Just some thoughts

Just as you some of you would think that I’m going to abandon my blog due to laziness, I’M BACK!! Back to share more of my life with you. Finally blogged after completing my exams and majority of the presentation preperation of the FYP presentation. Just a wee bit of improvements required to it.

Today, I’m here just to share some of thoughts in my mind, rather that update about my life. Just I am thinking of how I should present my thoughts, I wondered if I should either bullet my different thoughts, number it, or should I just write like an essay. This makes me wonder since there are many ways of leading a life, so why am I doing what I’m doing now? Also, what life am I leading exactly? And, what do I want to achieve in my life? As there are so many things to think about in this secular world, I suppose I will continue to lead what my hearts wants me to be, and hopefully I can be the person God wants me to be.

As you can see, I have already started my thoughts in form of an essay, I shall continue with it. Sometimes, life is not in questions and answers form and also not in point form. I wonder do we need to do a presentation to God after we pass on. In front of God where we tell Him about the things we have done in life. Ha.. just a random thought.

Yesterday (Sunday), I came across a thick file of transparencies containing songs of worship that was used for BB parades. Remembering those joyful days where we sing praises to God not in a comfortable aircon room, nor with state-of-the-art (or not so) projector and laptop to project the lyrics on the screens. A simple classroom with pre-arranged chairs by the duty squad, 1 or 2 guitarist, and a worship leader had done the job, uniting us in one voice. It was fun those days, especially for me since I quite like singing, with easy lyrics and catchy tunes, sometimes with action too!! It was certainly great to see those and I started singing some of those that were familar to me. I thought to myself, maybe I should lead worship either during parades or officers’ fellowship, singing these classics. Actually, I have these thoughts for quite sometime, but for many reasons, I haven’t yet to put it into action, such as shy, busy and etc. Well, I’m not sure if I will ever have the chance to share these songs with anybody else, but hope that someday I can, even it’s for only one person. I have included a YouTube video of one of my favourite songs. The verse and chorus can harmonise!! Enjoy.

Talking about YouTube, I think that it’s probably the best internet tool after search engines. I feel that I have improved as a piper musically just through the exposure of YouTube. Get to know more pipe tunes, more types of music besides bagpipe, more techniques and more. Looking at others sharing of knowledge, music, life and more makes me want to put up more videos on it!! I am might consider to invest in a good video camera and the mighty H2. haha… But all these will come after I find a job ba… BTW, I strongly recommend you to check out YouTube Symphony, which gathers majority of its musicians through YouTube auditions and staged a performance on Carnegie Hall. Quality stuff.

Some say that as you graduate, it means that you have just became jobless. Especially during recession, it would be difficult to find a job, let alone a well paid one. Right now, I am not looking for one aggressively, but keeping a look out in the industry of my interest, Product Design. FYI, I should have a Bachelor Degree in Materials Science and Engineering in July and product design is not really related to my field of study. Mechnical Engineering or Industrial Design graduates would be more suitable. Well, I am interested in this field because I am always facinated with how new products are developed, how simple toothbrush evolved, how products are mass produced and so on. My course have given me an introduction on these and interest is developed, however they did not really equip me with the necessary skills to get into this field as I think we (Materials Engineer) are meant to do other stuff. All I can say is that in order for me to excel in what I am doing, I have to have an interested and eventually passion for it. I am starting to think about ways to equip myself to get into this industry before and during my re-enlistment to army. A starter will be learning CAD or/and soildworks, which is essential in this field. Thereafter, I may learn and develop a portfolio of my ideas and drawings that might come in handy during job applications. If anybody out there with such experiences can educate me, please let me know what I can do to get a product design job. Utimately, I think that all degrees are the same, most of the things you learnt in your 4 years of study will probably be useless to your career. What universities teaches you is the resourcefulness in obtaining information and problem solving.

Received my re-enlistment letter sometime back. Argh.. can’t find it now to share with you what it says. But it roughly talks about me reporting to my unit’s S1 department on 1st July 09 in No. 4. I hope I will be able to squeeze into my uniform by then. I will be working on reducing weight and keeping fit, as I will be required to run as fast as I used to during PT (which is not very fast because I was never a fast runner). If anyone of you out there (that I know) feels like swimming, gymming or any other form of sports, please “jio” me, I will gladly join you if I am free and not feeling lazy. Also, I have signed with the the NTU Alumni Club recently with a year of subscription for only $100. In the mean time, I would want to fully utilize the facilities there so that I can shed some weight.

Alright, that’s a very long post that takes quite me quite awhile to write. God Bless…