And the countdown says... 25 more days!

Wow. Not feeling the effect of it yet. But at least... half my invites have been sent out!

Wonder how life will be different (or same) after marriage! Will I get more irritated with his sensitive and sniffly nose? (I cannot stand sniffling.) Will he get even more irritated with my lateness? Will we have enough time to laze around and candy crush/instagram (for me, FB for him)?

Anyhow we will still be living apart for a while, at least till the end of the year, before invading my sister's place!

Oh and gosh our honeymoon. Have not planned anything! Accoms not booked! Itinerary not planned! Leaving alllll of that to after the wedding.

And in other news, the haze is really smelly and irritating. I keep having short bursts of coughs. Probably due to the haze. Please do not let it turn into a full fledged cough! I do not want to be hacking away and wheezing into people's faces during my wedding.

Oh yes update: my Yahoo email address is working now! :D

Was getting busy the past couple of weeks with some church stuff (Natural Family Planning or NFP, Stations of the Cross, and the weekly RCIA sessions), wedding gown selections, and most importantly, exercising!!! Yah then after exercising I proceed to stuff myself with good food at Restaurant Week hurhur.

We are in the season of Lent and supposed to be like eating less meat and doing more good (almsgiving) and reflecting but ermmm I'm not really following that strictly.

This week it looks like I'm going to be spending a lot of time in church again attending penitential service (heard it is going to take HOURS! Bahhh), and a whole afternoon retreat on Sunday, and baptism rehearsal on Monday night...

Don't think I've mentioned it here yet but I finally chose my baptism name which means "noble maiden" or something along that line. Not that I'm very noble la, choosing it purely because
1) I picked 7 names and drew the final 3 contenders from a random "lucky draw"
2) Superficial reasons - it sounds not too bad
2) I polled 2 people (Saint and Empress) and both of them preferred Audrey to Sarah or Sophie LOL
So yup Audrey it is!

On a more sombre note.

This morning Singapore woke up to the sad news of Mr Lee Kuan Yew's passing. Given his frail condition, this wasn't entirely unexpected. Better that he doesn't suffer anymore and gets reunited with his beloved wife in heaven. I think all of us have a lot to learn from him and the steadfastness and love he has for his wife and how they work together as a team.

It's such a pity that he couldn't get to witness the 50th birthday of the country that he dedicated his entire life to and fought so hard for. :(

He was always a larger-than-life figure to me. Kinda like a very high up there, awe-inspiring, intimidating but respected figure. There is no denying the contributions he made and for that we really have to thank him. I complain a lot about horribly late buses and overcrowded trains but hey, I am gainfully employed, I will soon be the owner of a tiny house (thank you CPF) and I can return home at 2am alone and still be safe. I'm glad that I can speak and understand 2 languages (although a bit half-baked now) - so thank you Sir for having the foresight to insist on the bilingual policy.

Rest in peace Mr Lee.

Whoop whoop, imma certified open water diver now! v(^_^)v

 

Must pose v(^_^)v as I unglamorously crashed into corals (can't control my body well underwater haha). Emerged with a few little nicks and cuts here and there.

 

Our group! Everyone looks the same underwater haha. I'm the one on the left :D

 

On the surface with our stern looking dive instructor Michael

We've only got a few precious underwater photos courtesy of our groupmate's friend. Underwater cameras and casings are so expensive! The case for my Olympus EPM-1 is $1k. Say whut?!?! I bought my camera for only $600+ leh.

Still, it was an interesting and pretty cool experience despite my initial apprehension. The skills were boring but we still had to go through it. The fun part was the leisure dive, and we saw a turtle! *achievement unlocked* Haha. And so it's another ONE OFF THE BUCKET LIST! :D I've cleared the mountain, I've cleared the sea, next up, I think I wanna skydive! OK maybe trek Nepal, then take my Advanced diving first, then we save money, we go see Aurora Bourellis, then we skydive. So many things to do before I turn 30, I don't know if I have enough time (or money). ㅠ.ㅠ Did I mention that I have $1.82 left in my travel fund?

But yes, all on the bucket list. Will tick them off one by one eventually!

Also, I got kissed by an elephant (in Phuket) :3

 

Very enthusiastic, this one

 

I think she likes Paul more haha

And I finally found some time to bake! Tried the Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies again; my friend has been requesting me to bake it again for her since one year ago.

