31 December 2007.

adapted from http://swaymyways.wordpress.com/ ...

couldn't object but to agree with her ...

sometimes luck is the only key that can unlock the door to success .

i dun have luck . but i do have perseverance .

jus hoping that it dun wears off -.-" ...

ohh ya , can i chose somewhere between meaning and happiness ?

becos i think the present is more important , to me .

i pretty indulge in the past .

but i'm not obsessed with the future .

{ 5:35 PM }

30 December 2007.

last week marks the temporary closure of my family's most patronised teochew porridge . hai ...

today marks the closure of our most patronised zi cha tua . hai hai haizzz ...

most of the good food stalls have all gone . gone were the days we went zooming around in lorry for nice food . nowadays all the stalls have either renovated and their usual taste are gone , or the chefs have aged and decided not to continue .

how i wish those stalls can remain as they were in the 90s ...

but nvm . we will find more good food in the meantime to satisfy our taste bud , though that is hard . very hard . lols ...

yest went for a shopping spree . it's been dunnoe donkey weeks since i shopped until so shiok . lols ... raffles city was where we hit first . changed really alot . maybe it's becos i've never been there for long time liao . then we moved on to marina square .

although didn't buy alot , but what we bought are all expensive items okay . one of them is so big until it requires a lorry to transport home . and that is a coffee table ! really excited to see the new table coming next week . plus a new fan and new paint , we are ready for chinese new year ! wahaha ...

{ 7:26 PM }

25 December 2007.

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had a small gathering last night at sembawang park . it turned out to be something like a picnic . lols ... ordered pizza and brought all the way there , hoping to find some place to sit down and enjoy the breeze . who knows it was unusually crowded and we had to lay newspaper on the ground and 'picnic' -.-" . luckily i can find lots of newspaper in the boot . haha ...

couldn't finish those food and drinks , so dumped everything inside the big and always tidy boot , making it so untidy for the first time -.- . spend time walking rounds in the park , machiam like we are the patrol team of the neighbourhood . lols ...

bored , we shifted to canberra park . it was a new park . i dun even know its existance . haha ... enjoyed ourselves there until we decided to exchange the gifts . i got myself a hand massager from ng lols ...

it was a moment to cherish . kakis gathering together in small group is always better than going to orchard , having to squeeze with all the bangalas and childish youngsters and be on the alert for snatch thieves and trouble makers .

{ 3:40 PM }

23 December 2007.

so boring recently . even more bored to post becos nothing interests me . so jus anyhowingly posted this short story loh . >.< haha ...

An elderly Carpenter was ready to retire. He told his Employer-Contractor of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by.

The Contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The Carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.

When the Carpenter finished his work the builder came to inspect the house, the Contractor handed the front-door key to the Carpenter. "This is your house," he said, "my gift to you."

What a shock! What a shame! If he had only know he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none to well.

So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized, we would have done it differently.

Think of yourself as the Carpenter. Think about your house. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Build wisely. It is the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for only one day more, that day deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity. The plaque on the wall says, "Life is a do-it-yourself project."

Who could say it more clearly? Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past. Your life tommorrow will be the result of your attitudes and choices you make today .

{ 5:39 PM }

02 December 2007.

everybody listen up , i'm now a coporal ! lols ... coporal mind u . 2 stripes with a roof . wahaha .

i'm so proud that i'm a coporal now . people in other coy earn their coporal the easy way . we bravos earn it the tough way , the true army style .

and finally i left bravo . had been looking forward for this day for like ... centuries ? now that i've graduated , i will leave with pride and no memories of it . pride becos i survived their tough , no nonsense training . no memories becos really there is nothing memorable for me to think of . bravo has no welfare to talk of . and when there is no welfare to talk of , then pls shoo !

last week was a tough week to get by . becos we were all in graduation mode and every single day seems to pass so slow . and the only major event is the 28km finale march . it was an interesting one becos it's a night march and we are the pioneer batch to try out the new route . i also dunnoe how i tahaned it out . i was so sleepy and my legs were damn sored throughout the march . my eyes kept closing even though i was walking . lols ...

fast forward >>>

and my lottery draw result is out . i'm going to combat engineer -.-" . wth ! combat engineer is a very shiong unit . jus hope that i can later branch out to cbre . although cbre training more shiong , but the life after that will be smooth and easy . plus the higher pay it comes with . yeah !

shall end here ... i'm cpl teng . good nite everyone ...

{ 11:23 PM }