everybody has secrets
From hilarious …
… to heartbreaking …
…. to wistful …
… to those that resonate:
(my wisdom teeth look like that)
(I hate playing basketball, but not the sport itself!)
All from postsecret.blogspot.com, 7 Feb 2010.
cautionary tale
I triple-booked myself on 27 Feb 2010:
12 - 6pm: Synod Youth Games
12pm: Lunch with friends
2pm: Dental appointment
O_O Sigh. The lunch is the most important, so the other 2 will have to make way. :(
This is why you should have an organiser with you all the time.
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ATSUIIIIIIII
Snippets from my boring life. More suitable for Twitter probably, but oh well, I’ll just compile them here.
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7 Feb 2010
Today, I got the Letter needed for my visa application. All I need now are 3 passport-sized photos, and God’s grace.
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6 Feb 2010
For the past few days I’ve been thinking about certain things. Without really searching for answers, but I got them anyway. :) But there’s one thing I remember asking for, back when I’d been stupid, naive, and full of self-righteousness, and I also shared this with Jo a month back when we had dinner together: I asked God to ‘break and mould me,’ and guess what? I got it! Hahaha. This should teach me not to make prayers without first counting the cost! :)
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5 Feb 2010
I cut my right thumb today. -.- What happened was, in my zeal to up my efficiency to 3000%, I’d accidentally brought a sharp object down onto my thumb. For the next 15 min, my thumb wouldn’t stop bleeding (poor cleaner auntie who has to clear my bloody tissues) and I had to use a makeshift bandage (read: tissue paper + adhesive tape) for it. -.-
As I sat there nursing my wound, it occurred to me how the healing process was already starting to take place. Heh. Something I know I take for granted everytime I sustain a papercut, which is all too often. But, amazing eh? I can never stop marvelling at how we all are fearfully and wonderfully made.
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Today.
WEATHER WAS SO HOT.
I took a hot shower, nonetheless. Nothing like hot water to make you feel clean.
I shall miss having hot water dearly when in Burma. :(
atsui
My desk is messy, my drawers are messy, my bookshelf is messy, my wardrobe is messy.
Shall take the 4 days of CNY to clear them up.
Wanted to write something about yesterday but I’m running out of time. Later, ‘gators.
GMH!
My workplace internet isn’t working very well now. =/
Anyway, I saw this article on NYTimes. GMH!
If what this article says is true, then my ideal ‘fit’ weight is 44 - 45kg, at a time when I was really fit and had a good proportion of muscles and fat: Secondary 2.
That was 12 years ago.
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New volume of Fables to be out in 4 days’ time! In the USA, of course, but it’ll reach our sunny island in no time! Hopefully before I go to Burma.
coffee shenanigans
Is it common for people to go on coffee breaks … during working hours? As in, the sit-down-at-atas-coffeeshop-and-sip-coffee-for-an-hour kind of thing? I mean, yeah I know she does it almost daily, but I thought it’s just a she thing, you know, with power comes abuse of power. Ahem.
But just now, to my surprise (and secret chagrin), the colleague I work with rather closely also told me in a matter-of-fact way that she is “now having [her] coffee.” ??!! At 10am?? What have I been missing out these 2 years!
Yare yare. Not that I gian the coffee so much lah, I don’t even drink that stuff if I can help it these days. But having said that, can my next job have “Mid-morning Coffee Break” as part of my JD, please?
3 weeks left
For some reason my laptop couldn’t play the second disc of Schindler’s List (I should get the DVD instead), but it works well on my brother’s laptop. Oh well. I was getting too upset over the first disc to continue watching anyway.
Yesterday, I told 2 colleagues that I’m leaving the company end of the month. Both of them congratulated me wahahahaha. One of them is the nice cleaner auntie who always comes by my place in the morning to say hi, and the other is a soft-spoken Burmese man. ^_^ Practically every Burmese who knows of my desire to go to Burma would say to me, “Here we are, trying to get out of the country and you are doing exactly the opposite!” The grass is always greener on the other side, I suppose?
