Wow. I only had a grand total of 3 posts in the month of November!

Here we are now, 4 more weeks to the end of 2011, 3 more weeks to my week long break! :D

Recently got myself a new Asus laptop. Thanks to Mr Poh's excellent (and some may call it unorthodox) bargaining skills, I bought it at $50 less than the stated price. Now that I no longer have to wait for my little sister to finish using the computer, I can hopefully catch up more on my shows, blog more, etc. etc.

Also caught You Are The Apple Of My Eye or 那些年，我们一起追的女孩。Can I say how much I dislike mysterious forces like missed opportunities and knowing the "what could have been"s? OKAY SPOILER HERE. THE GUY AND THE GIRL SHOULD END UP TOGETHER. I hate seeing the guy look at the girl on the day of her wedding and then thinking to himself that he will be happy for her because he loves her. Idiot! Why didn't you grab her when you had the chance to? And similarly the girl should have grabbed the chance to be with him when she had plenty of chances to. Angry leh! Yes, I do agree that sometimes 暧昧的时期是最甜蜜的 but it irks me when 2 people who obviously have the hots for each other and are perfect for each other, are just too stupid to realize it, or too scared, too prideful, yada yada. (And the lead actor is cute!)

Haha I should chill, it’s just a movie, although it is based on the director’s real life experiences. I guess this is why I like watching romantic comedies and chick flicks, because I know for sure that the lead couple will end up together. I like feel-good movies. It makes me feel good.

Some people say that the movie reminds them of their youth. My youth was very much different from what was depicted in the movie. The thrill of puppy love? No such thing. Silly and childish experiences? The heady rush, the secret thrill... I'm starting to feel that I missed out a huge part of adolescence.

Last Tuesday, a colleague got wind of an extra unwanted ticket to the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) and very kindly offered me that ticket. The Hallyu Wave has taken over Asia people, although it has started to die down in me. That was 4 hours of standing - very tiring! And also very telling when my back started to ache. I AM GETTING TOO OLD FOR SUCH THINGS. I would have thought seeing groups like 2NE1, Girls Generation, Super Junior in the flesh would get me more pumped up, but no, I think this whole Hallyu thing is becoming more like a been-there-done-that thing for me. It's no longer a novelty, gone are the days when a Korean group coming to Singapore is a BIG THING for fans here. I no longer feel any excitement. The only concert where I truly enjoyed in recent memory was Jay Chou's.

The weekend past was rainy and again, I did some baking – Mango Cupcakes this time. Unfortunately it was a bit of a failure because the texture was not the typical cakey, crumbly cupcake. :( Never mind. Try again next time!

2011, don't be in such a hurry to go! Let me enjoy this cool festive season a little more!

I must try not to neglect this blog. Nowadays I'm just trying to update my photoblog regularly and racking my brains to think of moments to capture. Especially on busy busy days where it's meeting after meeting, writing minutes after minutes, and suddenly it's time to go home and nothing particularly spectacular has happened. Except WORK.

It's time move forward and face the new challenges ahead!

So I watched my first R21 movie, The Kids Are All Right. It's a very mild movie, kinda like an overextended drama, but the fact that it potrays a lesbian couple as an ordinary family unit means that it gets slapped with the R21 rating. I think I'm going to watch another movie about lesbians this week. What's up with me and lesbian scenes? Actually I am still happier to watch a heterosexual couple kissing than a lesbian or gay couple kissing. Has more feel. HAHAHA.

Some days are just emo days. More often than not felt by this gaping distance.

Aloha mates! It's mid-week and it's a lovely day also known as a Public Holiday!

I caught the penultimate installment of Harry Potter last night and the plot stayed very much true to the book! Which is good! In fact I was planning to re-read Deathly Hallows today but I woke up late on this nice and rainy afternoon and proceeded to nua most of the afternoon away. Before I knew it, it was already 6pm. Bleah. :(

However I think that [SPOILERS] Harry should not be dancing with Hermoine so intimately in the show! Ron where are you! Go and grab Hermoine and give her a big hug and kiss now! Other than that, I have no other major quibbles... the effects were good and the pace was good, got a bit draggy when they were plodding aimlessly around in the wilderness but in the book, that was also the most draggy part anyway.

Today is also my parents' 26th anniversary and I faxed in to 972 to ask the DJs to prank call them. Haha. Well actually it was my mother's idea to prank call my Dad but she was too lazy to fax in, so I hastily wrote some stuff and faxed it over before I knocked off from work yesterday. I ended up sabo-ing her instead. Haha.

So it looks like today will be another day where I don't accomplish anything much... I wanted to
1) read Deathly Hallows
2) watching The Amazing Race
3) do my Korean homework
4) apply for jobs
5) surf Gmarket

but ended up doing none of the above.

Oh well, another typical lazy day in the life of Si Yi...

Just a quick update on my boring life before I try to go to sleep earlier. Boring and routine life aside, I am now an accidental iPhone user! And it has provided me with lots of distractions. It can be quite annoying sometimes (the iPhone is a selfish phone), and I miss some of the normal phone-y functions on my old Nokia, but on the whole, still getting used to it. It's a gaming phone. I only wish the battery doesn't die that fast. And there is no Blogger app!! Bah!

Last week also saw my first pay increment in 2 years. It's bonus month so we all got our salary review letters. 2.5 years in this place and the pay only inched up by this much. Boo. But still. Bonus is always good. Not a lot, but no fish, prawns also good lah.

AND! Last Friday I went to watch Jay Chou live in concert! :) It was an excellent show - if only he sang 霍霍霍... that would make the atmosphere super high! I screamed a lot and sang embarrassingly loudly to almost every song. Towards the end everyone stood up and waved their light sticks and sang along to his classic songs. It was like a mass KTV session :)

I also went to watch Inception - everyone's raving about it and the plot seemed pretty interesting. I think it might be a little overrated though. There was a scene where there was no gravity in a dream. Reminded me of my own dreams because I've had recurring dreams of myself floating in the air and being unable to get down!!! It was as if I'm a helium balloon. Never able to stay on the ground. That feeling is so insecure.

New colleague came in today, and I have to start the entire training process again. SIGH! I suddenly miss my old colleague. At least we are comfortable with each other's working styles and she knows how things work around here.

OK time to sleep. I am sleeping later and later these days. Used to sleep at 1.30am, then it became 2am, then it became 2.30am, and sometimes 3am. SIGH! Why like that?