Long Read - It's Mid Feb 2023 already!

Oh my! How long have I not been here to write my thoughts or reflections? It's now 17 February 2013 and it's been a good Sunday so far...



Well, February is usually associated with that special day celebrated on the 14th. I've never celebrated it nor am I planning to anytime soon. There's no special one you see. Even if there is a special someone, I doubt 14th Feb would be celebrated any special than the rest of the other 364 days in the entire calendar.

So what have I been up to? I intended to further my studies but due to the circumstances etc, I've decided to put it on hold. Hopefully I'll be back to books and exams in 2014. Let's see how it goes..

2013 brought many changes to my work. Not to me personally but to my department. New TM team came on board.. Then my boss of 4 years left.. And soon a new boss will be coming on board with several others.. Many stories floating around but let's hope for the best shall we?

Going back to my no. 1 and forever obsession - SALMAN KHAN!!! How can I ever stop loving him I don't know.



Almost everyday I checked on him on twitter. I checked his photos on facebook. I googled news about him. I get sad and affected when I read bad or negative stories about him. I feel proud to be his fan when I read good news about him or if someone praised him. Kya karoon.. Our prem ki kahani started since I was 13 years old.. I can't really put a date to that exact moment when I really adored him and started to be his fan. What I remembered is I've always been exposed to Bollywood since young. Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Madhuri, Dil To Pagal Hain, Koyla... Maybe I knew SRK first before I was introduced to the person named Salman Khan. I started reading up about him since there were many negative stories being written about him. He was even called Bollywood Bad Boy! As I started reading up on him, I realised there's more layers to this man compared to what the media always wrote about him. Slowly and steadily I became pagal about him and now it's up in the open how much I love Salman Khan!

Everytime I thought the obsession and love has diminished, one look at the many photos of him or a quick look of his acting, the love and adoration start all over again!



I have love you then, still loving you now and will forever love you!

Quick Update - 2012 is coming to an end

In about one and a half hours time, we'll all enter into a brand new year 2013.
As much as I keep chanting "Brand New Year, Same Old Problem" to myself and people around me, I can't help feeling emotional about entering into a brand new year and leaving behind 365 days of 2012.

People often make resolutions for new year but I stop making it as I have never work towards any of my resolutions. For me, I live each day as it is and sometimes it does feel like its all a routine with no excitement happening in my daily life except some exciting moments courtesy from my workplace and the clients I deal with. But when I look at all the photos in Facebook, I must say I did had fun and had a meet-up with friends and colleagues. Maybe this is why I'm such a photo-hoarder. I like to keep pictures for memories.. I'm such an emo!

I just wish that 2013 will be a better year than what 2012 has been. Having said that, I'm not implying that 2012 has not been a good year. It has but I just hope that whatever happened in 2012, 2013 would just be a better year.

I earned my driving licence in September 2012 so that's something I can proudly say is my achievement in 2012. I hope to enroll into school and earn a degree in 2013.

Let's see..

Quick Update - Monday Blues

I for one seldom or rather I try not to think of Monday blues on every Mondays. Simple reason that is all days are equal and there is no such thing as a particular day being better or worse than another day. '

But today, I really feel the Monday Blueness biting me almost the whole day. I kept sighing which is not healthy and not supposed to be done, which most of the time was unintentional. I just had to SIGH to let it all out. It is somehow more of a psychological thing to just let out a sigh as to rally "LET IT ALL OUT".

I'm confusing myself as I try to explain the reason behind all that sighing..

Long Read - Reflect back..

Listening to the piano can sooth one's soul.. That's what I felt when I listen to piano covers for Bollywood songs.. I can imagine being lull to sleep while the piano are being played in the background..

The two toilet doors were finally changed this afternoon! Yippee!! Still can't stop admiring them.. Hahaha! Especially when the colours we chose are blueish greenish..

Enough of all that..

I miss having a laptop.. I miss bringing it to school and have my fingers type on those keyboard.. I said this as if all this while I no longer type on the keyboard. LOL!
But seriously, the first time I own a laptop was because of study requirement in a poly. My course requires all students to each own a laptop for classes, assignments, projects, research, surfing the net during breaks, youtube-ing songs while having lunch.. The last two are not stated obviously. That's what we all do during our two to three or sometimes four hours break. That's how I improved on my typing skills I guess..

