Chronicles of the twenty +++
14.12.07
5th, 6th n 7th
Wed, Thu, Fri.. zoom......... the day dear is coming back is getting nearer.. good! hee.. the past 3 days can be classified as 'normal' working day. Y the inverted comma? Cos usually wed and fri will be meeting my little mousy, so the 'normal' days this week doesn't seems that normal after all. Maybe it's due to the rainy weather and the heaty food, maybe it's due to me missing dear dear, maybe it's due stress at work.. i finally succumb to the seasonal flu virus on thurs... felt so weak and 'suan' in my knees. Heng that it's just fever, not running nose or sore throat... took MC on friday. By rite job responsibility wise i shouldn't take MC on friday, cos i've a meeting with the users and my prj manager took leave, so it's left with me presenting his part. With me going on MC, i guess the only person to present will be my boss.. anyway, i couldn't care so much as i was quite 'sei' on fri morning.. On thu i still tot i will be able to tahan at least till after meeting on fri.. but in the end i guess it's body over mental strength..

It must be the holiday season, really no mood to do work, especially after having every dec on holiday for the past 24 yrs, working in dec seems an OT.. haha.. anyway, gotta get use to it cos for the next 24 yrs or more, the dec won't be a holiday month anymore...

No more philosophical ifs and buts liao... just waiting for my little angel to come back from shanghai, then i can hug her again.. MUACKS!
11.12.07
The 4th Day
Whenever you tot the day might be damn sucky, it just didn't...heng.. Well, that's what i intially tot will happen today. Cos went down to the far end of spore for a supposely 'confrontation' with the pple who needs to protect their multiple butts. But actually things turn out to be fine.. all parties are satisfied with answers provided.. it all boiled down to mismatch of expectations and requirements.. add on a few miscommunication, u have the 3/4 full of receipe for argument, disagreement, big egos and attitudes. Sigh... so communication, very impt @work or @ relationship....

Missing my dear for the 4th day. Went to meet giant today for dinner at tiong bahru.. initially also jioed james and jeff and zhiying, ruilin along, in the end their time is ganna rob by ICT, overseas flying and job. Hope to meet up again after giant comes back from oversea in 2008 la. Dear in Wuxi today... must be staying at some chalet style hotel.. room must be big, can't wait for her to come back.. Big big virtual hug and kiss, Muacks!

Christmas round the season.. must think of wat presents to get liao...*headache*
10.12.07
8 days w/o my little mousy
*Dear dear, guess you will say i copy you again.. hee*

Today marks the 3rd day w/o seeing my love. Y so, cos she's happily touring the same 8 days shanghai-jiangnan CTC tour package that i embarked on this yr june. It will be a tiring trip and a cold one given the winter season in China. Hopefully it's not too freezing for my little mousy. W/o her heater pack, i guess she will be shivering n puffin out 'white' smog.. hee. Promise to give you a big big hug when you come back, to make up for the warm you lack during the 8 days trip.

The first day after dear dear left for Shanghai is one of the extremely few saturday this year i endure w/o her. Felt so lost, cos usually will meet her after lunch. But for that saturday, i even have time to take a nap after a long movie in the afternoon. Start to miss the presence of my dear. The loneliness is compounded by the fact that mum went HK too. Then both bro not at home. So quiet... Went marina in the end to meet old man, since i was rather tempted to get the Creative speakers for my desktop, then also thinking of how to settle my dinner, also quite some time nv see old man liao, so finally drag myself to marina.. 1 stone kill 2 bird.... hee... finally gotten a sms from little mousy at nite.. *happy* poor her, nv wore enough clothing to keep warmth on her first day there. Must be unused to the chilling weather..

So there goes the sat, then came sun.. breakfast was a simple cup of milo and some tau sa bread. Dunno who so evil, stole my newspaper. Maybe it's just that i woke up late. (ard 10 plus -- consider normal for sun rite..haa), stone for a while, realise that i'm home alone again since bro decides to come back on mon. N the day continue w/o dear dear n mum... movies, lunch, games, nap, movies again... blink.. sun gone.. Work on monday..argh.. lucky got nightly msg with love from China.. can't wait to see whether dear dear gain weight or lose weight when she comes back.. i bet she must have lost weight cos the food there quite oily and salty.. then sleep late and lots of travelling on bus. Plus the cold weather = ingredients for losing weight? Hopefully not...

