Frustration

Yes, I am frustrated right now, big time... especially when I am working with someone close to me and things are not going the way it should.

So, what is frustration? Why we feel frustrated and how to get over it?

Frustration is a human emotion that occurs in situations where one is blocked from reaching a personal and/or professional goal. The more important the goal, the greater the frustration.

Sources of frustration may be internal or external. My internal sources of frustration involve personal deficiencies such as lack of tolerance and extremely impatient - at least I know what my problems are... When comes to getting things done, I have it MY WAY 99% of the time and this does not work well at all sometimes, especially the person that I am dealing with has a mind of his own. However, thankfully, we are able to work things through, after a major argument, most of the time.

On the positive side of things, frustration should be regarded as a useful indicator of the problems in a person's personal and/or professional life, in order to regain balance, and when the individual is observed with open-mindedness and tolerance, his/her emotion may prove to represent problems faced and the steps needed to take in order to improve the situation.

There is no better way to deal with frustration, just bloody let it go and get over it...

Shop, shop and shop!

Rich is off to the A1 Race in Sepang today whilst I spent the whole afternoon with Sylvia in MidValley, not a bad trade off really.

We had a fabulous time, its just simply great to catch up and chit-chat, of course, not forgetting the retail therapy too. Love the expression 'shop till you drop' and I surely have had enough of it today... Sylvia left earlier and I was still going.

I know this does not sound good at all, but hey, I dont do this everyday, so please dont judge me... Shopping it good for you (trying hard to convince myself and others). There will be more coz Christmas is just round the corner.

Wine Tasting... Not Free Flow of Wine please!

Definition:

Wine tasting is the sensory evaluation of wine, encompassing more than taste, but also outhfeel, aroma, and colour. The main aims of wine tasting are to:
1) assess the wine's quality
2) determine the wine's maturity and suitability for aging or immediate drinking
3) detect the aromas and flavours of the wine
4) discover the many facets of wine, so as to better appreciate it

To assess a wine's quality, one must gauge its complexity of aroma and flavour, determine the intensity of the aroma and flavour, check that the flavours and structural elements — such as acid, tannin and alcoholic strength — are well balanced, and finally see how long the wine persists in the mouth after tasting.

Practiced wine tasters will gauge the wine's quality in other ways too. These include, whether the wine is of high quality with respect to other wines of its price, region or vintage; if it is typical of the region it is made in or diverges in style; if it uses certain wine making techniques, such as barrel fermentation or malolactic fermentation; or if it has any wine faults.

Many professional wine tasters, such as sommeliers or buyers for retailers, look for characteristics in the wine which are desirable to wine drinkers or which indicate that the wine is likely to sell or mature well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_tasting

So, to those who have no idea how to behave... please don't hope to get drunk at a wine tasting event!

June's birthday @ RED

Celebrated June's birthday at RED, Medan Damansara this week. It was surely great to see everyone, especially Sylvia whom I last met in January this year. Looking forward to spend more time together before she moves to Singapore.

To June, Happy Birthday (again...) and love you to bits.