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How long has it been since I last updated this blog? I honestly can't remember. Back then, Blogging was the most popular thing that teenagers do to express themselves. Remembering the late nights when I could not sleep, I had so much to say, yet no one was there to listen. Hence the long blog posts of the classical "late night thoughts". For myself, this was once the way I reflected upon the events of my life, the way I longed to be heard. As time goes by, we have all grown old. But have we grown up? Is today's version of us better than who we were before? If not, why not? We all crave for progress. Yet sometimes, we remain too comfortable to move forward. From the last post, it has already been more than 4 years. The change in my life is incredible. 4 years ago, I was still a young student who only had one priority; studying. Today, I have completed my university, started a family, and working hard in building my career. It is not by any chance that I am w...

Recently I came across a quote by Nick Vujicic. "I don't need arms, I need purpose." I didn't think much of it until just a few days ago. During a school visit to a university in Switzerland, IHTTI, I met many young aspiring students who shared their stories there. I found out why they went there to study and how good the education actually is over there. However, I did not think much of it until I got back. To be honest, I didn't think much of it until now. Yes, it's getting late, I get it. What do I really want? It was a series of events which led to think about this... 1. Night at Switzerland trip. Late nights are often well linked to confessions and heart-to-heart talks which eventually brought up that question. I can remember no longer what we were all discussing about but suddenly one of them asked, "What would you want in life?" I literally stoned. I had no idea what I wanted. In the past, I would be able to immediately have a clear ...

It has always been this cycle in life.  Someone enters our lives, becomes someone so important that you would never thought of them leaving. Then, a somewhat mysterious force pulled them away and it seemed like they never existed in the first place. Everything goes back to the way it was. But deep inside, we know that something, or rather someone, is missing from our lives. That feeling hurts.  Time passes by and somehow the "holes" seem to be filled up by themselves.  We thought that this would be the end of all these shitty stuff. Yet, we are so wrong again.  Someone else enters our lives once again and the same old shit happens. After a few cycles of experiencing the same shit, we start to ask ourselves questions.  Does the problem lie with me? Am I such a bad person to be with? Was I too much? Where did I go wrong? When will I ever meet someone who will stay for good?  The strange thing is, we never blame ourselves and take responsibi...

大家请不要建议。我这次想用华语来说出自己的心声。太久没有用英文了，觉得怪怪得。 老实说，我这几个月来都非常不好过。心里有好多好多话，但却不知能向谁诉说。就是觉得自己非常没有用。我想不出自己好在哪一点，似乎没有什么优点。读书不好，打球一沓糊涂，唱歌普通，朋友少，常常生病，非常悲观，空口说东西，不稳定，没钱，没文凭。咳～ 也不知道该从哪里说起好。。。  就从明天将发生的事情来说好了。明天学校会有一个presentation而我认为我在我的组是最没有贡献的。可是，我不是没有做到什么东西。我有做啊！我还费了不少功夫做得powerpoint里得slides美美的。当天，我很开心的把我的slides传给他们。后来我才发现他们并没有用到我所做出的资料。当我看到他们新创的slides时，心里感到酸酸的。“是我做得不够好吗？还是我自己想太多了？”，我不断的问自己。后来，我来到了一个结论，我真的太天真了。原来是自己做得不够多，不够好。比起别人的作品，我的还算得了什么呢？ 今天，生病的我就安安静静的坐在一边。。突然，一个组员就问到，“振宇，你有什么东西要贡献的吗？”。就知道他们都觉得我是那组最没有用的人。 其实，我明天根本也不想去学校的。已经感冒了好几天了。。生病了，去学校有个屁用啊？去了也不代表能够听得进老师教的课。去学校如果只是为了捧捧场而让自己感到不舒服，这样太不值得。感冒时，身体觉得非常的冷而鼻子不断的留鼻涕。当别人看到了我一直在拿这纸巾，心里应该是在想，“滚开啊， 恶心的家伙！”。我也因此对自己感到没信心。这是一个非常难受的感觉。 不过如果我明天没有去，我一定会对不起我的组员们。。。等等，或许他们根本都不在乎。他们根本都不需要我。我也不能影响倒他们的成绩。最多他们也只是跟老师说我生病，不能来了。没有了我，presentation还得继续。这其实才是残酷的现实。没有人会在意你的生死。只要你不影响到他们就行了，对吧？所以，明天不管我去不去都一样。损失的只是我。但是，我还得想清楚先。 我发现生命里需要做好多的选择。不管是大的或小的选择，都会带着重量的影响我们下一个的选择。只要我们从一开始就做出错的决定，接下来有很大的可能性会一错再错。结果就掉得越来越深。想回头也非常难咯。 我这一生给自己搞得乱七八糟。内心也是一样。其实我对别人说的话...

