Jeffirean Stories
Friday, February 24, 2006
Woo, looks like all know that I'm back from Genting Highlands. However I am still in the midst of rushing through projects, work and a whole slew of committments that I need your kind patience to wait for my photos to be compiled and selected for the blog. Guess I will upload the photos to a photo storage page online and then select a few ones to put on the blog ba.
Yeah, there's so much things to do nowadays that life sucks big time. Sometimes I just feel like hiding in Genting and not come back anymore. But of course, I got so many things to do that I just have to come back to do them. That's life.
To think that the love story from the previous post was pretty welcomed, I guess we all are still in this stage of looking for the perfect love, therefore for some of us, the story does tug the strings of our hearts. Mm.. my imagination is marvellous right?
Okie, perhaps let's talk abit about the buildup to the trip before the next post where we can finally talk about the trip =)
18 Feb Saturday
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As usual the day began with the need to go office for work. When 3pm came, I took my time to walk to Chinatown for ktv! Yeah! It was actually an event to celebrate Charles' birthday and the ever nicey me treated Charles to ktv and a meal. Haha. A few buddies joined in as well, Qinyi (codename Mr Lee), Jiaxing (codename JX), Leslie (codename Les KCS aka kanchiongspider), Mr Heng (codename 'CJ Spec aka cold joke specialist) and of course Charles and me. (dunno should codename Charles or not, but nvm for the time being). So the ktv went on pretty fine. I guessed I sang a few songs that were of normal standards but in my personal opionon I sang 枫 real well. Well of course la, my brother sings it like 1 trillion times at home. And actually, it's kinda like a signature song for Pikachu. Of course I must sing well, otherwise how to coach him =p. That was my last song I think and then the guys fought for the mike till the stupid ktv ended 5mins earlier than 7pm. Didn't complain since it was Charles' big day.
After that we went to Food Street to eat some zi char(aka budget seafood). Frankly, it's since been ages I ate zi char with friends. So we ordered quite a few dishes, cuttlefish you tiao, stingray, sweet&sour chicken, vegetables (i dunno the name), and also a bowl of wan ton soup. Heh. Guess we had a great meal but Les KCS asked if we wanted glutinous rice ball in peanut soup. Of course gian la, but too full le. So we declined. Somemore in my mind it was only Liverpool vs Manchester Utd in the FA cup lor. So we got to 7-11, got some drinks, chatted on the go regarding clubbing, drinking, and how not to get drunk, then we rode the MRT and went our ways home. JX and me went home to watch the match and yay, Liverpool won~
After the match I began to look at the tons of projects in my email. Then I began to start reading up and tried to write as much as I could. Eventually I told Pikachu I was not going to sleep since later can sleep on the bus. So before my trip what I did was to piah project! Piah until my brain cannot think properly, I began to pack my bag lor. 1 sling bag and 1 hand carry bag was adequate.
So the time flew till 3+am, but our meeting time was 5.30am, so I went to clip my nails, check my stuff, and bathed. 5.10am I was ready so I went to buy some batteries for our cameras in case they ran out mid way (with tips from Jinqi that Genting stuff was expensive, thanks!). 5.20am I caught Pikachu at home and his father helped him carry the gigantic bag he brought along for the trip. Haha. And yeah, waited for our bus to Queen St (851) and 5.45am we were on our way le! Cheers~ Interestingly, the one who didn't sleep was much much much alive than the one who slept. tsk tsk..
Well, this filler episode seems to have fulfilled its purpose, so look out for the Genting trip post soon!
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6:15 PM
Thursday, February 16, 2006
今夜, 在我回家的路上, 我想到了一个有趣的情节:
一个刚赶完夜工的年轻女孩, 乘搭着繁忙的地铁回家. 想着想着, 她不禁就写了个短讯给他的情人.这天啊,这情人正与他的好友欢聚. 不巧的是好友之中也有这情人的旧情人, 而他总是和往常一样,很有风度地陪这她回家. 虽然那段感情似乎已成往事, 但感觉上总有些依依不舍的存在. 当然这晚,这情人还是有如以往地送旧情人回家.