 

Swirly swirls 

 

Someone commented on Instagram that it looked like raw beef :(

  

Easy peasy nutella brownies that I made into the form of cupcakes

Can't remember if I left anything important out but what's been hogging the news these days is the terrible, terrible haze. It hit 401 today and it's really unfortunate because I had plans to go to Legoland tomorrow. :(

So Legoland was postponed, and I thought I'd stay at home and bake some banana cake while wishing that I was breathing underwater from an oxygen tank. But within a few hours, we decided to escape smoky Singapore and now I'm scooting off to KL for the weekend to get away from the haze. Haha. Talk about impromptu.

June is shaping up to be a rather happening month. It's an overseas trip every weekend for the third consecutive week running! Haha and may I reiterate that I only have $1.82 left in my travel fund. Hurhurhur. Live now, pay later. Bonus coming in July!!! Then I need to sit down and take a long and hard look at where I am going from here.

A friend posted this as her status on Facebook:

Mr Lee’s answer to a question back in 2002: “There are three things in life you cannot choose – where you are born, how you die, when you die. But there is one thing you can choose – who you marry. If I were to choose again, I would marry my same wife.” Love like that makes you want to love.

As I was reading the various articles on Mrs Lee, I was inspired by her greatness. She was a truly exemplary role model that I should emulate. I was touched by their love story, her selfless love for Mr Lee, and felt deep respect for the way she conducted herself, always placing her husband and family first, and defining her roles as a wife and mother before anything else. She is smart and successful in her career but she was also able to juggle her career and her family adeptly. I think that is what many modern women aspire to do and she has just set the bar way up high.

But I think what makes her such an amazing woman is how she devoted herself to Mr Lee and how they accommodate each other, how she prefers to take a back seat while Mr Lee busies himself with the running of a young nation. How she willingly prefers to be the silent pillar of strength behind her man, giving him the opportunity to shine when she could very well shine as brightly, or even more so, in her own right. How her compassion and softness is a perfect complement to his brash and straightforward personality, and amazingly enough despite being such different people, their love and adoration for each other still runs deep. I think that is of course the ideal, the pinnacle of every aspiring relationship. As our society progresses, I think many girls are now more self-centered and have higher expectations of their man. It's all about "me me me" and being expected to be treated like princesses. Other times we may demand to be treated like equals but forget that sometimes we should let the man take the lead. Sometimes we have to accommodate, give and take, learn to accept each other and complement each other, just like how the Lees did. That is something many of us have to learn, to be the woman behind their man, to be their best friend and to offer him the support and encouragement he needs.

Nothing is more touching than seeing an old, silver-haired couple holding hands and walking together. Every time I see such scenes, it warms the cockles of my heart and I think hey, true love exists after all.

Mrs Lee is truly an inspiration for women. A truly inspiring lady of the modern century and of our country. My deepest condolences to Mr Lee, I'm sure he will be strong enough to carry on with life and I'm sure he must be very proud of his virtuous wife who has touched the hearts of many.

Today's personal column on mismatched expectations between couples in The Sunday Times proved to be particularly educational. The writer stated that there 5 "love languages" and that each of us will tend to express our love for others in one or two particular ways. I'm filing that in my "How to learn to get along with a significant other" database.

Nowadays whatever I watch (i.e. We Got Married) or read, I tend to see myself in them.

It seems like Korean stars are dropping by our little red dot almost every week, if not fortnight. I spent Saturday afternoon at the CN Blue showcase. :) It was pretty good, but much has to be said about the lousy service of the ticketing agent (Gatecrash) and bad sound system. A lot of people were shouting for So Nyeo Shi Dae hahaha and Yonghwa even showed off his couple ring! LOL :)

OK I'm going to sleep early today! Tootles~

Read something pretty amusing in Digital Life.

"More sex for iPhone users", it says. And what's the significance of this earth-shattering revelation? "We do not think this is conclusive that iPhone users are luckier in bedroom matters. Maybe the iPhone is the easiest to use, so its users have more spare time for other activities." Hahaha!

On the contrary I find that the iPhone is taking up a lot of my spare time! It's such a distracting gadget. Where got spare time for "other activities" you tell me?

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Location:Office

Sengkang is no longer ulu! The Sunday Times said so!
I couldn't agree more!

Sengkang is no ulu-er than some of the western estates in Singapore. I personally think that the Bukits (Batok, Gombak, Timah) and Choa Chu Kang are just too inconvenient to get to. Just like what the reporter shared in his column, it probably took me a longer time to visit my friends' houses in the said areas than for me to get to NUS.

