I would love to do some work now but I am just staring blankly at the computer screen, I am tired. And it isn’t helping that the Justice Bao Temple (there isn’t exactly a temple, they are trying to raise funds to build one..now it’s just tents in the middle of the field and it’s been a year or so) is rehearsing for the Hungry Ghost Festival. Think of gongs and bells and instruments that make ‘dong dong’ sounds.

I took the City Hopper home today after work. It’s a straight bus home from town and it goes right to my doorstep. However, I missed my bus stop by around 5 stops. And I rarely miss stops. Bus stops at Fernvale, Sengkang are very far apart.

I could take a bus home but I decided to take a slow 20 minutes walk back. The late afternoon sun was really quite lovely, it was a little warm cos I was wearing full black but it was nice to feel the warmth of the sun, after days of gloomy weather. There are tons of trees and a river, thanks to the not-yet-developed land.

But it won’t stay like that for long thanks to the government’s endless plan to have a building or structure on every centimeter of land. Construction is on-going at every single place in Singapore. There are always construction at Fernvale, the whole of Orchard is under construction, the MRT..soon Singapore will be nothing be a BIG cloud of dust. And we will sink earlier and I will die cos I don’t know how to swim.

I headed to Shirin’s place (she lives across me) to help her out with the website she is setting up. We spent half the time doing the actual work and half chatting about everything from careers to motherhood.

Yes I do want to be a mother one day. And she was sharing with me about her very tough pregnancy, yes it scared me quite a bit but I still want kids one day. I still remember the other night at Dempsey with Per and Audrey talking about motherhood and they don’t want to have kids and I was persuading them how beautiful and amazing motherhood is (as if I am already a mother of three).

It was a great afternoon really, much better than struggling alone at home and cursing at myself because I can’t get any work done on my portfolio.

So then, I came home and was determined to get started again. And then, trying too hard to get protect my computer from virus, the anti-virus softwares I downloaded had virus.

And while it caused the whole Windows to crash, it took away my Adobe software’s serial key generator because it is detected as virus (handy tip: most cracks are detected as virus but they are not, well most of the time). And then, I did download one that indeed was a virus so yet again..I reinstalled the lovely Microsoft Windows XP (twice). But it was fast, my dad does all these complex IT things that install a new Windows that is ready to use in five minutes. It’s just annoying I lost my bookmarks and workspace settings for the Adobe programs and you know..all the things that goes to make a PC as pretty as possible.

I want Apple.

Opening tomorrow, not nice.

Alright, I am beginning to love my new phone cos everyone saying it’s damn nice! Woohoo. And it’s quite cool looking really and I am beginning to get the hang out the whole touch screen thing. It’s cool looking yes but there’s actually nothing special about the functions.

I better not lose this phone. I have been on this losing things/misplacing things adventure recently.

It’s all started with:

1. Sony Ericsson phone stolen
2. Ipod spoilt
3. Left my phone in store and had to get a few people to pass it back to me
4. Left my eyeliner in store and luckily Don found it before it got thrown away
5. I almost left my house keys in store again just now
6. I can’t find things in my room anymore, I used to know exactly where everything is placed

And I still remembered that other day I had to go home from work completely empty-handed cos I locked all my stuff in my own locker.

I always been very organised with all my stuff and take well care of them. But then again, I am the only one in the family who has lost two phones and got one phone smashed by a rather weighty friend.

Tired, sleepy, tired, sleepy, tired, sleepy.

I did opening on Friday and Saturday. I almost can’t remember the two days that went pass cos it was so tiring. It is suppose to be good! Wake up early (5.15am), work, and be home early but instead I get so extreme exhausted I need to come home and take a 5 hours nap.

And I am doing three straight opening next week, big big big non-excitement.

And I got a new phone. It’s a Samsung phone (SGH F700). I had bad experience with Samsung and was very, very sure I don’t want to get one. I will blame it on the tiredness. I should have just stick to the Motorola phone I had in mind.

It was a long day at M1 the other day. After hours of deciding, my father persuaded me to get this new Samsung phone (newer than the one I got). I didn’t want to cos it was kind of expensive and I really don’t want to spend his money. While waiting for our turn at the counter, I decided on the much cheaper Motorola phone. Just before it was our turn at the counter, we saw the phone I got. It was a hundred bucks cheaper than the latest Samsung one and the promoter (friend of a friend) tells me actually it has the same functions.

