Today was the last day of work for me. (that is if ms phua doesnt call me up nxt wk and use emotional blackmail to force me to go back and do some stuff. *prays*)

it was a quiet day. no party thrown, no teary farewells. quiet affair rly. in fact i don even think most of them know it's my last day. Mr R Leong, as usual, being his moody and reclusive self, didn't say goodbye to me. For 3 months, he has never said goodbye to me before. nor good morning. Today, as he got up from his seat to leave the office, he sdnly turned ard (he sits in front of me) and faced me. "Ritzley.".

*I was half expecting him to say his first and last goodbye*

"Can you pass this to yisin later?"

*wow*. oh well. that's him. once he was worse. he was abt to leave and he talked to me. "Ritzley, can you help me tell EP (my boss) that i'm leaving? thanks.".

AND HE JUST LEFT LIKE THAT. nv even say byebye to me, straight in my face.

Yeah, one of my interesting colleague. He seldom talks lah. not like the old lady beside him, who can't stop talking. I think if i type out what she has said over the past 2 months (she joined the sch later than me) the words will be more than the bible, the quran and the san zi jing combined.

However the highlight of the day for me, was during lunchtime. I got stranded at the nearby coffee shop becos it was raining very heavily. so i went to 7-11 to pass the time and wait for the rain to stop. but i felt bad for taking up space there, so i bought a packet of mentos. and the malay auntie started talking to me. haha.

i must carry on the conversation right. so,

"the lollipop 70cents right? DAMN EXPENSIVE LAH! last time 20cents only!"

and so we talked about how prices of stuff are ever increasing and how the ritz biscuit will cost $5 the nxt time. haha damn dumb lah. can't believe i stood there and talked to her jz becos i din have an umbrella.

Alright. 12 days to army. no regrets!

Today i was eating dinner when my mom took out the list of stuff that I hafta bring for army. So she started to read the items out. "Alarm clock. you have lah hor? that small one shld be enough... Slippers. that one can lah hor? Extra battery for handphone... your daddy can settle this.". And all the time, i was jz silently eating my dinner, nodding my head or tilting it slightly to reflect that I'm responding. (A hungry man is a quiet man ok.) Then, "shampoo... that small one enough or not? or you want to bring the big one? I think bring the big one lah hor, can last longer.". At that instant i finished my last mouth of dinner.

And so I said,

"Bring so big for what! no hair alr lah!"

sigh. if I didn't know, I wld have thought my mom was trying to niao me.

Ok! last day of work tmr!

random. today while waiting to get on a crowded bus from a crowded bus stop, i heard the guy behind me telling his child. "You take a deep breath, then get on the bus.".
I was laughing my head off. hahah.

For some odd reason, my com's monitor went bonkers and cldnt work. and so now i'm using this old, laggy, laopok laptop which is so slow that snail mail is faster than emails and tortoises will laugh at me for using this. and there's nothing in this laptop. all my files are in the main cpu. so no mp3, no documents, no games, nothing!

shit lah. what a way to welcome NS.

it has been a week of gatherings for me.

Thursday sec4 gathering. Friday pri6 gathering. Saturday jc gathering. one week ago vball gathering.

eh where's my sch bus gathering, my kindergarten gathering and my childcare gathering?

Seen old faces, seen new faces (some ppl changed face). It's rly a good thing to do before i go into army and see more faces. then soon i can have platoon gathering and other more gatherings.

1 more week of work before i spend my 11 days of april freedom painting the town red. tmr there's community day and i have to go on stage becos the sch values the effort of EAS, so there's a hamper for me and the kids will know who i am or they might just freeze on their spot becos i'm so dao. haha.

a brief summary of my life today.

11.45am - woke up
11.46am - brush teeth (my house damn big. need 1 min to walk to the toilet.)
11.50am - eat breakfast (no not brunch. lunch was separate. haha!)
12.10pm - went back to my room to read a book called 'the world is flat'.
12.13pm - fell aslp

haha. I get easily bored by non-fiction books lah.

Alrightey. March hols over. back to work. 26 more days to tekong.

Sdnly been thinking about the different times I gorged myself and ate like no tmr. It's fun to just order so much food and eat with your friends with no consideration for calories, fats and money. Like the numerous times at curry wok and golden rooster after training, attempting to get free side dishes from the owners and adding so much rice like we are going into hibernation for a yr soon; the one time at maxwell road food centre with shaun, ly and yz where we ordered $8 worth of food each and stuffed ourselves silly; the food trip with 71; and many others which i can't rmb now.

Live life to the fullest! literally. haha.

It's been an eventful week which i didn't have to work becos of sch hols. it's been fun, at least i dont feel wasted considering tekong is welcoming me in less than a month's time. Finally got to do stuff tt I've wanted to in this week. ktv, sentosa, stayovers, pool, trg, gatherings etc. It's been probably my busiest week so far this year. yay.

May there be more busy weeks ahead. Work and army doesnt count.

Eventful day I had ytd. Wii! er i mean Whee!

Wii is so damn cool, that is, until ur arm aches from swinging too much during bowling.

The guys are going to POP nxt week. wah damn fast la, seems like ytd that they jz enlisted.

I told my dad i wanted to study psychology and he said, "wahlao."

ok end of a random entry.

I picked up my first ever phone call during work today. Damn exciting. The phone rang for damn long before I gave in and picked up the phone. Me (in my dao-est tone): "Hello." Caller: "Hello. Chongfu primary?"

I thought to myself, 'oh shit. that's my line'. but nvm. (now trying to sound a wee bit friendlier): "Yup.".

Caller: "Can I have ****'s email address?"

Me: "cannot."
Caller: "pleeeeeease!"
Me: "NO!"
Caller: "Oi. what kind of attitude is this."
Me: "the unkind kind."

oh well. tt's jz my imagination. sth I thought I might say if it was my last day of work. Of cos I was very polite to the caller, though I made her wait damn long while I searched for the email address. hahaha.

After like 12 years of education, it's time for reflections! haha.

I think I tend to make things difficult for myself. And I realise I often make decisions that are not always with the norm, which is a good/bad thing i dono.

I realise I always dono what I want, but instead, I know what i don't want. and unfortunately in this world, things are not black and white. So it doesnt mean by knowing what i don't want, I wld know what I want.

So it's damn troublesome to choose the university course since there are so many. kns.

I dono why I was in science stream during JC anw, since science was nv my forte. I took up bio, a subject i did not study in sec sch, and I suffered. Then I made the un-normal choice of dropping bio and join the 3-sub group. Well, ppl then had alr advised me to drop econs instead since bio is easier to score. 9 out of 10 scored A! but then again, I wld probably the 10th person so it doesnt rly make much difference. Even in sec sch, I made the un-normal choice of neglecting 1 sci subj and focus on the other. I failed my physics prelims, I struggled to pass my physics tests, I didnt go for 1 of the physics remedial. and then I scored equally bad for both subjects. haha.

So i dono if the decisions i make in life are worthwhile anw. or I can do to console myself is to paint a worse picture if I didnt make them. like maybe if i continued with bio I wld be retained or sth like that. haha.

I wonder if hugging the buddha's leg now helps.

Anw, I don have to work tmr! haha.

and i've lost count of how many days i have left to NS. so for now, and everyday onwards, it will be 10 days left.

Ok. 10 days left!