Too Tired to Blog

Work has been a non stop ride ever since I came back. I never had time to breathe or get back into momentum, but was just forced along with the wave that hit me.

It's made me realise that the next holiday I take has gotta be a relaxing one.. where maybe I just float around a pool (with reference to what Tianshi did) and imagine I'm just a piece of wood in this world, or stare blankly at a blue ocean with the sea breeze tickling my face, as though I were just a grain of sand on the beach.

Rushing around in cities is fun but it doesn't help much in recharging.

I'm too tired to blog abt the trip though I would love to keep a journal of this adventure we've just been through.

Anyway, just for a note, yesterday awards show was probably the first time I enjoyed myself in so many years that I've been there. Why? because it was just hilarious and you never fail to get amazed by what they can come up with in times of need. As usual, air pork australia was the main sponsor of the event.

But eventually, to beat the wave of fh fans exiting the venue, we left earlier to go to our favourite hk cafe where we sat for hours (people around us came and left) discussing our next plan on how to conquer the world. So.... World, here we come!!

We are Pinky and the Brain =P

*runs from SH*

Back to earth

After 13 days, 12 nights, 4 flights, 2 countries, 2 cities and 1 town, 2 highest points of the world, 3 airports, 1 concert, countless convenience stores, miles and miles of walking, and 2 months of salary burnt

We are back!! With these....


To be honest, I wished it wouldn't end. I didn't want to come back to this place.

Escapism? Maybe...
But we came back.. and I was faced with shocking news of more colleagues resigning. So when would it be my turn? Work would be different without them around if I were to stay on...

Or maybe it was the wonderful cool weather?
Or probably the fact that we didn't have other cares except to find our way around everyday and scout for interesting things.
If only life could be like this.. If only!
But if I were to live on like this, I would probably become obese.

I'll like to call our story..

THE ADVENTURES OF
ED, FLO & POOKIE

4 Oct 2007
Singapore > Taipei

5 Oct 2007
Taipei > Tokyo

9 Oct 2007
Tokyo > Kawaguchiko / Mt. Fuji

10 Oct 2007
Kawaguchiko > Tokyo > Taipei

16 Oct 2007
Taipei > Singapore

讓我們盡情的撒野

To 天使

Wanted to write this, not just because I know you like to read my blog (and to look for older entries to read) hehehe... but also because I will miss your last day at work.

We started work on the same day. Both with our own dreams in mind.
And we have truly come so far...

The late nights we worked together, sharing cabs home or meeting at our 'lao di fang' to catch a cab to events, chatting with you over msn even though you are seated just in front of me. I will definitely miss every bit of them all.

Sometimes I want to tell you to stay and not go. But it would be too selfish to do so.
I know you have your dreams to fulfill and a family to be responsible for.

This period of working with you, I feel you have done more for me than I have ever done for you. I'm a bad friend. Thank you for the breakfasts and patiently msging me every morning. Thank you for always listening to my complaints and frustrations. Thank you for lending me money whenever I was short of it =P. Thank you for the doraemon stuff, the pookie and the many many little thoughtful things you have done just for me.

Never have I had a deeper friendship with any colleague. And I'm so glad that you came into my life =). I'll miss walking into office and not seeing you when I come back.

Have a good break and start afresh at your new place.
Take good care of your stomach too. Don't always buy food and let them get cold before you eat. Eat hot and fresh food!!

你真的是我的天使, 保護著我的天使

(其實你是我們四個當中最不俗辣的嘛, 哈哈)

The moon is blue...

because I'm blogging again!!

This has been a very turbulent year.
with loved ones plagued with illnesses...
with friends around me getting married and having children...
with my best colleagues resigning from their job...

Yet 2007 has taught me a lot.

I learnt to understand how ambitions should come after those you care for.
As important as work may be, it should never take the place of a loved one.

But being the person I am, I still can't give up my responsibilities at work.
So, I am contemplating to leave my job.

The job that I believed so hard in...
The job I never dreamed I would get when I took the risk to leave NUS and take up the course at SAE.
The job that was one in a 4 million population of Singapore.
The job that my family discouraged me from accepting because of the unbelievably low pay that was an 'insult' to my educational achievements.
The job that I loved and still love so much because of the people I've met, the great friends I've made, an understanding boss that I probably cannot find easily in another job, and the many opportunities I've been given.
And for simply being a job that engulfs me in music.... the one thing that defines my life.

