Tofu Heart

My mouth may say mean things, but I have a soft heart :) Fragile <3

Captured this over dinner some days back:

Heart shape? Soy sauce? It's actually a heart-shaped soy sauce :D

So magical hor?

Addicted to Christina Perri's A Thousand Years lately, I've never watched Twilight before, never liked it, don't know why.


Addiction was induced by the recently gone viral video Meme Proposal instead:


So magically sweet <3

Awaiting magic in 2012,
Wishing you a happy new year in advance,
May 2012 be a year of many uncountable awesomeness.

Post scheduled at 11.11pm for some self-induced magical awesomeness :)

3, 2, 1, Let's Go!

OMG OMG, new year coming soon new year coming soon.
Never bothered with new year resolution, either because I won't do it, or I actually do whatever that I want to do anyway. Never bothered with Christmas wishlist as well, either I get what I want or just get a cheaper alternative or just give up on the thought of getting something overly expensive.

Coincidentally, today is 13.12.11. Actually no, I purposely wait until today only update one. Lol.

Apparently, my appearance screams high school boy. Got look that young?!
Must be my adorable childish dressing and fun size small built. I was at the mall looking at some leather shoes for work, the promoter aunty straight away said: "casual shoes over that side"; then I said "I looking for working shoes leh hehe". Then to the Expo Robinsons Sales, the aunty: "ah boy, what you looking for?". Seriously loh, I 23 liao.

On the bright side, means I'll probably look 30 when I'm 45. Wait another 22 years see how haha.

Top: that's me with fake specs, the high school boy look. Bottom: random Christmas tree near City Hall MRT.

Times flies, time flies. Anti-virus' 1-year license expiring. Very fast it'll be my 1 year in SG. Wah.

London Bridge is...

how one, I also don't know lol.

Sometimes, just sometimes, I kinda think that I'm kinda wasting my job. As in, I don't go sightseeing much, I don't walk around that much when I'm in another country. There's just no thrill nor excitement to move about, seeing the world so to speak. Most of the time, I'm just too tired and also too lazy to plan all the tours and whatnot! Truth be told, traveling on vacation reasons is seriously very different from traveling on work reasons, seriously. I'd be happy if I can squeeze in some shopping energy and time heh! It's mostly makan then tidur then makan then tidur then work back.

Just came back from London, this is my 3rd so far and the 4th one coming on Christmas. Point is, having been there so many times, I haven't actually gone on a tour or even get myself around to visit tourist attractions. London Bridge how I don't know, Big Ben how I also don't know haha! The good thing about this time's trip was the walk in the park. You see, when doing a London flight, crews will normally visit this duck rice stall near Bayswater tube station which serves quite good Chinese food I must say. This time round, they decided to take a walk there, cutting through Kensington Gardens:

Ok, this might not do the place justice, cause it was a really nice park. Got real life swans somemore (no pic though). If I have dogs, I'll walk him/her/them there every day :) It was quite cold, but there were still many people jogging, cycling, dog-walking there!

Me and yellow-leaf tree lol. Super random. End of autumn, winter coming soon huh? The seniors were walking in front, so the few of us junior ones just randomly snap snap some pics then off we follow haha.

 Then we reached the duck rice stall and have our portion of duck rice and misc. dishes for £11 per person. They actually have crew menu, more worthwhile than ordering separately if you ask me. Imagine how much business they make from crew alone? There are 3 daily flights to London every week, it's like there will always be crew having duck rice there every day leh!! On our way out, I saw this hanging on the wall:

Awwh! Christmas really coming soon liao, before you I know it, it'll be New Year then Chinese New Year then Valentine's Day then everything in between then Christmas then one year gone again haha. Back to the deco, "Dear Santa, I've been very,very, very good, where's that 1 present I've always wanted. Only 1 okay." Please go liaise with 月老 <3

 After food, off to Oxford St. for some shopping. The whole street was packed with humans, festive season kills the shopping mood. Seriously loh. Ended up with some cookies only then balik tidur. Too many people, feel like puking! Christmas deco was up too:

See the sea of humans? Every where also like that on the street. The star thinge quite nice though :)

 There you have it. Not the last post of 2011. 3 more weeks to Christmas, 4 more weeks to 2012.
What to do what to do what to do?
Where to go where to go where to go?
How how how?

Counting Blessings

Count my blessings, count your blessings. If you're reading this, it means that you're blessed with a pair of eyes to see; if you understand this statement, it means that you're blessed with a thinking mind for comprehension.

A lot of us are so blessed, in so many ways, it's just that we often disregard all these good things, then completely forget about them. Instead, we dwell endlessly on all the other petty bad things. I know, cause I do it all the time. Which is why I wanna remind myself randomly: to count my blessings.