Work’s not going too smoothly now but I’ll just do whatever I can. 3 weeks left! I want to exercise more and at least lose some inches off my burgeoning waistline so that I can fit into my longyi! Bah. The curse of having tailored them back in the slim and svelte days - seems like such a long time ago when I could sit and not have rolls of fat spilling out of my sides. :( I shall endeavour to cycle as often I can (daily would be good), run/rollerblade every week, skip every other day and swim … when I can overcome the inertia. :( 1 month to get myself into shape. It’s so impossible that I want to give up already. :(
Plus, I’ll just expand while I’m in Burma (lack of exercise + good oily fatty food), so why bother right? I’ll end up buying new longyi. :( Sigh sigh~ <– defeatist attitude
Can I have a personal trainer to supervise my pathetic exercise regime and make sure I stick to it? :( It’s been such a long time since I last did decent exercise (the run at MacRitchie Reservoir, and it doesn’t even count actually) and the inertia’s insurmountable. I need to do it regularly, such that it becomes part of my routine.
Sigh sigh. And CNY is coming so soon too … :(
:(
I’m watching Schindler’s List again.
The scene in which a Nazi officer places some extracted gold teeth before a jeweler (?), this scene, it’s so amazing. It’s such a sick concept - how can anyone think of it? How in the world can such a thing happen?
But it happened. The Holocaust happened. And I still can’t come to terms with it.
Haiz.
breathe easy
I dare not dream this is the end (yet), but I thought it pretty fitting that the last days of my working life here would be characterised by much angst faced by both Finance people and I. An inclusio, eh, considering how fed up we’d been with each other when I first joined the company. *rolls eyes*
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Yesterday, instead of catching the 6.20pm bus *cough*, I went to the post office to send some documents. By the time I was done, it was 6.27pm and I thought, bus 8 would have left liao (the next bus would take some 15 minutes). So I went to join the queue for bus 18, and at 6.29pm, lo and behold, another bus 8 was leaving the interchange! I wanted to kill myself at that very moment, because I could have caught that bus still! But I ain’t no psychic, and didn’t bother to check IRIS too coz, well, bus 8 isn’t supposed to leave at 6.29pm! <– OCD personality taking charge now
Bus 18 came shortly after, but still I felt cheated. Bah. But that’s not all.
This morning, an announcement on the train woke me up from my sweet slumber. “Blah blah blah … blah blah blah … all passengers please alight from this train NOW … blah blah blah …” Ok. So I got out of the train, and another announcement came, “Blah blah blah … this train service to Joo Koon will be delayed for 30 minutes … blah blah …” Collective sigh from crowd. I saw the Pasir-Ris bound train pull up at the station, and took one stop down to Kembangan to catch bus 2. While walking out of the station, I saw another Joo Koon-bound train arrive, and LEAVE. ??!! Aren’t all services delayed? Felt really cheated again, but I have no one else to blame but myself.
Bus 2 passed by a few train stations, but I told myself I’d stick to my choice, and face any consequences.
I was late for work (not that anyone notices/cares, anyway).
Ah.
Golden opportunities, missed opportunities.
Right choices, wrong choices.
Such is life.
hermit
I wonder how difficult and inconvenient it will be to live without a mobile phone in Singapore. I’m thinking about this because, apparently Singtel won’t suspend my mobile line while I’m away, and I’m not keen to continue paying for a service that I won’t be around to use. So I might just cancel the line altogether. Thinking of not getting a new one when I come back so that I can finally revert to my hermit lifestyle.
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Can somebody tell me what’s happening in One Piece right now? I’m completely lost and I don’t like to read the manga when I have no idea what is going on. :( Who is that giant “lady” with the mascara-ed eyes (I LOLed when I saw how (s)he tore off a layer of her makeup when her face caught fire hahahaha. That’s so Oda!)? Did (s)he even appear in the previous volume? The thing about One Piece is that it has too many characters, with new ones introduced all the time. :( I can’t catch up!
Naruto’s not so difficult to follow coz it’s much simpler. One Piece has alot of dialogue, but still brilliant. Sigh. Can I read manga for a living, please?
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Only a month has passed since I last had a haircut, and my lion’s mane is back again. Le sigh. While some girls around me complain that their hair are thinning, getting split ends, this and that (I think they should just stop all the dye/perm/rebond jobs), my hair just continues to grow thicker and at amazing speed too. Should I continue to keep my hair long (but thin), or just cut the darned thing away altogether? It’s currently of shoulder-blade length and will reach mid-waist in no time. :( Sigh~
Guys don’t have to worry about this. :(