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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*