Archive for March, 2009

Last day of March

I love much. Or rather, I used to. I started this post with nothing to blog in mind, but just thought it would be therapeutic to dance my fingers over the keyboard.. you know how sometimes you just start a MSN conversation out of habit, not knowing where it will go, but then there are always plenty of surprises it will bring you?

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We trudge on, bit by bit, step by step. No one has totally gotten over everything.

To happiness. Not 3. 4.

With, or without.

Forgive and… can anyone truly forget? I know we will all one day look back and laugh at atrocity of things, like how I always do when I unintentionally pore into the past(archives are always there, bummer).

We never do forget our own stupidity. In more ways than one.

Gritting the teeth and waiting for the worst to be over. Like many other episodes in life, even like labour pain(ouchy ouch!), it will be over when you least expect it.. So I am keeping in mind of the eventual.

And the peace and sweetness that follows, will always be the most saccharine.

Without the contrast of the lows, the brilliance of the peaks will never shine as much.

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I have been hungry these days. Whee! I guess it suppose to show that I am getting somewhere.

But I think I am super not fated to eat.

Like yesterday, I have decided to brave the noon crowd(everyone knows how afraid I am of crowds) and noon heat to walk the distance to Lau Pat Sat, just because I have a Nasi Lemak craving(that is on top of my Spizza Carpaccio pizza’s cravings).

So this is what happened.

Walk to Lau Pat Sat. Very hot.

Queue for Nasi Lemak. Don’t have Nasi Lemak. Nevermind. Bee hoon, add sides.

Open up coin purse.

FUCK! No money, at all!

Gasp! Gasp! Gasp!

The past 2 times I have had lunch at LPS, I have always bumped into familiar faces. This time? Nada. Zilch.

You see, I didn’t order like generic stuff that can be passed on to the next customer, so I felt kinda bad. And no, I don’t have my ATM card with me either.

So?

I decided to walk back to the office.

Then suddenly, it rained on me!

When I finally got to my office building? The freaking rain stopped!

I ran up and borrowed some money from my colleague, and walked back in the scorching heat(the sun decided to say a big hi) to LPS, and my tee was drenched in my sweat.

20 minutes later, I was back at LPS, and handing over the cash to the auntie, and took my precious pack of beehoon back with me to the office.

I took my time to relish in the beehoon, cos seriously, I don’t usually have lunch and this just shows maybe I reaaaaaaaaally shouldn’t have lunch. Hmphf. Grr…..

And I went out to buy lunch again today. No prize for guessing what I bought. Happiness is very the me :D

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I cannot begin to count how many stuuuupid things I have done in the past couple of days, wahahaha, I think we are all infected with the Bobo disease. Effy is contagious.

Minibean is becoming so adult-ish that it surprised me as I sat next to her and reading to her late last night.

When I told her the prunes were spoilt and bad, she took the container and said, “Huai le… Na qu diu diao (spoil already, must throw away)”.

When I flipped through the pages, she will always notice the things I fail to do so.

Like, a person sneezing in the picture, will make her go “Aaaaaaa choooooo!”

We then danced around, till she twirled until she was walking like a drunk.

She says “Thank you Mummy! Please Mummy” differently now. With so much more cheekiness and confidence… and I do miss the slight hesitation in her.

It was fabulous to reach home yesterday evening when it wasn’t completely dark, to find her opening up the door.

She was ready to head out with my parents, wearing the pretty bubble dress Cindy got for her. I immediately tried to hide her hair underneath the hood, hahaha.

She was so excited that she kissed me so many times to say goodbye before she ran into the lift.

Not before I took out my camera, and captured the moment she greeted me as I got home.. that was the moment I looked forward to yesterday as I headed home, though I had wished she wasn’t heading out instead.

She immediately posed for me, leaning forward, tilt sideways, squatting down, leaning backwards… as I held up the camera, and she would come up to me to insist on reviewing the pictures.

