the trials and tribulations of maturity

i have issues with this person called patience. she eludes me all the time! i don't know what i have done to piss her off so royally. *sob*. my attempts at courting her can be likened to my attempts at exercise. the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. i am so pathetic. and this must be the reason why i am always faced with situations where i need her; but because i probably didn't make enough effort to endear her to me, i find that her response to me is usually delayed, or worse still, i am stood up. i know i know, it is all my own fault really. the trials and tribulations of maturity.

i marvel at those people who have this close bonding with patience. how do they do it? on closer inspection, one specimen i have observed closely for the past 1.5 years has drawn me a rough picture of the do's and don't's. i think this person has gone through enough disappointments to realise that it's pointless to sweat the small stuff. nothing came easy, hence that naturally trained him to endure and persevere at greater length. as opposed to me. i am so chagrined at how shallow my life lessons have been (in comparison), yet i am sooo thankful as well. of course i don't wish for difficult times, but in all our 'dear god, please teach me patience' prayers, have we ever considered that in order for us to learn this virtue, we have to go through tribulations that will nurtue this value in us? it's inevitable. i hate it, but there you go. duh.. i'm sure YOU'VE been enlightened waaaay before this post. it's just that today welcomed me with a situation that required my friend patience, so i decided to write about it. maybe when i read this again in the future i will remember my journey into maturity and laugh at how trivial i can be. by that time i would be SO mature that i don't need a reminder anyway. hah.

i inherited a mobile phone from my brother. it is MUCH more technically advanced than my old faithful. so i got a little annoyed that the alarm DID NOT COME ON THIS MORNING!!! and it kept hanging on me, and i couldn't do ANYTHING! not to mention the fact that i kept pressing the wrong key and got all the wrong applications. oh well, i love it now. i can even show a photo of my zit on it. it's so clear! and i love the games :) hhmm... i don't think i mind long meetings now..

malaysia - the land of freedom

i just read in the star about how muslims who don't attend friday prayers at mosques will be punished. hhmm.. interesting. i just cannot believe what i read nowadays. it's flabbergasting (and amusing). i won't opine about this. i do live in malaysia after all. the land of freedom and inflated prices (due to escalating oil prices and reduction of subsidies, which now cannot be used to improve our public transport system - am i surprised?) what joy.

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ever wonder who regulates the regulators in our country? for example, we have the famed Securities Commission, watch dog of investors extraordinaire. who regulates them? they are allowed to run loose and enforce their 'policies' on anyone, regardless of whether there is a basis for these policies in the first place. oh, but they're AUDITING. it is a necessary evil. oh, that explains why they need copies of every conveivable document that's ever been spewed out of a printer. hhmm.. but i bet they really big firms arenot subject to this

ever wonder why we have dodgy firms being given the green light to list their shares? and we investors trust that these have undergone a filtering process. ever notice how, once these shares are listed and the original owners have cashed out, the company is left to its doldrums and investors are left holding the shell? why don't the diligent officers at the SC spend more time auditing these companies instead? and making sure that listed companies are credible? the public is injecting their hard earned money into them after all. but what do i know?

ok, this is JUST a figment of my imagination, so pay no notice. i've heard rumours that some officers do accept a token of appreciation to speed up the process of listing, or just to approve the listing. *gasp* can this be true? of course not! what do you think? do you think our government, who prides itself on transparency would actually allow such things to happen? i'm sure i only read this in one of my chic lit books. i shouldn't read too much of those.

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i just LURVE chic lit. it's escapism at its best. neurotic girl goes through life's ups and downs and emerges the victor with bumbling, lovable, cool boyfriend. and the journey is always punctuated with lovely cool clothes, shoes, handbags. i'm so shallow. haha.