Excellent Sunday!

Let's see...

What did I do yesterday...

9am - 12noon = Tutor-ed the brother & sister in Sembawang

1pm - 4pm = Trained/Coached two people for event preparation

5pm - 6pm = Slack at Raffles City Starbucks

615pm - 815pm = Sat at the Comics Mart on Level 3 and did the following:

1. Dug through the Magic common box. Shiok!
2. Chatted with the guys there about Magic.
3. Made a new friend.
4. Spent $17.50 on 3 packs + 50 protectors to play two-man draft.
5. Won the draft and first-picked a FOIL Empyrial Archangel! Shiokness!
(Here's the picture)


I think it's worth quite a lot...should be enough to cover my costs. But then again...it's so damn pretty! Argh! Pretty pretty pretty!

9pm - 10pm = Dinner with A

Then I head home and that was that....nice nice. =)

Great Day!

GuildWars 2

Whew...my first ever off day, and I just started my day on the right now. I'm super excited right now.

Information on Guild Wars 2 is finally out! And I just watched the freaking trailer!


Official Website
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/

Official HD Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em0Sd60iI2w

I am so so SO So sO SOOOOO EXCITED! (Argh, I know I've said that a few times already, but I just sorta can't stop)

I'm definitely going to be playing a Sylvari character, and best of all, it's going to be FREE ONLINE PLAY (like the original GuildWars)!

No crappy WoW business model that totally pisses me off! Hahahaha.

Here's the concept art!



Nice right?

Alright, enough of the initial excited energy has been properly channeled into this post. =)

Have fun everyone!

The best things truly are worth waiting for.

The Name of the Wind

It's been a while since a novel (or any book in fact) had the ability to keep me giggling/laughing for a good whole minute, ALOUD.

=)

On a totally unrelated note, I just want to say that I love the ambiguity of anaphoric referencing. LOL.

Damned it be to meddling strangers! Hah hah!

Overheard on the MRT...

Dragonboater A: "I thought 'pre' is 'after'?"

Dragonboater B: "No. 'pre' is 'before'."

Dragonboater A: "Not 'after' meh? I thought it's 'after'."

Dragonboater B: "No, it's 'before'. 'Post' is 'after'."

Dragonboater A (muttering to himself): "Hmmm....'pre'..'pre'...'Prepare'...yeah, should be 'before'."

Dragonboater B (to Dragonboater C): "Actually, is it 'before' or 'after' ah?

Dragonboater A: "Wah lau! I thought you say you know?!"

At this point, I decided to stop listening to spare myself the laughter that would have inevitably killed me. Fortunately, I arrived at my stop already...so all was well. Does too much physical activity really do this to a person's brain? I remember once, I heard that some other dragonboater didn't know that raisins came from grapes...

I'm glad the dragonboaters I know aren't like that. =)

Work Work...

3rd day of work...

It's been pretty relaxed thus far.

People have been nice, work has been nice, place has been nice (enough).

Still got quite a few food places to explore, and I am thankful for friends who are just as new as me.

I get to use an eMac (yes yes, it's not an iMac, but it's good enough), so I foresee myself getting converted pretty soon.

Just that there are so few games on Mac! Argh.

Having an internet connection that allows me to use Gmail is great as well. Can Gmail chat...

That's the way to go in my company. Hehs.

I just hope they hurry up and complete the construction ASAP. I really REALLY hate walking amongst half-finished concrete. It certainly sucks big time. :(

PS: I am updating this blog too because there are certain important people who need to know how I am doing in life. (it's not YOU Su! lol...I'm referring to my RELATIVES...OVERSEAS. Hah!)

At your request....

I am writing this post because of the dire lack of updates (and sufficient bitching from my lovely EL friends).

As such, here are the updates surrounding my life & random thoughts:

1. I have found a job at a publishing house in the East (God Bless my long and boring travel time) and I start work on Wed!

2. I am contemplating what to spend money on when I get my first paycheck (I wanna buy something techie! Like a PSP/PS3!)

