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CNY was okay.

I met Justin Har by sheer coincidence on the second day of new year. He was booking in at Pasir Ris. There was lotsa army boys clad in the new pixelated uniforms. There I was walking through a crowd of them when suddenly I heard someone shout ‘Aretha!’

I wasn’t exactly stunned. I mean it wouldn’t be a surprise to find some of my friends in the crowd. However, as my eyes trailed the direction of the shout from behind, I found myself staring up a clean shaven man with a chiseled face. At the back of my mind, I was trying to fish out an appropriate response. I do not know him, I thought. Who is this guy? I almost blurted “Sorry, but who are you?” Thank goodness I did not. 6 seconds later, I glance at his name tag. It read- JT HAR.

‘Justin!!!’ I exclaimed. My goodness. How could I have not recognized him? We see each other almost everyday in school. We worked together for R-CUBE. We see each other every Saturday for tuition. We took prom photos. What was it about him that I couldn’t recognize, boy? I was so excited to see him after 2 months! I asked him to take off his cap so I could see his botak head. And then, I looked at him once more to register his face. He seemed so different. I don’t know why. I really don’t. Maybe he morphed. Perhaps another reason why I didn’t expect it to be Justin was because I wasn’t used to him calling me by my name. Often, he’ll call me ‘lao da’ or ‘boss’. Names I hate by the way. Hah.

More and more of our guy friends are going off to army. I’m gonna miss them terribly.

These days, I find myself immersed in Taylor Swift’s songs. The reason behind it all: her emotions feel real. The honesty embedded in her songs makes them worth listening to. Often, I feel so in tune with them because I share many similar emotions in certain periods of my life. Each song tells a specific story in each phase of her growing years. It’s like a little biography told in musical notes and lyrics.

Our song is the slamming screen doors,
Sneakin' out late, tapping on your window
When we're on the phone and you talk real low
'cause it's late and your mama don't know
Our song is the way you laugh
The first date "man, I didn't kiss her, and I should have"
And when I got home ... before I said amen
Asking God if he could play it again

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work and play are never ok to mix the way we do

I’m now working at Payroll Express which handles taxes for companies. I do the basic admin stuff which includes filing and entering data into servers so that employees can check their IRAS status, income, taxes, CPF and all. It’s quite alright.

At times, I have nothing to do. The office is busy and they have to look for duties for me (which takes up their time) and I feel bad. But there are times when many of them will suddenly hand me a lot of work just as it is time to call it a day. I’ll have to rush through the errands and i get overwhelmed with fatigue at the end of the day.

When I really have nothing to do, I will log on to facebook and blogs and my email or listen to my mp3. So I chatted on facebook with William, Marcus and Eeleng. It was fun cus I asked them what’s up with them and stuff. William’s back in S’pore, Marcus is typing math formulas for tuition, Eeleng’s working for Sentosa Universal Studios. Suddenly, I realized that people were wondering what I was doing, so I just logged off. And then on. And then off. It goes on…

Chinese New Year’s round the corner. It’s fun cus it’s my chance to eat delicious, melt in your mouth peanut, pineapple, green pea cookies and kueh bankit. What’s more. Kids get to earn angpows yeah? That’s why CNY is cool all the time (at least until I get married). I’m looking forward to meeting the floorballers again as well as oh one people during this period. We plan to go gimlim’s house. Hope he allows us in though.

Anyway, I think Aaron Johnson from Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is really handsome!! Hahaha. Lalala.

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Hello 2009

It’s been a month. I’m back.

Please excuse me for ranting about prom after a month. I have yet to show my gratitude to all the wonderful people I came across in my 4 years in NJ. Some of them I have known for all 4 years or even more. Some of them for just 2 years because they came in 2007. And there are those I wished I got to know earlier. Prom marks end of this wonderful chapter. Some people will be off to NS, some have already left the country for good, and some are taking on new challenges. Behind the smiles in every picture lies the sadness of not being able to school with them again, to talk and laugh and joke like a naive student. Here are just four shots. My favourites.

I’ve been mainly occupied with rushing out college essays, working for a few days and taking a huge break. I am deeply sorry for not being able to attend some parties and gatherings. Just note that u all mean a huge lot in my lives.

Twenty oh nine. Gosh. It doesn’t even feel like a new year. In fact, it feels like any other day. Okay… it’s pretty different actually. 6 months back, the team shuttled to and fro from home to boonlay for practise at NTU. 5 months back, we bravely tackled the others. 4th place was one of the laurels we brought home gladly. Yet, more importantly, we brought home one of the strongest friendships, team spirit and highlights of the year. I daringly say the floorballers have created to stupidest jokes, laughed over them and repeated them on some basis. It’s stupid but it’s fun, no?

2008 has been peppered with ups and downs. Mumbai bombings. Beijing Olympics. Madoff. Tainted milk scandal. Mas Selamat manhunt. F1 night race. Singapore flyer (super lame). Time to put that behind us and prepare for the upcoming year.

Merry and blessed Christmas and happy new year and Chinese new year to all my friends. It’s heartwarming to receive holiday cards in my mail. Cool stuff!

05ipee01. I will never forget u as an entity. Thanks for everything literally. Stupid, awkward, random, nasty, retarded, bad, horrible, yippee moments. I cherish them all.

Zhen, nut, gimlim, john! Thanks for the hilarious ip1 and 2 days.
Jay, shiane, (and zhen)! Bcme was unboring only because of u girls.
Ybee, biq, gen! Trio I love.
Justin, zhili for retarded R-CUBE fun.
Floorballers for even more retarded days. Pris, bingxin, yini, chewyan for being umltimate clowns. Jenna for owning the blurqueen seat. Zhen for picture perfectness. Abby for princessyness. Sueping for being panda cum tweety in various ways(omg, post office I rmb). Jun for whining all the time. Ter for bounciness. And Mer for being beautiful fantastic captain (I still rmb she was called mas selamat and muzhi)!

I’ve watched The Duchess. It’s a fantastic period drama. I wasn’t bored at all because the actors captivated me throughout. A Keira Knightley film is always bound to rope in good reviews from me! Angus, Thongs and perfect snogging is another movie that’s worth watching. English schoolkids in cool uniforms. Cute guy onscreen. Hahaha. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor was quite amusing and entertaining in mysterious ways, especially the Yeti scene. Beverly Hills Chihuahua was so hilarious and cutesy! Nights on Rodanthe was simply romantic.

Busy looking for a job now.

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