At least her hair looked pretty okay in the pictures, but I really do miss typing her hair up for her, and even a random bundling could make her look so pretty.

So pwwwweeeettttttttttttyyyy

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Last day of March today, and tomorrow will be a brand new beginning.

Time to get out of comfort zone.. and take on a brand new challenge.

Don’t look back in anger

Boohoo, I wanna watch Oasis LIVE in Singapore this Sunday, but Wifey will not be in Singapore when the day comes.

Sibei not fated.

Who wanna bring meeeeeeeeee? Pwwwweeeetttttyyyy pwwwwweeeaaaseeeee?

But happy news is, picnicking this Sunday, and I am half tempted to hit the kitchen with some small surprises for Minibean.

You can almost imagine my joy when I heard her sweet little chatters when I was on the phone in the room, and realised my parents had unexpectedly brought her back late last night at 1.30am.

(Note to self – don’t eat Big Mac next time, cos the mess will make it an absolutely cumbersome. But thanks for supper :) exactly what I needed when my pizza cravings didn’t get satisfy)

Hugged and smothered her in smooches, though my left index is now left bruised and raw when I tried to dig out whatever she had put into her mouth from the floor.

The instinct reaction from both me and my dad, and then my mum was pretty worldclass, until she finally ownself spat it out, proudly grinning at the effect she had on the adults.

And I shall not say how annoyed I was with the parents(still am!) when I saw the unflattering haircut on Minibean. :(

And she can’t even tie her hair up, I wonder how is that helping her to cope with the hot weather. Maybe I should just kidnap her to some cold country and it wouldn’t be a freaking excuse for them to do what they like.

It was not a very nice haircut.

I had the strangest dream last night.

It was so strange that I drifted in and out of my sleep and I still went back to the same dream, and it was still bugging this morning when I woke up.

I dreamt I slept with someone. Someone I didn’t think I would EVER sleep with.

Oh my God. Tell me I didn’t.

And I woke up feeling that slight flush, slight blush and utter embarrassment remembering how vivid the dream was. It wasn’t explicit, but you know how some dreams could just leave a more lasting impression emotionally? It was one of those.

I remember every, single touch.

I remember it was very tender yet passionate.

I remember the look in his eyes.

I remember how it FEELS when he cuddled me.

I remember the attraction and spontaneity. I remember no words were spoken.

I remember the kiss. MAN! The freaking kiss. Who doesn’t like a long, lingering, passionate snog?

I remember it was WRONG but felt so RIGHT.

I remember how he touched me.

I remember. I remember, how it felt(and I swear my hair stood up now as I typed this).

I remember waking wondering WTF?! WHY HIM?!

Then I blushed as I thought of him.

As I typing this, I can feel my face warmed, and I can’t freaking shake the scenerio out of my mind.

CONCENTRATE!!!!

Oh my.

Why has it gotta be him?

-Tries deleting memory so I don’t have to look elsewhere when I see him next time-

Well, at least I don’t think we will ever make out in real life, cos, it might just be disappointing. Wahahahaha. And it wouldn’t be right.

Be still, my heart, be still.

At least it will be a reality that will only exist in dreams.

Sweet dreams Nightmares like this.

One night..

… in Jurong. ;)

Welcome back, Wifey

Wifey was finally back yesterday and we met up for dinner at Funan right after I had travelled to the heart of Orchard to pay off my awfully high credit card bills.

I am officially a pauper.

Then again, money can always earn back, experiences in life… are to be lived.

Dinner with wifey was great(have to say food was a lil disappointing) as we caught up, and man, I love this girl’s mono-syllable reaction, which most of the time, pricks exactly at the right spot.

Watched American Idol last night after dinner, and I have to say they have some of the best singers this season, and it was pretty impressive.

It got a little cold in the midst of it, and I wondered if it was just the numbness taking me over or was the air-conditioner a tad too cold.

He wanted to talk. He always wanted to when I hardly have it within me to do so.

