As 2015 draws to an end

As 2015 draws to an end, it is once again the time for me to review what i have achieved for the year.  The review feels clichéd - nothing accomplished.

2015 has been the fastest year in my life. With the buzz of (mostly) work, dating (for about 10 months of the year) and some short trips, time passed incredibly quickly. In the next 3 months, work will be ramped up as we work towards creating a new system internally.  (To sidetrack a little, we received a nice order yesterday which brings us a big step closer to our territory's target for the year.  Very happy about this.)

One of the regrets this year includes my missing of Toshinobu Kubota's concerts in Japan. I've been wanting to watch him live and he doesn't have concerts every year.  For that, i feel quite stupid to miss this.

A disappointment for the year is with regards to our relationship.  I couldn't sustain it any longer because he is just a different person from whom i would prefer my partner to be.  My wavering mind was an affirmation and at the same time, my patience ran out before the deadline i set for myself. 

The house is going to be ready (hopefully) by mid 2016.  Life is going to change for the better, with even more tasks to occupy my wandering mind.  Looking forward to this. 

And i need to re-focus once again on getting more money to pay off for this place within 10 years. Reviewing the target would be high priority because targets are what drive me forward. And... the long-procrastinated retirement plan needs immediate attention too. And my AMD, and other important decisions to put in place while I'm in a fairly sound state of mind. 

This year, i shall not say "my resolution for the year is to be happier" because it never happens.  Intangible goals or goals without a line of action are hardly achieved. 

As with my previous few holiday trips, the coming year's will be short, impromptu and unplanned. This keeps me alive and on my toes.

That's about it...

I've becoming a bit of a workaholic and somewhat a recluse of late.  Honestly, I'm not dissatisfied with this. Perhaps I'm even secretly delighted at this lack of interaction with strangers or people i rarely meet.  It's much less tiring.  Strangely, i don't think people i know would think that i feel this way.

Sleep time now... for a fresh tomorrow.

The Tuesday Out with the Westies

The moon peeps shyly from behind the building...

Interesting phrase i read from somewhere...

Take my body, knot my heart.

Office Gift Exchange

Regards,

Juliana 

My first Christmas gift for the year - from Grace.  :D *delighted*

I broke the plastic frame of my glasses today while trying to clean the lens with my shirt. It's a full plastic frame with plastic hinges and i knew it certainly wouldn't have a very long lifespan. It broke near the hinge between the left arm and the main frame and i thought super-gluing it back could buy me some time. 

The super duper glue snuck into the hinge.

O_O

And with that little stump glued in a rather awkward position, i decided to glue the other little bit i could just to last through dinner and hopefully a few more days.

It just detached itself just now - fortunately after my day was over.

I am now looking like a geek again in my old "wooden" glasses.  

To buy new identical frame or to get a totally new pair?

While everybody is going crazy about Star Wars, i asked Biggie and Pok san out to watch Edward Scissorshand at Screening Room yesterday.  Just to enjoy (almost) private movie screening. Just because i have never watched this 1990 movie.  Just to see Johnny Depp in action.  Just to hide away from the millions roaming the streets. Just because Christmas is coming. 

Head feels like it's going to explode... or implode... 

The very, very hot, sexy rig...

Money may buy you less worries, but definitely not more happiness.

Last night, i dreamt i was telling him generally about euthanasia in Switzerland. He asked, why are you finding out about all these?  I rolled my eyes and gave him that duh look.  -_-

It's just a dream yeah? 

The reality of the possibility of euthanasia...

... provides me with solace yet sadness at the same time. My heart weeps.

I feel so anti-social today, and feel so awkward at a family lunch gathering. It's one of those days i just wanna hide in the shell.

i just got home a short while ago from attending Grace's father's wake at Mt Vernon.  i've known her since our working days together, but i never knew much about her family.  And so i learned that her father was a doctor, amongst the many other doctors (medical practitioners) and pastors in the family.  The descriptive eulogies gave a real picture of him and the family, about childhood times, about how they moved from Malaysia to Singapore, about how he met his second wife and got married at the age of 80 (his first wife had passed on years before), about the last month before his passing, and much more.  As an outsider, all these was interesting (although it was somewhat lengthy).  i am rather impressed that most of the relatives who gave the eulogies were elderly (70s to 80s) and all of them were extremely proficient in English with their words and ideas.  i think possibly because they are well-educated and also from the church.  i have the impression that church people are very eloquent...

