stall 2 has nice noodles

work has been pretty good to me... plus it's great to see everybody again. just that things are SO different now, i'm so lost and trying to keep up with all the changes that have been made since i left. my boss is new too so we're both lost sometimes! haha.

we're doing the prospectus and history book right now. i think one of the areas i'm gonna consider next time is publishing. yeah always had that interest and glad that now i get to experience and learn more about it.

so i'm beginning to see that what we learnt in school can be really quite relevant, hahaha. sometimes it just hits me, like oh yeah i learnt that in school. and oh it's really done like that in the real world?? haha so blur right.

today i had to write an email to the HODs and i spent ages agonising over it. like is my grammer correct? is this polite enough? but then is this too stiff? we're all in the same office so i don't want them to laugh at my email you know... hahaha no lah. i still feel like a student when i'm with them. it's so weird being their colleague now!

oh yeah about my title. i really like stall no. 2 in the canteen!! at first people were like, canteen food's really bad. but then i tried it out and i discovered stall no. 2!! don't think i patronised it much last time, or maybe it's new. but i'm gonna stick with it from now on. yay! plus the couple who runs it are really super duper nice smiling uncle and auntie kind of people. :)

of course the not so good part is having to dress up for work... i really miss my birks and havaianas. i don't think i'm cut out for office work at all man. i'll just faint if i have to dress up even more, like wear makeup and high heels... hahaha. which, thankfully, is not the case right now.

think the rainy season is coming back. it's been raining and gloomy every day of the week.

html is from mars

html is an alien!! who invented this?? where did this whole 'computer language' come from???

i spent ages last night tinkering with the template of this blog, made TWO skin changes, and at the end of it all, it's as good as not having done anything at all. i even valiantly tried again this morning. but i am hopeless when it comes to html...sniff... mingen save me...sniff... i'd wanted to change the fonts and comments and stuff like that, but in the end i just decided to leave everything the way it originally was. i am amused and frustrated at the same time. and i think it'll be awhile before i try to do anything to my template again.

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i've just CHANGED something!!! from "comments" to "comment(s)"!! did you see that?? i've managed to unlock 0.0001% of the mystery that is html...

i'm back!!

ok i was actually back from chiangmai a long time ago... right after i touched down we went straight to bedok 85!! whoo!! BUT my favourite ah poh bar chor mee and the bbq chicken wings stall were CLOSED. or just finished selling everything. they didn't wait for me. i was so disappointed because this was the SECOND time they did that to me (the first being the night my brother came back). but it's ok, coz in this hawker centre there're a few stalls that sell the same thing. and they're usually related, as in stall A and stall B are run by brothers-turned-rivals or the sister-in-law or something...a lot of history there. worthy of a channel 8 drama serial.

so after all this gushing, you know what i feel like having right now? yes, bar chor mee and chicken wings. even the weather is complimenting my craving...it's drizzling...it's a cold, cold day. but i have no idea when we'll next make a trip down to bedok to eat. even though people say singapore is small, travelling from the west to the east still takes considerable effort.

my stay in chiangmai was really nice. it was soooo good to see everyone again. i think i consider it my second home. the kids were great. ok they're all teens now, so not really kids anymore. i ate all sorts of things that i usually won't eat back home, like vegetables. yes, i think i ate enough vegetables to last me for the rest of the year. and it was my first time travelling to another country all by myself, and basically being on my own there...hmm i learnt a lot of things, such as growing up. but over there it was really good in the sense that i had no distractions at all (aka TV, laptop, blah blah) so most of the time i read my Bible or a book, talked to God, interacted with the people there... right now back home see what i'm doing? haha i need more discipline man. i need to learn to always put God first.

SPOILER ALERT:
DO NOT READ ON IF YOU'VE NOT WATCHED LADDER 49
last night i watched ladder 49 on dvd with my whole family (a record) and there were so many fires the guys had to fight, my mum kept asking, "oh no is he (joaquin phoenix) going to die this time??" and i said, "no lah this is hollywood." but he died in the end!! in a hollywood movie!! the hero died!! and so i bawled my eyes out. ok it was not that bad, just a one-tissue cry. i have devoted more tissues to other movies before.

the blog revival

i was tagged by sam to do those four things/people/etc kinda list? but i gave up halfway coz it was too difficult haha. very hard to summon all my brain power and come up with my favourite four movies or songs or TV shows... i don't think i have many favourites. ok, maybe i can make it up to her by listing my four favourite hawker centres?

- bedok blk 85
- longhouse
- oh no i can't remember the other two... sigh... see...

i think i'll do much better if i just have to list two. for example,

my two favourite events:
- shopping sales
- family dinners
- school holidays

ok now that i just needed to list two, i come up with three! ...

then there are things that i don't really like, such as:
- goodbyes
- flying insects

there, kept it at two. =)

alright now, this has been a very happening blog revival post. i'll be going to chiangmai from 5-10 mar to visit the friends that i'd made during my mission trips! so i'll catch u all when i get back!

take care, luv ya