Jay Chou Concert 2010

Finally, the long awaited Jay Chou concert! How many hours have I spent sitting in front of the computer, clicking the refresh button every few seconds just to get myself a pair of tickets. I actually forgot all about it on the final day of ticket sales, but managed to secure 2 pairs (for mingte too) eventually. But the performance was definitely worth the price and effort! Love how he changes tunes and especially the lyrics, to keep his singapore fans screaming :) Wish I could have been in the front row though, to shake his hand! His singing ability is fantastic, didn't show any signs of fatigue right until the last song 霍元甲， which i think was unplanned since there weren't any lyrics shown. He was super high, as were we, and he insisted on ending the song with chants of 新加坡，新加坡 HAHA. Damn high, the whole stadium was filled with our chanting. I wish it didn't have to end so soon, I wanted to hear songs like 发如雪、菊花台...too many songs to choose from le la. It'll probably be very hard to choose songs in another ten years. Oh and halfway through the concert he tried to make us all stand. "椅子不是用来坐的，是用来放包包的。。。我知道新加坡人很害羞的，你们不站，我就不唱！”Heh. So we obligingly stood for the rest of the concert. Which isn't a bad thing, I find it's easier to get high this way.

...I'm already looking forward to his next concert in singapore! :)

Night safari on a random monday

Yup looking at our one and only photo we took at the night safari I realised I haven't blogged about it at all. Haha. So on a random monday, I forgot which day was it, yixin and I set off from AMK mrt on a very old bus that makes a lot of noise to the night safari. It was a long trip, we should have taken the bus from CCK instead.

There weren't a lot of singaporeans, the place was mostly filled with tourists from all over the world. Not much food to choose from, given that a plate of chicken noodles sell for $15 there. We settled for the more reasonable western food, and ate by candlelight. Haha. First thing we did when we entered the safari was to queue up for the "Creatures of the Night" show. We took the photo while waiting for the show to start! :) Yea specs on, so I won't miss anything heh. Hmm, i remembered the crowd freaking out when they announced that they lost an animal and it turned out to be a snake? python? hiding beneath a row of seats. And the cute otters too, trying hard to toss metal cans into the recycle bins. I suspect they are the same little otters at the zoo.

After the show we hopped onto the tram and looked at animals. The deer came especially close! We hopped off halfway to take the leopard trail. We did see a lot of leopards, but I was more fascinated by the fruit bats! The small little things just fly around the enclosure and amongst the visitors, as if we don't exist. Some of them were happily gnawing at their fruit, placed strategically along the pathway so that we get to see their cute manner. The flying foxes looked a little scarier, hanging from the trees upside down and looking as though they might transform into a vampire anytime. Not a bad thing though! We went to another enclosure with the red flying squirrels, but they were more interested in eating than fly around. Such a pity, I wanted to see a real flying squirrel in action.

There are 4 walking trails in total to cover, but we were so tired after taking the tram back that we headed straight home. A bit wasted! If I'm ever going back again, I'm going to get more sleep the night before and wear comfy shoes.

PANDAMEN ♥

Finally, two more days of work and I'll be free! Been slacking a lot these few days, usually I spend my afternoons watching PANDAMEN ♥ It really isn't that bad, not the worst that I've watched so far. Love the behind-the-scenes after every episodes, I get to see Jay working hard. 认真的男人最美丽！

Finished the second book Daniel lent me - 楼下的房客. Immediately after putting down the book I googled the song "Gloomy Sunday", and it gave me all the creeps. I know the myths about it being linked to suicides is not true, but when associated with the storyline...I cannot fully explain it here, but imagine this scene: A petite lady, wearing a silky white dress, makes her way down the dim staircase, dragging with her a large black garbage bag. The uncomfortable dull thuds the bag makes with each step, the light yet crisp sound of her heels, and her quiet humming of "Gloomy Sunday". The bag breaks, a streak of red substance appears, and the sight of a head with 2 pencils stuck in each eye... Yea, that scene was even more vividly described in the book, in chinese! Urghh I'm having goosebumps just writing about it here.

On a happier note, er, urghh that image, yea I shall write about what I've learnt during this period of work. I've definitely met a lot of people I wouldn't have a chance to meet if I were to remain in my current social circle. Shiyun Qiaohan and I are probably the only people in the office to have been in university. Most of the rest graduate from ITE. The way they speak is definitely not what we get to hear every day, but they do know of things that I usually don't think about. It's like, their problems are more related to their survial, literally, like having money to feed themselves. Me? I worry all day long about not getting a scholarship to please my mum. It's the same issue - money, but somehow I feel my worries are superficial. And then I get to talk to the older girls too, and learn that they think the young ones are too immature. The older girls are more experienced in their way of handling work and people, they don't show displeasure or complain openly, but talk about it in private. I'm like stuck in the middle - I can relate to the younger ones (actually almost my age) and I can hold a conversation well with the older ones. In a way, I get the best of both worlds! Ahaha. My Excel skills have also improved loads! But I don't think I'll do a lot of excel work in my future career.