It was my first time to Mt Vernon Sanctuary and i decided to take the train to Bartley station on the circle line.  It's a pleasant and small station with only 1 exit, so it was not difficult to find Mt Vernon Road.  i usually only pass that area when driving from Kaki Bukit towards Bt Timah via Bartley Road East, so it's a slightly different perspective this time round.  

There were condos still under construction along Mt Vernon Road and since it was about 8pm on a Saturday evening, the sites were closed and there were a few workers hanging around along the road.  On my right was SPCA.  i stopped to take a look at this once familiar place that i'd forgotten was there - the place where i visited daily to help out during the month i was suspended from school.  i remember that i took bus 157 to Macritchie and changed to bus 93 to go there.  The journey was long but i went every day anyway.  The small building hasn't changed since 14 years ago.  The layout, the gate, the grilles, the doors, all remain the same.  

As i continued moving along, i passed a stretch where the street lamps were not lit.  i'm unsure of what i was more worried about - being mugged or falling into the drain.  There were footsteps some distance behind, but after a while i heard voices of a man and a women, so i became less anxious.  My eyes adjusted to the dim moonlight and soon i passed by the gate of Maris Stella High School.  Trotting on, there was a gurkha camp on the left where there were fit and stout men standing around near the guard post.  i felt a bit safer already.  Round the bend, there was a old style Chinese gate and a structure like a pagoda on the right.  It looked somewhat out of this world in that low light, and the fact that i was looking for a funeral parlour/columbarium didn't quite ease my imagination...  Then i realised this was the compound i was looking for.  The place was a pleasant and spacious area and finding the hall was straightforward.

i can imagine the place being green and peaceful... Actually, most places in Singapore for the non-living are really beautiful.  (i must remember to save up for a good spot.)

i don't remember feeling so many feelings just walking down a little road.  But this is interesting and it keeps me feeling alive and i'm not complaining about it.

Time to hit the sack... it's been a long day of rushing around and i'm tired.

Wow... i just realised i did not spend a single cent today so far... (other than the monthly phone bill).  My mother tompang me to work. Bought me breakfast. Colleague bought me lunch. Coffee/tea was provided in office. I was busy running errands and juggling replying my emails. Drove somebody to airport using the office car. Came back with an almost empty tank and my boss told me to drive it back and fill the tank along the way (on the company's tab of course). Wanted to go jem to run my personal errands but couldn't stand waiting for a parking lot (especially on Friday nights) and left after a very short wait. Now I'm home and not yet settled with dinner, so I'm contemplating to spend the first 5 bucks of the day in McDonald's. 

Wow...

Thank you for being so gentle...

Yesterday afternoon was once again one of too much whiskey for my own good.  I've got no idea how much we actually had, but we had Dewar's white label, Macallan estate reserve and Ardbeg uigeadail. As usual we went a bit crazy after that. 

But i still went for dinner with Grace and Hannes who were in Singapore. Ai Ling joined us too. Hannes' wheelchair was so cool - it was sporting some dt swiss hubs, schwalbe marathon tires and a spankin' cool carbon fibre fender!!!!! Wow wow wowwwww... #pimpmyride #ubercoollegs

The night with two moons

It's been a long while since i cycled to clementi after work. Many things have changed... especially the old town council and the 4-storey hdb blocks behind the old empress theatre that have totally disappeared. It came as a rude shock to me although i already know that these spots have been slated for redevelopment. 

I wanna go for a staycation... but nobody to go with. 

#firstworldproblems

My first time trying Shark Meat Jelly...

...and lovin' it! :D

It's incredibly hard to resist some smokes... but i tell myself not to add on to the haze, so managed to get away this time round. 

i am singular again.

Watched "Everest" with the group just now.  i think all viewers felt for it.  There is some stupid attraction about them mountain thingys that make people wanna risk their lives for.  But the experience would be so, so, so humbling - people who survive to tell their stories would have been changed people.

Think mother nature battering your body (which is probably the strongest and fittest body you'll ever have in your life) with harsh, extreme, unpredictable, fast-changing weather.

Think choices between (almost) killing yourself to reach the summit and turning back early because of circumstances when you are already almost there.

Think mind-wrenching and heart-wrenching decisions to leave troubled friends on the mountain, then having that strength to turn and walk away.

Think mental strength to be so crazy to even start the journey.




i feel tired even just thinking about it...

