Bobbing along to MJ

I think I'm on a roll these days. I'm coming back to my musical roots.

And it's been MJ.

After watching "This Is It" and seeing what a perfectionist he is, I've been so inspired. I went out right after the movie and bought a 2-disc album that contained his string of hits. And I've been listening to it every other day.

And I've had the luxury of having the songs loaded into my phone so I can listen to it. It's been a real adventure: breaking down the beats, bass, guitar riffs, the strings, and all the other sfx. This man was a GENIUS!

I'm actually contemplating doing some kind of a thesis on the movement and impact of MJ's music on pop. I've been hearing stuff I've never heard before, partly cos I haven't been paying so much attention to detail. Sometimes, I hear little beats or bass lines and think, "Hey...that sounds familiar." Before you know it, you hear an extended version of that beat or bass line, or something that evolved from the original, simpler version on another song much later. The feeling is like... "Wow!"

So I'm definitely intrigued. But if I'm really serious about it, I will need to do A LOT of research on MJ and his music. I will need to boost my musical knowledge and learn all about the history and his roots and how they evolved.

Okay, this may start to sound boring as it becomes a bit more academic rather than fun trivia. I am really excited though. I wonder if this has been done before. It probably has. I don't think I'm the first to be in awe of MJ, neither will I be the last.

Wow.

i wanna sing song.

i have this habit when it comes to music. songs, in particular.

recently heard these 2 songs: 掉了 and 我不是你想象那么勇敢. and i just felt in my heart that i need to learn how to sing these 2 songs. they sound like something fun to do.

in case you haven't noticed, i have a bit of a sadistic nature.

anyway, so i've been looping these 2 songs on my comp at work today. over and over and over again.

now THIS is my habit. i tend to listen to songs over, and over, and over again if i decide a song is nice enough, difficult enough and challenging enough, and i wanna master it. not learn. MASTER.

this is the process:

the first few times, listen, mostly just the melody.

next few times, start humming to the melody, pick up a few words.

then, think: why don't i just find the lyrics and learn the song properly? so, find lyrics, and for the next few times, sing along.

then, just loop the song a few more time (more like the next few hours) and try to get the melody, phrasing, ad libs, turns, techniques right.

and almost the last few times, but not least, listen to the song carefully. no need to sing it. just listen very carefully. listen for the breathing, the intonations, feel, movement.

i don't think there is a right or wrong way to learn to sing a song properly, but my way oughta come pretty close. i mean, by the time you start to take up the mic and sing the song, u would have at least heard the song 100 times!

i wanna go karaoke so i can practice the 2 songs!!!

Back to the 70s...

i'm very late (as usual) on the photos-front of things. so just to make it slightly more coherent, i'm gonna post up pics in a chronological order.

first up, was the "Psychedelic 70s". it's our annual year-end party! we all dressed up to the sevens and the girls and i did a little somethin'-somethin'.

started our day with last-min rehearsals at mdc.

memorise lyrics, memorise steps, memorise places...aiyo...

then we headed down to mimolette to watch the people dressed the place up!

and of course, we dressed up too...as witnessed.

and started taking photos..

us girls (the mimolettes) with our sifu jeffrey!!

and...let the show begin...

presenting...

MIKE

and the Mimolettes!

we did a grease medley. there's mike with his orange ass-tight pants and leather jacket.

and us in our super psychedelic look!

(i like my outfit very very much!!!)

capping off with the last song: we go together!

and our final pose!

it was a grand night, a great night. i enjoyed myself loads! it's been a while since i performed, and it looks like it may be a while before i'll be able to do this again.

good times, girls, good times. =)

Fall in Singapore

I joked about with various people that it's been so cold in Singapore that you can take out your fall season styles and wear them.

Of course, cold is relative, but at 23-28 deg C, this is almost like air-conditioning the whole of Singapore. Plus the rain. It is really not a normal sight...people are wearing boots! (Then again, people were ALREADY wearing boots even when the sun was up and scorching at 30+ deg C.)

I like the weather. Not so much the rain, which I can handle as long as I don't get caught in it. Otherwise, the weather is just fabulous. I would love for it to be just like this all year round. I don't think the people at Bukit Timah will be very happy though, with all their washed out Ferraris, BMWs and Porsches parked at the flooded basement carpark of their high-end condominium.

Duncha feel that the air is just so much cleaner and fresher with the rain coming oh' so often?

It makes one sleepy too...

Very sad, I always blog when I'm feeling sleepy.

And when the boss isn't around.

Teehee...

Enjoy fall, people!

blogging noob

i still remember my first foray into the blogosphere.

actually, i can't remember much of it except that my first blog was hosted on OpenDiary. i do remember spending hours a day experimenting with html and learning it all online. now of course, it is so much easier to "personalise" your blogs. just a click here and a click there. and if you wanted something more special, you just search for skins and download the html script or something.

my next-cubicle neighbour recently (today) decided to start a blog of her own. her first blog. she isn't new to the blogging scene since she reads tons of fashion blogs and blogshops, but she had not been tempted to the dark side. till today at least. today, she decided to take the first step to world domination...erm...to start a blog.

so after sussing out which platform suits her best, she went ahead and registered her blog. the next few moments, however, were typical of a noob (or maybe it's just her).

she: *whines* how to choose a background? there is supposed to be some to choose from but i cannot choooooose!!!

me: huh? just choose and click on it lah...*walks over*

she: cannot! see...there's supposed to be like 75 to choose from but how to choose? i cannot click on it.

me: (already by her desk) err...*looks at the screen* scroll down...down...

she: see...cannot click!!

me: (still looking) did u log-in?

she: yah...i logged in just now ma.

me: *looks closer* click there...*points to homepage icon of platform; she clicks and it reaches the homepage; i look again*

me: YOU DID NOT LOG-IN LAAAA!!!!

she: (laughs sheepishly) oh yah hor...haha...okok...

me: *pulls hair out* argh...

she: okok, don't stand here la!! and don't write about me on your blog.

me: sure...



ya right.

when is it my turn?

i always read other people's blogs and feel so inspired by their words. they way they describe something even as mundane as their day, their week, or just something they feel at the moment.

and when i write in my blog, i come up with...crap!

maybe it's the weird conversations i have at work, which is where my sanity is usually tested. for example, we'll have the fashionista beside me asking if she should get a pair of coloured doc marten's boots. why, for crying out loud, would you want a pair of pink doc marten's boots?!?! and then the perpetual-dreamer on the other side will be saying something silly about some guy she can't have. in fact, they are ALL not eligible (maritally and orientationally speaking).

