Someone close to me is gone, I've been to the Amei concert which I had been looking forward to forever, I've been to Bangkok and back and now is back in the office, working.
Life is really a bitch, seriously. It takes some away from you and gives you back some, making you feel torn between two conflicting emotions.
From the start of this year, I can totally feel this conflicting emotion perfectly. On one hand, work is going pretty well for me. On the other, someone in the family was going through hell equivalent and when he finally gave up, he probably went to a better place while the remaining of us will have to suffer the loss. And of course, there was the Amei concert which I had been anticipating since last year and then it clashes with the family problem. I still did attend the concert but I guess the feeling is somewhat different. Then something even more incredible happened to me - the money changer gave me more Bahts than I had changed for, effectively making my exchange rate super high.
It's like life decided that it had dealt too harsh a blow and then tried to make more good things happen to soften the impact. It's strange.
Yay to the new year! Yea, it's a little late for this sentiment for year 2010 is not going away anytime soon so I guess it doesn't matter much, right?
No new year resolutions again - see no point in doing it.
First, I have to spend time conjuring up all the resolutions that I know I will never get about to doing.
Secondly, it seems to be getting more and more impossible to set realistic resolutions so all my past resolutions were like trying to build castles in the air. Not good.
And I think I will be accumulating some sort of bad karma if I keep making resolutions but not keeping to them. So I shall stop.
Oh, but backtracking abit on the subject of resolutions, I think I can afford to make a small, little one. (typical female isn't it? fickle-minded)
To read more books in the year of 2010
Ok la, I know 'more' is quite subjective. It could mean 10 to people who haven't been reading much or 100 to people who reads alot but for now, I think that I am making good progress.
It's only the 11th 13th day of year 2010 and I've already read a grand total of - 34! (or 4 5? hmm...)
Since I've already made one, I shall now give myself the luxury of making another one! (Boy, am I in a generous mood!)
To record down all the books that I've read in year 2010
Nice leh! So now I can actually remember and keep track of the books I've read so that I don't buy repeated books or try to read them again, unknowingly. And yes, that actually happened. I'd read this particular book so long ago that I don't really remember. And one day I needed a fresh book to start on and I randomly picked THAT book. When I first started reading it, I thought hey everything looks really familiar. Reading further and I realised that I had indeed read that book before. Sigh, the drawback for having too many books.
OK, book titles are as follows:
The Nostradamus Prophesies - Mario Reading (the one with the ambiguous status but am going to include it anyway.)
The Vanished Man - Jeffrey Deaver
The Keeper - Natasha Mostert
The Stone Monkey - Jeffrey Deaver (In progress) (By the time I finish this draft, I have finished the book)
Scarpetta - Patricia Cornwell (In progress)
One thing down. Very good.
This is going to be quite a long post because when I couldn't sleep last night, I was sort of inspired to blog about many things. I kept making up sentences in my head but was too lazy to get up and start up my laptop and put them all down. Of course, it doesn't help that it was already probably 3.30am and I was already supposed to sleeping soundly, not having random sentences floating around in my head!
Anyway, it's just into the thirteenth day of the year and I felt like I had done so many things!
We celebrated my grandma's birthday on 3 Jan. Subsequently, went to the David Tao's concert on 8 Jan. However, I forgot that I was supposed to attend a meeting on the same night and had to make some last minute arrangements with another colleague for her to cover me for that night. On that same day, I 'conned' my immediate boss out of 2 unopened durians and we had durians for snacks. I then had my first mahjong session of the year on Saturday and finally some rest on Sunday. Come monday, 11 Jan, I went to RELC to attend a pre-trip briefing with the sister regarding her impending education overseas. Had the Korean food along Thomson Rd that I had been talking about trying forever and was indeed worth my perpetual talk. Tuesday, which was yesterday (the REAL yesterday since I finally finished this post on 13 Jan, Wed), meet the kuku girls for xiaolongbao-steamboat buffet at Crystal Jade at Holland Village.
My goodness. I even feel so busy already as I was typing that whole chunk of stuff out. I guess this will be a fruitful year! Considering a few friends are getting engaged/married, busy busy.
