Recently a lot of people have been telling me to start dating again. That it's time to move on, and 18 months of thinking is already more then enough.
My answer is simple, it's not fair on any1 if i still have feelings for her, so it's better that i just get my head screwed into the right direction and focus on my tasks at hand, work/army/financial stability/career. Right now i go out as frens and my only intention shall remain as frens for this special someone, and she knows that. Life's perfect and healthy this way.
Thanks guys for the support really, but i rather wait at lease another year or two, better still after i get my degree.
i love my family and friends
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Friday, April 10, 2009
Weird
im now stuck in the office well with not much to do, hmms wat can i say i just enjoy my free time where after im done i can sit down and reflect/play emo?
Anyways yesterday i was gonna head down to the gym with my colleague, but be4 that we had to have an early dinner so that we won't starve while training. Went to PS since it was closer and faster, ended up with big mac and fries with no salt (special order). Unfortunately had no choice really since everywhr is always crowded! and EXPENSIVE!!! Anyways the point is i saw my fren with her bf looking for a table. I waved she ignored, i approached and offered them our table since we were done she gave me the " who are you look?!?" anyways This kinda shit gets me effing pissed off at times. She was like a good fren with some of us, but i didn't believe my frens at first when they said she's now all weird and different with friends.
It's like some ppl when they get a bf/gf they change, i mean that's perfectly normal but what i dun get is they totally ignore their friends. If there's one thing i learnt in my past, is nvr abandone your frens, CAUSE THEIR THE PEOPLE WHO WILL NEVER LEAVE YOUR SIDE!
oh well wat a bitch! she's totally lost all our friendships now since her true colours have were revealed.
spent the remainder of the night at the gym/track.
Fren i kw ur gonna read this since ur so free! (yes im talking to you, dun act blur "Coolgal"). If there's one thing ur best fren taught me which i still hold dear, is never think/worry too much especially about where your going. Everyone has their right path and always get there eventually. The most important thing is to focus on what you do now, make sure you do it well and hard so that you get wherever your meant to go faster. 100% effort = 100% speed
<3
Anyways yesterday i was gonna head down to the gym with my colleague, but be4 that we had to have an early dinner so that we won't starve while training. Went to PS since it was closer and faster, ended up with big mac and fries with no salt (special order). Unfortunately had no choice really since everywhr is always crowded! and EXPENSIVE!!! Anyways the point is i saw my fren with her bf looking for a table. I waved she ignored, i approached and offered them our table since we were done she gave me the " who are you look?!?" anyways This kinda shit gets me effing pissed off at times. She was like a good fren with some of us, but i didn't believe my frens at first when they said she's now all weird and different with friends.
It's like some ppl when they get a bf/gf they change, i mean that's perfectly normal but what i dun get is they totally ignore their friends. If there's one thing i learnt in my past, is nvr abandone your frens, CAUSE THEIR THE PEOPLE WHO WILL NEVER LEAVE YOUR SIDE!
oh well wat a bitch! she's totally lost all our friendships now since her true colours have were revealed.
spent the remainder of the night at the gym/track.
Fren i kw ur gonna read this since ur so free! (yes im talking to you, dun act blur "Coolgal"). If there's one thing ur best fren taught me which i still hold dear, is never think/worry too much especially about where your going. Everyone has their right path and always get there eventually. The most important thing is to focus on what you do now, make sure you do it well and hard so that you get wherever your meant to go faster. 100% effort = 100% speed
<3
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
The Working Life
Well i've finally got my wish. To work as much as i want without having to worry about school. Well without having to worry for at lease the next 2.5 years =) Well as most of you already know im working over at Starhub. I work in a nicely secluded part of the office, where me and my colleagues work hard and at the same time have fun. Since day one, i've made quite a few friends, especially those that i met from training day. It's cool though, you get paid, you have fun and you make new friendships. What else can anyone ask for?
Today some of my classmates are going to genting, i wanted to go but i rather work. I wonder if i will get some souvenir gift or sometin. Hmms.
Anyways im in the office now, and since this software is down i thought i might share some news with you guys out there
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person’s field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
8. Babies’ eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. (i wanna try this!!!!)
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14. Our eyes (Pupils) are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
15. Everyone’s tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn’t stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot .
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Today some of my classmates are going to genting, i wanted to go but i rather work. I wonder if i will get some souvenir gift or sometin. Hmms.
