Barely making it out 'alive' from a whole weekend of attending lectures for my MBA class, at least now, lying comfortably on my bed with the airconditioning on full blast and wrapped tightly in my comforter like a popiah, I can gladly say "THANK GOD IT'S OVER!", well at least for this month. I still got 4 projects to worry about for the whole of March till the middle of April.
The 2 subjects I am taking this month is Human Resource Management as well as Challenges to Management, in which classes were held on saturday and sunday respectively. I'm pretty happy glad that i'm in a very nice class with excellent coursemates, all 13 of them.
The lecturers fot the 2 subjects were great too. You'd expect the local faculty to be below average when it comes to teaching an MBA class right? Well, the 2 lecturers we had were seasoned pros. I reckon they could even teach the class with their eyes closed and hands tied behind their backs.
The HRM module lecturer was quite lively, he encouraged feedback and gave alot of industry based examples but his overall style was still alot of spoon feeding. The CTM lecturer really blew us away. The class was more like an American MBA program session. Alot of debate and exchange of ideas flowed freely the whole day. Alot of us which were used to being spoonfed were caught unaware and it took a while to respond to this new 'experience'. I must admit that, although I have pretty much 'seen it all', this new experience I had pretty much blew my socks off too.
Overall, it was a great weekend, although I only got to see her on saturday only. We went to Thean Hou Temple last night after dinner near Tawakal Hospital. All the lanterns were lit up and it looked very beautiful. There were even illuminated paper lanterns of the 12 animal zodiac signs with a giant rat lantern in the courtyard. Spent some quality time together and had a great evening there although there was so many people around. We left around midnight.
I really regret not being able to spend more time with her during the weekends, now even more so that I'm attending classes for the MBA program. And if thats not enough, work is taking alot of my energy during the day and when it comes to going home after it all, I hardly got any 'battery' left in me. Nevertheless, I'll try my best to make time for her. Life is all about striking a balance between work, relationship, future, commitments, spiritual enrichment and also to live life. This is my commitment for 2008! There will not be any achievement with contentment without a little sacrifice and hard work. This is what I live by.
