e Wheel of Life

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Selamat Hari Raya and Happy Children's Day

I really need to do a quick update as it's already quite late, and since I am transferring songs which takes quite some time, I might as well do some updates.

Last weekend was quite alright.

Friday: Met up with CN4A people. Dinner at Central foodcourt. A really cheap alternative to fine dining. Talked a lot of of nonsensical stuff and laughed a lot as well. Drinks at Brewerkz with beer and also takeaway margarita from Cafe Iguana.

Saturday: Tuition, and then some youtubing. Evening was at Robinson's sale at Singapore Expo. Bought a business/casual long sleeve shirt and bright red Hush Puppies polo t shirt. Good buy.

Sunday: Some gym and run in the morning. Xenus gang gathering at noon at City Hall. Amazingly empty at City Hall area at noon. Had lunch at Changing Appetites at Marina Square. Super empty as well at the restaurant and there were only 2 other groups of diners there when we were eating. Some arcade before we went to watch Painted Skin. Not a bad show, though slow and slightly draggy beginning. Went for dinner at Pu Tien. Manage to catch few glimpses of F1 race and experience the loud vrooms of the racing cars.

Today: Run in the morning, and went to grandaunt's place for some nice lunch. Home in the evening.

That's about it for the week that has past. Missed out a lot of details but that's about it. Really need to catch some sleep to prevent zombiefying myself for work tomorrow.

Labels: gatherings, life, Xenus gang

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The Wheel Needs a Job

I am starting to get worried. I think I have doing nothing for too long. I really need to concentrate in finding a job, as the lack of finance support is really draining me out. I have been going out too often too, which contributes to the draining of the money.

Last Friday, I met my NUS class people, for a mahjong session at Weian's house. It's really fun meeting this people up to talk about the old days, and to continue teasing each other. And most importantly I won 10 bucks from the mahjong session, something that seldom happened. Anyway it was really a worthy afternoon spent, (though the time can be better spent on earning money or looking for a job). After the mahjong session, I went to meet up with my NUS OG people at Woodlands (yes, all the way in Woodlands). Jiasheng brought us to this Tze Char stall at Marsiling Industrial Estate. The food was really good. There's deer meet, vegetables, mushrooms, fish, pork, and most importantly the Yi Ping Guo, which was a pot of soup with abolone, Fish maw and other chinese herbs. It was really really good. The thought of it already made me salivate and drool! After the nice dinner, we settled ourselves at McDonalds' and talked. We talked about Yuhui's marriage, and Zhi Shern and Vivien getting married next year, about the work as teachers. Its really pleasant to able to reminisce with these guys!

Saturday was another busy day for me cos I was out early in the morning for tuition, after which I had a haircut at Tampines mall. I then bought lunch home for my granny and myself, and did some internet admin stuff, before going to school. I was supposed to help Charm with the editing the photos, but in the end I could not do much as I was not really proficient in photoshop. In the evening we had a really really long full dress rehearsal and I was in school till 11.30pm. Thanks to Andrew for the ride home and hope the car worked well after having to squeeze the other 5 of us in your car. Haha.

Sunday was another day when I was out the whole day. Met Lix and gang for her birthday treat at Waraku at Marina Square. The food there is not bad, and we had chicken cutlet don meal, salmon sashimi, chawanmushi, etc. After that we went to coffee bean to drink coffee and Kim showed us some of the DS lite games including Professor Layton and the curious village. She showed us some of the puzzles in the game which made us all scratching our heads to search for answers.

After that, I went to Tampines Mall to meet up with my JC band gang. We had a nice dinner at Swensen's, spent a nice long time talking and taking photos, before going back home. I realised it's been a long time since I last seen them, and we did have a lot to catch up with.

Met up with Mervyn at Simei for lunch at Sakai Sushi. Haha. Thanks for the treat. I owe you big one. Will pay back when I found a job.

The past 2 days have been either home or school practising for VO III. A few good news. The concert is sold out!! All thanks to your help!! And 8 of my NUS classmates are coming to watch, FINALLY! Haha! Thanks to Mervyn and his friends for supporting as well.

This blog is really quite long. And I realised I did not have describe the events taking place at the end. Maybe I should blog often.

I really hope I can find a job real soon. Wish me luck!!

