A Getaway

it's so annoying....(updated!!)

-already been corrected for the double 'f' in McAffee, it seems that when you try to avoid something from happening, you end up overdoing it. thanks to my friend for the correction =)and... a 'tribute' to him who's also sent me another link to get a new antivirus. it works!! my laptop hasn't been fully recovered yet, but the McAfee is awake now =p. never thought there're lots of viruses and trojans and friends-

There's something wrong with my laptop...ermmm...or is it rom the ISP? Nop, I believe it's rom my laptop. When I irst use it in Jan, I ound out that I couldn't use Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, and Ctrl+V to manage my iles and olders. By mid of this year, everytime I orget to exert an extra 'power' when hitting the C, my words start losing the letter. And today...approaching the end of 2005, I'm losing the F letter. Don't tell me that I'm losing my pics too....

You know it very well that when a computer hibernates, it may require you to input a password beore resuming what you've left. But with my laptop...which is so brainy...whatever password I input, it happens to be a wrong one and it acts so 'helpfully' by asking "Did you forget your password?" plus giving a hint. I even tried to remove my password to avoid this rom happening again as I oten lost my internet connection because of this. But this brainy laptop didn't wanna cooperate, it kept asking me the same question..."Did you forget your password?" Hey, I didn't even give you any password!!

With the internet thing...I need to click a button hundreds of times just to execute an action.o  Everything runs very slowly....urgggggghhhhhh... That's why I've been ending up disconnecting my laptop rom iPrimus just few minutes ater I get connected. It is very annoying to sit in ront o my computer waiting for something changing rom the second I click my mouse.

You see there's many 'f' missing in this post. I didn't do it intentionally, it's just happening and I'm too upset to go back to a particular word to revise it =)

And not to mention the virus and trojan attacks!! The McAfee (I make sure the 'f's appear here as it will make no meaning without thw two 'f's) has been so 'responsible' pointing out that there're viruses in my laptop when I turn it on. But it's unable to function the way it should be. Nothing happens when I click the McAfee icon. And I can't even remove it rom my laptop. The last time I tried to remove it, my laptop was like in a coma (not sure whether it could still 'hear' me, though).

Whuaaaaa....help me... :( Is my laptop really annoying or it's just me who's being 'gaptek'???

today's special for dinner

therI was sooooo lazy to go to work last night. I wasn't feeling well and the weather was surely unkind -it's very hot but windy and showery. But I have to, I have no choice. And you know what happened??? At the end of my shift, a customer from my row paid the bill of him and his family (there're 10 people) and gave us AUD 75 tip, o well, less 10 cents, actually. The tip didn't go to my pocket straight away, obviously...it will be distributed. But it's a very nice of him...My boss said, may be it's for Christmas. Yea, a lovely Christmas pressie...

It's Christmas Eve tonight...Me and my friends are gonna have a supper together after the Christmas Eve's service. I did a last minute shopping just now. So, we're gonna have a little treat tonight!! =) Apparently I'll have to attend a mass at the Cathedral as there's no service at the church that I usually attend.

Have a meaningful Christmas this year, guys...Though you gotta have a merry 'little' Christmas by yourself, be grateful that you have a Christmas in your heart =)

today's special for lunchtime

I just got a call from my eldest bro. From the way he talked, which was very carefully, I felt like he was about to give me some bad news. So the first few minutes was totally stressful!! Later, I felt so relieved...somehow I thought he's just checking on me, may be because of my mom told him something about me. He's so kind and caring...a 'big' brother who's become like a second dad to me.

I checked my mails after I hung up my Nokia. And there I found an email from a friend from high school, one of my best buddies in fact. He just read my blog. His mail was quite short and what he wrote seemed like a typical mail from an old friend, but somehow I could feel he hadn't just typed in the mail with fingers (with a pen or some toes as well, perhaps? hahahahaha). Indeed, it's a typical old-friend mail, succinct yet he grasp what I'm feeling. It's a very sweet of him... Love ya too ;p

A Mother's Day

"Selamat hari ibu...di tingkat nasional...Hehe.." That's a part of my sms to my mom yesterday as we also have an international Mother's Day. Ermmm...do we have our own Father's Day in Indonesia??? Anyway... some thoughts to ponder...it is not easy to be a mom. I think the more we grow up, the more we love our parents since we start to understand how substantial the responsibility and sacrifice they must bear for us to be good persons.


