Speaking for my mind

I always loved running, or jogging. For the most part, I am not the typical runner. I love running around La Cienega Park during middle school days, getting the weekly "bonus" at Palms Middle School, running to vent off frustration, running to clear pains, running to reduce stress, and running to think things through.

i find myself somehow uncovering myths, discovering my true inner callings, and finding resolutions while I run. I run as hard as I can, I run till my body feels numb, I run while staring at the sky. Somehow, it is an inspirational process.

Someone else put in better words for me:

"Perhaps most importantly, when I run I feel as if I am not really present. It’s me vs. myself, my mind working against the dull limitations of my body and gravity. I have to fight these limitations, stay restless and unsatisfied with the current capabilities. To lose this drive is to lose the will to run, for one must to be willing to make pain and discomfort of only secondary importance."

GROW together

1. Campuses have often been launching pads and pivot stations for social movements

2. Campuses are microcosms of the real world, and have many types of people to contribute to your org

3. Campuses have organized resources (organized student groups, financial resources for student activities, faculty, staff) to tap

4. College students are looking to make early determination of their life's purpose, choosing the issues on which they will lead

5. Older people want to help you succeed if you're a college student (they don't suspect ulterior motives)

6. You're providing opportunities for leadership and learning to many other students who will forever view you as a leader. This can, if you play it right, be a hugely valuable networking play

7. You can get on the good side of the school administration by establishing yourself as a student leader

8. You have a valuable niche and a compelling story to tell older professionals. Indeed, some businesspeople, lawyers, NGO leaders, etc are looking to expand their product lines or services to college markets. You can be the connector

9. You learn (mostly through small failures and feedback from all the members and your core leadership team) a ton about leadership, professionalism, management, organizational dynamics, politics, basic economics, networking, time management, and stress management.

10. All the stuff you learn makes you a better interviewee when you graduate and you're looking for jobs. You're not just another resume in the pile. In fact, you might meet so many professionals in the process of building your org that you get a job purely through the connections. And if you're not looking for jobs upon graduation--you're taking the more entrepreneurial route--you have a solid set of experiences, resources, connections, and lessons to help you launch.

#11, just for fun: You can easily scale your org nationally by calling up friends on other campuses and telling them to start chapters.

13 3, Discovering qualities you had that you didn't know or thought you could have - starting anything new is an intensely creative process which requires you to stretch your limits, break status quos and constantly innovate by necessity of the nature of the work - allows for much inter-disciplinary learning.

Life makes you think about whatever you ever thought about, twice.

Life makes you think twice about whatever you ever thought about.

Thursday Ladies Night @ Lounge 18 ON THE BUND!

we got a free dinner and countless free cosmopolitans, apple/lychee martini, etc

and i got a free bottle of champaigne and lap dance =D

they had a drawing contest and i put in my boss's name card and i got it -__-

then my boss called me right after at 10:30. FAIL.

GREAT NIGHT OUT!!! I love these girls <3 

OCTOBER 2009

I gotta start writing my own blogs ~ otherwise this will be a precious journey wasted-_-

Thoughts going through my mind-

GOTTA think before I speak now. 

Quote V: I mean who doesn't want to be on A BOAT? I knew it was going to be awesome, but for some reason pretty much everyone from our program was unwilling to go. Anyways, only 4 of us from our program went, but the boat party was beyond sold out and it was packed to capacity by the time we started moving. We basically started at the Bund, my favorite place ever, and went up and down the river while thoroughly enjoying an open bar on 4 levels and a rooftop dance party.

I write for myself, this time.

After setting up everything (getting all the materials I  think I need, writing utensils, and water, chair right by my bed) I RE-realized that setting up always takes more time than my actual study time -_-" 

Obama's surprising win -

IN DEFENSE for the "Premature" decision criticism made by the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, members of the Nobel Committee award stated that it could be seen as an early vote of confidence intended to build global support for the policies of his young administration

"why do you always self-depreciate, Cathryn?" 

what has gotten in my head, I wonder to myself. Words of confidence, ironically, comes from other minds. 

Live your life, simple as that.