So we did.

He took a cab to come over at 2am, and I got to a point that I don’t even I am not sure where the promises will bring us. Were those all obligatories and just an elaborated show put up?

Wifey yesterday asked why could some people (one of them, like me) have absolutely no pride, and I thought to myself, “maybe cos of hope given by other people, and the words and lies being fed which convince us that we are special.”

Wifey, Pisceans you know? Always have a way to make anyone feel special.

The thing is, it is not a business transaction. It is not a game. It is a commitment and responsibility which men can’t seem to fathom.

How bad do you really want it? And sometimes, you just can’t have it all when you don’t want it bad enough.

This episode is one we know how ego (and cock) needs to be soothe to show how he still has it when insecurities struck, and when we spoke of how we might not work things out, “If you don’t want to work things out, I just want to be single cos there is no point going into relationships anymore. But honestly you should know me, when I am single, I definitely will be sleeping around.”

So having said that, that perhaps will just give yourself a good excuse, isn’t it?

“I won’t say for sure who I won’t sleep with, but yah maybe with XXX or YYY again, I don’t know, cos it is not emotional so if they want to stick around and throw themselves at me, why not? It’s just a fuck. If I say a definite ‘no’, then they would have meant more to me cos it would have meant it is emotional.”

I just laughed within at how… immature this guy is, though the honesty is perhaps one I came to appreciate more than the lies.

It is all about the game to him. Of him having upper hand, of mind games and control. I shudder at the thought how this conversation is just one of those to him.

“We should make a decision and stick to it. I made mine. I want to work things out, but bottomline is, can you trust me?”

It was a question I found myself refusing to answer. I could perhaps answer, but I didn’t want to.

The thing is, intimacy and even those affections could be faked, couldn’t they? I am not sure how much he was faking last night, but part of me did want to buy it and yet another part of me refused to do so.

With 2 phones ringing and one phone buzzing from morning calls, my day had a headstart at 6am.

Woke him up to head to work when he told me there was a morning phone call from someone amongst others from his mum, in an attempt to give me an assurance of… openness.

I went back to sleep for another hour or so after he left me with a peck on the forehead and lips… as he walked out after my hand had slipped out of his.

It wasn’t a very pleasant sleep. I dreamt of an MMS of Kueh Lapis.

Don’t ask me why or what was it about, cos I seriously have no idea?!

It will take a bit of time.

All I can think of, is the time in Rome, when I mysteriously disappeared and when all’s well, the pull that drew me into a tight hug, and it felt like a genuine never-want-to-let-go embrace.

Then again, did I mention how the fake branded goods in Rome were pretty fantastic? You could almost take them for real. So how do you know the difference?

Hurhur.

A Winter’s Tale

Anyone gonna watch this?

Let me know if it is any good. I am amazed such a big production with star-studded cast is going under the radar and having a favourable response from locals.

Though, gasp, the best seats cost freaking S$325!

Getting into groove

I went into a deep nap(don’t even convince me it is jetlag cos it was probably late morning in London when I decided to cosy up to my baby pillow) in the evening, before waking up to ransack the kitchen, and settled for uhm…. white bread + cheese + chilli sauce.

That was after I finally finished with uploading all the London/Rome/Naples/Pompeii pictures onto facebook(uhm 14 albums with commentary is no mean feat), and boy was I drained.

The nap was a strange one and I kept dreaming walking into yet another historical building and in absolute awe of everything.

It kept me up pretty much till 2ish, coupled with various conversations about London (Wenwei was speaking about the casino, laughs) and Rome (Vincent was in Rome and celebrated his birthday there as well but had moved on to Greece the day we arrived) and I slept with ease yet again. Then, it was another dream of sepia hue, of, right, you guessed it, a majestic building of history and art. And I remember feeling floaty in one of them and I was working/staying in an old church… and that was when I felt a bit of consciousness, and drifted back into sleep again.

