Wednesday, September 28, 2005
thou shalt not steal.
the mba students are in town and its another week of following them around, answering loads and loads of question (some irrelevant and repetitive) and i can hereby declare one thing that bothers me so much it's actually ripping my brains apart: I hate people who are late! it wouldn't be so bad if they have the decency to apologise for wasting my time standing around and waiting for them to appear but they just STRUT in and be all "ok we can go now". argh! i scorn unapologetic late-comers as much as the bicycles on main road. these pple just spell HAZARD in big capital letters and they don't seem to mind big trucks trudging on slowly behind them and causing traffic disruption.
anyway, back to the scorning of late-comers part: why can't pple be on time?? i mean it is perfectly OK to be late once in a while because of valid reasons but to be late ALL THE TIME?! what's with that?? i think it is basic courtesy to think of the pple who are waiting for you and the fact that you are wasting their valuable time hanging ard, standing on one feet and feelin stupid. these mba students obviously do not seem to care that they are thieves, stealing my time and patience. and the unbelievable thing is, even though i've expressively told them that they are already running late, they still stand around and continue taking pictures! O_O i have to resort to the crazy flailing of hands and bulging eyes to tell them that they have to move on and stop being all narcissistic. i'm sure when God said "Thou shalt not steal", He also meant it towards time-snatchers. so the next time you think it's ok to be late, think of the 8th commandment please.
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after a whole day of walking around in heels yday, it's a great feeling to be in the office, resting my sore feet and basically..just resting. was feeling awfully dreadful yday but managed to meet up with sh at holland v for dinner. felt so much better after meeting her that i woke up feeling good! maybe the other reason is that i know i wouldn't have to face the group of thieves today that made the dread go away but
what the hell. it is really good to start the day with great breakfast and daddy bought this char siew soh & pineapple tart from bukit timah that is absolutely
wudiastic!!(wudi+fantastic) felt so much more on top of things today and things just seemed to fall into place nicely today with no major cock-ups and lots of great news! it is a good day today! =)
p/s: i just read from
theanimals that my sister actually drank FOUR coconuts for her sorethroat! WAH LAU you got lao sai ornot?! why you never leave any for me???? basket.
Useless fact of the day: I am on my 2nd wordsearch book already!
blip rambled on
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Saturday, September 24, 2005
exhausted.
it's frustrating when you see pple you love throw themselves into deep shit time and time again even when they know that one day it will explode in their face and they get hurt. esp when they have been there and done that, get hurt, regret and yet again do it to themselves. i have no idea what to do neither can i make myself respect their decision cos i know it is not gonna work out and its pointless to hope for a miracle to happen. i do not deny that in the near future, after giving him some time to really get over it, it is possible to carry on and be brand new again. but right now, can't you see that it's not possible?! can't you see that you are being used?! why do you still insist on holding on and not mind being a replacement?
stop thinking of trying to be shan cos you will never be and its ridiculous to wanna make him find shan in you. do you really think you will be happy to just hang on to a tiny string of hope, in a huge shadow of the past and carry on thinking it will work out? please snap out of it..i beg you. i'm not saying this angrily, but rather, in a pleading way to please wake up and look at the picture. i'm so disappointed when i saw that entry, about you beggin him to give it another chance. didn't you say you regret not listening to us? didn't you say you should have seen it coming? then why! why are you still doing this? it hurts me to see you like that. it saddens me that you can't seem to think rationally, hoping that he will turn back and hold your hand. right now, this is all i can say to you. i do not know how exactly to reply to your entries cos it's exhausting. i hope you will clear your head, stop drinking and really sit down and
think for yourself. this i can be sure to say: he is not worth your time. he is an irresponsible jackass and i
detest him. period.
blip rambled on
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Monday, September 19, 2005
need a break.
the weekend mid-autumn festival is finally over, was never a fan of mooncakes myself but i still got to chomp down dirt cheap mooncake as well as expensive hotel ones. never could tell the difference though. saturday was spent leisurely with work in the morning, few hours of reading in solitude at the library and mid-autumn celebration at ta2 in the late afternoon. for once theres an addition to the list of eligible bachelors i've been encouraged to consider. for the moment, instead of cixian aka hunkyjo aka muscleman, we have timothy tay on the list! i have no idea what gave these pple the idea but it amused me nonetheless.