I picked 22 bucks on the street just now - the biggest amount in a long long long time. We hanged around a bit to see if anyone would come back looking for it but nil. It was 3 plastic notes (10, 10, 2) folded in the same spots but lying separately, so i guess somebody folded them together and stuffed them into the pocket, only to have them spring out unnoticed when the owner was accessing something else.

Lesson learnt. 

The more forbidden the fruit, the very much sweeter it gets.  It's so wrong but it feels so right. So what the fuck is wrong with my brain?????

Random shots on my phone

So low on energy and spirit on this hazy Sunday morning. Had a meltdown just now. And i just have to pull myself together to face the day. 

Going to attend the wake of aunty Ros... it's sudden. She is iconic in the mtb scene here and she was incredibly supportive of her son at all the races. She makes it a point to genuinely talk to people whenever we see her at these events. I think the last time i met her was last year, at the urban dh event at novena square. RIP.

Trying so hard to avoid smokes again. Once again, i thank all my stars that allow me to live in a place where cigarettes are probably one of the most pricey in the world. And of course, I'm grateful that too few people around me smoke. These help. 

Going for Escape Hunt game with a group later. First time playing it. I'm so close to saying i need a rest and can't go, but i should try really hard to break out of this mood thing. 

I actually want to go back to office and finish some pending stuffs that are nagging at me. 

借酒消愁

i wonder why nobody asks if I'm okay when i say i dinged my boss' car......

Today's been a typical great working day... busy, fun, maybe a bit less productive than what I'd like it to be, and time flew by as usual. But i was feeling vexed (just somewhat knotted in the heart) and felt like i needed a smoke. Honestly i can't figure which is worse - a smoke or a drink... still need to thank the government for imposing exorbitant taxes on smokes and drinks though, otherwise I'll be a goner.

Caught this show last night with the scooby gang. It was awesome!! Sure we were making a bit too much noise while getting too excited during too many parts of the show... (Sorry to all the other viewers who couldn't/didn't understand our feelings...) Sure we were looking out for technical bits which could have been improved, but overall it was a good themed show with details well thought out. Oh yes, the eye candy... the guys with very legit cyclist bodies... the awesome Swiss, Italian, Mongolian, Taiwanese sceneries... fairly drool-worthy bikes (note: cervelo r series and t series)... i guess everything enhanced by our group of cyclists in a state of excitation.    :D

The Bromo view that I'd been looking forward for years

Surabaya and Bromo

Tiring with many 3-hour or sleepless nights, but packed with fulfilling activities with an awesome group.

ひとりで。。。

It's extremely discomforting to restrict myself from sports to let my foot and ankle recover. I feel lousy not riding to work. I feel odd not to be going for weekly office runs. I feel empty feeling tired and seemingly not get anything done.

I feel alone.

I booked a day trip to penang next week to meet up with ojy and ry for lunch. Haven't done a day trip like this before except for the time the flight delayed and i could only spend 2 hours in Brunei for a meeting... and the 1 hour 20 minute trip into jb for bak kut teh with mich and pek.   Ojy wanted me there for 3 days but i thought 3 days of leave + sgd 200 wasn't the most economical for a penang trip... and after a tough dilemma, decided to do a day trip instead. Afterall, we seem to always be too busy in Singapore to meet up even though we stay literally just a street away from each other. 

A white dress

My dear boss told me he had a visual of me in his head during his haircut yesterday. He pictured me in a white wedding gown, strapless with a short train, and me in short hair.  He said i looked splendid in it. He had no visual of the groom.  But in the visual, i was truly happy and my smile was true and it seemed to reflect the happiness inside of me. Boss thought somehow he was the one taking photos of me. 

It's all so strange... and extremely random. It feels like something out of Murakami's books.

I told him that maybe I'll never get to see that day. But it is comforting to think that there is hope that i will find that person. 

And if the suspicion of stress fracture wasn't enough, i sprained my ankle big time...

And it has to be less than a week before our Bromo hiking/mountain biking/rafting trip. 

Same poor foot. 

I'm sorry foot, you've gone through too much abuse this year. I promise to take good care of you for the rest of my life.

Too many new gadgets for the old dog

#infooverload #actliketechie #firstworldproblems

Back to the japanese whiskeys

The poor, abused foot with potential stress fracture

And so in Saturday night, out of impulse, at a last minute, i signed up for a 30+km night walk from bt panjang and back. Decided to wear the kampung adidas because of the high possibility of wet weather.