(nevertheless, i would like to disclaim that they do bring some entertainment to an otherwise mundane and rigid work-life.)

so i'm really quite jealous.

why do people give off the warm-fuzzy feeling thru their blog postings but mine doesn't?

mine give off gas.

hrmph.

sleepy times...

the usual la. post-lunch syndrome.

meet my current 2 best friends: full and sleepy

my 2 colleagues are out enjoying the time of their lives (on course) while i'm stuck in the office battling heavy eyelids amongst other mundane stuff otherwise known as work.

i...want...my...bed.......

i had coke, which is usually my perk-me-up since it makes me hyper, but it's not working......

weather is too nice.

air-con temperature is just nice.

mood in the office is also nice (nobody around, not even the boss[es]).

it's all niceeeeee...

sleepy la.

zzzzzzzzzzz.................

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*falls on keyboard*

a weekend of celebrations

Tis been a busy week!

At work, we've been cooped up in a conference room, cranking our brains trying to think of good ideas, better ideas, indexes, tables, shapes and sizes...it's been super productive, but also super exhausting.

On the life front, there has been tons of birthdays. i hate it that there are so many october babies. it makes me feel...not very special.

Except for my granny of course. I adore her, and we had a yummylicious dinner on sunday to celebrate her birthday. Went to the ulu-est of ulu places - sembawang bottletree. I've been there once with the cjgals and gang, so I know the food is not too bad, but BOY did we have a spread! We had lobsters, crabs, prawns, fish, squid, sambal kangkong, vege, pig's trotters, noodles and rice. Damn good I tell you!

But the day before, on saturday, was Surin's wedding dinner. I say dinner loosely because it's more like a wedding party! It was the most chilled out wedding ever, and the earliest to start (the minute you arrive, actually)!! I had a good time, though the weather was a tad humid. Better than the rain, I say.

Thinking of all the food is making me quite hungry. Haven't had breakfast this morning coz no time for our usual morning break. In fact, we haven't had a break for a loooong time.

Foooood..!!

Doggy Season

I'm really not good with a camera. As in, I can take a decent picture, but the main bane of it is uploading it to show the world, or even the decency to send it to those whom you took of. Even after you said you would.

Yeah, I'm one of those annoying people. I take photos and I don't send them, I don't load them, and in recent times, you can forget about developing them.

I'm terrible.

Louis, my pet, my beagle, my baby (although now not baby anymore), and some (my mum) say my son...has proudly turned 2! On 4 Oct. He shares his birthday with my dad. But since I'm not very enthusiastic about celebrating birthdays, I didn't even think much about throwing him a birthday party. I just let it slide. He's a dog for crying out loud. He doesn't even know it's his birthday.

Side note, remember in primary school, where you were taught to refer to pets or animals as "it" rather than "he"? Look how fare we have come. Never discount heartware.

So anyway, I have done the near-impossible and uploaded some photos from my camera to my computer in the office, much to the chagrin of my colleagues (cos i owe them tons of photos). So to make up for my dismissiveness of louis' 2nd birthday...

Behold! Louis Vuitton Lee Lu Yi.

his favourite "dolly-dollies"

he thinks the $2K massage chair is his.

he loves to look out of the window and he does this everyday, for a couple of minutes each time.
as to what he really see or is looking at, i still don't know. so we watch him look...

very intently.

his current fav sleeping position when we're not looking.

but most of all, he craves constant attention.

taking a breather

the colleagues and i have decided we'll take a short break after lunch to recover from the lunch trip out.

i'm so full. had this seafood crayfish soup that is quite yummy. and i didn't even know it was just around the neighbourhood. my neighbourhood, that is, at the 'end of the world' (according to chriz).

woodlands la...

so anyway, everyone is suffering from some form of post-lunch syndrome. kinda need to shake it off by not doing any work for a while. we've decided to start doing proper work at 2.45pm.

i have trouble opening my eyes. long story...but my point is, i can't open my eyes properly. they're quite heavy, my eyelids. baaah...

oh yes, the colleagues and i have laid down some ground rules so that we can all save money, or rather not spend unwisely. we'll only eat out at most once a week. every fortnight, we'll have a Bring Your Own Food (BYOF) Day. and we put a cap on the amount we can spend on junk food supplies in a month. we even have a fund for it. cool eh?

save money people. it's always good to start saving. i really wished i'd started saving money much earlier. imagine if i had started saving just $100 a month from the time i started teaching tuition...i would have had about $9000 by now!!! woah...

so start saving.

a movie date (finally)

it's been months, perhaps even a year or more since i stepped into a cinema to catch a movie. so naturally, i was looking forward to and really glad to catch one with the colleagues.

so we watched "cloudy with a chance of meatballs" yesterday. it's the kind of show where you just go in, sit, laugh at times and not have to think so much. it was an alright movie, but it's the company that counts. twas fun.

so there...my first movie in a long time.

after that, i headed home. gave louis a nice long scrub-down.

oh, and louis tore at the pillow mum gave him. it has a hole now, with some missing fluff.

-give up-

a new look

how d'ya like the new look?

refreshing i think. though the problem with blogger is that if you are html-illiterate like i am, choices are somewhat limited.

well, i just thought the backdrop looks rather nice. gives a peaceful, serene feel to it.

and i ought to update some links and stuff...but aiya, you know how lazy i am. actually lazy with the added chore of having a slow laptop equates to nana-don't-feel-like-doing-anything-to-her-blog.

i'm not at home.

that's why i can do this.

i'm not supposed to say that i am at work because this is definitely NOT how one spends her day at work.

so i'm not saying anything.

except that i like this new look.

on the last week of september

In another 2 days, we will officially mark the end of September, and also the end of the third-quarter of the year.

3 more months till we bid farewell to 2009.

Actually, I don't care much for last quarter of the year. Well, maybe with the exception of my birthday, Christmas, taking leave/clearing day-offs, and of course year-end bonus.

But it only seemed like yesterday that we celebrated new beginnings and entered the year of 2009 with...well, not much for me. Except that I do remember me saying something about embracing changes or looking forward to changes.

Eh...nothing much has changed for me, which does not mean anything bad. It just is what it is. Nothing has changed.

But it's still good. Cos I'm doing pretty well, methinks. So, I'm rather satisfied that nothing changes.

or perhaps, something has changed, but I haven't got a clue?