-laughs- spent the evening hanging out with the J1 peeps and getting an insight to their gang. it's fun to be able to just sit ard, joke, fight over lanterns, prevent pple from blowing out our candles, askin innocent questions with evil motives..well, just relaxing and enjoying the company. the bottomline: it was a fun-filled night with lots of laughter, surprising discoveries and pomelos.
after less than 12hrs, i was back in ta2 again for sunday service. yiheng pulled a stunner on the service worship team when he accidentally overslept and lester had to cover for him last minute. thou shalt not scare pple anymore, esp early sunday morning where pple are still half awake and weak hearted. scoot off to lucky chinatown after church for a round of ktv-ing with kenny,daniel,sis,yomay and lydia. cixian, ruth and donny were supposed to be our kakis as well but ended up psk-ing us to sing with the mentus at the same location!
forced cixian to sing Tuo Diao as a form of punishment and tho he went along with it and seemed to really enjoy himself, he still tried to regain composure by telling us we all need counselling. haha! so much fun to sit ard on the dirty carpet, eat extremely overpriced chips, drinking ice honey out of vase-cups and singing songs at the top of our voices!
tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree...adjourn after the day's singing to the hong's hse for hong's curry chicken! tho its not salty enough, it still satisfied my month-long craving for nice curry. the relationship we have with the hongs still somehow amazes me considering we have no blood relation yet we can still shameless go to their house and leech on their curry. at the rate we are progressing, we might one day convince ourselves that we are indeed related in a parallel universe. played a few rounds of mahjong after dinner with them laughing at me for my lack of mahjong knowledge and game ethics. we concluded that the curry was drugged cos all 4 of us were saying stupid things, laughing maniacally over lame jokes and rolling all over the floor (actually its just me with the rolling but who's keeping record?).
anyhoo! i managed to win 1 game, 2games for my sister, 2games for ruth (i gave her the winning tile on the first win. roar!!) and zero games for lydia who laughed the loudest at me for my lack of mahjong knowledge.
-guffaws- to sum it up--> ktv, gd! dinner, yum! mahjong, wudi fun! so was my weekend good? hell yeah!
Useless fact of the day: I must remember to tell the ba chor mee auntie next time to not put meatballs in my mee. I hate meatballs. period.
blip rambled on
Monday, September 19, 2005
Thursday, September 15, 2005
you jump i jump.
last night was quality time spent with me, myself and i. call me a loner but i really have a penchant for spending time by myself, doing things i like and just..not talking. spent a great 3 hours watching for once, a non pirated version of Titanic! saw the dvd on sale and decided to get it since its great to watch it once in a while and i say, i really enjoy the show much better without shadows of human heads bobbing across the screen in between jack saying 'i jump you jump'. and as i've told my sister, i wouldn't mind paying to watch Titanic in the movies again cos it is absolutely kick-arsey good!
following Titanic, went back out to the living room for an hour of horatio caine's sunglasses and impactless threats. ("here's some news for you." *points at suspect* "i'm gonna get u." *puts on sunglasses*) realised that both my mama and i like to make fun of david caruso's on-screen persona cos he is simply hilarious! spent a good hour imitating him, and in the process pissing off my sister (she seem to really like horatio caine. -shrugs-), marvelling at the state of decomposition of the bodies, gasping at the murder methods and boo-ing at the lousy visual effects of a tsunami. it looks extremely fake and horrible that i think the 5seconds of screen time have somewhat spoilt the effect they were going for. =/
anyhoo! i'm on absolute cloud number 9 now cos my leave for dec has been approved! its approved on conditions that i must get things settled before i leave cos its the busy period but its ok! i'll do it! weee! i am not very sure why i'm so eager to go for this year's camp cos it has never happened before. its just this nagging feeling at the back of my head and all i could think of is the camp. gosh i sound neurotic. oh oh! another cause for celebration: i'm on leave next thursday! and i am going to...the ZOO! i'm going to the zoo zoo zoo, how about you you you, will you come too too too? i'm going to the zoo! it's gonna be a touristy day with touristy hats, orbit bagpacks and cameras sling around necks!
so! after the above exciting news and lots of exclamation marks, let me tell you something i discover today! i realised that i enjoy stepping on dry leaves on the streets and hearing them crunch. so if you walk behind me on a sunny day, you might suddenly just see me scoot 3 steps to my right, 5 steps to my left or just simply walk backwards so i can step on the leaves. how fun!
