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…

As saying goes, nothing is happier to sleep in on Saturdays.

Yes, I survived the first week of work and, finally sleep in! It was not that bad the waking up part, just more of when I was not given assignments to do and there’s no internet on my computer..those periods, I can barely keep my eyes open. I drink lots and lots of water and goes to the toilet way too often to keep myself awake.

But fear not, the lack of assignments wouldn’t be happening too much anymore because…I am officially hired!

Yes, the boss confirmed me yesterday. Actually the creative/art director spoke to me after lunch. He wrote down the figures (pay) on paper and asked if I am OK with it. I was shocked (and not in the good way), it was a very, very, very low pay..nothing like what the boss and I talked about earlier. If…if, I interpreted it correctly, it might go up after the probation period which God knows when..3 months or 6 months or NEVER. Notice the bold ‘if’. But I took the offer, at least I have a job, and it’s a first job so..well, I will just take it. My sister and mother was saying to just take it..at least I can find a job. And my mother told me over the phone about how people in Italy or Germany are queuing up to look for jobs..and of cos did all the motherly talk and lecturing.

So, that’s it..a first full-time real job. I am not really looking forward to it as much as I hope. There are days during the past week I dread sitting in front of the computer so much and can’t wait for 6.30pm. I do a little countdown every 5 minutes. It’s nothing like Starbucks, no where close to as fun…or if fun is ever a word to be used for a career/job. I already got my first assignment yesterday.

My sister always tells me how she wish to just quit her job and join Starbucks again. I always sympethise with her but I think I am finally getting it.

I am full of complains right? It’s only the first week!

When I was about to graduate from polytechnic, all the fears of a working life..now I am living it. No escape.

I am going to go out later, enjoy my well-deserved weekend. It’s the last weekend of this sort, if you get what I mean.

And oh, I watched ‘Eagle Eye’ yesterday! It’s a good movie, keep you very entertained every moment of it. Seem a little unreal that degree of cyber-terrorism but come to think of it, in no time, it can become real. And Shia LaBeouf is sooooo cute and charming! 

I have decided to spend my Saturday at home.
Not that I really wanted to, but I wanted to.

I woke up at 1pm, watched my sister sew her badges on her scouts uniform, ate lunch together and she left for Korea for the scouts youth forum which the government (a.k.a YOU) paid for.

And then the weather just got a bit too groomy to be anywhere else but home.
And it’s 5.30pm now and I am sitting here blogging and not going out.
I hate Saturdays at home but I don’t think there’s anywhere in Singapore I want to go/could except to club.

Most of my friends are out of town,
some hopping around Singapore,
my sister has gone to Korea,
and a whole bunch going to JB,
and my parents are off to a wedding dinner.

The only thing I can do at home is watch shows which is pretty enjoyable in the course of it, just not at all while thinking I should do that. Get it?

Bad, bad, bad Saturday.