Working monday.. already feeling sian + more shit work thrown at my desk.. why can't pple just agree with each other.. yaya... i know it's politics.. but then why can't pple just be rational.... maybe it's just that there's too many backsides for each individual to cover ba.. sigh... wanted to msg dear, but dun want her to sms too much.. it cost 50 cents to get a China msg to spore... multiply by the number of sms to n fro.. every single communication costs dollars.. hmmmm.. wait till mousy comes back then i start whining ba.... in the mean time 'lun' ah.... hahahaha

Tick tock tick tock... just like cinderella, when the clock strikes 12, it's time for me to hit the bed again... n before i forget... i better get my whites pearly first... gonna take a look at my dear's good nite msg first... muacks muacks! *hope will be able to transmit to Nanjing to my dear's sweet dreamland*...
3.5.07
New beginning
Aloha! *using the same starting line* It's a long time since this blog is in operation... someone even asked me if this blog is 'dead'... My reply to that was:"nonono, of course not, the blog is just in hibernation. Reviving soon...hee"

So schooling life is finally over, erm.. actually not really, cos still have fyp presentation. Then there's still the job searching process... so sian... All in all, my status at the moment: jobless and very eng.. hee.

Been digging out books that i bought in China to read, yup, chinese novels... not those thick thick ones with words from right to left, up to down.. haha... it's those normal ones... gotten this book from this author named 蔡智恒. Found one section of the book very meaningful, so here it goes:




想象画里的人正奋力地向上跃起,伸长着手努力想抓住悬挂在上方的东西。那些东西的形状很丰富,有长的,有短的,有圆的,有方的,有扁的。还有的像星星,有的像沙子,有的模模糊糊,看不出形状。这幅画叫做《追求》。

大家每天都在追求些什么;有些东西虽然闪亮,但抓在手里却容易刺伤自己,像那些形状尖锐的星星。

还有的东西像沙子,抓得紧还是会漏,感情不就是如此。

而那些像阴影的东西是大部分的人一直想要的东西,但其实自己也不知道那些是什么东西。

很多人在追求的过程中,因为太用力和执着,脸上的表情时常会很僵硬,也通常不快乐。你是否像很多人一样,每天都在追求着某种东西呢?

如果把这幅画翻过来看,它的名字就变成了《满足》。




一幅空白的画为什么会是满足呢?试想想,如果什么都没有,什么都不必追求,当然就叫满足了。满足是因人而异的东西,羊认为每天有吃不完的草就叫做满足,但狮子可不这么认为。

长时间的满足感很难拥有,而且满足感通常只是片刻的事。就像《追求》所画的,需要追求的东西太多了。满足可能只是刚好抓住某样东西时,瞬间的触感而已。

看来想要得到长时间的满足,是不太可能的。很想拥有满足的感觉,其实也是一种追求的欲望。但如果能在追求的过程中感到快乐,那么你到底在追求什么,或者是否追求得到,就不是那么重要了。

6.7.06
Leaving on a jet plane... 1 year ago....
Wow... it's already 6th of july 2006. The date has suddenly struck me while watching the morning channel newsasia. Cos there's this news abt commerating 1 yr anniversary of the london underground bombing. Then i was like.. ooo... 1 yr le... It was this very date 1 year ago when i was checking into my beijing apartment 'condo' aka 老人区.. haha.. Still remember i was pretty excited abt staying away from home for so long.. first time travelling n staying overseas for more than 2 weeks mah.. hee.. Well, the final experience was a pretty satisfying and mind opening one with actual hands-on on their culture, food n their way of life.

Fast forward time to now.. with another semester gone n very slim chances of going overseas as a student again, i'm facing a status of a graduating student soon. FYP, graduating blues, graduating trips, lots of goodbyes, dreams, resumes, talks, scholarships, newspaper classified ads, exams and many more are things i guess i'll be facing in another yr's time.... Some or most of these events/feelings are more or less 'confirmed' as they have been tried and tested on many batches of seniors b4 me.

I guess i need to be anticipating each and every new events, tasks, difficulties placed b4 me in the coming 'new yr' with more tots, cautious planning and execution as it's time to start moving into another lifestyle with the old one sustaining firmly behind me.