Its the new year!

2008 will be a far better year than 2006 and 2007.
It can't get worse, right?

Cheers to all!

32/04 BBQ 2007

So I had my last year end gathering for 2007... with my JC classmates from 32/04! It was nice to see everyone once again. It always gives a warm and homely feel. some of us may talk a little lesser, some a little more, but nevertheless, I'm sure everyone went back with their hearts a little fuller than before they came. Well, at least mine was.

It has been a crazy and tiring week. Nonetheless, with work commitments scaled back immensely in view of my new job stint, I hope it'll give me more impetus to go for work. I think its' time I moved on and out of my comfort zone, and try new things. hmm.

2G '02 Gathering 2007

Is facebook down?!?! I cannot get to the website -.-|||

Anyway, I went for my 2G outing after work today, which thankfully, wasn't too tiring, or I would have fell asleep at the zhi char dinner.

The attendance was only about 14 people, but it was far better than expected (which IMHO was like maybe 5 people?). So that's good. For $13/pax, the food was good, and actually there was still some leftover. But its a rather far walk from the station. hmm.

Still, it was good to see so many people as they were before, in the long ago times when we were still running around like siao gee-nas in lower secondary school. Its been so long ago, I swear it could have been decades ago.

Hope the 2G people who were present tonight, and those who weren't due to their heavy commitments, be able to go to leelaoshi's (a.k.a. laolee) place in Clementi (yes, its no longer that ulu place near the cemetaries >.<) to bai4 nian2 on the 4th day of Chinese New Year (which is 10 Feb).

Jay Chou's "The Secret"

Anyway, I watched Jay Chou's not-too-recent movie today, "The Secret". While I'm not a big fan of his, and I'm still very much intrigued by his stellar shot to fame, still, I must say the movie was very well done. Very well done. Its quite a piece of work. The ending was good.

And in case you're wondering, I didn't catch it when it was screened at the movies earlier on in the year. besides, no one to go watch it with anyway :p

getting emotional

"eejun for u i'm sure u'll find someone u like and that likes u"

So I came home after that little X'mas gathering so tired I though I'll just K.O. out my bed. Then again, at the request (read: demand) of my friends, I willed myself (albeit grudgingly) to keep awake, and upload/sent the pics accordingly. So happens that one of my good frens came online and we started some msn conversation and all. In the mood of X'mas and all, the topic of getting attached and all that came up (ok. single pple are always desperate on those X'mas, V Day etc etc)

Suffice to say, eventually, we talked about failed relationships, heartbreaks and those failed-to-start-love-stories. Then that punchline came out:

"eejun for u i'm sure u'll find someone u like and that likes u"

and then a whole series of assurances and blessings exchanges occurred for both of us. hah. but at that moment in time, it was all too much for me to take. sigh. 20 and turning 21 not-so-soon. It's just all that historical baggage re-opened once again. Perhaps not just the love life (or lack thereof) part, but substantially on it. Maybe on actions and choices in the pre-army and army-days too.

But still, all this historical baggage is now being viewed in a new perspective altogether. Not so negative as before, not as critical as I've had been. 3 months ago it still would have been. Now? Its time to grow up and move on with life. Lots of new resolutions, new goals to stick to, and of course in the Zen way, its time to live the moment, and not hold on to the already-has-been or the fleeting future-shall-bes.

2008 shall be a promising year.

thanks bro.


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sub-32/04 X'mas gathering '07

oh. in case my avid blog readers didn't already realise, I can upload pics now! haha. i think its another achievement worthy of a Nobel prize haha. anyway -

Ok. I admit that I was "invited" to this little Xmas party thing last min. coz everyone thought everyone else had called me along. But nobody did. Tsktsk. Such friends. Who needs enemies with friends like that? tsktsk. haiz.

In any case, I did called along, so I went along and I'm glad I did. It was quite fun, after all. Truth be told, we were playing all that card games and all. And all our ages added together is almost 200 years old already. tsktsk. and still playing card games -.-|||

In the end, there was the usual dunking of pple in the pool. hah. but I didnt get dunked lol. I hung on to the wooden bench for my dear life heh. You all can try harder next year muhahaha.

The rest of the pics and commentaries can be found at:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=77371&l=aa029&id=561870022

Merry X'mas, all!

sub-4C mini gathering

Time for a little update before cobwebs start accumulating around here! anyway, so a few of us from ex-4C '03 had a little zhi char dinner @ $9/pax on 23rd Dec, Sunday! It was actually quite hilarious and all. I mean, we are still telling the same old lame jokes, discussing about the same old lousy histories that have been repeated for at least 2000 times. and we're still at it, after 4 years. sigh. we need to grow up, and get more new stories, people!

Maybe next year we could have a more complete class gathering or something. but it seems as people grow older, they start to distance away and seem to get more preoccupied with their work/studies/family/other-friends etc etc. Somehow life demands so much from us that its dizzying sometimes. But I guess we just have to learn to work around it!

So I'm sort of looking forward to the 2G gathering this coming saturday on 29 Dec. It would be great to see how people are faring after 6 long years, some of whom Im seriously guilty of not keeping in contact of. Never mind. Better late than never.

what comes around goes around

So i started the day desperately trying to meet up with my (non-biologically-related) sister for a little catch-up meal since it has been eons since we last met. The lunch exceeded the time i had initially thought it would have taken, due to some interesting revelations of future hopes and dreams for this little sis. haiz so good. at least she gets to work towards it now. For me? I'll "seek my dream and find it sooner or later", to quote. And she commented my blog to be too wordy (but i lazy to learn how to upload pics). She said packaging was impt in order to make my blog more attractive. Then again, i argued that i didnt aim to become xia xue number 2 or sth.

