No time to blog! Gosh! There're so many things I wanna blog about but where had my time gone to? It even seems to be a looong time since I used the PC at home! Here's a quick summary of everything I wanna blog about!1) My LOVE for 马英九! And his wife! I wanna blog about this since 20 May when he became the President of Taiwan (yes! That long!) and how I LOVE the whole 把政治娱乐化, 把娱乐政治化 culture of Taiwan. I watched so much Taiwan news on 20-21 May I even felt like a Taiwanese! Everyone say 马总统好!2) My HATRED for driving! I hate to use the word "hatred" but it really describes how I feel. It's no longer about the hassle of changing gears, knee pains from having to step on clutch or not able to look far enough to react in time. I just don't like driving. I don't like that I have to look at the road all the time. I prefer to be passenger and just enjoy the scenary that passes by and just sit back and relax. Driving is just too stressful. I wonder why I learn driving in the first place.. Anyway, I think I suck at driving but can be a F1 driver. My instructor kept asking me to slow down. Hahahaha..3) Durians! It's the durians season now and you can just pick any durian blindly and it'll taste good! I'm not much of a durian eater but Mr T is averaging one durian a week these days. It's the only time you can eat durian. Durians at any other time of the year are just terrible..4) The quake in China and cyclone in Myanmar! Yah, I know these happened a looong time ago but there are still stuffs to blog about! Like how ridiculous Spore's TV donation drive requires people to pay GST and phone call admin charges. And how it was soooo alike Taiwan's donation drive, which was on long before Singapore's. Our reaction is damn slow, our programme is so uncreative and even donation still must charge GST.. Oh yah, and the weird weird panda buns that BreadTalk came up with for the Sichuan quake (I even got a pic of it, just no time to upload it..). And why don't have donation drive for Mynamar which is so much nearer and more in need of help? Is it because it is more to our interest to build relations with China?5) My transfer! It's not even happening yet! I was telling my colleagues it's easier to just leave than get a transfer!6) Great Singapore Sale! It's the time of the year again when bonuses are not enough! I haven't start serious shopping yet but just an unplanned trip to AMK Hub had got me spending money! Who can resist all the sales?7) Trip to the zoo! Don't you just looovvvee Singapore Zoo? I love Inuka (ice-bear) and the elephants! Tiny me love BIG animals! I got so many pics to upload, including funny orang utans!8) My fats and shrinking clothes! Time to hit the gym! What’s happening to kids now? My niece, whom I fondly call the Queen, is driving me up the wall.Here’s what she scored for her mids:- Maths: 38.5 / 100 Science: 53 / 100By the way, she’s Primary 6 and it means that she’s taking PSLE end of this year. What luck!To my dad who had been used to children scoring nothing less than 90, it was terrible news. I remember when I was my niece’s age, I would have cried and cried if I get anything less than 70. If I were to score what she scored, I knew I would be in big trouble.But the Queen seems to be taking it quite lightly. She happily proclaimed that no one in her class passed Maths. And when I was going through her Science papers with her, I was so shocked that she actually wrote “barley” and “maize” as “prey” and “predator”. Below is my conversation with her..Me: Girl, how can barley is a prey or predator?Queen: What is barley huh?Me (exasperated): You don’t know what is barley meh????!!!!Queen: Is it the drink?Me (exasperated): Yes, the drink actually comes from the barley plant!!!Queen: I thought it’s an animal..I seriously SERIOUSLY want to strangle her. How to take PSLE like that?The best thing is my boss’s and another colleague’s daughter are the same age as the Queen and they all seem to be the same! When I told my colleague about the Queen, he was glad that the Queen is not doing very well as his daughter is also borderline case. My boss is also very exasperated by her daughter whose mind seems to be floating in the air. His daughter has no interest in studying and neither does she have any interest in listening to him.What’s with kids now? What will you eat if you're back in Singapore tomorrow? That was the question my bro-in-law asked my sis. They're both in US now for about half a year and will only be back in Dec. My bro-in-law is craving for durians. My sis didn't seem to have told me her answer. For me, I dunno.. I hadn't been away from Singapore long enough to say I crave for certain food. Also, I'm quite easy-going in terms of food, as long as there's carbs and decent-looking vegs, I'm happy. The only time I actually lamented about missing Singapore food was when I was in HK. Despite all the ho-ha about how wonderful their food is, they don't go very well with me. The portion is weird - if it's for one, it's too much; if it's for two, it's too little. Mr T and I always end up being too full and puke-ish. And the food there is very ger-lak. I think they use too much oil/butter/meat/whatever that made me feel very queasy after eating. And what's with the lack of veg and fruits in their diet? There's a lot of meat meat meat and bread (although I love breads, there's only so much 波罗包 I can eat..). *sad* I'd been to HK twice and twice, I missed Singapore's food by the end of the second day. The strongest craving I had was for the 鱼片米粉 from Old Airport Road. For the other holidays, I have no problem with the food at all. I love the food in Bangkok, Vietnam and Taiwan. I LOVE the sourness of the food in Bangkok and Vietnam and the variety of food in Taiwan. I think I even missed Bangkok and Vietnam food when I was in HK! I remember telling Mr T how different HK food is from Bangkok and Vietnam where there's lots of fruits and veg available and the food is very light. We'll always buy fruits back to our hotel when we're in Bangkok and Vietnam. The fruits there are sooooo pretty and yummy! As for Taiwan, there's always something new to eat around the corner. Oh, just thinking back, I miss their 芋圆, 鸡排, 阿宗面线 and the mango ice. But probably I didn't stay in these countries long enough to really miss Singapore.. Hmmm.. the longer holidays I took were to Korea and Beijing. Korea was fine with me. I like that their food is light and there were all thess 小菜 that were very 开胃. I love kimchi!!! And the food were supposedly healthy. No problem with the food at all!Ah.. Beijing.. Beijing Beijing Beijing.. What can I say? The shopping was good but the food.. a test of your courage. Many times, we don't know what meat was the filling of the dumplings we were eating and we tried not to think of it. You don't know what you're in for when you step into a restaurant. There were good food though like 老北京 but there were real and fake ones too. We thought the fake one was better. The best meal we had in Beijing was Japanese food at a five star restaurant. How's that for Beijing food? Now back to Singapore food... Let me think what food I'll miss if I'm away..1) Katong laksa2) 鱼片米粉 from Old Airport Road3) Rojak from the coffeeshop near my house4) Nasi Lemak (those with fried chicken wings)5) Tau suan6) Mi jiang kueh7) Kaya from Katong8) Cheng tngAs you can see, I don't miss much. I don't even miss durian! Or 炒果条!I'm either really easy-going with food or haven't been away from Singapore long enough.. Maybe I should.. But again, I think I'll miss the people more instead of the food.. Everyone should read “Eat, Pray, Love”! I believe it’s affinity that brought me to this book.It was the Mother’s Day weekend and Mr T and I went to Parkway Parade