3. I miss my friends, and am wondering how in the world am I going to start making time for them again.

4. I don't get why blogging and Twittering and 'social-media-ing' are such big deals.

5. I am thinking of remodeling/redecorating my house...it's getting BORING.

6. I wanna get a bigger bed! I feel like a big kid stuck inside a baby cot.

7. I am beginning to appreciate the differences I have with certain people, and I am glad that we share the common goal to WORK THINGS OUT, such that everything can keep moving forward. Love y'll.

8. I am currently at tuition and am leeching off their internet connection (I am such a cheapo).

9. I am sick of trying to think of something to write, so yeah...suck it!

And that...

was that...

Authenticity

If you can't be real, so be it.

Don't come and try to absolved your myopia by according it to an entity that no one can actually see.

So don't come and pretend to be something you're not, it's just plain annoying.

Lunch at Fish & Co.

Just more food pictures...make everyone hungry...MWAHAHAHA!

Seafood Noodles!

I was in the middle of training today when I received an SMS from my tuition kid's mother. This is what it said:

德禹七点上课，那么六点半你可以到我家吃海鲜面吗？

(Teyu's class with you is at 7pm, so would you like to come over at 630pm for seafood noodles?)

I wasn't able to make it at 630pm, but she insisted that she would leave a portion for me anyways. So when I arrived at the place at around 720pm, this was served to me...



Prawns (3 medium sized ones)
Squid (approx. 1 medium sized squid in rings)
Salmon (2 small fillets)
Cockles (I think I ate about 10 of them)
Silken tofu (half a standard supermarket block)
Taiwanese rice noodles (she said they brought them over from Taiwan, but they just looked like plain noodles to me)
Shredded ginger (garnish)
Minced coriander (garnish)

The soup was basically water, and a little salt.
Everything else was flavour from the seafood!

Amazingly simple and yummy!

=)

I is happy!

And now I know how to cook a simple seafood noodle soup dish, that's practically foolproof. Mwahaha.

PS: I LOVE the old school metal spoon!

Veggies Rock!

Yay-ness!

*pouts*

I wish I had more clarity, so that I am able to create more clarity for those I truly care about...

Quote of the Day

Dancing is the manifestation of a horizontal desire in a vertical form.

(Heehee... *snigger*)

GUILT

is fun and easy to spot.

*bleah*

Change

Shifts.
Progress.
Forwarded areas of life.

This is what happens when you deal with evolution.

It can be scary, it can be fun, but you will never ever know for sure what you will be getting with everyday you walk the path of evolution.

As I learn more about myself every single day, I just am so thankful for this life that I have.

Even as I am writing this, I know it's all crap, and I know it's actually true, all at the same time.

I love talking nonsense, or am I?

*snigger*

Infinity

Seeing Infinity in a flower.
And Eternity in a grain of sand.

When both come together...that's that...and that's all there is...and nothing more.

They were all around her, and I saw her face amongst them.
And that's all there was. I am glad that the last image of her I saw. Her portrait, everlasting beauty; captured in a single frame.

She held on to her Consciousness to the very end...

And I will always remember her spirit and tenacity.

Bastard Children

Something Xinwei shared with me:



Damn funny lah... ^_^

Sure-fire ways to make me jealous...

Just send pictures that look as good as these...

PS: Just so you know...these were definitely HOME MADE...

Picture1: pancake/flapjack/hotcake thingy with a wedge of peach, fresh cream, maple syrup and a sprinkling of cinnamon and spice.

Picture2: a homemade quiche taught by a French girl...

I am so jealous...I wanna learn how to make quiche from a French girl too! Wargh!

In all so many words...

This is how my Dad says, "I Love You"...

I guess I suddenly was present to how he insisted that he prepare food for me even though I arrived home unannounced and he had not actually prepared my share. I tried to fight him off, saying that it was okay that he did not prepare my share, but he insisted that I take some anyway, and made sure he prepared a plate for me.

I only thought about all this as I was eating the chicken chop, and suddenly, there it was again...that tingly feeling inside...it's been awhile since I felt that tingly feeling...

Food prepared with love really tastes different...but you have to want to taste it, or at least be present/aware to what is plain to see....you really have to...

^_^

Won't be around from the 27th to the 30th of this month...

Byebye ^_^