Alvaro's 18th Birthday outside Zouk. Accompanied by Travis, Justin, Donghui and Edwin.   There would come a point of time in life when we would feel like lost sheep and have no aims. Though we might already have set big goals and targets but things might not have been going well and we easily gave up. Sometimes, the goals we set don't seem to be that attractive and appealing anymore. However, we forget what was the real purpose of setting a goal from the start. The purpose of goals is to give us direction, give us motivation so that there would be something for us to work towards. When our current goals do not give us enough motivation... When our  planned paths get diverted and we can't just go straight ahead... We feel tired and take the easy way out; We stop there and give ourselves the excuse to not move. This should never be the case. When we found out that our goals no longer appeal to us, we will find new goals. When we realized that our paths have been screwed...

It has always been a usual practice for students to be working during the school holidays to earn some extra bucks. During working, we experienced that money is hard to earn. The pay we received the entire day is about an hour's pay of an average adults which feels really pathetic. Anyway, I just received a call from work telling me that my shift has been changed to 8am this Friday's morning which means it will be another day of working 17 hours at least again. Well, more hours mean more pay right? The only form of motivation of working; Money. Indeed, working for just the money sounds really stupid. The money I have earned from working this holiday will be spent on my car license after my 18th birthday which is coming less than 20 days. I am really looking forward to it. Lessons will resume next week and I'm making use of this week to earn as much money as I can. Initially I planned to go at full-throttle on my studies, however the manager at work just told me that...

I have been working like crazy these few weeks and earned myself a few hundred bucks. That was when I thought that the few hundred bucks are so "big" and I felt like a rich guy. Yes, I know that was really stupid. Anyway, I just bought a Nintendo DS Lite to play Pokemon.   My new Nintendo DS Lite Crimson/Black Export Set from Korea. I have already pre-ordered the latest Pokemon White 2 from a games shop in Jurong Point which I would be getting it this Friday. I'm really looking forward to it! Imagine playing Pokemon on the Nintendo DS in class, during lectures to train and become the strongest Pokemon trainer. That's kinda kiddish yet fun. I have to be honest though, I usually play the Pokemon game to complete the game and I wouldn't care if my Pokedex was completed. That being said, I am lucky as I have friends who just started playing Pokemon too. Maybe, I could actually be a serious and strong Pokemon trainer this time round. I...

                                                                    Alright, I know it has been a really long time since I last updated my blog. Well I have been really busy with a lot of stuff and as you know it's my holidays, so I'm pretty much enjoying myself; by making as much money as I can.. *Period* And I spent them all on a Xbox Kinect console... Well, that explains why I'm busy all over again earning back all those money which I have spent. I was quite an emotional person who would get worked up at almost anything, you know. However after some time working, I noticed this significant change in myself; I started to not give any fuck. The ...

In wave-boarding, the key thing is to ride the wave instead of drowning in the waves. If the entire journey was smooth-sailing, we wouldn't appreciate the calm sea at all. There must be a storm first, then we would see the rainbow after the storm. So bear with the ups and downs of my life! Anyway, Check out my latest short romance film. "What More Can I Say" What more can words say? What more can one do when put in a situation where love expresses more than speech? Love is able to transcends all bounds and ride over the physical disabilities of life. Many of the times, we would wonder what love is and the power of love. In this short film, it shows the magic of love and what it is able to do; overcoming physical disabilities. So, check it out and remember to subscribe to my channel! :) There will be more upcoming skits! :) Stay tune people.