Hmm, looking forward to Jay's concert next next Sunday!

Eclipse+Our stories

I watched ECLIPSE today! Was very high throughout the movie, I think it's much better than the previous two. I'm so gonna get the DVD when it comes out. It's a good balance between romance and action and some sense of brotherhood (the alliance between the vamps and werewolves). Oh, and the new vamp RILEY is super good-looking :)

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We celebrated our 3rd year on 24th June. It was pretty much a normal night out, in order to make it more special, I made him go to IMM with me. Just thought we haven't been there for quite some time. He was all for going to causeway point like always, and spend the night playing arcade-.-How unromantic. We had dinner at Ichiban (still, like always), but I made the effort to be very happy and not be angry with him for whatever reasons. It turned out to be a very joyous night, especially after he gave me his 'present'. It's an essay, documenting our story from his point of view. Shall share some parts of it here:

我第一次注意到妳的时候是某个破冰游戏当中。记得好像是叫“狗与狗骨头”吧？不管啦，名字不重要，重要的是我俩的邂逅。还记得，你当时站在我的对面，一眼望去，是觉得蛮漂亮的。最吸引我的地方应该是你的马尾和眼睛吧。就觉得以后的女朋友是这样就好了。当天回家途中，友人问我班上女孩怎么样，你的样貌立即浮现脑海。

6月24日。我还依稀记得，2年前的那一天，我有多么高兴，自顾自地手舞足蹈，欢庆这从天而降的礼物。6个月的追逐，终于获得回报，我暗自庆幸自己的运气不错.

感觉上，德光岛好似监狱一般，一个巨型的鸟笼。目送着你们离开，尤其是你，我差点落泪了。

每个人都说，当兵有女朋友不好，容易分手。我觉得，女朋友好的话，不用怕，她会和你一起渡过难关。谢谢你，我的亲爱的.

我现在只希望做一个简简单单的老师，成家立业，将你迎娶过来。服兵役的两年里看来并没有预期中的无聊。我们三年的纪念日近了。在这富有纪念性的一天，我却只想和你在一起吃一顿简单的一餐。好期待。

Haha. I gave him a hug after reading the whole thing and made him very happy too. After that we went out to the open area (rooftop garden?!) and watched kids running around, as well as a couple playing tic-tac-toe in the playground. It felt very nice :)

So I shall share here an incomplete version of our love story, from my point of view. I don't know how long I'll take to finish it, or if I'll ever finish it. We were planning to sell it at our wedding for some income. Haha. Here it is:

今天是我们的三周年纪念日。也是我读完「那些年，我们一起追的女孩」的这一天。现在满脑子流窜着万种情绪，让人耳晕目眩。我想要写出我们的故事-一段很平 凡，平凡得很幸福的恋爱故事。少了海枯石烂，天真烂漫的故事。
我们的相遇，发生在初院迎新会的第一天。他的说法是，在玩「狗与狗骨头」（很奇怪的 名字，游戏的内容是两队有相同号码的人，在号码被喊出时要去抢夺一个破水瓶。。。因为是初次见面，所以异常卖力，免得被冠上「弱者」这种丢人的称号。）的 时候，我站在他对面，他对我一见钟情。
肤浅的男人-.-
而我，对他一点印象都没有。他就是这么的不出众。
接下来几天，我开始发 现李一新这个人的存在。因为他还真是阴魂不散。我记得他当我的舞伴时，双手抖得我都不能好好跳舞，只注意到他好像不怎么愿意握紧我的手。我还对他说，别紧 张，放轻松。后来我问他，才发现他是很有心机地让自己无时无刻都在我的视线内，这样做任何活动他都能名正言顺跟我腻在一起。
真是奸诈。
正 式开学了，他被推选（或者说，陷害）为班长，而我成为副班长。彼此间的互动也随着增加。向来自认对爱情很有经验的我，却是最后一个了解他的心意的人。大概 因为他真的不太符合我的择偶条件吧，所以根本没去想那一块。朋友暗暗的戏弄，快速进展至明目张胆的「代替表白」。当时的他，在「留校读书」的掩护下，每天 都陪我坐在class bench（那是一个属于每个班的，很普通的bench）然后陪我回家。而且是很搞笑的。我们在class bench挥手告别后，等到我已经坐在巴士站里，他才会假装也要回家的样子来一起等车。仿佛刻意避嫌似的。他家在bukit batok，却硬是要搭40分钟一趟的67号然后中途换车。第一次追求喜欢的人，是应该要这么白痴的吧。
嗯，他没多久就向我告白了。那天上课时， 李明德当着全班的面跟老师说一新有喜欢的人。李明德是一新最好的朋友，现在也是我很要好的朋友。明德立刻被一新毒打了一顿，男生间解决事情的办法，只有暴 力。好像不愿我从别人口中听说似的，那天傍晚，他笑得像只无尾熊缓缓走到巴士站。
「你。。。知道我喜欢你吧。」
「知道啊。」我故作轻松地 说，心跳加速。并不是因为喜欢他，而是被告白时的自然反应。
「那。。。你觉得怎样？」
这，应该不是告白时该说的话吧。当下也不知道该回什 么，就说「很好啊。」被喜欢的感觉，是很好的。也忘了是怎么打发他的，只记得热热的双颊。
就这样，他展开了为期半年的追求。