Somewhere a quarter through the walk, my foot started hurting. It's the top of the foot, somewhere along those longer bones. It's a pain that I've never felt before, so it became a concern when the feeling didn't quite subside. At the midpoint of the hike, at the visitor's centre at macritchie, i told the group that i would be bailing out from there because i didn't want to walk back that same route and i was sleepy. The fact was, i didn't think my foot could take it another 16-20km. Dozed off on the bus and by the time the bus got to my place at 6.30am, i was limping back. 

I literally slept and ate my way through Sunday and the foot became much better. I had to pretend that i was perfectly fine so that my parents wouldn't nag. That is always the biggest source of stress whenever I'm unwell. 

Today, i took some time off work to get an x-ray. My boss was incredibly sweet to offer me a lift despite his crazy schedule, but i told him i could manage. Biggie also messaged to ask if i needed her to accompany me to the x-ray. Absolutely touched by all these little gestures. I'm a tad disappointed about someone else not asking though... :(

Anyway the result will be out tomorrow. I can't decide if a negative result would be good news or bad news. Stress fractures are not always seen on x-rays... so i wouldn't know what to do to find the cause if that happens. 

I think i need to get some new comfy insoles for my boots. 

I love hugs.  I love real hugs.  The hugs that are hugged because there is a bond and also the assurance it gives. He gave a good hug yesterday.  The wedding dinner that I'm about to attend, the beautiful bride Xiaohui, we used to hug a lot back then in secondary school when we spent so much time at the sjab training centre. It's rare to get good hugs.

My colleague Carlos brought a cake to office for me.  It's my first time having a cake with lit candles in a dark room and friends/colleagues singing the birthday song.  The sales team also bought me lunch. i feel loved. :D

Got a Starbucks mug from biggie and I couldn't wait for next year (new house) to use it, so it's in office containing awesome coffee everyday.  :D

My mother got me a silicone cup cover...(?) and an angpow. ":D

Dear got me a Cateye blinker for my rear rack! It will be useful!!! :D

Happy Birthday Juliana! It's been a great year so far and more to come! Good health, happy moods, awesome people, and huat ah! 

It's been a while since the last real post.  Life's been going by way too fast and i'm losing track of so many things.

Been on 2 hikes in the past few weeks.  There was the trip with Mich and Chiu to Gunung Berembun in Negeri Sembilan to see the crash site of this RAF plane that went missing just after WWII.  It was discovered some good 40+ years later by the local village people.  It was an easy hike made tough by the only fact that we were overly enthusiastic about bringing lots of fancy foods for our meals.  As usual, we were lucky with the weather and the camp at the summit was pleasant.  It was my first hike using the kampung adidas shoes (1-piece rubber shoes commonly used by rubber tappers) and they sure were grippy and pretty comfortable.

Last weekend was the trip to Broga, Tabur East and Cape Rachado with Biggie.  Broga's been on my list for a while and i'm pretty glad to be able to tick it off.  It's truly a scenic place with minimal torture to reach the top to watch the sunrise.  However, the terrain is such that it would be really slippery if it rained, so we were extremely lucky to enjoy the dry weather.

Tabur East was a quartz hill; not too tall, but with an optional vertical rock wall to the summit.  This rock wall was the most dangerous part of the trip.  It is doable by most people's standards, but it has not much room for error.  If somebody slipped and didn't manage to catch the rope, forget about anybody saving him/her from either the top or the bottom.  However, the main parts of the hike are generally easy and there's a good view of the reservoir, dam and the surrounding.

Cape Rachado had a lighthouse that overlooked the battle between the Dutch and the Portugese in the 1600s.  We could go up a narrow spiral staircase and check out the view of the surrounding from the top.  i was busy trying to look out for the huge stack of Jimah Power Plant (as per boss' and colleague's suggestion) but i guess Cape Rachado was probably around a bend, or Jimah was a bit too far away.

i kinda like these little trips, but it does zap a good amount of leave, money and energy.  Next trip to look forward to is a hike (again) at Fraser.  We have already planned for Bromo in August which i'm also looking forward to.  2015 is really a hiking year for me, mainly because the girls in the group are training for their big hikes.  i was about to sign up for an EBC trip in November some weeks back when the earthquake struck.  i had already asked my boss if i could take time off for that, and was looking into getting the air tickets and making the deposit for the trip, and it happened.  Tourism is a huge part of their economy and it will definitely take them a while to recover, especially with the land still being quite unstable and quakes still happening.