Anyways im in the office now, and since this software is down i thought i might share some news with you guys out there
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person’s field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
8. Babies’ eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. (i wanna try this!!!!)
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14. Our eyes (Pupils) are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
15. Everyone’s tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn’t stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot .
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
A small tribute to a cherished relative <3
Well i haven't seen my aunt in so many many years caused she lives all the way over in England. I can't remember much but i know i miss her, and much more now that she's gone. Here's a little mini-biography that popped out in some magazine.
Mary Thomas: former internee of the Japanese and author
Thomas was interned first at Katong and then in Changi until May 1944
Mary Thomas was one of the longest-lived survivors of internment by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore. She wrote a book about her experiences, In the Shadow of the Rising Sun, a factual and unbiased account, which was published in 1983.
Most of her internment was spent in Changi jail, which was intended to hold 1,200 prisoners. Early in March 1942 it held more than 3,000 men, women and children. By 1944 their numbers exceeded 4,000 and the regime had become harsher because the Kempatai, the Japanese military police, had taken over.
Mary Thomas was born in 1906, the eldest of six children; the other five were all boys. Her father was the rector of Church Westcote in Gloucestershire. As they grew up, all but one of the six children were sent to boarding schools and Mary subsequently took a degree in history at St Anne’s College, Oxford.
As a child she had become aware of how hard life could be for farm workers. Failure to work unpaid overtime during the harvest could mean the loss of a tied cottage. The bread oven at the rectory was kept hot after the household baking so that others could make use of it. It is hardly surprising that Thomas’s politics were of the Left.
After coming down from Oxford she spent two years on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where she did some teaching. She then returned home via the Pacific, spending time in Hong Kong, Ceylon and Bengal, where there had been family connections on her mother’s side.
Her great-grandfather was General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, who was killed defending Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny. This period in the Far East had an important influence on her later life.
At the outbreak of the Second World War Thomas, aged 32, accompanied her brother Francis to Singapore, where he was an assistant master at St Andrew’s School. As the Japanese invaders drew closer, teaching duties were superseded by voluntary work that led to her becoming assistant superintendent at a first-aid post in the school. As events unfolded, some managed to leave the island by ship (many were lost at sea because of enemy action). Those who stayed and who were able to help with nursing were transferred to Singapore General Hospital where civilian and military wounded were being treated. Circumstances for everybody rapidly became worse when MacRitchie Reservoir was captured and the water supply was cut.
Then on February 15, 1942, came the news of surrender. It was followed by a period of uncertainty that came to an end for Thomas in March when she was interned, at first in Katong and then in Changi until May 1944, when she was transferred to another camp at Sime Road. Prisoners were required to bow low from the hips when confronted by a Japanese. For a woman, failure to do so meant a slap in the face.
In common with prisoners of war and internees elsewhere, there was considerable ingenuity in making the best of things. Notwithstanding that Changi was comparatively new, the concrete used in its construction was damp and dusty. A typical cell for two women measured 7ft x 6½ft with a concrete slab in the middle to act as a bed. Food was scant. A camp magazine POW-WOW was circulated. On one occasion it got Thomas into trouble. She had written a poem, Changi Lullaby, which included a reference to “the clash of a chain”. The Japanese authorities thought this was a reference to fetters. In fact, the chains were lavatory chains, which were pulled more or less continuously through the night as a result of the diuretic effects of the prison diet. Thomas read the poem in a deadpan voice to the Japanese commandant. She escaped with a telling-off to confine her remarks to topics not connected with internment.
No fewer than 20 babies were born in Changi. Someone started a Froebel class for the younger children and others taught the older ones. Inevitably there were disputes between women, and even fights, but many subsequently said that they received more acts of kindness while interned than they ever did subsequently.
Not all the guards were harsh, but the usual outcome for any who were found performing acts of kindness was a firing squad. The turning point came on October 10, 1943, “the double tenth” as it came to be known, when the Kempetai took over Changi. Their training was similar to that practised by the Gestapo.
After her release Thomas made her way back to England and became a teacher once more. Her youngest brother, Christopher, was missing, presumed killed in action in Burma, and Francis, having been a prisoner of war in Changi, Thailand and Japan, resumed his teaching duties in Singapore before becoming Minister of Works and Communications, 1955-58.
