"Peer Pressure"

I'm not one to easily give in to peer pressure...

But, the fact is, if you cannot beat them, you'll simply have to join them.

Facebook.

Enough said.

I finally succumbed to extreme peer pressure a few months ago and signed up an account.

Within days, I was uploading pictures and videos on facebook like a possessed lunatic, and was mocked at by my colleagues for scorning facebook with disdain when they urged me to "join the gang"...

Haha...

It feels good to BE among the majority.

"Home at last"

Mum and dad finally returned from Perth after a week long holiday.

Great to have them back! Missed their naggings and presence in the house. And of course mum's cooking.

Brother has been a great help at home with making dinner, laundry, as well as the dishes.

His scrambed eggs are the best! He has the knack for cooking, I would say. Even more than me, though sore about the truth, I must honestly admit.

I am so glad mum and dad are home.

"Vesak Day"

Vesak was quite traumatic for me. Not to the year old FYS folks, for this Vesak was as tame as dead roach compared to the last war. Nevertheless, days of 12-15 hour work consecutively before the big thing has tire the flesh and worn off the spirit, so much so that Vesak was not a day to rejoice, but a torture that I wished was over and done with as soon as possible.

All I can say is, I survived. And will continue to do so.

I really cannot explain to friends and family why I continue to stay in this organization even though working conditions are so against the odds.

Just as much as I also really cannot understand the reason why so many people of great talents and experience would choose to serve and devote themselves wholehearted into working for an organization that bring them so little, in terms of material needs and monetary gains.

Of course, I'm not referring to myself... what am I compared to the rest. I just need a job to keep myself alive and happen to chance upon this job.

Perhaps, my mission in FYS is to find out the reason why. Perhaps one day I will understand. The irrationality of human choices.

In the meantime, I'll do my best in my work and take things my stride.

Afterall, it is said, Impermernence should be the only permermence in this world.