If you happened to be a new reader of my blog, what would be the first impression that my writings give you? Most of the time people would say that I always get pretty emotional while blogging. Well, I guess that's the main purpose of blogging, isn't it? A blog is merely a web version of our own personal diary. Though others may see and read our thoughts, we blog just to hope that someone would feel that same way as we do and make us feel that we might not that alone afterall. Anyway, today's post will be another post which I would just pour my heart out. There are always a lot of unsolved issues and problems in my heart which makes me a person who is hard to be understood. The first issue I would talk about today is a pressing issue which has been bothering me since young. People with issues of not replying messages promptly. There are 2 genres of  text message.  1) The type which is just a...

Hey, what's happening guys? I have no idea what's happening to me. However, I feel that I am changing. Even all my friends tell me that. " Hey Alvaro, you have changed.", yet none of them has told me how I have changed. Yet I know that it's a pretty negative change. What happened to those tiny conversations that I used to have which seem to be going on forever? Is this a sign of change in maturity or simply just me becoming someone who is not good with his words. Even after a few weeks, I have yet to find the answer. The answers that we often seek are the ones that we do not really want to know. #AhBoysToMen. Recently I have been slowly progressing into one of my childhood dreams; Acting. As a kid, I always thought of myself having the stage or people acknowledging my efforts. Even though I missed the auditions of an upcoming local movie, I managed to get in as one of the platoon soldiers. Th...

Good news. My efforts previously have not gone down the drain. It was actually helpful to the test. Finally, I have a paper that I'm confident about. Anyway, tomorrow's paper would be about Principles of Management which is more of understanding and I have not read much of it. Hence, I shall be using the exact same method to remember and speed things up.. So bear with me.. Module No: BE 6105 Principles of Management ~~~START OF TOPIC 1~~~ Management seems like an easy word however we need to remember the definition of it. DEFINITION: Process of WORKING WITH and THROUGH OTHERS to ACHIEVE ORGANIZATION OBJECTIVES in a CHANGING ENVIRONMENT. It involves the COORDINATION and OVERALL SEEING of WORK ACTIVITIES of others so that these activities are completed EFFICIENTLY and EFFECTIVELY. In addition, we also need to know what efficiency and effectiveness is. Efficiency : MOST OUTPUT from LEAST inputs. Effectiveness: "Doing the right things" will help the orga...

Hey there. I have been reading my notes and realized that nothing could really get into my head. I'm on the verge of breaking down, but oh well, I have got to pull myself together and bring out of it. Hence, I have decided to do a blog post on the topics that I'm going to study tomorrow. Bear with me, guys. The module that I would be tested on tomorrow would be Introduction to Hotel & Leisure Facilities Management. ~~~ START OF TOPIC 3 ~~~ Topic Three: Profile of Hotel Guest Here in topic three, we would be talking about the profile of hotel guests. I have heard from some classmates that this topic is the toughest to get in. But you know what? With the awesome Alvaro, you would understand everything immediately even without taking this course. Let's ask you guys a question. What's a profile? Let me give you a hint. It's basically just some chunk of guest information stored ( in the computer ) for use by relevant departments like the front office personn...

This post is dedicated to all lovely people who love their mother and beautiful mothers/fathers out there, I wish you all a  Happy Mother's Day! Our mothers have brought us into this world and gave us life. Suffering that excruciating pain, she gave birth to us without a word of complain. Just a single smile on our faces could give our mothers the littlest bit of happiness. As long as we are happy, she would be happy. It is really not easy to bring up a child. I have once thought of how I would bring up my child when I have one in the future. After pondering on this question for some time, I still could not figure out the perfect way of bringing up a child. Therefore I conclude that there is really no perfect way of bringing up a child. Every mother has their own special way of bringing up their own and this resulted in many different personalities in everyone. I could not possibly imagine the children of the entire w...

Hey readers, Ever have that feeling of not being able to sleep because you just couldn't sort of your thoughts? I'm sure that many of us have that feeling, at least once. To be honest, I could have just gone to bed without blogging and I know that I would be able to sleep well. However what's the point of holding something back and pretend that the problem doesn't exist? Though I might be able to sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow as though nothing happened, the problem would still come back some other day. Tonight, this blog post would be rather different as I wouldn't be caring much about my grammar or the way I phrase my post. Instead, I would just go along typing what's on my mind and rant. This is going to be a long rant. So, please bear with me. Badminton Yesterday was the badminton trials and I went for it. Initially, I was afraid and just simply did my best for the trials. However after getting word that both of m...