I remembered this from a pre-Chengdu briefing with Ms Lam last year.

Ms Lam: Let’s say an earthquake happened. What is the first thing you should do?
Someone said something about hiding under the table - I can’t recall who though. Was it Yi Long?
Me: Make sure my friends are alright.

:S

Anyway, I’ve decided that I want to donate a bit to Red Cross to help. I’ve emailed them to get more information about how my donation can help, etc. I plan to ask the group if they would like to chip in a bit as well. Got to see how first though, coz donations can be rather… sensitive.

It’s already the 15th! I remember clearly what happened 1 year ago, around 2am. :D

No idea why but since Monday, I’ve been feeling physically tired. My limbs don’t feel like moving and when I lie in bed, I just fall asleep immediately.

Apologies to all if I have been responding weirdly recently.

The Sichuan earthquake’s quite scary. The more I listen about the news, the sadder I get. The photos on the newspaper are kinda sad as well.

Shan’t think too much, but I think it’s because of my lack of sleep. =x

Tomorrow’s the 15th!

If I remember correctly, we used to cross this road on our long walk home from work everyday in Chengdu.

I was shocked to hear this piece of news from Huzz. Coz as far as I know, Chengdu doesn’t lie on any plationic plates (I learnt of this info when I was doing research on Chengdu last year before I went there).

Asked my OIC if everyone was ok (they were).

Kinda scared me. If it’d happened 365 days ago, I would be one of the few Singaporeans there.
And when you’d stayed in a place for 125 days of your life, you’ll definitely feel for such diasasters.

Hope everyone’s okay.

Hwei Ling returned for a short visit (from Canada) and over the weekend (Saturday), we had a small gathering at Settlers Cafe.

I was there earlier than the rest but then they came. Anyway, those who came were Hwei Ling, Eng Eng, Janice, Shin Yee, Coreen, Kim Guan, Derrick Peh, Ya Hong, Wei Heng, Jun De, Hou Teck, Huey Jin, Nicholas and Jing Mei. Quite a big group so we ended up splitting to 2 tables to play games.

Oh and a few of us went to Hougang Mall’s Mac after that for a drink.

Pictures!

Shin Yee, Eng Eng, Janice, Hwei Ling

The ONLY HS Idol & Derrick

Hwei Ling & Ya Hong

A tad oily though

Jing Mei, Jun De, Nicholas

Me and Hwei Ling

He thought I was taking a picture of him

Hou Teck. One of my good friends in class. We used to work on the notice board with Hazilah after school

Everyone (L to R):
Row 1: Hwei Ling, Janice, Coreen, Jing Mei
Row 2: Me, Huey Jin, Ya Hong, Shin Yee, Eng Eng
Row 3: Kim Guan, Derrick Peh, Nicholas, Wei Heng, Hou Teck, Jun De

Videos will be up later.
Anyway, I enjoyed this gathering a lot, coz it feels like I’m back in sec school where everyone’s doing the things we used to do. It’s quite funny how the rumours that I thought was forgotten are actually still remembered 4 years on, and the things that were done back then are all repeated. haha.

Darn, I miss my sec 4 class.

But somehow, I feel like I’m quite different from the me back then.

Ya Hong: “How long did you know your bf before you both got together?”
Me: “Around 3 months.”
Ya Hong (pointing to Huey Jin): “3 days.”

I think my Acer laptop once again is going to die on me :’(

Dear Laptop, don’t just die on me like that! I am going to university soon and doubt I can afford a new laptop!

From: Your Owner.

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Is that why I am a but sad recently? Because my laptop is dying? Because I have been spending a lot of time at work?

Gah! I need more daimoku to get me through.

But there’s work tomorrow. Haha. Nevermind. Somehow I like working on Saturdays. To just take the bus without many people, without traffic jams and then leaving at 1pm. I can still see the sun!

Okay. Lol.

Twin Dragon called me yesterday *waves*. The connection from Tekong seems worst than a call from SG to China >.< =x He asked me something about someone that was very sweet. Haha.

