26th February 2007
Monday
Yet another day wasted alone

I have the habit of blogging entries on fake dates and timings. But this time, I decided against it. Maybe I just want to blog a real entry with real dates and timings.

First up, a quick summary of yesterday, 25th February 2007. Went to Four Seasons Hotel to work under recommendation of Ms Tso. Work was fine, without much mishaps happening. Junsheng was stationed at the fruit drinks section while me, the Ban Mian section.

What happened after work was dumb. I went home without realising I left my bunch of keys in Junsheng's bag. Without my keys, I had no way of getting into my house. Later on, I found out that my brother was home sleeping. But that was not before I wandered the streets for a few hours and travelling to Hougang to meet my dad.

Today, I have left my room for less than an hour. Practically the whole day was spent in my room watching anime. I wanted to catch a movie. But I guess no one has the time since everyone has different schedules now. I struck out the option of catching a movie alone after Weisheng notified me of an unofficial X-Winds meeting later at 7pm.

But I really do not know what the meeting is about. Or what is it for. I guess I will find out later. However, the new committee (if a committee consisting of two people can be called a committee) have no idea of what to do. Or what is expected of them. Not that I want to point fingers, but this is really the case. For quite some time now, this organisation has quite failed to meet the basic defination of an organisation.

An organization or organisation is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, which controls its own performance, and which has a boundary separating it from its environment.

A statement for you to think about.

24th February 2007
Saturday
Cigarettes and alcohol.

Today was a busy day. Travelling from Sengkang to Hougang, Hougang back to Sengkang, Sengkang to City Hall, City Hall to Hougang, and finally Hougang back home to Sengkang.

The day started off with a visit back to my alma mater. Spent most of the morning listening to the band and making criticisms. I managed to squeeze in a bit of practice during this period. [Tone is still rough, and flexibility is recovering at a slow rate.]

Travelled back to Compasspoint to meet Zheng Ping and we went down to Swissotel together. Training for banquet was kind of slack. Nothing really significant happened although I learnt a few new things. Had a short tour around the hotel area and then we were good to go. Zheng Ping went home and I went to meet Ray, Yiang Shan and Hoiting at Hougang.

Had dinner at Hougang Plaza and then went to the One Stop Entertainment Centre once again for more entertainment. Rotted there and played "Asshole Daidee" for a while and then went home.

I reached my house only to find a moat of shoes between me and the door. After carefully treading through the shoes, I opened the door and was greeted by a waft of cigarette and alcohol smell. Forcing a smile, I went around greeting everyone happy new year. Finally, I made it through the makeshift gambling den that appeared in the living room and reached my room.

And since then, I have been stuck in my room, blogging and uploading pictures onto Flickr.

To end off this post, I have a statement to make.

I hate cigarette smoke. And the smell of alcohol too.

Make that two statements then.

可是事实就是这样残酷的。

23rd February 2007
Friday
One day wasted, one day less.

Second wasted trip to Xinmin. Seriously, if the school is half as supportive of X-Winds as they are for volleyball, all these problems would not be occuring. Screw the useless lamentation.

Blackjack seems to be the main attraction at Ray's house, also known as the "One Stop Entertainment Centre". During this CNY period, cards and cash will appear without fail. Bets ranges from 5 cents to 10 dollars. All amount of bets are accepted. Bankers are always generous with their cash and as the saying goes, "小赌大赢，祖宗显灵" so feel free to invest in this Entertainment Centre.

Apart from distributing money to people, visiting, and eating new year goodies, these few days have been spent in a very useless manner. Maybe something might happen and spice things up a little. At least life will be a little more colourful.

Maybe it is the best answer that you can give and I can accept.
有些时候，你所想的并不是你心里想要的。

22th February 2007
Thursday
新年初五

Yesterday, I received an answer to a question that haunted me for almost a year.

Yesterday, a problem that I had to solve arose.

Yesterday, I started to question my responsibilities that were thrust upon me months ago.

