updates - 21st to 26th Sept

I suppose its time I updated you guys about my happenings of the past few days… namely what happened from Friday til yesterday, Wednesday.

I’ve been really really busy lately, and when I reach home I just don’t feel like blogging. Even now I’m feeling so nua, but for the sake of some of my loyal readers (you know who you are!), here’s what I did.

Friday –
Stayed back later at work cause I was persuaded to attend the mid-lantern festival celebration by the Chinese cultural group of my work/school.

The thing started at 7pm, so I went over and reached at around 7:05pm. They started introducing the VIPs, and had half of them give speeches. Phew.

By the time the first performance started, it was 7:30pm.

The beginning was a song performed by a young lady with amazing vocal talent. You know the old Chinese songs where people starts screaming? Okay, that’s a very bad term for it. Think… Chinese soprano. Yeap.

She was really good. But unfortunately the people who were paid to do the backup for sound did not know WHEN to turn down the volume, so despite it being a wonderful performance, most of our eardrums nearly shattered.

In quick succession were various dances (hip-hop, break dance, random weird dances, Chinese dance, latino), song singing, xiang sheng (the unofficial toilet breaks), and yea, that’s about it.

All in all, it wasn’t that bad. I didn’t mean to stay til the end, and was supposed to join Jack for badminton at 8+pm. But when I called him, there wasn’t any reply, so I safely presumed he was sleeping.

After the event ended, I cleared up a bit with Kelvin, before we made our way down to Clementi for dinner.

Only at 11:30pm, after my dinner did Jack call, awake from his slumber.

I was feeling pretty tired at that time, so I said see you next time…

Went home, checked for mails, pinged a bit, then went to sleep.

Saturday –

Met Zacky at PS for lunch at around 3+pm. We caught up a bit, he passed me the brochure for the mass comm. Degree in SMa, which I’ll most likely be doing, and we walked around PS to look for his clock after that.

Walked around til it was time to leave for my event, so I bade goodbye to him and took the NEL to Hougang.

I got my directions messed up a bit, and arrived at the wrong place. Argh. Eventually got my bearings right and got there. Basically I was in charge of distributing the goodies, and also to make sure that the lantern walking procession was okay later.

Well, the whole event was pretty fun. I must say I saw around 150-180 residents turn up. And they looked like they had fun. I ate some ice cream too, and thoroughly enjoyed our little walk holding up the Qoo, Hello Kitty and Doraemon lanterns~

Won’t elaborate too much on this, else this entry will take forever to complete.

Waited for Kelvin to fetch me later, and he came together with Michael, Jaslyn and Cat. Actually went to DBL-O, but Michael was in slippers, so we went to a thai pub in golden mile instead.

Oh my, it’s the first time I’ve ever been to a Thai pub, but it sure was interesting. Lets just say it was much better than heading over to some normal pub and trying to dance. I’m just not a dancing person k?

Throughout the time we spent there, we had quite a lot to drink. Just beers actually, but yea, I drank a lot.

Went to had some prata afterwards, and then Kelvin drove me home. I was so tired I just laid down on the backseat… and vomited twice at home.

I tell you, it’s the first time I ever drank so much. And the feeling sucked like hell. Thankfully I didn’t have any hangovers the next day. Despite sleeping at 7am, I woke up at 12+, only to sleep again a bit later.

Woke up at dunno what time, and headed over to Jack’s place (no, not the restaurant), to pass him some stuff. We then walked over to the infamous Monkey Tree at Jurong West St.42, and I realized that the trees were directly opposite a Taoist temple. Interesting.

Most of the trees were pretty empty, although they were adorned with many fancy Buddhist trinklets?

The main attraction was the monkey tree itself of course, where a man there was well, to give him some respect, infused with the monkey spirit, and was just walking and chit-chattering around.

Walked over to the Prata place near the Polyclinic where we had some prata, and then walked back to his house, before taking the bus home.

I reached home feeling pretty tired =/ But satisfied :)

Monday –
Normal work day, just that I had to go down to HQ at night for a “wrap-up meeting” for the Children’s day event on Saturday.

Sweebee, Lilian and me actually had dim sum for dinner oen of the nearby shops. It was pretty affordable and the food is quite nice. Definitely worth going next time.

I stayed on for half an hour after the meeting, talking to Shawn and Perry, before heading home.

Told mom & dad what I decided to study, and then went to sleep.

Tuesday –

Comtemplated about quitting, and finally got the letter done up.
It wasn’t until Boss was about to leave that I told him about it though.

Somehow it was very hard for me to gather that last bit of courage to tell him I want to quit. It was like trying to tell a girl you liked her.

Thanks to help from Lilian and Mandy, I eventually told him about it though.

I think he saw it coming, so he didn’t say much.

Today’s the day where I meet Jaslyn for her birthday dinner (even though it wasn’t until Sunday).

Met her at Fish & Co, and we had a pretty sumptuous dinner of a ‘Seafood platter for one’ and a plate of ‘Garlic & Lemon mussels’.

Surprisingly, it was pretty filling. That despite having it with a girl mind you.

It was a pretty relaxed dinner. I tell you ar, Jaslyn is someone you can just er, relax yourself to? How do I put it. I don’t have to pretend to be somebody I’m not, or go out of my way to entertain her lor. She entertains herself (and myself), and my comments entertain her. And that’s what I like about going out with her.

Maybe its because we’re both Librians~ Easy to get along mah.

After the dinner in which I used my Citibank Clear card for the first time (I thought got 15% discount? Weird, how come don’t have ar?), we walked back to her area, trying to look for battery operated lanterns on the way.

Despite our best efforts, it was not meant to be. Just couldn’t find any battery operated lanterns.

So we walked up to a carpark, and played with some candles and sparklers.
It was slow relaxing fun. And I feel young again :D

I joined weiquan, budee, qs, choykeet and Jo at the Canal after that, and we just talked, played with sparklers again, and had some moon cake~

Reached home at 12+, and slept at 1am.

Wednesday –

Did up my resignation letter, called HR about it at around 12. They were going to have a meeting at 2pm to discuss about my confirmation, but I think they can save it. I won’t be staying long here.

The official reasons is that I’m going to study mass comm at SMa, secondary reason would be the below market rate pay they’re giving me.

Unofficial reasons are too many to list.

Anyways I’m just really glad I’m leaving this place. My morale shook up by 100% actually~

Met up with Kefeng and Bendy at JP for dinner, and also to get a pair of No.3 shoes from Kefeng. Supposed to go to subway, but as there was a very limited seating capacity, we decided to go to Crystal Jade instead.

Waited for a few minutes before we went in, and who did I see but Colin and Darkforce. Small world eh? We chatted a bit, promised to meet up for badminton, and I rejoined them.

All in all we had quite a lot of fun catching up with each other. And I’m thankful I’m not there with them now, because our resident Sgt has become much more unbearable now that he’s in charge.

He always had a bone to pick with me, so it gave me an easy reason to dislike him.

Oh, enough about the past, time to move on to the present.

After the dinner, we escorted Bendy down to get his XXL chicken cutlet, and then Kefeng and I took the bus back.

I played some P3 on my ps2 (I’m so glad to see you up and running old friend), and slept pretty late.~

And that’s all for Wed.

Pictures at the next post.