In a turn of an eye (directly translated)

So cny came and gone, at least the holidays. But then again, cny is as impt as the holidays eh..no?

Back to boring work week. No hoildays till Good Friday which is in April? Thats 2 whole good months. Waaaa. Someone told me that Vday is coming but that seriously means nothing to do. No phol, so means nothing eh.

I was noting that today is the end of January and somehow I wished the yr will go by faster. I just want it to go by fast. I have no idea why too. I guess I still miss the Xmassy mood + the cool weather.

I had intially planned to go to town on Friday but my uncle switched his house visiting day last minute. Now I have to go to his house for dinner instead. It the uncle whose wife cannot cook for nuts.

I have two more weeks of cny dinners to eat before the whole cny thingy ends. I guess its good, time away from Alboy. We are talking now but I think I have OD-ed on the whole thing.

My mum had asked him to come to our place this Sat because it is our turn to host the dinner. I told him not to come, but it seems like he will. I cannot stand all my noisy relatives questioning him and me. Just keep him away, its not as if he will become part of the family anytime soon. Dud. I hope he doesnt come. I told him that if he comes, he will have to help clean up after the guests leave. That means vacuum mop scrub, you know the drill.

I had fun with my cousin's kids. They were 6 and 2. I kinda envied them. I wished I were their age. They seemed so happy, running around, full of energy, no worries, laughing. I cannot seem to remember a time when I was like this.

Now, I hestitate abt running ard because it wil make me pespire.
I do not laugh that much or easily find mirth.
I seems to be tired all the time, not much energy.

When I watch them sleep, its so peaceful. Now when I sleep, I grouch about having to wake up early and grouch again when I wake up. Life as a child. You smile play laugh go back to sleep.

I remembered the times when I looked forward to cny, because I could play with my cousins. They seemed so far away, but looking at the little kids today helped me relive some of those memories. Some, most memories have faded away.

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So, I went shopping today and bought shoes, top, bags and undies. Not bad.

The best part was, I did it with my girlfriends. Thanks gals!

I had a tiff with Alboy, I guess most would know the details. Its too lengthy to word it here.
Anyway, the main pt is I did not speak to him today. Did not call him. He did not call me either. I think this is the longest I went without speaking to him. Even when I am overseas, we still call each other.

The thing is, I had totally no urge to talk to him. I really didn't feel like talking to him.
Usually, even when we disagree, I still give in and call him after a few hours. Now, it didn't even bother me.

He finally called me near midnight and I wasn't even excited to hear the phone ring. My tone of voice was so deadpan I couldn't even believe it myself.

Anyway, we are still not talking because I couldn't get him to see from my pt of view. Either I couldn't get him to, or he sticks to his viewpt, or its me sticking to my viewpt. I think its a combination. Yet, I am not asking him to ahere to my view, I am just asking him listen to what I have to say and he keeps rebutting me. So, I told him rather curtly that I do not want to talk to him any more and hung up the phone adruptly.

I doubt he will call. He's prob too tired and will fall asleep immediately. Whatever, you know what I do not really care. In fact, he has been so tired for such a long time I suspect it is eating into me.

Or perhaps, 3 and a half years is too long a time. Yes, 3 and a half years to the exact date itself.

Cny soon.....

Sunday night, Monday technically.

Yet another work week ah. I know no one likes hearing me complain abt the work week but yet i think I am entitled to. 5 days. Boss will be back on Wed. The week passes really fast actually. You just have to know how to skive. Nowadays I am quite good at spending 2 hours staring at my screen doing no work, but appearing like I am hard at work. Its a waste of time really. With the combined job scope, I really have no idea wtf I am supposed to do.

5 days to cny. The qns in my head is whether I will get a half day on Friday. I doubt so. Coy's exteremely stingy. We didn't have a half day on the friday before xmas and ny last yr, and we apparently did very well last year, brought in a lot of money. So this cny, I am not expecting much. Stingy. I wonder if the schools are having half days.

Anyway, if I were given half day, I prob go swim go to town and go home the normal time. Will just tell my parents I have to work at usual, lest I be embroiled in all the non stop spring cleaning.

I went chinatown. It was not as crowded as I expected. I didn't pespire. But it was a hassle trying to find a place to park. Why is it that everyone can afford cars???? We shall not even go there. Anyway, I spent $40 bucks on sweets, those taiwan sweets. I belived I was conned. I mean they were 1.80/100g. I couldnt have bought so much. It was actually $36, but the guy refused to return me $4 and just threw more sweets into my bag. It wasn't even in the flavour I wanted. Got slightly pissed and helped myself by just dumping his display into the bag.