I wanna thank my parents for sending me to school. Maybe I should tell them this the next time I see them, they'll be like "son, you okay?" haha. If not for them, I won't be who and where I am today. Aww, so lucky to just be born into this world, as Boon Woei. Hehe.

I think I am in love. In love with Apple's MacBook Pro, the 13-inch one. Feels just nice lol. Oh noes, I think I'm slowly turning into a materialistic bastard person. 

Still want to believe that my time will come.

Uniquely me,

Boon Woei

iRetard

Indeed I am a retard. It turns out my netbook didn't go kong on me at all, it just ran out of battery. The worst part was I didn't realize this until today when I was about to bring it to the centre to have it fixed. Luckily I plugged in the power supply just to have it checked one last time, imagine the embarrassment if I were to bring it to the Asus centre and have them correct me "Mr. your netbook is perfectly fine, it just ran out of battery". And to think I went netbook-less for 3 whole weeks. You tell me lol or not haha.

That aside, I have this belief, I always believe that no single soul on Earth should feel or be lonely or unhappy. I mean being alive is a huge thing already. Boy was I wrong, I was struck by this immense loneliness just now out of no where. Like a giant truck crashing into an innocent puppy crossing the road. Lol, bad analogy, but you get the picture? Getting crushed really badly randomly out of no where. I was on my way to da bao mixed rice, with earphones on, then tears flooded my eyes suddenly as I begin my journey to the food court, then I cried like shit for a good 5 minutes. I guess I just felt really really lonely suddenly; and asked myself why am I so pathetic, so alone here, living this life.. Don't I deserve to be happy too? Or I just chose to be unhappy lonely unconsciously? Maybe I'll never find happiness?


Haiz, iRetard emo.


p/s: needs to numb self with work, don't think, don't think, don't think...

我这人...

经常用钱来买教训!

What I mean is, I always tend to spend money to learn a lesson.

Allow me to explain. Recently, I've been spending some time trying to find a perfume that suits me cause the job requires one, if not I'll constantly smell of sweat and that is yucky. So one fine day I decided to just step into a random perfume shop and somehow got persuaded convinced into getting this 80 dollars bottle of nicesmellingness. That time I thought it was not bad a bargain seeing how they were having sales. 2 weeks later, I stepped into another random perfume-selling shop which was also having a sale (this time is Christmas sales) and saw the same bottle selling for 50 dollars!

Where got such thing one right?!! Such a big difference!!
Lesson learnt, always Google first before doing ANYTHING! Or when it comes to shopping for goods, at least do some research and compare prices before making the purchase!

Haiz, 30 hard earned dollars down the drain. And this is not the first time scenario like this happening to me.

Regards,
Failed first time perfume buyer

P/s: boy was it difficult to compose a post on the phone. Why phone? Cause my overpriced netbook decided to go kong on me..!

Memories

Lately, many childhood memories started to surface in my thoughts. They remind me of how fortunate I am, that I have lived a truly blessed life thus far. Very well to do in my opinion, not financially, just overally (overall-ly, get it? :P).

When I was young, both my parents worked (even till now), so you could say my childhood was spent alone until my brother came to town for his Primary 1 (he was at hometown earlier). I remember those days how I'd wait for my parents at the balcony, they'll bring back supper or just some random snacks. On those days I was lazy, I'd wait for the sound of gates opening then rushed down to greet them. When my brother came along, we would do this waiting and rushing down the stairs together. Oh, memories. Of course there were many days we fought viciously, usually ended up with him crying XD sorry about that lil' bro, guess that molded you into a tough and independent person now, fighting was fun right? Hehe.

I also remember the younger days when our entire family of four lived in one single room, come to think of it, life was like that until about 5~6 years back when I moved out for my tertiary studies and them moving to the outskirts due to work, pity lil' bro had to be transferred there for secondary schooling.

Back to the younger days when lil' bro wasn't in the picture yet, I remember how we couldn't really afford many things, but my parents still tried to give me the best, maybe that's why how I never felt that I was deprived of anything. Given how both my parents worked in supermarket, my playground after school time those days would by default, be the supermarket (Fajar to be precise, they closed down some years back). I had plenty of things to play with, whether was the fresh goods department with fruit and all those, or the toys and stationary items departments with all sorts of things a kid would ever imagined.

You know how kids these days would be deprived of snacks or fizzy drinks, my bro and I didn't have that restriction, perhaps that explains why we are so not rebellious now. Cause we were simply not deprived of all these, a lot of freedom was given to us.

