Work...

No prizes for guessing why i'm up so late at night again... and you would have thought the nightmare was over once ndp was over... but hey, i'm a willing party... Guess i've been working on this website too damn long to leave it alone...

Yesterday, i was down at ang mo kio to visit a fren.. After a very long time i might add... Remember the days when i used to stay at my grand aunt's place over there... The sights, sounds and smells of the place really do bring back nostalgic memories... Walking there in the evening used to be what my granduncle and grand aunt used to do every evening after dinner.. It was kinda like an everyday routine... Healthy living in its own special singaporean way... Am ashamed now cuz i just realised how long i have not visited them... Hmmm, in fact, i only do that nowadays during chinese new year to shamelessly collect ang pows... :(

Really have to kick the habit of working at night.. It has become a custom for me now to sleep at 4, go to work, sleep till lunch and officially start work after lunch... BAD BAD habit.. Boss advised me to kick the habit quick before it starts to affect me on a more permanant basis.. However, i think i am beyond hope..hehe...

Back to finish the last bit before i sleep.... Miss all my frens and especially corrinne... Damn, i sound like i'm in another country.... Nauctical land i guess...

That time of the month again!

For the first time in a very long time, i have more than $700 in my account, one week after my pay day!!! YEAPIES!!!!!

For those who know me well enough, you can testify to the fact that i will always ask you what savings are... Hehe... Its just never been a habit of mine to put cash aside in a bank or at home, to let it rot and grow interest or something like that...

You could argue that wat if you need it for a rainy day? Den i would counter that what if that rainy day never comes? You could save all your life, only to have your family ore relatives or whoever you decide to leave all your money for, to spend all up for you faster than you can spell your name backwards....

But sadly for me, i know this habit won't last... thanks to my neverending diet of fags and "fine dining"... okok not that fine but still fine enough for me..hehe

Womad this friday plus clubing this sat... wonder how much i'll be left with by the end of the week?

A Funnny Life...

U know, its really funny how unpredictable life can get...

For those of u who dun already know, our fav Manda the Panda was in the hospital from friday. Seems there was a growth in her stomach...

Thankfully, she went for the op and is resting at home now, with all still intact...

However, the point is such...

Ain't it funny how we often moan and groan about how life is? As in we complain so much that all is not going according to how WE like it and how WE feel that it should be... Sometimes, we just really dun realise hoe lucky we are to even be alive, to enjoy this thing called life... Think of all the unborn children, who are killed even before seeing the light of day? Abortions and miscarriages blah blah...

Rather than get all moody and churn out countless philosophies of life, I choose to live tomorrow as if it were my last.... Thats right... You'll never know if i get run over on my way to work or somebody decides to jump off a building and so coincidently happen to land on me(which incidently i feel is possibly THE WORST way to die).

Are you ready?

Its finnaly over!!!

Its offically over...

My job for the last one year has come to an end. The NDP Parade 2005 has come and gone.
And within that frame of time, i have learnt several valuable lessons.

1. I realised how free people are when it comes to being critical. At first, it seemed like no one would bother, but as time grew by, boy did they bother!!!

2. The amount of late nights spent updating websites is absolutely ridiculous!!!! I have a new found respect for people who update entire sites for corporations and companys... Wouldn't consider this job for now.. Would prolly die of stress...

3. You would have absolutely no time whatsoever for spouses, girlfrens, boyfrens and frens.... Basically all your saturdays are burnt and pretty soon, everyday is just known as work!!!

4. The tremendous amount of effort put in by countless organisations is just amazing.. Too many people to mention....

With that all said and done, its back to my regular intelligent job... Wonder when would be the next time i get involved in something so big scale again? Hope it isn't anytime soon.... Need the time to recover....

Anyways, next on the agenda, WOMAD!!! Anybody interested? Tag me!!! need to consolidate the number and get the tix!!! Basically we lookin to go for the first night!!!

And after that, KL maybe????

Finally, some time!!!!

Finally had some time to catch a movie... ITs really been a while... The last time i actually caught a movie in the theaters was Star Wars Ep 3... U do the math...