This new town is young, vibrant, and not too loud or messy.
Indeed, our connectivity has improved tremendously after NEL started running in 2003. Prior to that, it was such a chore getting to town!

It's near the airport. Other big towns like Pasir Ris and Tampines in the west, and Ang Mo Kio, Yishun and Woodlands in the north are just a short drive away.
It's near the more mature Hougang and the fresh and quiet Punggol.

I like taking Sunday jogs around the estate. Plus there are up and coming projects like the Punggol waterfront!

Haha here I am waxing lyrical about Sengkang. No la it's just that I suddenly feel very contented living here after reading the article. I should just write for HDB or something.

Did I read the papers correctly? I read that graduates from universities and polytechnics will enjoy a one-year respite from paying our tuition fee loans, starting 1 April 09. And there won't be any interest charged during this period. If that's true, that's both good news and bad news for me. Good news of course, seeing that my pay cut starts with effect from April too and any cost savings will be greatly appreciated. Bad news because I want to quickly pay off the loan instead of dragging it on for another year! Besides, I've worked my sums and was all prepared to live the frugal life from April onwards... I wonder if this will be a across-the-board measure or just offered to a selective few.

I am on to my last episode of On Air! And I have big pimple on my left cheek. :(

MOOOOOOO!

Happy Lunar New Year! :) We've entered another cycle and me and my peers are turning 24 this year! I still think that I'm 22 actually. Haha.

May everyone have a prosperous year ahead!
(Or as prosperous as the current economic climate allows, anyway. Every other page in the papers is about the budget, drawing into our reserves, cost-cutting, tightening purse strings, -5% to -2% growth... depressing or what?!)

But whatever. Collect lots of hongbaos, people! HUAT AH!

I'm actually a closet Xiaxue reader hahaha and I know whatever she says can't be taken seriously most of the time... haha but I think I can identify with this:

"... people in bad relationships LOVE it.

They love the drama, the mind games, the breaking and patching, the abuse, the shouting matches, the suicide attempts."

Eh, reminds you of people you know? :p

And since we're on a related topic, I've been following the recent news about the have-a-baby! perks and the government's anxiousness to get singles hitched of late. Our sad, sad birth rate. I think I am one of those "I refuse to have kids" people and I think I fit the profile of a typical single that PM Lee described in his rally last week. But do all you singles out there think that because the government says we must go out and mix around in order to meet someone, we will do that? I don't think so. Meet someone, commit to that relationship, decide he's the one, get married, and subsequently produce babies for our country... They make it sound so easy. Haha, PM Lee even gave the example of parents in China engaging in a little modern version of matchmaking. I think if we do that in Singapore, many people will be quite unhappy.

I even read a letter in the papers saying that all singles should join at least one activity organized by SDU. I think the letter writer even said something about making it mandatory. HA HA. Yes you do that, and you will just get a bunch of grumpy and unhappy singles who will complain about the absurdity of it all.

I dunno lah, maybe I am still too young to feel the need to be all active about finding a life partner. Maybe when I am 30 and still single, I will join SDU. LOL but by then it'll probably be too late, coz all those men in their 30s will only have eyes for 20-something hot young chicks. Hmmm, spinsterhood doesn't look all that bad actually.

I read in the papers today that Grant Hackett is in Singapore with the Australian swim team, and Michael Phelps will be coming to Singapore too.

Ahhh Thorpe why did you retire so early? If only you were participating in this year's Olympics... then perhaps you would have been in Singapore too. Then maybe I have a 1/1000000 chance in bumping into you! Ahahaha.

But still, I'm looking forward to the Olympics swim races. It's my fav sport to watch! Too bad they're showing the races at a disgustingly inconvenient time in the morning. =x

I was reading ST's Insight feature today. It's about Generation Y workers in the workforce.

I happen to agree with the feature and their characterization of the GenY worker. So for the greater good, I hope my boss reads that article. Hopefully she will learn that micro-managing is NOT the way to go when it comes to dealing with GenY subordinates. Her stone-age management tactics are not relevant in today's work society! She should learn how to co-exist peacefully with GenY subordinates since her 2 staff members happen to be from that generation.

Last Friday she called me twice within an hour to ask if I'm done with the Powerpoint presentation that she taichi-ed to me. Impatient much? I will let you know once I'm done with it lor! Kancheong leh. >__<

IT'S RAINING! :) :) :)

Page 2 of ST today:

Fare cheats to be fined $20 from July

Harsher penalties for misusing concession cards too

._____.