Our favorite toy back then (before computer became a household necessity lol) was Lego. To buy it is very expensive, Lego's not exactly affordable, so we stole it; we actually got them free, either from the old displayed pieces or faulty boxes. Faulty in the sense that some Lego boxes became incomplete when some pieces were stolen or just random loose pieces. That's how we ended with a box of random Lego pieces, those were fun :D It was until later only we can afford to splurge on toys, Lego boxes, Gundam models, Beast Wars figurines and Gameboy consoles; just to name a few prominent ones. Ooh yes, we used to waste money on Pokemon trading card game too; those were the days!

I believe that's it for now, a visit to memory lane :) If you've read through that chunk of texts, congratulations to you, you now know me a bit better (or at least I would want to think it that way). Here's your reward, my moment-song, named such cause it's one of the few songs I like at this moment:

Think

It seems that I couldn't uphold the promise of 1 post per week, time flies and time doesn't fly. Time flies because 2 weeks passed just like that after my previous post and to think that I've been in Sing a pore for 8 months! Time ticks and tocks regardless of whether I'm ready. Time doesn't fly because there were times I calculate how much $ I need to pay for quitting my job, the 17-month bond turns out to still be a hefty sum despite being pro-rated, 17 months more to go!

I've been thinking a lot lately, about my career, about my future. But it doesn't seem to have a conclusion to every thinking session. Still wondering what to do with this "life" of mine, purpose in life so to speak.

Never have I thought I'd take a plane ride so often in my life, more often than I take a cab come to think of it! I thought I would just have an ordinary office job and work forever to pay for things I can't carry when I leave this world. The second  part still holds true unfortunately, that is working forever and earning money.

I tell myself, if I'm not doing this, I would be doing other things (which I may not like as well) for a living. For a living huh, I do wonder what is the purpose of life, sometimes I feel like living is just because I'm not dead. Not that I want to die, but do note that humans die eventually. Where is this cycle taking us? Where are we going, do we need to be there?

Makes no sense I think. Haha. Randomness.

Have a pleasant weekend.

This must be it

The version of the song I posted in the earlier post which I said I thought I've heard of some time ago. What a mouthful there haha.

Nice <3

I'm feeling kinda anti-social these days, just feel like rotting in room. But at the same time, I'm very happy when I see familiar faces, doing unimportant random things. Oh so simple, but so fulfilling and contenting, yet they are hard to come by these days. Just like the song, it appears to be a very simple romantic task, yet not many people can achieve that these days.

I want to believe that by moving forward regardless of what gloom comes my way, will eventually lead to a fruitful and desirable future. It doesn't have to be what the society thinks of as "successful", but good enough and "successful" enough from my point of view. Which as of now, I am uncertain about. Nonetheless I'm sure I will know it when it hits.

So please hit me or at least find ways to show me that I can hit.

中秋节快乐

A bit late, but not too late, so don't mind the petty details lah alright.

Was at Hong Kong during this festive season, it's a big thing over there, so big that apparently people finish work earlier than usual on the Mooncake Festival Day (15th of August on the Lunar Calendar) and get a day off on the next (or so I was told).

Point here is, this will be the type of life I'm living for (at least) the next 2 years, won't be around for festivals, unpredicted presence in Singapore/Malaysia and yadayada so much inconsistency and unpredictability. Certainly not complaining, just saying :)

And so I was at Hong Kong, thinking how I have not eaten mooncake at all this time around. Back in Malaysia, I always get to eat mooncake, whether they're free samples given to my mom or gifts to my mom. Thinking back in Uni days, how I'd eat a whole mooncake for a meal, haha. Then now, haiz. Oh wait, I think I bought some mini mooncakes to console myself a week back or so! They tasted pariah though, aka not-too-good.

Lol, pardon the messed up post, my mind's messed up now too. Just wanna pen these down before The Moment ceased to exist (meaning inspiration gone lah!).

Oh ya, and so I was watching this live broadcast thinge on TV, some programme for this Mooncake Festival Celebration was on and I saw/heard this song and thought it's quite awesome:

I so so remember hearing this song way way back long long time ago. That's all, I think I kinda miss home, or maybe missing the doing-nothing days hehe.

靓仔没本心

I got 本心, means I'm not a 靓仔 loh, haiz. Lol this logic is obviously flawed, but oh well.

My off days are typically spent sleeping, and yet having slept away a couple of days, it is still like not enough one. How I wish sleep debts can really be paid off, can never compensate lost sleeps! Body is officially screwed, and you thought this is an enjoyable-don't-need-to-do-much job, think again :)

When in Rome

This was about 2 weeks back. It was a much anticipated destination, but it was not too interesting after having been there! Well, maybe I just need the correct company. Meh, come to think of it, maybe I just don't quite like Europe stations.

Trevi Fountain

 The angle might look a bit odd here, cause I was trying really hard to avoid snapping the 278314 tourists near the fountain. Like seriously, tourist attraction is such a bore haha!