I was a late learner. I still remember when I was in Primary 3, we usually have computer lesson for either English or Math. Sometimes, when the teacher is on a good mood or if we have extra time to spare, we are allowed to surf the net. I, being the late learner opted to do touch-typing while the rest surf the net. That was me in Primary 3. It may have been the fact that we move house and I had to transfer school. My school when I was Primary 1 and 2 was not so advanced so I had no inkling how to surf the net at all. Not wanting to embarrassed myself asking the people around me how or what I can surf, I opted for a safe option. I even remember a teacher asking me if I was sure I wanted to do touch-typing instead of surfing the net like everyone else.. What a memory!

Coming back to the laptop.. I wasn't a great typist.. For FNN reports in secondary school, we did do some typing here and there and I think I took quite long to type as I need to find the letter I want first before I can hit it in order to form a word that later became a sentence and finally a report! Once I was in poly, we had lots of assignments and projects and obviously I can't take so long to type.. I obviously needed to brush up my typing skills and type faster. I can't really recall when exactly I started to type fast but Nilam or Joyo noticed it and told me I was typing at quite a fast pace.

Okay starting to drift away again.. Well I think I had quite a relationship with my laptop. Earlier we did not have internet connection at home except the dial-up which can't be used for laptop. So I end up staying back in school or came back to school on Saturdays just so I can do my research, save up the materials I needed and do up the assignments or project or whatever that needed to be done at home. Sometimes we had these quizzes we needed to do..

Okay.. Just had a moment of heart attack when suddenly prompt box came up saying I need to log in again. Thought I was going to lose what have all been typed previously.. All my memories..

So yeah.. Imagine scrambling to go to Macs or school or library just to do one quiz or research. Sometimes I stayed in the library from 9am to 2pm for to do research youtube-ing once in a while! :)] I have always prefer the library to Macs as it's more conducive and quiter.. And you have to at least order something when you sit at Macs. It wasn't always easy though to find seats at these public places.. That was why I would go out earlier so that I can choose the best area I wanted to stay for the next few hours.. In the library, Jurong library, I usually would sit at 2nd level, near to the escalator.. I didn't like sitting between or behind the shelves as it can be quite annoying if you want to slouch over your laptop and people would come by to pick some books. It's a public place afterall so I can't get angry with the people, can I?

Those were the days.. Slowly, we took up internet connection at home.. And I don't have to go out anymore to use the Internet! Heehee!!

The laptop stayed with me for 4 years and it went crazy.. You can still switch it on but the black screen would always come up again and again and you won't ever see your homepage. Been wanting to send it for repair but haven't had the calling yet. Belum ada seruan!! LOL

Long Read - What's the trend nowadays?

Busy weekends Busy Busy Busy!!

Now, what happened during the last few days.. Hmm..

Nigel's birthday lunch on Friday, contractor came down for toilet doors measurement (Finally!), surprise birthday cake at Vivocity for Isabella which didn't really turn out to be a surprise and finally Sakura Buffet with family on Sunday. Meeting a twitter
friend for dinner on the coming Tuesday (at last!), Ah Girl's birthday dinner on this coming Friday and farewell lunch for our Intern the following Friday. Phew that's quite a lot of list, for me at least!

Did some window-shopping earlier and we went to Kiddy Palace. There's plush toys loads of them.. Childrens' wear.. Toys.. Toys.. Toys.. It's Kiddy Palace! What do you expect to find there? Obviously everything that's related to a kiddy..! I'm so attracted to the plush toys, as usual.. And baby boys' clothing.. It's so adorable to see and touch all these small shirts, mittens, shoes and newborn's clothing..

Enough of all that. Update on what's being the current crazy thing nowadays.. It's the Oppa Gangnam!! Hahaha! I'm sure in 5 or 10 years down the road, we'll still be enjoying this funny (can I classify it as that?) music video done by Psy, a Korean celebrity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 - Oppa Gangnam Style PSY

There's been a few video parodies made for this craze for Oppa Gangnam.. Come on! Even Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears knew about it Britney even learnt the dance steps taught by none other than Psy! Out of the few parodies, I really like the one made by a local man. It's funny and the words are catchy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHIn7og3eiw - Oppa Indian Style

"Go Rex Theatre
Maybe later
Can go eat
Can go eat
Eat Briyani
With a lot of curry
Buy CD
Smoke Beedi"

P.s. How do I create links here.. Tried several times to add/create links to youtube but it simply doesn't work. The link magically disappear though I click on the Link button :(

Update: It's 2019 and I have since learnt how to embed the videos onto my post

The Oppa Indian style video is no longer available on Youtube.