Goals - Take 2

Once again, its time to update my goals that I would like to achieve within the next decade. As I grow older, I do realise the goals I last made almost 2 years ago in the post titled Aims of My Life, well, is ambitious, no doubt but doesn’t seem to be practical in one way or another.

My goals then were:

1. Finish my degree with more than just a scroll of paper.
2. Get a job in a multi-national company.
3. Progress from an engineering oriented position to a management position.
4. Earn my million before 26, and my second before 29.
5. Open an Engineering firm in New York.
6. Own a house in Beverly Hills.
7. Own several more houses in other highly desirable areas of the globe.
8. Retire before 50 and having more than enough assets to live the remaining of my life happily.
9. Travel the world in 120 days.
10. Live a happy life with a happy family.

Well, I am well within my range of achieving goal #1. Hooray! Goals #5 - #9, well, it’s ambitious and difficult to achieve but not really practical in any sense and admittedly somewhat immature and childish for some. Therefore, it is time for a revision!

So here it is, Aim’s of My Life - Take 2.

Another simple list of 10 updated, revised goals.

1. Finish my degree with a First Class Honours
2. Start a new innovative business with a close friend as a business partner
3. Expand the business to rival other big companies, and if the opportunity arises, go global
4. Own a car by 23
5. Own a house by 25
6. Make my million by 27
7. Invest in the property market by 28
8. Start a charity organisation
9. Adopt a child
10. Retire before 50

I’ve entirely removed the term family from my goals as the thought of getting married is just daunting for me at the moment. I might change my mind later on in life but for now, I’ll stick to not getting married anytime soon. Therefore, I’ve settled for an adopted child. I might have to rethink that again sometime in the future though. Until the time comes, I’ll stick to my goals.

About my engineering related job, I’m getting really tired to doing science my entire life. Since the day I started to remember, I did sciences. All through primary and secondary school, from college all the way to university, it was science all along. Unfortunately, it is that time when we get second thoughts of the decisions we’ve made in our past regarding our future.

I dread the day I have to start working. The day when the boss will order me around to perform tasks as his slave. The day where my prospects rely totally on a single person sitting in front of a mahogany table one floor above my cubicle desk.

Since I’ve started my management module this semester, I’ve grown to like it a lot. I am now more interested in the science of management above engineering sciences. Therefore the best way I can exploit my increasing interest in management is to start a business. And the best part is, I’ve found a close friend who shares the same aspiration! I’ve yet to break the news to my parents about my aspiration. Hopefully, they’ll accept and support me for this is what I truly want.

*crosses fingers*

Assuming that my parents totally support my decision, I hope to gain my million by 27. That’s approximately 5 years after the business is started. I guess that would be sufficient time for the business to grow and expand provided that our business models are strong, it should be more than sufficient.

#7 through #10, with the exception of #9, are minor goals which are likely to change in the future depending on the outcomes of #2 and #6.

Well, I guess that’s about it. Hopefully, I wouldn’t need to update this list anytime soon. Until then, I should focus on goal #1 which, in plan, should be achieved in July 2009.

Apple-fy

I’ve decided that I’m going to apple-fy my entire house in the (near) future. All Apple products in the house. And of course, they’re all going to be Apple White too!

First, an Apple-fied house isn’t an Apple-fied house with at least one iMac. Beautifully sculptured and bleached white to perfection.

Perhaps if I had enough money, I could even throw in the Mighty Mouse and wireless keyboard, wireless and cooler than any other accessory in the market.

Of course, an iMac isn’t complete without wireless internet! And the solution to this is the Airport Extreme.

Featuring the latest in wireless networking technology, the 802.11n. Speeds up to 5X faster and 2X the range of a normal 802.11g network. Connects up to 50 users at once (excellent if I have 20 kids in the house!). The good thing Airport Extreme offers is wireless printer and file sharing. There can be up to 50 computers in the house sharing one printer wirelessly in a central location! How good is that. Plus it’s pretty…

Next is that Airport Express. Works the same as it’s big brother, the Airport Extreme just that it’s much smaller than it’s bigger siblings. In fact it’s so small, it can fit into your palm easily and weighs less than 500g!