At the counter, the customer service officer told me the phone I wanted was sold out and he recommended us to do an phone ordering and get it delivered.

That’s what we did but long story with that phone ordering. I wanted to kill that lady (because remembering I was extremely grumpy and tired from work and I hate crowded places). Cut the story short, after much calling around and transfer of money and finding ATM, she told me I could do a on-site payment when I clearly made known to her I am having trouble with the credit card payment. Do you get the story? OK nevermind.

I went home and read reviews online about the phone I ordered and it was a so-so phone. Like it looks very fancy but the functions are just very basic. So THEN, I regret. I hope when it arrive, I will loooove it.

(And after the arrival and done with all the function it has…)

“I could have saved my dad $110 if I gotten the Motorola phone,” was my first thought.

I hate the touch screen and it’s quite a iPhone ripoff. I should have just stayed to my original decisions, I really don’t make wise decisions when lack of sleep. I always hated touch screen even before having this phone. SO WHY didn’t I remember that and then get a pure touch screen phone? And I do NOT like Samsung phones, to further prove myself.

And I will go on and on rumbling around phones. The only thing now is that, I will look cool with this new phone because I can slide out a keyboard.

I miss buttons :(

Audrey left yesterday. There wasn’t much crying at the airport but there was while I was on the bus on the way to work. I was lucky there wasn’t much people on the bus yet when I boarded it. But I suppose the old man behind me, on the opposite seats thought my boyfriend or mother just left me.

Audrey gave me eight presents in total, it was so exciting! I never had so many presents to open at once, that is all mine (because I open my mother’s Teachers’ Day presents).

No there wasn’t any Agnes B. presents, there was a hidden meaning behind that BAG. And I am pretty sure Audrey is hinting me I should never find love when she is not around with this, or she wants to take this chance to get rid of me:

The last present was a journal Audrey Dearest Almighty B started months ago till before she leaves. That really made me cried and had black eyeliner all over my face.

We spent our last day together (Monday) watching ‘Knocked Up‘ at her house. It was suppose to be a museum trip but the rainy weather felt more like a day to stay home and have a movie marathon. But the marathon was only one movie. We bought food and cooked pasta. My initial idea was the snuggle under the blanket and have nicely garnish finger food within our reach (I visit too much marthastewart.com) but that didn’t happen, it was sitting at the dining table and watching the movie on her MacBook Pro.

I will miss you so much Audrey! 4 years, please don’t forget your Hong Kong friend. I will let you know before hand if I get married with kids or move back to my motherland.

One of the closest people to my heart, Audrey John Benedict of Toa Payoh Lorong 6, is leaving on Wednesday for Perth for studies.

And this is finally it, she is leaving on Wednesday. And we (together with Perryn) did manage to spent quite a lot of money doing several things.

On Friday, we went to ‘3 Monkeys Bar’ at Orchard Tower. It’s a stand up comedy place with Kumar performing. He was really, really awesome. He targets every race and religion so no one gets left out.

After then it was ‘Acid Bar’ with a cute waiter serving us. Yes he was quite cute Audrey, it wasn’t the Choya or Johnny Walker’s effects.

And yesterday, Saturday, we headed to ‘Le Fondue’ for cheese fondue which was so, so, good but also very wonderfully priced. And then at was ‘House’ for dessert and drinks.

And the night ended with supper at ‘Punggol Nasi Lemak’ with the boys and girls of the north east and east.

I felt like I wrote a compo. I don’t like Sundays. And I won’t be liking Wednesdays soon :(

Inbox from Facebook:

Hey ex student of TP,

I was just searching for my old friend from Temasek Poly using the facebook tool and happen to find u. Just wondering if you are the Sally that I know because she still ‘owe’ me a dollar back then, hoping to collect it back now though. =P Anyway the profile photo is too vague to recgonise.

Cheers~!!
Donny =)

And when you click on this idiot’s profile, you will find his friend’s list full of cutesy-acting girls in neoprints. And this is my reply, “No Donny, I do not owe you a dollar and fuck you.”

Time is precious, stop wasting others’ time.

And why would a Chocolate Danish has meat in it?

The sun rised late today, and it was a great sunset.
It feels quite great waking up before the sunrise, and sitting at the bus stop watching sunrise and then be home on time just to catch the sunset.