View from some slightly high up place, overseeing the ancient Rome, supposedly the spot where the old Rome Rome was

 Rome Rome is not a typo hehe. Ahh, such nice blue sky. You know what it means? It means the weather was blardy hot, like seriously blazing sun! Nevertheless, a grand view indeed, can imagine the OMGness of the ancient Rome from here. Power!

Vatican City

 Nothing much here, but it's really nice stuff. And it's one of the must-see attraction too, and I sounded so uninterested and uninformed is because I didn't do any preparation prior to visiting these places. So to me they were like "wahhh, nice...(period)" lol.

Interior of St. Peter's Basilica, located in Vatican City

I actually didn't know it's known as St. Peter's Basilica until I Google'd it lol. It's the main building in the previous picture. Can you see the amount of tourists? Like spawning from the doors. A lot of nice stuffs inside too, especially the ceilings, mega nice. The amount of details on these pieces (practically everything inside) is unbelievable, like someone had too much time on their hands or something.


That's it, pictures courtesy of me. I had like 18 pictures taken in the entire Rome trip, fail I know, haha. And to think that I wanted to get a camera, or maybe I'll start snapping haphazardly when I actually own a camera. Hmm.

I miss

blogging that is. Penning down random things.

A LOT happened in these few months. I'm yet to be able to find time too lazy to keep this up to date! But I'm having this urge to write/type again, let's just hope I can keep this going; maybe to a bare minimum of a post per week? hehe

You Are a Cashew

You are laid back, friendly, and easy going. Compared to most people, you have a very mild temperament. You blend in well. You're often the last person to get noticed. But whenever you're gone, people seem to notice right away!

What Nut Are You?

I'm a cashew, apparently :)

Quite Drunk

For the first time.

I have to admit, the tipsy feeling wasn't that bad. But anything beyond the point of mild tipsiness was quite a havoc, difficulty in controlling limbs and spouting nonsensical speeches. After all that, I am glad that I didn't get very drunk and there were guardians there to keep me safe and secure. Thank you friends! It was quite an experience!

Now I truly understood how alcohol can make people do things they don't/won't do when they are fully conscious. Again, tipsy feeling's quite nice; just don't get drowned by alcohol and it'll be fine.

Do I always give out the impression that I'll be fine?

T, not Coffee

You Are the "T" Block

You are very flexible and adaptable. You're able to fill almost any role or do almost any job. You are peaceful and calm. In fact, you're so tranquil that people often forget you're around. You prefer to leave the drama to other people. That being said, you sometimes end up cleaning up someone else's mess. You don't mind doing the dirty work every so often. You're a true team player, and you're always happy to contribute.

What Tetris Block Are You?

Real one or not?

Convocation

Initially I thought die die also must attend convo, regardless of whatever circumstances that may surface. I mean, it's after all a once in a life time experience, as I seriously doubt I'll be getting another degree!! That aside, I also wanted to graduate together with my fellow Psych friends. But that thought changed when I got here, it felt like I've moved on and suddenly, the whole convo ceremony just doesn't feel as important! Hmm, I'll probably regret this one day, like 30 years down the road, I look back and ask myself "how come I didn't attend my convo ar?" LOL WTF XD

Life's been good albeit hectic, things just happened so rapidly that there's hardly enough time to even take a breath. Nonetheless, it's all good; and frankly I'm very much looking forward to what's in store for me! All the excitement, anxiety, ups and downs, there's just so much life ahead to live. Oh gosh, I'm not making any sense already haha!

Lastly, to my dearly Psych friends, congratulations and enjoy the convo!! You are now officially a "Psychology Graduate", take care :)

I am Bamboo

You Are Bamboo

You are a very independent and unpredictable person. You do things your way, and you never know what turn your life will take. You are very intellectual and logical. You try to think things through carefully, in steps. Sometimes it seems like you are unemotional, but you try to have your emotions work for you instead of against you. Those who know you best know how loyal, compassionate, and supportive you are. You are a very admirable person.

What's Your Lucky Charm?

Blogthings: Quizzes and Tests and Memes, Oh My!

又是自己

原来是高估了自己的能力和耐力；
原来要活得实实在在明明白白的只有自己，

怪自己没做好准备，怪自己自以为是！
虽然自己那么烂，还是留着自己好了！

无厘头的自己？
一个人的旅行。

我

刚刚上车的时候，
有冲动想在下一站下车然后跑回去。
跑回去作些之前自己该做的事，
不想等到太迟错过了才后悔。
但我始终还是没勇气，
好无奈好讨厌那么没用的自己！
为什么总是那么吊儿郎当，
难道不能干脆地做件事吗？

人要知足，要开心，
要活得明明白白实实在在！

希望明天会更好，
告诉自己要把握眼前所有的一切！

我要。