Snow in China Someone questioned me “China got snow meh?!” I gave a blank look and smiled. Another guy whipped out his phone and said “Don’t fight! I find!” And proceeded to google for it. I think the both of them are drunk n v v v bo liao. Hahaha. So u 2, what’s the conclusion? 25th! 7 morning 8 morning woke up to go to oppit, nobody in my dept was there yet. Hurhur. Michelle came when I was abt to go, then tt silly girl rush here n there to get my present ready and scribbled on my card. Hahaha~ Den proceed to complain abt her horror story with the cashier at the gift shop. Haha. You are a huhuhu~ =P My boiboi gave me my present. F1 1st day stamps! Den we went to watch Wall-e.. I like Mo! *foreign contamination* Hahaha. So cute! And the Xiao Qiang! Omg, it’s indestructible! He sent me to bugis for dinner with Joshua, Marie and Lim Han, where we had mala buffet. My boiboi initially volunteered to send me home but he got too tired and decided not to wait for me and went home 1st. Anywae, we had a gd time discussing abt office management and solutions. Phew. We talked abt it for a really long time. Thanks to all of you and for the clothes. LoL. All over-sized, but it’s okay! =P It’s the thought that counts. Thanks for all the smses and well wishes. I’m feeling better today. Another long day tmw. >_ My weekend passes by so fast! ps: Josh got me and extra toy. He has been dying to get me tt since last yr. I will put it to gd use okie! =D =/ Wanted to post but it’s not working. Nvm lah. Thank you peeps. Am sorry for any inconvenience cause and any unhappiness tt resulted from today. Off to bed and off to work in the morning now. =/ B’day Presents! Yay! My bday is coming! So I get to write what I want! hehehe~ (My boiboi say one. Else later I get things I dun like.. Den he suffers. HAHAHAHA) -handbag. Big enuf to put my big wallet, sunglasses, and phone. No need to be so big till I have a hard time finding everything. Compartments would be a plus. -a 2mb cartridge for my ds lite! So that I can.. erm.. U know wad. -some good HRM books so that I can beat some damage into my underlings or impart some rubbish to them. -shopping vouchers from taka or isetan. Or any other boutique store with nice jackets. Me want more jackets/pants for work~! -last but not least.. can I haz another toy boi? hehehe F1!!! Whee! Massa won!! I was little gloomy when I was watching it with all the pit action and drama. And at the same time being ignored. bah. Anywae, boiboi went to grab our tix last wk and here they are! The big box which our passes came in. Individually packed passes for the both of us. Sho excited!! My passes for F1 this yr!!!! Happiness!!!! Yayee~~~ F1 here I come~~ 26-28Sept. See you peeps there!! Ikoi! Went dinner at Ikoi for buffet this evening. Food is still as guuuuuud!! My two dear friends, cow didi and starmist, decided that they would celebrate me and my boiboi’s bday as well. So they bought us a rly delicious cake! Thanks for the effort! *Lurve!* Of cuz, we had a lot of sashimi. The pic below shows the biggest platter of salmon sashimi I have ever seen. Are the generous or wad?! I like Ikoi, because the helpings are small, I get to eat lotsa stuff. Boiboi says the menu is small, service is slow and place is a little to tight. But I tink the fresh sashimi makes up for it. Even the chawanmushi tastes better lo! Hehe~ Great dinner. I ish a happy little tenshi now. =D Thanks to all who came~ I tink my boiboi is toooo busy with school, so I shall *ahem* be kpo and help him do this. Thanks to all who came to celebrate his b’day~! I’m sure the girls were all happy since.. *ahem* we muackz muackz with the singer. *swoons* Of cuz, this lucky gal seemed to haf the best deal by talking to him for a bery long time. Anywae, my boi had fun with his waterfalls and I saw a few of you drinking tt as well. Eww, yucky drink. Back to the topic of drinks, I haf my Rose Champagne!~ Whee! Courtesy of Alex and Joyce!! Xie xie ni~! Shiok man, got hamsem man and champagne. And I tink my boiboi has lotsa fun with the singer as well. Hehe~ Got chio bu drink,talk and sing to him wor~ =P Happiest man on earth tt night liao. So to all~ Thankies~ We’ll see u guys for the nxt round~ =D Of leisurely drinks. To my boiboi~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!!!!!!!! *muackz muackz smoochies smoochies* Cycling I haven’t learnt how to cycle for the longest time. Till my sister(younger) decided that this cannot happen and asked me to go cycling with her where she will teach me how. So we went to pasir ris park today with my boiboi as my v gd supporter, and I learnt how to cycle liao!!! HAHAHAHA. My boiboi v busy lo, he had to study and read his cases even when he’s out with me. (But he only does it when he’s with me lah) Lalala~ Thanks to all who helped!! Now tt I can cycle, I guess I haf to learn how to drive properly now. My boiboi complained tt my turns are too wide, I overcompensate and my driving is not straight. Bah. Gambatte!! Life and How to Survive It Taken from here I must say thank you to the faculty and staff of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for inviting me to give your convocation address. It’s a wonderful honour and a privilege for me to speak here for ten minutes without fear of contradiction, defamation or retaliation. I say this as a Singaporean and more so as a husband. My wife is a wonderful person and perfect in every way except one. She is the editor of a magazine. She corrects people for a living. She has honed her expert skills over a quarter of a century, mostly by practising at home during conversations between her and me. On the other hand, I am a litigator. Essentially, I spend my day telling people how wrong they are. I make my living being disagreeable. Nevertheless, there is perfect harmony in our matrimonial home. That is because when an editor and a litigator have an argument, the one who triumphs is always the wife. And so I want to start by giving one piece of advice to the men: when you’ve already won her heart, you don’t need to win every argument. Marriage is considered one milestone of life. Some of you may already be married. Some of you may never be married. Some of you will be married. Some of you will enjoy the experience so much, you will be married many, many times. Good for you. The next big milestone in your life is today: your