Will be going back to NYP later to collect my graduation gown.

Cheers!

This week’s super crazy.

I did OT 2 days already (Monday and Wednesday) because of one project. :S
Managed to clear almost all my stuff yesterday. But there are more work coming in.

Now I understand why they say school’s much better. At least the work given gets completed. When you’re at work, work’s never ending. Unless it’s some other job that is.

This weekend’s gonna be busy! But I plan to go head on with everything that I’ve got to attend to and do and just settle them all. But it also means skipping a few stuff.

There’s work, group outing this saturday, visit grandma and a meeting on sunday morning (hope I won’t chicken out last minute). Hope to go out and relax a bit sunday afternoon.

Already planned when to leave my current job. The letter’s already written out (just need to print it).
Quite excited about uni actually. I know it’s going to be tough, but at least school isn’t 9 hours a day in the same place. I realised I don’t like sitting in the same place the whole day. I prefer to go out or sit at home (HOME is different from office lol - I get to do my prayers more at home).

But then again, I like being at home only on weekdays. I’m so weird.

Guess I’ve gained a lot of perspective when I was in Chengdu and now in work. It’s quite good to actually try new stuff instead of being in one place all the time. Maybe that’s why I can’t wait for uni.

Recently I did a self-reflection on my 3 years in poly and felt that it wasn’t as bad. Just the projects and all. And actually in life, there are so many things that when it’s thrown at you and you feel the impact, it’s kinda hard to handle and you feel like dying or giving up or just running away.

But actually, if you just think of how solving the problem now will make your life better in future. It’s all cause and effect I guess. Just like sending letters to yourself in the future. Whether it’s a nasty or good surprise, it’s all caused by you.

Shall get back to work!

I managed to convince myself that today is a Friday so I have more energy to work. Ironic. =x But yeah, I love my job, but I wished there was more programming. Oops. haha.

Managed to go out yesterday. Before China, I can stay at home whole day. After China, I can’t seem to do so. Probably coz it’s the weekend? I believe I can stay at home the whole day during week days but not weekends. There are not much stuff to do at home during weekends but always lots to do during weekdays. Even tv programs are much interesting. Some kind of psychology thingy I guess.

But anyways, I must say THANK YOU to Huzz for being there for me.

Saw Alan and his gf on my way home yesterday. They were at the 644 coffeeshop having supper I think. It was around 11.30pm and I think it’s cool to hang out at coffeeshops at such late hours. Lol.

Hectic week. One project deadline this week. :S Hope we get it!

Oh wait! It’s friday.

Was supposed to have a BBQ today, but it was cancelled.

Then was supposed to go out today, but it was cancelled again. :(

Bought some stuff yesterday. I think I’ve grown out of the materialistic thingy. It’s like, I don’t feel happy when I buy stuff - retail therapy doesn’t work for me anymore. Well, it has never worked anyway. I never feel happy when I get new stuff. It’s like I feel even stressed coz I spend money. I’d bought 2 pieces of clothing coz I’m kinda running out of things to wear as it’s the summer and the clothes I have are all long sleeved.

Played the guitar almost the whole day yesterday! Haha. Finally can play one song and sing though am not that good yet. I think I enjoy playing notes than chords though. Haha.

Also went jogging in the morning yesterday. 3 km in less than 20 mins. Not bad for a person who hasn’t jogged for more than a month!

Mr A-Z will accompany me today. (Don’t be jealous hor :P)

(Okay, just remembered that my nightmare last night was about our date being cancelled today -_-”

I realised that I won’t be free from next week onwards. Probably that’s why I had the nightmare which turned into reality. But well, such is life. So instead of brooding, I’m going to do stuff instead of sit here and listen to Mr A-Z the whole day.)

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3.38pm: Oh yes. I remembered another dream from last night. I’d dreamt of Terence Teow. I haven’t seen him in ages and he looked kinda different from since the last time I saw him. He was with his girlfriend. And he doesn’t play the flute anymore.

He’s still like the best conductor (other than Mr Lim) to me.