The magazines sure make it a grand hassle for anyone wanting to mention their articles. I guess it’s the conundrum of if-freely-available-online, why-pay-for-it.
I hate conundrums.

But anyway, Monocle has a fantastic spread on a dream summer home. It’s really nice and well thought out. Not to mention full of their favorite designer furniture. Expensive, but really classy. The homely good taste kindof classy and not the filthy rich classy. It’s so soothing.

Second pic is of a burger joint in Paris. It’s so onionic to see burgers and France in the same sentence. But I guess you could say they weren’t against burgers per se but the use of industrial processed low quality ingredients like meat patties, stringy veg, ketchup, fake mustard and empty buns.

Third pic.
“the rule is there is no rule, it’s a fun and colorful place where I gather together the things I like.” India Madhavi. Odd name. But she’s got a shop in Paris, nice.

“A TRUE MORALIST IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF ATTICUS FINCH.”

Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird.

Hey visual basic looks easier than I thought. Haha.

Also learnt that when you password protect an excel file, it cannot be size-reduced by zipping. Dang.

Option Explicit
Sub Copier()

Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim wsNew As Worksheet
Dim NewName As String
Dim wsOriginalName As String

'On Error GoTo Errorcatch

If MsgBox("1. Copy to new sheet. 2. Change to values. 3. Move to new workbook" & vbCr & _
"New sheets will be pasted as values, named ranges removed" _
, vbYesNo, "NewCopy") = vbNo Then Exit Sub

' Input box to name new file
NewName = InputBox("Please Specify the month name of your new workbook", "New Copy")

With Application
.ScreenUpdating = False
.DisplayAlerts = False

'iterate through all worksheets
For Each ws In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets

'ignore hidden worksheets
If ws.Visible = xlSheetVisible Then

'copy sheet within original workbook
wsOriginalName = ws.Name
ws.Copy After:=Sheets("FAQ")

'switch to copied sheet
Set wsNew = ActiveSheet

'convert to values and format
With wsNew.UsedRange
.Copy
.PasteSpecial xlPasteValuesAndNumberFormats
.PasteSpecial xlPasteFormats
.Cells(1, 1).Select
End With

'save into new workbook
wsNew.Copy
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs ThisWorkbook.Path & "\" & "MIS-FY2013-" & NewName & "-" & wsOriginalName
ActiveWorkbook.Close

'MsgBox ("going to try to delete: " & wsNew.Name)
'delete copied sheet
wsNew.Delete

End If
Next ws

End With

End Sub

Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and then I’m happy
With the company I’m keeping
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head

On my own
Pretending he’s beside me
All alone
I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me

In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever
And I know it’s only in my mind
That I’m talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say, there’s a way for us

I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone
The river’s just a river
Without him
The world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers

I love him
But every day I’m learning
All my life
I’ve only been pretending
Without me
His world would go on turning
A world that’s full of happiness
That I have never known

I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own

Emma Yong. On My Own, from Les Miserables. RGS alumni?

She sings well yes.

But wow it is a good song. Powerful lyrics and tune, real emotions. I think the EPIC feeling is important. Especially for musicals. It’s like so much drama and pomp to stage the entire thing, it jolly well be epic.

I listened to it thrice, emphasis mine.

Est-ce que tu vas bien?

Ça va?

Comment vas-tu?

La vie, c’est fou eh

how do i look?

http://instagr.am/p/J4im–FhJX/

Hadn’t play badminton in literally months! On a whim I decided I needed to smash something harder than tennis balls and I went down to play. Started off in a relaxed manner as I wanted to conserve energy for tennis the next day.
Then I watched the other court – with the older and really experienced players. Oddly enough there were two younger girls there, and they were obviously properly trained in the techniques of proper badminton strokes. Dang, how come they can appear to hit so lightly and yet move the shuttle so fast? So the next two games I focused more, kept the proper stroke techniques in my mind, and went on a real blast. Wow when I’m focused it’s like playing on drugs – I seem to move faster, react faster, be able to return faster balls, and also hit more accurately. What a real joy to play. Seriously floating in the zone. Need to remind myself that it doesn’t mean I have to hit harder, it simply means more focus, better placement, accurate shots both hard and soft, really sweet drop shots, finesse net play and just having alot of fun. I was rather surprised I could play so well after being away for a few months and playing lots of tennis. Cool.
Somehow I still think badminton is really more fun to play than tennis. Closer interaction with opponents, faster, less pauses, less wait, less flight time, less long distance running, ability to hit soft shots. But no sun.

Tennis today was pretty fun too. How did my simple backhand get so effortlessly comfortable! And how did my forehand degrade so much, unless I spin it alot. Control’s improving. Non-traveling backhands are annoying. Wrist is tired, but that’s probably the badminton smashing.