Ironically, it is not my idea of how music should be.
Music should be free...
It need not be perfect, but it should have a soul.

Unfortunately, it is not as glam as others make it out to be.
Its what you'll probably call.... feeling 'imbalanced'.
(when job responsibilities and workload exceeds the financial rewards)

Truthfully, it takes up too much of my time and energy..
That i'm afraid to make appointments with friends.. for fear of 'flying their kite' time and again.
That I have to make my bf on standby mode everyday, not knowing if I need to work overtime.
That I do not have enough time back home to talk to my parents, because I always return home to a dark and quiet house.

Sadly, my good friends are leaving too.
The place just loses it's meaning...
No more 'seesaw' trips.
No more pigout lunches.
No more catered breakfasts.
No more crazy laughter in the office and along the corridoors.
No more trying to record ourselves singing when everyone else is not around.
No more late night sessions of printing, packing, pasting and all sorts of art and craft.

I guess, all good things must come to an end.
But at least we all gained this great friendship.

Then we would never regret coming here. Because we all fulfilled a part of our own dreams here.
Let's move on and not look back.

To 天使, Bear and 雪人, I love you girls!!! =)

俗辣萬歲, 萬萬歲,!
Never forget our moto, 堅持到底!!!

七月雪

This morning I arrived at work as usual, turned on my msn.

Immediately a window popped out.
My taiwan colleague very excitedly asked me this question...

YL: 聽說新加坡下雪了?

I was dumbfounded. I even thought to myself.. did she mean literally snow... or metaphorically.
Not wanting to sound too stupid, I asked...

Me: 怎麼會下雪呢?

YL: 台灣新聞報說新加坡昨天下了十分鐘的雪....

!!!????!!??!??!

Hmm.. you mean it snowed... and I slept through it? or should taiwan news even be credible? I really started to doubt both the media, and myself

I wondered if it was really as she said...　你們都住在山洞裡

But, eventually, she really did dig out the article that reported this news.
Don't blink, coz here it is:

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全球氣候異常 新加坡出現七月雪！ 20070731

記者(謝佐人)

近來全球氣候異常，歐洲多國氣溫升高到攝氏40度，熱浪造成多人死亡，英國則慘遭豪雨水災肆虐，現在連亞洲的新加坡都出現七月雪的反常天氣。新加坡接近赤 道，向來四季如夏，近日連日降雨，而且從上週五開始就豪雨不斷；日前在雨中竟然夾雜著雪花，讓居民驚訝不已。當地媒體報導，這個雨中飄雪的奇景大約持續了 十分鐘，隨後雨勢減弱，雪花也消失。新加坡官員表示，以當地的氣候來說，只有在海拔五千公尺以上的地方才會出現冰雪，因此新加坡出現七月雪確實讓人驚訝。

From: http://times.hinet.net/news/20070731/recreation/8eb0c5954e2a.htm

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Really makes you wonder doesn't it?
But then if it's true, why isn't it on the headlines of our papers and the talking point of every kopitiam in Singapore now?

瘋狂世界

It's good to set a date to your goals... at least they start to appear within sight (and not just an empty concept).

2009. 03. 29
Will it happen as we hope?
Even if the idea changes along the way, this is a date we hope to meet.

And please don't start imagining it's a date where we're getting married or targetting to have kids.
Those who know us well enough, will know that these are things that always tend to be the last on our minds. So much so that to many people, we're probably the weirdest and most boring couple they know (who always talk about work, and do work.. when we're spending time together).

Watching other people trying to fulfill their dreams (those who failed, those we are working their way through now), it does make me skeptical of our own. Is ours just too big?

True... time is short, but it's not impossible.
All we need to do, is stay focused.

I think we're crazy, but life is short.
Its time to work hard. Really hard....

A little purple book contains this dream of ours.
As it fills up, the dream would also slowly fall into place
And by the time it fills up, I hope we would be truly ready to face the true challenge
Of a dream becoming reality