Want a Little More out of This Life...
22nd May 2007, Tuesday
The title of this post seems a bit heavy for today's mood...heehee
I am fully contented of my current status, just life been getting stagnant and I am yearning for a bit more excitement to spur me on for the next few months...
The past 2 weekends with my buddies surely brought back great memories we had at our prime... those precious (at times precarious) gaming session which these days would be hard to come by due to our work commitment and personal lives with our other halves and family...
But inside, I was just glad we remained compadre after so many years with some of them seeking studies overseas or focused their lives with work of greater passion...
At the end of the day, the Wreckers will remain the wreckers... just that now the degree of wrecking havoc to people's lives has been well truncated...
I would fancy a get-together dinner one of these days with our other halves, but doubt it will be realized as simple as snapping the fingers...
Of course, my La Tendo clique will be within the vicinity all these times when the Wreckers aren't available... However our weekly badminton sessions' attendance seems decimated...some are losing interest, perhaps not too into waking up that early on Saturday or Sunday... Karen's birthday dinner was attended by mere 3 persons, could this spell that our group is disbanding?!
Highly unlikely... in sync with our otaku lifestyle is sure bandied with the rise and fall of La Tendo and our presence will continue to set the place ablaze...heehee
EK did moaned about how his own brother and Vinny hadn't been able to spare more time to see how the place is run on more regular basis...Making excessive order of a certain items, resulting in over stock of unwanted goods just ain't doing the shop any good...
Perhaps they should quit their day job and concentrate on the long-term well-being of the shop..but I doubt any of them would oblige...saying that those 2 must be somewhere in Toyama, Japan now, bringing school children to experience the "Yakigake! Nihon Tamashi!!"
I foresee the store should be well going into their 4th year of existence, just perhaps need to sort out some supply and price issue, not to appease fickle-minded ingrates which form the majority of the collectors locally but to sustain themselves even better in this limited market..
As for myself, I doubt I will ever wanna get into this business, it would just kill my passion for my figurines..
Back at home, had a few spats with my missus for the week or so, usually about her absent-mindedness and losing track of time... But those are just petty tiffs which resolves themselves over time...
However I do feel I am not committing enough to be a good husband and at current juncture, I doubt a baby would do us any good either... I need to really mature a bit more and consider when would be the best time for the next phase of life...seriously would any good father be too engross in playing PS3 with his chums and neglect his wife and children at home?? I think not...
Perhaps we need some romance in our lives again....I would always think of an escapade elsewhere or recently an idea which I had conjured to get a room at Ritz Carlton for the National Parade this year which would be held at the floating display at Marina...
A daily habitual necessity of mine had recently verified to be an infringement of our stringent law... Like other fellow lovers of that habit, we would curse and swear of the government robbing of our rights..but in the end of the day, it is still a major legality issue...
Thank goodness for alternatives on the internet to sooth that agonizing loss...
A week from now I am beginning my first IPT...
I don't fancy the idea of 2 of my weekday evenings been preoccupied by wretched sessions at Khatib camp to huddle with our pathetic cases like myself, struggling to clear that much-irked IPPT...
I had to do it for the sake of not going back for RT which would be of more sessions and involving my precious weekends...
At least for IPT, I need not sneak off from work at the awkward timing of 4 plus to make it in time at 6pm...
The current work landscape hadn't be the most illustrious.. The current project is cursed and the ideology had persistently haunting us these past weeks... Even things that had never gone wrong went wrong, subjecting me to be doubted by my supervisor about my working ability which I gut-wrenchingly hated...
However as I tried to make amends, I did something else wrong this time which really ticks me off as I am still conceiving the plan for a promotion next year...
Every performance counts and we know it...
However certain personnel in our department might be making a surprise departureo soon while some others who ought to be going will never be gone...
BY's daily whining about how busy she is and how the bosses been driving her crazy is not helping the cause and with my morale etched in the groud, it seems to be the final nail in the coffin...
But then it is the same ol' BY we grown accustomed to...
My current mood at work would be just plain jaded and not that I seek challenges but I seek recognition (kinda irony since the bonus has just passed)
On local front, there's a big hoo-haa about the approval to set a F1 racing track in the heart of our city and we can now join the likes of such exotic locations such as Monaco, Tokyo, Melbourne, Rio de Janiero as one of the selected few for the money-generating extravaganza...
The 5.25km racing course spans the Marina-Esplanade-Suntec area which in years time will be the main magnet for the bulk of tourists coming to our sunny island...F1 racing, Casino and a huge Ferris Wheel... well with the night skyline the entire place possess now, I think we are roasting nicely to be a alluring tourist spot...
Finally had an injection of nostalgia recently...From talking about Italia 90 with Faruk at the gym just now to reading Zero's narration of growing up as a part otaku part sci fi geek, which reveals our ol' comic haunt, Collector's Comic at Lucky Plaza where blood-sucking Carlos would entic you to buy his comic then suck you dry...There's a store known as "Pretty in Toyko" (or was it another name) where we used to get CD compilations of J pop and anime tracks at a time where J-pop CDs were almost non existent till the emergence of Tower Records and then HMV...man those were the days...
Then recently I spotted this girl I had a crush on back in my freshman days in NUS...
She should be at the shared facilities department since I saw her emerging from the basement.. I believed she noticed me as well but I just tried to be oblivious of her presence as it seems pretty awkward back then and perhaps now...
She had aged a bit and doesn't seems like that bubbly lass I was enchanted with...In the end, it seems like it was a blessing in disguise not to hook up...
Perhaps it's just appeasing myself or perhaps god is smiling on me but a few of those lasses I had crushes on seemed to turn out rather adversely down the years compared to my current squeeze.. :P
The title of this post seems a bit heavy for today's mood...heehee
I am fully contented of my current status, just life been getting stagnant and I am yearning for a bit more excitement to spur me on for the next few months...
