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ok so the dimsum buffet wasn't as good as expected. sorry yewboon but still thanks for your recommendation. the 4 of us ate until we felt so disgusted with the 蜂巢荔芋角 thingy. so oily and URGH. nvm the thought of me just made me lost my appetite for breakfast.

then chiajin introduced us to this place called gamehaven. for more details click HERE. it's a pretty cool place for gaming and lan, and of course there's console for wii, xbox360 and ps! after dimsum we spent the entire afternoon sweating it out playing rayman's raving rabbids. loved the game.. so brainless and funny. and sometimes tiring but it's great to see everyone screaming and all.

we went back to settle our OG stuffs yesterday - painting our flag, filming our video and making our id tag. everything's settled! that means we dont have to make a 2nd trip back to school :D and i think our flag looks really nice, really proud of it.

cyclops! SWEE OH~

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1 x sakae sushi buffet ytd night from 7.30pm to 10pm. ate till we dropped, couldn't walk properly. didnt feel like eating much for the entire day today.

gonna cheong yet another 1 x dimsum buffet tmr afternoon! CAN'T WAIT!! BUFFET BUFFET HERE I COME

吃buffet
吃不肥!

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prep camp from wed to fri. hope everything goes well and everyone goes back from camp healthy!

cycling ytd was not bad. it rained before and after cycling but not during itself so i managed to get my required dosage of sunrays. the bicycle seat was horrible and i am still having buttaches now argh. glad to see that the turnout was good, i wonder when will it be the next time that i am able to see so many pple together again :(

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i do not play lan games but seriously L4D is woot! tried it once after booking out from ICT and i just played it again! loved it! my eyes were practically glued to the screen and yes i have to admit i am super noob at lan games :(

something happened to someone somewhere sometime ago and come to think of it i think it's really quite freaky and this really speaks much of their moral values (or the lack of). shih, dont be too close to them ok!

and i finally met kaixian for dinner after eons. the last time i saw her was CNY. time really passes, she's gonna graduate next year, just like the rest of my class girls and they are going to enter the workforce soon! omy

shall stop here. today's gym session is so tiring, i cant lift up my shoulders! garh

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durian fest on saturday WOOT, and followed by a less sinful sakae meal on sunday yay!

it was an impromptu decision to send agnes off to swiss, and in the end we were still at the airport at 2am -.- i slept at 3am and i dunno why i am wide awake at 8am. i must have caught the jeslin virus argh.

badminton later! hope i can find my racket and shuttlecocks. and i have so many kdrama episodes to backlog AGRH!

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ICT wasnt as bad as i thought. indeed it was really glad to see the company again.. the faces are still the same for most of us, except for a few who have significantly gained weight over the past 2 years.

everything seemed to be the same as before, hanging around in all the branches, all the arrows. seems like we're NSFs all over again.

the trainings for this time is still ok. gained insight from the 2 days of training and i learnt more about my new role thanks to the trainers. hope the 2 fellows can ORD soon and continue with their studies.

but this time round, a stepped up role. which means more responsibilities and stress also. and now that we are all NSmen arrows cant shoot out as easily as before. this is gonna be hard, but i guess we all have to learn to live with it.

and chinglee is a damn bastard seriously, you better watch out!

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to continue where i left off..

we went for kellyn's bday party last sat, and as we left NSRCC we didnt see any shuttle or cabs so we decided to walk out till we hit the main road. after a while we reached a T-junction; we didnt know where to go.. left or right. just then, leonard and i saw a bus stop on the right. or rather, we thought we saw a bus stop. so the 3 of us decided to head right.

and what a decision it was..

for those who knew the area well, turning right was a nono. we shld have turned left where we wld have hit xilin ave.. but NOO we turned right and ended up along the changi airport runway! OMG do you know how long that place was.. it seemed never ending!

we started walking that stretch of bloody long road at.. 10pm.. we were still walking at.. 11.30pm. it's nothing compared to route march i know, but i am wearing my sandals which caused my little toe to hurt every now and then.. grrrr. who am i blaming. we saw the bus stop. WHAT BUS STOP!?!? we were obviously hallucinating.

luckily mr bay did the right thing to call his parents. at 11.30pm his parents came.. we were still along the stretch of road. as we hopped into the car.. we realised the car took an additional 10 mins to hit into an area of civilization. just imagine.. the car going at an average speed of 60km/h needing 10 mins to get out of that stupid stretch of road. what about us? we'll probably take another 2+ hrs to walk out of this area..

what a walk it was. terrible.

the next day my sole was aching thanks to the sandals that i wore.

