Back from another day out! I don't really know why, but my appetite hasn't been really good today. Yeah, I can eat, but not as much as I'd prefer. haha. I can still finish my food; its just that I don't go for seconds like I usually do.
Yesterday? What about yesterday? I had a 3 hour masterclass with Mark Latimer and damn did I learn much. I even got the chance to sight read a snare duet with him...it was daunting as much as it was fulfilling and quite invigorating. It wasn't very difficult, but I still had a few hiccups...though I can't attribute my lousy performance to the 16 degree environment and great anxiety. Come to think of it, after so many years of music making, I still can't shake the feeling of anxiety when I'm performing, be it on home ground or at a performance venue. How can I go about doing that...hmmm...Well anyway, the afternoon was used for full band. I swear my arms were hanging from my shoulders after everything ended. I've never felt that way since I've entered SAF Bands. Then again, who am I to complain, when there are people out there chionging their guts out, rifles in hand, endlessly running...
I spent an hour or so at Borders today at parkway, sitting on a comfy black leather armchair reading a book about negotiation by George Ross, one of Donald Trump's closest collaborators and advisors, and VP of the Trump Organization. I came across something I found quite interesting.
It mentioned that in a negotiation, most of the time people don't go home with what they want, due to concessions, unexpected surprises, or other things along that line. Rather, sometimes they go home with something else that they soon realize was what they really had wanted, not what they thought about before the negotiations began. And they're happy with it! this is because during that journey of discussion, they earned things along the way that more than made up for what they 'lost', or what they didn't manage to obtain as part of their original plan. Things like trust, friendship, insight and wisdom. It looks to me as though it's alright to not have what you want, because there are other things you can pick up that may act as fitting compensation.
It's important to note that during a negotiation, the objective should be to settle for something that's of mutual interest and that provides benefits to all parties in question, and not with one or more parties exclusively getting what they want at the expense of another. Makes sense. Everyone gets something in between, and more importantly, everyone's happy. Now if only all negotiations went in this direction...No tension, no wars, no dissension, no conflict. If only.
All that aside, I've set a daily goal for myself! it's to do at least 100 pushups in an unstructured format, that is, I can do as many sets as required, with as many reps as I choose. Is it too far fetched to want to look like Randy Orton within the next decade? I only wish I had more body mass to work with.
I just sent my uniforms to an army shop near st.hildas to get my new rank sewn on. Nothing to brag about la, LCP only. and a $20 increase in my allowance...would I rather have been an officer? yeah...for the money. haha. Gotta pick them up tomorrow..and go to the library to borrow a book or two!
I still remember Boon Chin's (the idiot who signed on with the army as a specialist) joke about the hungry and the homeless back in JC. "get the hungry to eat the homeless. problem solved." Damn it was as good as it was absolutely stupid. hahaha...
Gotta go do more pushups.
Yesterday? What about yesterday? I had a 3 hour masterclass with Mark Latimer and damn did I learn much. I even got the chance to sight read a snare duet with him...it was daunting as much as it was fulfilling and quite invigorating. It wasn't very difficult, but I still had a few hiccups...though I can't attribute my lousy performance to the 16 degree environment and great anxiety. Come to think of it, after so many years of music making, I still can't shake the feeling of anxiety when I'm performing, be it on home ground or at a performance venue. How can I go about doing that...hmmm...Well anyway, the afternoon was used for full band. I swear my arms were hanging from my shoulders after everything ended. I've never felt that way since I've entered SAF Bands. Then again, who am I to complain, when there are people out there chionging their guts out, rifles in hand, endlessly running...
I spent an hour or so at Borders today at parkway, sitting on a comfy black leather armchair reading a book about negotiation by George Ross, one of Donald Trump's closest collaborators and advisors, and VP of the Trump Organization. I came across something I found quite interesting.
It mentioned that in a negotiation, most of the time people don't go home with what they want, due to concessions, unexpected surprises, or other things along that line. Rather, sometimes they go home with something else that they soon realize was what they really had wanted, not what they thought about before the negotiations began. And they're happy with it! this is because during that journey of discussion, they earned things along the way that more than made up for what they 'lost', or what they didn't manage to obtain as part of their original plan. Things like trust, friendship, insight and wisdom. It looks to me as though it's alright to not have what you want, because there are other things you can pick up that may act as fitting compensation.
It's important to note that during a negotiation, the objective should be to settle for something that's of mutual interest and that provides benefits to all parties in question, and not with one or more parties exclusively getting what they want at the expense of another. Makes sense. Everyone gets something in between, and more importantly, everyone's happy. Now if only all negotiations went in this direction...No tension, no wars, no dissension, no conflict. If only.
All that aside, I've set a daily goal for myself! it's to do at least 100 pushups in an unstructured format, that is, I can do as many sets as required, with as many reps as I choose. Is it too far fetched to want to look like Randy Orton within the next decade? I only wish I had more body mass to work with.
I just sent my uniforms to an army shop near st.hildas to get my new rank sewn on. Nothing to brag about la, LCP only. and a $20 increase in my allowance...would I rather have been an officer? yeah...for the money. haha. Gotta pick them up tomorrow..and go to the library to borrow a book or two!
I still remember Boon Chin's (the idiot who signed on with the army as a specialist) joke about the hungry and the homeless back in JC. "get the hungry to eat the homeless. problem solved." Damn it was as good as it was absolutely stupid. hahaha...
Gotta go do more pushups.
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