Talking about being a mom...a mom like mine...the process takes much more than just occasionally dry and rough hand, some overcooked meals, or discolored laundry, I believe =) For a little child, a mom must be his/her world, his/her everything. For a teenager, a mom must be his/her friend with the same age. And even for a grown-up, a mom must still be his/her counselor. No matter how mature and independent you think you are, she will always be the first person who's worried so much when you are sick.


And talking about discolored-laundry experience...I got one yesterday. Ughhhhh...so nyebelin. I soaked a tank top, a tee, a shirt -all in pink, and a purple sleeveless tee together with a black cardigan. I've worn that cardigan for long that I didn't think it would cause any problem anymore. Hey btw, I reckon laundry is similar with baking a cake in a sense that I’m always eager to see how ‘the output’ is gonna be. And…Surprise! Surprise!! Yea, rite...I could only save the sleeveless tee!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... I remember my mom teaching me to wash dark-colour clothes separately. I remember my mom teaching me to let all the clothes wet evenly before pouring the detergent to prevent it from leaving any stain on the clothes. I remember my sis telling me to read and follow the 'care instructions' tag inside the clothes. I remembered all those things clearly when I was about to do the laundry, but I didn't follow any. So naughty!!! The choices now are obvious, I suppose: (1) to scrap them, (2) to be creative enough to conceal the spot so that I can still wear them, or (3) to be brave enough to wear with a positive thought in mind that it may become the new fad for 2006!!! Hahahahaha... Well for me, I think I’m gonna choose no (2), those are my fave clothes and one is even still brand new :( But come to think of it… no (3) is also not too bad… ;p


I miss my mom. I'm honestly grateful to be her daughter.

Kill Bill

For those who are not in any holiday mode (read: stressed out), you better check this out!! Extremely hilarious!!! (you must understand if you ever watched a pirated DVD using a hi-tech DVD player)

http://www.Break.com/articles/killbilldvd.html

begetakk..begetakk..begetakk..begetakk.. =p

one of those days

SEMUA TENTANG KITA - PETERPAN



Waktu terasa semakin berlalu
Tinggalkan cerita tentang kita
Akan tiada lagi kini tawamu
Tuk hapuskan semua sepi di hati


Ada cerita tentang aku dan dia
Dan kita bersama saat dulu kala
Ada cerita tentang masa yang indah
Saat kita berduka saat kita tertawa


Teringat disaat kita tertawa bersama
Ceritakan semua tentang kita


Ada cerita tentang aku dan dia
Dan kita bersama saat dulu kala
Ada cerita tentang masa yang indah
Saat kita berduka saat kita tertawa



(taken from www.iloveblue.com/lirik/lyric_artist_indonesia_barat_bali_song/3298.htm)

INCOMPLETE

Have you ever wanted to talk to someone(s) so... bad but dunno how to reach him/her as he/she's so 'far' away? Well, I know exactly how terrible it is. I ended up feeling uncomfortably bloated as I'd kept on chewing something, anything handy actually, to fill in the hole. I think meals are not only for loading up an empty stomach, but also for filling up the emptiness in some way or the other.

Last night when I was about to sleep, I tried to figure out how many days have lapse since I had my last exam. I've been thinking about it for few days, actually, partly because of the talk I had with my mom and my k. They, and my sis (in her mails), had kept on asking me what I'd been doing during my holiday. Pretty much nothing. Really nothing, in fact. I've kept myself busy everyday to keep me alive, and because I've chosen to -I've decided to move on when I said that I wanted to be happy on my own. I've been conditioned not to look back. And since that moment, I've been perceiving things differently...I've been living my days as if it were my last day. But may be I've tried it so hard that my daily routines become so mundane -staying up late, getting up late, doing this and that until it's time to work- that my shift is the only thing that I 'look forward to' but also that has restricted me from doing what I wanna do. Christmas is coming, I've seen so many customers celebrating the event since really early Dec with pressie and extravagant dinner, but I feel entrapped in my own cycle. I used to be quite active in church when I was still in high school and undergrad. A month or two months before Christmas always excited me, especially the choir practice. Yet now, I'm not sure whether this Christmas is gonna be merry or not. I somehow cannot be selfpitying anymore, but when I have a fleeting break from the sprint, I sense there's incompleteness.

