Wednesday, February 15, 2006

yesterdae was 14 February or the so called Valentine's Day as commonly known. Below was what i did yesterday.

8.30am: Woke up, feeling still a bit shag but had to wake up because lesson was at 10.30am

10.30am: Arrived at Communications Lab 2. Most of them were late. My classmate, Michelle came in. All of us oogled at her. While most of us looked at her because she was dressed to kill, i focused my attention on her LV Monogram bag. WTF, does she need to bring a LV bag to school?? ahha

12.30pm: Lesson ended. Ate chum chye peng or mixed vegetable rice for the first time during lunchtime because the queue wasn't very long. Maybe because most people skipped school or went somewhere glam to celebrate the special day. A lot of gers had roses with them.No comments.

1.30pm: IT Lab. Searching information for my AA201 case study. After 1hr, nothing much was useful.

2.30pm: Access Lab. Project discussion with my 202 project mates. Have to do up my part of the project by sunday. More work on the pipeline.

4.30pm: AA201 seminar. Prof was as funny as usual. Enjoyed the lesson but hoping to go home cos i was sleepy.

600pm: Lesson ended early. Felt quite hungry as i decided to drop by JP to grab a bite.

645pm: JP. Got swarmped by the usual crowded at JP during peak hours. Cursed when i saw the god damn long queue at KFC. Come on, i just wanted a small whipped potato. Couples can be so kian pengz to eat in KFC when they have spent hundreds on the gifts. What mentality? got a small Macdonalds' fries instead.

700pm: Train. On my way back home. Saw couples with flowers as well. Wonder how much the florists earned on one bouquet of flowers.

720pm: Food court. Dinner with my parents. Ordered a plate of hokkien mee. Small portion and knew from the start the food couldn't last me for the night.

845pm: started to work on case study report again. Frustrated because i dun really know the answer and got more confused as i progressed.

0100am: Decided to stop for the night and played xbox for 15 mins before sleeping.

This is how i spend my Valentine's Day. Sounds similar to my any other day. Period.



Tuesday, February 07, 2006

It would be a sensitive entry so here goes:


My mum came back from work yesterday evening and she found a bag with two madarin orange hanging on my door handle.She asked both my brother and i if we knew who did the act. Then my brother said he saw an old lady walked past earlier.

Both my mum and i had a sudden realization who this old lady is. She is an old hunched back old lady who lives in my neighbourhood and we got to know her because she comes to us for used old newspaper to sell regularly. She always comes with a trolley and my mum would save our newspaper for us while i would help by loading the newspaper onto her trolley.

It must be her. It could not be anyone else. And the recurrent thought of the act just sent me a wave of feelings while i was eating my dinner and my eyes went wet liaoz. Am i crazy or wat? i doubt i am. I tell u how i felt at that time.

Do u realise most of us are just caught up with our material pursuits, like mugging like crazy for our quizzes or racking our brains on how to impress during presentations and forgot the little things in life? What my mum and i did was so insignficant to most people, just saving our newspapers and helping her out. I dun even think i would list the act as the most signficant thing done on a particular day. Yet the fact that this old lady went the distance of giving us madarin orange during New Year shows her little appreciation of my family.

It is not about the orange. It's about the act. What may seems insignficant to us may mean a whole lot to others. I am touched by this old lady's small token and it made me kinda emotional. It makes me very appreciative of the small things around me and made me slow down my pace to think about things beside school, money etc. I have been taught a lesson on life. Probably a lesson cannot be learnt in NTU.

In this new year forget how much hongbao money u have received or if u are going to win the 10 million dollars Toto. I am bestowed the most valuable new year gift. Hope all of you would be inspired by my this little story.



Friday, February 03, 2006

Oh, am i just fucking depressed bcos CNY holidays are over which means my slacking days are practically over. *sad*

And it doesn't help when i am god damn busy next week. My schedule next week => 2 quizzes( monday and wed), 2 reports to churn out( one for competition and one for my accounting) and project meeting. On my mind these days are just jetting off to bangkok for a shopping trip. I cannot resist the thoughts that i can live like a king in Thailand. Things down there are dirt cheap, though the locals are treating us like one big fat carrot head.

I told chang and grace of my intended holiday. They totally frowned upon my idea of booking a private van of our own so i can go where ever i want to. And worse, they are going to dump me in the thai temple in the event that i am going to visit one. *Silence* Come on, what is a thailand trip if we are not going to pray and visit those ancient buddhist temple? I can't just shop for 5 fucking days ritez? My purse doesn't allow me to lahz. Engage in some cheap and meaningful activities lahz.

Talking about shopping, i am going to break loose if i am going over to Thailand. I am going to drag back a ton of clothes, pirated branded goods and shoes. I suggest to grace and chang that we go directly to those wholesalers to buy our stuffs lahz( and this is where my private mini van comes in handy) but they rejected me out right. U see, why do we allow the shops to earn extra and moreover, i am thinking those factory wholesaler would have the latest and entire factory of goods. I can choose and buy until no day no night.

How how how, this intended trip only happens in July and now it is only Feb. The long wait is unbearable. Anyway, if i want to go in end Apr IMMEDIATELY after my exams, anyone free to go? 3 to go just need another 2 more ppl and we can jet off liaoz!!!