Summary of weekend (WARNING - VERY LONG POST)

Fri evening -

Met my ex-colleagues. Before i even sat down at Crystal Jade, they said sth earth-shattering (to me at least). 'U put on weight is it? Yr face rounder leh.' I could hv cried. not very comforting to hear tt i put on weight already. Next comment 'very relaxed there is it? not stressed, tt's y put on weight mah. enjoying life there?' *groanz* as if. simply put, the stress here is of a different kind. besides, dun 4get tt i m not permanently here, although i heard tt being posted out is even more relaxing. well, it may just b a rumour. I will find out next thurs how true the rumour is. wish me luck!

getting back to the evening, it was quite fun catching up with ex-colleagues. how time flies..it has been almost 1-2 mths since we last saw one another. n during tis period, another one of us had resigned and is currently serving notice. O/w everything else was as i remembered it to be. pple still had to charge time (haha!), common complaints, faces still as familiar, laffing over little tings. in other words, life goes on perfectly w/o me!

the evening flew by pretty quickly, cos we were tokking n catching up. act, i shld say tt i was the one doing the bulk of the tokking, but wat's new, rite? not by choice though. cos everyone wanted to noe how was my work and SOCIAL LIFE. tink tt was the main aim of the dinner outing.

hmmphz! unfortunately, didn't hv much to update them on. we spent some time pple-watching too, cos there was tis really shuai guy with a not-so-pretty gf. she was more bitchy pretty than pretty-pretty, so we thot it was a waste of a shuai guy, who happened to b younger than us much to our disappointment.
______________________

Sat -

Woke up fairly early (for my stds) to catch 1st half hr of Wed's Jue Dui Superstar, which i missed due to work commitments. I was so impressed with DERRICK! so glad i woke up at 11am to bathe n get ready to enable me to rush out after watching the show. He sang with so much feeling tt i could feel my goosebumps (in a gd sense). n thereafter for the whole dae, i could hear his voice resonating in my head.

after tt, went to kster at lucky chinatown for a 5hr ktv marathon. b4 launching into a description of the ktv lounge, i shall ask a very intellectual qn. if i board the mrt from Tampines and alight at Chinatown, how does SBS and SMRT split the revenue? by stations/stops? or by distance? if distance, linear or the mrt rail distance? also, if the 2 companies hv to do tis for each trip taken, isn't it kinda tiring? tis may b another reason y the 2 companies shld merge and consolidate efforts? tis struck me midway thru the ktv session. is tis called occupational hazard? everywhere i go, i m tinking of how revenue n cost are derived/split.

the 5hr ktv marathon from 2-7pm only cost each of us (4 of us in all) $9 each!!! SUPERBLY n UNBELIEVABLY CHEAP! but tt's only cos 1 of my frens had a free 5-hr coupon. only nid to pay 1st drink charge (around $5-6) and a tidbit for 2 ($3.50/2) and then svc charge n all the other pre-requisites. so all in all, it was super wu hua! but even usually, not bad..2-7pm on wkend, student member's price is only $6.99, so after everything shld b around $14? we can still pass off as students n we must 'make full use of our ntu matric card', to quote a fren.

i act hv no complaints about the song selection there. it was quite interesting to use a mouse to click on the song we wanted. took abit of getting used to, esp after how we r so used to kbox's style, but after a while, it was ok. In fact, quite revolutionary! the room was pretty cold. gd ting is room was small, so everyone huddled tog to seek warmth in one another. hiak hiak!

the only bad ting about kster seems to b the fact tt the rm wasn't sound-proof. either tt, or the sound system there is very gd. choose either explanation, cos it was so bad to the extent tt we could only hear the next rm singing, but can't even hear our own music, unless we sing so loudly as to drown them out.

after ktv, we went for dinner at chinatown. if i dun recall wrongly, tis is like my 1st time eating with frens at a real hawker centre (lunch at amoy excluded). foodcourts n coffeeshops do not count. cos tis hawker centre is well, not a very gd place for pple to gather lah. not high-class or clean or airy. but there's gd food! quite cheap too! we wanted to try so many tings. unfortunately, our stomaches hv limited capacity.

by the time, we finished eating, it was already or only 9pm, depending on which way u want to look at it. one fren proclaimed tt it's rare tt she can cum out with us so early n we cannot go back tis SOON. hence, we then proceeded to MacDonald's at Chinatown Point to tok. b4 we went in, we noted that the closing time was 12 midnite on wkends.

we definitely tokked tt nite...about tings tt i dun tink we hv act discussed b4. like how we felt tt we shldn't b working so hard, cos ultimately at the end of the dae, we must realise tt there's a trade-off to working so hard. be it in terms of family or social life, sth has got to give. it was pretty surprising, cos some of my frens aren't the kind whom i will expect such 'reflections' from. but mayb it's cos of pple whom we personally noe who are suffering from some kind of setback now, which is y we start to reflect more. From such occurrences, we realise the fragility of life. no one noes wat will happen to us 1 yr from now or even tmr. so it doesn't pay to b too ambitious or strong-willed. We must take the time to breathe the air and appreciate what we currently have.
______________________________

Sun:

Volunteered to sell soft toys for the META Association at tampines with my mum. wasn't very helpful in the sense that i kept tinking while trying to sell the toy tt i mite as well take out $50 of my own $ n i can just go off to shop, instead of begging pple to buy.

it's really pretty hard for pple to take out $2 to buy a soft toy for charity now, esp in the aftermath of NKF. it's quite disheartening act. cos to me, i think $2 is fairly reasonable. i was standing outside Ya Kun and asking pple to buy. couldn't help but tink tt if they drank 1 less cup of coffee and kaya toast, they can donate $2 to charity already.

in the end, my victims were pple whom i happen to mit at tamp! haha...Mel was 1 of my 'victims'. she had to go to the atm to withdraw $ b4 she had the money to buy, n cos she didn't hv change n i didn't either, she ended up buying 2! thks, mel!! another 'victim' was my HR manager at my current workplace. i felt so unluved by everyone yesterdae, cos everyone avoided n steered away from me!

n some pple r just so discriminating. they act ask if it's for a buddhist association (which it is btw, but i didn't noe b4 volunteering), n when i answered yes, they made a face n refused to donate. it was a chinese old woman. surprising, rite? on the other hand, the malays r the one who r donating n buying the toys for their kids, simply cos the kids like the toy. i dun mean to generalise but tis tells alot, yah?

1 more majorly exciting ting happened yesterdae b4 tis volunteering tingie started. i fell (no, tt's not the exciting ting, cos tt isn't sth surprising =p). but the reason y i fell is exciting. My dad drove off b4 i close the car door, which caused me to tumble. luckily, i fell forward, so i only hurt my knee badly. if i had fallen backwards n onto the rd (which was in the direction of oncoming traffic), i wun b here typing tis now. being very Ah-Q, i was thankful that i fell forward, although tis means tt my skirts wld b out of operation for at least a week.

oh yah, after the volunteering stint, i went shopping! hah!! so many sales, so little time & $! i bought 2 knitwear tops from S&K! G2000 is also hving sales!! but the styles were abit old, so i wasn't tt interested. i act wanted to buy another top from U2, but my mum said it was too bright.

an exciting wkend? u bet! =)