Monday, September 25, 2006

What a weekend...

Heeyaaaa..........Yes, I am back much sooner than any of you think!! Work is still the same...keeping me buried all the time. I wonder if there was ever you can finish something within the week. It's not helping that it's the financial year end closing. All the rush, all the panic! Good thing weekend came to the rescue. I forced myself not to go even knowing that there was lots of unsettles and unfinished businesses.

So, I spent the Saturday morning going to the gym. It was quite a good workout despite a long break from the workout routine. I can feel myself panting harder than usual, and I know that I am pushing myself a little harder than what I could handle. In the end, it was a shortened session with my feeling giddy and lethargic. But still, it was quite a good workout session. One filled with lots of perspiration and muscle aches!! The rest of the Saturday afternoon was spent on the dreamland. Yupe, good old rest...

Now, the Sunday I had an unexpected date. An old friend - a classmate - in fact came calling to ask me out. It's been more than a decade as what she blurted, and I had to admit that time really flies so fast. We were primary school buddy and the last time we met was sometime before the year 2000!! So, she's back after her shool in Switzerland and she had started working for a week. We met up, feeling a little awkard at first since we haven't met for so long, and just started to open that old dusty story book that has been kept away in the beneath of our memory banks! Faces were faint, stories a little confused and names felt strange or unfamiliar. But the good memories bring back nostalgic feeling.

Ahhh...so, Singapore the city, the country. Yet, both of us were totally blank when we were struck with the question of where should we go next? We head to the cinema thinking if there was a movie we could watch, but she had watched most of them. So, we went on to walk around and through the whole of Orchard. Yeah....we walked alright...walking blindly and chatting aimlessly throughout the whole walk. A misadventure of two clueless people.

The misadventure continued when we went to this Padang Restaurant that I was gonna take her. Unfortunately the restaurant wasn't open and we were brought into the Quay where she spotted the Chilli Crab dish! Ahh....this is the start of the nightmare!! We ordered one Singapore Chilli Crab and we were shocked by the size of that crab!! Imagine two people sharing a crab!?!? It was quite some feast and I was literally grasping for breath while trying to finish my share. Then, with the last piece, it was the pincer like the size of my own fist!! Man...I can't imagine how I finished that. I had a full stomach, one filled with guilt and satisfaction owing to overeating!! But, eating a good feast once in a while is not that bad. What more to share it with a good old friend. Anyway, the night was not getting any younger. Monday is so called the dreaded working day, and we decided to call it quits. She felt rather quilty making me eat so much....and I do blame her!! HAhaha....just kidding. I am alright, and it's nothing like it was so much of a torture or suffering with a bloated stomach! ;p

Nonetheless, nothing can replace the value of good times spent with a good old friend whom you have not seen for a very long time. We parted ways in MRT and I head home where I know Monday awaits me with tons of work!! But guess what?? Another friend is coming to Singapore and I hope I can make her feel welcomed in Singapore. Hehe....Changi Airport is my next destination when she is arriving.

Anyway, it's getting late now. Monday is drawing to a close and I'm glad that Monday blues is already over! Take care guys....

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Love oh Love....Where art thou...

I'm BACK! To all my avid readers who are dying in a state of boredom and anxiety while anticipating my latest updates, I can only say please forgive me. I know I made you all worry, or in a state of depression for not seeing any updates, but sometimes I also feel the dwindling readers on my blog does put me in a passive mode! Hahaha....

Nonetheless, the past month has gone by pretty quickly. Lots of things happened, and much more things didn't happen. I know some may say I am drowning in my work, and I hate to admit that I am slowly being gulped by this enormous wave (recollect tsunami?). Yes, work-wise, I am getting more comfortable, but the workload does not seem to decrease! I mean, out of the 3 buyers in the team, I handle the most number of parts, but it can be taxing when I am being pushed around for this and that. Well, I guess it's all in a day's job. I am getting to know my suppliers one by one and I think when they give you the help, it feels your day is better and you've done a good job, but it's not as simple as that. The truth is, the project got off to such a bad start that it is putting a heavy burden on all the people in the team. The management side only see it as a money-losing project and keep asking us to cost down, but it can't happen because it was proposed as a high-end product with cheap pricing which we are not able to meet.

Enough 'bout work. I guess work is taking away too much of my time from family, friends, and the hunt for Ms. Right! Hahaha...yes peeps...I admit I AM LONELY! I can feel deep down inside that it is craving for some love. REAL LOVE! ahaha....not that my parents or friends are not giving enough, but this real love comes from someone who shares all your happiness and pains with you. Someone who can complete you, someone who can support you. I know I am not any younger, and the more you delay looking for love, the more your life is dwindling away without love and it can be tough in a stressful environment. That special someone can help you to forget all that just by the sight of her. That someone can make you feel that you are so special just being by her side. And that someone can make you become instantly refreshed just because she is there to comfort you. And the sad thing is that the special someone is somewhere out there waiting for you to embrace her as well. Ahh....this is a feeling I'm missing for so long.

I can't say much more and I am hoping all my friends can find the same thing as I am searching for. For those that are happily married, I give them my blessings. For those that are facing troubles and conflicts, I give them my prayers, and to those looking for the love or just lost them, I am providing my sympathy for them. For all these are just a phase. Treasure the present and build the future. Don't linger on the past as it will haunt you. Let the present dictate what the past has carried you through and look forward to a better future. This is a message that I hope my friends in their own good and bad situations can remember and get through their own stumbling blocks.


As for myself, I think I am just slowly enjoying the rest of my Sunday. Mondays and Tuesdays are busy days for me. But I do enjoy my work. I also enjoy the people I'm working with, and the people I'm working for. Hopefully it can only get better for my job and that the project will be a major success so that I can give myself and my colleagues a pat in the back to acknowledge that all our hard work is not for naught!

To all my friends: strive hard in whatever you do and I know you will realize your dream someday!



Brian signing off with lots of love!