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Thursday, January 05, 2006

Happy New Year!

This post is the first post of the new year.. hmm. I changed the background to myself! How's that? I suppose this post will be pretty long as I recall some of the key events during the long New Year celebration plus review some old resolutions and make new ones.

What I Achieved
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1. Changed my image for a certain period of the time
2. Got a nice job
3. Learnt to be more articulate and daring
4. Made more new friends
5. Bought a laptop
6. Became happier, especially with YL around to cheer me up with his stupid NC antics

What I Failed
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1. Improve my sense of punctuality
2. Lose weight
3. Improve my grades
4. Start a business

2006 Goals
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1. Lose the fats
2. Be punctual
3. Get better grades
4. Get a new room and self-design the interiors/furnishings
5. Travel to Langkawi / Phuket (mid Apr)
6. Stay healthy and cheerful
7. Learn more about the travel industry, know more powerful people
8. Most importantly, de-cultivate the 'save small, lose big' mentality for every situation

Actually these goals are just very easy to achieve. Unfortunately I seem to make it difficult for myself by not being disciplined enough. I also need to be more daring and seek more help because I cannot do many things alone. I need to learn how to relax because my health is rapidly deteriorating with so much stress in this line, which multiplies with the stress I receive from school work and my dad's stuff. Hopefully I will be able to create and manage systematic methodologies to keep everyday life in good control. No more sense of worthlessness of myself. I have deviated too much from the original me, and perhaps it's time to get back some of the 'ruthlessness' I possessed previously.

That's about all for the review and resolve. Let's talk about the New Year celebrations and the first week of school.

31 Dec 05
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As usual the day began with work like Xmas eve, and it was a breeze till the end at 3pm. It began to pour! Stupid weather, it had to come just as I was going out. Unfortunately I was decked in this old long sleeve cardigan (bright blue and orange) which made me looked out of place with the dark weather although it served its purpose (to keep me warm). The meeting place with YL was Sim Lim Square. Poor me had to be stuck in the stupid jam which began from Rochor Rd exit of ECP till Fu Lu Shou complex. Luckily YL is a patient person and duly waited for me at the entrance. We then scouted SLS for the SD card required for the camera as well as thumbdrives for me. I didn't buy anything eventually. As it was a vegetarian day (good timing sia), we went around in hunger to find the right place to eat. Finally settled down in Fortune Centre at some small kopithiam with some simple stuff left. After we finished then it was so disappointing to see a nice vegetarian restaurant just a few shops away! Sianz. Then we went to look at chinese music instruments which I couldn't understand at all.

After dinner, we decided to go find some dessert place and walked along the street till we reached 7-11 opposite SIS building (SMU). We looked around, pondering if we should get a tub of ice cream to share or not. On 2nd thoughts, since the day was cold (we had walked till we were warm actually), we decided against it. I suggested going school's TCC to try our luck if it was opened. But before that, we just rested at SESS and took some photographs individually and together. One hour soon flew by and we then proceeded to go see if any shops were opened. As expected none of the shops were opened but the school wasn't entirely quiet. There were some couples strolling around as well. TCC was fun! It was empty with only the staff burning their time off chit chatting or reading magazines. YL ordered a drink and we shared, but it was not very nice. Haha. We took some photographs of TCC. YL was real naughty and took a photo of the counter staff, a girl, of her backside. Luckily she didn't realised so. Stupid YL.

After the drink, we saw every car movin up Fort Canning and so we followed along and went to the park. We were singing as we walked along, listening to my music player. Wahaha. Irritating us. Stopped at some point to take a photo of Clarke Quay, but our skills were too lousy to take a nice shot. Eventually we continued our walk to Funan across the bridge but the door on the 2nd level was locked. We then began our music lesson on the overhead bridge! YL's singing was terrible but improved over the lesson. Time was nearing the countdown and we made our way to Singapore River / Clarke Quay area. WOW. It was really really crowded! Then I realised that YL was bringing me to see the fireworks which I didn't expect to be going to (as I stated no crowded places, especially Orchard). Reluctantly I just followed him till we had to climb the railings in the middle of the bridge (think this place, Fullerton/Empress Place) which I couldn't due to my injured knee and the dark gap in between. I mean I could had tried climbing but if I fell my leg would be broken. I stood there and pondered a while and decided to squeeze with the crowd through gap in between the railing and the bushes. It took away some precious seconds as we sped down the bridge to nearer to the area facing the sea. As YL pulled me along to find a better spot, the fireworks just went 'Kaboom!'. OMG. I had not seen any fireworks for a long long time and it was so beautiful. The effect was so real with the loud bangs. I enjoyed the full 15 mins standing there with YL. Woooooooooo..