unplanned. I walked into the new Borders with no particular agenda and there it was. “Eat, Pray, Love”. Marked with a huge special Mother’s Day discount sign at only $9.90.The right place, the right time, the right price.I bought this book without thinking twice. I had no idea what this book was about at all and didn’t even flip the pages much. It ended up being the right book.A bit about the book first before I go to why it’s the right book.Its full title is “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia” and it’s by Elizabeth Gilbert. A very short synopsis: The author was really down in the dumps, all confused and on the verge of a mental breakdown when there was a sudden call for her to put down everything and travel the three Is (Italy-India-Indonesia) in search for something. I’m only halfway through the book so I don’t know if the title contradicts the synopsis I’d written. As far as I know (at halfway through the book), she seems to be searching for something rather than everything.I love the author’s “voice” throughout the book. I read some reviews from Amazon that the author is “self-absorbed and irritating”. I wonder if the reviewer is a guy.. cos I can so identify with the voice. As I read the book, there were many times where I go, “Hey, this is soooo XXX (friend of mine, not some bad word)!” and “This is totally written for AAA!” And many times, of course, I thought I was hearing my own voice from the book! Which woman is not self-absorbed and irritating? Which woman doesn’t indulge in their own depression and loneliness and wail to the world (or at least to friends around)? Women who don’t probably have no friends or are going mad very soon.The book is funny in some parts and (to me) enlightening in many. There are many times I wanna highlight enlightening parts of the book as what I normally do to my motivational book and I have to restrain myself from doing so by reminding myself it’s supposed to be a “light” read.I feel that this book is really good for women (I think no males can tolerate the nonsense the author wrote about her self-obsession) who are struggling to find themselves or find a path out of the dark they are in. They are also good are women in general who might need help in future (you never know what lies ahead, you know?).I intend to buy this book for several women in my life whom I think I heard their voices in this book and those whom I think will benefit from this book. I even intend to leave one lying around and see which lucky soul pick it and use it to change his/her life and then pass it on. I think I’m going to spend a bomb!There are many quotes I wanna quote from the book for different women in my life but as I flipped through the pages tonight, nothing quite jumped out, except this one:“Virginia Woolf wrote, “’Across the board continent of a woman’s life falls the shadow of a sword.’ On one side of the sword, she said, there lies convention and tradition and order, where ‘all is correct’. But on the other side of that sword, if you’re crazy enough to cross it and choose a life that does not follow convention, ‘all is confusion. Nothing follows a regular course.’ Her arguement was that the crossing of the shadow of that sword may bring a far more interesting existence to a woman, but you can bet it will also be more perilous.”Add one more, the last line that I read today and is very similar to my favourite belief (since sec school) which I hang on so dearly to for just that little bit of sense in me: “Eventually, everything goes away.” (The belief I hang on to and it had not failed me yet is “Everything shall pass”. Sama sama..)I don’t know how the above two paragraphs affect the people who read this blog. I’m using this post to talk to some people in my life that to choose carefully and even if the wrong choice is made, don’t hang on to the past, let go and everything shall pass.I remember this told to me by my primary 5 teacher, “Life is like a figure 8, once you’re at the bottom, you’ll be up again very soon. And you’ll not forever be at the top, because you need to come down one day”.Be brave, because time will tell. Everything shall pass. For those who think you’re struggling with a particularly hard time, pls read Post Secrets. You’ll be amazed how many people in the world are like you and you are never alone. You may also discover how lucky you are![Disclaimer to JH: I’m not saying that you’d made the wrong choice. In my opinion, I think it’s probably the best choice now. Wait it out. The answer lies in the future. Don’t search for the future now. It’ll come when it comes.] The long Vesak Day weekend spent with Prince Caspian at the Southern Ridges! Okaayyy.. Maybe this post title is a bit pushing it but I managed to squeeze so many activities into this long weekend, it seems so short! Many photos ahead!First! Prince Caspian! I believe a lot of people are dying to watch it and I'm so happy I got to watch the (one of the) premier!Premier tickets!I'm not much of a movie reviewer cos I'm an easy-going person when it comes to movies. All I can say is that after watching the first Chronicles of Narnia movie, Prince Caspian didn't disappoint. The effects were good (I thought Aslan looked better this time) and great performance by the cast. I really like the little knight (?) mouse who/which is really cute (oopss.. you can call it "brave", "courageous" but not "cute") but sorta too much like Puss In Boots from Shrek. This time, there seemed to be more fighting scenes and more comic relief moments but I thought the first movie was better in terms of the story. Perhaps I was looking forward to more evil deeds like the ones the White Witch did in the first movie. *shrug* Do watch it! It's really good! I wanna read the books already! Am I the only one who hadn't?And Southern Ridges! We went there on hot Sunday evening! Despite the heat, Mr T and I totally love it! What's there at the Southern Ridges? We first started at the Marang Trail, after dropping at HarbourFront MRT. No joke okay? It's a looonnggg waaaayyy up to the top of Mount Faber. A freaking elevation of 70 meters! I thought the whole Southern Ridges were like that and wanted to give up! Luckily it wasn't so... and we were greeted with the beautiful scenary of Mt Faber at the end of this killer trail! Up up we go! Views from the top!After this, we're supposed to head for the much acclaimed Henderson Waves! It's the highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore and connects Mt Faber with Telok Blangah Hill! It was quite a walk to the bridge and I didn't know it was quite far from the the top of Mt Faber.Finally!Beautiful isn't it? So how tall/high is it? From 60.49m above sea level.. ..to 77.88m above sea level!I think it's a beautiful bridge and would have liked it better if it wasn't super crowded with people. The bridge was shaking as I was walking on it and being terribly afraid of heights, my legs wobbled and I quickly walked past it, not realising there would be more reasons for my legs to wobble later! Oh! And I gotta mention that I met my 四姑 and her husband after the Henderson Waves and on my way to the Forest Walk. She was going in the opposite direction and making her way to the Henderson Waves! Sporty aren't they? Good for them too since their two precious sons are not in SG and they have all the time in the world! Next up! Forest Walk! I like this part best although it took the longest time to complete and my legs were wobbling like crazy! I'll let the pictures speak for themselves!Taken from the start of the Forest Walk down. Reminds me of Harry Potter Hogwarts' moving staircases!You can look down through! *legs wobble*Taken from the bottom..... and there's more to go!I would have preferred to walk