Joshua Sim

Don’t forget Joshua, After a vibrant 6 months

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Hello Everyone,

Time creeps up on you while you aren’t looking. On a monthly basis, my life sometimes isn’t as exciting that there is so much to write about. But over a span of 6 months, so many things can happen.

Let’s give you a taste of the major events since the start of this year. In Jan, I was fresh and back in school. Meeting new friends and learning new subjects. Like a spring time, where everything is new. Then things start to take a turn for the “what-is-going-on-around-here?”

In Feb, I was dancing for my life. This culminated in the Hall Olympiad Closing Ceremony dance competition, where my team got 12th out of 16th place. It’s pretty ok, considering we are one of the weaker dance teams. School work wise, I have already figured out that this is probably my most difficult semester, mainly because I have to take Accounting 2 in it.

In Mar and Apr, leisure activities start to die down, but school work starts picking up. I’m also going for internship interviews here and there. Not to mention all this while in the background, my personal relations since the start of the year have been on a roller coaster ride too. Towards the end of the month, things quiet down as everyone prepares for the exams, and everything non-exam related is put on hold.

In May, the exams arrive, with my having one exam more than the most of my peers studying business. I get into a study routine to combat the exams. Internship soon follows after, and I am forced into a new routine, the kind that every other working adult knows.

The whole of Jun passed me by while I slogged away. Internship brought me to Jurong Island, where I was rotated between two chemical plants there. The locale, with all its metal and machines, is interesting enough at first, but it soon becomes a usual daily sight. On an odd note, I start the hobby of ice skating which happens weekly and is still ongoing.

Now in Jul, the internship of 10 weeks is coming to an end. I finally learn the value of money. Hard work is hard. Even worse then you don’t really enjoy it, or if it’s not something you really want to do. I am very appreciative of what my parents have gone through to afford raising me up. Money really isn’t cheap when it’s bought with sweat and blood.

All these events are a testament to the variety and vibrancy of my life. The good, the bad, and the boring all mixed in together. Comparatively the boring is far more a terror than even the worse of the ‘bad’ events. Such vibrancy is how I wish to live, and interesting life is one worth living. All your life events make you who you are. Even the bad events that happened make my life unique, and make me appreciate the good things more. Though I would prefer doing away with the boring bits. I won’t want my life to pass me by while I am slogging away.

Let’s keep in touch! Do reply me and tell me how you are. Whatever you do, don’t forget me.

Don’t forget Joshua, Dec’12, the world didn’t end yet

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Hello Everyone,

It’s a big hello from Melbourne Australia this time round! I’m here for 21 days, seeing the sights and talking to locals. I’m here for Christmas and the New Year as well. Can’t wait to see what the New Year celebrations here are like. I got tired of celebrating it in Singapore a long time ago. Normally I would just stay at home, but not this time!

This trip is also my first one travelling alone. I wanted to see how travelling alone is like. Granted, I’m staying with my aunts and they take me to some places, I do have the freedom of travelling alone. So far, I realise that travelling alone is pretty boring really. There is no one to share your experience and to talk about inside jokes that you see in your travels. The places to visit and the things to see are inherently fun on their own, although bringing a friend with you might add to the enjoyment.

So far, I have been to the seaside, the mountains, the city, the country towns, and even a waterfall where I drank fresh mountain water. The seaside was beautiful as well. It was a small peninsula, with the ocean on one side and an inland sea on the other. It was a scenic trek to the tip of the peninsula, ending at an abandoned fort, on the top of which, you can see blue water for miles and miles.

I had a good family Christmas too. It was with good western food, as compared to the usual Chinese food that my grandmother makes this time of year. Not that she’s a bad cook, mind you. Family accompanied the Christmas lunch. We even went to a park together. The park was full of ducks, and I even caught a bright yellow duckling.

Tell me how your holidays went! =)

Let’s keep in touch! Do reply me and tell me how you are. Whatever you do, don’t forget me.

Don’t forget Joshua, First time I am writing of romance…

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Lately, I have come across a few wedding videos. Not to mention, my good guy friends around me are getting attached. Oh ho, yes, the feeling is really getting to me. It doesn’t help that marriage and a happy family are some of my top goals. In fact, it’s number 3 and 4 on the top ten goal list.

The science/art of attraction is one that has always eluded me. It’s not any other form of activity out there. There is much more uncertainly in it than anything else I have endeavoured to do. You can give a girl all the flowers in the world and she still won’t look your way. Yet some people come together just by a stroke of luck. Attraction seems to be based on a weird push-pull factor that is as intriguing as is confusing. I believe I would make a good partner, I probably just don’t know how to convince the opposite gender.

Then again, there is also the factor about me finding someone I believe suitable for me. I watched THAT Steve Jobs Stanford speech. The one where he says, ” keep looking, don’t settle”. Finding a someone suitable for myself, while not easy, is not even half the battle. And THEN, after you find that someone, you have to convince her of your worth. Talk about effort. If these weren’t my goals number 3 and 4, I won’t probably make the effort. I haven’t even begun talking about the extreme luck factor too!

Still, like other things, if it were easy, it probably won’t be worth doing. “… we do these other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” I believe a happy family of my own is a worthy and fulfilling goal to strive for (oh, it had better be). Looks like I have to be patient and learn more about the attraction kung fu.

In the meantime, I’ll be preparing myself to be able to provide for my family in the future. Love is the base of all happy families, but you can’t be all that happy if you see your wife and kids hungry all the time. In addition, I want to raise my kids better than how my father raised me. Not that he did a bad job, mind you. (Yeah, he reads this). I just want to be better. Constant improvement makes the world go round. That’s one of the reasons why I study psychology. It really helps to understand how people and little kids think and how to shape them into better people.

Before I end off, to the ladies reading this… any friends you want to recommend? =)

Let’s keep in touch! Do reply me and tell me how you are. Whatever you do, don’t forget me.

First Post

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Hello All,

 

This is the First post of this blog. This blog is intended to serve as a resume, profiler and portfolio for me. In time, I will also post articles here relating to professional, business, and investing. My wish is that such articles will help benefit you when you read and apply what I write.

 

In addition, this site is to be used as a platform for me to connect with other like-minded people, and for such people to contact and get to know me. As an entrepreneur, who you know, can sometimes be more important than what you know.

 

Regards,

Joshua