Don't stop movin!

What a day!!!

Started off with the Grammy's early in the morning. My favourite performance was of Wino doing her thing ~ all bizarre and hypnotic.




I then rushed down to Toa Payoh to meet Joanne and Susan for lunch at 1345hrs. We headed to the the Sakura buffett where I attached the mussels and the cakes. Ate until I couldnt eat anymore ... all in less than 1 hour cause we came late for the lunch time session.



Bivalve molluscs and I... we have a love-hate thing going on.


After walking around the TPY Central to get some stuff, Susan and I headed to Jo's home at around 1530hrs. Once there, we checked out her wedding pictures (we wanted to look for our own faces actually!) and then...it all began. It was time to Wii.



Susan teaching Jo how to play one dumb pig-kena-exploded game.




We three took turns to play Rayman and the Raving Rabbids.

Sean joined us soon after at about 1900hrs and we played tennis doubles after that. I paired with Sean and we got a thrashing from the seemingly-lame "tai-tais". Jay got home and we went downstairs for dinner. Had not much of appetite to eat cause I was having a freaking headache due to screaming too much and prolong watching of the TV screen.

After dinner, we continued Wii-ing. Sean left us soon after to meet some friends, leaving us 4 (Jay, Jo, Susan and me) to continue screaming at one another as we compete to see who could shoot/dance/run faster.



Intense stuff.
Almost severed friendship!


At 2200hrs, we were still screaming and shouting.
We finally called it a day at almost 2300hrs!
Crazy onions!

Right now, the brain is still excited but the eyes can barely keep up. Hopefully I dont get nightmares. Or worse, fits.

A thousand times goodnight crazy bunnies on speed.


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What hurts the most

Am up early watching the Grammys. But not early enough cause I missed the earlier perfomances by Carrie Underwood and Riri. Thank God I dont have to take leave this year. God bless my workplace for (just) this generosity.

Anyway... I LOVE MY FOO!!!


The best rock band (represent!!) and they have the Grammy to prove it!


And of course ... I LOVE MY ALCOHOLIC WINO!!


They try to make me go to rehab ... and I'd say no too.


Am still a bit high on life. Past few days have been a dream. However, think by tonight, I can feel slight depression coming in.

Last night, I met CY2, Vinz, Adrian, Zhenni, Alfian, Desiree and Pak Budi at Marina Square. Pak Budi brought along these 2 men who wanted to know more about our Timor trip (which was like years ago...2 years already!). These 2 men were into the logistics and planning and stuff and unfortunately, they asked the wrong group of people hahaha. We were more like talking about the fun times, the impromptu-ness of it all, the passion and bla bla bla. All they wanted to know were the technicalities of stuff. Haiyah...

At about 2230, we (sans Pak Budi and the men) headed to Cosafe at CHIJMES to catch the 2nd half of the disastrous Manchester derby. Expecting the Chelsea-Liverpool match to be better, CY2, Alfian, Vinz and I stayed back to catch it. You know the outcome...urgh.

All right. Bocelli and Groban are singing a favourite song. Need to shower too. Meeting Jo and Susan at Toa Payoh for our "tai-tai" CNY pai nian session.

Later.


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Air for life!

Wh..What day is it?
What? What?
I cant hear you.


It felt so good to finally "come home" last night; home to where it all began in my whole life of clubbing - Zouk main arena. Kind of felt I've come full circle and maybe, I can finally call it a day.


Okay.
Not just yet.
Soon.


Fifi, Dina and I were stumped at the snaking queue outside Zouk. EuropaDiscoDancer told me last week there would be a guest band coming but I didnt expect the turnout to be amazing. Phuture displayed a no-entry sign so everyone had to queue for Zouk.

We called Benson who was already inside with his posse and they managed to get us in through Phuture (which allowed us to go to Zouk, but not vice versa) all free of charge and sans queueing.

Life was looking good.




After much hassling, I finally managed to get those 2 clowns to the dancefloor. Benson and gang were too busy drinking (they are like...Alcoholic Ambassadors!) and canoodling to dance so we three broke away. After about 30 minutes of rapid pseudo-shuffling (fine, I'm a whale and I cant do it!), Din dragged us to Phuture.

Nope.
Didnt feel it.

Phuture's dancefloor was packed as usual with wannabe hip-hoppers: Chinese boys who could be riding dirty and cranking, and Chinese girls who could really pon de replay and dip it low and bring it up slow (huh??). If Friday night was like one night in Chennai in O Bar, last night was the rape of Nanking in Phuture.

