We ARE getting older July 21, 2007

I was blog-surfing after a LOOOOOONG time since I really don’t have much of a mood to use the computer after work and guess what? My dear gao, our beloved class monitor, wrote about well…jc life. It really did bring back fond memories. What I could remember clearly was just having endless amounts of fun, the really jack-ass kinds. Hahaha… I mean, who wouldn’t have fun with people like my dear ah-pa (jon teo), gaothebao and even my dearest geok pei? When gao mentioned about pissing outside the PE teacher’s room, it really brought me back through memory lane because i was present! No..i wasn’t watching him pee (why would I anyway) but I was watching out for teachers 😛 HAHAHAHA oh well… i looked weird in jc man… ulgh hahha and even in secondary sch….ulghh

Check out this photo I took (on the left) in secondary 4! what theeeeeee….kill me someone…i actually really look like conan (my nick in jc)…bleah! (do i look different? these two photos are 8 years apart btw)

Anyway as I was saying…Jc, secondary school seemed like a long time ago. Seconds become minutes, minutes to hours, hours to days, days to weeks, weeks to years…It’s been a decade since I was in Secondary School. How scary’s that. Soon enough most of my friends will get married and yeah…time flies scarily quick. Sigh… I wanna go back to the good old days of pure playing!!!

Speakin of playing…a couple of us were out playing last night. Karen, gao, nic and I were at Zouk rubbing shoulders and dancing with smelly army boys, skantily-clad chicks,… 🙂 hHAHAHAH it has been quite some time since we partied and boyyyy we’re really getting old. Sigh… hahah,,,, but it was a good time i must say, watching gao dance (with his signature moves), hot nic dancing away and my best friend dancing next to me…does bring back alot of memories…what else can I ask for?

Some people are just beyond me. June 23, 2007

Really…today I was this close to swearing. Maybe I had quite a long day at work, or maybe I was already slightly irritated by certain antics of someone at work but man, someone almost made me swear a string of I would say, not-so-nice-words. As many would know, especially Mr Loy (because he tried SOOOOO hard to make me swear), I haven’t really been swearing. So this person really almost pushed me to…well…yeah…Keith…if u wanna make me swear, learn from this person. 🙂

One saving grace of today…well 2 actually… I met up with two of my boys, wait… I met up with Dom first. And I actually saw TWO of my loves on the streets (my cousin and Pseudo). I really had a good time with Dom, catching up with him and of course, getting a present for a dear friend of mine. I also met up with Ken. 🙂

Another thing tat made my day is…I’m officially unemployed! I’m officially a Zuo Bo-er…….for 2 days! hahahaha Hopefully the future would be better and yeah..too lazy to type anymore. zzz

Good night world.

Surprising SMS March 23, 2007

I was talking to this friend on MSN just 10 min ago and I expressed that I was unhappy about certain things. Minutes later (because I was busy and didn’t reply him) he texted me from OZ and said

“Take care darling 🙂 Cheer up. You look much better when you smile. You bring joy to others with your cheerful personality.”

Awwww….Thanks so much Rongyao for the SMS. It did indeed make me feel better.

You will still be missed. March 11, 2007

Hmm another year has passed. Today’s Mama‘s death anniversary, well at least it should be, since I overheard Mother talking to my other grandmother about her. It still feels like yesterday when well, I received the news via SMS from Mother, that Mama had passed away. 😦

Anyway today I went to the Travel fair with Nic. We spent less than 15 min there before we headed to the IT fair. I’m not really a techie so well, I just browsed through stalls, squeezing with at least 1/4 of the population of Singapore. It was CROWDED, and at least 10 people stepped on my toes. To make matters worse, there were no babes, nor hunks. Hahaha… I guess at least Nic did some shopping. This is just a passing remark but, somehow at some angles, Nic does remind me physically alot like Kangfei. I always have to shake my head and constantly tell myself that they are two different people. Oh well…Kangfei, you’ll be dearly missed, still, by many of your friends.

