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Perhaps it is the fact that I do not like Mr. Chen Shui-Bian. Or maybe after a certain amount of time, people simply grow apart. Whatever the reason, it is becoming more and more difficult to maintain the cohesiveness of group(s) that were once seemingly inseparable. It's quite sad, actually. My schedule makes it almost impossible for me to reach out and when I do, my attempts at correspondence are generally responded to really late or simply not responded to at all. (In my opinion, attempts at correspondence, (whether it be phone calls, voicemails, or e-mail messages), that are not replied to is just like running away when someone tries to say hi. But that's just my opinion and since when did that really matter anyway?)

I go through something like this every year. You would think that I would learn something by now. I guess being forgotten about and/or being rendered insignificant is something that I should get used to in this line of work. There is so little that I could do to stop the cycle. However, there seems to be at least one or two exceptions to this cycle. Of course, I am very happy about this.

Will this be the beginning of a month and a half long goodbye or will this situation get better? God only knows.

No matter. I have decided to retire from this line of work in May. I will pursue other things. Simply put: the investment should be proportional to the return. Don't forget: I'm a business major. My retirement would probably mean the end of a chapter in my life. I will save that topic for a weblog at a later date.

(This is not to say that I will not still work very hard, however).

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I finally mustered enough strength to tell my father about my rejection from Goldman Sachs...

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"Application rejected" has appeared on my record for the second and final time. It's over.

I learned an important lesson this time around, though: "don't put all your eggs in one basket." I was foolish, arrogant and hard-headed for doing so, but at least I have learned from this.

Now it's time to forget Goldman Sachs and just focus on that jurist doctorate.

"我真的沒有天份..."

Thanks for all the prayers and support, people. Failure is to be accepted and learned from. I just wish that I had learned more the first time around...

To fight or not to fight...

Let's establish this fact first: when one is turning right and there's someone in the opposite lane turning left, one has the right of way because the one turning left at the opposite side will cross into the opposite person's lane. (Duh, everyone knows this).
So anyway, I am the one who was turning right today. This other vehicle was really intent on turning left and tried really hard to do so, but I got in first. Then, I stopped my vehicle to drop off a person who I was driving home.
The driver of the other vehicle then was very belligerent and I had already tried to avoid him, but he insisted on getting out of his vehicle and wanting to speak with me (more like yell at me). (This person was about five foot eight inches, Asian American, medium build). So I spoke to him rather calmly and pretending to not notice what had happened.
"You don't realize what you did?" Was the response. I didn't answer. He said "fuckhead" and basically drove off.
Now, this situation would have been a bit different had I gotten out of the vehicle (for obvious reasons).
Why did I choose not to get out of the vehicle and confront him?
1. "Equal force should be met with equal threat." My years of martial arts training would probably have come down on him quite hard. (I assume that he doesn't really have many years of training because he was first belligerent and confrontational. Most martial artists would have let it go).
2. I felt that I had more to lose than he did. This happened at a place very close to Saint John's University and if I fought him and the police came, we would both be arrested and I would have been ejected from the President's Society.
3. I was in a good mood. It's spring break, guys!
So anyway, what do you think? Should I have exited my vehicle and had a higher chance of entering a fight?
My brother says that I am a waste of martial arts training because his rationale was "why didn't you fight him? You train practically everyday anyway, you're a waste of Kung Fu!"
My other friend asked, "is your training really that good?" This got me to think that I should "test it out" because although I really do feel that the training is great, I really don't know just how great.
I understand that there's a rationale among Asian Americans that we should just fight first and ask questions later. But one has to think about the consequences, too...
I am going to ask my master and see what he thinks.