So maybe, I did buy $40 worth in total.

Besides that, I do not feel the cny mood at all.

Not the least bit. I have no new clothes. I loathe going to buy. Shopping, as I always maintained, is tiring. Its more of a social activity to me. I hate the blasting dong dong chiang music they have to play in every shop. It drives me out of the shop immediately.

I do not feel joyous, no mood. Its like ok. p.hol and then the drought. In fact I am dreading it.
Same old routine every yr. Even the though of collect ang baos does not entrall me any more. No doubt I collect quite a fair bit each yr. Its like ok lor, you want to give you give lor, else nm. Becuase to me, that money I get from the ang baos is no longer enough.

When I was schooling it was great, extra pocket money, bank account got bigger. Now, its not as if the bit of ang bao money will help me buy a car or a flat. Its all relative I guess. Now, its like, I get my regular pay, no difference. I guess my wants and needs perhaps have changed.

This one colleague of mine has been anticipating cny since dec. I do not understand him. But then again, he is malayisan. and comes from a kampung. I really hate that innocence abt him. When we were complaining that we hated the dong dong chiang songs, he said he liked them. I really felt like strangling him then. When we were lamenting how we hated renunion dinners, he said he enjoyed them and was looking forward to it. He talks abt cny as if he were living in the 80s. My 80s. MAybe his hometown is indeed that backwards. Anyway, the look of him pisses me off, but yet I have to smile.

Besides him, I dun really know anyone else who truly enjoys and looks forward to cny. Sad isn't it.

Eat and puke

Today I ate till I vomitted. As in v o m i t t e d. Sounds anoexic doesn't it.

I had dinner at Brazil Churrascaria at Chimes. The plan was to eat BBQ Jap food but it was too crowded, so we looked at the directory and headed for BC. Afterall, its a meat place and I am a meat person.

At BC, they cook theur meat over a griller. The passador will then come to your table with a large skewer of one type ofmeat and start slicing pieces onto your plate with a sharp knife. The knife is really sharp, its a bit intimidating at times imho. Then, another guy appears with another skewer with another type of meat.

I think I ate soo much meat. I was quite enthu about it at the start cos I was relatiely hungry. I never said no when they came the first 10 times. Each time they slice off meat, its at leat 3 chunky slices. After 20 mins, I felt so faint. My head was light and all the blood was in the stomach. I got so so so sick. The meat was tasty but after a while, it all tasted the same.

Then, I started feeling like i needed to burp. Thankfully I can burp unlike susu. I felt so queest. It would have helped if we left and walked about, but no, Alboy continued eating. He even had to undo his pants button. When he was finally done, I had to like stop myself from vomitting at least 3 times.

We walked out, I burped and immediately vomitted. I think I vomitted the fruits at the very end and like 3 mouthful of meat. Not too bad. I thought I would empty my whole stomach.

We were the only chinese there, and the smallest size. The rest were fat angmos. There was this one guy that was at least twice my size. It figures anyway, only angmos can gorge themselves like this.

For $39, it was not too bad but I don't think I ever want to eat there again.

After I puked, I had this big craving for bubble red tea with pearls. I so miss those bubble tea crazy days. I really enjoy bubble tea.

Sleeping beauty

Its amazing, I sleep 16 hours a day and I feel sleep now. How wonderful, except that I have stuff to do.

I got arrowed big time at work. Because I am in between job scopes, I do everything. Plus they never had a position like this before, so no one knows what my new job scope, including my boss and me, is. Thus, they load me. Its nothing much at the moment, but I do hate programming so, and I have been arrowed to write a program. I dun even know what the main function of it is. Sigh. Help. Enough about work.

I did a $8 pedicure. It was great cos it was $8, else it was nothing fantastic. I hope the colour lasts till cny. As usual, they tried to sell me a package. $380 for 10 times pedi +mani. It was quite cheap really, esp after I bargained it to 15 pedi +5 mani instead. But then again, why would I want to pay so much at a go? I mean its nice to get your feet done, but I don't need to do it every month. I rather do it as and when I feel like it.. so it will feel more like giving myself a treat then a routine. No doubt I pay more per time this way, but I feel it makes more money sense. I think I only went for 5 , 6 pedi in 2005. At least 2 of which were promotional prices.


