TMI!

Another quick number, student-hood is not entirely about lazy days and drunken nights (FACT!). I'm actually killing two birds with one stone here, basically every glorious Monday, we have an Interpersonal Skills session from 2-5pm, during which we discuss even more fluff and basically probe and pry way too much into each other's lives (then write up a journal about). Frankly, I thoroughly enjoy these sessions as I've always thought myself to be some sort of an amateur psychologist and my tutor is just so cute and lovely, its difficult to get mad at what most of my classmates find to be an utter waste of time. More importantly, I am on a scholarship (yes ScribbleD is a rare find...beauty+brains hahaha), so yea I have the the great joy of serving as a model student and can't really afford to skip classes except for the odd sick day :-)

Right, let's get to the meat of my post. Yesterday, we tackled Stress Management which was in itself a somewhat stressful session (the irony!). To start off, about a third of us turned up to class which made the session  a bit too intimate and to some extent boring as we were stuck with the same groups for the entire duration of the class *yawn* Firstly, our tutor Tim (I'm using a fake name by the way lol) gave us a brief history on stress and its derivation from the engineering field, and then he went on to describe how stress typically manifests itself in 3 different forms, physical, emotional and behavioural. He then handed out a sheet with an extensive list of these stress manifestations, asked us to tick those we could relate with, then invited us to form groups of four to discuss our observations. In my group, one of the guys actually ticked "loss of interest in sex" and felt the overwhelming urge to go into great detail about how this particular trait applies to him. It was of course hilarious and a tad bit uncomfortable to take in (at some point I said "ooookay too much information!" but he kept going). Turns out sex for married people almost always becomes an after thought in the face of real life pressures like bills, insurance, fees and what have you. Furthermore, he told us that as a married man who has had sex waaaay too many times and in all the different positions he knows of (I think this was my TMI moment lol), he felt somewhat bored and less excited about sex as it was in his mind a matter of "been there done that" (eureeka moment! lol). Anyway we somehow managed to get off that topic but the shock factor of such intimate revelation left me rather scarred and anxious for what our next session might cause some people to reveal!
Bottom line, I was able to take away that some amount of stress is necessary for us to stay motivated about life and indeed too much of it could lead to death. Seeing as I do not believe in the usage of new age religions such as Yoga e.t.c. to destress, I believe simple mantras such as EAT.PRAY.LOVE go a longer way in ensuring long life and prosperity...hip! hip! hip! HOORAY! :-)

Live in the moment....

Have to keep today's post short and sweet as I have mountain loads of work to get through tonight and my eyes already feel heavy with sleep and sheer laziness *yawn* Decided to take a hint from Drake and "live in the moment" over the weekend......ended up being "The Best I Ever Had" and I really didn't want it to be "Over" but as they say all good things do come to an end, so I bid goodbye to my long suffering boyfriend (London....yes I am in an intense and very rewarding relationship with a city lol) and headed back to the man currently after my heart, Robin Hood. I am quite an easy person to please so really I didn't get up to anything outrageous but I spent unprecedented quality time with my even more long suffering male best buddy and we had a BLAST! As someone who never really had strictly platonic relationships with the opposite sex, I thoroughly enjoyed the company, conversation and everything else, it was amazing to just be able to hang and talk and flirt and get some much needed perspective on a few things that were weighing on my mind. Anyhoo I finally conquered my presentation demons today and delivered a near flawless presentation with my dream team (Group 8). The consensus was that we totally ROCKED the class and I hope this success is sustainable for the rest of my MBA programme.

On that note I need to get through some case studies and other readings in preparation for class and some other group meetings tomorrow *sigh*

First...a quick detour....gidilounge, YouTube and BB messenger....what's really good?! :-D