It’s used to extend the Airport Extreme’s range if there’s a computer out of the range of the Airport Extreme. It can also do printer sharing too. But the best thing the Airport Express offers is AirTunes! Listen to music from iTunes from your Mac anywhere in the house. Just plug the stereo’s input cable into the port and listen away to your favourite tunes from your Mac anywhere in the house whether it’s the kitchen or the living room or the garage or even outside, heck even the toilet if you do have a stereo in the toilet!

Oh, the joy doesn’t end here. There’s still the Apple TV! Watch movie on your computer on your Widescreen HDTV (doesn’t have to be widescreen or HD though) anywhere in the house. Just plug it in, it’ll join the Airport Extreme’s wireless network and Apple TV will automatically stream all Music, Movies, TV shows, Photos and Podcasts from the computer wirelessly.

Plus it comes with a super cute tiny remote similiar to those used with iMacs and Macbooks.

If I do every manage to Apple-fy my house, it’s a dream come true. I’ve always fancied Apple products just that the wonderfully beautiful and shocking price tag keeps hindering me from getting one.

I think I’m starting to sound like an advertisement here. I better stop.

Apple-fy away! *crosses fingers*

It’s Cooler Than Cool, It’s Uber Cool!

WordPress is getting cooler and cooler by the day! This time to experience this coolness, all you need to do is just hover your mouse over almost any link on this page and magic happens! You’ll actually get to see a snapshot of the webpage of the link! How cool is that?

I tell you, I have no regrets whatsoever of migrating over from that lousy head-blogging, mind-bothering, un”user-friendly” Blogger. WordPress rocks! And it always will be!

Should there be a title for this?

So this is my first post for 2007! Yay!

So 2007 has finally arrived. Too fast for me in my opinion. I’ve completed so much in 2006 but yet I don’t feel that I’ve done enough at the end of the 365th day.

To list down a few of the most significant things I accomplished have done by the end of the day 3 days ago are:-

1. Completed my first year in Chemical Engineering in less than 1 “normal” academic year in the UK (click here, here, here and here and also here to find out what I went through; Author’s note: It was a terrible, horrible, vegetable 6 months
2. joined a Chemical Car competition but sadly didn’t get anything that has monetary worth except a free lunch from my lecturers;
3. completed a 200 page report on how to build a plant, calculating equipment conditions (e.g. flow rates, temperature, concentration, pressure etc.), run the equipment, maintain the factory, hire staff, calculate costs, and fully operate a chemical plant producing benzoic acid at 50,000 metric tons per year alone together with 3 other colleagues;
4. participated in 2 Engineering Fairs which caught the national media’s attention; Author’s note: Had quite a few brain seizures due to this
5. finally got out of the continent of Asia and set foot in a country I’ve never entered before my entire life; and lastly
6. Spent endless amounts of cash on food, shopping, movies and books (as the year before, and before that, and also before that).

Doesn’t sound great isn’t it? Just like any other year. A year of spent cash on unnecessary things, a year that zipped through without me doing anything that I would remember on for coming years of my age. Uhh, I’m starting to sound like Marvin, the paranoid android from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

I’ll most prolly go down a beaker of pure freshly distilled alcohol from the Chemistry labs. That should help me forget some things permanently temporarily. Yeah. I think that’s what I should do… (Sadly, this is how I welcome the new year)

Happy Christmas!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS to everyone!!

Christmas is finally here and this means that the year is coming to an end in just a week’s time. How time flies is just incredible.

I do apologize for the lack of updates during the past week as I was holidaying in Skipton (Dan’s house) with Dan being the host of course. Wonderful family I must say. His mum (and dad) can cook good food in a matter of minutes! They can cook up a storm in the kitchen and come out with wonderful, drooling, delicious, scrumpcious meals!

