What's next?

Somewhere around this time last year, the focal point of my life, was to complete my degree as best I can. I said to myself, 'No more fuck ups please, you can't afford it'.

Fast forward them months, here I am, a graduate. Hoorah! But what's next? The certificate of legal practice aside, what should I do? Should I go down the ordinary route taken or head to the route less ordinary?

I have big dreams and grand ambitions. Funnily not really inter-related dreams and ambitions. I definitely wont achieve them by ranting or sitting on my fat ass.

Perhaps I should start a periodical list and hopefully start striking them out soon enough.

Yes. Shall do that. I'll start with 'graduate'.

As of today I have exactly 22 days left. OMG!!

I've been cooped up in the house for the past month and a half slogging. Cehwah. Not per say. But yeah, revising lah. Now it's time for extra-intensive. Or maybe I should relax and chill out. Yeah. I think I should. Wouldn't want another blanking out in the examination room.

And the weather has been shiteous! Rain Sunny Rain Gloomy Hot Cold. How not to get sick?

Pray for me people!!

Merry-Go-Round

Just when I thought I have learned enough through past mistakes on how to go about friendships, the same old new lesson comes my way.

My take on friendships is to be sincere, honest, helpful and giving; as much as it is fit to be. Not based on pretense or ulterior motives. Don't get me wrong here though, I'm not claiming that I am a winner of a wholesome friend award. But Isn't it much easier and better for that matter, being honest about yourself with another friend?

Proven not exactly so.

If you're lucky, you'll meet and have that handful of friends who are true and love you. If you're not, you'll get a crappy joe or jane who abuses your friendship and trust, by taking advantage or worse being vicious, and hurt you.

Now what about those who are in between? I'm not talking about minor injuries here. A friend who is a major Ace as well as a major Bitch/Bastard. One who is a wonderfully fantastic friend but can hurt you in so many ways you cannot imagine. What about them??! I have or had a good few.

That's why sometimes I feel that the soul should not be bared to anyone. Perhaps it's much better being a pretentious nonchalant snob. At least that way you save yourself from being subjected to emotional battering. No?

Question now is, can I live my life like that? Am I through?

Sometimes I wish God had given us indications, or a gifted someone had invented a friend-o-meter or friend-goggles.



Something to forewarn us, wouldn't that be great?

Oh, I don't know what to say anymore.

AngMoh & Chopsticks

Sorry folks I've been really really lazy to update. Definitely not numero uno on my to do list.

Here's a quickie on something I discovered only recently at a sushi bar. Once in a while you'll see the angmohs struggling with chopsticks. A minority of them who mastered the 'art' of using chopsticks use them even better than us. Like the proper way. *malu sialz* cuz I don't practice the correct way..

Anyways I saw a group of angmohs at YoSushi using these...

Out of Order

One and a half week in, the freaking boiler still isn't fixed!! No boiler = no heating and no hot water!! Clothes not washed, pots and pans still a bit greasy and us all yucky!!

We've been scrambling about going to friends' houses to shower, or for me boiling water in the kettle then to a little plastic tub.. Showering like how they do in the not-so-fortunate kampung. OMG!!

The people here are so inefficient! They have been coming back and forth wasting time with their company department reports!! They could have fixed it so many times but noo... they ought to report back to their departments because they do not have the authority to call the shots on fixing. WTH??

To make matters worse, the boiler is in my room and it's now dusty and dirty because of the works. I'll have to clean my room thoroughly after they finish... Argh!!

And why la is the weather still so chilly?! It's supposed to be spring!

Twenty Four

Another year older, any wiser?



Two days fresh from Ming's birthday, the gang decided to adopt a different 'plan' for mine. They decided to pretend they've forgotten my birthday. Meanwhile I received calls texts and facebook messages from all my other loved ones and friends. Thank you all!! All but for these few monkeys.



So in the afternoon I suggested that we go to our usual spot, Precious Cuisine, for a nice dinner. Texted Iris told Ming-Fei, no one replied. Called Jennifer, didn't pick up. It was their collective effort that made the whole situation seem pretty fishy to me. LOL!



Half an hour later, Ming broke the silence. Hahaha. Apparently, they had a surprise dinner planned for me in town, but were afraid that I will be reluctant to go to town for dinner instead of Precious. Knowing me, I hardly go to town and I wasn't really a fan of Cosmo, which is an asian buffet. Both Iris and Ming foresaw that it would be difficult to drag me there. The plan caved.



We went anyway, I didn't wanna be a party pooper, plus Jennifer actually took the liberty of booking us a table and we could have post dinner drinks in town.



In the end, we didn't go for drinks. Most of the monkeys over ate at Cosmo, so much that no one touched the cake!! Skipped the drinks and Shisha-ed instead.

Thank you guys for such a wonderful treat!!

*****

To the Wong Family!

Thank you very muchie for the card, the messages inside and the sms-es on top of that!! Love and Miss you guys lots lots too!


Especially to my sister, for making this card.


Raised one summore! Woot!

And writing the sweetest thing for both my brother (his birthday being 3 days after mine) and I. To me, it's the greatest gift of all.

"Yes, it's already March. Two of the best parts of my life, my dear siblings, they've grown a year older. I don't know, but I just feel so squishy inside whenever they have their birthdays. Like oh, they're older already, it's been a year already? I don't know what I'm talking about right now so I'm just typing out whatever comes to mind. I've written this out in cards many times, but I'll just say it again.

Jie, Kor, I love you guys so much. More than you can imagine. I really can't imagine life without you guys either. Truth be told, you two are such inspirations to me. Everything you've done for me, everything you've taught me, looking out for me, occasionally nagging at me for my best interests. Although sometimes I retaliate, I really appreciate it. Whenever I'm down, seeing your smiles, hearing your laughters, knowing that you're there, it slaps a smile back onto my face. I really hope you two know that I mean this from the bottom of my heart. I'm truly proud to be your sister."

Can't imagine life without the both of you or us not being siblings either. Love you guys!