But hey, it's all good. That means the world is becoming more globalised (and hip, no?) than it thinks it is. 5 years ago, it was so hard to see a Chinese girl danced a la Pussycat Dolls like CY2!

Anyway, even Dina, the self-confessed RnB/hip hop freak, didnt quite feel it. Fifi was lost in his/her own world while I was just elbowing everyone for space and getting disgusted looking at cannot-make-it grinders, pervs and touchy-feely couples. We left not long after ... retreating back to the thumping beats of Zouk at 0215hrs.

Heh, Dina has converted!


This was not taken last night.
Just a sample of what we had.

Oh well.

The night at the dancefloor ended at 0330hrs for me. I almost wanted to die when Fifi went up the podium at 0300hrs. I tugged Dina's sleeves and screamed:


"Oi!!! Your friend is at the podium!!"
"I know!"
"Wah lau!! I want to go home already lah!!!"
"You go up the podium and pull him down!"
"Crazy! You go!"


We let him be. Crazy bugger was probably high or something. Thankfully, he lasted only 30 minutes. He stepped down and it was time to go back.

Lepak-ed at the coffeeshop and at 0400hrs, we finally crawled into a cab. EuropaDiscoDancer, who just reached Zouk, asked me to join him back in there. But no...my limbs were giving way. No way am I going back in there.

Back home, the sister was still up so we spent time watching NSync MTVs on Youtube together (yeah, I drive myself crazy sometimes) and talked about the Melbourne shuffle until almost six.

Naturally, I didnt make it in time for the CNY visit to Ah Kiong's parents' place in Yishun. Aiyah, Gong Xi Fa Cai lah, Uncle!

Awrite. It's already 1700hrs and I'm stiill groggy. I havent done any work these past 5 days and it feels kind of nice haha. I shall start tonight.

..
..
..

After I come back from dinner with the Pak Budi and the Timor gang tonight.

And after the Manchester derby and the Chelsea-Liverpool clash.


Life is good.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.



P/S: We can always grow up tomorrow.


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I'll be seeing you

My Dearest Allie,

I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you forever.

I love you. I'll be seeing you.

Noah


...


I am intoxicated with fatigue, not forgetting Chinese New Year goodies, late nights and sweaty bodies. Went to O Bar last night with CY2, Des, Vinz, Adrian, Alfian and others whose names elude me and only got home this morning at 0645hrs. By 1500hrs I was at CY's place, eating myself silly and playing GibHo's computer game on his laptop. Am at home now watching the delicious movie The Notebook and wishing that I am in love.

A forbidden love, to make it more exciting.

Right.

Going to Zouk later.

The holidays are leaving me in a whirl and I kind of like it.


P/S: Work? What work?


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Your disco needs you :)

This Chinese New Year sees me pai nian everyday until Monday.

Yes, my schedule is packer than the Chinese!

Crazy.



P/S: I am tired...but hah, clubbing tonight!



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Helpless

Life's a bitch and we know it.






AWAY FROM HER is like a lump in the throat which will never go away. Was chewing my nails and knuckles 3/4 of the story...anything chewable which was within reach i guess. Throughout the entire show, I had a deep sick feeling within.


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[Kristy leads Frank down the hallway, past a devastated Grant]

Frank: [as a play-by-play announcer] Well, once again, Nurse Kristy is taking me back to the second floor. The area to my right are the elevators, and as we go on down the hall, there's a man with a broken heart, broken in a thousand pieces. Well, we'll go to Madeleine's office, past the lunch room. Hopefully, they're serving right now. The cannelloni was cold yesterday, but let's see what it's doing today. Let's have - I gotta have some Cokes again. That's what I'm gonna do.

...

Fiona: I'd like to make love, and then I'd like you to go. Because I need to stay here and if you make it hard for me, I may cry so hard I'll never stop.

...

Fiona: [reading from a book] Never let a person make you feel guilty for your anger with God.


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AWAY FROM HER is depressing shit, no joke. But as much as I want to bawl and cry into Lauren's or Fifi's armpits, I couldnt. And I know why.

The film simplifies everything and makes it look palatable. In actual fact, Alzheimer's disease is far more brutal. I've heard and I've seen...it's nowhere near the one portrays in the film. So in a way, I feel the movie falls slightly short. Just slightly...cause they Disney-fy it.

And the ending... I would have prefer something more impactful and tragic. Something gut wrenching. Something that makes me want to roll on the cinema floor with self-loathing, self-pity ... total abomination.

Cause Lord I so need a good cry.
And oh...a good hug.


We all need one.
Cant even remember when was the last time I got a hug
And from who...