slower and appreciate the nature but there were a lot of people and Mr T made it seemed like some sort of competition, always wanting to overtake everyone in front. And my legs were wobbly and I had to hang on to him, so we completed without looking much at the greens around us.. Pity.. After this, we reached the Alexandra Arch. People were everywhere and I couldn't get a good pic at all. Anyway, it's nothing much. :PI totally love what's up after the Alexandra Arch! It's the HortPark! Welcome!There were many horticulture exhibitions here done by various companies/schools/groups. It's a wonderful place to bring kids along and just appreciate the nature. Baby plants.. Wizard of Oz.. And we ended the trek at the greenhouse!We didn't managed to reach Kent Ridge Park via the Canopy Walk as it was getting dark and Mr T and I were drenched in sweat and smelling stinky so we headed home. It was totally fun and the Southern Ridges hadn't seen the last of me (and Mr T) yet. Mr T thought it's good training ground for our trek in Sapa next month and said we should go every weekend and perhaps run there some time. I don't mind at all! Such beautiful scenary! :D I'm going to watch Chronicles of Narnia! Thanks to Mr Brown's See What Show! Yeah! I won a pair of tickets to watch Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, thanks to Mr Brown's See What Show contest! Happy happy happy! Oh, and thanks to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Singapore too for the tickets!Chronicles of tiny M is going to watch Chronicles of Narnia! How apt! Had been waiting to watch this for the longest time and I'll be the FIRST few to watch it! I'm going to die happy! Full until cannot! I was supposed to go shopping today. SUPPOSED.It was the Isetan Sale again tomorrow, and as normal, kiasu Singaporeans, I planned to go for the sale one day early, as I had done for the past few years. I was usually very excited and determined to get my hands on the sale items that I would eat after shopping. But today, I was very hungry so once I met up Mr T, we went off in search for food.Bad choice.We hadn't been to Orchard for so long that we didn't know that Scotts foodcourt had closed! It probably had closed long ago cos I remembered that I saw Scotts Plaza under renovation so it probably just slipped my mind that Scotts foodcourt is no longer there. Okay, never mind, we can always go to Far East Plaza for food right?But there wasn't anything much at FEP, as usual. In the end, we settled for KFC buddy meal as there was this new Fish Zinger thingy. Halfway through the meal, Mr T said since we were already so near Goodwood Park, we should go check out their durian puffs. Oh, their durian puffs are something from heaven.. I went for their durian dessert buffet two years back and still remember their lovely puffs. A few weeks back, Mr T had asked me to check their durian buffet but when I called, I was told there was no buffet this year. Bummer.. We decided to get maybe two puffs to share as dessert. Looked forward to it as we finished up our KFC dinner.When we reached Goodwood Park, there was this poster outside the cafe that said that there's durian dessert buffet! And it starts today! How lucky! The waiter told us that we're not just limited to the durian desserts but all the desserts on the buffet line. That means the chocolate cake, the cheesecake, the ice-cream and everything! How unfortunate that we'd our dinner already! And I wasn't wearing buffet clothes (u know, those types that don't show your tummy no matter how much you'd eaten?)! Mr T, so full of durian cravings, did a quick calculation. The dessert buffet is $15+++ per pax and each durian puff, according to his memory, cost about $3-5, so we just need to eat 5 to get our money worth. That sounds good to me, so we went ahead!The durian desserts were limited though. There was only the famous durian puffs, durian crumble, durian pancake and this new durian and pandan cake. When I had the buffet two years back, there were more things like durian ice-kacang, some durian with hazelnut puffs (yummy!) and somemore!Anyway, I couldn't much after KFC. I only managed to eat these before I became full until cannot!- 2 pcs chocolate cake- 1 pc cheesecake- 1 pc exquisite, small chocolate cake that taste more like coffee cake- A bit of bread pudding- 2 mango cream with pamelo- 1 durian puff- 1 durian crumble- 1 pc fruit flanMr T fared better than me, he at least had 7 durian puffs, 1 durian crumble, 1 durian and pandan cake and some other miscellaneous desserts in small quantities.And there were quite a lot of things that we didn't even touch! Like bobochacha, ice-cream, durian pancake, red date soup with white fungus, blueberry cake and some more! Mr T kept repeating that it's all worth it and we'll come back on another day, hungrier, so we can eat everything!We were done in less than half an hour and I was really to puke. The food was good but I can feel the food overflowing from my stomach into my oesophagus which is really gross.. I need to walk around..We wandered to the bakery and realised that each durian puff is only $1.90++, so Mr T was all wrong! But he thought we still got our money worth for the dessert buffet, barely. In my opinion, it's not worth it at all as I was totally stuffed! No good!Totally no mood for shopping also cos felt too full and fat to shop! From planning to shop to ended up eating, these are the two activities that Singaporeans like most aren't they? Me, the compulsive travel planner As you would have seen from my sidebar, my next trip will be to Hanoi and Sapa and Halong Bay! Yah-ha! *jumps for joy*I fell in love with Vietnam during my trip to Ho Chi Minh last year, and ever since I'd read about Hanoi and Sapa and Halong Bay on Kenny Sia, I just HAVE to go there! Not to mention, Mr T is dying for another taste of Vietnam's durians! I waited a looonng time for the prices of air tix to drop and finally, on 28 Apr, it did and I got a pair of return tickets to Hanoi, insurance and seats selected at a total of S$413! Cheap cheap!Being a compulsive travel planner, I have to have everything planned out before I go! By the end of 28 Apr, the skeleton of my Hanoi itinerary was out. I spent the week emailing friends who'd been to Hanoi for itineraries and contacts of guesthouses, read Wikitravel, Lonely Planet and all blogs out there about Hanoi, Sapa and Halong Bay, checked out itineraries provided by Sinh Cafe and other day trips provider in Vietnam, emailed guesthouses for prices and day trips itineraries and expanded on the itinerary skeleton. By the end of the week of 28 Apr, the skeleton became a 4 page full itinerary, complete with maps, contact information of food places and expenses breakdown!厉害吧!I showed my itinerary to a few people last week for advice and here are some comments I received:"Wow! So detailed!""Feels like I'm going on a package tour!""Never see anyone plan so detailed before..""So next time your sideline.. is tour guide lo.."I must be the only one who plans in detail for backpacking trips!And my trip will be in.. 30days! I had booked my hostel room, day trips to Sapa and Halong Bay, and even changed USD! I know I know, very 夸张 but being a compulsive travel planner, there's no room for mistakes (not like the stooopid hostel in HK previously).So what am I going to do for the next 30days? Get into the Vietnam mood of course! *fish out my coned Vietnam hat, only to find that I don't actually have one but whatever..*Halo(ng) Vietnam! 