Ah...looking forward to October then!

good times

had a late lunch today with the colleagues. mcdonalds delivery it was, since it was too late for us to get any (good) food from the canteen, not that there's good food to begin with. i had my usual double cheeseburger with no pickles and onions, fries and a coke. when was the last time i had mcdonalds? i think...it was just a week or two ago. but hey! i had kfc delivery just 3 days ago. that was for dinner. that's what happens when you get 2 lazy-bones at home.

so work has been a bit...dull. it's not that there isn't anything to do. on the contrary, there are loads to do. i call this the post-super-busy-super-stress-until-you-eat-drink-sleep-dream-of-work syndrome. i tend to fall into this phase where i really...don't...feel...like...doing...any...work.

the 2 gals beside me and i have been talking (albeit slightly delusionally) about doing our own business(es). it ranges from bubble tea to wedding planners to fruit juices. we'll be directors: R&D director (juicer - finding juice receipes for preventing/treating different ailments), Admin director (cashier) and Operations director (selling the juice). who doesn't wanna be her own boss, right?

good times. good times.

finally...the craziness is (sort of) over

The last 2 weeks or so have been a bit of a stretch for me. Really busy and hectic. Spend the working hours clearing emails and random stuff that required almost immediate attention. By the time i start doing work that i aimed to do for the day, it's dusk already.

This meant many late nights in the office and very little sleep. But at least it's all done. AOH is done for me. Yay!

And now...i'm on leave to prepare for sis' wedding. Much to do peeps, much to do...

my mobile going kaputt!

trying to download the pc suite now so i can back up my phone. the contacts especially.

i can't access my contacts now. it blanks out. arghh...

of ALL weeks...WHY THIS WEEK?!?!?!

puh!

looking back in time

it's funny to read stuff i wrote way back.

i had been packing my room and came across all the old notebooks, organisers and diaries. i always write little notes, long essays or just common everyday observations in them. i still do.

anyway, how things change.

i can imagine how happy, sad, angry, nonchalent, excited, bummed out, etc i must have felt then. reading in retrospective is an eye-opener. i wrote things i really felt and these were harsh words any good friend would say to yourself. and yet, sometimes we don't act out what we already know, even when we know or even if friends tell us straight in the face.

i always tell people these were stupid times for me.

but i definitely wasn't stupid. it was one of those things that happen to you, and you learn not to make them again.

again, the mistakes were stupid. i am not.

i'm glad i stayed in touch with friends...people that truly matter to me, and cut out all toxic relationships. if the friendships didn't do squat for me, then they probably aren't worth retaining. if the people didn't do squat for me, then they aren't worth remembering.

i feel a calm wave of relief knowing where i am now. i am alive, happy, independent, and perhaps more important then ever, genuinely satisfied about myself. it's not a matter of settling for less or even settling. just truly satisifed. yes. life should be like this.

am listening to band music from my band days. oh, i do miss playing the trumpet and getting in the groove of it all. there is really nothing like music. every note, instrument, sound...it's amazing where music can bring you, and much more when you immerse yourself in it. i still have all my cds and musical scores and conductor scored. i would love to return to playing the trumpet again some day...regain those 11 years that i have lost in these times.

till the next time i flip my old writings again~~

money well spent

loving the fact that i am mobile-ly connected. Can't get over it. Seems like it's been around forever, and i only just got to it. Well, that means just 1 thing... I get to be my own stalkeratti almost anywhere at almost any time of the day.

Went ikea to get some dining chairs since louis happily destroyed ALL our dining chairs. And since he can't beg for money (yet), i have to be his sugar mama. Got some decent chairs plus some foldable ones. Also got me another pillow. Hopefully, that'll help get the back better. And not forgetting louis, i got him new towels. Time to throw his towels that he has artistically formed holes or ripped apart (or just into pieces).

Oh! And i got a new full length mirror too. For just $29!!

So...i got the big bulky stuff to be delivered to my home on thurs.

For the money that i spent, i got my ikea friends card reactivated. Yes...i spent THAT much! But i used my new Amex...aka more miles! Yippee!

Ok. Need to run to loo!

a day in the life of...

a singing competition judge (and additional musings).

Reach venue. Look for someone to tell me what to do next. Ah! Hair and makeup!

Hair...hot iron...curls...backcomb, teased and sprayed on like how you would spray insecticide to a cockroach. Empathize with cockroach.

Make up. Must remind her not to keep it simple. Luckily i brought my falsies. Big eyes big eyes!

Change clothes. Change to ridiculously high heels. Walk around and be a super kaypoh. Catch up, ask questions, take photos, gossip, eat catered buffet, touch up for ppl, touch up for self.

Time to go in. Watched opening dance at the sides. Run to other side. Get introduced. Take seat.

To cut story short...

Whole bunch of singing and dancing. Pause for 1st round of consolidation of results. 2nd round of singing. Pause for final consolidation of results. Come to consensus on special prizes winners.

Results out. Go up stage to get token of appreciation. Get down. Get up on stage to give away 18 consolation prizes. Get down. Get up on stage for final thanks and photo. Get down.

End of event. Grab stuff and go off. Back and right leg acts up.

Saw cockroach at the void deck. All empathy lost.

Reach home. Greet dog. Remove make up. Bathe and change. Wait for hair to dry. Lie in bed with damp hair. Twitter, fb and blog using phone. Coughs. Backache returns cos of wrong lying posture. Ouch.

mobile blogging

ever since i found out that i could do wonders with my phone i.e. Tweet and fb and emails...i decided to try and see if i can blog too.

Well...it seems i can!

I see...

simple pleasures and joys of life

i wanna list down the simple things that makes me happy, gives me joy, just cause i think i have been such a happy "little" girl (despite my bad back and sore throat, but hold that thought).

i love it when i crave to have an old chang kee curry puff, and i buy it and eat it up! yummy yummy yummy. =p

coming back to a loving, playful (and sometimes naughty) (not-so)little dog. i like it when he just plop himself beside me on the floor and asks me to sayang him.

going to church and laughing till it hurts (it really does).

scribbling into my notebook about the quirks of life...or just to complain to myself...or about random strange people i see on the mrt/bus/coffee places.

pills. can't explain it, but i like to pop pills (which the doc prescribes). i guess i don't fall sick that often, so it's a bit of a fascination and excitement in eating medicine.

knowing now that every dollar i spent converts to a mile. yippee! free travels!

banana. i like banana. esp after a late breakfast and it's too early for lunch. a banana fixes the hungry tummy.

new sheets. i hate changing them, but i love crawling into new sheets. it smells fresh.

