Random stuff

As the Presidential and Vice-presidential election debates in the US progress, you wonder if there are any truths in this world anymore. Seems like there's a lot of hiding, a lot of verbal attacks - and all on a global stage for the whole world to see. Frankly, I don't get politics. The one who wins will probably be the one who can convince people that he is the better one who can handle the job, regardless of whether that is the truth. It's good that people are more concerned about who's going to govern their society. But as what has been iterated in some articles, its not the policies that are at the heat or the centre of the debate, but dirty laundry. Granted, the latter is what makes politics more interesting and draws people to the actual issues, but it all seems like mere entertainment to me. It'd be great if the spotlight should be on the people who do the actual dirty work of those with all talk but no action.

Speaking of all talk but no action, that seems to be the modus operandi for our MiE business. But there's a very important difference - we WANT to act, just that the obstacles seems so overwhelming. You gotta do this, do that, get approval for this, think of a back-up plan if Plan A doesn't work.. Think what Mr Ngiam said today is right - you just gotta cross the line. Gotta start somewhere, results don't matter for now.

We met Mr Ngiam by chance today after our meeting with Susan. As usual, school not budging with our pushcart proposal as they're scared to open up a can of worms regardless of the fact that we said the rental, 100% of it will return to our club. Futile actions? No. To use an analogy that I experienced today -

Was waiting for a cab to go to NTC because I was already late. Waited. And waited. And waited. Felt a bit stupid waiting in fact, in the hot sun. Some indian foreign workers were probably bemused when they saw me running back and forth across the roads, looking at my watch anxiously. Waited a grand total of 25 mins and I felt like that empty taxi would NEVER come and to accept my fate of trudging to that dreaded busstop. But I decided to wait for that last taxi and it finally came.

Lesson: Wait a bit longer. That day will arrive soon.

Well, we had a little spark today about Plan B. Mr Ngiam seems quite approving when he heard of it, just told us to do it no matter what.

2 of my interviewees for the Spirit of Enterprise won the awards yesterday. Quite disappointed with the way that they invited the student interviewers, and then suddenly uninvited us (through email, no less) on the day of the event.