And The World Spun

Firstly,
Wah lau. My chinese sucks lah.

Anyway.
Went pubbing Friday night with a few friends at Harry's.
And after a butterscotch schnapps on the rocks, a long island ice tea, and about 1.5pints of beer, for the first time in my life, I felt the world spin.
Wasnt drunk yet.
My maths was still good. (To KL: 9 X 4 is 36)
Could still walk a straight line.
But felt my reaction was considerable slower, felt quite lightheaded, and was quite numb to the surroundings.
Relatively late in life to be feeling this way eh. But then again...I didn't enjoy that feeling very much. Don't like the feeling of losing control.
Guess I won't mind feeling that light-headedness once in a while, but guess I would just stop at there.

Currently
-having a preference for quietness
-wondering if work will be fun tomorrow

The Chinese Post (Because it feels more heartfelt than when written in English)

前晚我又梦到你了。也许是因为我常会梦到好友，所以偶而碰巧地也在梦中里遇到你。
可是奇怪地。。。为什么睡梦中的我却感觉到那么快乐？醒来后的我，却感觉到遗憾，心里又充满着盼望？
我不是已经放开了你吗？我不是已经走回自己的路吗？
也许是因为我还没放弃过我对你的记忆。
可是那记忆对我太宝贵了。我绝对不想，不会，也不要忘记你。
但是。。。
虽然我知道梦中人是你，为何每当我梦见你，你的脸总是个模糊呢？是否我对你的回忆也慢慢地消失了？
哎。。。
也算了。
我放开了。
只不过是一场梦。
就让梦变成另一个记忆。
就让那快乐，遗憾和盼望变成一个虚幻的感觉。

Lists

4 things I want to do before I die
1) Try caviar
2) See the Aurora Borealis (So impossible)
3) Visit Europe again (in particular Venice, Amsterdam and Switzerland)
4) Stand atop a low rising hill overlooking some large plains having the setting sun in the distance, with the cool wind blowing in my face (lol)

4 things I enjoy doing
1) Reading a good book
2) Watching a good movie late at night, alone and in the comfort of my bedroom
3) Trying out fine delicacies
4) Listening to good music

3 most favourite book
1) His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
2) His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife
3) His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass

4 movies that I am currently looking forward to
1) Spiderman 3
2) Pirates of the Carribean 3
3) The Fountain
4) Ratatouille

2 pet peeves
1) Leet speak
2) People who enjoy interjecting their sentences with Japanese words

1 thing I cannot stand
1) Water

YaWNnnNNNnnnNNNNN!!!!

Work is boring!!!!!
So I've started my 6 months PPP attachment.
Means I won't need to go back to school next sem.
Which means I won't have to wrestle with the stupid CORS and its downtime.
Which means I won't have to keep late nights finishing my lab report, tutorials and projects.
And most importantly, I won't need to mug like crazy for any stupid exams.

Actually...I don't mind school. At least it's fun. Unpredictable. NOT THAT MONOTONOUS.
unlike work....
Starts everyday at 8am...lunch at 12nn....go home from work at 5.15pm, with the occasion overtime. Slack at home till 12mn, go sleep, wake up at 6.30am. Repeat ad nausem. And everyone's confined to their desk within a cubicle..Its so stifling...

Been comparing my PPP with the time I was working at ARC, and found that I actually missed my time there. ARC work was complicated and exasperating. And I would overtime there and leave the office only when the sky gets dark. I lived in constant fear of my superiors and the applicants 'cause it was so easy then to get into trouble.
But I enjoy my time there.
Because I had great collegues.
Overtime didn't matter when you are working with friends.
And every so often we would come together and bitch about work to release the frustration.
AND WE WERE NOT CONFINED TO STUPID CUBICLES.
To anyone from ARC reading this, thanks for the company over that 2+++years.

So I am dreading the working life. I just hope I would get use to all these after 6 months...
Actually, have been thinking about the work that I really would want to do, and my dreams, and the things that I want..but that's another story for another day. For now, have to make the most out of the attachment. Its not that bad actually. It's just so stifling.

Currently,
-listening to Klaus Badelt - He's a pirate

My Thailand Escapade II

One of the main highlights of the trip was food. Actually, I think I spent more on eating than shopping.