遗憾

Shiyun and charmaine must be at work already. It's gonna be an exciting day, after all, not every day you get to see someone get sacked. I feel like I'm 幸灾乐祸-ing.

Yea I left off last post saying how I was excited about the new colleagues coming in. And they sure brought a lot of life to the office. A little too much life though. A colleague calls them the market - "the sell pork one, sell chicken one, sell fish one, sell smth-else-i-can't-rmb one" But it's probably 'cause they don't know the rules, so we made it known that no fb-blogging-msn what not is allowed during office hours (I feel quite sad myself, but often there's so much to do I don't have the spare time to go online). By the second day it was pretty obvious that only two were making all the noise, and one of them has horrible working attitude. Shiyun almost went to pieces teaching her. Haha. Like what charmaine says, shiyun can explode into a werewolf anytime just like Jacob. Ahaha. So yea, the management is kicking her out. I'm so curious about what's happening right now in office!
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读着那本《那些年，我们追过的女孩》，总让我感慨人生的很多遗憾。在我生命里陪着我成长的人很多，从他们的身上我看到该前进的目标。但是，引用很老套的话，这些人就像蜡烛似的，在点亮了我的人生后默默熄灯，不复存在。是不是所有好事都得有个尽头，所有想套在身边的人都不能贪心地留住。只能在拥有彼此的日子里，真心地对待。

是吧，也只能这样了。

Life now seems to be more interesting than when I first started working. Of course I still wake up unwillingly at 6.30am every day, thinking how nice it would be if I could continue sleeping. Then I would drop out of bed and make my way to the bathroom with one eye closed (with both eyes closed on rainy mornings), and mumble something to my dad along the way. He always sits at the dining table at 6.30am, reading newspapers from the day before. After washing up and eating I would go and wait for bus 300 which comes like every 5 minutes but I usually can only get on the 3rd one. Then mrt to woodlands, bus 964 to work. That was pretty much the routine for the past few weeks.

Now I wait for 300 at sunshine instead so I can sit down. At cck I almost always meet a friend who works at tampines, but takes the train to woodlands too. At woodlands I meet qiaohan to go to work together, so it feels less lonely now. I used to dread going to work because I didn't know what I was working for, but now I know what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from charmaine, a full time staff who's our age and hangs out a lot with us now. I'm also getting to know our logistics head better, and his instructions seem a little more understandable now. Just found out that he's a fan of 九把刀, and he generously lent me two of his favourite books. I'm quite addicted to the one I'm reading now - 那些年，我们一起追的女孩. I think my immune system has gotten used to the air in the office, so I don't fall sick. I don't even get too bothered by unpleasant stuff happening in office already, because having great people around me makes everything better. Also, having classmates working in the same office means a lot more common topics to talk about. Almost every day we find something about yixin to discuss (...more like niao him, heh).

Tomorrow new colleagues are gonna come in. I'm looking forward to how things will turn out, given that employment hasn't been very successful in our office. I'm actually excited about tomorrow! Haha. Time for sleep!

Knocking off soon!

I'm spending the last few minutes of work to blog now! I THINK I've done enough for today. Haha.

So Susan has left work, and should be happily getting ready for her trip to taiwan. If only I could go along with her. Work doesn't hold much motivation for me now, only dearest friends at work keep me going. Even money does not entice me much. I hope my future career will provide a more enriching working experience. I think it will anyway, what can be more enriching than seeing all sorts of patients everyday!

Today I had pig large intestines and pig leg for lunch! Shared it with shiyun. The portion was really little, so we weren't full after the meal. Went to buy some snacks that are super unhealthy...and it's time for home! byebye!