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louis is getting too heavy. i hurt my back while carrying him and bending forward to put him down. it's been a week. went to the doc and got my xray done. we'll see what the doc says. i hope it's nothing serious. argh!

my soon-to-be divine dress

so my sister's wedding is happening in sept. she has ordered us to get a white dress for the morning session (aka "jie-mei wear") and a gown/nice dress for the dinner reception.

the white isn't a problem because i bought one for KT's church wedding last year. still can wear it. no problemo. (fyi to future brides: besides white, i have light blue, green and black)

the evening dress is a little tricky. tricky in the sense that: one, i don't have an evening dress/gown; two, i can't seem to find something i like off the shelves/hangers; and three, even if i find something, they either don't have my size or are waaaay too expensive.

so i decided to tailor my dress. mum and i headed down to people's park on tue evening to source for a nice cloth. i picked out a beautiful bright canary yellow satin with a single huge floral design. i always pick out cloth that are not-so-easy to tailor. anyway, after browsing through countless magazines and design books, nobody got it down to what i really wanted. didn't help that i couldn't draw out what i had in mind, or even articulate it.

in comes the damsel that would save the distressed. she is the daughter of my mum's seamstress..and she got down every detail of what i wanted in a dress...in less than 5 mins! and she sketched it out with such ease!! my god! i can't wait for the first fitting now. it will be absolutely divine!!!

so yay. i'm happy i got that (sort of) out of the way. now i just need to hand my sis the list of songs so that: one, i can get the music; and two, i can practice.

and like the true "diva" that i am, there will be an outfit change on the wedding night. heh heh

kaypoh kaypoh nana

coz at work right?

bosses all not around right?

so got time to be kaypoh...right???

RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT!

heh heh...i just found out something super duper unfortunate. unfortunate to the unfortunate fella la. luckily, i'm not the unfortunate fella. no, it's not luck. must be God-sent.

hee hee hee...hoo hoo hoo...

ooh...i can't wait. can't wait can't wait can't wait!

*chuckle*

my MJ story

i do realise that it may seem odd that i only mention this nearly 2 weeks after his passing, but i had not wanted to be part of the bandwagon.

i stayed up last night to watch the memorial. i cried my eyes out, so i had a pair of puffy eyes this morning. (and the worse part is, i had to do a routine medical check-up with them puffy eyes) watched it two times more this afternoon, and got absolutely choked up both times. it's heart-wrenching, heart-breaking.

so i decided to do my own little tribute to the man, who had been and will always be an inspiration and my hero...by telling my MJ story. it doesn't matter if nobody ever reads this, but i just wanted to write it down so i will never forget this great human being.

my MJ story:

i can't remember when it was that i first heard MJ or knew who he was. my guess...it was probably my dad whom i probably inherited the love for music from. he used to blast songs (pop and rock songs, mind you) through the radio in his car, and jerked the car according to the beats. i guess that's why my sisters and i were always quite in-tuned to music (and could feel the beats).

i don't remember which came first, but i know i had MJ's 'Dangerous' LD, which my dad bought. i would watch the LD over and over again. it had all the music videos of the songs in his albums, and even the "making" of the videos. i was mesmerised. i also had his moonwalk video tape. i think that belonged to my aunt, and i would sneak a peek or watch it whenever she wasn't at home (i wan't allowed to touch the tapes). that was probably my first touchpoint with MJ. and like the rest of the world, i was mesmerised...absolutely hooked onto MJ.

so when i heard he was coming to singapore for a concert, i begged my parents to let me go. we weren't that well-to-do, but my mum got me 1 ticket...the cheapest at $60...to watch with her friend. yeap, her friend would be my nanny for the concert. i was ecstatic! i couldn't believe my eyes, my ears...woah...i was gonna see michael jackson! my parents got me all ready for the concert...they found me binoculars, and i chose the clothes that i was gonna wear to his concert. it was a mickey mouse pants and a top that my mum got in japan. i thought, this is it...i'm gonna wear my best, brightest clothes to see my idol, my hero!

i was a few months short of my 11th birthday.

and then, about a week before the concert, i got chicken pox.

i think i felt an aching pain in my heart when the doctor told me that it was indeed chicken pox. i couldn't believe it...i didn't have a fever, and the little spots didn't feel itchy at all. it couldn't be chicken pox. and i had a concert to go to!!!

but the doctor and my granny and parents knew. i insisted on going. i told them the spots weren't itchy, and i didn't feel unwell. and soon, it would go away. i told them that i'll be careful and i would wear a long sleeved T-shirt and long pants and wrap myself up so i didn't spread the pox. my parents did not relent (my mum's a nurse la...cannot bluff).

i was devastated.

my one and only chance to see MJ in person. i had everything prepared. but i couldn't be there.

i must have bawled a lot that few days. and when he was in singapore, all i could do was read about him in the papers, watch him on tv, and wished that the stupid chicken pox didn't come so soon. i think i must have been the most angst-filled 11-year old that few days.

when i finally recovered from chicken pox, MJ had left singapore.

as a consolation, my dad bought me to the pasar malam downstairs. at one of the stalls, i saw an MJ video tape. it was MJ's concert in bucharest. it was $20. i held on to it so tightly...and my dad must have seen the look on my face, coz he bought it for me. we went home and watched the tape. i think i watched that same tape a few more times just that week.

even when we moved to bishan, i brought that tape with me. it was in my "safe" (a part of my study table with a lock) for a very long time. eventually, i had to throw the tape away as it had gone all mouldy...but i did it with much reluctance.

and so...that's my MJ story.

we'll miss you.

a surreal day alone

it's such a wierd day. wierd in a pretty good way.

i took the day off. my sis and mum flew off to bangkok this morning, together with my aunt, masks of different kinds in tow.

so my dad was out all day, working i suppose.

me? i had a very productive day.

i woke up a little later than usual. checked my mails (yes, work ones too), did some research and crucial info-gathering. then i went to causeway point to repair the heels of 5 pairs of shoes...long overdued. i can only get them back tomorrow coz the shop was so packed with shoes. funny, i've never seen SOOO many pairs of shoes sitting around the shop, just waiting to be repaired. i guess people are buying less shoes and repairing the old ones. well, i chucked out about 4-5 pairs as well. seriously CMI already.

got honey green tea, then went to cold storage for some junk food, which i am eating now, and standby dinner. next, i headed to the food court to get some roast duck rice for lunch. took a little trip into the computer shop to get a 7-port usb hub (in white!!!) before heading back. all happy.

had lunch. took my dog for a walk around the park and blocks. gave him a bath. watched some tv while he played by himself...and eventually fell asleep. him, not me.

so now, i'm back on the computer, thinking if this is what IT must feel like.

i'm training for bigger and better things in life!

so clever...

ok...trying to look busy for the next half an hour or so, before my "official" work day ends. heh heh. it's cohesion again and this time, we'll be celebrating the birthday of angel no. 3 - rachael.

i am angel no. 1. :)

so after yummylicious lunch, we'll be heading for a long-overdued karaoke session. on the cards are a tribute to MJ, amongst some oldies that my boss wants, and of course, the birthday girl gets to hog the mic.

hrmph.

doesn't matter. my main goal now is to look busy enough. blogging always works. coz i look so deep in thought and typing away so furiously, people tend to believe that i'm working very very hard.

yeah, i'm working very very hard on my blog la!

on a brighter note, pay day is coming! pheeweet~! exactly 1 week from today, my bank account will see the monthly surge!! BUT, i'm not spending more. in fact, i'm saving more, spending the same amount (or less i suspect), and the rest goes to paying all my bills.

me. good. girl.

clever girl...