Oops.

At least it's starting in July.

Mahjong at Gillian's new house today, and this is my achievement of the day!


The maximum of 5 tai!! Not bad for a mahjong noob like me :)

Anyway my dad increased the RAM for the desktop PC but to me it feels like there's no difference?! Okay maybe there's a marginal improvement... but sometimes it's still as wols as ever.

These days I've been either cooped up at home watching 斗牛, 要不要/We Got Married or am out somewhere. Yup so that just about sums up my life so far... I feel like I haven't blogged properly for such a long time. Too sian to blog after work, and my weekends are spent doing all of the above.

The lack of insightful or angsty posts probably stems from the very plebeian life I'm leading now. First, no brain cells left by the end of the work day to make quirky and random observations about life in general. Two, I'm in a rather comfortable stage of my life now and don't feel the need to analyse and reflect on every aspect of my life. I have a job; I am generally pleased with who I am and life in general. I don't have any dependents; I live for myself. It's a good stage to be in, even if it sometimes adds up to a rather boring, routine and unexciting life. Guess we should all be contented with whatever we have now.

And then I thought, if there's nothing fascinating enough in my life to warrant a blog post, then perhaps it's time for my blog to die a natural death? And so it begets the question: Why did I start blogging? I honestly don't know why I started, it seemed like a pretty cool idea when I was 15 or 16 (i.e. the angsty adolescent stage). It's a good place to vent when you are questioning the world at large, thinking about issues, wondering about your self-identity, plus it's easier to type than write. I also intended to use it as a tool to chronicle my silly thoughts and daily happenings and for me to giggle at the unorthodox (or not) ideas I've had in my youth when I'm old and toothless (if blogs are not obsolete by then). So it's kind of pointless if there's no content for me to put in it.

It's a lot easier to blog about school than work. I dunno. Work is... just work. Nothing exciting about that. In contrast, I had more time when I was a student to wonder about various things. And then there are less restrictions when it comes to school and a lot more protocols to follow when it comes discussing about work. That's another reason for the dearth of entries... I never thought I'd be those people who would stop blogging when I start work but now when faced with the possibility, it doesn't seem all that impossible. When I update, it's more to update myself than to update my friends because I still have to end up repeating what I blogged about in the end. Kinda pointless.

But for now I will keep my blog alive till the next new stage of my life comes... which is maybe when I tire of my job. It's my little sentimental virtual space. After all it's still a pretty useful platform for me to complain (about work, boss, the traffic, the weather, et al) and fangirl.

On a sidenote, I kind of like Jinnie's 1st album. It's very listenable. So many new albums out recently - Epik High/SG Wannabe/Fly To The Sky and of course DONGWAN'S 2nd jib out on 8th MAY! Hurhur can't wait :)

And my stupid MP3 player is cranky. :(

And the weather is bloody hot!!! It is 4am and I am feeling warm even with the fan at maximum speed. GAH.

Haha I keep jumping from point to point. It's a side effect from not organizing my thoughts and not writing for so long.

How do you know table is a table?

Wah cheem. Erm, a table is a table is a table is a table? It has a flat top and four legs and you can place things on them. And this is apparently one of those questions for Knowledge and Inquiry as stated in the Straits Times. This is also why I did not take any philosophy modules, because I suspect my mind is too shallow for me to comprehend and digest abstract suggestions.

How about another more normal GP question. "How do we prepare the youth of today for the challenges of tomorrow?"

Honestly I have no idea too! Sometimes I wonder if I really took my A Levels, because apart from feeling like the 2 years were rather surreal and fleeting, all the studying done doesn't seem to have any tangible effect. If you asked me to answer an essay question like that right now, I obviously won't be able to give a good answer. See, critical and in depth thinking and me, we don't seem to coexist.

But anyhow, it's the weekend! I have a glorious Saturday afternoon stretched out in front of me and I'm gonna spend it watching Sex and the City, playing mahjong on viwawa and all that mindless crap. Yay! :)

Edit: Woo!!! I just won a game with 10 tai!!! O.o
Same suit, all pong, + one animal. Don't know how they count but 10 tai!!! My biggest win yet! :)
Hai, but still nicer to play with real people. :(

Edit 2: 我觉得我跟下一代有代沟. Look at all the childish speak on viwawa! Someone even asked during a game, "My boyfriend wants to break with me. How how? He say he like other girl."
Like I would know how?! And as if a bunch of strangers are in any position to give you advice. That's why, compounded with horrible net-speak (broken language and strangely distorted words), I cannot help but feel a little disdainful of the younger generation.