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this week has been fabulous! let's start from monday:

monday - senior's gathering at chevrons.

it was supposed to be a super fun event, but the weather killed it all. we couldnt play any of the games organised by the committee, in the end we had to settle for icebreaking games that were played within the house. luckily the weather turned better for the bbq. i have decided that i do not eat much during bbq.. i tend to spend most of my time cooking! haha. and the now that the house name has been decided.. it's time to think of cheers! gogo X MEN!

finally had a group photo after so long! but not everyone's here .. :(

tuesday - RE temp staff outing

the few of us (chiajin hannah amanda zinc and me) went to the 10 dollar club ktv to k for the night. thanks to seniors gathering i had no voice on tuesday already. nevertheless it was great to meet up once again. that ktv place is good for k-ing. cheap and freeflow of drinks! (: (and of course the free shark's fin hahahah) we sang until 12 and managed to reach home thanks to jude's car!

wednesday - IPPT

great chance to earn money when i needed it the most! i made full use of the opportunity and went all out with chiajin and his friends. my static stations were all ok (except for sit up, where i began to feel the ache just after 20+ sit ups).. the main problem was my running.. i deproved from 9.44 (the last time i ran in unit) to 11.19! OMG i really need to start training up again. this is not good... i feel so unfit. but at least i cleared my window and got my money. =D

friday - job hunting, angels and demons

i received a msg from my ex-colleague who's currently working at hangten HR. he needed some manpower for some events and i dragged emily and cheryl down to the main office for interview. so i accepted the job and decided not to go for the surveyor one. i think that this job's gonna be hard and risky and all. the pay ain't gonna be that lucrative, but i think the most important thing now is to gain more working experience which will definitely be of help in the future and when i step out of school and enter the working force.

after departing from hangten warehouse i went down to novena to meet my other ex-colleagues for lunch at ah mei's cafe. it has been a year since we saw one another; it was good to see that everyone's fine and all, and it felt like we only didnt see each other for quite a while.. since everyone still remains the same and all. it was a great lunch.. we talked alot alot of things.. something like HTHTing haha.

then i went down to dhoby to meet the OG for angels and demons. it was supposed to be at 6, i reached before 5, so what i tried to complete the book before watching the movie.. 1 hr for 300 odd pages. obviously i failed. anyway the movie sucked.. it deviated alot from the plot, just like davinci, and in this movie some of the characters are differente. i shant be a spoiler here but.. if you read the book, be prepared to see something different from what you expect from the book. if you havent read the book, then prepared to see alot of choppy scenes. i suppose the effect will be better if angels and demons were made into some 5 episode drama or something.

saturday

what a long day it was. went down to karen's house to have fun.. Guitar Hero and mahjong!
guitar hero was funnnnnnnnnnnnnnn but i only heard like 2 or 3 songs before. i have decided that if i had the money i would buy a guitar hero set at home too. mahjong's ok.. but the luck isnt there. everytime it's that nearly win one but then.. sigh.

then went down to kellyn's birthday party.. it was ok. understandable that she couldnt keep mingling with everyone of us. that's why i didnt bother to hold my 21st party back then. the place is so ulu.. NSRCC.. which posed a problem for the 3 of us (leonard me jaime) when we left the place and headed home.

will elaborate more on our expedition the next time! i am tired.. feel like sleeping again!