*pats back*

romantic songs...???

i have been spending the last hour searching for some good ideas of songs to sing at my sister's wedding.

biangz...doing a search came up to nothing much. just lists of cheesy english and chinese songs...and some are duets.

ok, i took a few which i think i can jazz up a bit to make it less cheesy. but the rest are really just...ahem...terok lah.

chinese pop songs even worse. cheesy, ah-pek and mostly duets. so i did the next best thing, which was to search under individual artistes and see if they have any songs with lyrics that can "almost" pass off as a wedding songs.

not difficult, right?

WRONG...i realised chinese singers tend to be just hopeless in love or always breaking up. either that or songwriters are miserable. because 98% of the songs (that aren't duets) either talks about love lost or breaking up or having broke up or being alone and miserable and still thinking about him/her.

i managed 11 songs in all. puh! i know she only needs to choose a couple of songs BUT...i'm not very satisfied with my list of songs...maybe just 1 or 2 can about make it.

any ideas anyone??? chinese, english also can.

The List

i used to list down random thoughts whenever i felt like blogging but didn't really have a coherent theme.

ok, so most of my posts are not coherent anyway, but whatever. i'm gonna do a list.

It's Nana's List (again)!

1. the pound seems to be rising...please don't. just stay where you are or go lower! dear sing dollar...please be strong for me.
2. i quite enjoy slacking off on my weekends. sleep, eat, nap, watch tv, nap, eat, sleep, go to church, eat, nap, watch tv, eat, watch tv, sleep...that's about how it goes over the weekends...chronologically.
3. i really don't go drinking/clubbing/chilling anymore (see no. 2). in fact, i hardly drink at all.
4. trying to clear my credit card debts...2 cards down, 3 more to go. shall cancel 2 of them soon. too many to track. don't like building mountains of debts. not that kind of person.
5. slept too much today (see no. 2 again), so don't really feel sleepy now.
6. sarpino's pepperoni classic pizza is really nice! i finished 4 slices of the regular size. if i had been more active the entire day, or not ate so much crap, maybe i could have finished the whole thing!
7. really need to control my food intake. drinking way too much gassy drinks and eating crap. the tummy is showing itself!!! argh!!!
8. what should i wear tomorrow? there's church, then there's MS anniversary...hmm...
9. ah! ice wine! great...
10. i wan the hp dv2!!! anyone wants a HP mini-note? 1-year-old, good condition (because i'm the owner), comes with a nice red bag that doubles up as a clutch, and kung-fu panda stickers to cover the screen (have not done that to it yet)...asking price is a cool $600. heck, i'll even throw in a thumb-drive for the fun of it! i'm serious.

okay...continuing with the rest of my weekend (see no. 2 one last time)...sleep.

看开一点

最近一直和一些好久没见的朋友/人会合，其实还蛮开心的。

可是。。。

就偏偏“来”了一两个。。。也不知道怎么说。。。给了我一些比较negative的vibe。

我是觉得，有时嘛。。。凡事还是要看开一点。 反正事情已经过了那么久，而且现在everything worked out for everyone了。所以，也不需要耿耿于怀。

尤其是在事业上，（虽然自己是女的）有时还是会觉得女人对事对人，总是感情用事。work is work. 可能以前刚开始当上班族时，已经上了宝贵的一课 （最糟糕的事与人都遇过了），所以现在才会看得那么开！哈哈

anyway, in this particular case, 我觉得是这个人的思想和人生观也有点偏差啦。可能要等到这个人开窍吧。几时才会开窍呢？这个就由不得我了。

it's just quite infuriating sometimes. was just discussing with some friends a few days back about the difference between children and adults. children are much less self-conscious than adults. this consciousness...i think...is what makes people more stubborn, more self-centred, more unwilling to look at yourself and more inclined to blame others as people grow older.

sometimes, i wonder how long it takes before one gets it.

嗨...不管了啦.

It WILL happen!

recently, i've been walking by faith...a lot more than usual.

Anyway, I've done the deed...shall just wait for it to happen. Amen!

I want it so bad!! So if I want it, and I ask for it, I will get it. There! I said it! I'LL GET IT!!!

Anyway, much has happened since I last updated coherently. Well, a lot, besides the promotion, which IS A BIG DEAL. For one, I have officially kicked my younger sis out of her room and claimed it as my own.

(She has her own HOME now la...)

So my mum efficiently removed whatever is left that belongs to her, and transferred about 80% of my things to the-room-formerly-not-mine-but-is-now-known-to-be-mine. Well, she tried to do it as logically as possible, but in actual fact, my things are kinda all over the place. I mean, the shoes are at the same place, the bags are in the same area, the clothes are in the wardrobe and all...but it's not organised, if you know what i mean.

argh...i can't be bothered for now. i'm quite pleased with how neat and clean everything looks now (coz things that aren't sorted out are simply dumped in 1 of the drawers or cupboards...out of sight, out of mind). it's so nice...

oh, and i took over the queen-size bed while my mum took over the 2 twin-beds. heh heh...coz i'm a brat and i refuse to take 2 beds (i offered to take in 1!!!), but there isn't anywhere to store the extra bed and my mum didn't wanna throw it out or sell it. so she gave me the master bed. and she gave quite a funny reasoning for it.

so yes! i get the nice big bed. all for myself! it took a bit of getting used to coz i don't usually roll around (or move much...or at all sometimes) when i sleep. but i'm coming into it and i really enjoy it.

another thing, i don't have a TV in my room. i think i've decided that i will not make the mistake of putting a TV in my room. first, i alienate my family (as if having my own room now is not anti-social enough). second, it keeps me awake when i actually thought it will make me sleepy. three, it brings an active energy into the room instead of a restful, peaceful one.

so no tv is good. i don't believe i said it, but i said it. NO TV IS GOOD. it makes me feel sleepy the minute i lie on the bed. and i'm sleeping earlier too! great!

