Cheers to the years of friendship!

You know how much a friend means to you when, despite feeling faint and struggling to get through the day, you agree without hesitation, when your friend smses you in the day to ask for a meet up.

That was what happened on Friday. Despite fighting an almost lost battle not to concuss, an unknown number telling me that a big brother was here and would be leaving the next day made me all excited. Even if it meant another late night ahead. It's been almost 2 years since we met up, why would I miss this opportunity to meet up with da ge?

PS: Thanks for coming all the way down and giving one of my most important buddies (and his family) a lift home, dearest!

Strange Dreams

Just the other day, I dreamt that appeared before my fave DJ at CDR in something not our usual penguin attire and was admonished by my fave DJ.

I wonder if it's a sign of stress when you keep having strange dreams related to work, or wake up every few hours to check whether it's time to get up to go to work.

Auntie Cheng, get well soon! I'll probably drown under greater stress if you don't come back soon!

Do litigators make good novelists?

Or novelists make good litigators?

Whatever the case... I need a huge dose of red bull..

Sharing is caring?

It's ironic that for a person in my profession, I somehow instinctively prefer to avoid conflict with those dearest to me, rather than to share everything that's bothering me and risk conflict. Yet, after acting up yet again, me sharing what was bothering me made the pressure within me no longer as stifling, something that was slowly but surely hurting the both of us. So whilst a certain website may not have this in mind when coming up with this motto, I would think that your constant mention of this slogan is by no means a joke. Sharing is caring, that's what we, or rather I, will strive to do this year, yah?

On a side point, this year's Chinese New Year felt more happening. Instead of the usual visit to my grandparents' place only, we even had a visit to my kindergarten teacher's place after that. How time flies when she produced some photographs we took at the now defunct Ponggol seafood place. Yesterday too, my aunt called us to go up for a visit and then off I went rushing to Mr Chai's place. The visit may not have been long, but it was nice to meet up with one of my closest buddies in jc and meet up with his wife and their absolutely cute son. Yes, even if it meant travelling to the other end of Singapore 2 out of 3 days. I wouldn't mind visiting Mr Chai each year though, but I wonder if he'd mind instead. Haha..

Happy Bit-bit Year!

Yes, Mr Lek, that was the 3D rabbit I was trying to make that night..

Xin Nian Kuai Le! It's once again the time of the year to wave goodbye to one animal and wave hi to another.

Looking back, the tiger year was supposed to be a trying year for one and all. Still, the true grit and willpower of the tiger ensured that I moved forward in the past lunar year, and even when things were down, there were always people around to drag me on to face the challenges headon. In fact, even as the tiger year threatened to end on a black note, the dark skies soon cleared for the sunny skies again, well, at least for now. One thing I've learnt better last year, speaking your mind makes you feel a lot better.. and when you thrash things out, be sure to thrash out all and not leave a part hanging, particularly so if the last part is really the crux of it all. Things may or may not be resolved to your satisfaction, but at least, it prevents that last part from lingering and haunting you every now and then until it blows out of proportion. And yes, too many cooks spoil the broth too. Whilst you may mean well, any form of relationship, be it between friends, couples etc, is really between the people involved. What you think may be for the good of that person, you may in fact, be hurting the person you call friend instead. So in this rabbit year, may I humbly request that those I care for and love do leave me to be my own gardener of my life, to care for and grow the buds myself. When I said nay, do take my word for it and not add more water/fertilisers. For a bud may not blossom in face of too much water and fertilisers as well.

That said, it's time for us to enjoy the start of the rabbit year! To my dearest dearest friends, I hope the bouncy rabbit brings along all your fulfilled wishes in this year. And as the rabbit hops away, that it'll bring away from you all the bad health and unwanted unhappiness.

* * * * * *

First day..

Tell me, how rare is it that there's no one in the MRT cabin these days?

Surrounding our homemade yusheng..

Second day.. We watched "It's a great great world". I must say, it was a really not bad movie. Rather than being pure silly (imho) like what certain others, this movie kind of tugged at the heartstrings a little (or is it just me?)... And after that, we took a stroll somewhere nearby...

Green light = You may walk

Look! The bird park has moved to the Istana.. for a day!

Xin Nian Kuai Le, everyone! :)