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exams are over and now it's 3 months of holidays. hopefully i can get a job and earn some money for my wallet which is going to have a big hole soon.

celebrated the end of exams by going to chompchomp to eat. omg $5 of fresh bloody cockles YUMS! cant wait for the videos and photos to be up on facebook haha.

and as of now.. i am jobless. need a job soon! and next week seems interesting. senior's gathering on monday, ktv on tues, ippt on wed (DIES I HAVENT TRAINED), angels and demons on friday, kellyn's birthday party on sat.. oh my oh my!! fun fun fun which also means broke broke broke!

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dont ask me why i am up at such an unearthly hour. it's sunday i know, and i am supposed to be sleeping. but.. but! my aircon off-ed automatically at 4am.. dont ask me why. and the entire house was so stuffy that even switching on the fan didnt work. and the sun was so scorching that it was so bright ay 7am already! dang..

so in the end i didnt watch movie.. but i spent the afternoon having food glorious food with leonard bay! HAHA.. after our slack 1 hr lab we went to causarina to have a sumptous meal of roti prata to end off the horrendus week. this is what we ordered:

we ate a total of 1 kosong, 1 egg, 2 mushroom cheese and 1 mutton cheese murtarbak. and not to forget 1 teh tarik and 1 milo dinosaur. HEAVENLY!!

sidenote: for those who are damn bored and are indulging themselves in sinful food.. check this out..

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

it's quite sick and disgusting.. seriously. but clicking on this link will give you some background knowledge on what i am going to blog about next.

i was studying with shihhan ytd for 1161 in woodlands starbucks when i got hungry. so i went down to the macs to order some food. some idea came into my mind.. i decided to order this limited edition $4.00 burger.. only 1 of it's kind.. check this out..

introducing my own version of mcgangbang! omg looks so sinful. it's only 4 bucks. 1 x doublecheese burger and 1 x mcchicken.. try it. tastes so good it's so sinful HAHA!

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in my opinion this was much better than last year, at least nothing emo or dramatic happened and the concert went on smoothly until the end.

of course there are some obvious problems that can be heard in the orchestra.. like the leaking sound when the 口笛 was played during 飞天 and the 木鱼 that sounded like some dunno what thing. but overall it was not bad. and of course, me and zhiyong were reminiscing the good old memories of playing 飞天. speaking of which, we have played this song like N times since our chinese high days.. at least for 2 concerts bah. and we decided that a player is unable to play the same song for too many times. otherwise we will become numb to the song and will be unable to inject our 感觉 into the songs. ha!

the highlight of the concert was of course 黄河. the pianist is scary. just look at his magic pair of hands, his fingers that make wonders. and the closeup of his hands just made the audience go WOOAHHHHHHHHH. i think that was the only time where the visual effects were made to good use. for the other songs, i think the video had totally no link to the songs and in fact these videos distracted us from enjoying the pieces :( ok back to 黄河. the pianist simply overshadowed the entire orchestra. so much so that when he stopped playing (during a couple of parts in the song), one can actually realise the sudden drop in strength and depth of the song. haha.

this concert was also a chance for a few of us to catch up. saw some of our juniors, like bong, wenxi, shouhao, samuel, zhiguang and co. and also those who were performing, like enoch, jaime, sinhwee, chris, qiquan, and songsim. and of course some of the 老人 gang, like me, zhiyong, tsin li, karin, nat, kaixian and hoohoo (who was helping with stage). it felt like it was good old times back again in sec school and JC, immersing ourselves in the melodious songs. sweet memories.

我总算遇到了我的心结。
我希望我已克服了这个心结。
perhaps NUSCO is a probably next sem after overcoming this major obstacle? i dont know.

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it's the 7th day of march.

when i started this blog i told myself no matter how busy i am i must try to write an entry on the 1st day of every month. but it seems impossible now given my crazy (yet boring, so ironical) school life.