Useless fact of the day: i want a milo van.
blip rambled on
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Monday, September 12, 2005
hang out.
after coming back from balai, i realised that it did not impact me as much as the other mission trips i've gone to. things were very smooth sailing, everything went according to plan, no glitchs. the state of living, lack of water, lights, hygiene or even a toilet bowl did not seemed to faze me anymore. comparing to hainan, i would say the pple in hainan are much better off? hmm. well, was talking to shimu yday about how the language barrier was a huge problem and that might be a big hindrance to us if we want to reach out more to the pple. ah well, somehow its always after such trips that we return to singapore appreciating everything we have around us.
oh! on saturday night at the village, we gave out lanterns to the kids and brought them ard the village! it's so pretty to see so many lanterns bobbing in the night with no street lights in sight. but it ended up with the kids leading the way and pple like me lagging at the back trying to avoid muddy puddles and attempting to cross the river on a tree trunk. (yee ler had to help me across due to my lack of balancing skills. =/) but luckily i wasn't the only one! weixin was suppose to be holding on to a kid but halfway got whisk away by someone cos we were walking so slowly. so her mother asked "eh! wheres the kid that you were holding on to?" and weixin replied "duno leh. i think the maid took her away." and the mom just gave the O_O look, burst out laughing and say "what maid! its either the sister or the mother!" i didn't know how to react. i found it kinda hilarious but then again, its like very bad. =/ haa..haiyarr.
anyhoo, enough of balai cos i really have nothing much to say on it. yday was a great day! hang ard in church after lunch to check out the rehearsals for the talentine on sat. had a good time sitting ard, talking to pple and just unwinding. had eugene play canon in D for me again and he is getting really good at it!! the feelings, the emotions, its all there man! think he knows tt i'm gonna ask him to play canon b4 i even asked so he actually started playing "can you feel the love tonight" when i stood at the piano. basket. hahah. well! its always nice to hear beautiful music =)
met up with shihui later in the afternoon. went to the natas fair and got a few brochures as well as check out the deals offered. made our way downstairs after tt to the wedding fair, looking at the beautiful gowns and albums. shihui got approached by the person asking "so when's the big day?" and she just gave the O_O look and said she's just looking ard. so after tt we tried to come up with template responses in case someone asked us again and we changed it from "oh next june =)", to "oh we haven't fixed a date yet". but in the end, we decided to go with "oh..he just proposed..*shy yet excited smile. if can blush, all the better*" HAHA! =p
its such fun to hang out with her. dinner at thaiexpress (yet again! nice food. yum!), dessert at bakerzin (ice chocolate, waffle icecream, 2 small cups of earlgrey with tons of sugar), after lots of talkin, table banging and laughs(pendulum and wings. *guffaws*), i reached home feeling accomplished and exhausted. =D great day. great company. good food. yay!
Useless fact of the day: It's illegal in Alabama to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.
blip rambled on
Monday, September 12, 2005
Friday, September 09, 2005
random.
last night while i was intently watching tv and ignoring all presence ard me, my mom suddenly reminded me that i haven't pack my stuff. 'what stuff?' i asked and she had a look of worry on her face spelling "oh my goodness are you turning dementia?". den it dawned onto me that i'm leaving for balai tmr and amidst the worry about not having enough preparation with the stuff needed for the children over there, i promptly forgot that i need clothes to change and stuff to bathe with as well.