东游记 Mr T had been lemming for the Satay Beehoon at East Coast ever since it opened (yes, THAT long). And since it's a beautiful Sunday today (not scorching hot like the previous weeks), we're off to the east for food! Mr T cycled from home to Ubi to pick me up after my driving lessons and off we went! We stopped over at Eunos for curry puffs, at Parkway for drinks and toilet break and headed to East Coast. But Mr T has no affinity with the Satay Beehoon afterall. Once he rode onto the cycling path of East Coast, he was totally into the cycling mode and nothing can stop him. Not to mention that there were three fit-looking girls (one of them wearing the marathon Finisher tee somemore) overtaking him and being overtaken by him that brought out the competitiveness nature in him. So somehow, we ended up exploring (some of) the eastern coastal park connector network (with the three girls following us and sometimes, overtaking us, all the way to Changi!). It was like the Amazing Race! Who will win this race? [I forgot I had my camera in my bag until the Changi Airport part so no pics of ECP]We started from ECP then to the Changi Airport stretch...Greenary, greenary, greenaryRoad, cars, airportIt's a totally boring stretch of road. After 20 minutes of cycling, you're still looking at the same scenary. BORING.. Good thing is that there're airplanes to entertain me. I'd always been fascinated by airplanes! So many SIA planes! Welcome home!Next, we came to the kinda run-down Changi Beach.. See the cyclist in front? That's one of the girls of the three who were riding "with" us!Another plane about to land!And finally, we reached Changi Point.. Bumboats to Pulau Ubin!And had a plate of famous (?) Nasi Lemak at the Changi Village Hawker Center! Very yummy!! :D It tastes better than it looks!We lost the three girls after eating cos they finished much faster than us (cos they didn't queue for the Nasi Lemak like us) and probably went back to East Coast. We explored Changi a bit and began our ride back.I was already dead beat and butt-flat by the time we travelled along Loyang. I was zzz-ing on the back of the bike. Mr T must be damn fit (and damn tired) to have cycled so far with me at the back!When we were at Pasir Ris, Mr T reminded me that the new Downtown East had opened and no matter how tired I was, I just gotta check it out! Presenting.. the NEW Downtown East!With a Cadbury Ferris Wheel! Hmm.. It is more of a family family place. Very suitable to bring kids there. Eh.. That's it!And then we headed home. From Pasir Ris, we rode to Tampines Ikea and took the slip road back to Hougang. Had to do a bit of walking along the slip road and expressway cos some were up slope and my butt needed to relieve itself from flattening.. >.All in all, it was a great road trip, if you can call it so. It was fun figuring out where to go and see the scenary along the way. The park connectors can be improved with more obvious signages. If you wanna know who reached Changi Point first, it was the three girls! Cos Mr T and I took a wrong turn and missed the route leading to Changi Village Hawker Center. Kudos to the girls! I am who I am because of her.. I can't cook for nuts.. because she is the best cook I ever known..I can't do any housework correctly.. because she never lets me do any..I can't leave home too long (although I like travelling).. because I know she's at home waiting..I can't get lost.. because she's always there to hold my hand (even now)..She's the first yummy mummy in Singapore.. because up till now, people still think her children must be in kindergarten (when they are already old enough to have children in kindergarten)..She's the best teacher around.. because although she's not well-educated, she made sure her children got the best teachings in both wisdom and character..She's a superwoman.. because she is..Many people say I look like my mum but I know I can never be like her. Her shoes are too big for me to fill. Her strength, patience, wisdom, I can't match. She did so many so many things for my sis and me that when I sat down to write this blog post, I stared at the screen for the longest time and don't know where to start.No words can describe how wonderful my mum is, how important she is to me (and my sis). She moulded us to what we are today and I can't imagine life without her (I can't imagine how my sis can survive). She's the bestest mum any child could have.Happy Mother's Day, mummy! Rippling effects of just a transfer.. Despite my previous post, I am still a nice person. Really.Probably that's why the rippling effects of my transfer is bothering me and stressing me out so much so that I just wanna run away and hide.First, I was feeling very bad for leaving my boss in the lurch with my transfer. He had been very good to me (and my colleagues), always friendly, very encouraging. I must say I had learnt a lot from him and if not for my 虚荣心 好胜心, I may be very contented to work under him. My transfer came totally unexpected to him and he was a lot more upset cos I was poached. (Actually, I had hinted many times that I 'm not happy with the rewards and recognition but maybe I look happy all the time that he forgot) With my transfer and his increased workload from the new big boss, he seems to be a lot more stressed and troubled. To add to that, he hadn't been in the best of health and sounds like he's going to faint any minute. So poor thing..And with my transfer, my boss has to hire new people to replace me right? Because of the expected increase in workload with the new development, my boss decided to recruit someone for the role of Senior Exec or Manager (me is only an Exec).Bad move.Number 1, he knows that I had been eyeing that Senior Exec position and although (he said) he tried his best to "fight" for a SE post for me, he failed. I was indignant when I saw the recruitment ad for SE/M as I thought if such a gap is available, why not do internal promotion? I know the answer is a whole long grandma story on the internal policies, constraints to the number of people who can be promoted, experience and such. But I was pissed off and I wanna confront somebody about it. In the end, I didn't cos he was very stressed and knowing that I'm one of his contributors of stress, I backed off. But there are other people who feel indignant for me too and what will people think of your management skills?Number 2, 一山不能藏二虎, there's already a manager in the team and he's hiring another manager? How will the other manager think? Of course, she's threatened and being a straight-forward person as she is, she stomped right into the boss's office and talked for almost an hr. She had been "indispensible" for so long because of her knowledge and contacts in this field and uses that as a power over my boss. If someone else comes in to "share" her job, he could say "bye bye" to her very easily. She needs to keep this job as she is sorta the breadwinner of the family. Although her children are around my age, they are still very dependent on her and spend money like water. I had expressed my impatience with her in several blog posts but I think she's still a good person at heart with probably low EQ and lack tactfulness and organisation skills.I feel stressed that because of my transfer, I'm causing people to be stressed, troubled and upset. Why can't I just leave quietly and peacefully? Or am I just caring too much? I am so NOT nice! I can't stand it when people are too nice, which is also a problem that I have sometimes.I don't understand why most Singaporeans can't be critical of other people or matters. Why must we always be nice and break the news softly by saying something positive and then add a "but then.." behind? It's like the "Hear only the good stuffs" ad. After some time, people will have a false impression of themselves and they'll never improve. Be critical! Argue! Debate!Take for example my Public Speaking class. Yes, we need to be encouraging and positive and help