2 papers down, 3 more left. but it still seems so long before all the papers end.. like whut? the end of the month? sucks. i am so looking forward to the end of the month when we finish our 1161 test. and of course the thursday before, which is our games day. hope everything goes well for the event.

there are alot of things which happened but somehow, either i dont remember what has happened (aka everything was in a whirl), or i have serious mental block when it comes to blogging. i believe it's the latter. lemme recall what happened this week..

this has been one of the longest weeks i have had in school so far. monday was 8am to 9pm i think? after including dinner and all. went for econs consultation after school which lasted until 8pm. then tuesday was 8am to 10pm. 14 hrs in school. and i had to come back on my free day for econs paper, so wednesday was from 2 to 9pm after dinner. 7 hrs in school. thurs was 8 to 6 (usual routine - 10 hrs), and friday was 10 to 6 (8 hrs). which sums up to a freaking 50 hrs in school. this is worse than the 44 working hours/ week that the average working adult is "suffering". and not to forget the 2 hr to-and-fro trips to school per day. which makes it 60 hrs spent going to NUS, staying in NUS, and coming home from NUS out of 120. effectively i have spent 50% of my week in school. that sucks!

so much to say, yet so little words can come out of my mouth.

i just wanna say i am sorry for what i said yesterday. my brain wasnt thinking and all (ok what a stupid excuse). i just felt like i am the greatest fool ever.

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the next time i go ubin, it will not be in singlets and fbts. i have a great itch thanks to all the mozzies who patronized my skin -_- and sadly my tan is gone! sad.

recess week seemed much shorter this sem as compared to the previous. as usual, so many things to study, so little time. and i keep ending up in facebook playing geo challenge, trying to emerge triumphant but to no avail :( 2 tests next week.. econs and physical. save me. there seemed to be rumours that there's lsm midterms. can someone pls enlighten me? i cant seem to find the dates on ivle. and i havent touched my lsm cause i thought there would be no tests!

ubin trip was fun and a well-taken break from all the mugging for midterms. i am glad that the weather managed to work out fine with us for most of the day.. until late in the evening where it started to downpour badly. but it's okay cause we have covered quite a distance. and dinner was great, though a little expensive.

today's mock games day's not bad. though the turnout was not as high as expected but i am glad to see that our comm members had their fair share of fun while playing the 5 games. looking forward to the actual event and hope that it'll be a great success.

i think everything's so good so far, till last night where i received my saf100. good game. back to the great old times of smelling grease, dust and dirt again.

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you know, even if i do not talk about it, this does not mean that i am not skeptical about you unlike how the rest speaks about you. in fact, sometimes i am starting to think that whatever they said makes sense. i know you are trying to become a better person. but some things you do really irritate me again and again, although i do not say it in front of you, cause i think that there is no need to do so. if there is a need for me to say it out loud, then i guess i don't really consider you as a friend anymore. a fine line stands in between friends and acquaintances. make a wrong step and you'll cross over the line, i promise.

on a side note, i am starting to like paramore's songs. especially the lead singer. she has a nice voice.

and on another random note, i survived yet another hectic day again. 10 to 8 with 1 hr break.. i am just waiting for recess week to come so that i can a short break before revision starts again.

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valentine's day marks the end of a hectic week. i am just glad that this week is over.. it has been hell. 2 labs (no reports luckily), 1 test, and report from previous week. have been sleeping past 2 these few days.. madness.

caught the curious case of benjamin button today. nice movie.. worth my money. just that it was so long (and i still think that the typhoon isnt really linked to the movie but anyway) and my bladder was full like after the 1st hour passed. so the feeling wasnt very good. but yup! good movie, good company.. sad, touching, woots!

i realised i havent been observing recently. must be the combination of the same old boring routine and my heavy workload. alot of things have changed. new buildings erected, schools demolished (yes my primary school is gone), old shops in shopping centres closed down, new shops up, and many more.

and people. yes.. people. people change, it's just whether you realised or not.

i really need to open my eyes and ears bigger.

