I went to dbl O (nice website with horrible graphics btw) for the first time today. It was alright, I didn’t like the music..it was retro night with a bit of RNB which I don’t dig.

Well good place to laugh at drunk people/get drunk since the drinks are cheap. There was a girl wailing and puking at the toilet over a boy..as in she was crying about a boy.

I saw Oliver Jeffers featured on It’s Nice That the other day and went to check his website out. He’s is a really talented illustrator and painter. He is famous for his children picture books. I saw them on his website and immediately fell in love with them. I have to get them.

They were quite expensive to get online so I decided to try Borders or Kino. Surprisingly (ok actually not surprisingly cos Kino does carry a lot of books), Kino has majority of his book. And I decided to get this one:

It’s about a penguin that turns up at a little boy’s door one so he decided to bring the penguin home.

It’s such a heartwarming story and uber cute! I finish reading the book in minutes but it’s all worth it, beautiful paintings and such innocence in the way he writes. I am definitely going to get another of his book.

I like what I like. And what I mean is, if you know me well enough, I like to collect toys miniature things and things with a lot of details. So, I like what I like if it makes sense because it makes me feel like a kid forever. It kind of suits me as well, me being small physically you know…

I decided a couple of months ago I would invest on a design/art book monthly. I started off with a layout book, this is the second one. I almost forgot how it feels when i get a new book..the smell, the texture, colours, woohoo! Gives me the high…

I have two thoughts today. I will blog about one of them.

I was wondering to myself why did God create space? Why can’t God just create like the earth and blah, it ended right there at the clouds and the blue skies?

Then I think I got it.

If it did end at the clouds, it’s kind of sad, like hitting a cardboard, something like ‘The Truman Show’ ending. Then if you go beyond our skies there’s space so it gets exciting..and so on. So we just kind of keep exploring till we reach the end. However, there’s no end in space..end is thousands and millions and trillions of light years away, somewhere even beyond..somewhere we can never ever reach. I learn about this through the book I am reading by Bill Bryson called ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’. It’s just a great book by the way though I am taking ages with it.

SO, back to my point of space and beyond and why there isn’t an end? I think God kind of wants it this way. Knowing that humans can never be satisfied and will just keep at it, He made the skies, universe, space…infinite and endless. So basically it’s like ‘Nice try humans, you will never get to the end’. No, I don’t think God is cruel to entertain us or Himself this way…it’s just, what is beyond this world is so amazing that it is just a gentle reminder than there’s creator out there, whoever you may believe. It just can’t happen by some rocks colliding together.

Friday tomorrow!! Please don’t let me OT.

A huge blister grew literally over an hour at my ankle area. Ok what’s that area, above the ball of your feet and ankle called? …I don’t feel very smart right now. Especially after reading Carissa’s blog. She has such great command in English, every blog entry is like reading a storybook.

Anyway, I joined Daytum. It’s super cute. Basically it’s just a site where you post whatever stats you wanna post. Go to the link and see for yourself. And it is beautifully designed too.

I just finished a book called ‘God is Dead’ by Ron Currie Jr. It’s one of the best books I ever read (yes, not that I read a whole lot of books). It’s a book about ideology and humans. The book is kind of made up of little stories that kind of connects. The ending of every story is just awe-inspiring, kind of leaves you hanging there. And what’s more, the cover has nice illustrations and the book has very nice layouts.

It’s only Tuesday.

My boss at the new job has yet to call me. Panic, panicking..I have all these thoughts like “What if he got someone else?” or “What if he totally forgotten about me?”. Maybe he will call me tomorrow.

I have been reading my new book - “The Year of Living Bibically”. There’s this part about anger, and how the author was talking about his anger management. He mentioned he is not a person that rise his voice but will gather all these little anger bits and then mountain them into bitterness. The way he wrote them was so child-like. Child-like not saying it’s childish (ok if you break the word down)..but more like the little kid living in all of us.

I was very much reminded of myself when I read that.

See my level of energy is extremely little/limited. Given that I have been lack of sleep for 3 days, I don’t eat much, I don’t eat meat and making coffee the whole day, I am extremely sleepy and tired by night time. But with every last bit of energy out of my sleepiness and staring at the street lamps, I thought about my much often child-like bitterness.

I think I do like the author, tend to mount up little bitter incidents, curse and swear and then go to a corner and sulk. And often, not to the benefit of myself because I just end up being more annoyed and irritated with myself. I have became quite judgmental of people these couple of years. However, I can be quick to judge and talk about it but never fail to then think about what I said and then give that someone a second chance in my head.

And again, it’s really working in Starbucks that make me think about and realise all these things.

I tend to write long sentences.

I am getting sleepy again. Some reading then off to sleep.

And thanks Song for the elephants! :)

It’s drizzling outside, I have a cup of hot coffee in front of me. I need coffee when I am at home after lunch if not I will dive straight into bed.

So I went to my interview yesterday, the place was easy to find and I was early so I sat under a HDB block (which is across the road) to collect myself with a Malaysia cig first.

And…

It went well! I haven’t exactly gotten the job yet. I have to go on a one or two week trial period first before the boss sees I am suitable for this job. I think the main concern for the boss is speed. He said he liked my work but I might have taken weeks and months to do it which he can’t afford that in the real working world and he needs to know whether I can blend in and everything.

I don’t know when I am starting, I have to call the boss later to confirm.

I am so excited! But more scared at the same time, it’s a big company and I will really have to prove I am capable enough to be there. I am not saying what company it is..I mean if I do get rejected, that would be embarrassing.

I walked out of the building kind of surprised it went well, and that someone actually liked my portfolio. It was getting real nervous when I first arrived at the rows of very nice boutique design offices. And the boss seem quite intimidating at first but he’s actually very nice.

And that’s that for my job search and interview, hope everything goes well! Finally, after three interviews, I am getting closer!

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I went down to Kino and bought my Moleskin planner for next year and a new book called “The Year of Living Bibically“. No it’s not a religious book. I have been eyeing on that book when I came out in hard cover a few months back.

It’s about the author, A.J. Jacobs, documentation of his life for a year, living according to the way the Bible states it. He’s a not a Christian himself but he’s always amazed how influential the Bible is and why religion has become such a much talked about issue of the modern world. He followed the Bible as literal as possible including growing a Moses beard, not wearing clothes with mixed fabric and be fruitful and multiply (as the Bible states).

Initially I thought it was a book that poked fun at Christianity but at the end of his year he was very much amazed by this religion. I am just starting into the book and it’s getting real interesting and he’s a very witty writer, very, very entertaining.

It’s the eve of holidays, everyone’s off to enjoy. I am off to work soon which I don’t mind actually since it might be the last few shifts at Starbucks!