Life's Unexpectancy

Recently, I have fallen into the routine of going for my twice or thrice weekly swim and mapling at night (Yeah! I am back to MapleStory!) and meeting up with friends for gathering and makan sessions. Busy busy busy...but I am enjoying every minute of it.

Through my busy schedule, I have also experienced lots of emotions through things/occurences happening to me, my friends or pple around me.

Feelings of:~

~ insecurity from unstable jobs held or inability to secure jobs during this economic downturn;
~ fear of having insufficient money to make ends meet;

~ being lost at what one should do in future or which career path to take;

~ despair as one faces the probability of divorce and a broken family for the child;

~ being embarrassed for being left on the shelf and not having found that special someone;

~ sadness for the loss of a dear friend and companion;

VS

~ joy of spending happy times with friends drinking and making merry;

~ being touched that old friends are still there for you even after losing touch for some time;

~ anxiety over meeting new friends;

~ sweetness of dating and finding that someone special;

~ happiness of having someone to care for you and give u encouraging words when needed;


I also just passed a weekend of life's high and low, not the highest or the lowest but sufficient for me to go into another of my self-reflection session.

Besides spending a lot of quality time with myself during my 2 swimming sessions last week (coz both Kim and Mabel were sick...get well soon and stay healthy k!), maple until shiok, I also had a great BBQ time last friday with my colleagues and friends. The BBQ continued to a night of drinking, chatting and prata...lol!

Photos from the BBQ

It was fun hanging out, eating and chatting on a Friday night...reached home abt 5am plus on Sat and decided to stay awake coz I had to collect my new IC (its the regulation that all Singaporean who reaches the age of 30 has to re-register their IC) that morning. So, I mapled from then till I left the house at 10am plus, got my IC and came back ard noon, ate my lunch and continued mapling till a received a very sad news...

One of my maple friend, a 72 year old granny (her family of 3 generations play MapleStory...cool huh), passed away on Sat morning. T_T

I shall skip the details abt her death as it is rather personal and will likely sadden her family if they see this post. But the news came as an utter shock coz we just had a gathering a week before and met her in real life for the very first time. Decided to put up this post in our Maple Guild Blog for all those who knew her leave some messages:

http://kabishms.blogspot.com/2009/04/in-loving-memory-of-granny-xksg1x.html

Then I start recalling what was I doing at the time of her death?

I was mapling... :(

And the hours before while she was suffering?

I was making merry with my friends... :(

Such is life. Happy and Sad events may occur at the same time and space to different people. So sudden. So shocking. So helpless we are to control them...

Sucky Monday Blues

In the current economic situation, it would seems that everyone who still have a job would be striving to keep their jobs safe so that they will not join the crowd of unemployed now.

The symptom of Monday Blues can also become a threat to one's rice bowl.

I have exactly tat symptom today and there is nothing I can do to bring my mood up.

Woke up with a heavy feeling and a strong urge to take urgent leave and not go to work. But I had to drag my feet to work coz there is work to clear and my boss is returning from her leave tomorrow, which means need to prepare things to go through with her once she is back.

In addition to the sickening feeling of Monday Blues, I had to see the ugly sights of some Singaporeans early in the morning.

Ugly Singaporean No.1
Morning peak hour train crowd. An office lady ("OL") squeezed in the train pushing everyone near her in by force. I took 2 steps back to stand near the railing bar while playing on my PSP (I was not outstretching my arms while playing PSP so am sure i din obstruct other pple by playing my game). After the lady in front of me alighted, the OL came to stand in front of me. My bag, which was held in front of me, was unfortunately pushing into the OL's back making her turn back and shoot stares towards my direction a few times. She then reached to hold on to the bar thus making my small personal standing space even smaller.

It was after the OL moved beside me tat she realised my bag was not purposely made to push against her but becoz another guy who was behind me had his bag pushed against mine. Then she directed her dirty stares at the guy and his frens instead (scary...). Though she moved on to stand on my left and away from the bar...she still insisted on holding on to the bar thus making her arm smack right in front of my chest where I was holding my PSP and still trying to play.

What I couldnt stand regarding this whole episode is - yah we all know peak hour train crowd is annoying but aint we used to it already?! Why keep shooting dirty stares at pple?? Nobody molested her ma.

