1 Nov - 28 Nov 2004

Wa...this time not that bad...but still bad. Looks like i need to rename my blog title. One day in Heaven really seems like 1 month on Earth. 4 WEEKS NOT UPDATED! Sometimes i wonder how and why i still maintain a blog sia. King of Procrastination reporting.

Haha...but to be fair November quite happening for me la. Just that when things are happening time flies.

10 - 15 November. Shanghai-Hangzhou-Suzhou-Shanghai, China. I had the furthest vacation trip in my 20 years of existence. And i proud to add that this is the first trip that i myself paid for (all those hard work from tuition seemed worthwhile now....haha...) and i still rich enough to pay for my mother's ticket sia (much to many's envy haha ; p ). Anyway had a really nice trip, with nice scenery, nice company, quite chio "jiang nan mei" (muahhahaha..but relac guys i am a good boy ..main thing got mother ard somemore) and COOL COOL weather.... Shiok sia. Was happily taking pictures with my newly acquisitioned Sony DSC-W1 5.1 megapixel digital camera (yeah that one on TV adverts now)...maxed out both my memory cards with around 500 photos and 30 min worth of movie clips sia...(was planning to create a digital album for you all to see...but seems like procrastination won e day yet again..pity cos got some painstakingly nice Shanghai photos..)

Anyway i re- realised the fact that if you had been working way too hard, you will spend even harder. Was planning to do a cashflow statement detailing e outflows and inflows from day 1..(procrastination took e better of me again) But i guess i should do a rough estimate...let's see... S$1.6 k for air ticket and travel package, S$0.7k for digital camera, RMB600 (equates to 120 Sing Dollars) for Hangzhou's Mei Jia Zhuang Long-jin tea (which they said China used to give it to MM Lee Kuan Yew as a state present) plus a conservative 400 RMB on misc shopping and bargaining ba...Wow...2 thousand 6 hundred gone...which equals to 100 hours of tuition!

haha...irrational spending behavior never before seen in me. Well as long as my mother happy. Was just told by Thomas today that of cos she would be happy. He would be happy if he had a son like me, so he says. Haha, man isn't e boss so good in making his men feel important? Important leadership and influence skill. He's an enigma to learn from. but then again, I always believed each person is superior than me in some way, so from them i will learn.

15-18 Nov 2004. Well back to Singapore. Only thing i could remember is unpacking all the stuff from Shanghai and giving tuition to my O-Level girl on 17 Nov. Gonna miss how naughty she is sia, always laughing and whining while i explained to her all the maths stuff. Quite xin wei that she's a good student though...very automatic in doing her past year papers (she definitely did 10 times more than lazy me)...very proud of her. In fact, she did better than my slacker bro in her prelims. Her mum also gave me quite a huge ang bao sia. Gotta give them something back, even my mum said. Hope i win the war against P this time. Meanwhile good news is my student count after e bloody Os end will effectively drop to 1 or 2, so i guess it seems a good time to take stock of myself.

18 - 28 Nov 2004. Or so it seems. Things started corking up here and there in camp. Foxtrot Company was a disaster with two NSmen going into hospital, and an admin lapse by Terence was uncovered. Poor guy had to sign 3 extra. Well, if Chief Clerk hadn't needed to do so much work..think she could have prevented this error. The problem is work in the orderly room only getButs more with lesser clerks and more useless E-Initiatives by Mindef. But I couldn't be bothered so much no more. Can't stand the place where the workers are mute. Cant even rebuke a nonsensical piece of abuse hurled towards us. But who bothers. Used to it. Anyway rebuking is futile. Rank counts. Intelligence and Logic not necessary. To think i still cant get over the fact i am one of the more highly academically qualified person in camp with my A level results. Haha. Actually that doesn't really matter. Less than 6 months to ORD (also ROD?) from this month. I am leaving this shithole with a grenade inside.

Also got into contact with my 2 other ex-students, one finishing exams in SMU this weekend, the other was having a holiday, then graciously helped me to promote this GymBall that my friend had stocks of, to her friends. Had many SMSes with her, then found out more about how MJC was, and how she dint enjoy a single day in it (to my horror) and that she din mind that she wasn't in e same class as her other classmates next year. Also found out she's a frequent gym goer sia, you know, the siao on bout fitness type. Then found out nearer to the end of the week that she was given work at Suntec Carrefour as a cashier by virtue of smiling at e interview. haha. But tat's shack work sia. 11-11 hours. In fact just messaged her after some work at Thomas's asking bout how the day as a cashier went, then found out that today, 28 Nov actually her birthday! So qiao sia...haha...Hope she has fun in sentosa later for her birthday : )

And guess what I will be doing this Sunday?
Duty of cos. My 12 1/2 workday of this week. Shackness setting in.