*makes mental note to pack when i get home* realised that i've been quite forgetful lately. last night i position a stack of papers tt i need to bring out today on top of my watch and thought to myself "when i put on my watch tmr morning, i will remember to bring the papers!" so this morning i decided that i shall wear another watch and promptly forgot abt my wonderful plan.
yday afternoon was spent a mandarin hotel, attending a sydney product training seminar and i have a great urge to fly myself to sydney and drive 2hrs down to hunter valley and retire for the rest of my forgetful life! while i was listening to the introductions, i was mentally visualising myself running across green pastures under the blue blue sky and having cows named moomoo or maggie. but amidst all that fantasy, i remembered that i'm suppose to be at my retiring age so instead of running across pastures, the image changed to me on a walking stick trying hard to walk fast enough across the pastures. ahh..details details! you get the picture =) so after 5 hrs of shivering cold and having tons of beautiful brochures thrown at me, it ended almost an hour early than expected and i made my way down to kino, browsing through books i have no intention to buy.
and while i was going for lunch yesterday, i nearly got hit by a falling tree branch! it wasn't the extremely thick kind that will kill me but i'm sure the impact would have cause considerable damage! thank goodness i took longer strides. but in return for the near death experience, i accidentally rub chilli into my eyes while i was eating. -_-" well! at least i'm still alive! however, the falling branch made me remember something that happened when i was still in primary school. so once upon a time theres this guy from my class who's result wasn't very fantastic. he's what you call the low-profile person, don't talk very much, not the smarty-pants, etc etc. somehow he just melts into the background.
so one fine day, mr low-profile was hanging ard the monkeybar area during recess and he accidentally rolled down the slope and hit his head on the metal grills! so he bled and bled, and cried and cried and had stitches to his head. BUT! subsequently after the fall, he became smart! like top 5 in class smart! everyone was amazed and some even consider trying to fall off the slope and hitting themselve on the magic grills, some just walked down the slope and hit their head repeatedly on the magic grills but it did not work! so up till now, after so many years, tho i cannot remember mr low-profile's face and name anymore, this story will continue through the ages. the legend of the magic grill. which brings me back to my falling branch story, i actually secretly wanted the branch to hit me, then maybe i will be less forgetful and turn smarter. ha.
back to reality, ahma seems well enough to discharge already and my guess is that the other patients in the ward are hoping she gets discharged soon too cos apparently she's so noisy during the night pple can't get to slp at all. =/ though i know she will be better off leaving this world and enjoying eternity up there with God, its feels like a sin to think of it that way. its feels like i want her to die.
*sigh* don't know what to expect, don't know what to think. ah well.
Useless fact of the day: Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.
blip rambled on
Friday, September 09, 2005
Monday, September 05, 2005
dreams are my reality.
just a while ago tim passed me a couple of documents and asked me to hand it to his 'er.my wif..my ex..my ex-wi..my wife.' for a moment i actually felt sad that the whole thing fell apart for them tho they sound like great friends whenever they are on the phone. how do i tell? "hahaha you are like ah long! even ah long don't charge so high interest right?! ya la ya la bye la bye la". so, how do i tell? hmm. i guess all that thinking kinda screw up my vision cos the wife called again and asked me to double check the documents to make sure they are all there and she asked "is my maid's passport there?" and i said "no..tim's passport is here tho" until i realised the passport is indeed the maid's and that upside down, she looks like my boss. and i actually said it out loud to the wife. mistakes mistakes.
so while i was out buying lunch, i saw this old man sitting on the steps of the overhead bridge staring out to the huge mother mary portrait displaying in the novena church. and when i came back after buyin my stuff, he asked if i could give him 2bucks for lunch. and i did what i always do, i walked away. but this time it was different! i actually felt bad and in the short distance between the overhead bridge and my office, i walked back and forth back and forth back and forth abt 3 times, wondering whether should i give him the money? or buy food for him? or give my rice to him? so there i was fighting with myself and just as i was gonna go and give him the money/or my rice, this man stopped and gave the old man money. and i saw the old man tucked it away in his pocket but continued sitting there.
so now, here i am eating kitkat chunky, still pondering over the overhead-bridge-old-man and wondering what's the right thing to do.
blip rambled on
Monday, September 05, 2005