That was when reality was a bit lost on me in the sleep. And I still feel a little of the disengagement with a floaty feeling at this moment.

And I woke up wondering which one I am visiting today before I remembered the full agenda on the meeting schedule today and I tried to recall who I am meeting today instead. Absolute turn off I tell you! Uhm, gee, my mind is still on holiday I think and I seriously am having some critical withdrawal symptoms to be back in reality.

But I think it also could be the withdrawal symptoms from fagging since I probably became too much of a chimney in the past month, especially the daily routine when overseas.

I am thinking to allow myself for my first fag only during lunch time. And I probably can cut down today’s limit to 3 – 5 sticks. Downside is I am starting to feel hungry, giggles, which isn’t a bad thing, cos I really wanna get out of my now 46kg rut(seriously! Where did all the carbo and heavy-eating from London go to?!).

Yesterday Mdm Cat messaged me and tickled me with her comments after making a comment about… lips.

(Parental Advisory needed for the below content)

Quote, “You know what is suck cock but you don’t know what is la cb????” unquote.

Uhm, well probably I am gifted in the former and probably inexperience in the latter? Cough, cough. I mean, hahahahaha, I think I am quite glad not knowing what is la cb, thankyouverymuch.

And thanks my lovely Potato(You will never notice how beautiful her eyes are, cos your eye level probably wouldn’t be there). Your MSN message made me sniffy too. *Mash potato*

Anyway.

Back in getting the groove back. The temporary loss of direction will perhaps be made better today after the series of meetings. I love it when I have a packed schedule… it can keep me going, going and going.

And a little light could probably be helpful with the new role. Oh did I mention I have 4 decks of new namecards of 2 different designs on the table when I returned but no one to give to yet? And I got my copy of Lips to croon to too! :) Am gonna download new songs to my Xbox 360.

This morning my dad told me they gonna cut Minibean’s tresses when he was sending me to work. I kinda objected to it, and said I think she should have long hair. Dad went on to justify why and said they were gonna do it.

I got all quiet and said, “If you guys have decided, and I said I don’t really want to cut her hair, then why bother to ask?”

“I am discussing with you now right?”

“I said no, but you still want to do it right?”

It wasn’t a hostile conversation cos I guess all that is left within me is plenty of nonchalence, and an unwillingness to fight for anything else anymore, though it isn’t quite a fight per se. But it is pretty pathetic when I don’t have a say in it.

The little one is down with flu and cough at the moment, and she is still her usual cheeky self when she refused to let the adults wear masks(cos Dad is down with flu too) around her. Did I mention how I once was doing face mask and she freaked out completely? She really is one piece of work I tell ya.

Anyway, will look forward to the dinner date tonight, though I half suspect that will probably wreck my 3-5 sticks plan.

And yes, clearing those credit card bill at one shot. Gee.

Uh, absolutely random here, but once you lag a little behind with armpit hair removing schedule, you realise when you finally pluck them again, your armpit will feel twice as sore and raw. I know, I got very the class. Giggles.

Get insurance stuff settled..

Get claim forms done.

And probably finally post some darn pictures on this boring blog! Like, my 28th?

It would have been

.. Your 28th.

7 years forth, or should I say 12 years forth, I am still amazed at the lasting memories you brought to me.

Cos they were indeed innocent and sweet ones.

I am sure, you are still greatly, dearly missed.

Do I say happy birthday? Cos… I am not sure if birthdays are the same, or matter, anymore.

This post is about nothing

So he swore on her life, that the only time they spoke about personal stuff before the trip was just because she went mad and unstable and called him to rant because of my post which she didn’t even know what I wrote about in “I give up”.

Do I believe? I can if i try. But he might already know I somewhat don’t really believe what he says.

He said no other contact. Then when found out, he just admitted there were calls from angry her when she was upset, so she rant.

Seriously I would have believed more if he was the one calling her.

