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Randy passed away last Friday. According to the CMU post;

A memorial service at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is being planned; details will be announced at a later date.

He is survived by his wife, Jai, and three children: Chloe, Dylan and Logan. The family requests that donations on his behalf be directed to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, 2141 Rosecrans Ave., Suite 7000, El Segundo, CA 90245, or to Carnegie Mellon’s Randy Pausch Memorial Fund, which the university will use primarily to support continued work on the Alice project.

Time is all we have here. No matter what happens, we are able to choose our own attitude under difficult, sometimes even extreme, circumstances.

If you don’t know who he is, better watch his last lecture on youtube.
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By The Kingston Trio. Not Fool’s Garden….

Lemon Tree

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Talking about coincidence. Last evening a friend send me a sms and then again, I stumbled upon him later that night at Mali’s Corner @ TBR having nasi lemak. Yummy!

His sms was….

Test: There’s a very very tall cocount tree and there are 4 animals. King Kong, an Ape, an Orangutan and a Monkey pass by. They decide to compete to see who is the fastest to get a banana off the tree. Who do you guess will win?

I made a wrong answer.
Then I forward to few of my friends and some also provided the wrong answer. There are also few that are able to provide the right answer. So what is your answer?
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Taken from DDO,

This anecdote is an excerpt from the 1991 book In Search of Excess: The Overcompensation of American Executives by Graef Crystal (pgs. 83-84):

Some years ago, I found myself hitching a ride on the corporate jet of one of my clients. A board meeting had just been held, and the jet was flying to Chicago with a group of outside directors. I was busily reading the Wall Street Journal and trying not to eavesdrop on the conversations that were taking place, but I couldn’t help overhearing the following exchange.

Director 1 to Director 2: “Hey, Don, I just read in the paper that you retired as CEO of the XYZ Company. So what are you going to do to keep busy?”

Director 2: “Well, I’m going to be a consultant to my former company.”

Director 1 (with a trace of sarcasm): “What exactly does that mean?”

Director 2: “If you must know, I’m going to be a sexual consultant.”

Director 1: “A sexual consultant! What’s that?”

Director 2: “Well, when my former company signed me up as a consultant, they told me: ‘If we want any of your fucking advice, we’ll call you!’”

which reminds me that of another quote

Do you like sex and traveling?
If yes, FUCK OFF!!!

Whatever you have done in college time, it is going to be good memories especially when we bring it to the reunion time. Thus I believe that I have done something worthwhile to remember about since. The problem is that I can’t really remember what I have done right during my 4 years in TAR College.
One of my college buddies often regards me as a disgrace or an embarrassment to the family. In Chinese it is called “羞家”.
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Love is the answer - but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

Woody Allen

“Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us chance to show how badly we want something.”

- Randy Pausch “The LAST LECTURE”

Brick Wall

After a hectic Friday and Saturday, I can finally laid back and enjoy the books I recently bought. Managed to finished The Alchemist and now just started with the other book, “The Last Lecture”.

I was browsing through MPH the other day and couldn’t help but to get this book. In fact, I was contemplating whether to choose this over the “Mister Pip”. It was a decision to be made there and then before the screening of the movie “Sun also rises, The”

Coming back to the above quote, it just reminds me that I have to consistently and persistently be there. I just need to overcome the brick walls. And only the persistency and consistency will. Even though the brick wall that I have smashed into, it really hurts. Yet having another word of wisdom from Jordan Koh last time was that we need to consistently hitting the brick. The first time, the wall might not break. The second, it might not as well. Even the third or numerous time. It you give up at the 76th times, and then you actually just need the 77th times to break it down wouldn’t it seems that too much wasted?

It is not an easy task. The brick walls are there for a reason. I just couldn’t help it but to borrow another quote from Randy, “And if she does love you, then love will win it out”. Hence, be supportive - this I am telling myself.

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