Chinese New Year : A Prelude

Counting down the days to the Lunar Chinese New Year, an approximate 4 days.

Just had a quiz yesterday, 4 questions, 2 screwed. Hopefully I can pass... sigh... Who in the right mind would give a quiz in the week right before chinese new year anyway?!

In the school computer lab now. Suppose to be having class on library reseach skills. Blah.. I am not in the correct condition now.. stomach aching (has been like tat for the past few days) Its not exactly the poopy kind of ache.. something is wrong...

Vacuumed my room for the first time this year today. Cleared out some junk too.. Just heard a friend's Toshiba notebook went into some accident. Not quite an accident anyway because she didn't know what happened or what she did to it. Sad case. Apparently, she suddenly found a 3 by 1 cm crack on her LCD screen. Ouch! I asked a schoolmate of mine for the possible causes.. perhaps my friend hugged it too hard, she rested the laptop with the LCD screen at the bottom.. this would cause stress on the screen and quite possibly, result in a crack. So, NEVER rest your notebook face down.

So I was supposed to be talking about the Chinese New Year. It was definitely something I look forward to in the past, when your age begins with 1. aRgh. Now, not only the ang-pao money will shrink dramatically, the number of (awkward) questions nosey relatives ask will be never-ending. The cooking, entertaining, talking, smiling, gossiping, feasting a common norm at my place on the first day of the new year. That's why I dread New Year.. more work for my family.

Going to other people's house is quite a chore too. Usually you'll be stuck at a friend's or relative's house for the whole day just bumming around doing nothing, or perhaps doing what is usually termed "socialising". So usually I would try to kill time snacking.. the most interesting and least tiring thing to do... sigh

My ideal new year would be a holiday. But I realised the youngsters these days (including me.. haha) are too "westernised" to notice the importance of the chinese new year. I am ashamed of myself in a way, and in another way, perhaps all the zest I once had has been eaten away by bad habits of people who goes to other people's house and mess up everything.. people who smiles and stabs you in the face.. cousins who can't stop comparing who has more designer label clothes, whose bf is more hunky.. the list goes on.

Okay okay.. not all my relatives are so bad. There are nice ones too. Hmm.. new year will come and go.. so I'll just shut my eye and wait for it to go away.. hahaha

A guy from my secondary school

I was cleaning my room and I came across a bag full of greeting cards that old friends sent to me. I felt really bad looking at that bag because I received so much from friends and yet I gave so little. I was really unappreciative in the past really.

Just let me name a few.. the highest hits of cards sent to me were Cuixia, ruby, Irene, Ying wen, yihui, peishi... etc.etc. Not arranged in order though. I really want to thank these people and I want to apologize for not thanking them any earlier.

I came across one card halfway through the bag. Its a card plus letter from a certain guy called Jason from my 4E2 class... I read the letter (as though for the first time, cause its too faraway a time to really remember.) and I felt so bad for the things I've done. A certain teddy bear was "disemboweled" because I rejected it. At the end of the secondary four year, I received another present. A dog soft toy (I really liked cats, you see). Together with the card and letter of coz. The second time round I kept all three things. I guess I was too immature to handle situations like this in the past. To begin with, I was rather insensitive to people's feelings.

The whole point is, I want to apologize to this Jason from my class. Even though its not that important now, I still want to say my sorry.

Just last year, I was celebrating my birthday at Swensons' (Jurong Point) with my ntu friends, I saw Jason. I was really happy to see he has gotten himself a very pretty girlfriend. Good going! But I didn't say hi to him, and perhaps he didn't see me or something. Though I thought maybe we can start being friends again (we weren't really friends in school cause I was a big time mean-nie).

There's no amount of sorries I can say for the way I behaved... too many bad things I've done to too many people.....

Mei Xian's Birthday

DO-RE-MI-FA-SO

(From left: Daniel Jonathan Meixian Irene Me)

Scandalous Pic

Revealed....


feeling exhilarated after eating my "tofu"....

testing the camera...

Cats do similar funny things

My Xiao Mao

Lee's Linus

The New Year is like the Old Thing now

Yeah, especially after school started. Its back to the rat race again. Chasing lectures and tutorials and hopefully catching sufficient sleep at night to prepare for another day's mad chase.

I've had funny dreams these days. Dreamt horribly sad dreams about people in my secondary school band, but there were funny parts too, out of this world.

The weather is still not getting any drier. On the contrary, the duration of downpours just gets longer and longer. Everything seems so grey and its super hard to get out of bed.

My brother is now dating a girl 3 years older than him, working as a sales executive at a printer company. Pay ard 3k... man.. what does that girl see in my brother? I'm not trying to "pour cold water" all over him, but seriously its hard to imagine a working person would be interested in a poor lad like my bro. I really just dun want him to be made use of by that girl or get cheated.

Basically my week was uneventful. Common in entries during the school sem. I foresee myself blogging a thousand new entries complaining and whinning about the suck-i-ness of school.

Jolene gave me a pretty unique key chain she got from thailand. Its a green condom. Special. Good educational tool to tell people to practice safe sex. (Wahaha)

New Ear

I thought maybe this new year deserves a better entry than the 6 piece of effortless s***.

By the way, I also thought this new year, everyone deserves a new ear. Discard the old ear that has been accustomed to filtering out too many things before it gets to the brain. I hope everyone uses their new ear to open their minds. I wish for myself too. Oopz, and also to listen to the lecturer instead of snoozing in the lecture hall. Well, unless the lecturer is helluva snooze enhancer of some sort.

Listen to your family and friends. Listening is one of the greatest life skill I realize.... it makes people want to talk to you because they need someone to listen to them. So, always listen and don't fight to talk.

First day of school is like... tomorrow. A friend asked me whether I bought my school shoes from Bata already. Lame like ass. But actually I realize I actually miss those days where I was really excited about school. Days where I can't sleep the night before school day. Sometimes I was so anxious I even dreamt of the buses at my primary school all changed their numbers and I couldn't find the bus 61 or 852 to take me back home. Now it doesn't seem that way. First day of school I already feel like skipping. Only 1 hour of lecture. A mixture of dread and fear. Fear the exams that will come at the end of this semester. Dread the long days that are to come. I tried to be excited about school to feel less bored by it (learnt this from a friend). So I printed all the notes that were posted on edventure. Looking at them made me even more bored. Wrong move. One thing I'm glad is that I'll be with my usual lab mates again. At least I don't have to waste so much time on that 1 au.

The past month of holiday feel so wasted. Didn't accomplish much. Rotted mostly at home. My usual waking hours have become 1pm. Sleeping hours like 3am in the morning. My clock is screwed. And the thought of waking at 7 will kill me instantly.

My cat is biting people (ME) very often. Even when it is not being irritated. And teething won't go on for so long, will it? It needs a mother cat to discipline it. Sigh... or maybe its too late now? I think its 3 months old already. And I don't suppose anyone has an experienced mother cat to lend me anyway.

Weather please turn a little warmer please. I hate going out on wet days. My feet gets wet and slippery, it sucks. And I don't like to wear "winter" clothings. I like my tee shirts!.. Sweaters and cardigans are troublesome I feel. Argh... and I can't really bear to bathe my cat in such weather. It will be shaking incontrollably even after I rub it dry already. I even saw it sneeze a couple of times. Now its smelling like a pair of worn socks. Stinko.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR

(I'm too lazy to sms.. oOpz!)