So he had said he only replied thanks on the trip with no further SMSes to her, not even work. Then when I said we will see in his next phone bill, he then changed his mind to say there were actually a few other work related SMSes cos she had messaged him when he was away.

He cannot remember why a late night phone call 2 days before our trip cos… he can’t remember.

Oh really?

Then he insisted there was nothing going on before the trip cos he has no feelings for her and she hates him. I wonder what else he could swear on.

Then strangely, she could make the comment of if he is sure he wanna go on the trip out of the blue when she interrupted his conversation with his colleague.

Then he said if I don’t remove the number, his boss said something along the lines of wanting to sue me.

I said I would speak to the boss personally, if the boss asks, I would, since I do respect her but… I wouldn’t trust him enough with whatever he said so there is really no point he being the messenger. Cos I have no idea why she is reading in the first place.

Then he said, “she only said she didn’t like it.”, though throughout the evening, he had knew I assumed the boss was going to sue me.

“You know I won’t even allow them to do that to you.”

“But then why didn’t you even bother to clear it up?”

“And the post is about you lying on the trip. And it just shows it really isn’t Andy huh? Well, if you guys use it for personal usage, it IS personal then, and then it is on my personal blog.”

“You gonna ruin my career?”

“I didn’t. You just let your lie get out of hand. And you didn’t seem to be as bothered when people lied about you on their blogs but strangely I blog it with whatever you feed me with, and you get all upset.”

And quaintly, he made up his mind and his decision of… -drums roll- wanting to make things work out. And came the begging and all, again. And the mention of the ring, the clean slate, and the love, you know the works? How timely.

Why am I writing this? Rubbing salt into the wound? No.

Can’t you see the posts are rarely about you, it is about him and the extend he will go to lie and coverup? Though I could conveniently use the sentence of what bloggers usually use “Don’t like then don’t read” but we all know that itself is a silly sentence. It is a liberty no one can deny anyone who is given a key.

I told him, the above are his final chances of telling the truth.

Should any above are still lies, he is a goner.

And it is always good to have a record. The record of my own stupidity.

Seriously it ain’t true that a blog of higher readership(sorry, I really don’t have much readership to begin with), is of course, to others, a mass weapon of destruction.

But why did I even start a blog in the first place, for the past don’t know Godknowshowmanyyears?

Cos it is personal.

I don’t even care if people wanna think of me as a slut with the explicit details of my sex life once penned, an irrational bitch with the endless rants about my life, a no-clue bimbo who got knocked up when she barely had a job… the one who risks it to blog about work, to blog about even the taxi-uncle who annoyed me, or the one who blogged about a tiny kind gesture that lifted my spirits up.

And even my beloved mahjong sessions.

… but that’s why I stayed true to my blog.

I am what I write.

Sometimes I write without thinking who are reading, who are prying, and truth is, I know many who are still reading are just waiting for some explosive expose and so they could go to some forum to talk about, and not much are real “fans” of mine anyway.

That did not stop me.

I don’t get involved with who meets who, who hits whose blogs, who links to mine, and… whatever and all.

Because that isn’t what a personal space is all about?

So, I am not sorry there are people who likes to read my blog that much. I am not sorry that I became channelnewsasia when I am not the one who gave others my blog address.

I am not sorry for blogging about who lied to me, who did what, and what affected me. I mean, to be fair, most bloggers out there writes about heartbreaks, heartaches, hurts and whatnots, and why do they have the liberty and freedom to go on for months, when all I ask for is my space for my disappointments, how affected I am by lies, by betrayals, and of course the space to hurt when some are as fresh as.. last night?

It is not about just a person who is dear to me, but there are other accounts over years of friends, parents, and other closed ones.

Don’t you see many will be laughing at the stupidity/karma and I don’t even care?

I am not sorry for personal accounts of what happened, the way it was fed to me. Though it probably is evident to the entire world that I am the only one still.. blindly believing.

