Attended a talk recently which centered around entrepreneurship. One of the speakers played the above video which I found to be really intriguing. The World as we know it – that has all changed, but are we ready to accept this change more specifically, if the individual choose to change the course of his/her career path?
Interestingly during the course of the talk, it was mentioned that when job-seekers in America took a year or two off to try their hand at starting a business and failed in the course of doing so, their failures are seen as a celebration of their efforts in trying out something new by prospective employers.
But here in Singapore, that would not be the case. It would be viewed as a good one to two years wasted instead of acknowledging the individual’s spirit in wanting to doing something different. How about taking a sabbatical or taking a year off to pursue your interests? Not rare but not often heard of in Singapore.
Are we really that narrow-minded in our thinking? What happened to progress? Embracing change? All these questions came to mind and as usual, I dread to hear the answers that ‘the system’ wants you to hear knowing well that talk is sometimes cheap.
Will there be light at the end of the tunnel for those who take the road less traveled? I like to think so and really hope so.
We went with the Fish of the Day for the main. Wasn’t too impressed with the dish for the fish served was similar to the Stingray family. The sauce that went along with the dish was forgettable.
And lastly for dessert, we opted the breakfast choice of pancakes – the Ricotta Pancakes. The passion-fruit butter was really fragrant and went extremely well with the fluffy pancakes. I also loved the almond crisp which was sinfully good when eaten together with the pancakes.
Yes, keeping cool is needed while making chiffon cakes. That plus making sure you read the instructions and kinda memorise them before making the cake helps as well. This was my second attempt in making the cake. The first ended up tragically (ie: it was flat)! I was too eager to remove the cake from the tin and that was my ‘downfall’. The cake went from almost fab to flat within seconds. After the failed baking incident, I was obviously upset with myself so I began to re-read the recipe again. Turned out I was supposed to invert the cake tin immediately after taking it out from the oven and then let the cake cool before attempting to remove it. *face palm* Arh well, lesson learned and thankfully, cake number 2 turned out almost perfect! Phew!
And if you love anything with Yuzu in it, why don’t you give this recipe a try?
Fifi went missing in late Jan 2011. I remembered it was during Chinese New Year and her pair of dogs accidentally ran out of the house as there were many guests around the home and the gates weren’t locked. Her dogs are usually very wary of strangers, I know because, they wouldn’t really allow me to pick them up even though I had played with them on a couple of occasions. One of her dogs came back home but Fifi could not be found. It was really late at night and despite the entire family driving around the estate to search the dog, she could not be found.
This was an additional lesson I took in order to try and perfect the Hello Kitty floral hand bouquets in time to come.
I have never done a Full Marathon in my life but I did 2 Half Marathons in Singapore because the gal was mostly organising marathons and I did it more as a support for her event. However on the back of my mind, I had always wanted the challenge of finishing a Full Marathon. Guess she could really read my mind.
This is me hanging around the athlete village waiting for flag-off, my flag-off time was 10.45am so I had plenty of time to hang around before the flag-off. So while I was at the village, I had my arms painted with my name (that way people can see your name and cheer you along the way) and you could even get a pre-race massage if you wanted.
“Boston is all in!” this is the official tag line for the race but I never really understood what it meant until I finished this race. The race began at Hopkinton and the race course takes you through shland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton, Brookline before finishing at central Boston. I was amazed that for the entire duration of the race, there were no lack of supporters for the whole 26 miles! From the start till the end, both sides of the race route were lined with people. They are there to hand you drinks; freshly cut oranges; there are people enthusiastically playing music; screaming your name; spraying you with water to cool you off. Basically doing anything and everything they can to help you finish the race. So this is what it means for a city to be all into something. I could go on and on about the race but will stick to a few most memorable parts of it.
My favorite part of the race has to be just after the half way point where u pass by Wellesley College. Wellesley College is an all-girls College. Just imagine a thousand girls on each side cheering you on 
My original intention was obviously to finish the race without stopping at all, but the hills got the better of me. It was also here where I spotted the first Anti-Marathon “supporters”. What are they? Basically instead of cheering you on, these guys attempted to give runners beers and encouraging the runners to give up running the race. I didn’t see anyone do that, but like the kisses from Wellesley college, this was definitely tempting too!
The best part off the Race has to be the final mile! Here you have hundreds of thousands of fans lining up from Beacon Street to the finish line at Kenmore Square. I was dead tired by now, but the screams from the supporters and the desire to show the BB the Finisher’s medal kept me going on.
I finally finished the Race in 5hr 22 mins, it’s a far cry from what I had really wanted to do. But I was still glad that I managed to finish it. I would really want to do this again, but next time with better training and probably a few more races under my belt before taking on this event again.
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