feeling the heat.

I feel so relieved now that I have completed and sent in all my scholarship applications. As usual I procrastinated over the application and left it to the last minute such that I kinda neglected someone over the last two weeks of march.

I was under the intense time pressure as I struggled to produce quality work that was, and still is, evading me for the last two years of my life. Now I'm just crossing my fingers that I'll get that interview.

Speaking of the heat, I cannot believe how warm the office is becoming recently. With the remote control in safely in the aunties' clutches, the office temperature is set at around "Alex starts to perspire" degrees Celsius.

They are perpetually afraid of the cold that they actually drape scarves or wear jackets for the whole day. At first, I thought it was only me, but it turns out, both zw and jinggy were feeling very warm too.

I wish I could unleash a Boggart in the office and low, and behold, it would turn into freezing weather, causing panic to the masses. Unless the Boggart attacks me, and turn into paradise for the aunties, the Sahara Desert.

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you will never know wad will happen in your life.

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quotations.

I must be getting bored by work, as I am having more mental monologues with myself these few days. Perhaps this is partly because I'm planning for my 21th birthday celebrations, and being stunned by the quotations sent over by the various hotels for their buffet high tea/dinner.

I have only invited those very close frens to my celebration, and its no easy task leaving out some of my frens. But in this world as it is now, the costs of the celebration is my priority.

I know this is random, but I saw this quote from those spammers flooding msn promoting their porn/dating/enhancement websites that I found quite interesting.

"They say it is the soul that captures the heart of a woman, but it is the looks that first captures the eyes of one." And they go on about wanting to date you for your hot looks.

Well, at least now we know that spammers also put in effort in their work.

being happy with who you are.

Lets face it, everyone has their own issues. I have been doing my usual mental monologue with myself about this issue about issues.

I read somewhere this quote somewhere before that I found to be quite true. "Most guys have more issues/personal problems than they look". It set me thinking about myself, about how I appear to the people around me, about the kind of impression I make to them.

It also set me thinking about some of the guys that I know more personally, and I find it to be quite true too. I'm not a MCP but I feel that guys have that ability to shut out such stuff completely at times so that they can continue with their lives and daily interactions with people.

During work, I usually whip out my iPod so that I wont fall asleep. The best songs that accompany me, as it has been for over 5years, are the songs from X Japan, with X on Piano in particular. I've always been letting people listen to songs from X, trying to get them hooked onto X. Now I bring you their latest song, IV.



In loving memory of Hide.

I just love Yoshiki on his trademark transparent piano. Beautiful.

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in the zone.

I'm happy to be employed, and time seems to be passing indecently fast, but unfortunately it doesnt apply when I'm actually in the office. We're just practically living for two big moments during office hours from 8.30 to 5.30.

Typical day at work :

0830 Reach office, throws bag under the table, turn on computer, stone.
0845 Reads soccernet, manutd.com, newsnow - Man Utd.
0900 Goes to pantry, fills cup with whatever I feel like drinking.
0905 Working - zones out.
1000 "
1100 "
1200 "
1215 Promptly loses 100% efficiency rate and starts to disturb people around me.
1230 Lunch!
1315 Round of table tennis.
1330 Returns to work and promptly zones out.
1400 "
1500 "
1600 "
1715 Promptly loses 100% efficiency rate and starts to disturb people around me.
1730 Packs bag and joins the queue to tap out.

employment.

A nail biting finale, in which on that fateful morning I finally received the call from my would-be employers that they would be offering me the job instead of the faceless two other (tempted to use a really appropriate expletive that accurately describes them but decides not to) competitors that popped outta no where.

The start of the month spells out a new chapter in life for me, as I donned the uncomfortable office attire and put on leather shoes to kick start my CPF account.

The excitement of joining the workforce promptly lasted 10mins after I left my house on the first day as I battled with frenzied ah sohs (who strangely have so much energy so early in the morning) to board the bus filled with sleepy students, the working force, and the Crazies.

(I dubbed those that prefer to do their own stuff in the wee hours of the morning than to sleep in as the Crazies.)

Incidentally, just so that my day gets worse, the bulk of the people on the bus alights at the stop just BEFORE mine. So I will only get a seat for one stop. Lovely. Not to mention the next bus I take, if I don't get a seat, means I'll be standing for 15-20mins depending on the traffic jam on the expressway.

Luckily, I found a new way to work, the company bus @ kovan. So its like going back to the JC days all over again.

Work is more bearable when you have good friends working in the building/beside you/floor itself. Especially when we "bump into each other" in the pantry.

my best friends.

With all the technology now, where camera-less handphones are becoming rare breeds (eat that suffering pple in NS!), I find that it is still quite difficult to get a group photo with everyone present. Strange no?

Here are some rare photos of my favourite people all together with me.

The last photo is to make up for the bad photo of Alwin in the first photo. =D