Jon Teo is my Ah-Paaaaa January 16, 2007

Also, on the 6th Jan, I met up with a couple of the AC guys (plus Karen). Then again, they consider the two of us guys, so yeah. There you go. Haven’t seen these chaps in AGES. They still haven’t changed much. Jon Teo hasn’t as well. Met him for some drinks before going to the pub outside my place for a round of beer BEFORE he came to my place and we chit-chatted and drank for the whole night/morning. Stupid idiot’s gone back to Sydney. I miss my guy bestie!!!

Happy New Year, pull your ear!!! January 15, 2007

So damn belated, better late than never!!! 😉

In the morning, I went blading with Seann before we went swimming. Here’s Seanne helping me with my blades..whee

MY highlight – dinner, sumptious dinner, with my favourite girlies from work. We made up for…our BKK trip.

SIMI ?? SIMI??? See what see? Kwa simi kwa??? HAhahahaha…we were so not prepared when silly JS snapped.

Ahhh…a nicer shot! hahahaha Silly JS didn’t wanna take any photos with us that day.

So I sneaked a shot of her.

Yeah…I ended my day with Incest friend and Seann. The day went on pretty smoothly. First day…hmmm

For more photos, click here.

Christmas Eve’s Eve January 8, 2007

Ahh..that’s the day that changed so much of my life the year before but oh well, that’s the past. Anyway before I met Jackie, I caught up with my two favourite boys (it’s soooo hard to get Alvin nowadays…zzz)

Caught a movie with the boys before we wandered around. We managed to see the beautiful display of lights and deco in Taka. =)

I then met up with Dom and Karen. We searched hi and low for a suitable wallet for Dom’s dear. Guess where we were!? Hahaha… No prizes for that. One funny moment’s when Karen exclaimed “WAHHHHH…can I be your girlfriend ah,…so you can buy me a nice wallet”. I turned to Dom and said, almost sheepishly, “ermm…I can’t say that because you’re my ex!” HAHAHAHAHAHAH

Another two of my favourite boys. Hehehe… YEap…after shopping, we met up with Jon Teo as well. One of my first times meeting him since he was back. ($#*@$&#@($

It was indeed a tiring day. I met up with my Secondary school mates, my JC friends and my Uni buddies. =)

For more photos taken on a very memorable day (including Jackie’s photos), click here.

Christmas Eve : Eventful siaaaaa January 5, 2007

(Please read this in a malay accent) Sia lah…brraaaa-derrrrs and sissss-terrrrsss, u want to ear boud my clist-masssssss???

Okay…enough mucking around.

In the morning, I went to church, helped out with last minute arrangements (see my other entry). It wasn’t too bad. I haven’t been back to St Hilda’s in ages. It feels a bit…odd, but oh well. All I know is, it’ll be a while before I go back to St Hilda’s.

Ooops, forgive me God, for I have sinned. No more middle fingers! Or at least I’ll try!!!

Okay lah…a more decent photo of us.

A blurry photo of the peeps, mingling

Derong and I…. check out the cross man!

The congregation listening attentively.

I stole the cross! =P Yeah lah…I’m a retarded

YAY!!! Another retard! =ppp

Following yonder ball…. hehehe there are actually retards everywhere…we’re jus being silly! heh

Just us gals…with Dr being an extra

I think Deb’s so damn cute lah!!!

Hehe….after meeting Mr R Lim for coffee at Parkway, I did some last minute wrapping of presents before heading to Gao’s place for a Christmas gathering.

Lam’s so damn funny man! Tryin to take a photo with the host – he still looks the same.

Derrick looks better and better each time I see him *drool*

Hahhaa….. a decent photo with Dominic Eu Kum Wa(h). Shit man…haven’t taken a photo with him since, what, we broke up….5 years back?? hahahahah

Ahhh…. too lazy to actually type about the later part of the day. Will do that soon. Anyway up till the evening, I really enjoyed myself. Saw some people whom I haven’t met in ages. And caught up and met some new people. Nice! What’s Christmas without a bit of cheer? *grin*

For more photos, click here.