The past 2 weekends with my buddies surely brought back great memories we had at our prime... those precious (at times precarious) gaming session which these days would be hard to come by due to our work commitment and personal lives with our other halves and family...
But inside, I was just glad we remained compadre after so many years with some of them seeking studies overseas or focused their lives with work of greater passion...
At the end of the day, the Wreckers will remain the wreckers... just that now the degree of wrecking havoc to people's lives has been well truncated...
I would fancy a get-together dinner one of these days with our other halves, but doubt it will be realized as simple as snapping the fingers...
Of course, my La Tendo clique will be within the vicinity all these times when the Wreckers aren't available... However our weekly badminton sessions' attendance seems decimated...some are losing interest, perhaps not too into waking up that early on Saturday or Sunday... Karen's birthday dinner was attended by mere 3 persons, could this spell that our group is disbanding?!
Highly unlikely... in sync with our otaku lifestyle is sure bandied with the rise and fall of La Tendo and our presence will continue to set the place ablaze...heehee
EK did moaned about how his own brother and Vinny hadn't been able to spare more time to see how the place is run on more regular basis...Making excessive order of a certain items, resulting in over stock of unwanted goods just ain't doing the shop any good...
Perhaps they should quit their day job and concentrate on the long-term well-being of the shop..but I doubt any of them would oblige...saying that those 2 must be somewhere in Toyama, Japan now, bringing school children to experience the "Yakigake! Nihon Tamashi!!"
I foresee the store should be well going into their 4th year of existence, just perhaps need to sort out some supply and price issue, not to appease fickle-minded ingrates which form the majority of the collectors locally but to sustain themselves even better in this limited market..
As for myself, I doubt I will ever wanna get into this business, it would just kill my passion for my figurines..
Back at home, had a few spats with my missus for the week or so, usually about her absent-mindedness and losing track of time... But those are just petty tiffs which resolves themselves over time...
However I do feel I am not committing enough to be a good husband and at current juncture, I doubt a baby would do us any good either... I need to really mature a bit more and consider when would be the best time for the next phase of life...seriously would any good father be too engross in playing PS3 with his chums and neglect his wife and children at home?? I think not...
Perhaps we need some romance in our lives again....I would always think of an escapade elsewhere or recently an idea which I had conjured to get a room at Ritz Carlton for the National Parade this year which would be held at the floating display at Marina...
A daily habitual necessity of mine had recently verified to be an infringement of our stringent law... Like other fellow lovers of that habit, we would curse and swear of the government robbing of our rights..but in the end of the day, it is still a major legality issue...
Thank goodness for alternatives on the internet to sooth that agonizing loss...
A week from now I am beginning my first IPT...
I don't fancy the idea of 2 of my weekday evenings been preoccupied by wretched sessions at Khatib camp to huddle with our pathetic cases like myself, struggling to clear that much-irked IPPT...
I had to do it for the sake of not going back for RT which would be of more sessions and involving my precious weekends...
At least for IPT, I need not sneak off from work at the awkward timing of 4 plus to make it in time at 6pm...
The current work landscape hadn't be the most illustrious.. The current project is cursed and the ideology had persistently haunting us these past weeks... Even things that had never gone wrong went wrong, subjecting me to be doubted by my supervisor about my working ability which I gut-wrenchingly hated...
However as I tried to make amends, I did something else wrong this time which really ticks me off as I am still conceiving the plan for a promotion next year...
Every performance counts and we know it...
However certain personnel in our department might be making a surprise departureo soon while some others who ought to be going will never be gone...
BY's daily whining about how busy she is and how the bosses been driving her crazy is not helping the cause and with my morale etched in the groud, it seems to be the final nail in the coffin...
But then it is the same ol' BY we grown accustomed to...
My current mood at work would be just plain jaded and not that I seek challenges but I seek recognition (kinda irony since the bonus has just passed)
On local front, there's a big hoo-haa about the approval to set a F1 racing track in the heart of our city and we can now join the likes of such exotic locations such as Monaco, Tokyo, Melbourne, Rio de Janiero as one of the selected few for the money-generating extravaganza...
The 5.25km racing course spans the Marina-Esplanade-Suntec area which in years time will be the main magnet for the bulk of tourists coming to our sunny island...F1 racing, Casino and a huge Ferris Wheel... well with the night skyline the entire place possess now, I think we are roasting nicely to be a alluring tourist spot...
Finally had an injection of nostalgia recently...From talking about Italia 90 with Faruk at the gym just now to reading Zero's narration of growing up as a part otaku part sci fi geek, which reveals our ol' comic haunt, Collector's Comic at Lucky Plaza where blood-sucking Carlos would entic you to buy his comic then suck you dry...There's a store known as "Pretty in Toyko" (or was it another name) where we used to get CD compilations of J pop and anime tracks at a time where J-pop CDs were almost non existent till the emergence of Tower Records and then HMV...man those were the days...
Then recently I spotted this girl I had a crush on back in my freshman days in NUS...
She should be at the shared facilities department since I saw her emerging from the basement.. I believed she noticed me as well but I just tried to be oblivious of her presence as it seems pretty awkward back then and perhaps now...
She had aged a bit and doesn't seems like that bubbly lass I was enchanted with...In the end, it seems like it was a blessing in disguise not to hook up...
Perhaps it's just appeasing myself or perhaps god is smiling on me but a few of those lasses I had crushes on seemed to turn out rather adversely down the years compared to my current squeeze.. :P
Japanese word of the day: 熱に上げる(Crush) I believe I even had a crush on the janitor back in those desperate days
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