Nothingness of Me

The usual thing. Not much excitement goin on in life. I'm beginning to feel the boredom here, now. My circle is so small. I'm almost suffocating. Not much activity goin on. Life is getting hollow again. Guess I dont last more than 6 months in any place without feeling bored or getting constant waves of excitement. Should probably make a change. Do something out of the norm or expand my social circle. Problem is, I'm getting tired of being 'social' to foreign people lately. I only hang around people I know. Not making any effort at all to join or mingle with new faces. I'm getting a closure perhaps...? One so soon...

Just scouring through my mailbox and found this slideshow from weeks ago.
Just thought I'd share it out. This is a showcase from UNICEF.
Some things are best seen than asked and be told ;) Enjoy the showcase.

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The New, The Sucky and The Long-Gone

Got back to work yesterday after a long long break....the longest i've had in the last three years...felt good...and could have felt even better...if i could get it to drag a lil bit more. Reality sucks. Back to work. Need money for the month end after such a 'taxing' new year.

An ex schoolmate came over to Singapore. Seems like friends I hardly get to see back home...I only get to see them here. Why? Maybe because everyone is so busy back home and they just don't have time for all those unneccassry outing. At times, I would feel that way too. This friend of mine, I haven't seen him for ages. Almost 5-6 years...though I bumped into him and some other friends one time at some place which I dont remember. That was just a mere brief moment. Cant remember much till he reminded me last nite. Gosh, has he changed. Physically. He use to be one of the 'good looking' kids back in school. But looking at him yesterday...somehow sends a slight shiver done my now older spine. He's balding...and a very bad one too. He's now bloated to 80kg...or so he told me. Chubby face, big belly. He looks as though he's now in his mid 30s. And he's only a month older than me! How...isit possible? I almost couldn't recognize him, if he hadn't wave at me first.

Nevertheless, catching up with old school mate is something which is fun. Something which I would enjoy doing. Though at start it felt a lil awkward, for both me and him. We haven't talk for years. Somehow I'm glad it finally turns out to be quite alrite towards to end. And he's getting married to his old girlfriend coming March. Someone he met over IRC (yeah...the old chat program way before time of the IMs) when were all still young and stupid :P We would spend hours online till the wee hours of the morning...chatting away...for nothing. When you're young...anything can be addictive.

Haven't been taking much pics lately. Uploading of pics is a nitemare thru this site. Wish there would be some blissful tools/ways to upload pics in multiple, easy to tag and arrange it to my liking. Hmmmm...is there?

Getting to know who?

Haven't been reading other's blog for a while now...just as I was thinking of what to blog next...found that I actually had some 'homework' from leecs quite a while back.

The Rules:Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom spot.

1. Helen’s All
2. My Crzy Corner
3. My feelings
4. My Life at Beijing
5. Life as me

Then you select five people to pass the love on to:

Five??? I can't even think of one! :"(
I have no friends :(

1. What were you doing ten years ago?
Hmmm...the year 1996? Well...i just started my 1st year at college...my diploma...learning about computer and stuff....with my baggy jeans and loose tees...'lepak-ing' at the 'kaki lima'...damnn...i'm feeling old suddenly...

2. What were you doing 1 year ago?
One year ago? That's easy. I was in Jakarta, earning perdiems ... having a little luxury that I can afford...work is pretty alrite (when my big boss don't come visit) , life is pretty fun with my colleagues back then...I guess I miss it a lil by now.

3. Five snacks you enjoy
Dont quite fancy snacks much...but I guess I can name five, which I would take...
1. Cachos - BBQ
2. Popo Fish Muruku
3. Lays Potato Chips - Any flavour
4. Old Chang Kee - Chicken Wrap
5. Peanut Mochi

4. Five songs to which you know all the lyrics off your head right now:
1. Daniel Powter - Bad day
2. Faye Wong - Eyes on me
3. Norah Jones - Don't know why
4. Milestone - I Care About You
5. James Blunt - You're Beautiful

5. Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
1. Go Egypt ! Been wanting to go for a Nile river cruise, visit the Sphinx and all those massive temples... Spend a month there...and do what the Egyptians do :P
2. Invest lor, else how to gurantee the money keep growing...sure 'pokkai' very fast with the rate I spend money :P Don't know how, but will do that...will ask for help...
3. I wanna get a new watch. Been scouting for a while...though I don't know much about watches...so far, I've seen a few...thanks to a certain individual who exposes me to all those expensive stuff...could have just go for a Swatch Irony...but...well, if I'm a millionaire...then I wouldn't have to think so much ...would I? :D
4. I still very much like to backpack to Nepal...despite my 2 failed attempts. I've got 2 copies of travel guides stocked at home, thanks to my fellow friends who ffk-ed me twice...If i'm a milionaire (again)...I dont mind paying their share, I guess they wouldnt mind goin either :p
5. Pay off my only commitment- the house. The remainings (if still any) will donate some to charity, will buy a bettle or a golf gti...and i'd be happy for this life, it's just that 'simple' :P

6. Five bad habits
Hmmm...this is tough leh, where got so many? Ok la...lemme try name a few 'less significant' ones... (1) I spend alot of money...thats bad :( but cant help it sometimes (2) I enjoy annoying people...especially my close friends...I find thrill in that, I know...something's wrong (3) I talk too much! but cant help it too sometimes :( (4) like leecs, i 'ding dong' alot too ...cant decide on things...i regret making decisions sometimes... (5) thats it...no more liau.

