28/07/2006

Yes, finally the long awaited offdays is here! I'm on a 5-days annual leave (although I still remember the pain I felt when I applied for so many days leave) starting today!

I kicked off the celebration with a BBQ-cum-bachelor-party for a friend yester-night after work. I had barely 4 shots of vodka for the night, but I feel really really tired and I kong-ed out after the party. Didnt know why I was so tired. Me and another friend was awarded the title "Quality Controller" for the night as we both plonk our butt at the seat and ate away (of course, we are just making sure the food is thoroughly cooked!) for the night without much effort to bbq anything at all! Hahaha. It was a good bbq with good food, the weather was clear (thank god for no mist!) and we had the pit set up at a deserted carpark so there's no one to kacau us. And there is no the usual heat when bbq downtown! Hahaha

Looking forward to a short getaway to PD over the weekend. It wasnt planned for a long time, but have been looking forward to it for the entire month. :)

Hope to go hunting for some good bargain with the Mega Sale, but I forsee I'll probably be staying home a bit. Its so hot out here.

And yes, the bloody !@#$% headache is back.

Slow SMS

The downside of having my phone (nokia 7380) is I now reply my sms like I would reply my email.
No, I no longer reply immediately and I actually reply all outstanding sms at a chosen time at one go. At times when I am free, I would go through one by one of the sms and then reply them altogether at one go. If u chooses to reply/send me sms at that particular time, chances are you’ll probably get a reply then. But any later, you would have missed the timing and would have to wait until the next “reply sms” session comes.
Its because the phone has render me handicapped to reply sms quickly. My sms now takes more time and effort than normal people does. Heck, I think my mum types faster than I do now.
In exchange for my snail sms, I could ensure you that all sms received from me had my XXXXX-extra attention when typing it out. All words are carefully thought out and it takes me a whole lot of effort to send u that reply.
So, yea, I apologize for the late reply but nevertheless I assured you that all sms from me now takes 1000% more effort/energy/planning/time/concentration than the earlier ones.
I am not kidding.

But still, I like my phone :P

Sharksfin soup.

Just yesterday our local television network (yea-lah, I mana ada astro kat up there??) ran a feature on the killing of sharks for sharksfin soup.
Indeed, it was very informative as it shows that NOT ALL fishermen simply cut the fins off and threw the remaining of sharks back to sea to drown (Damn that National Geography show that started it all). In fact, most of them actually harvest the whole shark. Do u know that the teeth of the sharks are used to be sold as souvenirs, the meat is used to boil soup and to make salted fish and the backbone of the shark is dried and sold to make nutritious soup. J
So there, right at your face.
Obviously, I don’t think I eat enough sharksfin to render it extinct.
I’ve written about this in my friendster blog. I don’t have access to Friendster to link the entry here. Will do that other times.

A couple of days ago, I finally managed to catch bits of the Lion Dance Championship up here. I missed it last year cause I was working shifts back then. This year, I made it a point to try to watch. And so I did. Though I only manage to catch 2 performance :P Attached is a picture of the 2nd team that I watched. Noticed how the lion was balancing itself on wires? I was quite impressed. Unfortunately, this shot was taken just seconds it fell down 0_o
Aiks.
Didn’t manage to catch the finals cause its being held on Sunday 23rd from 10am-4pm. Guess who is working on Sunday 23rd 9am-5pm?

On a lighter note, I am having a day off tomorrow. Pray very hard that the weather would be good cause I am spending the day at the outdoor theme park!

17/07/2006

Most of the times, it doesnt have to be expensive & exclusive. Being "trapped" virtually most of the time uphill, even a short stroll along the shoplots is good enough. While most people will not regard a trip to the local grocery shop as a date, to me it is a wonderful chance to spend time together. A hawkerstall meal proof to be a great alternative choice of meal as we have all our meals (I dont have the luxury of cooking) at outlets. A table full of a variety of hawker-style food ranging from char keow teow to balitong to ikan bakar to a glass of iced teh o ais limau is very much enjoyed compared to a fine-dining chinese restaurant. Just the feeling of being anywhere with low chances of bumping into people at work makes me feel... free.
Sigh, the things you all take for granted :)

What a wonderful place...

Frankly speaking, just like my life, I am actually thinking of where my blog is heading. Do I want to make it “interesting” by putting up pictures after pictures and documenting what I do/see/feel/hear/eat? What was the reason I put this blog up anyway? What is the purpose of writing an online blog if I want to be choosy with my readers (if there were any!)
As my blog was intently named “Life after 512”, this is suppose to be a channel for me to document my life and thoughts after that faithful day. Indeed, it was a life-changing experience for me and since that day, everything about me is directly (if not, somewhat) affected by what took placed. My stand in life, my belief, my atitude is all reflective of that incident.
And since I wasn’t a fan of diary-writing, I find online blogging somewhat refreshing. By letting the doors open to everyone, it gives measense of satisfaction, almost as if I am wrtting a book myself. I wanted to document all these things but yet, without the possibility of readers, I found no satisfaction in writing alone asI feel the words are not sufficient to reflect what I myself have felt. Many a times when I was writing my dairy, I felt as if my hands are not fast enough for my thoughts, and I end up dissappointed as what I wrote is not good enough.
However, I felt different when I am writing away online. Yes, I now can be selective in what I write in order to project something else. I can now show a different side of the story (something that I feel is always good). Perhaps, if I had started this anonymously, I would be able to tell even more of the story. But because I knew there were people whom I had known personally have access to this, it makes me somewhat apprehensive cause I am not sure if they would have understand.
But then again, it all goes back to what my initial intention is about this blog. It wasn’t about telling everyone about what had happened, rather I want to use this as a channel for me to remind myself how deeply it has affected me and how I am forever changed with it. I will continue to use this to detail all my thoughts about my life. Although uninteresting, you don’t have to read this right?
So, no, I may not reveal the truth here for now, but perhaps one day I will. When I am finally ready to face it and to not hide from it, it will be the day that I probably would stop writing about it. Every now and then, I would be overwhelmed by emotions and that is probably when you will see snipets of what happen or incidents leading to it. Everynow and then, I would not be able to control myself and I found myself holding back long forgotten tears that have yet to be properly acknowledged. Part of me is still longing for what could have been.
Its been more than four years now, and I feel that I am a better (not bitter!) person now. Although I am sorry for what had happen, and although I am entertaining thoughts about what could have been, I think I would have walked down the same road that I have chosen IF I am given a chance to relive the choice again. And a few days ago, I told a couple of my friends about the incident. And guess what, in exchange, I found out something else about them.

Life is a vicious cycle eh? And look, life is not so bad afterall!