Then I went for my first AWP lesson, and it was really interesting. I mean, I was kinda tired and all, but the lesson was really interesting. hmmm. hopefully it gets better (or im really going to cry over my mod 4). And, the world is really small. My fellow NS friend is taking up the same course too! But I seriously didn't recognise him, and he tot i was being "dao" or sth, and he tot maybe he recognise wrongly. haha. and I was suspecting if I see him in RV or sth. talk about bad memory. time for me to stock up on those brain-tonics. (Yes I know I've only ORD-ed for 1+ mths. but i really couldn't rmb what). So the moral of the story is obviously, not so much as to changing our diet and eat more brain-tonic, but rather, that its better not to do evil because the world is so small :)

Lastly, I came across a friend's blog post on happiness. well, there's only so much we want to live in the past, I guess. We could turn back and say, "well, I was happy!", or "oh, it was actually quite a happy day!", but why do that? Shouldn't/Wouldn't it be better to live each day and recognising the "happiness" that comes with it, live the moment, and then let it go? the converse for sadness probably holds true, too.

My two-cents worth,
eejun

I did a naughty thing yesterday, and did my Physics Teacher proud today.

(No, in case you're wondering, these two sentences are in no way related. Save for the fact that it both happened at my workplace.)

Let's talk about yesterday first. So I went back to work on Thurs, after my long 2 week sort-of break, and it went ok. Then Friday came along, and I had to open up the place and get down to work. Then I realised I was the only one there! So, I took out my PSP, and happily blasted the music away (away from the CCTV's view, of course -.-). So this lasted for 2 hours. while waiting to open the place up to the public, my colleague, who's really proud of the fact that she had signed up for a new student mobile plan, happily called up to see if I had failed to disarm the place and caused the Security people to come rushing to the place. So we yaked over the (company) phone for some time, while I was working away happily and listening to the mp3.

So things went on fine for yesterday.

Now, today, I had a Sec 1 student who had some Science qns to ask. It was about SI units, using Lab equipment and all that. Strangely, she just couldn't read the Vernier Calipers readings. And she asked why. So, having stared at her notes for 5 seconds, I launched into the whole lesson on how to read the Vernier Calipers, how to avoid parallax error, SI units etc etc. Now, the whole time I was talking, and (laughing) at why she just couldn't read the Vernier Calipers reading correctly, I suddenly realised something again! I wasn't even looking at the answers! Wrong how??? So discreetly, I peeped at the answers and realised I had gotten everything right.

Now, that's an achievement deserving a Nobel Prize, my friends. To my really amused (by now) upper Sec classmates, they know my open secret. I can't read any reading in the Lab correctly. I always get all my measurement questions wrong, I don't understand what's the big deal about that bloody decimal point and the SI units, and I certainly have no idea what I am taking Physics for. And today, I can go on and on and actually get all the Vernier Calipers readings correct! I mean, for a guy who has no idea what "zero error" is all about and can never read off the readings correctly?!

My Physics Teacher must be beaming with pride at me at this very moment.

It's that time of the year again.

So, it's that time of the year again, the time where you know good ol' Santa would be peering at you somewhere to see if you deserve X'mas presents this season.

Ok, so I exaggerate. Santa's most likely to have died from heatstroke before his reindeers can make it anywhere near Singapore. Or "lang-gar" into one of the many HDB flats here. Then again, I haven't received any X'mas presents at all for the past twenty years, so I figured he's still trying to find where the chimneys are in our HDB flats. Maybe he'll finally realise that there aren't any, after all.

Its a love-hate relationship with regards to my attitude to this holiday. Occurring towards the end of the year, it means it's time to dig out all the skeletons in your closet (not literally; that'll be scary), flip out all the dust from beneath your carpet, stand in front of a full-length mirror, and really assess your (past year) resolutions, hopes and dreams.

And I always end up depressed, because everything seems to screw up, blame it on 1. your luck, 2. your friends ("zhu peng gou you"), 3. your enemies, 4. your boss/teacher/lecturer etc etc. Most of you out there probably do, right? And every year, without fail, we'll make even more resolutions, and (seemingly inevitably) repeat the same drill come next year-end.

It also doesn't help if you're still single. X'mas has somewhat deviated from its original (religious, later on celebratory) meanings into the season of lovey-doveyness. and I mean something closer to PDA-ings and not the spirit of giving, peace, and merry-merrying. Every X'mas I will not fail to sit in front of the tv and watch those special holiday shows, that deteriorate in quality year after year. By now, I think they are probably screening "Home Alone 10" for the 16th time already. Even their X'mas Day cartoons are horrible. So I gave up watching even tv on X'mas Day in recent years. The day will just pass by like any other weekend day - lazing around, reading some stuff, stare at my mum (and wonder why I'm not out smelling the roses), go to bed and wonder why 1. school has to restart so soon, or 2. Why must book in camp liaoz.

So this year, i shall try something different.

I shall set my resolutions earlier, so 25th Dec shall pass by more meaningfully, at least for the working toward of these goals. So here goes (not in any order of priority):
1. get attached. (so maybe i can get that new Japanese (?) gadget where u key in all the relevant info, and it will beep like crazy if it senses someone in your vicinity who is compatible.)
2. get really fit. (after all, there is that monetary incentive as an NSman)
3. pick up tennis. (my racquet has been accumulating far too much dust)
4. complete my AWP course and get certified. (anyway, if i don't, my mum will be after my blood. and I don't want to die a virgin(!). i mean, life is precious.)
5. complete my AJC stint well. (i asked for it. lol)
6. complete Standard Chartered '08. properly. (and i shall drag my lazy buddy's bum along to suffer this time *muahahaha*)

So it seems I have a really exciting X'mas to look ahead to, isn't it?

But before that, I shall have to get back to work! 2 weeks of vacation and slacking can really do wonders!

Signing off,
eejun