Anyways, went with corrinne to watch Charlie & The Chocolate Factory... Hehe.. swear its like a childhood dream come true.. For me, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory is like Harry Potter to the younger ones nowadays... I can still remember the days whereby i would bring the book to toilet, and refuse to come out of it till i've read till my heart's content.. And usually, that meant most of it... Hehe...

So anyways, enjoyed the show thoroughly... they certainly got the right person to play Willy Wonka if u ask me.. Johnny Depp seems oh so perfectly essantric(spelling?) in the show.. Perhaps the only disappointment for me was that they decided to end the story at the first part and not carry on the story in the second part, as in the second book... Now that would have been a special effects extravaganza..

Caught Stealth(Finally!!!) the following day... Being a sucker for planes and war and all that bullshit(that would explain y i signed on?), i was having high expectations for that show.... And i would say to a certain degree, it didn't disappoint... Completely caught up in the aerodynamics display as well as the thought that if there were really such sophisticated weapons.... Makes u wonder doesn't it???

NDP is 3 days away... after that, its back to the same ol job for me... Hopefully, that would free up more time for me to catch shoes and do stuff... Though i must say i'm gonna kinda miss this nauctanal lifestyle that i've seemed to have developed....

For The Record

Just for the record,

For the 23rd July post, i wasn't refering to anybody in particular... Though it feels a bit odd having to say this cuz this is a blog, but still just so as not not have anybody having any misconceptions whatsoever...

Let's just put it as work stress...

Well, basically its just really frustrating to see that after so much effort put into the job, its so easy for people to complain about a minor issue without looking and understanding the whole picture... If you were me, how would you react? I bet you'll be bald now... Honestly!! I mean, if you were there to witness the whole issue and the minority of it, you'd be pissed off too.. And basically, for me, this blog has become many a time, a source of output so that it does not affect me back at work...And most times, it does the job.. So speaking my mind becomes wrong? I'm human too, doing a job.. Trying like hell to make everybody happy.... I know i can't fulfill all requests but all i can really do is ask for some understanding.... Thankfully NDP is coming soon... If i were to do this every year, honestly, give me till next year and i'll probably end up in IMH...

Didn't really mean to blast a hole through anybody so pls dun get offended... I mean, I'm Singaporean too right? As much as many might disagree, sometimes we dun see how ridiculous we get.... So maybe the language i used wasn't the best, but nobody's perfect right?

Just so to show that i ain't out to insult anybody, i have removed the link from the NDP site, so officially, this becomes a private blog(or so to speak) again....

Thank you Hmm, for your comments... Appreciate the concern....

Its a sunday....

For the first time in a very long time, i'm awake before 12... man, can't really remember the last time i got up so early ona sunday morning..... Ok ok, so my mum had to kick my ass and unleash my neice, who practically drooled on me and flooded my bed before i got up reluctantly....

Weather's been really erratic of late... its like as though someone up there is having mood swings... One minute, the sun can be shining and threaterning to burn everybody's ass... The next, its raining cats and dogs.. Hmmm perfect weather to be sleeping if u ask me... Well, still have to help my sis move to her new place... Coolie for a day again!

NDP Final Rehearsals was yesterday! Finally, after preview next week and the actual in 2 weeks time, this whole damn thingy will be over... About bloody time.....

Hmmm

I noticed something funny while surfing through some blogs...
Wonder if u noticed this as well...

Ever wonder what is it with women and taking photos in the toilet??
And the most common shot is usally the reflection in the mirror.

Hmmm... Just kinda gets u thinking huh....

Funny

Its funny how the human mind sets out to percieve and usually, we only believe what we see with our own eyes...

People seem to have this misconception that just because its a national website, means that there must be at least like i dun know, 30 people working behind it? and by saying this, i just mean 30 people working behind the scenes for the website of NDP. say 10 people answering emails, 5 people working on the website, another 10 working on multimedia stuffs and so on and so for...

But sadly, the reality is so far away from that...

For all you bloody fools who have the abovementioned misconception about the website, i'm really sorry to inform you that sadly, we only have like what 5 people in the entire website team.(Excluding my 2 bosses of course) I kid you not. Dun believe me, check it out on the website itself. And here are the official figures. I have 2 guys monitoring emails.
I'm the only fool there designing and managing the website.
2 other guys churning out countless articles that either get rejected or cut from the web.
So now u know the truth. and because you know the truth, stop sending ridiculous emails DEMANDING for explainations. If i had so much time to explain the whole GODDAMN situation to you, you would not even bother to send me the email in the first place. It just really irks me that such people do exist. Its like as though they had nothing better to do.