*yawn* the bed calls out to me...come and lie in my comforting, warm, BIG embrace~~~

good night!

yippee!

you know you've sold your time to your job when you become so busy you don't have time for anything else.

family, friends, gatherings, movies, drinking, dog...

but each time that pay slip, bonus, increment comes along, you just let it slide.

and so i let it slide...heh heh heh

well

i got caught totally by surprise today...i got promoted!!

i'm very blessed. =)

back from the land of the big ben

i'm back from london!!

ooh and although it was partly for work, it was a wonderful experience. i had such a good time there that i would love to go back in a heart beat.

but first, i'll need to clear my credit card bills that definitely will be piling up...

the negative things a little later...

i managed to go to madame tussaud's, harrods, this wonderful cheap shopping place called primark, the yummiest roasted duck rice at a place called gold mine at bayswaters, had a little roadtrip down to the english countryside, and shopped shopped shopped...

i bought 2 longchamps for my mum and sis.

got my dad 2 man utd away jerseys and one england tee for my sis.

got some kitchen stuff for my other sis...from primark and harrods.

i found the card holder that i've been searching high and low for...nice, classic, black...prada...

i bought my first pair of ferragamo classic black pumps.

and...i bought another miu miu bag...

-smiles-

heh heh heh...

i am VERY happy...=)

*rub eyes*

so tired.

this week has been soooo tiring.

work is neverending. it's not piling up...it's just neverending. bleah~

and i thought since i had to go for a meeting at 2pm today, i could come home early and rest. but nooo...i'm reached home at 5.30pm and i have been checking my emails. bleah bleah~

my last movie was madagascar 2. what the...

my next movie will be on the plane. heh heh

i haven't started packing for london yet. usually, i start planning and packing 1 month in advanced. i have about 3 weeks to go. oh crap...

NO TIME!!! bz bz bz bz bz bz bz bz bz...

Verses to share

Luke 6:27-31

27 "But I tell you who hear me: Love your
enemies, do good to those who hate you,
28 bless those who curse you, pray for those
who mistreat you.
29 If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn
to him the other also. If someone takes your
clock, do not stop him from taking your tunic.
30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if
anyone takes what belongs to you, do not
demand it back.
31 Do to others as you would have them do to you."

Luke 6:37
"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven."

Luke 6:40
"A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher."

Luke 6:45
"The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks."


All from Luke, cause that's where I have been reading and that's where I stopped. heh heh

geddit? geddit??

*stretch*

i was really stretching. (sort of) no pun intended.

was deciding what to write about. it seems like there's a gazillion things to talk about and yet, i don't want to fall into the trap of writing everything or writing the same thing. i actually take a rather serious view of airing my views.

and so, i sit here...and tap my feet, stretch my arms and wriggle my fingers.

yeah, stretch my arms in front of a desktop monitor.

nope, i've got nothing to hide, except that i'm blogging instead of working.

hey! at least i'm not surfing porn or watching videos/movies etc.

kids...don't surf porn! it corrupts your mind! it's a very, very serious crime (at least in singapore) and an unhealthy habit!

i love singapore!

i love being a singaporean!

the opportunities, being a melting pot of different cultures and races, the quality of education and high standard of living...it is no wonder that people from all over the world wants to live and work here. yes...even our closest neighbours.

it's been a while since i've been over the causeway, especially when i stay only 5 minutes away from it. but fret not, i don't miss it much (if any at all). and i'd rather not go if i don't have to. there is nothing nice there that we don't get here anyway. and kids, DON'T buy pirated CDs or DVDs! it's illegal and it harms the industry!

you know, people who really have a passion for music or who really feels passionately for music (or whatever other similar genre/industy) would never download illegally or buy pirated music/DVDs. it's just wrong. you're being a hypocrite.

i know some people have some warped way of explaining themselves. save it.

just went off-tangent with my post. i don't even remember what it was that i originally thought of writing.

must be the subconscious.

just sing

sing...

sing a song...

singOUT LOUD... (pun intended)

singOUT STRONG~~ (pun still intended)

sing of good things, not bad

sing of happy~, not sad

sing...sing a song...

make it simple to last your whole life long

don't worry that it's not good enough for anyone else to hear

just sing...

sing a song~

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the thing about life is that it always twists and turns and does the most amazing acrobatics you could ever imagine. wait a minute. actually, it does the most amazing things that you could never imagine.

give them flour and they'll make bread.

take away sugar and they'll just have water.

you take whatever you have, and make do with whatever you get. you'll learn to survive. you'll learn to thrive. others may think otherwise, but faith will get you through somehow, some way.

i realise that not everyone have the same moral values (some may not even HAVE moral values), but life being life, everything will balance out eventually. do good, and you'll be rewarded with good. do bad, then...

nothing good ever came out of plotting. people always think they can take things in their own hands. you are, but only, a man. your "powers" and abilities are as limited as your mind can imagine. if you think it is, then it shall be, but what you can't imagine, it will happen when you least expect it.

that's how it works. that's how He works.

we'll have faith.

you?

you'll need luck.

:)

dumdeedumdeedum

i wonder if there will ever come a day when i decide to erase my past. as in, my older posts.

i'd much rather have each blog post like a weekly column. you see it once, and then you toss it one side and wait for the next one.

i think i have a bit of a 'writer' streak in me.

but let's wait till i have so much free time in the world and perhaps i will.

so anyway, march is just 3 days away. how do you count 3 days? tomorrow is 1. sat is 2. then sun is march already. if you include today, that's 2.5 days. technically, it's not yet 12 noon so round up, i still get 3 days.

but yes, march is coming soon. so fast loh. 2 months in a year has gone by. we are a sixth into 2009. before you know it, it'll be the middle of the year, then i'll turn twenty-*ahem*something, and then it'll be christmas again, and then 2010.

aiyah, i'm cramping la. don't ask me...i don't know what's the connection.

but anyway, this year seems like a huge year. not so much for me, but loads of people are getting married, moving out, moving in, getting jobs, changing jobs, etc etc...

me? i wanna grow my hair out again. and clear more of my wardrobe and shoes (so i can buy new ones).

gutless.

anyway, since i'm already going into unknown territory with my post, let me just add that louis boy has been really naughty these couple of weeks. he keeps marking his territory (aka pissing on sofa, cushions, walls) around the house. my poor mum has to keep cleaning after him. and i have to watch his every move. then when i spray doggie perfume on him, he gets angry with me and rolls around the sofa covers to get rid of the nice scent. i know he doesn't like it coz it musks his own smelly smell, but louis, YOU STINK!

wait till i hose you down tonight, you shtinky-poo!

sound the trumpets!

this is a rather busy week...both work-wise and socially.