There is a town in north Ontario
With dream comfort memory to spare
And in my mind
I still need a place to go
All my changes were there

Blue, blue windows behind the stars
Yellow moon on the rise
Big birds flying across the sky
Throwing shadows on our eyes
Leave us

Helpless, helpless, helpless
Baby can you hear me now?
The chains are locked
and tied across the door
Baby, sing with me somehow

Blue, blue windows behind the stars
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky
Throwing shadows on our eyes
Leave us

Helpless, helpless, helpless - Helpless, Neil Diamond


Pardon me.

Creative/artistic/talented people are emotionally tortured people. I happen to be one of them. Hah. I've learnt to deal with it. It's the trait of the genius, I'm told.

A thousand times goodnight, emotionally wounded casualties.


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The Circle

Whenever I am bored out of my skull or just in need of a few bittersweet tears, I will youtube my favourite sitcom ever. I will laugh a little and shed a tear or two. I have seen this finale hundreds of times and I still havent got tired of it. Nothing like good friends and an ol' skool romance to do the trick.

I hope I am not missing on anything in life ... only to regret it later.






The irony was that I grew up with That '70s Show.

*sniff*


P/S: Think I'll buy the DVDs or something.


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U make me wanna...

I have blocked Specimen A for the time being. I do like to chat with him once in a while but it gets a little tiring now. He's beginning to put me off; trying to be all romantic and sensual with his words. He thinks he knows me...but he doesnt. If he does, I am sure he knows that speaking is not my thing. I rather let the actions do the talking.



Quit talking.


Went to the Principal's house earlier in the day with some colleagues and students and had lunch at his place. The place was opulent as always. Thank goodness Malik, the Biz Mascot, was there. This man is like a happy bunny. Always cracking jokes and easing awkwardness. Ate..yakked and I finally left that place at around 1430hrs.

Tired.
Very tired.

I know I have many work to do... but screw it, I'm going to take a break till Saturday. Or till anytime I deem fit. Even though I am not going anywhere, doesnt mean I have to do anything.

Though I really wish I am somewhere else.
Like in Tioman's Japamala Resort.





Anyone?


Yay-bel introduced this place to me and gosh...so gorgeous. Makes me want to fall in love and attack this place with him in tow. Sweet, sweet love.

Sigh.


To start it off I know you know me
To come to think of it, it was only last week
That I had a dream about us
That’s why I am here
I’m writing this song
To tell the truth you know I have been hurting all along
Someway let me know, you want me girl

Everytime you see me what do you see?
I feel like I’m a poor man and you’re the queen
Oh baby, you’re the only thing that I really need
Baby that’s why…

You make me wanna call you in the middle of the night
You make me wanna hold you till the morning light
You make me wanna love, you make me wanna fall
You make me wanna surrender my soul
I know this is a feeling that I just can’t fight
You’re the first and last thing on my mind
You make me wanna love, you make me wanna fall
You make me wanna surrender my soul

Well I know that these feelings won’t end
They’ll just get stronger if I see you again
Baby I’m tired of being friends
I wanna know if you feel the same
And could you tell me do you feel my pain?
Don’t leave me in doubt

Everytime you see me what do you see?
I feel like I’m a poor man and you’re the queen
Oh baby, you’re the only thing that I really need
And baby that’s why…

You make me wanna call you in the middle of the night
You make me wanna hold you till the morning light
You make me wanna love, you make me wanna fall
You make me wanna surrender my soul
I know this is a feeling that I just can’t fight
You’re the first and last thing on my mind
You make me wanna love, you make me wanna fall
You make me wanna surrender my soul

I’ll take you home real quick
And sit you down on the couch
Pour some Dom Perignon and hit the lights out
Baby we can make sweet love
Then we’ll take it nice and slow
I'm gonna touch you like you’ve never know before
We’re gonna make love all night

You make me wanna call you in the middle of the night
You make me wanna hold you till the morning light
You make me wanna love, you make me wanna fall
You make me wanna surrender my soul
I know this is a feeling that I just can’t fight
You’re the first and last thing on my mind
You make me wanna love, you make me wanna fall
You make me wanna surrender my soul - Blue


Oh well.


Youtube.


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Too Much

Away From Her
Juno
P.S. I Love You
Kungfu Dunk
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly
Gone Baby Gone
The Kite Runner
Cj7

Argh! So many movies!! Will try to clear as many as possible now that I am having my 1-week CNY leave. Yes, the school is closed till the 12th for me. Anyone?

Mentioning the school...

The principal gathered all of us together on Monday and he gave us ang pow and oranges. The packet contained $20 and well...that took care of lunch and dinner.



The loot.
Boleh lah....



This year, we have done well.
Hope the Year of the Rat will bring in more good cheese.

