YThursday, June 29, 2006
(:
ive been quite a happy girl lately. yeah. my life is rallying up. Minou is giving me a pair of handpainted shoes from their line (but i've always been too lazy to claim my gift), my monday's presentation went better than i expected, bee and clar did great in recruiting new peeps for my cca, im personally very happy about my grades for the recent common tests... i think i dont have any problems or issus right now.
i am busy. i still have to crack my head over my investments project. but im happy.
well but i did find myself crying last night before i slept. i did some soul searching before i went to bed. there are some amends that i'd like to make. i wanna spend more time with people whom "i havent had time for". people like GRANDMA, bro (i still have yet to clear a misunderstanding with him.), meng, van, huiling, olivia...
but but but... i'll get to see a couple of MG girls this sunday. yay. denise, meng, fiona, lijuan...
i cried last night. maybe even to sleep. but though there's some sadness inside, im overall, happy. Yay!
oh i've got a funny story to tell. it involves me and two other girlfriends from school getting the strangest, bumpiest ride ever in our tutor's car. but i'll save that for tomorrow, or tomorrow's tomorrow. but it was quite a silly crazy "adventure" really. haha.
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YTuesday, June 27, 2006
THANK YOU!
This morning, I was happily waiting at the King Albert Park bus stop, for a red bus to take me to school. As I was staring into space, this auntie got down a bus and spoke loudly, to no one in particular, "where is maple avenue?"
And written on her face was not just confusion but agitation. Because she was standing right in front of where I was sitting, I just said, "Maplewoods? It's about two stops down that way"
"I MISSED IT?!" she shouted, in frustration. (Her voice was whiny and high-pitched.) Then she was grumbling as she made her way, walking to the direction where MG was. No "thank you", no nothing. She's scary. I'm not angry at her, I'm just appalled by her behaviour.
Ah well, but I did meet a very sincere worker today at a fast food joint and she made my day. I tookaway some lunch for my lazy elder sis and I. I was struggling with the glass doors - in my left hand were my laptop and the bag of food, while my right hand held my handphone as I was talking. Then this staff came running to me and opened the heavy glass doors. She had a cute sincere smile. I smiled in appreciation and said my thanks - but she out did me by saying an even more enthusiastic "THANK YOU FOR COMING!" Haha.
Customer service that comes from the heart really WOWs me.
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YWednesday, June 21, 2006
Opus Dei
me: hey, do you know that opus dei exists in singapore?
leong: they do?
me: yeah...? they were like, interviewed by channel newsasia.
leong: sure not? i watched the channel newsasia documentaries leh
me: -____- come on they do, why should i lie anyway?
leong: haha.. this is getting freaky... they could be amongst us
me: haha yeah...
leong: omg! i saw an ah pek limping just now!
dont you just feel like killing him?
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YSaturday, June 17, 2006
Reborn.
It's time to pop the champagne, folks! My blog's reborn!
I'm kinda surprised: my old blog had loyal readers, just that quite a number of them don't tag. Following the closure of my previous blog, quite a few had asked, out of concern why I shut it down. It's been several weeks already but I was still being asked yesterday. (: And gosh, do I feel touched.
Honestly, I'm not sure what's the main reason behind the closure myself. It could have been that the mundane in life crept up to me, to a point where I had nothing to blog about. It could have been that the common tests were coming up back then, so I shut it down to stop myself from using my notebook unnecessarily. Or, it could have been that there was this subconcious thing in me that wanted to start life afresh. I have no idea, really.
Then again, there are many other things in life that I do, without knowing why so. I guess I'll never know anyways. Neither do I really care to find out. Perhaps we shall leave it that my old blog "died" an unnatural death but the cause of which is not worth investigating.
On the topic of death, I'm reminded of the fate of a fellow schoolmate of mine. I didn't read the newspapers but heard about it from word of mouth that he died in his condo while returning from his night jog last tuesday night. It was a hit-and-run, a real tragedy.
It was said that he died on the spot and was bleeding from the ears, eyes and mouth but had no form of identification on him so his family was not notified by the police until much later (they did find him missing from his room but didn't suspect anything perhaps). It's scary to think that someone who sits in the same lecture hall as me, is suddenly gone just like that.
Sheesh. "Life", why's it so fragile... so cruel?
But then again, I'm talking about "Life" in inverted commas. Perhaps the lives we're currently living are unreal and that our real lives are our after-lives. In other words, our real lives may start at the point at which we die. Or maybe I'm not making any sense to you... Hmm, I'm not quite sure how to put it either, just that I don't see death as a permanent departure. Yep. So that's kinda explains why I like the last verse of a song by Oasis that goes, "We're all of us stars, we're fading away, just try not to worry, you'll see us someday...".
Death, it's not the end... or is it?
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