Chinese New Year's over!!

happy new year!! See how time flies, its already the 3rd day of the new niu (cow) year. Why is it time flies when I'm outside the office whereas in office, time seems to crawl....Crawling in my skin!!! *starts to sing Linkin Park's crawling*. Getting high nowadays for no reason and getting more daring nowadays. 

Cause today I just did a crazy thing in office where I get myself into a minor problem for being careless. Was caught by my HEAD for reading newspaper as she walk past me. DAMN! She was smiling at me as she walk past. I'm sure its not because she's happy. It's a smile which brings eerie feeling to me. It sounds like a small issue, but reading newspaper and getting caught by her is never a SMALL issue anymore. Not like its my 1st time getting caught, I was complained once for not greeting her when I was with my batch mate. Once again, I walked on a thin line again. Hope nothing happens to me tomorrow and this incident should be over. 

Anyway, now to happy events. I'm really very happy over this festive period eh. I'm very happy with my stuffs that I bought for Chinese New Year. I think I spent a bomb for the stuffs that I got. 

Here's the breakdown of what I bought. 

- 1 polo T-shirt bought using Robinsons' voucher. 

- 2 shirts bought from Giordano that's about $50 and a pair of jeans worth $40 odd. 

- 1 informal blazer which I bought during the mid of last year which is $69. 

- 1 pair of sneakers which is bought at 50% discount and cost me just $44.50 and its my favourite colour mixture of white & red!! Really hyped over this new pair of shoes!!

- Last but not least, my most expensive item that I got this year!! A new pair of spectacles which cost $240!! Expensive but its a really nice one. This is one style of specs that I was looking at for a long long time before I decided to go for it! I think its the best looking spectacles to be able to fit my big face loh. 

During this Lou Hei (the traditional local dish for CNY where raw fish is mixed with assorted vegetables), I was supposed to be saying auspicious phrases for myself & my family but instead, I was saying ORD oh!! I'm crazily anticipating the arrival of my ord date which is still about 6 months away. 

Anyway, apart from the clothes and Lou Hei part, I was excited over the chance to be able to drive for the 2 days of CNY. That means more driving experience which I'm super glad to have. I have always love to drive and I find it so relaxing and enjoyable to be able to drive. I was delighted when huat asked me to drive him back from Changi Airport when he's back from his training stint in New Zealand. But whether I can use the car depends on the father. 

However, the end of my most happy and enjoyable CNY is coming to an end. The amount of red packets $$ no longer matter that much to me. It's the happy feeling that counts. If only I have a special someone to share my joy with me..

hello 2009!!

Definitely a good start to the new year 2009! I'm given 1 day off by my madam on the last day of 2008. Celebrations took place and a summary of events in 2008 was concluded by officers and nsfs representing various units of the formation. A nice meal was served but the food served reminds me of christmas celebration rather than a celebration for the upcoming year. 

Anyway, I was really delighted with the 1 day off for today. Its like 2nd Jan is supposed to be a start of a new working year but its not the case for me! I just felt uber happy that I kick-start the new year with a nice break away from work. With it, I shall make sure I give my best in my work for 2009 so that my testimonial will look nicer and make myself satisfied with my work. Anyway, a long weekend means that it will seem like I'm away from office for about 3 weeks! Woohoo~! Alright alright. Enough of that. 

Events that happened on dec 31 this year certainly isn't as great as last year but what happened on the first few minutes on 1st jan definitely makes the whole day great! Several bad events happened and it really wasn't a well-planned round-up for the year. 

Things that happened were I was late (bad habit that I've cultivated last year, really need to STOP doing it), my specs' plastic outer layer cracked (sian..i wanted a new pair but i wasn't wishing for this current pair to 'retire' in this manner), luckily it still can be used, so it ain't that bad. Then came the search for a restaurant to eat. I planned to eat at Seoul Garden (coz I haven't ate there before!) and I think a steamboat kind of meal fits the occasion. It's been around for a long time but I just didn't went to try out before, its just like my experience with bowling. I never tried bowling until last year, haha! Side-track again...anyway, back to the food encounter. Kit, huat & me were looking around the whole Marina Square for Seoul Garden but somehow we just missed out on it. And by the time we find it, it was 8 plus, stomach were starting to growl but we were told we need to wait for 45 mins for our turn to eat. So we decided not to eat it and settled for some myanmar restaurant. 

The meal went smoothly UNTIL i didn't get to eat my dessert! Its some myanmar chendol. It was sold out! Haiz..why wasn't the last bowl saved for me?? Why?!?! Next, we went to play some arcade games to kill time before the fireworks starts. Kit met his cousin and fren and left with them after that thus it ended up with just me and huat to watch the fireworks together. The fireworks this year really is nice. It's hard to really describe how nice is nice until you've seen it.

Let's have a look at year 2008 for me. It's a rather average year once again. My life's never been real exciting so it's just a normal year that had just gone by. Everyday is just about army(mine's just office work, and I've been doing that kind of job where I dun like but I've just got to do the work for the past 1 plus year) and weekends are for meeting up with frens. This year see myself going through an "emo" period for a while. This time, I managed to move out from it way much better than last time I experienced a similar one. Really glad I managed to do it and whether I do it right, I don't know but it was the solution which I chose back then and I've moved on from it. 

The positives that I can take from this year is that I've made a few good friends from tekong days and I've "opened up", I think. Met 2 friends in BMT days, namely hz and terence. Didn't really have alot of time to meet up with terence because of his army duty but on most fridays, i'll be meeting hz for a meal and a short chat and many times during our meet up, we'll end up walking from bugis/city hall to plaza sing for no reason. And I meant I've opened up, because used to be too quiet, too introvert, lack of self-confidence and unwilling to display my real feelings, been always trying to cover up myself and be a nice guy. This year, I've changed. I've really tried to interact more, try to have more self-confidence and be more 'real'. I know that the change in me might not be obvious but I'm trying to improve to be a better son, friend, colleague and worker. 

What made me most satisfied this year about myself is that I'm no longer someone where I can be 'bullied'. I can be nice, accomodative (not sure if its a right word to use), and easy-going (just like how I can agreed to trying out line-dancing and singing x'mas carols). To put it simply, I'm no longer a pushover. I'll fight for my own rights till the end!!

Next monday's the start of working year 2009. Let's hope for the best!