graduation. The end of education. You’re done learning. You’ve probably been told the big lie that “Learning is a lifelong process” and that therefore you will continue studying and taking masters’ degrees and doctorates and professorships and so on. You know the sort of people who tell you that? Teachers. Don’t you think there is some measure of conflict of interest? They are in the business of learning, after all. Where would they be without you? They need you to be repeat customers. The good news is that they’re wrong. The bad news is that you don’t need further education because your entire life is over. It is gone. That may come as a shock to some of you. You’re in your teens or early twenties. People may tell you that you will live to be 70, 80, 90 years old. That is your life expectancy. I love that term: life expectancy. We all understand the term to mean the average life span of a group of people. But I’m here to talk about a bigger idea, which is what you expect from your life. You may be very happy to know that Singapore is currently ranked as the country with the third highest life expectancy. We are behind Andorra and Japan, and tied with San Marino. It seems quite clear why people in those countries, and ours, live so long. We share one thing in common: our football teams are all hopeless. There’s very little danger of any of our citizens having their pulses raised by watching us play in the World Cup. Spectators are more likely to be lulled into a gentle and restful nap. Singaporeans have a life expectancy of 81.8 years. Singapore men live to an average of 79.21 years, while Singapore women live more than five years longer, probably to take into account the additional time they need to spend in the bathroom. So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper. Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy. I’m here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy. After all, it’s calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average. Revisit those expectations. You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that, as graduates, you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much. That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste. If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don’t need years of education by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average. What you should prepare for is mess. Life’s a mess. You are not entitled to expect anything from it. Life is not fair. Everything does not balance out in the end. Life happens, and you have no control over it. Good and bad things happen to you day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. Your degree is a poor armour against fate. Don’t expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today. At this point in time, you have grown as tall as you will ever be, you are physically the fittest you will ever be in your entire life and you are probably looking the best that you will ever look. This is as good as it gets. It is all downhill from here. Or up. No one knows. What does this mean for you? It is good that your life is over. Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free. The most important is this: do not work. Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable. Work kills. The Japanese have a term “Karoshi”, which means death from overwork. That’s the most dramatic form of how work can kill. But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there’s nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust. There’s a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are “making a living”. No, they’re not. They’re dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful. People will tell you that work ennobles you, that work lends you a certain dignity. Work makes you free. The slogan “Arbeit macht frei” was placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps. Utter nonsense. Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway. Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself. I like arguing, and I love language. So, I became a litigator. I enjoy it and I would do it for free. If I didn’t do that, I would’ve been in some other type of work that still involved writing fiction – probably a sports journalist. So what should you do? You will find your own niche. I don’t imagine you will need to look very hard. By this time in your life, you will have a very good idea of what you will want to do. In fact, I’ll go further and say the ideal situation would be that you will not be able to stop yourself pursuing your passions. By this time you should know what your obsessions are. If you enjoy showing off your knowledge and feeling superior, you might become a teacher. Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working. Most of you will end up in activities which involve communication. To those of you I have a second message: be wary of the truth. I’m not asking you to speak it, or write it, for there are times when it is dangerous or impossible to do those things. The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth. Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence. In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror. I have told you that your life is over, that you should not work, and that you should avoid telling the truth. I now say this to you: be hated. It’s not as easy as it sounds. Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many. That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong. The other side of the coin is this: fall in love. I didn’t say “be loved”. That requires too much compromise. If one changes one’s looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone. Rather, I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you this. You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. That is false. Modern society is anti-love. We’ve taken a microscope to everyone to bring out their flaws and shortcomings. It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable. Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the truth worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul. Loving someone is therefore very important, and it is also important to choose the right person. Despite popular culture, love doesn’t happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming. It is not a silly weed, but a mighty tree that weathers every storm. You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart. You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you. Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it. Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You’re going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there’s no life expectancy. Sometimes… ladies cannot be too nice. Because hen, the men will take you for granted. I agree to the above.. but I also can’t say no. I’m such a loser. 男人不坏，女人不爱。可是，我不喜欢坏男人。哎呀，去睡觉啦。 Zimbabwe That day my boiboi and I were talking abt exchange rates or something. And he told me about this. I v lazy to type out lah. Bwahahahaa. He said he exact same thing. Even abt the hell $$$ one. Shoot! Gonna be late for work! Bah! Devil I tink buying bears are addictive. Boiboi bought me one last yr for my b’day. This yr, they sent me a card for my b’day month and we promptly went down to get another one. This time, we got less accessories because I realised tt too many accessories nice to see not nice to hug. Keke. And this one looks like him! Wahahaha. Got tiny tum tum one. =D Somemore wear polo tee become same pattern liao. Bery nice to hug too. Since the version of me is called Angel, his version is naturally called Devil lo. =P Sho cute hor? ^_^v Chalet~ Just came back from a v nice chalet organised by Alex and Joyce(gf). ^_^v So sweet wor, they book, prepare and even got us a cake for the Aug babies. And when we ran out of ice, he drove out to get more w/o any complaint. Xp Thanks for the effort! Really appreciate it! I tink everyone enjoyed themselves tonight. =D Even the “air stewardess” came. Heehee. Night all! Protected: This evening… This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: This had me up in stitches Taken from Jaywalk 爱情就像大便 来了挡也挡不住 爱情就像大便 水一冲就再也不回来 爱情就像大便 每一次一样又不大一样 爱情就像大便 有时努力了很久却只是个屁 Words of wisdom from my mommy “Go BKK never bring u, never buy thing? Go for wad?” after pondering for a moment.. “Must be go BKK massage massage.” *tsk* 没有希望才不会有失望。 =D kns Flight has landed more than 90mins ago. That’s more than enough to check out and settle stuff. Anywae, as long as plane land safely can le. I’m gg to catch some Zzzzs and be beautiful for some lurvely pple tmw! Things I hope to do before 25 - Go to 1-15~ *sigh* - Swimming? *sigh* - Drink my M & C Rose champange!! *yayness* - Get sum lurvin’ lurvin’ - Love everything abt my life - Get sloshed? Like.. rly.. sloshed? (at the risk of getting scolded though. and maybe a massive hangover) - Scold like 100 pple from now till then. Insult them and ask “X’cuse me. Are u stupid or are u dumb?” Ok. Sound so bimbotic. But v achievable. Haickz. Tired As above. =( Rly meh? Quiz taken from my boiboi: Your view on yourself: Other people find you very interesting, but you are really hiding your true self. Your friends love you because you are a good listener. They’ll probably still love you if you learn to be yourself with them. The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for: You are a true romantic. When you are in love, you will do anything and everything to keep your love true. Your readiness to commit to a relationship: You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship. The seriousness of your love: You like to flirt and behave seductively. The opposite sex finds this very attractive, and that’s why you’ll always have admirers hanging off your arms. But how serious are you about choosing someone to be in a relationship with? Your views on education Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can. The right job for you: You’re a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you’ll be set for life. How do you view success: Success in your career is not the most important thing in life. You are content with what you have and think that being with someone you love is more than spending all of your precious time just working. What are you most afraid of: You are afraid of things that you cannot control. Sometimes you show your anger to cover up how you feel. Who is your true self: You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve. Haircut~ I got my hair trimmed this evening. Told him I wanted to cut away the ends cuz bleached, rebonded and duno wad shite. He said yar, v dry. Den he commented, but ur hair is very nice. Just tt the ends cuz never do treatment so become dry liao. He said my hair nice leh!!! Jin jia happy. Den he asked me to perm my hair. Actually, he asked if I ever thought of perming my hair, I said no, never. Which is true!! A few of my frens kept asking me to go perm cuz my hair is pretty long, so perm liao shld look quite nice. But I know I will def look older and curls are hard to maintain leh! So no need to find trouble for myself. Den go meet up with my fren, complained a bit more. Wahaha, he said my boiboi looks… boyish. Keke. See lah, if really perm I will look like his elder sis and not his gf liao. Cannot! Talk till throat pain liao. Gonna go rest now. Nite pple! Pracrastination IVO the fact tt I took a yr to go find a driving instructor, I only have another yr to pass my practical. And I’m wondering if I can get it by the end of Nov. Challenging sia. $$$$ gib other pple. Like I got so much lidat. Still Roar. Exercising I’m booked on the 20 July and 26th Oct. Luckily 27th is holiday!! -_-” The things I do… Some quotes tt I remember~ “I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you’re always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it that you’re not around, and the fact that you didn’t call. But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.” -Ten Things I Hate About You “Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever.. and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you.” - Meet Joe Black “Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going.” - Practical Magic “When they ask me what I liked best, I’ll tell them it was you.” - City Of Angels If you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise the moment just… passes you by… -My Best friend’s Wedding UOB I am baffled. I am still able to use my UOB debit card. Not the ugly NOW card. Why is that so? And my uni pts seems to be accumulating as usual. Is the NOW system wonky? 我会找回自己 Mos burger! So cute! 你還愛我嗎 Although I dislike shitty bank, i tink that his ad is darn nice. Caught it in Taipei. =P