故事里虽然只有三个人, 但我们还是为他们取个代号吧. 就让这女主角名为A,男主角名为B, 而旧情人兼好友为Z吧.
A 与 B 其实只是认识不久,但初见之时却一见如故,十分谈的来.认识不久后就渐渐开始来往, 已有数月之时. Z 与 B 认识了已经有二三年之久, 分手也过了一年之多, 但却因为有着共同的趣味,每个星期都会去同一个活动会.而且因为是旧同学关系,也常和刚提到的好友一群会面,叙旧谈新(心). A 是个十足的女强人,因此和B见面的机会略少一些. 然而A也和Z认识, 也当然和B的那群好友有过数面同聚,还玩得不亦乐呼.因此我们能说这些人的关系似乎有点如怪异,模糊不清.A 这人很善交际, 因此其实看上来也没什么非意.
但当然孤独的人总是会寂寞, 赶了一天的工也希望能和心爱的人一同畅谈一日之事. 因此这发出的短讯的内容, 大家也能轻易的猜着吧.
"我们等一下会有缘相见吗?"
等着等着, 车厢里的人进进出出, 来来往往. 看着看着,心里渐渐沉重起来. 想着想着, B 和 Z 欢笑畅谈的情景不禁浮现在脑海中.
"或许他已经回家了吧?" 这时脑海里却播着伤心的情歌. 想唱出来却不符场合, 只好轻轻地哼着哼着.她其憧憬着B在默默地等着他.因为B总常带给他意想不到的惊喜.
抵站的时候,A乘着电动扶梯.也许是累了,眼睛里模糊的看见有似B坐着的阴影.
"是他!"
A匆忙地赶下去, 近眼一看, 原来是别人. "诶? 外面的身影似乎是他. 他是不是又和我玩捉迷藏?"略想一会儿, 她决定试一试和他玩玩看. 她决定走另一个回家的路线.
走着走着, 却没人把她停下来.
绿灯转红灯,红灯转绿灯. 时间有如一世流逝.
她最后只好唱着刚想到的伤心旋律, 独自一个人, 拖着沉重的脚步回家.
大家是否觉得他们有缘无份? 还是这只是一次的失望... 慢慢的期待吧.
**For the benefit of my readers who may not be able to read Chinese on their browser, please let me know if you will like to read the English version. I may decide to translate it when I have the time.
Emotional
Jeffire
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10:11 PM
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Before I begin the post, let just wish all those attached a happy romantic valentine's day, those haven't attached an enjoyable friendship day, and those dunno attached or not attached, hanging in the balance that kind, a magical valentine-frienship day!
*applause*
Okie, let me recall what happened the past few days to give you some insight into the Jeffirean life.
10 Feb Friday
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Uni+Vantage Launch was wonderful! Hope you guys loved what we gave out. Anyway life was as usual until 9pm when I joined Pikachu's gang for some fireworks watching at the romantic Esplandae open-air roof top! Was wondering if any of you were smooching up there ar.. heh. Anyway the view of the fireworks there was fantastic! Too bad the area closes at 11pm, otherwise it will be one nice place to view the New Year fireworks...
After the fireworks, the gang was busy taking photos with their cameras. I managed to get one and yep, it's here below.
-Grace,Me,Pikachu(above),Weiguang and Gerald-
So eventually we were chased out by the police office before we even finished our first round of daidee. Weiguang who was the unfortunate Jurongster had to go back first as he needed to catch the train back and that none of us will be keeping him company for we were all northbound. Then we had to find an affordable, 24hrs venue to go, and therefore Odeon Towers Mcdonalds was the choice since it had wireless internet access as well, in which was important for us to check which stop had the Nightrider bus, ie, we were ready to stay out late.