No he didnt say that.




Idaho and I with our loots.



With Auntie MannyManny and Xinhua Press.
Both of them are leaving, leaving Idaho and Ed behind.




Shortcake and I happy with our oranges.
Make it..very happy with our oranges.
Haha.

Anyway...


That was on Monday. I went home and concussed on the floor as usual. Asleep at the papers. Tuesday was the last day of work before we headed off for the holidays. Everyone was in a good mood. Shortcake and I were in a mood so good we headed to Marina Square and had a long lunch.

It was also Editha's last day. Her departure was like a blitzkrieg. Boo hoo!


Editha and Malik, our Business Mascot. Hahaha.
All the best, Edi!

Shortcake and I left work and headed to Funan for a quick dinner. Following that, we met her husband at Apollo Centre and at 1845hrs, started our singing frenzy. KTV, baby.




No, I didnt snap any pictures cause I was busy laughing and fooling around with the couple (not that kind of fooling around!!). Couldnt even finish a song without laughing my ass off. Spice Girls' Spice Up Your Life took the cake!

Reached home at 2245hrs and yes...I fell asleep on the floor while reading the papers again.

What the hell...

Anyway...




Here's wishing those who celebrate a very Happy Chinese New Year. May you have some rodent luck and everything will be Ratatouilly beautiful this year.

Gong xi fa cai!
Xin nian kwai le!
Nian nian you yu!

Or lao shu.

Whatever.


Going to see the fireworks now.

Later.


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He xin nian

 

The day is almost over.

 

GONG XI freaking CAI, everyone.

 

 

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Black Magic Woman

Is it just me?

Why do I feel like dancing?

 

Tis is weird.

 

 

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Put your lights on

Tonight I'm tangled in my blanket of clouds
Dreaming aloud
Things just won't do without you
Matter of fact
I'm on your back
I'm on your back
I'm on your back

If you'd accept surrender
I'll give up some more
Weren't you adored?
I cannot be without you
Matter of fact...
I'm on your back

If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you

Another heart is cracked in two
I'm on your back

I cannot be without you
Matter of fact
I'm on your back
I'm on your back
I'm on your back

If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you
If you walk out on me, I'm walking after you - Foo Fighters


So soothing and comforting. Perfect for a lackadaisical Monday ... when all I want to do is to just laze on the sand of a beautiful beach.

Specimen A tried to make amends last night but he made it worse. He is like a walking disaster. He shoots himself in the foot whenever he tries to speak. Lauren can testify to that. Either I make him lose all sense of reasons (ahem!) or he doesnt have one in the first place. But then, if he is really a lawyer, that wouldnt be possible right? Haha all this lameness!


Some guys may take offence of my airing/making fun of Specimen A's episodes.
Aiyah, play-play only.
If you are offended, do not read, lah.
Anyway, it's funny, right?
If you are so saintly, go spend some more time praying.


Enough of Specimen A. What about Specimen B, you ask? Specimen B only comes out during weekends. So...yeah no news on him on weekdays.

It's 1700hrs. Almost time to go home.
Yay!


P/S: Timor gang, Pak Budi asked if you guys are free for dinner (his treat, he said) either on the 10th or 20th Feb. How? CY? Vinz? Adrian? Shoe? Des? Esther? Human beings?


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Vengence is mine

Was checking through my Facebook when I saw this:


I think Lauren, Nani and I looked like hobbits. Hahaha. And we three happened to stand on the same side. Andrew looked like the Eiffel Tower near us. O well. God reduced our height but he made us BIG in many ways.


Heheh...ooh mama.


Met Clara at PS just now for a short chitchat session at Secret Recipe. Fine. I didnt need the choc banana cake but Clara definitely needed her cheesecake. Bitch was so tiny.




Lauren called us and told us that she's coming to town. So Clara and I trooped our way to Tangs to meet her. Once we were there, it was time to hit Wisma Atria to buy shoes. Lauren was exercising her rights as a Charles & Keith member who was having her birthday week and therefore deserved a 20% discount. Clara and I tagged a long to share the joy of course.


So yes, I bought 2 new pairs of shoes.
I need more cabinet space for my size 39 feet.
They are huge, I know.
To help me get a good footing in life, mah!


Anyway on Saturday evening, I managed to gather 3 other singles - Fifi, Meiling and Lauren - to catch a show at The Hub.







SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET is, in my opinion, a brilliant piece of Tim Burton work. The dark cinematography is mesmerising, the humour is spot on and ah..Johnny. I dont have to say more.


