closure of the week

Sept 12, 2008: it's been almost 2 weeks since my last post and exactly 15 weeks since I started the job, and yeah, I still don't feel like staying more than 13 months in this company. Again and again, I started to think if this is what statisticians around the world may end up doing with only a Bachelor or a Master degree. Suddenly doing a PhD doesn't sound like an option to me anymore, it's a must, for my own sakes. During our last conversation over the phone, my mom asked me if I really get any valuable experience from this job. Sadly, I don't, I really don't. Anyway, "sadly" may not be the best way to express what I actually feel about it; I don't give it a shit, I don't even care if I should actually be getting any experience from this shitty job. What I do care about is: getting the money, reducing the god damn 87k LD and, at the same time, using this whole year to further learn german & spanish before I start my grad degree this time next year. As a matter of fact, the only experience I get from this job -besides experiencing paydays, of course- is to answer this kind of question: "How would you plan to spend time if you were to work so hard doing nothing?". I have to admit that I haven't actually found a good answer for this. All these weeks what I've been doing is simply spending time counting it down, from 10 am to 12 pm, from 1.30 pm to 7pm, which really SUCKS.


Anyway, I'd love to stop complaining but I just remember that there is this very irksome thing I have to bitch about here on my blog or else I may end up spitting on someone's face just to alleviate my anger. So, I left home at 8.40 this morning, thinking that it was good enough to catch the 8.50 bus. Gosh that was wrong. The god damn 188 bus had just passed right in front of my face. I wouldn't be that pissed off if the bus was full of people. Hell no, it was fuckin' empty. I did try to stay calm, telling myself that the 183 would come soon. It did come, it really did, with so many people it didn't even stop. Then came bus after bus, and after 6 or 7 buses I started to feel like going straight back home......arghhhh.....that was like 9.20, and I was still at the bus stop??? god damn it....I was thinking of taking a cab, but...shit, why would I? I'm not gonna spend 8-10 bucks taking a cab just to arrive on time. That wasn't my fault anyway; it was the god damn buses' faults, wasn't it? I ended up joining Ardi taking the bus 52 to Clementi to take 183 from there. Well guess what, 183 just left the time we alighted bus 52. So, to keep the story short, I reached NUS at 10 am (oh well, I could still say "good morning" to people, at least), just moments before it started to rain, very heavily. One of those days, huh??? One of those fuckin' days.


Well, back to my current not-so-well being. These few days I've been very voracious, spending way too much money for food. It's not that I don't know what's wrong, but to get over this problem seems not as easy as I thought it'd be. One good way I can think of right now is...buffet. Again? It hasn't even been a month since my last dimsum buffet, but I guess I really need one right now. Be it next week or the week after, I'm going to do it soon, just to reduce my severely huge appetite. So, should you be interested, just drop me a msg by next week. It's gonna be either sakae sushi or seoul garden this time.


As for my movie reviews, I watched 2 movies last Monday: Make It Happen & My Sassy Girl. The first one, unexpectedly, turned out gr8. It was a good movie and I like the plot way better than the corny My Sassy Girl. I don't know if it was just the Hollywood's version, but if the Korean version was as lame as the remake, I'd consider both total failures. Left on my gotta-watch list for this month are All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Mamma Mia the Movie, Closing the Ring, My Bestfriend's Girl and Vicky Christina Barcelona.

Hmm...you know what, I guess I have to stop here for now. It's 6.07 pm and I wanna get off soon. So enjoy your weekend guys, but remember, Monday is only 3 days away =p

I wanted to break free, and I did

So today turned out great as it had been planned to be. I spent the morning playing badminton with my housemates, and I guess the last time I played it was like years ago....yeah it's really been ages since the last time I did some exercises, besides the NUS ISCF "Sehat Bersama" thing last week which turned out to be a rather "Nonton Bersama" event in the end.


After a grueling morning, I finally managed to enjoy the Yum Cha dimsum buffet which has been on my mind since months ago. You know, sometimes people are just way too hard to be asked to go out having buffet, but yeah Tricia & I are probably not among them=p. The buffet was ok. I mean it was just ok, the last time I had it with some other friends the food tasted better I guess, or maybe it's because I already had quite a lot of food this morning, including the durian mooncake which I knew shouldn't have been consumed prior to any kind of buffet. But again it wasn't disappointing, we had a lot of great meals, both steamed and fried, and yeah, the dessert was definitely tasty. I always love their mango pudding, which tastes really good, not to mention the very soft texture of the pudding.


Anyway, my Stress-Erholung didn't just stop there (of course it didn't!!). So I and another friend of mine went to see this movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Gosh that was one hell of a movie, it was really really great. We enjoyed it very, very much, and the good part is: we were not the only ones enjoying the show. The whole cinema was enjoying the movie, we laughed together like many, many times. I personally love the scene where Sarah Marshall and Peter were making love together in 2 different rooms, next to each other, the most. There was really something going on, wasn't there? Yeah, such a movie should definitely end with a happy ending, as I expected and demanded=p. So, for those of you who haven't been lucky enough getting a chance to watch it, it's highly recommended guys! It's a must for those of you who in particular enjoy such a drama show with sexual comedy kinda thing.


Anyway, I gotta go sleep, it's 12.52 AM right now and guess what, tomorrow is Thursday, which usually means nothing to me except for the fact that I have to be back at work (again...yeah, again!!!). So, this is it for now.....43 weeks and 2 days to go.....