I finally had my long awaited dinner at McDonalds while the wireless access just refused to allow my computer to log in. (Strikes out Odeon Towers and Big Mac Centre's McDonalds for wireless access). I dialled for some help while we continued our daidee game. And you know, Pikachu was the biggest loser of the day by losing 76 consecutive rounds (worst loser) and then winning the 8th7th, 10th round. Hahaha. Looks like need to enrol him for Jeffire School of Gambling. The night ended around 3am when we took a long walk to Suntec City for the NR1 and boarded the bus home. We saw the Thaipusam event preparations at River Valley Road! Grace kept harping on marriage stuff and tried to pair the rabbit gang people up. It's like she is marrying her daughters off. lol~ The last to get home was Pikachu and me, so that ends an interesting outing with the Rabbit Gang.
11 Feb Saturday
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As usual, work till 3pm, and well, this was just a usual day with some football watching. 1125pm finally caught Pikachu who went fireworks watching with the gang again (they seem not to get sick of the fireworks), then we went 1 round Singapore by driving! Hahaha. Stopped only at WCP for some coffee though but it was so crowded so we sat at the park to watch kids play sand.
12 Feb Sunday
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It was a pretty horrible day in the beginning of the day as my brother reported back to camp for duty, he left the bedroom door open. My parents woke up, and left the door hanging open! Refusal to let me enjoy my deserved rest I guess. When I finally left the bed, it was 11+am and they were back home after buying some praying stuff. We were to visit the 'sacred place' again and I had to ferry my grandmother to and fro. Not that I was angry with that, I was fed up with the idea that 3.5hrs of my super precious weekend was spent rotting at the 'sacred place'. I had to wait for the rituals to begin, then to get 'blessed' (in fact, I got stamped in red ink) and by the time I was on F&E mode, it was already 6.30pm. I had to catch Pikachu for dinner because we were going to watch the final fireworks show of the 15 days stretch of fireworks displays. By the time we sat down for dinner, the furniture scout was cancelled and we had a super filling dinner at Secret Recipe in East Coast. Met Alvin Lee at the restaurant! Hahahaha. What a rare coincidence!(but my 4D din strike lei)
We finished dinner and promptly drove to Marina Bay to find another spot to watch the fireworks but alas, the map was misleading, the area was under renovation, the view was obstructed by the stupid trees. So we were inside the near empty park, standing on the park bench's top and shouting at the fabulous blasts in the air! But too bad the lower fireworks was obstructed by the trees so it was a little bit imperfect. But I guess the screaming made up for it~ =p We had to go back soon as I had to chaeuffeur my parents back home. By the time we got home, it was a huge quarrel with my mum about her insistence on me following her religious rites and me not relenting to follow such ridiculous stuff. So somehow a little war erupted.
13 Feb Monday
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Cleared tons of work~ every Monday is the same bluish Monday.
14 Feb Tuesday
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Oh it's today! Today is Valentine's Day! Okie, what I did was to go for classes in the morning, went to pay up my Genting trip at noon, went back to school and now I'm in the office till 9pm (another 25mins more). And what am I doing? Counselling all the singles! Haha. I booked my Bangkok trip le!! WAHAHAHA, going with Yingzie, her friend Pea and Pikachu, but we leaving a day later as I am not too inclined to take 2 days leave for 1.5days work. So 27 May evening I will be taking my debut airplane flight! Too bad it's budget airline, but I have to thank those intelligent businessmen who came out with the budget airline idea. It's to them that we all get to travel cheaper, isn't it? If anyone is interested to go, well, too bad you may have missed the special promotion (ends today) but we are still open to people joining us for the trip. Do keep track of the following flights if you will like to go with us:
Dep SIN
26 May 12.35pm flight (Yingzie and Pea and possibly other people)
27 May 5.35pm flight (Jeffire and Pikachu and donno who else want to join)
Dep Bkk
30 May 2.40pm flight
Okie, think I updated enough for today. Will update more about the Jeffirean life when the chance arises! Hahaha. Maybe will write one before I depart for Genting.
