The New Year
2008 has been a year of change and growing up. It is also a year of emotional roller coaster and also a year of personal achievements. Just before the clock strike twelve and we welcome 2009, I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year, and hopefully 2009 will be a better year than 2008, and everyone would just be happy and healthy.
Labels: new year
The Week That has Been
I have been at home for most of the time the whole of last week, enjoying the comfort of the home, playing with my new toy, IPod, watching TV, and waking up without a shock to see that the alarm clock shows a shocking time.
But now I have the blues. The blues that I have to go back to office and getting used to waking up at an extremely early time, (though my working hours do not really start that early) and having to work. But I guess it's just part of life. I should look forward to things that will keep me going on.
And yes, I should look forward to the my gig at the Cathay on 13th Dec. I should look forward to the 20th Xmas party and JJ's house, and to the the Xmas chalet with my primary school friends on 24th to 25th Dec. Hopefully, these should be sufficient to get me going.
Yesterday was my first time participating the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, though I just ran the 21.1 km half marathon instead of the full marathon. It was my second half marathon, and the timing? Let's just say I took part just for the hype and fun of it and wasn't there to run my personal best. Haha!
And for now, I just enjoy the last moments of the comfort of the home, before I return to the piles of work waiting for me.
Labels: life
Life Updates
Maybe it's just the monotony of work that left me not knowing what to post in my blog. It's just so tiring after work and I do not want to waste my weekends away, and that's why the dwindling frequency of updates of my blog.
Just a quick one of what I did for the past 2 weeks. Basically, we celebrated Wen's birthday at this Japanese restaurant, Ma Maison, at Bugis Junction last Sunday. I think the food there was really not bad, and some of the staff are really Japanese. The setting was rather cosy and the service is not bad. (They gave me a free cup of tea because my clam chowder came really late.) After lunch, we went to look at some winter clothings as some of them are heading to Korea at the end of the year. This was followed by some coffee at The Coffee Club at Marina Square. We discussed the things we want to for Christmas as well.
Last Tuesday, I went to watch Gala Premier of Cape No. 7 (海角7号） as I won some contest. Caught the movie with one of my colleagues, who also happened to my ex-classmate. Some stars spotted are the cast of the movie, Van Fan, the japanese girl who acted as Tomiko, Shino Lin, and some of the Singapore actors are Huang Yi Liang, Ye Shi Ping, Chen Hanwei, and some of the newer actors which I am not sure of their names. The story of the movie was quite good, but I felt that the movie was slightly too long and some scenes did not transit as well to the next. But overall, it was actually quite good.
On Friday, I went out with my NUS classmates. We had dinner at Ichiban Boshi at Centrepoint. The food serving was quite generous for the price I paid. Although it wasn't very cheap, but given the restaurant setting and the quality of food, I was quite surprised that the serving was really generous. We then proceeded to Starbucks for further chatting and updating of our lives.
Saturday was my company's annual party at The House located at Dempsey Road. It was a night of music, nice food, drinks, dance and stage games, speaking of which, I made a fool of myself on stage just to win some small prize. But I guess it's all in the name of fun and being sporting. I hope i can just forget that embarrassing moment.
I had my wisdom tooth removed yesterday, another of which I could not forget easily. The whole extraction process was actually ok, just that I can feel pressure exerting on me while they try to remove the tooth, and it was quite painful when the numbness had gone. There was some bleeding too, which made the whole process quite messy. I did not eat the whole of yesterday, besides breakfast, some soya milk and milk. I was hungry but I had no appetite. Hopefully, I can lose some wait this period of time. But the good thing is I will be on medical leave the whole of this week.
Labels: 5 man gang, CN4A, friends, life, party