one another but hey! Some people just need to be told in the face (read: can't take hints) that they suck!Some things that I really want to say to..The guy sitting in front of me: You will NEVER become a stand-up comedian. You're not even funny at all! You are incoherant (even after rehearsing), appear very nervous (even when you're not) and pause too long until people lose track of what you're talking about. I'm amazed that you even record your "performance" and put them on YouTube! You remind me of... Ste*en Lim.. *shudder*The guy who is a CEO of some company: I'm not interested in your long-winded stories. Keep to the time allocated to you. You speak so loudly and punch your fists everywhere as if you are going to have some gang fight. Watch your words, they tell what kind of person you are and I definitely do NOT want to be talking to you, not to mention, hear you speak.The auntie who sat beside me in the first lesson: I do NOT like you. And that is from the first time I met you at the course preview perhaps one year ago? You portrayed yourself as arrogant (not confident) and all-knowing (which I doubt so). No one is interested in your so-called accomplishments, love history or whatsoever.. I must have wasted some precious time listening to your old grandma stories.Just keep out of my sight..BUT of course, I'm a nice person and won't tell these to the people in their face. I'll just sit in class quietly, smiling at them encouraging and laughing when I need to. They will think they are the best in the whole and slowly destroy themselves..Muahahaha.. I'm evil. Something funny! *pant* Had been so busy socialising for the past couple of days that I hardly have breathing space!Fri: Gathering with sec school friendsIt has been a long time since we met up (like once every two years?) and I almost forgot how fun it is to see these gals. We had dinner at the Green Connection (vegetarian) and although we had our apprehension about it at first (that was the first time we're trying it and for some, the first time venturing into vegetarian), it turned out just GREAT and YUMMY! other than the fact that it is quite ulu despite being in happening Clarke Quay.We had a lot of food (cos Grace was still very hungry even tho' she ate the most (we kept adding order). Must be the lack of meat.. We had rojak (with mango), fried popiah, fresh tomatoes spaghetti, fragance mushroom brown rice, oatmeal ebi, tom yam soup (which Weiling called it tau pok soup), their speciality fried tofu and mixed fruits ice-cream and Grace had bitter gourd juice (which was very very bitter!) and the rest of us had Raw Honey with Lemon (which was very very good!). And the total bill came up to be only S$51! Very reasonable for the amount of food we had and it being vegetarian. Normally, vegetarian food is on the high end and some are quite bland and use a lot of mock meat. This one is very creative in its menu and uses mainly fruits and veggies. Even its chilli sauces (sambal and chicken rice chilli) were made using fruits.And special mention to the guy (I think he's Mel) who was very helpful in giving directions when we thought we were lost and recommending dishes. He even told us why vegetarians cannot eat garlic and onions. For those who are interested, it's cos garlics and onions have very strong smell and it affects the monks who meditate and they can't concentrate. Interesting huh? And he even said that although whole garlics are very good for health, all the nutrients are lost when you chop and fry garlic and it's not good for health at all and the worst form of garlic is those chicken rice chilli sauce! So no more chicken rice chilli sauce!After dinner, Esther's bf and Mr T joined us for bowling at Kovan and we played till almost 1am! Weiling and Grace didn't join us cos Weiling went off to club with another group of friends after dinner and Grace needed to go home to change bedsheet. -_-"The funny thing I noticed about the night was how our conversation kept revolving around having kids (and Weiling must have felt very left out!). Excerpts of our conversations...Grace: I plan to go Europe next year then I can have kids after that..Me: -_-"Grace (later to Esther): I plan to go Europe next year then I can have kids after that..Esther: *excited about asking Grace to buy LV and blahs quite a bit on LV only to realise she's going next year* ... (turns to me) you wanna go with her?Me: Huh? Cannot lah! I'm planning to have kids soon leh!Esther (about her bf and wedding): He wants to get married within the 100 days or else if wait till three years later, I may be too old to have kids.Me (to Esther who's smoking): If you quit now, three years later, just right to have kids..And later a whole lot more among the three of us on who'll be taking care of our kids if we're gonna have one.. I can't imagine us talking about all these but it's fun.. :)Today: Uni friend weddingWooot~! Finally a wedding! Went for the church ceremony and very happy for the new couple. Saw some uni friends whom I didn't see after the convocation and others whom I saw at other weddings. All of us had been very busy and meeting up takes a lot of effort and coordination.Parting words to one another: "See you at the next wedding!" Hahahahah..Really must make effort to keep friends close. After all, they had once been an important part of my life and I do not intend to let them get away so easily.. Breakfast with cousins I'd spent most of the day zzz-ing.. Cos I woke up at 630am this morn, and it's a public holiday!Reason is to have breakfast with my beloved cousins. With the two Mr Tans setting off to US and Taiwan this weekend, it'll prob be a cousins' gathering in a long time. The attendees were Mr Tans, the Jing bros (the older two cos the young one couldn't wake up at all!), PK and Mr T and I.The plan was to reach Bedok at 730am for duck (at another cousin's stall) and adjourn to somewhere nearby for some proper breakfast. But when we reached Bedok at 730, the stall was not opened! Ermm.. prob it's not opened on public holiday. Never check properly. Anyway, it's the company that matters so we moved on to another hawker center at Bedok for breakfast.And we had a lot of food! The table was full of food! Here's what we had..- Kway Chap (Kway for 7 people and 料 for 4 people, cos we wanted to order more things)- 油条 and fried butterflies- Three plates of carrot cakes from two different stalls - Two white and one black- Assorted dim sum- Ang ku kuehs from the famous Bedok shop- Soya bean drink, coffee and teaYummy!! And bloated.. >.We chatted about a lot of things, from NS, reservist to work and my sis in US. As the group consists of mostly guys, the topic revolved mainly around NS lah.. We were also shocked to find out that Mr Tan is taking an almost 48hr flight from SG to US. Crazy de.. China Airlines somemore.. Oh, the thought just disgusts me..I passed Mr Tan some things my sis asked us to buy for her for Mr Tan to bring to my sis. It's those Prima Deli ready-packed Singaporean food sauces. Mr Tan was inspired to bring some over also.. I wonder if he can cook.. Hmmm..We had a great time although I was half-asleep most of the time. Hadn't been sleeping well these days..Went home and immediately konked out. Woke up for the Queen's tuition (and told her she can forget about taking PSLE) and went back to sleep again. Woke up again for dinner and TV and blogging now. Still a bit groggy hence the lack of coherency in this post.Summary: It was a fruitful day catching up with cousins and my sleep. :)P/S: Mr T's bike was stolen yesterday afternoon, in broad daylight. When mum was back, the bike that was usually at the corridor was gone already. Dad suspects the contractors who were renovating a flat nearby