I'm sooo blown away by his performance. If he had better control over his sustain pedal, it would be as good as the original. But surprisingly his video's view count is peanuts.

Today is Saturday and it has been wonderful for me. Well, that's for the driving part and the time in church as I said "hi" to so many people from Rouxin's cg, both the old and new. We had a bazaar at the top floors and I chanced upon The Passion of the Christ. I immediately asked the stall assistant how much it would cost. I was half-shocked and half-excited when he quoted, "Two dollars". I've never watched it before though I knew it was a massive act that brought Mel Gibson all the shebang when it was in the cinemas.

Before I went for driving, I was really in a low mood. I just wanted to stay at home and slack. So I said to myself 7 times of, "I love driving". Geez, I got that sleeping instructor again...He's good, but he just like to doze off...really easily. But with him my driving is very steady wooh!

Ok here's some more photos of my life.

The above ones are carefully watered by me in my room!
Notice the two small ones on the white pot? I thought they were dying because they just didn't grow well even though I showered them with care well. But after a few days of increased watering, they simply grew bigger!

These two are outside my house. I didn't touch them at all. No wonder they look so frail.

I am so book-hungry. Money-hungry.
All so that I have greater capacity to give more offerings :)

Mangoes are in season! Taken during my bus ride to work at Benoi Road.

On thursday night I headed down to NYP for training and met Ronnie with his friend/senior, Fan Long. He's a charismatic guy and totally university student type. Three of us were talking and laughing away while we do our individual sets of workout. Fan Long has been in NTU and track team for 3 years. He was quick to ask me if I wanted to help them in the relay for IVP on september! But I said I can give the team a pair of legs if no year 1 sprinters show up in NTU.
I actually arrived at the track just shy of 7.30pm and finished everything before 9.30pm. The boundings really killed me off. I haven't tasted the word "TIRED" in a long while. I was really panting my inner breath out after hopping more than halfway across the length of the soccer field.

The people are long gone. I was almost the last to leave.

Then it's a long long train ride home...alone...zzz...Treated myself to double cheeseburger and mcflurry!

Friday was a great day! It's my post-work day! But i still woke up almost the same time as if I had to work. It was just past 8am. I had a fantastic time on the piano, tended to my room plants and watched Heroes and Lost. There was this part in Lost where Hugo and Miles were debating about whether their lives are real. The reason for the debate was because they actually went back in time on the infamous island. So they were questioning whether if they can change anything, or if they are doing what is supposed to be done. After watching that part, it dawned on me about what God really has in store for me in life. Yes I know i wasn't from an "oops" kind of existence. He knows me before I was born! But why didn't He integrate the life's workplan into our mind when we are born into this world? Won't that make things easier for all of us? And, has our life already been written, or is it still a rolling page on a book?

I just have to enter my dream encounter this afternoon. I ate my zi char lunch and took a short nap at 1.30pm. When I was awaken by my classic "di-di-di~~" alarm clock, I felt so calmed, so peaceful. It was probably like Heaven. My heartbeat was slow, everything in this world was not bothering me. I didn't have the strength to rise up from the bed. I just lied down, only thing I know was that the clock was still beeping...10mins later I finally had the heart to shut it off. The vision or dream if you wish to call it, was strange. I was at the last row of the school hall. A class-strength of students were sitting in random clusters. I was amongst a neat row of them, back against the vertical ladder wall. A couple of people had their hands on me and praying for me. I was sitting legs crossed and similarly for the rest of the 5 or so people in my row. I was eyes closed. It's so strange isn't it? And the last thing I want to mention was that I was not being in the position of sitting down in that row. I was actually standing and overseeing the entire situation about 2 arms length on the left side of "myself". In other words, I saw myself. Creepy huh...

My driving was at 4. After that I took the shuttle bus to Gombak MRT station and visited the stadium. I casually strolled to the semicircle where the high jump mattress was. I was reliving the moments years ago when I competed on that exact area. It's like my "walkabout". I'm trying to find the motivation to carry on doing what I started dreaming about.

I got 6th place in high jump for that competition. But that's only because there was only 6 people(including me) who came for the high jump event. Hah. I'm always the loser. The biggest one. That's why sometimes I felt so helpless. So lonely. But that was a crucial moment of my life too. Ronnie(who's my coach now), was in that competition too. So i spoke to him about training and my situation. If not for that chance, I wouldn't have known him well enough to be training with him now. Thank God for that! The door to my athletic dream has been opened!