Thomas became closely connected with the Society of the Sacred Cross, a contemplative Anglican order based at Tymawr Convent near Monmouth. At the time of her death she was a long-standing associate of the community.
For many years she lived in Monmouthshire and became a supporter of Plaid Cymru. In her nineties she wrote a letter to the Monmouthshire Beacon in a controversy over an initiative to associate Monmouth with a Japanese town, Ishikawa Machi. Thomas’s letter described briefly her own treatment at the hands of the Japanese and suggested that it was now time to move on. The dispute came to an abrupt end. As her eyesight failed she moved into residential care. She never married.
Mary Thomas, former internee of the Japanese, 1942-45, was born on December 13, 1906. She died on February 9, 2009, aged 102
Mary Thomas was one of the longest-lived survivors of internment by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore. She wrote a book about her experiences, In the Shadow of the Rising Sun, a factual and unbiased account, which was published in 1983.
Most of her internment was spent in Changi jail, which was intended to hold 1,200 prisoners. Early in March 1942 it held more than 3,000 men, women and children. By 1944 their numbers exceeded 4,000 and the regime had become harsher because the Kempatai, the Japanese military police, had taken over.
Mary Thomas was born in 1906, the eldest of six children; the other five were all boys. Her father was the rector of Church Westcote in Gloucestershire. As they grew up, all but one of the six children were sent to boarding schools and Mary subsequently took a degree in history at St Anne’s College, Oxford.
As a child she had become aware of how hard life could be for farm workers. Failure to work unpaid overtime during the harvest could mean the loss of a tied cottage. The bread oven at the rectory was kept hot after the household baking so that others could make use of it. It is hardly surprising that Thomas’s politics were of the Left.
After coming down from Oxford she spent two years on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where she did some teaching. She then returned home via the Pacific, spending time in Hong Kong, Ceylon and Bengal, where there had been family connections on her mother’s side.
Her great-grandfather was General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, who was killed defending Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny. This period in the Far East had an important influence on her later life.
At the outbreak of the Second World War Thomas, aged 32, accompanied her brother Francis to Singapore, where he was an assistant master at St Andrew’s School. As the Japanese invaders drew closer, teaching duties were superseded by voluntary work that led to her becoming assistant superintendent at a first-aid post in the school. As events unfolded, some managed to leave the island by ship (many were lost at sea because of enemy action). Those who stayed and who were able to help with nursing were transferred to Singapore General Hospital where civilian and military wounded were being treated. Circumstances for everybody rapidly became worse when MacRitchie Reservoir was captured and the water supply was cut.
Then on February 15, 1942, came the news of surrender. It was followed by a period of uncertainty that came to an end for Thomas in March when she was interned, at first in Katong and then in Changi until May 1944, when she was transferred to another camp at Sime Road. Prisoners were required to bow low from the hips when confronted by a Japanese. For a woman, failure to do so meant a slap in the face.
In common with prisoners of war and internees elsewhere, there was considerable ingenuity in making the best of things. Notwithstanding that Changi was comparatively new, the concrete used in its construction was damp and dusty. A typical cell for two women measured 7ft x 6½ft with a concrete slab in the middle to act as a bed. Food was scant. A camp magazine POW-WOW was circulated. On one occasion it got Thomas into trouble. She had written a poem, Changi Lullaby, which included a reference to “the clash of a chain”. The Japanese authorities thought this was a reference to fetters. In fact, the chains were lavatory chains, which were pulled more or less continuously through the night as a result of the diuretic effects of the prison diet. Thomas read the poem in a deadpan voice to the Japanese commandant. She escaped with a telling-off to confine her remarks to topics not connected with internment.
No fewer than 20 babies were born in Changi. Someone started a Froebel class for the younger children and others taught the older ones. Inevitably there were disputes between women, and even fights, but many subsequently said that they received more acts of kindness while interned than they ever did subsequently.
Not all the guards were harsh, but the usual outcome for any who were found performing acts of kindness was a firing squad. The turning point came on October 10, 1943, “the double tenth” as it came to be known, when the Kempetai took over Changi. Their training was similar to that practised by the Gestapo.
After her release Thomas made her way back to England and became a teacher once more. Her youngest brother, Christopher, was missing, presumed killed in action in Burma, and Francis, having been a prisoner of war in Changi, Thailand and Japan, resumed his teaching duties in Singapore before becoming Minister of Works and Communications, 1955-58.