Adoration January 3, 2007

I still remember this weekend. It was a really loooong weekend due to two public holidays coinciding. Good for me, because I had a great rest. I did go out of course, but I didn’t overdo it, like my previous 2 months. *grin*

I was out with my buddies after my facial and dental appointment. I had to do something really important and I was so damn glad that they were rooting for me, and they were there to see me crumble (for the last time in a while). Being with them for the rest of the Saturday made my day. Their stupid remarks just made me grin, even though I was still slightly blue. I shall put up photos when I can upload them photos. Anyway we were walking to Telok Kurau when I started talking about crushes, Kangwei to be exact.

Karen then made this stupid comment saying “I also had a crush what…(long pause) David Tao!”

I was speechless then. Stupid silly bestie! hahahaaha! But I am genuinely happy to have Rongyang and Karen with me at my lowest point.

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On Sunday, dad drove me to church. We suddenly mentioned my grandmother. He asked whether I dreamt of her. I nodded quietly without making any noise. He then continued by saying that sometimes he still felt my grandmother’s presence and dreamt of her. But the more important phrase, dad said, that struck me really made me tear almost immediately was:

You know that Mama adored you right?
All I could do, or the only action that I could do was to nod. There was then this moment of silence when both of us looked out of the window, I know I teared. Grans’ passing was a few years back but we still miss her. I know Dad does, and I do too. We just, well, haven’t really the time to…well…I don’t know. It was just a poignant moment.

You’ll never know how much you miss a person or how much you love a person until…you lose the person.

When you ever ever ever see or meet someone whom you know you love, treasure him/her with all your heart. More importantly, treasure your family. Sigh…

I miss Mama…. I wish I could be there when she was at her deathbed. But I guess, she knew that I loved and still love her…

Really…treasure them, before you lose them, and regret it for life.

Life’s like this, isn’t it?

On the very first day of this year, I arranged to meet Mr Chia to rollerblade. It was a good time, especially because it’s my first time exercising in a month! I’ve been pretty sick for the past month and I was so glad that I could FINALLY get down to doing something more beneficial for myself.

New years allow us to decide on certain things and (I hate to say this) make new year’s resolutions. I don’t usually believe in this, nor do that but because of the series of events that happened in the last 2 months, I knew I needed to get down to business, be a little more serious. I know I’m being vague here but I know what I’m talkin about so, yeah.

Anyway it was a good start to the year. A little low-key for me but well, good nonetheless. Mr Chia and I ended up blading for maybe an hour (?) before we headed off to makan at the food center in East Coast.

One thing noteworthy is the fact that, despite rollerblading for at least 5 years, I still didn’t know how to stop – I always had to skid to the nearest lamp post or tree trunk; or worse, fall gracefully to stop.

After sharing that little snippet of information with Mr Chia, he offered to teach me but I politely declined. So we continued blading. It was only until I took my first fall, that I told Mr Chia I was ready to learn. It took me a couple of minutes before I could stop. It would take me a while to stop but at least, I tried.

This reminds me of well, just life. Life can get pretty tough and it really can be weary but sometimes all it takes is one step to learn and find out about something before realise that life is much easier. Life parallels to blading, in a sense that, sometimes it just takes one step for you to learn something, and this would mean that it would prevent you from falling ALOT more. It may be scary at first but hey, once you learn it, it will be alot easier. You may fall but the probability is lowered. =)

Also, I have learnt from ALOT occasions, including the blading lesson, that all you need to do is to try. Trying gives you opportunity and hope. You may not succeed but ultimately, at the end of the day, when you reflect back, you would realise that you tried your best and that’s all that matters. When you think back, you would know that at least you tried. You would have no regrets, no what-ifs…

Think I talked too much already. Time to get back to work! =)