Cos one day, like many of the other episodes and archives in my life, it will be dust-coated and over.

And so it ends.

I can if I try to forget and forgive this episode again. Clean slate, maybe. Don’t ask me why I don’t trust when I can barely find any reason to convince myself to. Don’t ask me why I am willing to trust when I can just turn a blind eye to it, cos I can.

But.

Feel free to bust them. I need a better reason to walk away.

Channelnewsasia

Quite quaintly, one of my earlier posts had prompted an unexpected reaction.

Channelnewsasia.

Basically a blog of higher readership(sorry, I really don’t have much readership to begin with), is of course, to others, a mass weapon of destruction.

But why did I even start a blog in the first place, for the past don’t know Godknowshowmanyyears?

Cos it is personal.

I don’t even care if people wanna think of me as a slut with the explicit details of my sex life once penned, an irrational bitch with the endless rants about my life, a no-clue bimbo who got knocked up when she barely had a job…

… but that’s why I stayed true to my blog.

I am what I write.

Sometimes I write without thinking who are reading, who are prying, and truth is, I know many who are still reading are just waiting for some explosive expose and so they could go to some forum to talk about, and not much are real “fans” of mine anyway.

That did not stop me.

I don’t get involved with who meets who, who hits whose blogs, who links to mine, and… whatever and all.

Because that isn’t what a personal space is all about?

So, I am not sorry there are people who likes to read my blog that much. I am not sorry that I became channelnewsasia when I am not the one who gave others my blog address.

I am not sorry for blogging about who lied to me, who did what, and what affected me.

I am not sorry for personal accounts of what happened, and I am not sorry for putting up the number.

If you want the number to be down, tell me, call me, they have my number. For the respect I have for you, I will. My email is joewei.ting at gmail dot com.

All I put down in my blog is that he lied(which he admitted), she lied(which she admitted), and I am no longer convinced who is speaking the truth.

But if the number is used for personal use between them, then it was something personal, and I will blog about it like I always had, personal to me. And if you really wanna sue me because I put your company in a bad light, then… uh, shouldn’t your staff have known not to use company phone as a decoy for the communications of their affairs/whatever since the things received were hardly of work?

And I can’t be sure if it was their one-sided lie again to use your name in vain. I hope you understand that.

With your threats of taking me to court, I am not afraid to show who/what you already assumed me to be, most likely to be the same rant of what was irrationally said (“fuck you, fucking bitch, i will make your life miserable” remember?) over the phone to me just a couple of weeks back. And yes, I am used to be painted as that, and as much as I don’t think so, I realise perception is one hard thing to overcome, and I don’t intend to.

I am a pauper and I lost as much as I could, and I have nothing more to lose.

But really, in all honesty, it has got nothing to do with him, cos with utmost respect, you are the teacher he always speaks most fondly about, and relentlessly state how much he learnt from you. He said he is who he is because he learnt from the best. So using him as a messenger, isn’t fair, nor effective, cos.. uh, I don’t know to believe or not?

Yes, I pushed him the speak the truth to you because I am tired of his lying. You know how a person can beg and then say everything in desperation, and then forget it the next? He promised and said many things, and it was a case of “you said you would do it, so why didn’t you?”. It probably wasn’t the nicest thing, but could it be any better should he just leave, like this? It would have been like a betrayal to you without you knowing, though I am sure it is nothing short of a disappointment.

I am not sure even why you are now involved in this, maybe because youngsters like us can’t deal with our own shit anymore, and I am sorry you are now forced to read my blog because you have to. Truth is, you do have 2 capable staff, which are unfortunately entangled in this episode of deceit.

But really, having said that, in the first place, that just showed that the number didn’t belong to Andy, did it?

Like wifey once told me, people can don’t read my blog if they don’t like to. But apparently, that will not stop people from getting their fix of addiction.

Happy 28th

Happy birthday… to someone who used to mean so much, and then meant… less of a something.

Those were the days, those days indeed were.