Thomas became closely connected with the Society of the Sacred Cross, a contemplative Anglican order based at Tymawr Convent near Monmouth. At the time of her death she was a long-standing associate of the community.
For many years she lived in Monmouthshire and became a supporter of Plaid Cymru. In her nineties she wrote a letter to the Monmouthshire Beacon in a controversy over an initiative to associate Monmouth with a Japanese town, Ishikawa Machi. Thomas’s letter described briefly her own treatment at the hands of the Japanese and suggested that it was now time to move on. The dispute came to an abrupt end. As her eyesight failed she moved into residential care. She never married.
Mary Thomas, former internee of the Japanese, 1942-45, was born on December 13, 1906. She died on February 9, 2009, aged 102
Monday, March 23, 2009
the months so far
Wow well school's out, and i've finally got a job, thanks hoon =)
lets see wat can i say, well i've been re-shifting my room, changing my entire lifestyle and who knows wat else. Recently a few frens have had their ups and downs, but i guess we all have been trying to sort it out and salvage the entire group, trying to keep things alive like how it was before.
omg there's this special gal, ive had deep feelings for over 5yrs, i did finally tell her how i felt a few months back, but she was already about to be going to be with someone else. We havnt contacted since and that sucks, i miss you more now as my fren. hiaz. i only jus found out from her msn nick that she's taken =( ouch ouch! oh well im guessin ur gonna be reading this sooner or later. i'm happy for you, really hope things turn out well babe =)
Lets see, army in a couple of months, oh my gawd, wth am i supposed to do till then besides working? LOL yea yea some of you mentioned go genting for a holiday, but gambling is a waste of time! and ive alr been all over genting 2 yrs back. We'll see how la people.
will start adding links of frens blog soon, since so badly requested zZz
recently had over 4-5 frens breaking up with the gf's/bf's. All i can say guys is that it happens, and I SO KNOW how hurtful it is inside. but giv it time, sooner or later you will start to feel happy with yourself once again, and who knows one day sum1 will jus pop into ur arms when u lease expect. hang out with ur frens, make up with lost time, best medicine! belive me
tc
lets see wat can i say, well i've been re-shifting my room, changing my entire lifestyle and who knows wat else. Recently a few frens have had their ups and downs, but i guess we all have been trying to sort it out and salvage the entire group, trying to keep things alive like how it was before.
omg there's this special gal, ive had deep feelings for over 5yrs, i did finally tell her how i felt a few months back, but she was already about to be going to be with someone else. We havnt contacted since and that sucks, i miss you more now as my fren. hiaz. i only jus found out from her msn nick that she's taken =( ouch ouch! oh well im guessin ur gonna be reading this sooner or later. i'm happy for you, really hope things turn out well babe =)
Lets see, army in a couple of months, oh my gawd, wth am i supposed to do till then besides working? LOL yea yea some of you mentioned go genting for a holiday, but gambling is a waste of time! and ive alr been all over genting 2 yrs back. We'll see how la people.
will start adding links of frens blog soon, since so badly requested zZz
recently had over 4-5 frens breaking up with the gf's/bf's. All i can say guys is that it happens, and I SO KNOW how hurtful it is inside. but giv it time, sooner or later you will start to feel happy with yourself once again, and who knows one day sum1 will jus pop into ur arms when u lease expect. hang out with ur frens, make up with lost time, best medicine! belive me
tc
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
School's out, a new life begins
Wow it's been almsot 2 months since my last post, but hey there's so much to say and tell, the countless parties, outings, work stuffs etc, it's like a never ending story. Well it's been like 2 weeks since i got my results which means ive passed, and finally got that diploma ive been struggling the last 3 years to obtain. And i thought exams were stressed, im more stressed out wondering what i should do with my life now that i'm not under thr grip of education. first thing's first look for a stable job with the help of some frens be4 NS.
Since exams, it's like i don't get to see a lot of frens, some i even lost contact, so fast!! lol, well anyways if ur reading hope we all catch up soon, some kinda outing besides the Genting trip. =)
Will add in more funnny stuff once i get into the blogging mood again =X
Since exams, it's like i don't get to see a lot of frens, some i even lost contact, so fast!! lol, well anyways if ur reading hope we all catch up soon, some kinda outing besides the Genting trip. =)
Will add in more funnny stuff once i get into the blogging mood again =X
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