I am going to BKK at the end of Feb. For work but I guess I will get to play. If I had remained at my old position, I would be going Austin again in 2 weeks. This time, I will arrange to stop by at LA. I so want to go LA. I guess I have to give that up. I might be going Austin in August, but if I do, I be travelling with my boss and I would not be able to stopby anywhere. Its too tiring just going all the way there and back. The perk is to be able to stop by at a fun city.

Bought tics to MOAG tomorrow. Yeah.

The day before p.hol

So, I thrilled my dad by packing my room today. I guess he was half expecting me to go out because tomorrow is a p.hol. My room really doesn't look any neater, I just took things off, wiped the dust and put them back, throwing away junk in the process. No matter how hard I try to arrange my things, its just that messy.

Then, my dad kept popping into the room to see how long I would last. Usually I attempt to clean for 5 good minutes and I take off. I cleaned for almost an hour today. In his own words, "waa i never seen you like this". Man, he doesn't know that I been cleaning my room in sections, I even packed my wardrobe the other day. The clothes are all neatly stacked up, not like in the rolled up ball they usually are.

Lets hope this last 2 weeks into cny, when my relatives stomp my house. We go to each other place for dinner till we complete everyone's house, my mum being the youngest so we are always last and about 2 weeks into cny.

I just spoke to J on msn, he is my colleague from hk. I met him briefly in Austin and we toured SFO together. He was absoutely sticky and my sg colleague thinks he has a crush on me. I think so too actually but I cannot possibly admit it. Alas, he falls into the freako category of people that I somewhat always manage to attract. Alboy blames it on my teeth, but thats another story all together.

My point is that J is also moving out of his position to do some other role. It just reinforced and made me happy that I moved too, else I be like this big loser that is still stuck.

I been spending too much money on cabs. I spent a total of $50 since the year started. $30 of which I can claim. The other $20 cos Alboy had to drop me at absoulutely ulu place, places where there are no train stations ard and places where its so not worth trying to figure out the buses cos its was too late at night. Thus, I cabbed. It cost at least $10 from anywhere in sg to my house.

Its riduclous. Tiong Bahru to here is $9.70. YCK to here is $13. Holland V to here is $9. Orchard to here is $10. ECP is $15. Airport is $19. It baffles me.

2006 so far so good

Ok, I been wanting to blog since forever but have yet to do so.

Point 1: Do not ever go to Imperial Treasure Nan Bei Restaurant on the 5th floor of Ngee Ann city to eat. It the one just beside Seoul garden. Its terrible terrible terrible, horrible. Trust me.

First the seats were placed so closely to the next table, to close for you to really eat without listening in to the conversations around you. It did not help that they placed us next to gays and we had to endure listening to their exploits. Its the first time I hear gays talk abt their exploits and who was a good catch because he drove a Beemer 5 series and who wasn't. Gross.

The food and service is really really bad. The roasted goose meat was fatty cold tasteless. The veg and pork ribs took 30 mins after to arrive. 30 mins leh. I was fuming. Service was so bad. Guess what, the veg, pork ribs were tasteless too. Its that kinda tasteless that make you feel like vomitting. Its that gross. Really really bad. The more I ate the more pissed off I got.

Alboy actually went to complain to the manager in charge. So, take it as a sign that the food is really really not worth eating. Ususally I bitch and he is the nice one. This time round, he was furious too.

We had to wash everything off with Haagen Daaz ice-cream afterwards.

It was terrible.

Point 2: One of my resolutions was to meet up with more friends this yr. Well, I met up with my JC mates and would have went to Settlers if they did not close so early. However, my dad was bellowing at me at going out so much. I counted and it was just Thurs and Friday. So dud. Ok, I prob be out sat and sun too but its like so dud. I dun like doing the cny spring cleaning much anyway.

Point 3: So, I got back into my regular swimming routine now that I am no longer on leave. I swam 3 times this week, there were only 4 working days. I went to cut my hair on the missing day cos it was raining. Finally eh. There was an increased number of people in the gym. Esp the ladies. It so irritating. I bet it was everyone's new yr resolution. I expect that increase to last prob 1 mth after cny before everyone starts procrasinating. Usually I am the only one in the pool or maybe 2 more stray cats. Now there are like 5/6 people there not counting me. The pool only has 4 lanes. 2 of which does not end properly, meaning you have to an awkard turn to swim back.

Verdict: 2006 so far so good.