Colin Charles Agenda

“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.”

Richard Moss

i just slept for what must’ve been a good ten hours or more. boy does waking up from that make you feel refreshed. i miss my days of long sleep :-)

wednesday, got home, and immediately left to sunway for the dinner/event thing for international peace. good fun, spent time with john, carmen, ruben, sk2, her sister. yet another night at a hotel, tsk tsk. been ages since i had a room share, but we seemed to survive without throwing shoes at each other

work, caught some judo, dinner. walked out of dinner a lot. my tolerance level for silly people is generally pretty high, but i felt my top wanting to blow many a time that night. apparently, i was not the only one who was about to blow their top

then supper. visited mcdonalds, after what must’ve been a very long time. i ate, finally. good company helps that, clearly

short sleep, and then work… met up with aizat, suanie, and headed to izzy. we’ve now booked the speaker’s dinner place. went home, and headed out for dinner with parents. yum. didn’t know halloween was such a big deal here. they downed some margaritas (tgif has some amazing ones). i didn’t. we however had a mostly serious talk, which i was surprised went pretty well :P 42!

caught some crap on cable tv, which explains why i fell asleep on the couch. today, was lunch at some open house… dinner later will also be at some open house. i think i’ll head back to pj tomorrow. busy week ahead.

answer or no answer, i’m glad things are back to normal. anticipation doesn’t kill, really. silence does.

oh, movie updates. haven’t seen that many recently. miss the cinema. caught mamma mia! (great stuff, and the GSC Signature gold class is well worth the rm60 they charge - go there, the privacy, the seats, its all just amazing), and max payne (not so good). 2 in october is not so bad, i guess…

its november now. the year is almost over. boy has it passed by so fast.

“Sex is for recreation; leave reproduction to the professionals.”

This from reading Intelligent Life, published by The Economist. Their tagline “Lifestyle with Substance” simply rocks. Picked it up in Amsterdam, and I hope their subscriptions reach my home (reminds me of The New Yorker, just quarterly). Read their web compliment - More Intelligent Life.

A few weeks ago, I attended a fiduciary bootcamp. I didn’t even know what it meant.

“involving trust, esp. with regard to the relationship between a trustee and a beneficiary : the company has a fiduciary duty to shareholders.”

It was generally not a productive use of my time, but a choice quote through it all, caught my attention.

We need to recognize corruption for what it is. Officials who take bribes are stealing from their own people – not just money but governmental legitimacy and the hope of a better future. Their actions distort government decisions, waste scarce resources, and undermine public trust in political leaders and institutions. What’s more, corruption makes it more difficult for governments to implement laws and policies, and to attract and hold essential foreign investment.

This was presented at his keynote address at Rice University, in a talk titled “Taking a corporate stand against public corruption“. Choice reading (and I don’t normally consider reading stuff from a lawyer, choice reading).

The really big difference is that I don’t have to participate in interminable conference calls. That in itself makes a job worth quiting.

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I’d rather have one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. ONE.

… because I saw it again today and realised how its one of the movies I really enjoy the most