Its the new year!

2008 will be a far better year than 2006 and 2007.
It can't get worse, right?

Cheers to all!

32/04 BBQ 2007

So I had my last year end gathering for 2007... with my JC classmates from 32/04! It was nice to see everyone once again. It always gives a warm and homely feel. some of us may talk a little lesser, some a little more, but nevertheless, I'm sure everyone went back with their hearts a little fuller than before they came. Well, at least mine was.

It has been a crazy and tiring week. Nonetheless, with work commitments scaled back immensely in view of my new job stint, I hope it'll give me more impetus to go for work. I think its' time I moved on and out of my comfort zone, and try new things. hmm.

2G '02 Gathering 2007

Is facebook down?!?! I cannot get to the website -.-|||

Anyway, I went for my 2G outing after work today, which thankfully, wasn't too tiring, or I would have fell asleep at the zhi char dinner.

The attendance was only about 14 people, but it was far better than expected (which IMHO was like maybe 5 people?). So that's good. For $13/pax, the food was good, and actually there was still some leftover. But its a rather far walk from the station. hmm.

Still, it was good to see so many people as they were before, in the long ago times when we were still running around like siao gee-nas in lower secondary school. Its been so long ago, I swear it could have been decades ago.

Hope the 2G people who were present tonight, and those who weren't due to their heavy commitments, be able to go to leelaoshi's (a.k.a. laolee) place in Clementi (yes, its no longer that ulu place near the cemetaries >.<) to bai4 nian2 on the 4th day of Chinese New Year (which is 10 Feb).

Jay Chou's "The Secret"

Anyway, I watched Jay Chou's not-too-recent movie today, "The Secret". While I'm not a big fan of his, and I'm still very much intrigued by his stellar shot to fame, still, I must say the movie was very well done. Very well done. Its quite a piece of work. The ending was good.

And in case you're wondering, I didn't catch it when it was screened at the movies earlier on in the year. besides, no one to go watch it with anyway :p

getting emotional

"eejun for u i'm sure u'll find someone u like and that likes u"

So I came home after that little X'mas gathering so tired I though I'll just K.O. out my bed. Then again, at the request (read: demand) of my friends, I willed myself (albeit grudgingly) to keep awake, and upload/sent the pics accordingly. So happens that one of my good frens came online and we started some msn conversation and all. In the mood of X'mas and all, the topic of getting attached and all that came up (ok. single pple are always desperate on those X'mas, V Day etc etc)

Suffice to say, eventually, we talked about failed relationships, heartbreaks and those failed-to-start-love-stories. Then that punchline came out:

"eejun for u i'm sure u'll find someone u like and that likes u"

and then a whole series of assurances and blessings exchanges occurred for both of us. hah. but at that moment in time, it was all too much for me to take. sigh. 20 and turning 21 not-so-soon. It's just all that historical baggage re-opened once again. Perhaps not just the love life (or lack thereof) part, but substantially on it. Maybe on actions and choices in the pre-army and army-days too.

But still, all this historical baggage is now being viewed in a new perspective altogether. Not so negative as before, not as critical as I've had been. 3 months ago it still would have been. Now? Its time to grow up and move on with life. Lots of new resolutions, new goals to stick to, and of course in the Zen way, its time to live the moment, and not hold on to the already-has-been or the fleeting future-shall-bes.

2008 shall be a promising year.

thanks bro.


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sub-32/04 X'mas gathering '07

oh. in case my avid blog readers didn't already realise, I can upload pics now! haha. i think its another achievement worthy of a Nobel prize haha. anyway -

Ok. I admit that I was "invited" to this little Xmas party thing last min. coz everyone thought everyone else had called me along. But nobody did. Tsktsk. Such friends. Who needs enemies with friends like that? tsktsk. haiz.

In any case, I did called along, so I went along and I'm glad I did. It was quite fun, after all. Truth be told, we were playing all that card games and all. And all our ages added together is almost 200 years old already. tsktsk. and still playing card games -.-|||

In the end, there was the usual dunking of pple in the pool. hah. but I didnt get dunked lol. I hung on to the wooden bench for my dear life heh. You all can try harder next year muhahaha.

The rest of the pics and commentaries can be found at:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=77371&l=aa029&id=561870022

Merry X'mas, all!

sub-4C mini gathering

Time for a little update before cobwebs start accumulating around here! anyway, so a few of us from ex-4C '03 had a little zhi char dinner @ $9/pax on 23rd Dec, Sunday! It was actually quite hilarious and all. I mean, we are still telling the same old lame jokes, discussing about the same old lousy histories that have been repeated for at least 2000 times. and we're still at it, after 4 years. sigh. we need to grow up, and get more new stories, people!

Maybe next year we could have a more complete class gathering or something. but it seems as people grow older, they start to distance away and seem to get more preoccupied with their work/studies/family/other-friends etc etc. Somehow life demands so much from us that its dizzying sometimes. But I guess we just have to learn to work around it!

So I'm sort of looking forward to the 2G gathering this coming saturday on 29 Dec. It would be great to see how people are faring after 6 long years, some of whom Im seriously guilty of not keeping in contact of. Never mind. Better late than never.