7. Five things you like doing:
I like to....go Egypt...head home now for my CNY holiday...get a sun tan...read a good book...transfer money home, the exchange rate rose up again :P

8. Five things you would never wear, buy, or get new again
1. Tshirts from SEED - no good... no good
2. Proton WAJA - very bad... very bad
3. Body Shop Vitamin E Series - got sick of the smell :-&
4. MP3 CDs from Glodok - bad quality, titles not as shown on cover (then again, i probably wont be back again :P)
5. HP / Compaq Notebook (After my recent lost, I got hurt deeply)

9. Five favorite toys:
1. My e398 (I want a Sony Ericsson w900i)
2. My personal laptop's gone :"( ...so i guess, its now... my company's IBM R51 :(
3. My PS2 (Looking fwd to the new PS3...keke....or maybe a PSP before that? :P)
4. My PC back home...just upgraded the graphics card and monitor...this CNY can play more games :D
5. Wanna get World of Warcraft...but still hooked with my Guildwars....Hmmm...How now?!

~~the end~~

Phewww.... finally....well, there goes my whole morning...hehehe...just nice...12pm ...time for lunch :P

Longing for Indonesia

If weird things were to happen once, you might think it's just your imagination. If it happens twice, well...you can just brushed it off...and think that it's probably some coincidence. But if it kept happening every once in a while...you begin to wonder why?

My roaming line has been switching itself automatically to this network for a few times now. I'm in Singapore and as most of us would generally know...this is definitely not one of the mobile network here. Maybe business has been good for them back in Indonesia, so they decided to expand their network here? But why does my phone kept switching to this even I have explicitly selected another network? 8-|
Something must have gone wrong somewhere...there must be a reason why this is happening...i'm yet to find out. For the time being, I guess I can only assume that even my phone misses its old network. The network it has been on for the past 2 years.

It's raining Holidays

It seems like we have been having a 4-day week for the past few weeks now. A friend just reminded me yesterday. Nice. The only thing bad...is the weather. It's been raining sh*t for the past few days. Last weekend was a complete mess. Despite the fact that I managed to complete my CNY shopping in 1/2 day and spent less than a hundred dollars on 4 shirts and 2 pair of pants in U2 and G2, the rest of my weekend was a complete wreck. On Sunday, i saw rain the moment i got up...and i still see rain the moment i got to bed at 1 in the morning.

Today; its better...the rain had ceased in the morning. Then it started again in the afternoon till late evening. It's 7pm now. Sky's has been gray and gloomy the whole day. The streets below were rather empty. Lights that illuminate the sign 'Capital Tower', to the left of my building... has just been switched on some minutes ago. The roads are still wet. I can see reflections from the very few cars' headlights. It could still be raining somewhere in the horizon. Perhaps...towards the harbour.

It's been a quiet day at work. Tomorrow's a holiday again. I'm just sitting here, doing nothing right now (which...coincidentally, is what I have been doing for the whole of today too)..waiting for my 'ohmmmmmm' session to start at 8. Will be leaving in about 20mins or so. Hopefully...tomorrow will be a shiny day...My skin's hungry for some vitamin D.

So pretty yet such short lifespan

Just received my first bad news of the year earlier. My cousin forwarded me a quotation from HP, in it...its written at the amount field "RM 1843.20".

My lovely notebook was about to turn 2 in 1 month, but it gave up 2 weeks ago. I thought I could revive it with just a minor replacement of a charger or battery. Looks like I was wrong. I was rather shaken by the amount that I had to fork out, so I called HP myself..."Sir, we had to replace the whole mainboard, there wasn't any power to the unit at all". I turned grey then blue...my heart almost gave up its beating. My favourite notebook...my pretty little toy...my precious...is now...gone? I guess, that explains the outrageous amount they quoted me. :"(

I'm gonna have my cousin bring it back from the service centre...and perhaps try my luck again somewhere else, have it 'certified' its death...somehow, I'm still having some hope that it's still revivable. Gotta pay RM95 for the 'troubleshooting effort' before i could redeem it back though. So much for bringing in the professionals.

My precious at its glory

Only the year is new, the rest got old

It has been quite some time since I was busy. Year end was something which most of us would look forward to; holidays, longer breaks, celebration ...all these were reasons for us to at least lay back after a year of hard work (or not).

As for me, I've been busier than ever for the entire of last week. Well, at least in the end...I'm rather glad I did not miss out the new year entirely. I was back at home to spend the year end with family. Its been 3 years or so...since I was last home for the New Year...I'm beginning to feel that I should perhaps spend more time with my now ageing folks. Whenever I am walking the streets, or in the MRT or eating at some foodstalls...if I see someone who resembles my old mother back home; even by a little....I would miss her for a moment. I'm getting tired of the travelling job already, it's probably time for me to get something back home and spend more time with my family and close friends. Hmm...it's only few days after the New Year and I'm already getting the effects of it...cant seem to find any better reasons for having this kinda feeling.