No mixing up of dates this time!
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Working on a PDF version, should be up around Wednesday. Updating it currently before sending off to Kawasaki. Final version, if there's ever such a thing, will be done on the 20th, just before the 2nd interview with Honda.
The importance of having a calendar
Hanging on the wall, in your face, with dates properly marked, is so you do not mistake today for yesterday and that tomorrow is your deadline, not 2 days later!
Honda's deadline.
This friday.
I've never felt this much desperation, exasperation and utter self-loathing before. I really want in Honda more than anything else in the world.
If things fail, there's still Suzuki at the end of the month. And then Kawasaki, sort of.
I've never felt this much desperation, exasperation and utter self-loathing before. I really want in Honda more than anything else in the world.
If things fail, there's still Suzuki at the end of the month. And then Kawasaki, sort of.
Motivation.
There were times I wondered, why do I like motorcycles so much? What attracts me to them? Why do I keep associating myself with these beasts despite all the objections from my family and loved ones?
It can't be purely motorsports, I love racing but there has to be something more fundamental than that.
While thinking over Project MotoMini, I came to a conclusion - when I was young, I had always felt sheltered, I was the smallest guy in class, among my friends and people I knew. I was made to feel like the little one that needed to be looked after, the one whose decisions cannot be trusted, in time I started feeling that way myself.
I hated it, and I hated myself for feeling so helpless.
Then at the age of 19, I got a motorcycle, ironically because my friends did so too. But while they found thrills and excitement in their machines, I found something totally different, I found confidence. The confidence to believe in my own abilities, my own decisions, the power I had to lead my own destiny. The more I believed in myself, the more I could do, I would start leading trips, or help others fix their bikes, or be the one giving advise on purchases or maintenance.
Motorcycles gave me self confidence and a sense of self-empowerment that I never had. And that's why I want to work on motorcycles, so I can help others feel the same way.
It can't be purely motorsports, I love racing but there has to be something more fundamental than that.
While thinking over Project MotoMini, I came to a conclusion - when I was young, I had always felt sheltered, I was the smallest guy in class, among my friends and people I knew. I was made to feel like the little one that needed to be looked after, the one whose decisions cannot be trusted, in time I started feeling that way myself.
I hated it, and I hated myself for feeling so helpless.
Then at the age of 19, I got a motorcycle, ironically because my friends did so too. But while they found thrills and excitement in their machines, I found something totally different, I found confidence. The confidence to believe in my own abilities, my own decisions, the power I had to lead my own destiny. The more I believed in myself, the more I could do, I would start leading trips, or help others fix their bikes, or be the one giving advise on purchases or maintenance.
Motorcycles gave me self confidence and a sense of self-empowerment that I never had. And that's why I want to work on motorcycles, so I can help others feel the same way.
MotoMini on hiatus.
I've decided to stop work on the MotoMini project for the time being as without a proper direction it would just be a huge waste of effort with only mediocre results. Also, the new school term has just started and we've just been informed of an exhibition that requires our voluntary participation, on the 9th, 10th and 11th.
I will be using this one week to ponder the directions I should take with it. I am not abandoning it as too much time, sweet and money has been put into it and it is not worth letting it be wasted on a pointless objective of 'simply wanting to finish'.
I started it, I will complete it, to the best of my abilities, with results I can be proud of.
Win it or bin it.
I will be using this one week to ponder the directions I should take with it. I am not abandoning it as too much time, sweet and money has been put into it and it is not worth letting it be wasted on a pointless objective of 'simply wanting to finish'.
I started it, I will complete it, to the best of my abilities, with results I can be proud of.
Win it or bin it.
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