what i've always believed in. happiness is not somewhere out there, sometime in the future, someone who will come. happiness is now. right now. we can ALREADY be happy. =)



A boat docked in a tiny Mexican fishing village.
A tourist complimented the local fishermen on the quality of their
fish and asked
how long it took him to catch them.

"Not very long." they answered in unison.
"Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more?"
The fishermen explained that their small catches were sufficient to
meet their needs and those of their families.

"But what do you do with the rest of your time?"

"We sleep late, fish a little, play with our children,
and take siestas with our wives.
In the evenings, we go into the village to see our friends,
have a few drinks, play the guitar, and sing a few songs.
We have a full life."

The tourist interrupted,
"I have an MBA from Harvard and I can help you!
You should start by fishing longer every day.
You can then sell the extra fish you catch.
With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger boat."

"And after that?"

asked the fisherman.

"With the extra money the larger boat will bring,
you can buy a second one and a third one
and so on until you have an entire fleet of trawlers..
Instead of selling your fish to a middle man,
you can then negotiate directly with the processing plants
and maybe even open your own plant.

You can then leave this little village and move to Mexico City,
Los Angeles, or even New York City!

From there you can direct your huge new enterprise."


"How long would that take?" asked the fisherman.


"Twenty, perhaps twenty-five years." replied the tourist.


"And after that?" asked the fisherman.



The tourist answered
" Afterward? Well my friend, that's when it gets really interesting, "
answered the tourist, laughing. "When your business gets really BIG,
you can start buying and selling stocks and make Millions of DOLLARS!"


"Millions? Really? And after that?"

asked the fisherman.


"After that you'll be able to retire,
live in a tiny village near the coast,
sleep late, play with your children,
catch a few fish, take a siesta with your wife
and spend your evenings drinking and enjoying with your friends."


"That’s what I am doing now!!”

Replied the fisherman


The moral of this story is:
Know where you're going in life....
you may already be there!!

Lemon is an inexpensive, easily available citrus fruit, popular for its culinary and medicinal uses. It is used to prepare a variety of food recipes such as lemon cakes, lemon chicken and beverages like lemonade and lemon-flavored drinks. It is also used for garnishing. Lemon juice consists of about 5% citric acid that gives a tarty taste to lemon. Lemon is a rich source of vitamin C. It also contains vitamins like vitamin B, riboflavin and minerals like calcium, phosphorus, magnesium as well as proteins and carbohydrates. Lemon is generally consumed in the form of lemon juice or lemon water. Lemon water makes a healthy drink, especially when taken in the morning. Daily consumption of lemon water provides a number of health benefits like:


Excellent for Skin Care

Lemon, being a natural antiseptic medicine, can participate to cure problems related to skin. Lemon is a vitamin C rich citrus fruit that enhances your beauty, by rejuvenating skin from within and thus bringing a glow on your face. Daily consumption of lemon water can make a huge difference in the appearance of your skin. It acts as an anti-aging remedy and can remove wrinkles and blackheads. Lemon water if applied on the areas of burns can fade the scars. As lemon is a cooling agent, it reduces the burning sensation on the skin.

Good for Weight Loss

One of the major health benefits of drinking lemon water is that it paves way for losing weight faster, thus acting as a great weight loss remedy. If a person takes lemon juice mixed with lukewarm water and honey, it can reduce the body weight as well.

Acts as a blood purifier

The diseases like cholera or malaria can be treated with lemon water as it can act as a blood purifier. Which might explain why it's also good for the skin too!

Good for stomach

Lemon can help relieve many digestion problems when mixed with hot water. These include nausea, heartburn and parasites. Due to the digestive qualities of lemon juice, symptoms of indigestion such as heartburn, bloating and belching are relieved. By drinking lemon juice regularly, the bowels are aided in eliminating waste more efficiently. Lemon acts as a blood purifier and as a cleansing agent. The intake of lemon juice can cure constipation. It is even known to help relieve hiccups when consumed as a juice. Lemon juice acts as a liver tonic and helps you digest your food by helping your liver produce more bile. It decreases the amount of phlegm produced by your body. It is also thought to help dissolve gallstones.

Water plus a few lemons becomes lemon juice. Lemon juice, when taken regularly in the morning, acts as a tonic to the liver and stimulates it to produce bile making it ready to digest the day's food.

and the rest of the health benefits I don't care. Haha. you can read the rest here if you like. Credits to the website too for these info. Just google THIS and you can find more or less the same info.

In case you are in good health and weigh 70 kg or less, it is advisable for you to have juice of one-half of the lemon squeezed into one glass of water, twice daily. However, if you weigh more than 70 kg, juice of one whole lemon in a glass of water should be preferred. For maximum benefit, this mixture should also be taken two times a day, though you may dilute more lemon juice according to your taste if you wish.

Do not just remain oblivious to the gifts of nature such as this, for you should always try to make the most of them. So, make it a part of your daily routine to drink a glass of warm lemon water in the morning and then open your gateway to enjoy its health benefits.

it was my best Halloween ever so far! haha. it's the first time i actually got dressed up. and the what's more amazing is that it almost didn't happen. but i guess it's all the more gratifying to know that it was a success when it did.

yx and i was still deciding if we wanted to go to the party (which starts ard 11) around 7pm! i said i got a easy and brilliant idea. to get some cheap shirt and splatter blood all over. like be really blood drenched. the problem was, where to get the blood?

i thought we could just easily buy it somewhere or something. but didn't know where, so i googled "where to buy fake blood sg". all the results only showed "HOW to make fake blood". having only 3 hrs left, i decided i would just give it a shot since mediya was only downstairs. (i was staying over at somerset residences, liang court for jeff' bday).

our concept was "bloody recruits!" cause it was cheap and easy. we wore slippers some more. Lol.

The recipe i got online was corn syrup, chocolate syrup, red food dye and corn starch. THAT'S ALL IT TOOK! haha. it cost us only $14 to make one really big bowl of blood that everyone could use. when making it, the thickness is key. so we added a lot of cornstarch until we got the right texture. so that it would stick and not flow down.

and the really amazing thing is that is looked REALLY freaky and gruesome. and it lasted the whole night! the added bonus was that it was super easy to wash off. just rub w warm water, after all, it's just chocolate.

a few daring souls in the club actually took some off our bodies and licked it when we told them it's chocolate! ewww.

so yeah, i'm pretty glad that all these happened, even though it's so impromptu. thanks very much to jeff and his friends for making it possible too. the room, the make up etc etc.

for pictures, go to HERE

other than that, i had a very good weekend because of the awesome vball game and dinner w e beach vball gang. and a good time at jeff's bowtie bday too.

it has been eventful much. haha. and i shall study w the same "amount" of fun that I had this week!

the r/s bet work and fun should be direct. the more fun i have, i have to justify it w more study hours! MUST!