Either that, or I am getting too old for my own good. I'm an old soul in a young body!

I was watching this part of 公主小妹 and I thought it was utterly hilarious and stupid. It's the most illogical show I've ever watched! Somebody. Please hire a better scriptwriter.

Scene 1:
The male lead is on his speedboat, in the middle of the sea, pondering about issues and thinking about why he should let the girl he likes get engaged to another guy.

Scene 2:
He realizes that he is the foolish one - he likes the girl and therefore should do something about it.

Scene 3:
He starts the engine of his speedboat but HORROR, it refuses to start. He's stranded in the middle of the sea. He needs to rush back to stop the engagement party!!!

Meanwhile, various scenes of the girl waiting for him to appear at the engagement party flashes by...

Scene 4:
So what does he do? HE JUMPS INTO THE SEA AND SWIMS BACK TO SHORE.
HAHAHA damn stupid lah. SERIOUSLY.

Scene 5:
He somehow managed to swim himself back to shore (wow he must have gills or something) and dripping wet, he RUNS ALL THE WAY BACK to the mansion. Which I assume is damn far away. Maybe he's an ironman athlete in disguise.

Scene 6:
He is late. He drags himself into the ballroom to find that the engagement party is over.
The guy whom the girl was supposed to get engaged to appeared to tell him that they didn't get engaged after all. -____-;;;

Haha very trashy and quite funny in the OMG what the hell?!?! kind of way. It's like watching "手足" with its lame plot lines and enjoying the mocking of the show.

***

There was a column in Monday's Life! section where this male journalist ranted about his hatred for Jay Chou. I found it rather amusing since I happened to be in the company of 3 excited girls and their boyfriends during the weekend after Jay Chou's birthday concert in Singapore. And all 4 of us girls attended Jay Chou's concert in either Singapore or Hong Kong (or both), so most notably we were talking about Jay, Jay, Jay and gushing about how close they were to him at the SG concert. The poor boyfriends, I noticed, were rather disinterested in our Jay Chou talk. Hahaha. Can't exactly blame them, since I think the sufferers of the Post Jay Concert Disorder have a tendency to rave about him for at least a week after the concert.

I totally get it from a fangirl's point of view. :)

And so even if I'm not going to be in Seoul physically on the 29th, I'm all geared up for their 10th anniversary! I AM THERE IN SPIRIT with an orange glowstick, shouting Shinhwa Jjang. Haha.


24th March 2008

Felt decidedly 八卦 enough to google about the big sex scandal that's happening now in the Hong Kong entertainment industry! The Edison Chen and Gillian Chung photos issue.

Haha I feel a bit traumatized.

Took a written test today as part of my long and drawn-out job application process. Wah machiam like taking exam for a Singapore Studies module! 3 essay questions in 2 hours. Bleah. I could cough something out for the first two questions but the 3rd one was about the economy and I am just not interested in news about the economy. My daily reading of the newspapers didn't really quite help me there either.

JOBS JOBS JOBS... damn sian...
If I don't land myself a job by end Feb I think I'll just go and apply to be a teacher lah hor?

Okay don't know what else to blog about except that I finally got my haircut and I've been watching a lot of Sex and the City! And other unexciting things happening include my never-ending my boring job application process and interviews and blah blah... Which explains why I've nothing to blog about recently because I'm not having deep complex profound thoughts and I'm watching 4 thirty-something single women in Manhattan opine their thoughts on love and sex. Hahaha.

Can't say I identify with them when watching, and I think Carrie is a little over dramatic and neurotic about Big, but I'm only at Season 3 and I am only a twenty-something single girl
so what do I know? Heh maybe when I'm 30 and I read this again I'll smile at my lack of complex emotions.

Read in the papers that lots of people are stranded in Guangzhou because of bad weather. Thank goodness it wasn't snowing like crazy in China when I was there for my crazy adventure... Wouldn't exactly want to be stranded in a train station in Guangzhou.

