Celebrated Mother's Day today, at granny's place, and then attempted to have ice-cream some place, but everywhere was super-crowded, cannot tahan. (Seriously, is there a way to stop this country from becoming a megacity? I don't think I can bear the crowd. Please PAP, I BEG YOU. Be merciful dictators at least.) So we were thwarted and ended up eating chicken rice (good food nonetheless) later in the night. Next time, must remember to PLAN PROPERLY e.g. reserve seats at restaurants.
Was sitting at Baba Wok's dining table, and found The Bottom Line on Happiness by Clayton M. Christensen (a Harvard Business Management Professor, or stg of the sort) in Reader's Digest.
I like this bit:
People who are driven to excel have this unconscious propensity to underinvest in their families and overinvest in their careers, even though intimate and loving family relationships are the most powerful and enduring source of happiness.
So, have you made your mum happy this mother's day?
The lesson I learned is that it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time. If you give in to "just this once", based on a marginal cost analysis, as some of my former classmates did, you'll regret where you end up. You've got to define for yourself what you stand for and draw the line in a safe place.
I like this too because a lot of the time, I think people are floating around in their lives not knowing what they really want. Life has got to be built on solid rock (i.e. good principles unfailingly adhered to) if you don't want it to collapse halfway.
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