who stole it. Mr T was upset probably for one minute, angry for one night and happily went to get a new bike today (while I was zzz-ing). The old one was faulty anyway and got into two accidents. May the person who stole it have the bike break into pieces when he's going down a slope and get run over by the stray wheels.. There's no smoke without.. FIRE!! I was awakened early this morning (3+am) by the hurried footsteps of Mum and Dad (and Mr T after that) and words like "smoke..", "close windows..", "fire.."FIRE?? I jumped out of bed, still blur from slumber but determined not to be burnt.. What fire? Where? What? How? All I saw was Mum hurriedly closing the toilet windows, Mr T closing the study room windows and ooh-ooh-ah-ah-ing at the smoke. And there was smoke! And it was getting thicker and thicker every second! Much worse than the Indonesia fire! But no fire can be seen leh.. We checked the whole house, no fire.. Some people from the other households came out of their houses too, apparently awakened by the thick smoke too. Dad was asking if he should call the Fire Station and ran out to find out where the fire was. Mr T followed and me too, armed with my camera.And this was what we saw.. Smoke!We were still wondering where the fire came from when a Red Rhino arrived and firemen scurried out. Mum had also identified the fire point to be from the rubbish bin + open chute at the void deck cos she could see flames from the kitchen. Damn cool! Like suaku Singaporeans, fire is a damn exciting thing lo.. So I grabbed Mr T to go down with me. He was still very cautious, asking if we should take the stairs instead cos fire cannot take lift. Siao ah! We freaking live on the 14th floor lo! Anyway, Dad had already gone down so should be okay de..Red Rhino for suaku Sporeans who never seen it in action beforeThe fire was almost put out by the time we arrived and I quickly took pictures.Sole fireman putting out the "bonfire"There were quite a number of people around for the time of the night and people were snapping away while the poor firemen were putting out fire. It was extinguished fairly quickly and Mr T wanted to go back to sleep. It was then I heard Dad's voice and turned and saw.. A DRENCHED Dad! Was he on fire? Why was he wet?Wet DadAs Dad has always been, he very kaypoh such things so he rushed to see the "event". But he was careful this time cos got a lot of smoke so he didn't stand too near. He stood far away, nearer to the nearby park. When the Red Rhino came, the firemen couldn't get the water from the Red Rhino, so they quickly connected the pipes to the nearest fire hydrant that is near the nearby park and Dad was just standing next to it. And in their hurry to put out the fire, they on-ed the hydrant before they connected the pipes properly so water sprouted out and drenched went Dad. -_-"And that is not the most "duh" thing. Our neighbour (quite a cute-looking guy around my age, I think) went down to the void deck and in all his excitement, he didn't wear shoes! Who in the right thinking mind don't wear shoes when there's a fire right? Even if you wanna escape, also must wear shoes then can run fast mah..The aftermathBelow are the pictures I'd taken when this morning around 7+am. As you can see, the rubbish bin had melted to an odd shape and the big chute that held all the rubbish was gone (dunno it was burnt or removed). One pipe was so badly burnt that it burst and broke. I wonder what links to it..Well, I guess it'd always been an accident to happen. The big exposed chute encourages people to dump whatever rubbish, big or small, there and it has always been filled to the brim with anything you can name. Just one cigarette butt can trigger a fire. Thanks to the alertness and kaypohness of the neighbours (and the smoke!), a bigger fire is prevented. What's next? With a Tomorrow-ed (& Miyagi-ed) blog post, I'm stressed about what to write next. It's just me, being competitive as always, having the need to over-achieve.. I was told by a 高人 to slow down my pace and not to be so competitive, but if it's in me, it's hard to put it down right?Anyway, the past week had been really good. It seemed to have past with people around me and myself being very happy. I wonder if it's (still) the after-high from 五月天 concert. Or is it because I feel more relaxed when someone is not around? Sigh.. She'll be back tomorrow and I'm really dreading it. PS said it's probably not so bad. It's probably just my own psychology. But I can't wait to transfer. Even if the future holds no promise, I'll be just happy to escape from her. Gosh, I'm making it sound so bad.. She's really not a bad person, I believe she'll make a great friend but our working styles clash quite badly and being impatient as I am, it's a nightmare..My calendar is packed with activities for the coming week and even though there's a holiday in between, I don't seem to have time to breathe!Monday: Start of a 6-week Public Speaking Course (Why do I sign up for it in the first place? Oh, it's free.. except that I have to pay $200 to get a cert. -_-")Tuesday: Some mysterious company event. And I'm trying to make it for yoga..Wednesday: Lunch with ex-vendor-turned-friend and friend-turned-current-vendor! Very happy that the 4 of us (including PS) can sit down together and not talk about work!Thursday (Labor Day): Farewell breakfast (?) with cousins for Mr Tans cos one is going US and the other going Taiwan. Have not decided where to go yet, though we got an offer for free duck rice at Bedok! Wooot~! And tuition with the Queen.. Exams next week.. *faint*Friday: Vegetarian (?) dinner with sec school friends. Can't imagine 5 of us going vegetarian..Saturday: Uni friend's wedding! Finally!Sunday: Tuition with the Queen.. Probably need to put in extra hours.. >.Had been listening to 离开地球表面 and 最重要的小事 on repeat for like the 357 times to keep my mood up and it's driving Mr T crazy. Well, at least it's not as bad as the remix-ed Buddhist chants that is one of Mum's dancing songs. That's crazy I tell you.. I kena Tomorrow-ed! Oh my goodness gracious me! I kena Tomorrow-ed! For those who don't understand, it means my blog post was published on Tomorrow.sg! And more! I was Miyagi-ed too! *BEAM* That explains why there's a sudden surge in my blog hits![Wanted to write long Oscar-winning speech but shall save you all the dread and jump around instead] Why no Olympic torch relay in SIngapore? It went to China, Kazakhstan, ..., France, US, ..., Oman, Pakistan, ..., Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and now it's in Australia. Wait a minute.. Isn't there something wrong here? Where's Singapore in this Olympic torch relay? Come to think of it, Singapore hasn't been part of any Olympic torch relay before at all! After all, we'll be hosting the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010. We're on cordial terms with the world's powerhouses, like US and China. We'd hosted the International Olympic Committee, the IMF and many ASEAN meetings. Why are we overlooked for this important event?Has it something to do with our regulations? Something like... jogging in a group is considered illegal gathering (remember a cancelled pink event last year?)Or had they already anticipated that it'll be another BIG event that no Singaporeans will pay attention to? It'll be work as usual and people will complain about the closed roads. Some schools may have to send their students down, interrupting their lessons and may cause ranking to drop. Or had our leaders already foreseen the Tibet issue long ago and pre-empted the unrest that the Olympic torch relay will cause and hence declined to have the run here? Eh.. but they didn't manage to foresee the big lobang and pre-empt a certain Selamat's escape leh.. Anyway, will anyone be bothered to stage any pro-Tibet rally in the first place or not? So boring right? We missed out on such an important event.. Anyway, here're some pictures on the CNN demonstration in Hollywood (which she and friends drove all the way to) "borrowed" from my sister's blog to make life a lil' more interesting / make life a lil' more miserable knowing that such exciting stuffs are happening out there. 