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A year ago
It’s been a year since my last posting.
I didn’t realize how fast time goes until I revisited the site.
Last year I was a student chasing up a dream and now I am living the dream.
Reality hits in that it is not an easy dream to live in. There are ups and downs and times when [...]
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Courting the court
The neighbour from hell, a 82 year-old woman, has been sentenced to six months jail term for making her neighbour life miserable, BBC reported (see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/6560537.stm).
It’s utterly shocking. Even though it is correct by law that the woman has to be sentenced, but judging from the age, it is rather ridiculous. It is a 82 year-old [...]
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Reflection
I was quite negative during the past weeks. I think I let my feeling of helplessness strangle me.
I must say I came to the UK with high expectation. The places where I went to before were not fully democratic, were not ‘free’. I wanted to taste what it was like to be ‘free’. That made [...]
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Money sucks?
Today, in class, Gary shared his life experience and the wisdom he gathered so far.
The list goes like this:
1. Gather experience wherever possible
2. Meet people and learn how to use the phone
3. Leave the Comfort Zone – have faith in your abilities
4. Money sucks
5. Avoid competition – set your own goal
6. Follow your intuition
7. Treat [...]
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Reflection
Only days into 2007, I have already had to give myself a hard pinch which I truly deserved. The thing was I did not get my priorities right.
The holiday mood caught me up so tightly I messed up my last assignment really badly. Firstly, the assignment was not done with maximum effort. I am okay with any results I get as long as I think [...]
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make me talk
It feels weird that the semester is ending. It feels as if time has been fast-forwarded. I can hardly believe that I have spent three months in Cardiff doing journalism. Well, not really journalism yet, but doing a little bit of writing and absorbing information. But thinking back, around this time last year, I was still [...]
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