Ugly Singaporean No.2
Getting into the lift at our office building is quite the challenge as sensors for all 4 lifts seems to either faulty or working at a much slower pace than expected. Instead of the usual detecting the hand or leg that is outstretched to make the lift doors "bounce"/stay open method...the only way to make our lift doors "bounce"/stay open is to put our whole body smack right in the middle of the lift doors in order for it to detect something.

So today just as many other days, I had to use my body to make the lift door open by letting it knock against my arm and rebounce open. In fact, often its coz the pple who went in the lift first did not bother to hold the lift by just pressing the door open button. Those selfish dim-wits.

This morning, it was different. I was among the first few persons to enter the lift so I wasnt too piss by the fact that my arm was used as the human buffer to open the lift door. As I had to move right into the lift to make space for more pple to enter, I was naturally not standing where the lift buttons are.

What pissed me off was tat, the pple standing right in front of the lift buttons were such selfish dim-wits tat they couldnt lift their precious little fingers to press the buttons when others are alighting at their levels. Hello!!! Basic courtesy??? Its really a shame to Singaporeans lor.


Monday Blues coupled with encountering these dim-wits just started my day on a wrong note. Then I realised I ate too much since morning and it could well affect my diet plan:

7 am plus - 2 pieces of Kaya Cake
8 am plus - 1 piece of Carrot Cake
9 am plus - 1 Chicken Big Bun
11 am plus - Glutinous Chicken Rice
12 pm plus - Ya Kun Set A (includes 2 slices of kaya toasts, 2 half boiled eggs and 1 hot milo)

-_lll

I definitely eat more when I am upset....sad....

Tiramisu Hunt 1 - 8.5/10

Here begins a new adventure for me...What adventure???

My hunt for the best Tiramisu...

I wouldnt say that Tiramisu is my favourite dessert but lately I have acquired a liking to it.

The soft moist biscuit base flavoured with a mixture of coffee and liquour. Plus the mousse-like creamy layer topped with chocolate powder to finish off the look. Unless wat some may think, the traditional Tiramisu is not the cake-like dessert sold in Cafes such as Coffee Bean or Starbucks. It is the mousse-like thingy tat I am coming to like.

I started off my hunt with a bang!

Tiramisu from Prego @ Fairmont

As I have not tried many Tiramisu yet, I shall refrain from rating. However, I must commend on the taste of this 1st Tiramisu of my hunt....bagus!

I also tried a weird version of Cheesecake at Prego (I forgot the name of this dessert). It came with Strawberries on top of a small layer of cheesecake, some raisins and apricot? (ok, am not sure if those yellow thingy with the raisins are apricot), and Berry Sherbet. Its not really to my liking as the cheesecake lack the taste tat I am used to. Its neither rich in flavour like the western cheesecake nor is it light like the japanese cheesecake.


Await my next entry on my Tiramisu Hunt!

Innocent N Smart

Had a very busy 2 weeks meeting frens, celebrating colleagues' birthdays, going swimming, meeting frens for coffee, going fren's place to play Wii, mapling and etc.

Yes, I am back to mapling...maybe coz I am bored, maybe coz I need to vent some frustration by killing the mobs (ie. monsters in the game)...for watever reason, was kept busy for most part of my days.

My mum seems to be concerned abt my frequent going out and late nights/early mornings back home...rather curious but wasnt pushy to find out. Goodness, 30 yrs old and still being treated like a child.

Anyway, although I missed Charmaine quite a bit (hmm...nope, I dun seems to miss Ray at all...tat notti boy), I din really feel up to playing with her that much. Children just have endless energy and it just seems so hard to keep up.

I remember an incident 2 weeks ago that my mum related to me.

Weight is my "hottest" topic lately and I have been trying to keep to a healthier diet and swimming to reduce it. Not sure its working much but rather hoping its not all for naught. So, as I was saying abt the incident...Mum told me she asked Charmaine one day, "Min Min, do you think that Gu Gu (ie. me) has lost weight?"

Charmaine replied, "Yes!...................but she is still fat."

*FAINT*

Innocent >>> Yes

Smart >>> Yes

Cute >>> Definitely not

Sad la...still classified under the category of fat...and we all know children dun lie.

:(