Happy New Year to All!! its a brand new start to a brand new year. i wun wan it to be a smashing year. jus wan it to be a peaceful year. so that things will go quietly and smoothly thru. and no more disaster will happen again. haven updated for almost a week now. most probably cos i wasn't in office most of the time. haha.
monday was a normal day at the office. nothing much spectacular happened. so much so that i cudden really remember anything. i cud only remember vaguely i was binding books. i think with all the things i've learnt in office so far. i can go ahead and open a printing shop. photocopying, bind books, filing.. i'm almost pro already. went home straight after work. tiring man.
tuesday i went to see doctor. its a really weird family doctor i have. parks his car so far away from his clinic. wassup with him!? daily morning hike to his own clinic?! waited for him to get ready. i was the 1st patient of his for the day. he took like forever. and he called me in. i went in and he asked me to wait inside. hmmmm... he den proceeded talking to himself.. and packing his desk. wth man! den he went to wash his hands.. and still murmuring to himself. it was like 5 mins later den he sat down and ask me how i was.. how's work. what m i doing now. basically every else but my illness. i had to cough and prompt him that i was actually sick and needed some treatment. more murmuring laters. he gave me 2 days MC.. and off i went to wait for my med. wonder what his 'nurses' or whatever u call those ladies at clinics is for. he does everything himself. checking his own prescription and med. take sooooo long b4 i got to pay and take my med.
something's wrong with my memory. if i'm not wrong i stayed at home the whole day after the docs. nice sleep to re-energize myself. nxt came wed! actually at home den i received a msg from lili. was to donate stuffs to sri lanka. it was behind tekka mall. which is quite near my place. so i had nothing much to do. might as well bring some stuffs down to donate. went to pack my cupboard. and viola. i found so so many many shirts and tshirts and watever not.. i totally forgotten the existence of many of them. felt as if i jus came back from a shopping trip. found so many tee that i can actually still wear. but of cos there were also those tat i wanted to donate.
2 big bags. and i decided to walk. needed some form of exercise. the plastic bag was very uncomfortable. making my hand so red. a few drops of sweat, 2 bloodshot palms and 15mins later.. i arrived at the place. it was like a wet market at it's busiest. there were many ppl there. donating stuffs. this lady came up to me to take the bag to unpack into the boxes. and told me tat i cud actually stay to help if i wanted. i had no rush. so stayed to help them put everything and pack them into those mega boxes. and also move all the rice ppl donated also. was really a good workout and i was helping ppl as well. felt good.
stayed on for a couple of hours. and had to leave to go in search of ping's bday prezzie.. went down to bugis.. actually already had something in mind. to get a organiser from muji. reached there and to my horror... they only had ugly organisers left!! wth man. i was still quite calm. told myself. shud be able to find a decent looking organiser around here. went over to books kinokoniya (bugis) and they only had books! wat else was the shop name for. no stationaries no nothing. but books. and couple of magazines. went back to seiyu top floor stationary section. they had organisers! and its even uglier than before! its so aunty-ish. so big. so bulky. sigh. i was kinda worried now. but saw a very nice and cute looking 'happy birthday' paper bag that looks quite shuping. so i decided to get it. and i think i choose birthday cards like a girl. took me more then 20 mins before i finally decided on one. and it was one that complimented the paper bag. heehee.
i think its really quite hard to design birthday cards. wonder what kinda life these cards makers or cards poem writers have. i remember there was this adam sandler show. where he was acting as this aspiring birthday cards designer. its like what a career plan to have man! i wud never ever haf thought of that.
so got 50% of my prezzie. and had to go down to clementi to look for lili and help her carry her stuffs to the place to donate too. surprisingly it took me only abt 39mins to travel down. i told her i'll meet her at 639pm and i seriously reached at 639pm! amazing how punctual i can be. so we travelled down to the place agn. and talked n talked on the way. yea.. haha.. after dropping off the stuffs we explored abit of little india.. jus a little bit! haha.. but it was quite an eye opener even for me who stays jus there! haaa... maybe we shud go explore more of the place nxt time ya? think can actually spend half a day there.
she had to get her prezzie too. so we headed down to ps. which was jus one stop away from little india station and she had to sit down on the train jus for the one stop. started walking ard n ard. n i was in one of my happy mood. so i was actually quite a monkey and playing a fool. haaa.. made quite a few heads turn. we searched high and low. and we realised its really much harder to buy something for ur good friend. why? figure that out urself. bet u dint think abt that before.
and all the shops were closing already. it was close to 10. we only managed to ffind a hand lotion thingy. and nothing else. so its 50% for both of us todae. haven ate dinner. famished ppl. so went to macs. and had the GRILLED CHICKEN FOLDOVER!!! fantastic. hahaha. ate and talked. sat down there for abt an hour b4 she had to go. yea.. so left. and it was a fun wed. eventful. n i like eventful days.
yea.. now its thursday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHUPING! haha.. woke up.. had another plan. went down to town to get the organiser. and i found it at the first place i visited! and bought some other stuffs. great. i'm ahead of schedule. actually already planned the whole day out. headed back home immediately after getting everything. then burnt the cd and designed the label. and everything was prepared! haaa... no more rushinG!
went for the bbq.. it was drizzling b4 that. i was quite worried that it wun stop.. but in the end it did! fire started thankz to me.. and of cos the credit grabbing joyce tan ma tong. lili was busy running around trying to want to start bbq-ing the food. and ping wasn't even around yet. haha. but its good tat the birthday gal gets to make the 'grand arrival'. we ate alot. becos we had alot of food. other den the 12 chicken wings tat joyce and lili dropped due to i also dunno what happened. from what i remember
lili while holding plate : this is one of the most successful bbq i had man
joyce also holding the plate : ya, cos i started the fire ma.
somebody : said something i cudden remember.
lili wanted to react. lifted her hands. joyce let go. down went chicken wings.
took quite a few photos after shuping came. hope i get the photos. dunno who's camera it was being taken. i love posing for photos. but dun really like to take photos. ha.. was a fun bbq. heee... simple and heartwarming one. ping kept coming up to me and bowing. and i tot its some jap custom she imitating. so i had to bow back too. and even lower. man... been a while since i exercise my back. the bowing really made me feel old man. all the creaks and cracks. den talked somemore and packed up the place and left. and i still think i'm seriously quite good looking. maybe not say very good looking.. but certainly i'm totally above average looking.
friday! last day of 2004. half day of work. but man was it busy! i was running around. doing things. hardly had time to sit down and stone. haha. left work and bump into hans at novena sq. decided to have lunch together. went home. sat around and slpt till 730pm. went to meet lau and damian to pok ball... super fun. haha. we adopted premiere league teams and other teams for playing. made it so much more exciting. spent countdown at west coast recreation carpark. cos we were on the way to bukit timah to have our much needed supper. went to damian's hse after supper and came home and here i am in front of the computer! last year's countdown was also spent with them. but at pasir panjang food center. the hawkers were all going crazy and celebrating new year there too, haha. was such a funny sight. yea. jus some recollection.
so now its 2005. look out for more of my entries. gonna be a busy week at the office nxt week. and i'm really really hoping to go meet the fockers. heard that they're really nice and funny people.
