for the meals in BK

BBQ again!

There was another Sabahan BBQ again yesterday night. Yup, it's held at PGP BBQ pit 1 (again!?) Before we set up the fire, we heard the roaring thunder, and it rained (again!?) It continued to rain until 6:30pm. Ok, we continued with our plan, hoping that people will still come down and join us despite the rain. Thankfully, in the end the turn up was quite good :)

I realised that I've been organizing this kind of gathering for at least 5 times (each semester since I was in year 1 sem 2)! And, finally I can hand over the job to someone else (though he's not a Sabahan, strictly speaking :P) Anyway, just some thoughts after organized the bbq for so many times. Firstly, the hardest thing in organizing this bbq is to get people's reply. If they don't reply, we can hardly do anything coz we dunno how much food should be bought and how much everyone should pay for the food on the night itself. Worst still, some people cannot make the decision until the night before the BBQ. Not forget those who replied and said they'll come but didn't turn up in the end without informing any of the organizing committee (how sad!) Also, there were also people who came but never eat (since they never ate anything, they dun have to pay). They never told us that they are coming but NOT eating even though we've bought their food (what the.......... anyway, look at it another way, that means we can eat more, hahaha!)

ok, so much about the complains (in fact I have more, but enough, before my blood vessel burst......). Anyway, I am glad that the juniors were willing to help out to organize this event, especially Chung Ang, Kathy, Yun Qing, Jia Chuan, Hsien Loong for contact, purchase and preparation and cooking. Not forget the seniors, especially Andy and How Tze who have been helping me since the first bbq we organized. Thanks a lot :) Also, special thanks to Suk Yee and Alex who were so generous to be the sponsor of the event last night. Also, I'd like to thank Ah Woo for lending us the water container; and Christine, who lend the camera.

Ok, I am looking forward the next Sabahan gathering bbq. Be it organized by Chung Ang or the NTU people, I just hope that you all will do a better job than me and I'll just sit down and being served, hahahaha!

耐人寻味（二）

有三个人，他们被捕到一个村庄准备处刑。但酋长正好办喜事，于是给他们一次机会。他就把他们放置在三间房间，这三个房间被透明的玻璃墙隔着。然后他们被戴上一顶帽子，酋长对他们说：我有５个帽子：三顶白色，两顶黑色。如果你们认为你们戴的是白帽，那么你们可以安全离开房间；但如果你们戴的是黑帽，你们离开房间时就会被电击而死。

房间是被透明的玻璃墙隔着，他们可以看见对方戴什么颜色的帽子，唯独不能看见自己的帽子，也不能与对方沟通（不仅语言沟通，连肢体语言也不行）；亦即A可以看见B及C戴的帽子，但却不能看见自己戴什么颜色的帽子。

结果，他们都犹豫好久，于是他们决定一起离开，而且还是安全的离开了。请分析其中的逻辑（亦即他们如何肯定自己戴的是白帽而不是黑帽）。

耐人寻味（一）

有一位探险家来到一个洞穴寻宝，他发现两个箱子。其中一个写着：里面藏有恶龙；另一个箱子写着：这里只有一个正确的句子。

请问他应该打开哪一个箱子？

短暂即永恒：后记

在咖啡馆的时候，她看见他的耳机。于是，他就把手机拿出来，播了里面的歌，让她欣赏。这时候，她问了他一个问题：你。。。。。。有女朋友吗？他那时笨笨地摇头并说没有，她笑笑地问：太忙了是吗？他又笨笨得点头并说是的。他反问她，她只是笑笑地摇头说没有。

其实，他正想说：不，我没有女朋友，并不是我很忙。的确，课业的繁重给他不少的麻烦，而且能让他放下课业的事情少得可怜。他不敢100%保证，但如果他身为别人的男朋友，他一定会尽一个男朋友该尽的责任。所以说他太忙其实是一个借口。

他当时想说的是：他还在等待他眼前这位女孩的回复，这一等，会等多久，他不知道。只是，他想让她知道，如果她选择的不是他，那请答应他，一定要找个一她为中心的男人来照顾她下辈子，还有记得要比他活得更好，更幸福，更快乐。

他衷心的祝福她。。。。。。

短暂即永恒

离开故乡，回到英国已将近1星期了。1星期前的今晚，他终于遇见他朝思暮想的人。他那一次回去不久，仅仅两个星期。他在想，如果这一次不能见面，那么他还得等多久？他们已经2年了没有见面了。

当天下午，他发了一则短讯约她出来会面，那是他第一次与女生单独约会。那不是什么高贵的餐馆，里面没有优雅的音乐，没有烛光晚餐，更没有服务员到他们的桌子为他们演奏一首曲子。那只不过是一间咖啡馆。

就在下午，他收到了她的回复：好吧！那我们今晚见面！他当时的心情无法用笔墨来形容。于是，他就把之前折好的纸星星放进瓶子里面，把瓶子也带着去约会了。

他在约会时间的前10分钟已经进了咖啡馆，就在那里等待她的出现。在等待的同时，他掏出他的手机，如常的听音乐。在这同时，他的心情有点紧张，不晓得2年不见的她，会有怎么样的改变。他也担心平时不多话的他会面临冷场的尴尬局面。更担心万一突然下大雨，她临时取消约会。这一切一切令他的心产生一种莫名的恐惧感 。好久没有这种经历了，他做事情一向很有信心，极少会有这种恐惧感。然而在这短短的10分钟等待时间竟然差点把他打倒了。

终于，她出现了！她依然带着2年前那灿烂的笑容，斯文的走到他面前的座位坐下来。在他脑海中浮现了2年前她的影子，然而，在他眼前的她显得比从前更加漂亮,更加有魅力。

他们就边喝饮料，边谈天。在谈天的过程中，他努力地把她的样貌，她的眼神以及她的笑容刻画在他的脑海中，因为他知道，今日一别，不晓得何时可以在重逢。因此，那短短的2小时对他而言是非常的宝贵，每一份，每一秒他都必须珍惜。他要把握时间，把这短暂的约会便成永恒的记忆。

他送她回到家时，他就把瓶子交给她。她向他道谢，并告诉他说她把他之前送给她那装满纸星星的瓶子放在她的房间里。此刻，他心里感到又高兴又有点难过。高兴是因为她珍惜他对她的用心；至于难过，这不需要多解释，一切尽在不言中。

他没有勇气向她许下任何的承诺。他坦诚地说他一直恋慕着她，这是事实。但反观她对他又是怎么样? 无论如何，他们以后要走的路还很遥远，一路上有很多未知数，一路上铺着不少疑问号，一路上的街灯泯灭模糊，彼此都看不清未来的旅程，未来的路途。换句话说，彼此都心知肚明，他们成为伴侣的可能性太渺小了。有人问他，既然是这样，那么为什么还要那么执著？老实说，他也不完全明白为什么，也许爱情真的是盲目的。

他真的不知道在何年何月何时，在什么地方会再见到她，也许是在街上碰见？也许是下一次同学会？也许是她结婚的日子？但他希望在将来的某年某月某天，他们将会在同一间咖啡馆重逢，再续当晚的那美丽邂逅。

他期待着这一天。。。。。。

First Post in Blogger

yeah! Finally I set up another blog here. At least the whole world won't get any emails whenever I create a new post here :)