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i just got owned by my printer... was printing LSM notes halfway when the paper suddenly jammed. and i took 30 min to solve the problem. just as i thought the notes will be swee swee, the printer just had to have problem printing the notes in the correct order! KNS

on a more personal note, i guess my life's full of more question marks. questions that are left unanswered, questions that are left dangling in midair and waiting for me to tackle them myself. i told myself that this year i am going to be a better person no matter what, to be more tactful in my speech and actions, and to offend less pple. i guess these questions are part of growing up to be a better person, to fulfill my resolution. i need to learn from these mistakes!

come talk beauty! is on thursday.. after that is having pizza! whee =D and there's this guanyue reunion dinner on friday.. haha!! looking forward to it. tmr's yet another long day. 8 to 8. luckily jem's there to drive me home. i thought i could have wednesday all to myself. but i still have welfare duty, shucks! guess the weekend's the only thing that i can look forward to. and then there is CNY! which makes next week a 2-day week =D

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i finally caught yesman with the little girl! nice movie.. didnt regret watching it at all. i was laughing throughout the entire show and yes! jim carrey's the man, the yes man!

and i got my no 5. should i try for no 6?

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damn i shouldn't have highlighted my hair blue. now that the blue is fading my hair's turning green. looks like some xmas tree now. gahh. shall go and cut my hair/dye it black/wait for the the blue to fade or something. otherwise i look pretty freaky.

anyway, this was a pretty last minute thing; i received a pm from owsongsim while i was bathing that there was alumnico prac last sat. so i decided to just go there and take a look at the juniors with enoch (at least i wasnt alone). and chinese high changed so much! now there's this another statue outside kongchian hall. and kongchian hall is now the admin area, no more ep3 block. things really change so much. and now that there are 2 statues, there are bound to be ghost stories that will involve both tkk and lkc... probably tkk asking lkc what time it is in hokkien cus tkk didnt bring watch or something.. ha!

the practice was ok. i was there for only 1 hr, didnt have the intention to play anyway. and i didnt really see much from our batch. cant be helped. everyone's everywhere all over the world, in UK and US. only a few of us left in singapore. the main bulk's the 06 and 07 batch. after prac, wait for the exco after they had some meeting with the alumni. then we went over to eason and karlheng to look for sponsors.

it has certainly been a while since i have gotten so close to chinese music. the concert sounds intersting. it's a pity that i know i cant commit fully. i hope that there's a chuida item, which seems like the only item that i can actually participate in.. hai.

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welcome to 2009. i certainly hope that this will be a good year ahead, though the reports say that the economic slowdown is going to be continue. oh mannnn

anyway, spent the last day of 2008 shopping with cj. we went alot of places and shopped for quite a while. around 6 hrs i think. from bugis to penisular plaza to funan then to marina square. i think the most rewarding area will be bugis. i got 3 tops and 2 shorts! at least i have something decent to wear to school soon.

after shopping went to meet up with parents and had steamboat for dinner as part of mom's bday celebrations. this is the 2nd time eating steamboat in 4 days, the 1st being 64's gathering at yimin's house where we had stemboat also with gtan! anyway, steamboat was good. it's at goldenmile there. abit ex.. 40 bucks for 4 pple, but it's worth the price! the food's good (:

so, 2009 is here. my bro's going school tmr, which means that i have the entire laptop to myself from tmr onwards until i start school too. haha gonna watch the shows that i couldnt watch in the hols cus my bro is around! harold and kumar here i come :D

oh ya there's bidding. bidding sucks!

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I have somehow managed to make my end-of-year post the 299th one. How apt it is. Then I can celebrate 2009 with my 300th post for this blog! Hur hur.

In retrospect, 2008 seems to be easily summarised by one word: 乱. Be it in the social, economic or political aspects, this year is simply nothing but a mess. I doubt there is need to elaborate more; we can simply summarise the events that happened as "3F crisis": food, fuel and financial. To add on, we should not forget all the disasters that happened: cyclone in Myanmar, earthquake in Sichuan (the same time that Chelsea lost to Man Utd in Champions League), and so on. Not that there isn’t really anything good to remember this year, such as the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and the 2 cheena pandas that went to Muzha zoo in Taiwan (and I am cursing as I am typing this, because these 2 pandas should have moved to Taiwan 1 year ago so that I could have visited them during my ORD trip blahblah) and I got my GST offset package and all. But after thinking for so long, these are the few things that are worth mentioning about, unless you guys can enlighten me further. So I can simply say that this year is basically a pretty bad one and may 2009 be a better year. I mean it.

