Holiday

On a chirpier note, I'll be going on leave from 18 Jan to 4 Feb. Used all the miles accumulated to redeem a free return ticket to Sydney. So yup, i'll be going to Australia for (4 Feb - 18 Jan) days...

i yearn for more mahjong when i return, you know who you are.

It's that time of the year again when im having a writer's block/blog.. the last year this happened, i posted it... How fast time flies.. another year has past.. such a whirlwind..

As mentioned, my supervisor left and now im officially in charge of writing THAT article.. and im having THAT block.. argh.. and i dozed off for 3 hours having only did the title.. :(

Sports

it was truly an Extremely SPortiNg Weekend.. after a 1 hour gym session which comprised

1. 20 mins on the treadmill;
2. 10 mins at this arm curling machine;
3. 15 mins at this biceps/triceps machine
4. 100 sit ups; and
5. 15 mins on the treadmill.

i found my abs and my biceps.. oh that hurt so mucho..

Then i played 2 hrs of occer on Sunday.. it's been like almost a year since i played soccer amidst bad weather and work and all..

I ended up scoring three goals.. Power man.. i think the last time i did it was some years back..

So guess what.. ROOOOnaldo's back.. with his belly and goal poaching skills... GRRRR

Fruit

It was a rather hectic day today.

9am: - First saturday of the year, im in the office :(

1pm: - Gym.. first time in 10 months

3pm: - Went to buy my fone... yes.. it's the one i mentioned earlier.. wanted to wait a little longer but my Sony Ericsson went a bit bonkers when i was in Cambodia.. bleah.. BUY!

4pm: - went to funan to buy screen protector and micro sd card for my fone

5pm: watched Borat with keeve.. damn disgusting but huge laugh..muhahaha

7pm: - Blk 85 BCM..

9pm: - Tampines to look for pirated games..

10pm: - Back home to charge my phone..

im pretty zonked..i didnt eat or drink anything all day until 7pm at BCM...not even after sweating like a pig on the threadmill...

Pan-Duh

My Shanghai colleagues were coming to Singapore for our company retreat in Bali. And since i dont know when i'll be going, i asked them to help me buy a stuffed panda bear cos i wanted to give it as a gift.

They got me this.



Tell me, is it just me or does it look more like a dog than a panda? I didnt want to say it to them upfront but .. :(

Surely they can do something right for a change right? Come'on, it's like one of their national treasure right?

this brings a whole new meaning to 狗熊.

Balls

Powto spotted these very vulgar looking pastry cakes and insisted that i took a pic of it and blog it. I suspect it's cos she wants to be named on my blog



anyway, these came from Ricciotti at The Riverwalk. absolutely great pastries there..

Hunger

When two guys are hungry and troop down to Blk 85, they decide to do something they've never done before in their lives and the uncountable times they've eaten there... .. Order TWO plates of the famous Orh Lua.. yes.. one each.. on top of 15 sticks of satay..



we didnt finish half of each of the plates. :(

Trips

I went to some of Asia's most exotic places in December and took some nice pics. Will try to upload them and blog about them as soon as i feel like.

To recap, i went to
1. Bali
2. Cambodia
3. Sri Lanka

And what do you know, i'm flying to Cambodia tmr morning. My boss says i take the plane to work. I think sometimes he forgets that i told him i suffer from motion sickness when he first interviewed me.

Resolutions

Almost every blog i regularly read talks about resolutions nowadays and i thought i'd quickly jump on the bandwagon.

Invariably, there'd be an equal number of both camps. Some who rue abt past resolutions and resolve to do better the next year and another group which scoffs at resolutions

Why do people make resolutions? Maybe the new year bring a new sense of hope that will miraculously haul you to do whatever you failed to achieve the past 365 1/4 days. Or maybe with a new calendar ( i have two new ones on my desk incidentally), one has a sense of purpose to fill it up with illusions of grandeur and purpose?

Why?

I guess it's always hard to get a clean slate in life. A clean slate of unbridled living. With no baggage from the past, with no associated pain, a new calendar on the desk brings along a renewed sense that the next 365 1/4 will be better spent, with more sunshine than 20-hour storms. With more Progress Packages than GST "adjustments".

I say screw it, as and when you feel like your life needs a jolt, take a defilbulator or have a good meal and yank yourself out of your rut and get your groove back.

Of course, it's must easier said than done. Else, I wont be spending the holiday at home blogging.

My new year resolution will thus be the pursuit of a better quality of life. A life of more sports and more laughs. More play and less work. Even at the expenses of others.. (oops, i didnt realise i was thinking aloud).

On a lighter note, I've posted a picture of Rachel McAdams from The Weddings Crashers

Grey's Anatomy

I rarely drink coke, cos i dont like gassy drinks. But i felt like having one last night..

i think it was a caffeine overload and even after a long day of shopping, i couldnt sleep at all.

I put on my "Wedding Crashers" dvd and watched it all over again and laughed all over again. That's a funny show.

I still couldnt sleep at 3am and put on my Grey's Anatomy dvds.



Watching GA always makes me depressed. I dont know why. There isnt much happinnes in the show and yet it has a huge following, including me.

Someone once told me we watch GA cos it reflects our lives. the sad lives that we lead which GA depicts so brutally and yet so accurately. And there're many choice lines in the show and the best one that sums what i've said so far..

"Why do we keep hitting ourselves with a hammer?"

"Because we'll feel better when it stops"

Doesnt that just break your heart?

No? You're a heartless ass..

I ended up sleeping at 5:30am, contemplating reality with reelity.