And since EBC doesn't seem to be on for me, i'm contemplating Japan for hiking and watching Toshinobu Kubota's concert.

We shall see...

Colleagues got me chrysanthemum tea and lozenges because I was sick... 太感动了!!!!!

In all that anxiety, I picked the hell out of my left thumb and it is hurting right now... :(:(:( What a vicious cycle of pain and agony and anxiety...

Lovely, lovely evening with the office folks... of course finishing a bottle of macallan 18 plus xo along the way. They are a crazy and damn fun bunch.  Just sad that someone will be leaving in a month because without her, the dynamics will be different. 

It's been a pretty rough week... i was rushing my work.  i had a deadline end of last week and was struggling to finish up the stuff that i had to submit.  It was also our FYE, and i was handed over the task of corresponding with our Thai agent.  Tonnes of emails came in and most needed action of some sort.  It would have been manageable under the usual circumstances, but because of the deadline, i felt somewhat lost and drowning.  Timing was just bad.  But fortunately (or unfortunately), it was not a difficult decision to stay a bit longer in office over some days, and turn up in office on the PH to clear some work.

But the time out of office was good.  On Saturday, Chiu and i had an impromptu outing to Science Centre to check out the blood red moon eclipse.  We were slightly late and didn't manage to see the red moon, but we got to peep through the telescope and see the moon up close.

Didn't quite feel like riding much, so the rest of the time was bumming around.  On Good Friday, Biggie and i wanted to check out the LKY exhibition at the National Museum, but we didn't managed to make it there because we got totally distracted by the futon and kitchen ware in Takashimaya on our journey there.  We even bought a 1g 24k gold bar each from the vending machine we passed by on the way to the departmental store...  Anyway, the news reported that the queue at the museum was 4 hours, so it was a blessing that we didn't go there.

For now, i shall start the new week fresh and straight.

i shall get enough rest and proper food for the week, so that my body will be in good form for next weekend's hike at Gunung Berembun.

:|

I realise that there is nobody harsher on me than myself. Expectations, expectations, expectations.

So somebody ended up flying my aeroplane and the Melaka trip for the weekend didn't happen.  He only told me at 8pm the night before we were supposed to leave that he had urgent work issues to settle.  

i now remember why i like going on solo trips.

If he had told me earlier, i might have been more mentally prepared to go on my own.  Touring in Malaysia is just one of those things that i've been wanting to do, so it would have been really nice to check it off my list.  

And my boss was being really cute by sending some whatsapp messages that morning to console me.  It did perk me up a bit.

i am contemplating next weekend though...  Let's see if it happens!

Although it's a tad late right now, there are a couple of things that i wanna put down in words before i forget.

Last week, i got to talk to this guy whom our company seems to have some business dealings with... (no idea what, but i think maybe we purchase stainless steel from the company he's working for).  He rode into our office because his car was sent for repairs, and after talking for a few minutes, we somehow decided to keep in touch to go touring.  Before i know it, i'm on for a cycle trip to Melaka.  O.O  i agree too fast before i can regret, but that's what the game is all about.

And my boss was sooooooo nice.  Yesterday, upon hearing the plan, he was so concerned about us not making to the destination or running into some trouble halfway, he told me to leave my line on during the trip... and i said, "Are you going to come and pick us up if we cannot make it ah?".  And yes, that was his emergency plan for us.  AWWWWWWWW!!!!!!  i cannot, not even with infinite words, explain how touched i am by this thoughtful gesture.  Really, really awesome guy.

Today was good and not-so-good news day.
Good news: i'll be getting a pay raise from next month!  :D
Not-so-good news: My colleague just gave her 2-month resignation notice.  :(

Okay, time for sleep.

Great People = Great Company

Not so drunk silly, but quite silly drunk still... 4 ppl 4 bottles of wine, plus cycled home. We were going crazy in office, it was fun and funny!! Love the dynamics of this crazy, seemingly 乖 bunch of admin ppl + boss who guzzle... :p

Had a great dinner at Boon Lay Raja restaurant with the scooby gang (as termed by dear).  Our theme was "The Wedding of Esther Chan and Juliana Tan" because it was an ol' skool Chinese restaurant. It's my second yusheng toss for the new year and it's certainly the most fun one to date, with at least 30% of the yusheng on the table.  