Besides that, this house has the most number of game consoles I’ve ever seen! Playstation 2, Xbox, Gamecube, Nintendo DS… Too bad there isn’t the Nintendo Wii and the PS3. If not it’ll be a blast! But heck, 4 game consoles is more than a blast already! Oh, I must admit that I just fell in love with the game Burnout 3. Such an addictive game. It may be violent and pointless but what the heck! It’s fun! Crashing cars of my choice and the more damage I cause and the more vehicles that crashes the higher the amount of money I generate and so far my highest record was $2,000,000.00, 34 vehicles! There’s also road rage in the same game. It’s kinda like a racing-cum-remove-other-opponents-game. You’ll be racing on track of your choice and there’ll be other cars racing together. All you need to do is try to remove as many opponents as possible from the race with you crashing as little as possible. Wonderful game I tell you.

During that week, we went to Leeds too! Shopping haven. Much better than Sheffield of course since Leeds is a much bigger city than Sheffield. Many shopping centres but those are nothing compared to what we have in Malaysia. But it’s still great fun! Lots of things to see too. Wanted to buy clothes but then I might as well wait for the Boxing Day (which coincidentally is tomorrow!) sales. It’ll be better that time.

Well, here are some random pictures I took in Skipton.

The church with the big clock!

A nice piece in the middle of the roundabout.

Sir Matthew Wilson Baronet, first MP for Skipton.

Skipton’s High Street.

The canal passing through the town.

A panoramic view of Ermysted’s Grammar School.

Well, aside from the pictures, I arrived back in Sheffield yesterday at 1pm and then I had to go straight to Somerfield to shop for food and groceries for today if not I’ll be starving today. Yesterday night, had a small dinner party at EiLeen’s flat. Cooked together for the first time. Karen cooked curry chicken with lots and lots of vegetables. EiLeen made grilled chicken wings and I made grilled mushroom and cheese wrapped in ham. Had white wine together with it and to top it off, we had ice cream with chocolate sauce and chocolate cake! Yum yum! Watched 2 movies, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Billy Elliot. And the funny thing I am going to say is, I spent Christmas taking photos! Haha! Wanted to buy Christmas crackers but they were all sold out! But it was real fun last night! Here are the pics we took last night.

Karen and her curry.

Me and my dish.

Group pic taken at precisely 12am on Christmas.

Me and my pressie!

Hmm, I guess I’ll stop here. This post is getting a little long and monotonous with pictures. Anyways, a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007 to everyone again! Have a great holiday!

Aims of My Life

Well, I’m feeling a little stressed out now. So I thought I might as well decide on my lifetime goals that I might and would love to and hope that I will one day achieve them.

Just a simple list.

1. Finish my degree with more than just a scroll of paper.
2. Get a job in a multi-national company.
3. Progress from an engineering oriented position to a management position.
4. Earn my million before 26, and my second before 29.
5. Open an Engineering firm in New York.
6. Own a house in Beverly Hills.
7. Own several more houses in other highly desirable areas of the globe.
8. Retire before 50 and having more than enough assets to live the remaining of my life happily.
9. Travel the world in 120 days.
10. Live a happy life with a happy family.

Okay, the last one is kinda obvious. Everyone wants that. Who wouldn’t want to live a happy life unless one is mentally unstable and unable to think of what’s best for himself.

Come to think of it, why do we work so hard to achieve all these material-related goals but yet at the end, these materials won’t follow us when we depart from the third dimension? It’ll all end up in our children’s hands and the probability of them fighting over who gets what is pretty high these days, so what’s the purpose? We are such material-orientated species. That’s what we are. We lust for material things. Gold, jewellery, houses, cars, estates, big businesses etc. I have to admit, I am one of them.

Anyway, back to work!

Sick

Okay. I’m exaggerating a little that I’m sick, but technically my body ain’t that well either. Seems that everyone feel sick the week after Freshers’ Week and now all have recovered.

Unfortunately, now I have a sore throat. After trying so hard not to fall sick amongst the whole group of sick people. I guess I failed and now I am terribly sick. I guess I have to drink lots of water.

I’m terribly horribly sick!!!

Guess What I Saw

Yesterday while walking back after shopping from The Moor through the city centre, I saw this!

Long isn’t it? We don’t see this so often back in Malaysia. Yesterday, I saw 2 of them! Pure white and super long. I wonder how does it feel to sit inside one of those. Maybe I could rent one for my wedding day! That would be great!