When I was still living in my parents', as far as I can remember, I never felt lacking of something. I never spent my time like dwelling upon something that I didn't even know. I got lots of love and comfort that sometimes I fed up with the abundance. Everything was so predictable ('low risk' is the term I find very often these days ;p). All I had to do was to think about my study. I was secure. I knew nothing about uneasiness. May be I was really fulfilled that time. Or may be I just never had a chance (or was too naive) to think about life. I thought all the miseries would vanish as I graduated from uni - the way I think of marriage now. So silly...so fairy-tally... =) Oh well, for the moment, I couldn't agree more that no man is an island, and what I've gone through so far reveals that men are meant to be couple. The question is...am I ready?

-rambling in the middle of the night with some jazzy christmas tunes which are extremely remarkable -

twisted by the puzzle

bought on one Sunday afternoon (Dec 4, 2005) - started on Sunday night and the following nights (after work) to beat the before-results-announcement insomnia - finished on Wednesday morning (Dec 7, 2005) - shot (by request) on Dec 21, 2005

the box.....

the puzzle.....

"Time flies..."

I was about to post a line or two yesterday when suddenly I realized that I had to go to 'work'. I had an 'early' schedule yesterday for a really 'BIG' and 'important' job. O well, that how she sounded. So...important that it was called off right when I was few meters away from the place where we're supposed to meet, which happens to be the resto I work for, simply because of lack of communication between the couple. Yea, shits happen, especially when dealing with your boss who's always RIGHT.

Anyway, Christmas is around the corner. That was the first thing came into my mind when I got up yesterday. It doesn't feel like Christmas here, though... Is it because I'm too busy working??? But what am I gonna do then if I don't work? Hhhhh...I just had a thought about what I was doing this time last year -trying to meet everyone dear before leaving- and what I will be doing this time next year -looking for a job, perhaps??? "Time flies..." that's the line introduced when I met him for the last time last year, that's the line I've felt so true eversince...

How 'SPECIAL' is my 'NOT SPECIAL'?

Nothing special today, but I'm so... glad that I don't have to work tonight considering that I've worked for the past 3 nights and there're 3 more nights to go this week!! Dunno why sometimes I'm bored with  the have-to-smile-all-the-time thing. Not like when I was working in Jakarta, though I had it for more than 2.5 years.

I started my day today with an sms from Jakarta. An sms from him early in the morning has always had the power to wake me up more than a cup of morning coffee. Even until now, when I take his words much more easily. Anyway...

Later, I had a quick visit to Melb U, which I like doing during holidays bcoz I think it can perfectly displays its 'pride and beauty'  when it comes without any burden of classes to attend or exams to sit in. Sometimes I imagine how I will feel as I visit my campus few years later, I must reminisce about what I'm doing today, where everything started (i.e. the International Students office), what I had for lunch on a particular day in my last semester, where I usually sat in Bailieu, or even simply about the only 'pohon rambutan' we had in Melbourne! =) Well, as somehow I feel that I may not have that chance to re-visit my uni, I think pretending to be in that visit doesn't harm me.

Then I met my friends. We walked around Bourke St. and Elizabeth St. without any destination before we eventually ended up in Lygon St., inspecting one of student accomodations there, which was the reason I left  my place this afternoon in the first place. The place was okay, not too bad, though not the one I'd strive for. Afterall, it costs me too much. And I think, at the moment, I'm not gonna trade my current place, which I've been trying to settle into (but not 'too' settle either, as life's thought me that everything lasts only as long as they're pleased to), with another place that's unfamiliar, especially when taking into account my stuffs, which are a lot(!!) and heavy =). I was clearly reminded of this yesterday, when I helped my friend moving. The idea of staying in a better place before I leave Melb and the excitement of moving into a new place keep on teasing me, though. But, I don't feel like starting all over again. I think I had enough. All I'm looking for is to feel safe.  Well, I think I'm not ready to be a grown-up in this case. I'm so used to a life where everyone (even my bestfriends) tries to protect me, though sometimes I find it extremely annoying.

Shortly, I watched 'Everybody Loves Raymond' on the TV 'till I slept. It was a hot day that I felt so sleepy after I had a big plate of Pad Thai and had a stroll around the Fed Square and around my place.  Had a chat with my sis' friend on the phone later, and with my friends on ym the next hours.