幸福是什么? 我告诉JH爱情轰轰烈烈是很累的, 有时候幸福可以是很简单的..幸福是.. 你总记得我吃菜饭时喜欢吃的菜..幸福是.. 你不顾形象得帮我提着大包包..幸福是.. 你故意安排我们一起穿着情侣装..幸福是.. 你安安静静得让我帮你拔白发..幸福是.. 我的小姐脾气你都可以忍耐..幸福是.. 我们一定会在睡觉前和解消气..幸福是.. 你会喜欢我喜欢的人，比我讨厌我讨厌的人..幸福是.. 虽然你不喜欢我的决定，你却说你会支持我到底..幸福是.. 虽然我们拥有的不多, 我只要看到你, 我就会很开心..幸福是.. 我知道不论发生什么事, 你就是我的避风港..幸福是.. 你弥补了我的不足..幸福是.. 你会记得我（大多数）的小事.. While we were gone.. [Anyway, if you were thinking why no pics for the Mayday concert, yours truly cleverly left her trusty camera at home. >.The story was told by Daddy as soon as he woke up and found us back home from Genting:Dad came home on Sat night and went immediately to do some stuffs in the kitchen. When he walked back to off the lights at the main door, he was shocked to see a black thing on the floor! He first thought it was a scorpion as it has some claw-like thingy and wanted to take a stick and hit it. Before he did, he looked a lil' closer and it struck him that it may be our Crab Pitt (the crab that Mr T was rearing)! And it was Mr Crab Pitt!! Heng, Dad didn't kill it. Dad picked it up and threw it back to its tank.Questions!1) How did Mr Crab Pitt manage to climb all the way to the top of the tank and climb out? It's like so tiny and crabs can't swim right? It just crawls around.. hmmmm...2) How did it managed to climb down safely from the tank? Its tank is on the second "storey". If it jumped, Dad would have found a smashed crab. hmmmm...3) How did it make its way to the main door? The living room is damn big lo.. It could have crawled anywhere! Why did it head straight for the main door? hmmmm..Anyway, Mr Crab Pitt died on Monday. Mr T said it lost one leg and died. Could it be due to the fall? Could it be due to the hunger of Mr Greedy Blackghost who thot Dad was feeding it food (cos they were starved when Mr T was not around)?So many questions I wanna ask Mr Crab Pitt..! 与五月天離開地球表面!!!! "在海拔两千多公尺的云顶， 我们是離開地球表面最远的!" ~阿信I'm back from 五月天's concert in Genting!! What can I say?? 五月天 rocks rocks rocks!!! How do I know? Cos my feet still can't stop moving to the beat of their songs two days after the concert!The whole audience was high from the first song to the last! There were people who stood from the first song to the last and even tho' the security guards tried to get them seated, no one bothered. Especially when it was 離開地球表面 and 恋爱-ING! I can't help jumping and screaming and singing with them! Love what they did for 恋爱-ING.. Hahahahah, so cute de..Every member of 五月天 is so so talented! I especially like the individual performance part. Gosh, totally took my breathe away! Especially 冠佑! Can anyone be better than him at drums? And sigh.. can anyone write better lyrics than 阿信? I think he's damn sweet lo.. His 眼神 is so so charming.. Sigh..My favorite part? When 玛莎 played the keyboard and sang 最重要的小事. I think this song is better when it's sung slow rather than rock. It is so touching.. If anyone proposed at that moment, he'll just succeed lo.. The song has such sweet lyrics and rock just don't seem to suit it.. And 玛莎 has a great voice too.. But well, 阿信 has more charisma. Cute.. :DThe down part? I think technical-wise, it was not very good.. Like most of the time, 玛莎 didn't get any spotlight and it seemed like he wasn't an important member at all.. And, there were weird weird people like there were 4 old ladies (around late 40s to 50s?) sitting behind us before the start of the concert and they seemed so out of place. And they left before 五月天 finished their first song. -_-" Which may be a good choice for them. Think they might have become deaf if they sat through the whole thing. We almost brought the roof down!It's totally worth the money and effort to go all the way up to the mountain top. Yes, even though Mr T lost almost S$500 to the casinoes up there, I think it's all worth it. This is the first time I'm not angry at him losing money. Must be the after-high from the concert. Think nothing can affect me for a while. Hahaha.. *ditzy* Push and Pull "You're not actively looking for jobs cos probably the push factor is not strong enough. You will have to have greater push factor or a strong pull factor." ~Wise JHJH is probably right I think. Although I kept lamenting that my job sucks or whatever, there are many things I like about my job. Like 80% of the colleagues in my team. Like the other people I like in the organisation. Like the freedom I have here. Like I can leave at 530pm SHARP and no one bats an eyelid. Like I can ask my colleague in my team if I should leave and she gives me sound advice that is perhaps not to her advantage.I guess true to what a lot of people tell me, I'm too young and need more exposure or challenge. The position I have now is too comfortable. My boss is too nice and sometimes more like a friend (especially when we tease them that he should go for botox). I'm just getting restless here.The push factor is lack of challenge. And (possibly) being passed over for promotion despite my hard work (?). No pull factor in sight yet.Anyway, today is quite a good day for me (finally!) and I must remember the clothes that I wore today as my lucky outfit! For most of the day, 40% of the team was not around, leaving me and the other 60% (I did not include myself in the 100% cos the number will be quite odd) in the office and we had quite a lot of fun!And most importantly, someone tried to poach me to a team that I'd been eyeing since last December (!) and had sorta forgotten about it after the re-org. The job scope will be significantly different, exposure will be good and I'll learn a lot more than in my present job and can show my talent. The downside is my immediate boss does not seem as good as my present one. Now, that's a very attractive pull factor, pulling me back. I don't wanna talk too much about it as I dun wanna jinx it but I'm pretty excited about it. What I need to do is weigh my priorities and see if that's a good choice.Wish me luck! Oh, how I wish I can fly to HK to ask 黄大仙 for advice! When it rains, Singapore becomes a third-world country.. I'm beginning to dread the sound of rain on the zinc roof of my temporary office. Especially in the late afternoons. Not that the noise is deafening (sometimes, it's good that the noise blocks out some people) but it means that a huge battle awaits..It only means one thing - flood. *groan* It could be due to my office being in an unfortunate low-lying area, it could the construction work for the Circle Line, it could be due to 清明 when rain falls like nobody's business (and my tears too, when it rains), it could be global warming or my suay pants at work. But no rain will stop me from going home at 530pm SHARP! No flood too! Thanks to my quick-thinking colleague, we managed to skip the road-from-office-to-busstop-flood by hitching a ride from nice Uncle Lian, who dropped us off at Aljunied MRT. On the way the the MRT, the rain and flood was starting to gain power. Good thing we ran off fast! But not before my colleague announced that there were jams already on PIE, CTE and whatever Es Singapore has. Very good. At least I don't drive.But the thing is Singaporeans turn barbaric when rain touches them. It is the battle of strength and cut-queue-ness when it comes to taking public transport. Everyone is lazy to open the umbrella and yet, wants to be the one up on the bus asap. It took lots of