愿有情人终成眷属!
Lotsa Love (friend friend love la!)
Jeffire
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7:49 PM
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Hello all
I don't know what is your impression of me following the long time we known each other, but I suppose one trait you may have in mind is 'capability'.
Simply put, 'capability' refers to the ability to do things. A general formula for capability could be:
capability = productivity * (total available time - rest time - transport time), assuming you can do nothing while moving around.
It is a fact that everyone has the same amount of time each day, using SI units, it would be 86,400secs. Therefore, how capabable a person is, is largely dependent on how productive he is and also how much he is willing to work. Unfortunately, rest time is a random variable subjected to each individual's capacity to sustain production. In some sense, we can only produce something if we want to.
Some people are highly productive (both quantity and quality wise) because they manage to reduce rest time to the minimum by doing the following:
a. Converting rest time into productivity time
b. Leveraging on others' time
c. Being more efficient
d. Resting less
Today I will like to highlight to all of you that I am actually not very productive as a person. Basing on the formula above, I just need to tell you what and how much constitutes the meaning of 'rest time' and you will know.
a. Sleep 6.5hrs daily (it's not enough because I wake up stale)
b. Read Soccernet news like a daily (probably takes up 0.5hrs a day)
c. Lunch, Dinner - 1.5hrs (breakfast is ate on the go or skipped)
d. Toilet/Bath breaks - emm.. think adds up to 0.75hrs a day
e. MSN - think this one cost about 1.75hrs a day and sometimes it's productive, sometimes it's recreation. (let's just assume it's all recreation)
f. SMS - 0.5hrs (same as above)
That should be about it, and it adds up to 13hrs.
My average transportation times:
a. Home to school - 40mins
b. School to work - 20mins
c. Work to home - 30mins
That adds up to 1.5hrs. So you add it on, it's 14.5hrs.
That leaves about 9.5hrs for working. But we have yet to include special but often circumstances
a. Meeting people for recreational purposes
b. Peeking at the tv or someone else's screen or newspaper
c. Called by someone for recreational purposes
d. Blogging (how many of us earn money from blogging!)
e. Singing silly songs when alone or with some silly pal
f. Stopping to help someone
g. Being stopped to help someone (eg, students pestering for your donation)
h. Horniness (now tell me who hasn't felt horny b4)
i. Reading signs and understanding instructions/terms and conditions
j. Stoning
Well, if you add all that up, I suppose there isn't much time to do much and, yep, that's exactly what kind of shit I am in now except item j (I have never stoned before except in group outings, especially big ones).
Now you weigh all your committments and see if you can so truly be called capable. Here are mine:
a. Travel Consultant work
b. School work
c. Dad's business (bookkeeping, administration)
d. CCAs (BIZCOM, MIC, the rest i am temporarily an inactive member.. sigh)
e. Washing clothes (yes, now i wash my own clothes)
f. Cleaning the room
g. Computer maintenance
h. Keeping nearly insane people sane (you know who you are)
i. Protecting my own image
Well, so now you know how incapable I am because I dun excel in any of these commitments.
Frustrated and sadz
Jeffire
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7:42 PM
Saturday, February 04, 2006
Mmmm.. i rescind some words and hope brothers will be brothers forever!
Attn: 7Seas Brothers
I hereby tender my resignation from the 7Seas with effect from today.
I have enjoyed the good times, the bad times and the silly times with the 7Seas, but now the word '7Seas' represents an illusionary ideology, in which a brotherhood calls for honesty, integrity, cooperation, synergy and communicability. What have we achieved over the years did not even achieve the most basic requirement which, to me, is communicability.
It is understandable that everyone has their own agenda and personal lives to live, not to mention family events, schoolwork, or even professional commitments due to the different paths each of us had taken. Therefore, a basic respect like communicability is of utmost importance.