Weeee~~~ Today is a beautiful day and I had it all! Although I screwed up my picking orders umpteen times, I managed to find the missing piece every time, or so I think. I pampered myself with char siew shao rou rice for lunch. There is no canteen at the two-storey warehouse.Usually 1 hour before the 12.30 lunchtime, a china guy will shout for lunch orders. He'll write names and the order on an A4 paper and collect money. He's quite a nice guy. My day gets more enjoyable with him around as I interact with him and other co-workers more. Knocked off work on time! Headed to the gym and had a great session there. Only hiccup was that when I was skipping with the lift bar and weights on it, the caucasian gym attendant stopped me after my first set. She said it's not allowed for safety reason...Also offered to let me use a weight suit if I want to carry on the exercise. A pity. I didn't see what's unsafe about it... I was doing it off a bar rack and it had a area of its own. It's not like anyone will walk near me and get himself hit. But still it was a fruitful session. I did 25-30-35-40-35-30-25 kg on calf raises on the order of 10-7-5-3-5-7-10 reps pyramid. When I was leaving after my cooldown I met Weilong's good friend. He often tags along with Weilong for our soccer games.

Today is interesting. I saw 3 phrases on tee-shirts. In the gym, I saw "Singapore is a fine city" on an Indian guy's shirt. Another Malay boy came in with "SHUT UP AND TRAIN". I really wanted to ask him where he got that shirt. But I didn't dare haha...I will like to have one with "SHUT UP AND JUMP". The last tee-shirt that caught my attention was when I was heading home after getting my dinner at the nearby coffeeshop. An Indian man had a "You have to be the change you want to see in this world." That was the best phrase of the three. And it seemed like it was directed at me! Could that be God's subtle calling? Woah, I feel like I'm the policeman in Heroes. He keeps getting signs from the future. Then the Africa man with the stick always come along and ka jiao him. hahahaha...like saying " This is your destiny. You cannot avoid it. Draw out the future. The others need your help."

Moments ago I smsedh Mr Kiat from Chungco to ask him if there's work for me. He said the rate was $7/h and they do around 12 assignments per year. Their job is to update firmware of cameras, lcd screens or other products and the temp workers are supposed to help unpack and pack them after the update. The job period is very short. Usually within a week. I think i'll survive on that job for the coming months. I ain't going to find a new 3month job. My job is to jump!

I have so much to pen down in this post. I thought I'd better start now before 11pm for the FA cup semi between Everton and Man U.

It was a long Sunday. But I wasn't showing a long face because it was awesome! I woke up at 7.19am from 7 hours of sleep and rushed my wash up and breakfast so I can digest my food early before I start my training at the stadium at 8.30am. I had to start around that time because my dental appointment was at 11am. I don't like to be late. Basically I did very standard drills and the stomach and back exercises. I think I know what caused my comeback of the shin splint-alike pain. It was the straight-leg boundings. After I did one of them, I immediately felt a small amount pain streaking down my shin. I always knew something was wrong with the S-L boundings because I had improved my stride length tremendously from 17 to 13/14 strides for 30m. But back in the past weeks I didn't know it came from that because the pain came much later. So I thought it was a collective cause by all of the training. Okay then took a bath there and left before 10.30am. Yeah it was abit early when I got to the interchange. So I bought 2 cakes and soy bean drink from Mr Bean!

The dental appointment was the most painful so far. The dentist replaced the wires and some of the teeth really hurt when he loosen and tightened the metal clips for the wire to be set in place. But that's all. I still don't get the pain other people told me about when they had their braces. I had quite some time on my hand so I walked around the new JP area and found myself in the NTUC Xtra. I called Jiawei so that we could meet at the mrt before we meet the girls at Clementi mrt. Then when I was about to leave the supermarket, I saw my parents. Daddy was super generous to shove some pocket money to me.

Okay so we took the train all the way to Toa Payoh. We are actually going to a church friend's house, Maple's, for potluck and movie. I gotta say, I didn't find the train journey that long at all. Maybe because I was busy talking to Rouxin, Sharon and Jiawei. Then we met up with Daniel and Jian Cong at Toa Payoh interchange. Rouxin's cg is really warm and okay for me. It was easy to slip in to their company. And I am full of praises for Maple's cheesecake. It was almost as good as those I've had from cafes. But I always tell people this, I don't eat cheesecake alot. I can't tell what's a good cheesecake and a bad cheesecake. They all taste delicious to me hahaa.. There were about 10 people from their cg and I can almost name them all! We have Maple, Rouxin, Sharon, Kasuri, Yu Ling, Benny, Daniel, Jian Cong, Joseph and another Indian girl. It was a great time because we were laughing out alot on the action movie. Something is terribly wrong with the new movie and the wrong parts distracted my mood for the ending. But the movie should be great in the cinemas when it's out.

Umm that's pretty much the gist of events for me today.