Oh ya, and I totally forgot about future events. Booked tickets to Bangkok in Feb, my first time since my memory although my mum insists otherwise. And the highlight of the month - my Amei concert! I almost forgot that I had to attend the concert on 30 Jan and almost booked tickets to Bangkok on 29 Jan. Luckily we had the 'blessings' of the Procrastination Deity and when I was finally reminded of the concert, we haven't booked the tickets! See, reiterated my view that this is going to be a good year despite Fengshui or whoever else who says that this is a bad Tiger year. BOO!
In the meantime, back to work! (Yes, I actually DO work)
Haven't been blogging for the longest time. Seems like everytime I start a post these days, that is what I always say. Somehow, I think I feel pretty guilty that I rather facebook my time away than actually updating my blog. Not really for anyone to read but probably just for me to put my thoughts down, in the event that my memory starts failing me, I have somewhere to refer to for past events.
Anyway, did I mention that the F1 Rocks concert really rocks? Oh, I know that was like eons ago but hey, there are after-effects! Although the sound system sucks and the time management probably wasn't too good either, the performers at least were great. A*mei and Jacky Cheung rocked the entire concert and man, when they were on stage time seemed to pass really fast.
SO, the after-effects of the F1 Rocks concert is that kutu is going with me to A*mei's concert next year! Yay yay yay!
And of course, my concert kaki for the previous William So and Ronald Cheng's concert was also kutu! I had indeed trained her well. She said that she is finally appreciating all these entertainment experiences. Even so, the W-So and R-Cheng concert was abit lackluster in my opinion. There was nothing much that was really interesting and was just an OK performance. If not for me having listened to W-So's songs half my life, I would have easily forgo this concert.
Oh, went to M'sia last week with lh, wisely and ber, finally fulfiling our KTV/seafood 'date'. We went for a movie, dinner then KTV. Pretty cheap considering we did quite a few things there.
Caught 2 movies over these weeks and both were quite good. The first one was Cloudy with a chance of meatballs and the second one is Tsunami at Haeundae.
First one was animated comedy. Storyline was relatively simple but not too stale. At least there was never a moment when I was actually bored with the show. Everything was nicely paced and the character buildup was done quite nicely too. Of course, it doesn't hurt that it is a show mainly about food falling from the sky. It's everyone's dream!
Second one was surprisingly good. I had expected the show to start out with the huge tsunami killing plenty and us having to go through their ordeals and how they survive that. This was a different kind of disaster movie. Instead of spending 3/4 of the time showing us how the characters manage to save themselves and strangers from the disasters, this show was spending 3/4 of the time building up the characters' stories. How their stories were related to each other (since they were all living at the same island) and how they eventually reconciled with their past horrors. Funny and very touching too.
OK, no photos to upload for this post because all my photos are uploaded in my office computer. My laptop is totally going to die on me very very soon.
Just came back from Amei's concert. Can't blog about it, or rather too lazy to, because I haven't done anything about the Misia concert. Singapore is having too many concerts recently for me to catch up!
So, let me get my mood together to try to upload the photos and organise them in some coherent manner then I can blog the concerts. Then after that, or before that can blog about F1. Heh.
For now, I'm just still trying to decide if I should go for Sandy Lam's and Beyond's concerts.
To all those who are even vaguely interested in how my Cheer Chen's concert (alliteration!) last saturday went, if there are even any, I thought I should be saying something about it. It makes no sense for me to spend $150.30 (including the evil $2 sistic fee and $0.30 handling fee) on a concert and say nothing about it after that right?
Anyway, one thing to say is that she can REALLY sing. And she is kind of pretty in quite a shy way. Well, the concert lasted from 8.30-11.30pm with her saying less than 10 sentences. I have to say that her songs together with her vocals blend really well and it managed to make me feel something. I bet many people there was touched by her vocals.
And in case you guys are wondering who I went with (ya right, as in anyone bothers), I was there alone. It happened when I was surfing the Sistic website and wanted to check what are the seats available. And apparently, the seat allocated to me was first row, middle. How could I resist such an offer?! So there I was. I guess there is really not alot to say for this concert because it is not a rock concert like mayday's in which they are really good at jacking up the atmosphere. It is not a concert by something like Eason Chan who knows how to entertain us with his entics. She is extremely soft-spoken and the concentration was on singing and nothing else. And now, the next concert I am still considering is A-mei's. I am SO tempted to go but lazy to ask anyone to go with me. And concerts have to be attended with people who knows how to enjoy themselves. And by now, most probably the seats left over are quite crappy. I'll just hope for the best.