Just 2 days back, i was asking boss for his review on the Japanese whiskey Hibiki because of Darryl's request for this little gathering we were going to have.  i didn't manage to buy it for the gathering, but the next day, boss brought us office girls to Asia Square Building to show us where he grabs his drinks from, and then we had lunch there.  He got a bottle of Hibiki 17 years and we had some... and there's just a bit left right now.  Really nice stuff with a good flavour, not as light as the Macallan, not smokey like the Lephroaig 18 nor the Ardbeg Uigeadail.  It's terrible that all the whiskeys that boss shares among us are the better ones, because it makes the 10-12 year whiskeys totally pale in comparison - i thought i was drinking poison when i was having a Chivas 12 one fine evening... We all think our boss is incredibly generous to be sharing these with us though.  :)  i feel so bad to always suan him.

It's the festive season and i'm happily eating and drinking way off the limit.  No amount of moving can burn away all that input... but i shall try anyway.

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Starring Alvin, Theodore and Simon!

i constantly tell myself that although i haven't had pay increment from my previous job to the current one, i'm glad that with this new job, i have been less stressed and haven't been falling sick.  This means a lot to me because in the last year of my previous job, i would fall sick (e.g. major cold, fever, etc) once every 2-3 months.  i'm feeling in the pink of health and with some level of fitness now, albeit getting slightly heavier with the feasting...

On a side note, after changing the left lens of my glasses last week, i've been feeling less tired although i've been having a bunch of late nights.  A correct prescription really makes such a big difference although it was off by just 50 degrees.  The original one was wrong right from the start (which was 1.5 years ago).

Today's ride was awesome.  We went with some guys from the new mtb meetup group.  Our group of 7 somehow managed to squeeze ourselves with the dismantled bikes into this small van and still feel quite roomy.  Organiser Fabio linked us up with a riding group from Malaysia side and they brought us to a trail at Seri Alam.

Dry, fast, smooth, fun.  Extremely good weather and a good 23km of trail done.  The group was going very, very fast though, and most of the time we were just trying to catch up, but fun nevertheless.

Good group too.  :)

Hopefully another time soon.

"i want to tell you, i think our feelings are reciprocal.  However, i must remain silent and you shall never tread further, not even in your deepest subconsciousness.  The time is not right and will never be in this lifetime.  Acknowledge it and move on.  We have another bigger common goal and we will achieve it in due time."

- annonymous

OCD-ness

My OCD side suddenly came to life after we came home, so i ended up doing a wipe-down of my room.  Love the lingering fragrance of lemongrass.

Me: (sent a photo of samosas to X)

X: Idiot

X: You trying to turn me on

EPIC!!!!!!  

Fine, this is a private joke... about somebody's extreme liking for samosas.

On Sunday morning, we rode over to check out the progress of the house.  It's going to be ready by the 1st quarter of 2016!!!!!!  That is a whooping 1.5 years off the contracted TOP date!!!!  WAHOOOOO YOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

This is totally crazy.  i can't explain that excitement and happiness we felt when we saw the words on the board.

And we had to take a wefie at the site... and biggie said that the entire public bus load of people passing by were looking at us clowns...

BUT HECK IT!!!!  WE ARE GETTING OUR HOUSE IN A YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  YESS LAAAA!!!!!

And i continue to swing up and down with the happening of events...

My aunty passed away this morning.  She's my mother's father's brother's son's wife (i.e. my mother's sister-in-law) and they lived together last time.  When my mother's uncle passed away, my aunty took good care of my mother despite having no blood ties with her.  This unconditional love is something that my mother is eternally grateful for.  i've grown up seeing her around and every CNY (before the time she became bound by the wheelchair), she would cook curry for us.  i don't talk much to her because my Teochew is in bits, but i can remember the way she smiles and calls my name.

She's in a better place right now.  RIP aunty.

Awesome little gathering at my place

Happened to bump into a jc classmate while he was emceeing at jem last Saturday, and we decided to organise a small gathering at my place for the westies just to catch up. 

He brought along his wii and we had absolutely too much fun with it.  I swear I was laughing way too much during the games. I get reminded of why I loved this bunch of friends so much back in those school days.  Give me a choice, I would still walk the same path just to meet these people in my next life. 

:D

I take this as a very positive and happy 2015 start.