Well, I guess I live to eat. Most of the time anyway.

So what did we have?

Our very first meal was teppanyaki. Then as the trip went on, just to name a few stuff we ate, we had


Bird's nest!!!!!


Thai food


Er...steamboat cum BBQ

and something I've wanted to try for a very long time already...
Insects!!

Looks like mealworms?? Don't really know what it is


Grasshoppers!

So anyway, 3 things went throught my mind the first time i ate those worms
1) It is soft?!?
2) So. Salty.
(After chewing it up, and swallowing it.)
3) Okay, I now have worm bits stuck in my teeth.

Most of the insects doesn't actually taste bad. But its the thought of eating them that turns me off. And because of that, I could only bring myself to eat that one grasshopper. (I have a phobia of squishing them, but i could bring myself to chew them. HMMMMMMM.....)

We also took several different forms of transport to get around places in Bangkok, and most of them were relatively cheap. Especially the taxis. If Singapore taxis cost like they cost in Bangkok, taxis may probably be the number one way of travelling for me here. Hah!


View from the boat as we travelled along the river (Arguably the fastest way to get around Bangkok)


Me on the tuk tuk. (More expensive than taking taxis. But I actually enjoyed sitting on one. The engine of the tuk tuk sounds damn fierce.)


Me and Zk on their "MRT"

Other forms of transport around Bangkok include their skytrain, the motorcycle taxis and buses.

Anyway, 5 days in Bangkok passed rather quickly, and I soon myself back on the plane bound for Singapore. Wasn't quite a bad trip, but found myself quite exhausted from it at the end...

Hmm, here's wondering where and when my next holiday destination will be???

Currently,
-have started my attachment, and is feeling tired
-listening to Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D

My Thailand Escapade I

One of the things I wanted to do badly this holidays was to leave Singapore. And I finally did.

From one sweltering hot locale to another, I found myself in Bangkok.

Was quite a last minute trip, and coupled with some last minute health problems, my excitment actually turned into some apprehension. Anyway, I went ahead with the trip. Plane flight was delayed for about 2 hours, and the actual flight took about 2 hours.


An Extremely Bored Me On The Plane

One of the good thing about this trip, was that we managed to get free accomodation at my friend uncle's condo. That meant that I had a very big place to live in, with a large living room, kitchen and balcony with a good view. Ahem, President Suite anyone???

Anyway, had trouble sleeping the first night. Which is normal for me on the first night in a new environment.

The worse thing about Bangkok was probably its traffic and pollution. Our first stop was at Ma Boon Kong (sp?) aka MBK. Extremely big shopping center selling extremely cheap stuffs.

Bangkok had many of those "street markets" akin to bugis street, except that the pathway through them were much much narrower. Alot of the street markets in Bangkok was like that, shops opposite each other, and with super narrow pathways for the shoppers to walk. And what amazed me, was that on this narrow pathway, which was about wide enough for 3 people walking side by side, u can have motorcycles riding by, people pulling carts through, beggers crawling along the floor pushing their tin box in front of them and all the while people still managing to go about buying and selling their stuffs.

The weekend market that we went to was similar, except that the market area was incredibly huge. Unfortunately, it was raining that day, and the fact that the pathways was so narrow, and there were so many people, it became extremely stuffy. You could steam a char siew bao in there. But the weekend market sold everything you thought you won't find. Many sold pets too. Snakes, weird looking turtles, cats, dogs and birds. Oh, and many sold food directly across the shops which sells birds - which was really unhygenic.

One of my most memorable experience in Bangkok, had to be the last night of our trip, where we went down to the "old goods market". It was raining heavily, and we were drenched throughout. But what made that experience worthwhile, was that I managed to see something one won't see back in Singapore. Though heavily raining, people were still selling their goods and food. Some were sleeping beneath the makeshift shelters of their shop, and dirty rainwater were splashing everywhere. The ground in Bangkok was not even and many of the portholes were filled with water.

Makes one thinks that we sure are lucky. We probably won't tolerate such conditions just to earn a meagre living. Perhaps we are too sheltered from the harshness of life. At least, for a moment, I manage to experience a part of what is their daily life there.

Currently,
-listening to Zhou Jie Lun - Shan Hu Hai