Happy Lunar New Year 2009!

This year's lunar new year has been satisfying. Not in term of monetary inflow but a refreshing look of the house. A fresh coat of paint and new living room furniture, it's worth the mess (from the painting) and the time (from furniture scouting).

School hasn't been kind to me, projects, assignments and readings. Due to public holidays, I will have make-up lesson on Friday from 1900 - 2200 Hrs and Saturday from 1200 - 1500Hrs. The modules I am taking this term is pretty intensive with the readings. Although I am more prepared after going through the first term, it gets pretty monotonous when life after school is usually stuck in my room with school work after dinner.

Another thing that's on my mind is how am I going to spend my summer vacation. I thought of 'intern-ing' but so far, nothing has caught my attention.

3 deadlines this week, sleepless nights ahead. Ciao!

Spring Cleaning

There was an article I read a few back in Urban, a Straits Time Supplement, on cleaning up mess and offered a few tips on it. It was rather timely, given that everyone is probably busy with their spring cleaning in preparation for the Chinese New Year. Quoting from the article,

But people who are unable to control their mess may be guilty of 'hoarding', defined as the acquisition of, and inability to discard, items even though they appear to have no value. This results in the accumulation of junk - usually newspapers, bags of old clothing and documents.

At its extreme, hoarding is a mental illness stemming from obsessive compulsive disorder, and sufferers have symptoms of indecisiveness, procrastination and avoidance.

Bah. I think I am a terminal sufferer of obsessive compulsive disorder. I like the use of the analogy found in the article - organised mess. ha.

I was spring cleaning my room when I stumbled on a plain looking yellow ring file. Opening it, I found the compositions I wrote back in secondary school. The things I wrote, I can hardly believe it, ha! I realize almost, if not all of my compositions are either crime or thriller influenced, probably an excessive reading of such novels back then.

Another interesting find was the farewell card I received when I was working in the civil service before enlistment. People can probably know how I am like from the bits and pieces found in my room.

Gee, time to return to my spring cleaning. I will be writing soon, look out for my next post. *grins*

Stolen: E61

My trusty Nokia E61 got stolen last Friday in broad daylight. The lost of my companion is the saddest day of my life, I went crazy at the realization of it. Suddenly, I find myself so disorientated, so blinded in my everyday life.

I am a firm believer of effect from cause, what goes around comes around. The thief who stole it, I hope you can sleep peacefully at night without feeling the slightest guilt and fear of repercussion.

Now I have to start hunting for a new replacement. I am absolutely sure my Nokia 6610 is unable to plan my life as well as my lost E61. While I thought of getting back the same model, it would be pretty senseless to buy back the same phone that has went EOL (Read: End of Life). Latest smartphones are out of the question with its built-in camera when now I am still serving my national service. Oh well.

This incident aside, I visited Chinatown the day before and bought a few hundred grams of Bee Cheng Hiang's Gourmet Bakkwa (经典肉干) for sampling. It's heavenly, the fat melts in your mouth with every bite. *Yummy* It priced currently at $6 per 100g, pretty expensive considering the more common pork slices are priced at $40 per kg.

Anyway, buy your bakkwa early and store for Chinese New Year. The prices go insanely high when nearer to Chinese New Year.