Woah. Looks like Monday ramblings are slowly becoming a norm. My blog is kind of inactive lately. But that doesn’t mean I’m not doing anything. Today, I’m here to share my happiness and the good things happening in my life!

My Life Has Changed For the Better
Since graduation, I have been indulging in personal development (I say “indulging” because I do enjoy it). I swear I’m a hundred times more hardworking than I was during my schooling years. Ask my close friends and family and you’ll know. Oops! You probably won’t know them. Oh well. Anyway, a friend I met up with today told me this, “You have changed for the better, Dan.” Okay. Maybe not exactly that. He spoke in Mandarin. But it was something along that line. Made me feel really good about myself!

Back in my university years, I was hit badly by the “lack-of-purpose-in-life” syndrome. I slept a lot, skipped lessons, photocopied my friend’s lecture notes (filled with his handwritten notes) and tutorials, and arrived late for class tests or quizzes. It was like a routine every semester. Duh. A fantastic “leecher” I was. Not going into my life story here. But basically, he noticed that I have since become more purposeful and self-driven. Woohoo!  

I Think I’m Starting to Influence Others…
Come on. I’m serious. After reading my blog and listening to my aspirations, the same friend whom I used to borrow lecture notes from met up with me today to discuss about starting an educational website together. Though he was a motivated individual to begin with, my high level of motivation must have rubbed off on him right? Tell me I’m right. *grins*…

Even my sister seems to have softened up a bit. She used to be kind of negative, to an unbelievable extent it was actually funny. Now, I can see some positive spark in her every now and then. She’s mad about the Korean language. And Korean guys. Any tall, handsome Korean guys reading this blog? Drop me an e-mail soon will you?

A Little Side Story
I’ll end off with a little side story. I was hanging out at the library last Sunday when I overheard a mother reprimanding her son. Fuming mad, she spoke to her son in Mandarin, “Honey. Mandarin and English are two different spoken languages. When you speak, you don’t mix them together.” Alright. A mother teaching her son to speak in a pure, well-defined manner. Sounds reasonable enough? Of course it does. Until she ended off her speech with…

“Okay?” (In English)

Talk about leading by example?! Comments?