Technology has evolved to the point where communications are accessible and affordable in this little developed country we live in. No matter how busy one is, there surely is some space in between for some communications. MSN, email, SMS, phone calls, or even the slowest of all, snail mail are the various options that can be taken. We have no reason to disappear from the world, unless there is a bent intention to do so.
For some reason or so, bad timing, extreme busyness, or even the worst case, injury to the hands, if you have any of these, please at least show a basic courtesy to let me know in advance. If you are really so bloody busy, then tell me!
Time is equally a premium to everyone, so no matter what, we will want to make full use of it. More even so when you know how much time you have left in this lifetime. I want to maximise my life. I want to work, to contribute to the lives of my family, friends, society, nation and even the world. I want to improve myself for personal satisfaction and peer recognition. I want to love and to be loved by a dearest person in my life. I want to play and relax so that I can be of productivity when it matters most.
I hope this is a good lesson learnt, and while I am bidding goodbye to the '7Seas', my name remains as Jeffire. I am still an individual, no longer part of this group, but still as an individual, I remain unwaveringly loyal to all my friends.
I wish you and the 7Seas all the best for your future endeavours.
Yours sincerely
Jeffire
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10:11 AM
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Helloz!
Ah-Jeff is wondering if everyone enjoyed the 4 days of rest and fun. Did you collect many angpow, play lotsa games, win lotsa money, eat lotsa goodies and sleep late late wake up late late? Hahaha. Hopefully you did enjoy the CNY celebrations and also meeting all your relatives, updating one another about stuff. At our age, the sensitive question probably won't be asked since it's a tad too young in this era. If any of you did get the question, love to hear your response! Heh.
Ah-Jeff collected a record no of angpow (value wise not too sure though) this year, thanks to the visit to a holy place. Well, Ah-Jeff didn't really want to go but it had to be a family affair. Eventually, he managed to watch some 6 episodes of Bleach (woohoo, great show! thanks a million Jinki~) and ate some more yu sheng (vegetarian yu sheng is so much nicerrrrr). Speaking of eating, Ah-Jeff didn't really ate plenty of the goodies...nobody like offer offer lei. Anyway, the best goodie ate this year is the pineapple tarts from Pikachu's mum, colleagues Sharon Thng and Sharen Koh... mmm think Sharen's has the most buttery taste, so it smells really nice, but Pikachu's mum's is so soft that it melts in the mouth.. haha. Ah-Jeff also missed 2 top prizes for 4d (Sat's reason is 'sold-out' and Sun's reason is 'miss by 1 no), 1st soccer bet of the LNY also lose.. haha.. looks like Ah-Jeff's luck isn't coming.. though the horoscopes says the luck should come in Feb.... (which has just reached while I type this).. hopefully tomorrow Ah Jeff be a tad luckier ba~
Just for record sake, here's my movement history for the 4 days:
CNYEve: Grandma's place (mum's mother)
CNY1: Grandma's place (mum's mother) and then Great 4thAunt's place and then home
CNY2: Grandma's place (dad's mother) and then Great 4th Aunt's place and then CWP
CNY3: Holy place, Orchard/Marina Square
CNY3 was quite a weird day with Ah-Jeff meeting Pikachu and his gang... all girls! Grace, Xueli and my BIZCOM friend Eileen (codename Ms E) (the world is so small! Pikachu and Ms E same gang wan while Ms E same CCA as me in SMU.. haha) Think the funniest thing was the discovery of a possible wallpaper for Pikachu --> Winne the Pooh and Family! Mmm..but that looks SUPER WEIRD in a guy's bedroom. Shud be good for Joyce i think.. hahaha. If got Pokemon wallpaper I want!! But I want to put Snorlex picture instead of Pikachu cos Snorlex is more suitable in the bedroom! ZzzZzZzZZZzzz.... Probably when I shift home den think more about it ba... =p
Okie... catcha guys later.... it's 330am! Later going for company function... haha. Hope I will be on time~~
心酸的浪漫
Jeffire
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1:43 AM