After the great moment, came the great despair. Everyone was making their way back to the train stations. As we missed the last bus to go home with an attempt to walk to Selegie Rd despite seeing the bus u-turn at Victoria St, we had to go find NR1 to take home. Unfortunately from Selegie Rd, I opted to dodge the Orchard crowd and hence we began the great walk from Selegie to Newton to Novena to Thomson to Bishan. By the time we reached Bishan, we had missed 8 midnight buses which were all full. We went to check if the first train would begin at 6am but alas, it only ran from 645am. It was only 445am! Then we did not want to cross the overhead bridge anymore so we walked to the bus stop near to CHS and finally managed to board the NR1 home. I swear that my legs were wobbly when I went to bathe! Overall I supposed we finished the equivalent of the BMT road march for that whole day! Haha.

1 Jan 05
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Interestingly, there was nothing on untill 11am somebody fired an SMS to ask me what was the program. I was so freaking tired but well, Ah Kai mentioned ktv and I was like... yeah, very long never go with the 7seas. But WTH, I booked 3pm and nobody turned up at 3pm. So I was left alone in the room till 4.05pm when Ah Kai arrived. We sang till 4+ when Lixia arrived. A few songs later there was a blackout! That was the first time I experienced a blackout in the ktv. So we were waiting for the electricity to be restored while the other customers were cursing their luck and the establishment (Partyworld Orchard). Soon it was restored and subsequently, Jinki and Catherine. The staff popped in to apologised and extended 30mins for the ktv. I was quite angry and I swear that like the previous ktv, I will never visit the place again. (ok this sounds extreme but you get the idea?)

My misfortune accumulated when the rain poured and I couldn't buy my 4d - the number came out! Idiot weather. After the ktv, I waited at the bus stop but the other 2 pairs all went to the MRT instead without telling me! I missed 3 buses and had Kevin hollering at me to get there quickly before we lost the reservation. Ok. The bus came and eventually I met Ah Kai at the escalator in Suntec despite them being at the train station when I called (5 mins before the bus arrived) so I was actually thinking, why did they bother to walk so much and get drenched while I just had to endured a 100m of unsheltered walk to the bus stop, skipped the long walk through City Link. Haha, see, leave me out of the action la! Anyway the dinner was superb at Soup Restaurant. Kevin made the absolute right recommendation and I will forward it to all of you as well. After dinner, we went to Carrefour to walk around while waiting for Kevin to get some ringgit changed. I bought a pair of light bermudas at $3.90! Wahaha. We bought some food for the mahjong later at Jinki's place.

At Jinki's place, I was quite bored with the vampire show but everyone was watching it so I checked with my parents where they were and asked them to fetch me home. After a nice bath, a change of lighter clothings, I drove back and the mahjong action had already begun. I got online onto MSN to speak to YL. Soon I got bored (with waiting for the mahjong) and asked Kevin to let me play one round. Kevin then let me played while he sped upstairs to play Football Manager. I guess my mind wasn't in the right mode as I played real badly and lost quite a lot. Fortunately, due to the beginner level of the table (Catherine and Jinki's siblings) the stakes were in 1-cent-2-cent instead of the usual 10-cents-20-cents. So I lost $1.45 in all with the last game making a dreadful mistake (zha hu) with a potential 5 double finish (idiot me). Ahaha. Anyway it was already 7am and I drove Ah Kai back before going back home to sleep.

2 Jan 05
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The long weekend was really enjoyable as I spent the 2nd night eating some great food from Tiong Bahru market with YL. After that we went shopping at Queensway SC, Ikea and then went to the reservoir to clear my heartache. (Hee, that's our secret) And then the holiday ended with a late night sleep....

Start of School
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2 words --> School sucks.

Okie, cut the story short, textbooks are expensive, lessons are boring, Jeffire is tired. So you see.... well stunningly I had this Prof Tan W L for my EM course and wow, he is real interesting but also real talkative... ended our lesson 30mins behind time! (945 PM!!) That's a bit too much. However it made me realised that if I don't buck up, I might as well don't study.

Oh well, I should end this post now since you guys would have had fallen asleep....zzzZZzzz..zZZZ

CNY's next! Wahaha. That means more mahjong action. Hehe.

Before going, put a link here http://cuteoverload.com Really cute hor!

Fingers aching
Jeffire

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