shoving (good thing I'm tiny) before I got up the bus and eyed a good spot for the looonng journey ahead.Had I said Singaporeans turn barbaric when rain touches them? It manifests itself on the roads I tell you. Impatient cars/motorcyles/whatever-nonsensical-vehicles cut into lanes left right front center like their Ah Gong owns the road. No wonder so many accidents lah! My bus almost collided with a stoopid car which cut into its lane last minute and my bus had to e-brake (this has nothing to do with the Internet) and nearly caused those standing passengers to fall. It caused quite some unrest on the bus but good thing no one was injured.And Singapore's things spoil easily upon rain lo. My bus was leaking (!) and the bus in front (same number as mine) broke down at a crowded bus stop so my bus had to overload with wet, upset and hungry people. And my bus had to be single-deck (it's usually double-deck but I dunno which stoopid bus planner planned a single-deck bus during peak hours). I could tell the bus driver was also getting impatient when he shouted "What?! Your bus spoil?!" at the bus driver in front. SBS needs to send its buses for more regular servicing..Oh yes.. The jam, oh, the jam.. I thought I will be the first one to die of hunger and probably suffocation on a bus in Singapore. Why must there be soooo many never-ending road works or road alterations? The bus had to move inch by inch. Urgh. The best thing? I'm stuck on the bus without a good book. I stared out at the rain so much my eyes started blurring. A bus journey that usually takes at most 35mins took 50mins today.I was never happier to see my busstop you know. I hurried to get down and as I jumped off the bus, guess what greeted me? FLOOD!!! Yes, Flood!! Overflowing water!! At the busstop!! A busstop is certainly no low-lying area lo and the area I stay in had never been in low-lying area. In fact, we're even on some sort of slope! The water at the bus stop was high till my ankles and I had to tip-toe around, looking for the best way to get home. I did a quick analysis - the usual sensible to go home is via the sheltered walkway but the walkway seemed to be more flooded than the busstop; the non-flooded place was unsheltered - so it was a choice of flood vs rain. I wanted to jump onto the busstop seats to think cos my peep-toe heels was starting a mini-flood in it also. *groan* *groan* In the end, I chose rain (after fishing out my trusty umbrella) cos I can't afford to waste any pair of heels.Is it time to build an ark already? Better week ahead? I hadn't been running much cos I'm sick. Again. Sore throat, running nose, all that works. Again. Which is crap. I blame the chocolates and Hello Pandas that I had been eating religiously all week (to reduce stress levels) and the thing that did it was the popcorn. Which I couldn't stop eating through a good movie and that sparked the sore throat and stuffed nose. (Oh, btw, Definitely, Maybe is quite a good show. Catch it if you can.)This week hadn't been so good for me, and this is coming from someone who is usually optismistic in the light of negativity. I thought things may start to be better as the week went by but no. Neither did it get worse. It was just.. stagnant? At a bad point. And it had to end with me being sore-throaty and running-nosey and wasting the day in bed. I just managed to summon a bit of energy and conscious to file my tax (what an adulty thing to do right?!), do some banking matters, book my driving lessons and write this blog.[Digress: I think learning driving when you're working sucks cos you either take weekend slots (which should be left for resting, bumming or shopping) or late night slots (which ends at 10+pm?!). Should have taken during uni.. Sigh.. That's procrastination for you..]Oh well, *shrug* I think as what most people think, things can only get better. I can only hope the next week will be better, with new hopes, new dreams and perhaps, a better future? What's your dæmon? I sometimes wonder that wouldn't it be good if we are like people from Lyra's world (as in The Golden Compass) where we have our souls walking beside us as dæmons? For those who dunno, a dæmon is a person's subconscious voice projected in animal form, giving unwavering companionship, and eventually settling into a form that reflects the essence of who you are. Doesn't this allow us to read someone or even understand yourself more easily? And we'll probably understand ourselves a little better? Like if your dæmon is a dog, you're probably a servant; if it's a cat, you're quite independent; if it's a raven, it means you're intelligent; serpent means cunning and if your dæmon doesn't talk aloud often, it means you probably have something to hide.It'll be quite cool isn't it? Then we don't have to guess if a person (or even ourselves) is 好人 or 坏人.. Resolved to sing this song!!! In MY version!!! Extracted from 《我不難過》词：杨明学 曲：李偲菘 Edited: Mag就讓我走　讓我開始享受自由　回憶很多　你的影子也會充滿我生活我並不懦弱　你比誰都懂　雖然不会寂寞　這會是我　最後的寬容抱緊放开我　再抱緊就放开我　這一份感動激动　請你讓我留在胸口別再說不是你的錯　愛到了盡頭　是非對錯　就讓它隨風忘了所有　過得比你快活我真的懂　你不是沒有喜新厭舊　是我沒有　陪在你身邊　當你寂寞時候让你快乐享受 (-> This sounds so wrong but it rhymes!)別再看著我　說著你愛過要我　別太傷痛　我不難過　這不算什麼只是為什麼眼淚會不流　我也不懂不要再說　或許這是最好結果　現在分手　總好過你不愛我一拖再拖松開你的手　離開你左右　我向前走　這會是我　真正的解脫 Mag's aim for the day Spread the gloom! Credits to The Bitter Stickgirl A song I hope to sing to my work very soon.. Extracted from 《我不難過》 词：杨明学 曲：李偲菘就讓我走　讓我開始享受自由　回憶很多　你的影子也會充滿我生活我並不懦弱　你比誰都懂　雖然寂寞　這會是我　最後的寬容 抱緊我　再抱緊我　這一份感動　請你讓我留在胸口別在說是你的錯　愛到了盡頭　是非對錯　就讓它隨風忘了所有　過得比你快活 我真的懂　你不是喜新厭舊　是我沒有　陪在你身邊　當你寂寞時候別再看著我　說著你愛過　別太傷痛　我不難過　這不算什麼只是為什麼眼淚會流　我也不懂 不要再說　或許這是最好結果　現在分手　總好過你不愛我一拖再拖松開你的手　離開你左右　我向前走　這會是我　真正的解脫 The difference between school and work School: You get rewarded for your hard workWork: Someone else gets rewarded for your hard workSchool: You get to choose who you wanna do your projects withWork: No choice *shrugs*School: If there's someone in your class/team you don't like, you only have to bear with them for one semester/year and you can start anew the next sem/yearWork: You're stuck with whoever is in your team, whether you like it or notSchool: If you make a mistake, you'll at most get a bad grade at that subject/project and nothing else gets affected. During the next sem/year, everything starts anew.Work: If you make a mistake, you'll be blacklisted for life and everyone will know about itSchool: You can "pon" school anytime you likeWork: You have to ration your leaveSchool: Every few months, there'll be a long break when you can just bum around and do nothingWork: You long to bum around but leave is more precious for other things than just bumming aroundSchool: You can wear whatever you want to school, even berms, spag tops, flip flops, obscene t-shirtsWork: Try wearing berms to workSchool: Rewards is correlated to the amount of effortWork: Rewards is correlated to how pally you are with the boss or other important peopleSchool: You have friends you can share secrets with and can even copy one another's workWork: No matter how close you are to your colleague(s), there are just some secrets you can't shareSchool: You are free to pursue your hobbies and interestsWork: Where got time?School: You get tired because there are many things to doWork: You get tired from trying to look like you got more things to do than anyone elseSchool: You progress to the next level every sem/year, learning something differentWork: You do the same thing day in day out for the rest of your working lifeSchool: You mix around with people your ageWork: You are suddenly acquainted with people older than your parentsSchool: Motto is "Who cares?"Work: Motto is "身不由己.."Inspired by my daily life (especially today), my boss and the guy with a permanent constipated look who just moved into the room near my seat..