I feel so alone these days, but somehow I have the courage to enjoy it in a way that I don't understand. I've never felt like this before. Perhaps someone(s) has been praying for me for this 'hapiness', like my friend said, that everyday there's someone praying for you, you may just not know it. Well, I know for sure my mom and dad continuously pray for us.

I so wanna feel comfy with my life here, but I'm too scared to feel that as I know everything changes and life may dissapoint you, and it will cause much pain when I don't acknowledge that fact.

And the story ends with a phonecall from a friend I thought I've lost. I'm so happy to have a talk again with him after a while. And I'm even happier knowing he did very well last semester.

Afterall, today is not 'not special' as I thought before. I thought what I had had today was like any other normal days. But when I was writing the details of it...hey, that's not true... In fact, today has started and ended nicely, despite the bumpy feeling I had throughout the day.

P.S. Btw, I think Corona is still much better than any Oz beers. One more thing, I started to read before sleeping. 'Geisha, A Life' is my first book. Though I'm not able to do the speed-reading (well, I'm trying), I quite enjoy it and I hope I can finish it before the movie is on. Can't wait to watch that movie!!!

is it just a song?

MANUSIA BODOH - ADA BAND

Dahulu terasa indah
Tak ingin lupakan
Bermesraan selalu jadi Saturday kenangan manis

Tiada yang salah
Hanya aku manusia bodoh
Yang biarkan semua ini permainkanku
Berulang ulang ulang kali

Reff :
Mencoba bertahan sekuat hati
Layaknya karang yang dihempas sang ombak
Jalani hidup dalam buai belaka
Serahkan cinta tulus di dalam takdir

Tapi sampai kapankah kuharus
Menanggungnya kutukan cinta ini
Bersemayam dalam kalbu

Tak ayal tingkah lakumu
Buatku putus asa
Kadang akal sehat ini
Belum cukup membendungnya

Hanya kepedihan
Yang selalu datang menertawakanku
Engkau belahan jiwa
Tega menari indah di atas tangisanku

Bridge :
Semua kisah pasti ada akhir
Yang harus dilalui
Begitu juga akhir kisah ini
Yakinku indah

(taken from http://indonesia.insan.web.id/lyrics/manusia-bodoh.html)

One of the Diners' Shows

I reckon last night was a very chaotic Monday night!!!

It only took few minutes after my waitress friend asked me whether Monday night had always been that quiet with only one or two reservations made when suddenly customers kept on coming. No empty table left. Dirty plates were pilling up. Waiters/waitress were running back and forth and sometimes bumping into each other. Dishes ready to be served were waiting to be picked up by us who were also too busy with other routines such as being friendly with all customers (including greeting the 'new comers' and dealing with 1001 types of customers), taking some orders, pouring the wine (or even simply some water), making sure that the rice in the pot is HOT, collecting used plates, and cleaning up messy tables thing, etc. And all the sound that I could hear was either the voice of customers sitting at my row or of my boss(es), with customer's laughter as the background overriding the music played 'too' softly. I thought those whole thing belonged to weekends.

After all, I still think of those routines as pieces of a role play. Everytime I start working, I feel like I'm starting a show from which I get the heebie-jeebies, a show which has an introduction, a build-up to climax, an anti-climax, and a closure, and a show in which I become one of the players and also one of the directors -as I watch every stage of the play in each table, I learn the characters of the players there and put some efforts to adapt to them, and sometimes I try to phase the run of each table so that a climax in one scene doesn't coincide with the other (meaning I got ample time to take care each and every one of them). And I always get very excited, even until now I guess, when it comes to 'dessert or coffee time' for it signals the end of the show and everything has run smoothly so far.

Talking about the characters of the players, I find it interesting to know that there are many different kinds of people (or perhaps the word 'customers' is more approriate in this case) in their own time. And some of them even came from far places like Helsinski and Johannesburg.

There are those who are extremely polite with a perfect table manner; those who are surprisingly unhypocritical and appreciative; those who are occupied with the long-time-no-see chat and the presence of dishes is the only break they allow; those who are still teenagers and as you may already guess, the girls look more mature (I reckon they're on their first dates ;p); those who are celebrating their youth with booze and any other things; and those who are in love (I can see it from the way the gentleman touches her and the way the lady looks at him) but at the same time still able to steal some moments to flirt me.