Labels: 5 man gang, CN4A, friends, gatherings, horn gang, life, Xenus gang

Saturday, December 29, 2007

The Inner Thoughts

I realized the things I have posted recently are what I have done in these few days and have not really written and emo-related stuff. Maybe its the holidays where I'm actually less stressed. However, I have also been doing some serious thinking, about the path I should take, about the things I should or should not do, about the person I am.

I think I am a coward when it comes to relationship issues. I never tried or dared to take a leap and to act as I suppose to, and in the end, I have lost many opportunities. Probably because I think too much before taking any actions at all, thinking about the consequences and sometimes even decide for the other party. Probably also because I am not good enough to be with anyone. Who wants to be with an ugly, character-less, boring, un-charismatic, non-intellectual person? Some say I lack self-confidence, but truth is truth.

Actually, I am quite comfortable in this situation now, doing the things I do, getting crazy, not being involved with anyone, doesn't matter if anyone cares what do. But will I get too comfortable and fear of changes?

I once told my friend that one of the reasons why I am afraid to be in a relationship is because I hate the breakup. I think I will also act differently when I am in one. I also tend to think if the person really suits me, or I really am the one she's looking for.

Jeremy, you are such a romance idiot.

So now, should I take a big leap and open my arms wide? I am not young anymore, my friends are getting married.

Now, emo-self aside. I went out again yesterday, to meet up with Siandy first. Went around Orchard to look at stuff and had dinner at Lemongrass Thai restaurant at The Heerens. We were quite amazed at the emptiness of the place, not only in the restaurant, but the place around as well. What amazed us as well was that the waiter served us our pineapple rice as well, as in he scooped the rice out from the pineapple (the rice was placed in the pineapple, thus pineapple rice) and served it on our plates. Siandy (or was it me?) commented that they could do that because there were really not a lot of people around, and thus were quite free. After dinner, we walked toward PS, where I supposed to meet my Union Camp -aka -Xenus -aka -Fervo -aka -Cap5 mates.

I didn't really feel like going out yesterday. Somehow I really felt quite lethargic. Even when Siandy asked me to meet her earlier, truthfully, I was really tired, even though I slept in the noon. I was so sian that I didn't even bring my camera out, which I normally did.

I didn't regret meeting her. I think my energy recovered slightly after that.

And then, I was supposed to meet my union camp peeps. I told Siandy I wanted to just meet them and go home. Being lost and can't find the place where I supposed to meet them, made me even want to just give up and go home. But I guessed I couldn't just break my promise, so I hanged on and found the place eventually.

The Mind Cafe at Prinsep Street was actually not a bad place for gathering. It's like Settlers' where we can have food and place boardgames. At first I though there were only 5 of us meeting, because I only see KC, Jiasheng, Guoyong and Zhi Shern, but later more of them came and there were eventually there were 10 of us, where Vivien, Fang, Elisa, Weiye, Yuwei joined us later.

The games sort of perked me up. I liked the last game most where we have to exchange the cards on our hands so that all the cards have the same color. And when anyone has the set of same color cards, he or she was supposed to silently grabbed the bones that were placed in the middle, and the last person who realised that the bones were gone, or didn't manage to grab the bone, he would be the loser. It was interesting that the location where you were will determine if you lose or not, because it's always the same people losing. I didn't believe it until I exchanged places with the unlucky position and I lost in the end. There was also a funny moment where there was actually 2 bones left on the table and 2 of the guys snatched the same bone leaving the other bone unsnatched.

After Mind Cafe, Elisa and beau left first. The rest of us proceeded to a bar nearby called the Roomful of Blues. It's actually a nice small chill out bar where there is nice live singing. The singer was good, and I loved his style of singing. And while we listened to the nice crooning, we played the usual beer games of guessing fists (direct translation from 猜拳) where the one on the left of the winner will have to drink from the big glass of beer. I realised I was quite good at the game actually, which made Fang drank quite a bit. Oops.

The other game we played had to do with dice and guess the number of dices with the number that you called. If you guess correctly and another person caught you, he had to drink. But he caught you and you guessed wrongly, you have to drink. I am REALLY bad at the game and I drank really a lot. I think as a whole, I drank around 2 big glasses that night, which I seldom did.

I didn't bring my camera so I took photos with my phone. Pardon for the quality.

At The Mind Cafe