I am so dead coz all the German words can't remain in my brain long enough to tide me over tomorrow's Vokabeltest. But anyway, was reading 我报 again:

神话上海办暂别演唱会
最贵门票S$392

Unfortunately, judging from the somewhat ravenous response, expensive tickets will not stand in between the way of the Orange Princesses and their beloved Shinhwa. S$392 is like double that of the most expensive tickets when they had their State of the Art concert last year lah. Those six guys must be really raking in the big bucks... and because it's their last concert before they disappear to the serve in the army (sob), everyone's probably gonna be even more fanatic. The lengths people go to to see the the objects of their affection - myself included! Sheesh. When I think of the hefty price tag... :(

a la the Visa (or is it Mastercard?) advertisement -
Price of concert ticket: 999 人民币 (might even go up to 1215)
Price of air ticket: estimated to be around S$200+++
Price of accommodation: S$30++ per night
Price of concert merchandise: I hope I won't go stark raving mad and buy everything there
Price of experience: Priceless

Please tug me back into reality...

Okay enough. I have a Vokabeltest to mug for. Ich studiere jetzt Deutsch.

Today I was reading 我报 for my usual dose of 日韩娱乐新闻 (which is rather pathetic on most days I must say) when I saw this right at the bottom of the page:

J.K. Rowling 自暴 Dumbledore 是"同志"

Wah! Haha I must say I really didn't expect that. Since I'm in the midst of reading the entire series of Harry Potter books, naturally the image of Dumbledore is rather fresh in my mind. I don't think I ever pondered about his sexual orientation while reading the books though. I guess I didn't see Dumbledore as someone who would have emotional yearnings? Hahaha. Although, come to think of it, I think being gay kind of suits him. The article said that the object of Dumbledore's affection was Grindelwald. Fascinating! Since I'm halfway through Deathly Hallows now I shall keep my eyes peeled for any tell-tale signs of this romance. :)

And I really need to start studying for my Vokabeltest!

Hehehe. So, 500GB won the battle!

Got squashed on that overhead bridge en route to Suntec and almost 1. rolled down the escalator 2. lost my shoe in the process. Terrible man, the crowd. There was a bottleneck at the top of the escalator and I was stuck when I got off the escalator but people behind me were just coming up right? And the escalator's still moving right? So I got pushed from behind and was squashed like a pancake. It probably took me more than 5 mins to cross that bridge when it should take me less than 1 min! Somebody should do something about that bridge man.

Anyway since I knew what I wanted, the buying and browsing was pretty quick. All that shoving and squeezing wasn't for nothing, coz I bought a 500GB external hard disk for $199! Hah! That's cheaper than the expected $245. Yay!!!

But I saw the 80GB model that I bought in March (which I very retardedly realized is also called iSmart - !!!!!) retailing for $89 now. Compared to the $119 that I paid! Wah I feel so cheated man. Who knows, maybe a few months down and my 500GB HDD will cost even less.

The only flaws are that the HDD is very bulky, has a lot of wires, and 500GB is actually only 465GB. That's 35GB missing! 35GB is ALOT! How can they cheat me of 35GB!!! :(

My poor bank accounts have been fighting a losing battle. Blew all my cash on the MP3 player and 500GB HDD in just a week or so!!! Now I am really, truly, desperately BROKE. I must be a good girl and not spend any more, coz I have no more money to dig out from my bank accounts... and I shall not think of my 未雨绸缪 account.

(Bank accounts 0, Materialistic obssessions 2)

Lots of complaints in the ST Forum page lately about university admissions! Woah I think if I were born in 1988, with my 'A' level grades, I wouldn't even be able to get into FASS. Thankfully I am born in the Ox year not the Dragon year!!! Friend's sister got triple A but cannot get into NTU Accountancy lor. That is madness. -___-

Monday is coming and I am feeling the blues! The blues, blues, blues. I guess I spoke too soon when I said last week wasn't that torturous coz I had plenty of things to do - I finished all the outstanding stuff on my to-do list last Friday and was bloody bored after that. I kept clicking the "Send/Receive" button in Outlook like every 5 mins. My work email is a bit cranky and the clients can't get my email!!! Which is very frustrating sometimes. Yikes. I hope next week will be better... hope there's suddenly a lot of things for me to do so that time will fly!

Hurhur that jingle for the new Gatsby advertisment is stuck in my head. I don't get the point of the advertisement - in fact the only thing that I thought of was Xiuhui coz it's her beloved Kimura in that ad wahahaha - but I guess if their aim is to make people remember that jingle, then they have succeeded! Hahaha.

I am so long-winded!