Life's like that

Met up with Mr Tay and Liaw this afternoon.

Many thanks to Mr Tay for the Korea University T-shirt that he gave me. Thought that the symbol of the school, a tiger, was really weird, since the national symbol of Malaysia is the tiger right?

And Liaw, who is might have just left for the United Kingdom, is on to his dream as a optometrist. I wonder how will my life turn out to be? I think everyone wonders about the same thing at this point of life. Whether I would be able to have the things that I want in life.

Man...i need some new shoes. Something casual, such as loafer shoes, something that looks presentable with jeans. I also need a pair of sandals, since my old pair is getting rather ragged.

Well, that's all for today. Not sure what else there is to write until i get employed.

Friends told me to enjoy the time I have before starting work, but however, i really wish i can start work soon, getting really rusty.

Wedding Bells rang today.

Went down to Aranda Country Club for my two friend's wedding today.

The venue where they had their wedding vows had such a nice setting. It makes the journey down really worthwhile.

And yeah, Adelin looked really stunning today! Daniel didn't lose out too. Looking as the nicest guy on the block as always.

I met a few old friends there, namely Yan Fen, Edwin, Josephine, Melanie, Connie and a supposedly senior. I think she was Kunze's girlfriend. Anyway who does Kunze think he is?

I didn't like him during the time in army. Neither do I like him still now. I decided not to chup him much, except for a casual hi, but yet he seem to be still so farking arrogant. Whats with him anyway? Ask him things and totally ignore others, yet likes still to act cute and attract attention. However, I found Winston a really nice guy, despite meeting him for the first time. The CSO will forever be the CSO. Stupid idiot.

Anyway back to the wedding couple. Thanks for letting me to be part of the video, though I did not really have much to say. Not really good with words at that time. Enjoy your trip in Tokyo, wear more thicker clothes, and don't catch a cold. The lunch was really good, seems that everyone loves the beef steak dish.

Here's the photos!

Short note of what I bought..

This isn't the main post today. But just wanted to showcase what did I buy during the recent PC Show 2008.

My brother said it looked really gay.

My sis said it looks like a present for her.

So what do you say? I find that the design looks very surreal and helps to cover the immense number of scratches that my notebook has.. Thats why i chose it.


Doesn't it looks nice?

My Hawker, my Heartlander.

Was having lunch at the neighborhood coffeeshop when I realized some thing. Most of the hawkers left are the old folks, aunties and uncles who are in late fifties. Where have all the young blood gone to?

After coming back from Australia, I realized one thing that was missing from the Melbournian life was the existence of hawkers. The localized "Ah Huat's Ice Kacang", "Feifei's Wanton Mee" and the Katong Laksa. All these local heritage of Singapore are fading fast, more are getting replaced by the enterprise version of them, such as Food Republic, The Kopitiam. Sure you see younger cooks there, but what about the quality?

Do they cook with a prized effort at their dishes, or are they just cooking for the sake of earning some money for themselves? Truth to be told, I really missed the stuff such as Butterfly Kueh, You Tiao, where one is able to buy them from the old uncle showing how they are made early in the wee morning. At the enterprise version of laksa, do they taste as good as the home cooked ones from the various shophouses along the older streets, or do they taste right due to the added ingredients from the enhanced flavor noodles bought from commercial manufacturers...?

Remembered a kid, how I relished going to the bakery to buy my favourite pastry, priced at 80 cents. Compared to now, where I would have to fork out $2 for a reheated frozen piece. The cost of inflation or something else?

Some see the task of cooking as a chore to earn a living, However, I find that amid the task of cooking, one has forgotten the art of making a dish taste nice via natural means.

Trash?

Was taking the bus down memory lane this week when I saw a lot of familiar faces down Simei Estate.

Faces of former juniors of my secondary school. For those who don't know which school I'm from, I'm from Changkat Changi Seconddary School.

And yeah. I'm proud of it. When I was in primary school, I was always told by my form teacher that this school was where the trash of society goes. Well, I beg to differ. Trash can be defined in many ways and come from anywhere. Its not the school that produces trash. Its the people out there who deem it fit to label others as trash. Some people just have the idea that they are so high and mighty, somewhere up there or so they say.

I wonder if I can find her and tell her what I think now.

Long awaited family brunch

Hmm.. I could do with more of these.

I really love family lunches. Where all of the family could get together for lunch or dinner and chat about stuff. I'm referring to my dad's side here, cuz so far, at my mom's side I'm just most of the time part of the furniture. No common topics to exchange with them.


I don't feel like exchanging news with them most of the time, due to their apparent lack of trustworthiness among the older generation. As for my dad's side, they seem to be more closely bonded. We are able to understand each other on the same wavelength and chat on much more similar grounds. Apart from some of my other cousins such as Liang Qi/Kai, Jiayan and Cheng Mun, Jingli, I don't really find there's much common topics among the rest.

Oh yeah, and two IUF of my family:
"For those who don't know what's that, it stands for Interesting Useless Facts"

1. Each person in the family branch has a left handed in the family - Stated by Sophia.

2. Of all my cousins, I realized the girls are the ones in JCs, while the guys are either Polytechnic or ITE students. - Stated by ME.

Here's the Pics for today.



After brunch, the relatives and me went window shopping. I rarely enjoyed such outings with my family. We mostly buy stuff straight and hurry back home to sleep/shit/work. Everytime its the same, thats why I'm so bored with this life. At least when I'm in Melbourne, I meet up with friends to chill in the night, go over to each other's place for a chat, go to La Dolce Freddo for ice cream. Else we might just hop down to do grocery shopping n window shopping at the Queen Victoria Market.

Well, I'm reminiscing about those times.

Going in circles

Just finished my last security test last week.

After that stage was over, I began to ask myself, what if I failed the test? Then my wait for my employment with my dream company since December of 2007 would be dashed. The first time I looked at the advert, I knew it was the career that I always dreamt that I would wanna embark on. Even to that point, I even start looking at programming languages, which would definitely be the last type of reference text that I would look through.

So please. I really want the job. Its been too long a wait, n no matter how self-inspiring I can command myself to do, its reaching the limit soon.

So what have I being doing these past few weeks while waiting the wait?

1. Being working out with the mates, specifically Mr Wang. and Mr Emo. Mr James wanna join me tomorrow, but yet we haven't reached a confirmation on what to do yet.

2. Helping out in my uncle's wine shop, contrary to what my mom thinks, which in her definition are places where people get drunk and slug it out at each other. However, the place I'm at begs to differ. I heard none of the raving, loud rock music, yet I keep hearing the repeat tunes of the classical and blues being played through the speakers of the player. At first, I was a little apprehensive about helping to run a shop with zero experience in, but after today, I realized i rather liked the challenge. At least, this gives me a short-sighted view of how my dream restaurant management would be like, if I were to have one.

Man. I need to change my occupation soon. Its at "Unemployed" for fucking way too long.

The long awaited QM Gathering.