Yesterday, I forgot how to differentiate between responsibilities and obligations.

End

可能是我自己想得太多了。

20th February 2007
Tuesday
新年初三
如果我对你说我爱你，你会相信吗？

今天一早，华老师的学生去了她的家拜年。虽然我们约好十点在Kovan地铁站，我们还是等到十一点才出往老师的家。到了那里，我们发现到我们的班是最早到的。其他人都还没到。我们就在老师的家聊天，打麻将。在老师的家都留到差不多三点左右， 我们就离开了。

After visiting 华老师's house, I met up with the regular band clique and they came over to my house to for more visiting. Siyang tagged along since we lived close to each other. Hoiting and Yiang Shan met us at my place and they had their share of the 红包. After visiting my place, next on the list was Ray's place. So we all took a bus down to Hougang again.

At our regular hangout, we had the usual rotting session. But this time, the session was accompanied with cards and cash. Ray's room was immediately converted into a makeshift gambling den. Resident bankers consisted of Eugene and Chiang Chin. But I was really down on my luck and ended up contributing more than $20. Chiang Chin was a bit more generous than me though.

Having collected their share of red packets and blackjack winnings for the day, everyone was satisfied and went home. This was how 初三 was spent.

19th February 2007
Monday
新年初二

Second day of the new year. My relatives came over in the morning to visit. Although we had already gathered and met yesterday at my grandmother's house, it was our yearly tradition to go visit each others house on the second day of the new year. Just that this year, there were only three houses on the list, although I only went to two out of the three.

They came and watched 满城尽带黄金甲。Quite a dumb thing to do since the storyline was bad and all that. The only part worth watching is the ending, where 据花台 is being played. Yes, it is that bad. So they came and ate the new year goodies, watched the movie and did an annual inspection of the house.

So they came and lingered for a while before moving on to my 叔叔's house. There, we did almost that same things. Except that the movie was Blood Diamond instead of 满城尽带黄金甲. I left after finishing the 鱼生. Took a cab down to Punggol to pick Hoiting then we went to Bishan to meet Ray and Junsheng. Cab fare was a whopping $20.

They came to my place to rot for a while after we left J8. There Weisheng joined us and we went to Hougang plaza for our scheduled Kbox session. Yiang Shan joined us later. Kbox session was fun, but expensive. In a short span of four hours, we burnt over two hundred dollars in total. Junsheng was the one who sung the least. Bathroom singer Miss Tso surprised everyone with her soprano voice and Miss Sng showed her other side to us.

初二was spent with friends at the expense of family time. I guess it was worth it after all.

18th February 2007
Sunday
Chinese New Year 初一
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

I woke up in the morning and realised that my eyes were swollen due to excessive rubbing the previous night. Thus I gave up the idea of wearing contacts today.

Today is the first day of the lunar new year. My sister and brother-in-law came over to my house in the morning. The first thing I remember hearing was the knocking on the door. Then I dragged myself out to the bathroom and washed up.

Waking up early is really a chore. Till now I still cannot understand how people can wake up so early everyday even if they have nothing to do.

Anyway, my sister visited us and then we went down to my grandmother's place together. Like all other years, most of the time during 初一 was spent at my grandmother's place. There, all the families will gather and just waste time there.

Actually, most of the time spent today was on gambling. Although gambling doesn't really appeal to me, I still joined in. Sometimes you have no choice but to follow the majority. "When in rome, do as the romans do." It is a better choice than to reject gambling and sit alone and make everyone think that something is wrong. So I tooked part in the gambling and totally wasted my day there. Well, at least I am $17.50 richer.

This year is a bit different from the past years though. We didn't visit my maternal grandmother's house. As mentioned in my previous post, my maternal grandmother is in hospital, so there was no visiting at her place. However, we didn't visit her in hospital today.

On a brighter note, Weisheng is planning a Kbox outing for tomorrow. And I had a new idea for plot development. Things are going pretty well these days.