On the contrary, there are also those who 'don't really stick to' any table manner (including ordering to have so many entrees and main courses all together at the same time that I find it difficult to arrange them nicely on a limited space); those who just try to be polite and say something nice (well, some of them are great pretenders, I must say); those who are irritatedly rude and treat us like inferiors (most of the time I found them to be Asians, sorry to say) or who are very grumpy in the extreme; those who don't seem to enjoy the idea of having dinner together and silence is the 'ambience' they choose; those who are in their late 50s or 60s, who already had their best years and managed to preserve the sparks of their love; those who choose or have to have their meal only by him/herself (some find their own excitement of being alone with a book or papers, some are overwhelm with nostalgia, some look really don't care about anything but the good food); and those who are even fighting over which food to order.

And for last night, the show ended with a closure from my boss, "Everyone is happy." Yea, I guess that could be true, except for us, the waiter/waitress who were still stacking chairs and mopping the floor until late.

Groceries

When I looked into my fridge this afternoon, I realized that I got nothing to eat. It's almost empty actually (that's so unlike me!!!), despite the eggs and some dips and some other foods.  And the "some other foods" that I left there about 2 months ago were either mouldy or already expired -including the fruits of which the skin wrinkled like the one we see in the skin-rejuvenating-lotion ads =). Meaning...I had to do the groceries.

Number one lesson in shopping groceries is that never do it when you're hungry or 'hungry' for whatever reasons, or you'll end up buying so many things that you'll regret when carrying to your place!

Well, I was quite hungry and 'hungry' when I shopped. But I remembered  clearly that lesson =) that I grabbed things from the shelves reasonably enough (I guess). Yet still, I ended up carrying 3 bags home, one bag is only for paper towels and tissues, one bag of breakkie 'equipment' like muesli n yoghurt, milk, etc., and another bag for some meat and bananas. I thought I've shopped wise enough this time, considering that I haven't done groceries of and on my own for  1.5 months. I, yet, had that kind of regret when carrying them for couple blocks, especially because of the uncomfortable humid weather leading "some rain periods" as the weatherman said.

So I tried to think of anything else. Then I look back at my groceries bags again. What I saw inside those bags were something a bit different from my usual shopping list. And I was reminded -I had this idea before, back in 2000 and 2002- of how God uses the persons I know along the way of my life to 'see' the other side of the world, to see other people's lifestyle, to 'see' and understand other people's perspective, and also to see the stuffs in the grocery store's aisle that I used to skip or even the stuffs on the overlooked shelf when walking through the aisle that's familiar to my shopping list. I thought about that along my way home, though sometime I was interrupted by the flies that flew erratically attacking my face -the extremely annoying thing about summer here.

I soon realized that I got home already and at the same time found that I couldn't find my key. I could see the caretaker was watching TV inside his room but I didn't wanna bother him by asking him to open the door. If I didn't bring my key, I'd better ask him to open my room's door as well, I thought. So I kept on searching for the key in my bag. I heard its sound but I couldn't see it. Felt a bit relieved, I was concentrating even more on stuffs in my bag when suddenly the caretaker's voice struck me...HAAAAA...I was so shocked!!! He just called me offering a help to open the door, though. Phewww...Luckily it wasn't in the middle of the dark night with lightning and thunderstorm, like in the horror movies. I would have jump and scream in fright otherwise ;p

And now I gotta prepare to work....Ouwww...I so don't wanna go for work tonight...I can imagine it'll be raining heavily when I finish my work...

r e s i s t a n c e

I think it's funny how my body resists meals. It is really not an ordinary case for me =) It's not that I'm not hungry, I just don't feel like eating...Ok, I rephrase it, I still wanna eat but I feel like dunno what I'd like to have. Everytime I think of what I wanna have today...then I feel like everything is so "biasa-biasa aja". Indonesian food? Hmmm...I miss it but I don't think I'm having it today. Japanese? No, I don't wanna have Japanese, I had it yesterday.  Some coffee? I had it too much during last semester. Yea, great, I'm refusing all the choices...

And today I started to cook some rice again at my place -the first time after a while!! It's not that I'm too lazy to cook these days, but there's been hesitance. Or may be...I'm avoiding eating in silence?

At last...

Phuihhhhh...I finally can see the results, after waiting for hours in front of my laptop (and sleeping ;p). I'm so...lega... Like I said to my Mom on that night, this was the time for me to have a 3-month holiday. I may not have it again later, or actually... I may "have" it but cannot enjoy it as I need to find a job this time next year. I guess that's so true, this is the holiday which I've never had during my undergrad. This is the holiday which I wished to have after graduating my undergrad. This is the holiday that I deserve, now. Such a blessing!!