There, i've spoken my piece of mind that i so want to send a reply but can't do so because sadly i can't. Its amazing what these people ask for...

"Hi, its my birthday on National Day!! Can i have some complementary tickets and funpacks? Not much, about 10 each will do. Thanks! "

or

"Hi, every year i bring my family to the NDP Parade. But this year i'm not successful in balloting. Can i request that u give me some tickets? Not much, i have 9 granddaughters, 8 nieces, 7 nephews, 6 sons,5 daughters, 4 grandsons, 3 aunties, 2 balls and a dick. Thank you so much!!!"
(Of course its fake, u think i would really put the mails up here?? My ass would get sued!!)

What idiots.

Basically, the whole issue is that please do spare a thought for the people working to try to satisfy your every request. I'm sure you do not want people asking u these kind of cock questions right? You would flip, as i have so many times already...

On a happier note, its coming soon.
Officially, its about 18 more days before the parade is over. A wee bit more and a year's work would be complete. How time really flies. Seems like just yesterday that my bosses and i had to rush back and forth from Temasek Poly just to get the designers for the web.

• The late nights at Adventus.

• The countless nights we spent in camp trying to figure out the layout of the site.

• The mornings spent spent having cheese prata behind NUS after the countless nights.

• The boozing

• The many conversations we had with everybody over MSN.(I swear, its more than enough to write a book thicker than Harry Potter)
  

And somehow, despite all the shitz that come along with it, i'm so gonna miss it.b

A great night!!!!

Friday night was a great night!!!!

Celebrated amanda's birthday at O Bar... Honestly, we had no idea that so many people were goign.. so in a way, it was a sucess... 2 weeks of planning by roch and the rest did not go to waste!!!
Craziest part was that after O Bar closed at 3, we went to chinablack for a second round till 6... WOO hOO!!!!

Need to do this more often!!!

TESTS!!!!!

Exams, tests, projects etc etc..... Although many a time i wished i were back in school instead of working, this is one of those days that i beg to differ.... Have a bloody test paper tmr, for a module that i have failed like twice already... that sucks man..

So here i am at home, trying my best to study... I swear i think its been too long since i studied...
Kinda lost touch....

AAARRGGHHH!!!!

The Days

Just woke up not too long ago, by my boss... After a long night of uploading content into the website... I swear, sometimes the connection inthe office is the most screwed up thing around... Not only are there countless restictions, but also the speed is slightly equivalent to that o a 56k dialup.. Shitty if u ask me... But oh well...

Can't wait for the next few weeks to be over... Its been really hectic over the last few weeks... Mondays to saturdays have been spent doing work...Sundays, the only rest day which i have, has been spent sleeping most of the day... Sometimes, i really feel like i'm wasting my life away... No doubt i have a job, but the question that is this really what i want to do for the rest of my life pops back into my head... I guess its one of those questions that tend to stick around in your head for a while...

If not this, den what?

So far, i've done all that i wanted to do in my life... have earned my 2k by 21 to 22... At 23, i'm a SSG, probably the youngest in the army... The 2 main things that i wanted since i joined the force... What next??? The lights shining towards the path that i have to take isn't very visable now and i guess i'm just feeling my way through the darkness...

Did i mention that my brother has signed on with the navy?? hehe... Good luck bro... Thats all i can say....

true love comes quietly, without banners, or flashing lights. if you hear bells, get your ears checked....

Perfect love is rare indeed-for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlely of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

There are many ways to victimize people. One way is to convince them that they are victims

"We can spend a whole lifetime enjoying various benefits and not appreciate their value until we are deprived of them. How many lovers boldly contemplate separation, fondly imagining that they have had enough of the beloved. And yet as soon as they actually experience the separation, they burn up with longing."

Quotey!!

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your hapiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize that there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. -Lao Tzu-

My dear, what small feet u have.... 

Dun ask me where corrinne was looking...Hmm... 

Come on PUNK!!! Who's Your DADDY?!?!?