(ya...bullshit. busy still can blog!)

so anyway, i just realised that i have not done any shopping (less necessities like toiletries and such) since...since i came back from japan. which is since 2009 began. discount the CNY clothes which is kind of a bo-pian situation, i really haven't shopped at all. no new shoes since japan. no new bags since...well, since hong kong. no crap too.

i've been buying books.

okay, and maybe the occasional gossip (crappy) magazines.

and taxi rides...which have reduced significantly since my dad just started driving a cab. (woohoo...free cab rides to work every morning!!!)

yeah...so all that boils down to one question...

WHERE DID MY MONEY GO??????????

-scratch head- i think...a bulk of it went to family, then another bulk went to credit card bills, and the last bulk consists of all my insurance, mobile phone bills, etc, etc.

luckily, there's the gst credits to look forward to. and my bonuses next month (i think), and then hopefully...somehow...money will drop from the sky and land in my pockets.

(to the tunes of the Everly Brothers)
dream...dream dream dream...
dream...dream dream dream...

SOUND THE TRUMPETS!!!

It's P.A.R.T.Y time~~!!

i wanna go holiday...again

yeah yeah...i know i just came back from a super duper dec holiday.

but it's been more than a month! and i wanna go holiday again.

i wanna go bintan!!!

lie on the beach, swim in the nice, blue, warm ocean, go for massages and facials, eat yummy-licious seafood, drink nice cocktails on the sand while listening to the live band play, sleep and be hypnotized by the beautiful sea breeze...

i wanna go bintan!!!

ok...and i need to plan for london. i only have 3-4 days to play, better make the BEST of it. grrr...

wouldn't it be nice if all i do is plan for holidays? plan, book, prepare, fly, enjoy, return, scrapbook your photos and memories, plan for the next one...i think in all, it'll take me 2 months. so that's 6 holidays a year. maybe 2 biggies and 4 smaller ones.

so fun!

wish i may
wish i might
have a wish
i'll wish tonight***

the weekend highs and the workweek lows

i started my weekend on a great note.

friday. met up with yeok, kt, tt, ja and partners...and nana went with nana. we had reunion dinner at bottleneck sembawang which is so ulu, it felt like i went back to the 60s kampung days or something. we had A LOT of food, plus the sea breeze (more like wind) blowing on our faces. it was a lot of fun, as usual, esp with the 2 pseudo-lovers roy and jingwei.

after a lot of heated discussion, we decided to head down to northpoint. there, we found bakerzin and decided to have dessert there. i had my fav molten choc cake. yummy!!! super duper favourite. i think i walloped the whole thing in less than 5 minutes. talk about enjoying your dessert.

then, roy and yeok sent me back home. changed. waited for jeremy cheong to pick me up from home. sis decided to tag along since we were going KTV. by the time he reached, it was almost 12 midnight already. i almost gave up waiting, but the urge to sing was toooooo strong! i haven't sang in a while! and we had a lot of fun in there. mickey, jeremy's bro, and jeremy lai and their gfs were all there too. it was fun fun fun, but i was dead tired by the time we ended. luckily mymy (pronounced mimi) sent us home, which is what is expected whenever he asks me out. hur hur hur... he said so himself. =)

i'll skip some parts of the weekend but the key thing is i went back to MS on sunday afternoon. had a meeting with shunnnie and jasmine to work out the details and look at their sponsorship proposal. i think we managed to get a lot of things sorted out, so that's good. it was a fruitful, very fruitful meeting. i'm still quite excited, but i expect it will become a super duper busy time. yikes!

then went home for MJ! it was a battle between me, xuan, mike and my sis. to cut the story short, i was building a "great wall" with my chips (the winnings). it was built, then it got chipped, then it got shorter, longer, shorter again...and the final tally? i won $5.60. duh...

mike won the most. bleah~

so the workweek starts. and i am not too enthusiastic about it. the good news, there is a meeting and a department lo hei this afternoon. so which means, my day is almost over. but it's ONLY monday...

We've only just begun....to live...

blah blah blah...i think...i'll be quite happy not to do any work...ever!

which reminds me, i wanna take a day off and get my nails done. maybe wed since my meeting has been postponed. they are chipping already. not too bad, it lasted for 2.5 weeks, with the bowling and crab-eating even. need to shape my nails.

at least there is one thing to look forward to...PAY DAY TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

$_$

wahahahaha...

i can't wait for march...bonus!

i can't wait for april...london!

and after? hmmm...who knows?

ok...have your say.

so, my tagboard is up.

i liked not having any tagboards for a while. but i've been pining for attention during this brief tag-less period and it has been crying out for help.

so anyway, the already-not-so-big news is that i've given my word to xieshun to help him out for singout'09. not sure if it's good news or bad news (for me or for anyone else), but i guess i'll always have a soft spot for MS.

so these couple of days (or 2 weeks actually), while MS is having it's annual break, i've also been toying with the idea of returning to teach (*note: "toying"). i kinda miss parts of it, especially the little ones (and the littlest ones). there is some pain, yet an immense amount of joy in teaching kids, especially the younger ones. they make you so exasperated at times, but whenever i spoke of them, i would break out a little smile and glint. especially when shir and i talk about the little ones that we taught. we don't know to laugh or to cry sometimes, but we surely enjoyed the times.

that's not to say i don't enjoy teaching the older kids, youths or adults. it's different and gives me another kind of satisfaction. the thing with getting older, you tend to internalise ideas and situations more, and over-analyse at times. so it can be rather challenging at times, but the fun times make up for all the "pain" they put you through.

then, there are the times when you discover a gem or 2, and you wonder, how far could they go? it doesn't mean they have to win some competition or sign some record deal to go far. many times, the biggest achievement is taking that first little step, and then, another one. it's like watching a little hatchling learn to fly. it's not how high they fly, but that they took that first leap out of the nest and start to flap their wings so hard to just keep themselves alive.

but teaching can be physically, mentally and emotionally exhausting. it's not just the effort it takes, but also the time. i quite cherish my free time now, what little i have of it. =p it's not so much the money, or rather, it never really was much about money, at least for me. i can't say the same for others, but of course, that's because i have a full-time job.