The "Being Happy" Talk...

We were studying for the final exam that night when I, out of the blue, asked my friend what he saw as he looked back to the past. I thought it's only me who says, "Ooo...I was very much happier on those days...I wish I could be there longer, when things were so straightforward, simply because I didn't know the complexity ("Ignorance is bliss," he said)...I wish I knew it weren't gonna last long that I could treasure it more..." No matter how worn out I was actually made throughout those times, I can only refer it as a happy period of time compared to now.

 

So, "Morale of the story...," I said, "Stop grumbling (i.e. go back to study!!! =p ) about what we're doing because someday we're gonna see these moments as a happier hours compared to what we will be going through at that time." Then I said to myself, "Or shouldn't it mean that what we're having now, how bad it is, will be nothing in comparison to what we're gonna experience sometime in the future? But don't we grow in our capabilities to cope with problems?" Hmmm..."I dunno...I don't wanna think about it now, but  I think I got the point...that I have to enjoy (=be happy of) every second I'm living now, without reminiscing so much about the past, nor putting so much burden or hope about the future. Just living for the moment, in the present time. May be that way I won't someday stop and look back and say, "I should have...” or “I could have..." In other words...I gotta enjoy every word I read and write during this revision??? Hughhhhh…Such a revelation!!! =)

Soon after the exam was over (phuihhhhh...at last...!!! A 3-month holiday, I'm cominggg…), I proved it to be true. How on earth could I possibly know that now is the last time I'm doing this or that? Yea…sometimes I can tell…But, what if I’ve, in fact, already had that last chance without realizing it? Perhaps, there won’t be so much loss if I do every single little thing as if it were my last chance, just like what people say. I believe I will see everything differently then. Hey, it was actually what I’ve learned when I was working on my last days before quitting, when the no-more-time-left-to-fix-everything-I-thought-I-could was the reality that I had to accept. So why did I fall into the same mistake? 

 

Hey btw, if it’s true that when we look back we feel that we were happier before than today. And if it’s true that, consequently, we regret why we didn’t feel really happy at that time, while we can, as now we can’t feel that way again (i.e. not happy). Then what happens when we die? Assume, for the moment, we all believe in the life after death and we believe that there will be Heaven and Hell. If we end up in Hell, we must regret if we didn’t choose to be a happy person and to be content with our lives on earth as we’re gonna spend another life miserably for eternity. But what if we go to Heaven? Will it matter whether we had a happy life or not as we’re entering an infinite time of happiness? 

 

Well, for the time being…I’ve decided that I wanna be happy. I‘ve proven it myself (perhaps it’s unnecessary) what my sis told me, that being happy wasn’t supposed to depend on other person(s) existence…you just can’t.

Procrastinating = dealing with things having option-like features?

How many times did you hear someone saying (or may be you telling yourself) something like...never put off until tomorrow what you can do today? And how many times then, did you actually do what you should do or could do straight away? Well, may be I'd better start to increase the number. 

"I'd better do it tomorrow, first thing in the morning (!!!), when I can think clearer." Or "I usually work best in the evenings." Or "I just wanna keep it this time, I'm gonna read it later when I got time." I said those lines quite often, I guess...and may be most of the times, I only did the work until I really had to, and regretted as I thought that I could have done it better if only I'd had more time. 

Yea, that's what happened with the bloggin' thing. I wanted to scratch some words few days ago, when every single things were still fresh in my mind. Yet I let it stay only in my mind until last night, when I actually went to friendster and found the "Our Apologies" thing again and again... Now you see why delaying something is not the best thing to do, while in Corporate Finance, which I've been taught recently =), it's said that it may be optimal not to exercise an option, even the one with a favourable intrinsic value, early as it kills the time value of the option. In other words, not delaying the exercise may cost you losing the chance to see how things turn out to be and resolve the uncertainty.

So...can we (or should we) treat "every option" we face in the real life like the way we think of "real options" in Finance? =)

Greenyyy at TeppanSan

a dinner after Harry Potter on a day before announcement

A Prelude

Ha!! Finally...there's no the "Our Apologies" thing when I clicked the "Continue" button. Yea, yea...there's a time for everything, we need only be aware enough to watch when it comes.