A proactive person uses proactive language–I can, I will, I prefer, etc. A reactive person uses reactive language–I can’t, I have to, if only. Reactive people believe they are not responsible for what they say and do–they have no choice.

Someone was asking me to do her a favor earlier and I promised that I would try my best to help. Anyway, something went wrong and I could not possibly offer my help anymore. She was bombarding my whatsapp for 6 hours continuously which made me still felt mentally obliged to keep my promise, so I can’t say ‘hey, shut the f up la..’ and she didn’t get it no matter how I indirectly phrased my rejection in different ways (or just pretended that she didn’t get it)

Blinded by ‘I said I will try my best to keep my promise’, I forgot the art of saying ‘No’.
In all possible outcomes, the expected payoff is either zero or drastic negative for me. For her is either zero or positive. In a rational perspective, finally I rejected her la end of story.

A proactive person uses proactive language–I can, I will, I prefer, etc. A reactive person uses reactive language–I can’t, I have to, if only. Reactive people believe they are not responsible for what they say and do–they have no choice.

在街上如果區別內地人與香港人？
i. 沈默低著頭玩電話whatsapp candycrush 聽歌
ii. 大聲疾呼你推我撞一袋二袋

(Off-topic: Oh no.. why 習近平主席又開始減慢演講速度 with many pauses, is that a requirement?!)

(Off-topic 2: 去日本後重新進修日文…hmm 所以會有以下情況。就好像以前的blog會狂用SAT Word Smart vocabs 一樣 haha)

上班後我的所謂Business English 只有兩句：”Attached please find..” 和 “Noted with thanks.”。 Over the weekend 要我嘔一篇school newspaper article 還真是厄介なことだね。やたらに書きたかったけど，止むを得ないなぁ(´･_･`)

要寫作靈感，就要去random thoughts 的萌芽地：浴室。浴室告訴我翻一下書櫃的書，於是我隨便拿了本J.D. Salinger 的Nine Stories，其中一個故事起首如下：”The Sunday that I stepped on to the platform at Windsor Station in Montreal, ..” この本に霊感をもらったおかげで書いたあげくに，完成した（≧∇≦）

「油断一秒、怪我一生」（ゆだんいちびょう、けがいっしょう）是一句日本常見的標語。「油断」即疏忽，「怪我」即受傷或意想不到的結果，整句即「一失足成千古恨」的意思。這個星期的blog內容又漸漸縮短了，原因有二：1）放假7天後要生吞堆積如山的工作，2）隨著爹哥的影響，我weekday又開始玩candy crush了，這就叫做油断一秒、怪我一週間 (・_・;”)

這個星期顯出了Post-Holiday Syndrome x Monday Syndrome 的威力。星期一心情異常沈重和低落，星期三才治癒了一半。星期五玩就恢復正常了：星期五晚出席了一個LEED Consortium ，碰到一位在 alum drinks 見過面的一位師兄。他竟然一路帶領著我去認識不同業界的professionals！”Let’s venture out!” 就這樣，本來站在一角喝橙汁食canapes的我都reach out到不同areas的行內人。如果有一天我變了專業人士，我都會好好對待我的師弟師妹的~

星期六請b食昇級飯，走走星光大道（原來有一隻mcdull銅像！），（又）玩冒險樂園，還有變身iron man…..errrr….其實放左上facebook後我想delete，但被禁止。anyways…hahaha….chok chok.

星期日又恢復了大學時的生活，自己一個在房間，停一停諗一諗，聽聽歌，迎接Monday Syndrome…..

Bro: they call it the White Valentine’s Day in Japan.
Me: we call it the Pi Day in MIT.

Good luck, Class of 2017!

感謝沿路遇上大大小小的貴人 :)

Chanel在我們旗下的辦公室大樓頂層舉辦VIP Cocktail Party，landlord 也被邀出席。昨天還在電腦前埋頭苦幹，處理放假一星期後的工作，本早已打消了出席的念頭。心郁郁的我最終被同事勸服。
又一次大開眼界，黑白的主題顏色，華而不俗的高尚風格，高水準的安排。還可以近距離見識到名模設計師的言行舉止，一瞬跳進與農園差天共地的世界。（Farmer Cheung 報導)