but wait, even when i was working full-time at the then-MC, it wasn't so much about the money. i remember getting grieve from my parents about what i was doing, because they thought i had worked so hard to get a degree (and so have they), so it was a "waste" to work for minimum wage. i even had a pay-cut a couple of times. true, i barely made ends meet, compared to my peers who were easily earning almost double of what i was earning, but i think the experience was something money can't buy.

to be honest, it wasn't easy. it never was, and will never be easy. it's a true test of human character and resilience to take up that kind of responsibility (and laoshi sometimes said "power"), and not be swayed by all the temptations to abuse this responsibility/"power". do everything, but be nothing. it was, and still is, one of the toughest lessons in life.

but i like(d) a challenge. -wry smile-

ok, so anyway, back to the subject of singout09. i've been thinking about how to push the envelope a little, and give a little somethin' somethin' to the event and all. i'm not gonna say too much here coz i SHOULD discuss this with xieshun and jasmine. they are, afterall, in-charge this time round. i'm actually really happy for both of them, esp shunnnie. i think the last year has made him grow a lot, and as far as i'm concern, i think he'll keep growing (and i don't mean size-wise haha). *wink wink to shunnnie*

yeah, i don't usually praise people openly in a public domain, but i thought everybody should hear/see/think a positive thought once in a while. makes the world a happier place.

but i am really excited about singout09.

and for whoever is reading this, just food for thought...anyone needs some last minute coaching?? *wink*

welcoming changes

someone told me that this would be a year of changes.

yeah...i feel it too.

and generally, it feels like it would be a year of GOOD changes, not just any ol' change. (of course, the term "ol' change" is slightly oxy-moronic. "new change" is just being excessive.)

but yes, good changes. i don't know what it is yet. i don't know how it's gonna happen . i don't even know when it will happen. ("it" being a purely generic idea)

but when it does, i shall be ready to accept it with open arms.

we all need to welcome change, embrace change, because change is the only constant in life.

i sound so cliche that i wanna puke my guts out. haha

the thing is, change usually comes with a few considerations. you need to think through these, and maybe mitigate them before you can decide 'yes, this is the way to go'. and this part of the process is usually the time-consuming one.

there are the considerations for self and the considerations for others. both may be mutually exclusive, or in the worst possible scenario, both may be counteracting off each other. that...sucks most of the time.

well, if i had my way, things would be much quicker. CHANGE would come much quicker. of course, this would be selfish. i would need to cut off all social stems in order to implement whatever changes i had in mind. wouldn't need to think about him or her, this or that.

so, time will tell if this year would indeed be a year of GOOD changes (are there bad ones?).

we'll see...we'll see.

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on a separate note, happy lunar NIUUUUU year!!!

took the day off yesterday (gee...my day offs are getting more frequent). took my own sweet time to get to town, borders specifically. i got a book on great speeches that CHANGED the world. moved from cedele at wheelock to coffee bean at HV. i started on the book. so far, so interesting.

i do enjoy spending some alone time, doing simple things like reading at a cafe, having a cuppa. i'm not sure if i can do this day in and day out, but i sure can get used to it. =)

we'll see...we'll see.

quick one

dammit! i left my mobile phone at home again...for the umpteenth time!

grrr...have to go back home and get my phone during lunch. fortunately, i don't stay that far away from work.

but grrr...must take cab. waste money. grrr...

this week is gonna be quite happening for me, and partly course it's almost CNY.

did some priming and prissing up yesterday since i took the day off. day before, i bought my CNY clothes (and more...oops!)

today, got to collect my pre-ordered bak kwa.

tomorrow, there's MS reunion dinner. ooh, haven't seen laoshi, tommy and the rest in a while. that should be good! it's jumbo again! wahahaha...BUT! i just did my nails!!! need to find someone to peel prawns or extract crab meat from me. *flutter eye-lashes*

friday i have dinner with melvin who will pass me my super belated birthday pressie. oh yeah!

sat and sun is probably a lot of last minute cleaning up, stashing the clutter and dirt and dust away, and maybe mahjong??? heh heh heh

then we have our family reunion dinner, and it's CNY!!!!

i usually don't gain weight much during CNY cause i eat about as much as i usually eat anyway. no...contrary to the rest, i don't stuff my face with food during CNY only. i stuff my face almost whenever i can.

hence, my recent weight-gain.

ok la. as long as i still HAVE a waist, don't have a thunderous thigh or flabby arms and my skin is still generally not clogged up by too much cholesterol, i should be fine lah.

i should be so thankful. =)

still, better watch my weight. i need to do some toning-up.

时间到了！

you know it's been dragging way too long when the shit finally hits the fan.

it's about time la.

i should make a little excursion soon.

=)

2009 sounds great!

Ok...i'm almost 2 weeks late with my new year wishes, and it's my first post in 2009.

Happy 2009 everyone!

I think I probably had one of the best (if not, THE BEST) christmas and new year celebrations ever. Well, the reclusive one (me) doesn't like big celebrations much. I do enjoy the occasional small house parties and gatherings and get-togethers, but I'm never one to go all out and party the night away. Especially for christmas and new year. So in a way, it was good to have been out of town.

Slight anti-social, I admit. My apologies then, if I had not replied your sms wishes and/or calls. I did not want to chalk up a huge bill you see.

And as for my absence online...I blame it on the lazy bones.

Good news is....

-wait for it-

I...

have...

GAINED WEIGHT!

I've finally attained my goal-weight of 40 (though I think it had hit 41), and I can finally not be ashamed...maybe not ashamed...more like avoid the "HUH?", "WHAT?!?", "you mean you are...!?!" comments.

Ok, so 40 isn't a big deal for most (still skinny lah!), but for me it is. i mean, i've been stuck at the high-30s, severely underweight, super low BMI category for so long...like...maybe 10 years. It's good to know I REALLY don't have worms in my system.

Ok, after such a long break, the work momentum is slowly creeping up. Very slowly. I still feel lethargic at work. And I can't wait for the weekends, most of the time.

Louis, on the other had, is much more well-behaved. Still hyper, and still a bit crazy at time, but I think he is slowly maturing. I just bought a whole lot of treats and food for him. They will be delivered (yes...delivered) to my home tonight.

Such a lucky kid.

I am good. Happy and healthily gaining weight. I've been also pampering myself a bit, which is always a good way to make myself happy.

I think 2009 will be a good year. A year of change, but positive change.

And maybe, I will infuse some positive changes in my life too. Why not? =)