Sidetrack: during yesterday’s meet-up session, wong mentioned that it felt as though we just ORD not long ago. Time flies; it has certainly been a while (over a year in fact) since we stepped out of camp with our pink IC. Post-NS life has been nothing but work for me. I was exposed to 2 companies during my 6-month holiday, each being pretty renowned in its own area. Come to think of it, although time passed by very quickly, it seemed as though it was forever when I was working. I have decided that working life sucks and it felt really good when I ended work at June, although I would say that during these 6 months, I really learnt a lot of soft-skills that I probably wouldn’t have learnt elsewhere. And getting exposed to those office-politics probably wasn’t a totally bad thing, it just reminds you that one always have to be careful and tactful whenever something is done, so as not to offend the other party. I am glad that I have remembered this by heart and even during my university life now, I am applying what I have learnt while I was working as a temp staff.

Working in Recruit Express was no doubt an experience for me. Having able to work in a competitive and fast-paced environment, I was glad to be able to survive for the 3 months that I was there. The staffs are nice and friendly, and I am grateful towards my mentor Liz, who was there to assist and guide me whenever I met obstacles along the way. In addition, I have made a lot of friends with fellow temp staff and we are still meeting up after every one of us has left the company for our further studies. I am glad that everyone is alive and kicking well. Of course, credits go to my working buddy CJ; it’s really fate that we are able to work together in a corporate world after working together in HQ coy for 1 year plus.

I also gained insight through working in SMRT, though working there was pretty much a chore. Working as a temp staff but covering a perm position was certainly not easy; the amount of stress level was high and having a perm staff as your employee was definitely weird. But I still managed to survive working there for 4 months and I am glad I did as I really learnt what it is like to be a HR executive after going through various recruitment drives and handling post recruitment issues like salary issues, promotion, and resignation and termination cases. I still vaguely remember one incident that some drivers were repatriated on the day that they were terminated due to undesirable behaviour (sorry but I can’t reveal too much, it’s private and confidential). It was just so... dramatic and I could still remember my boss saying “it’s part of the job. You have to be cold-hearted sometimes and be rational.”

School started in August, and between June and then I had 2 orientation camps and I am glad I went for it, cause I made new friends with my OG (quote: zee(: says: you made new friends. XD) MAFIA and CONAN! And lots of other new friends as I joined different sub-committees in Science Club. School has been fun and interesting so far and sometimes stressful and tiring too, especially during labs and projects. But I am not complaining because I feel that I have made the right choice so far by majoring in Chemistry. The December holidays have been great so far, I completed a marathon, caught up with friends, went Malaysia, bought a new phone, highlighted by hair… changes (for the better?) and now that the hols are ending soon, it’s time to recharge and gear up for the coming semester!

Also, this year marked by 21st year in this world. It’s supposed to be a very significant year where you are supposed to have more freedom and such, but for me it’s nothing much I guess. Expect for more burdens ad more responsibilities, and probably higher expectations too especially I am the eldest son of the family and the eldest grandson for my maternal side and now that I am 21 I am expected to be able to do more things blahblah. But it’s ok, I am still handling it well, not that stressful at all. Being 21 means that friends around you turn 21 too, this meant lots of 21st-birthday parties to attend. Apart from parties there were lots of outings and meet up sessions; with my JC classmates, sec 4 classmates, army mates and also my RE temps. Busy busy busy! And I seriously spent A LOT this year as compared to the previous 20 years of my life. This is scary; I ought to spend less next year and start saving money.

This year has been nothing but eventful (good and bad, probably more bad events) but I am glad 2008’s coming to an end. I am gonna say what I am going to say last year, may 2009 be a better year for me, in terms of my work and studies and I also wish for better health for my family and friends.

Happy 2009! (in advance lah, still got 20 odd hours and I am going shopping later! WOO FINALLY)

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