Friday at work was somewhat easier on my mood. Because I felt more superior to others who were doing the same job on that day. It was a special day. On friday, they normally don't work. Or at least, they don't ask me to work. So on that day, there were like 15 or so new temp employees. Another higher ranked Indian lady briefed us, "We asked you all to come today to finish up the stock." So I reckoned that most of the regular temp people who worked mondays to thursdays didn't want to work on the friday, so only me and another quite new guy said okay to work. We had a few interrupting briefings along the way because some of the new ppl picked the stock in the way such that the containers aka toteboxes can't be closed. It isn't really their fault. They had a very insufficient tutorial before the start of work and "Okay you all can start picking." If it wasn't for Rui Xia who was around for the day, I think the new ppl will make a bigger mess out of picking. I took on a picking order for an entire pallet at about 5pm. The quantity was about 2400! I finally finished the last store's totebox without any discrepancies just before 8pm. And my phone was spammed by my dear church friends. It's sooooo distracting and tempting to reply to them but I just left it in my pocket after browsing through the smses. That Indian lady called all of us in again for a debrief. She said those who are not picking at point in time can sign out and leave. Those still picking halfway just finish up and sign out. Then she called out about 8 names from the attendance list and ask them to see her separately. And she ended it by, "All except the names I called out, tomorrow report here by 9am". I totally turned a deaf ear on that. I'm sure she didn't meant me. I've worked monday to friday already. Still want me to work full day on Saturday? Hey next week is my last already please... And I'm lined up for church on saturday wooohH! I did not bother to inform her that I cannot come on saturday. I admit I was being impolite not to inform of my absence and so forth. Thank God I didn't get a call from them pursuing me to go back to work today.

I was happy that I stepped out of the workplace at 8.30pm sharp! That was the time I quoted to Rouxin and Jiawei who was waiting for me in JP for dinner. I had my meal at Bentobox and I met another new friend Sharon! Then we pampered ourselves with haagen dazs ice cream! It was really wonderful with the 4 of us at a square table, in a corner shop of the big big JP. That should be closer to the life I ought to live. Hang out with friends at night !

Wonderful things happened this evening! I received my iBanking device from DBS. That's a surprise because I thought I screwed up my online application for it. The guide said this particular set of numbers on my debit card, but I entered another set. Additionally, I did see that I need to print and mail the application to them for verification. But hey the device came, I was able to remember the pin I chose, completed the iBanking registration and also the premium for my Medishield cover. It was a good load off my back!

Well, quite alot of things happened at work today. I got a warning again from the Indian lady who said my stock picking is slow. But it's all about relativity in smaller numbers! When 4 products divide by 2 min, it may seem like it's taking too long. But if you take 40 items divide by 2min, you think it's super fast. But if between that 40 items, 20 goes to one place and other 20 goes to another place. It's normal speed. And, when we write 1:59-2:01, it means 2 mins to a simple-minded person. But to me, that could mean a range between approximately 1 minute and 3 minutes ! Imagine you start at 1:59:59 and end at 2:01:00. That's 1min 1 sec. If you start at 1:59:00 and ends at 2:01:59, that's 2 mins 59secs. So the margin of difference at the smaller timings may seem to reflect a slow working rate if you see it that way. Finally she and another co-worker gathered all the stock picking ppl for a discussion. Both of them wanted to know why we're so slow and how we can become faster. But we all picking the stock know that it's not possible to pick their targeted 600 stock per hour. It's only possible when you're the only one picking the stock, and all the boxes are empty. That's the ideal situation. But get back down to reality lah!
And finally I told the floor boss "Lao Da" that I'm doing my final week next week.

I still feel bloated! But whatever, I'm going to gym in the morning tomorrow. Then work from 2.30 to 8.30pm.

About the stock and options market, it's getting more ridiculous. 2 days up, 2 days down ! It is probably better if I didn't enter any trades. But I did! 3 put-side positions yesterday when SPY closed higher !

My stomach continued to bloat for the second day. I was disturbed by the fact that I didn't bring my set of medicines to work. But I still managed to hang on for 9 hours till 6pm. I made a miscount in the stock today. I had 1 missing cleanser for the last shop's box on my list. I tried to retrace my work subtly but it was difficult as the boss was monitoring the area personally at one corner and time was drawing near for dismissal.

For the whole time at work, I wanted to tell one of the perm workers that I wish to end my work there tomorrow. But I keep thinking of rejection from them, since it was quite a short notice for quitting the job. So in the end, the scenarios just keep on playing on my mind. I just didn't have the courage to speak to any of them. But tomorrow, I'll tell them that I'm ending my work at the end of next week. Sigh, I need to prepare what to tell them if they ask me why.

I haven't trained since the start of the week. I don't even want to do the stomach/ back exercises. Who knows if it'll make my bloated stomach worse? I definitely won't go down to nyp this week too. But I'll keep doing my shin strengthening exercises.

My family went to Werkz Photography in Bugis for my er jie's graduation shoot. We ended up spending over $1000 for a handful of portraits. I didn't have a good morning because the black shoes I wore actually self-destructed. The rubber soles were coming out like bits of biscuit. I dropped lot of soles at the photography studio!

Then we zipped off to Red Star Restaurant for dim sum. We had to queue for quite a while but it's tantalising and worth the wait. I'm going to catch Harper's Island later on channel 5. But before that, it's time for Aston Villa against Everton match at 8pm!

"Christianity is not about a religion, it's about your relationship with God."
-Rev. Kong Hee