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Sweeney Todd: Alright! You, sir?/How about a shave?/Come and visit/Your good friend Sweeney!/You sir! Too, sir/Welcome to the grave./I will have vengence./I will have salvation... /Who, sir? You sir!/No one's in the chair come on, come on/Sweeney's waiting/I want you bleeders./ You sir? Anybody?/Gentlemen, now don't be shy/Not one man/No, nor ten men/Nor a hundred can assuage me.

...

Sweeney Todd: [sung] They all deserve to die/Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why/Because in all of the whole human race Mrs. Lovett there are two kinds of men and only two/There's the one staying put in his proper place and one with his foot in the other one's face/Look at me, Mrs Lovett! Look at you!/ No, we all deserve to die/ Even you, Mrs Lovett, even I!

...

Sweeney Todd: [spoken under his breath] There's a hole in the world like a great black pit, and it's filled with people who are filled of shit, and the vermin of the world inhabit it...

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SWEENEY TODD has a lot of blood and also singing. Some parts/songs are quite unnecessary but ah, this is Burton's work. Nothing is ever necessary. Being a dark and twisted person myself, I really enjoyed the dark intensity of this film. Think Burton has elevated himself as one of the 2 of Ed's favourite auteur directors. The first was of course Baz Luhrmann. Now, there's Tim Burton.

Awrite, time now is 0317hrs.
Think I can probably catch another show tomorrow.

A thousand times goodnight, goths and moths.


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Love doesn't have to wait ... to feel good

Just woke up with laptop still on my lap, still switched on from the night before. Several MSN messages went unanswered. Too sleepy to turn it off.

Anyway, I woke up feeling fluttery.
Kind of.

Every night I pray
I'll have you here someday
I'll count the stars tonight
And hope with all my might
And when I close my eyes
You'll be right by my side
If I could only have one wish
You'd be the girl whose lips I'd kiss
All my only dreams

And when I close my eyes
You'll be right by my side
If I could have just one request
Stay with me girl I confess
All my only dreams

Any waking hour it seems
I only have you in my dreams
So every night I'll pray
I'll have you here one day
I'll count the stars tonight
And hope with all my might
That when I close my eyes
You'll be right by my side
If I could have just one request
Stay with me girl I confess
All my only dreams - The Wonders


I heard this first thing in the morning on the radio.
Have always loved it.
Maybe that's why the flutter.

Anyway, to my dear Clairol, cheer up. Being in love shouldnt cause you that much pain, right? But I guess, no one says it will be easy too. And though you have decided to end things with the other party, I can understand why are you so sad. I think you are sad over the loss of the possibility to have it right; over the fact that for once, you have let someone to get really close to you and he turned out to be a dud after all. But never say never. We never know what the future may bring.

Till then, you're alway a great member in my Extreme Singles Club; where you practise singlehood dangerously to the limit. Hahaha.

Awrite.
Let's enjoy this breezy Sunday, people.
We start by...

Going back to bed.


P/S: The last-minute goal from Tevez last night is still giving me the high. I need to sleep it off!

P/P/S: And to my bitch...dont think too much. Love shouldnt be confusing. I think.


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I know where it's at

"Love is not meant to be difficult.
If it is, then something is wrong."


Cant believe within the span of 6 hours, I said those words 3 times to 3 different people. What qualifications I have to say those words...I dont really know. But yeah, this is the motto I stick to.

And probably that's why I am still single.
But hey, I'm happy at it.
I am.
But of course, distractions are always welcomed.
Whatever the specimens are, I guess.


:P

Met CY, Dear, IT and Yvonne at VivoCity yesterday after work. After a slight deliberation (and gift exchange-THANKS LADIES!), we ended at The Boiler Room (St James). Shake a bit here, shake a bit there, Movida, Dragonfly, Powerhouse, Boiler and we all ended it around 0330hrs. Mummy CY needed her beauty rest, that's why. Hahaha.

Woke up late for NPCC today. Expected it actually. Meiling also woke up late and by the time we reached school it was almost *gulp* 0900hrs.

Anyway...

Just done with watching Sweeney Todd with Fifi, Lauren and Meiling at AMK Hub and I'm feeling kind of drowsy. Turning in.

A thousand times goodnight, demonic meat-pie lovers.


P/S: I will have vengence, I will have salvation.

P/P/S: Specimen B struck. And no Candy, Specimen B doesnt stand for 'Specimen Bootay'. I wish.



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No more drama

I fell asleep (on the floor, if you must know) while doing some stuff for Film Class. I woke up stiff as a board and with cramped hands which were barely liftable. The stomach didnt feel good but yeah I dragged meself up to work.

 

Took the train, didnt make it pass Dhoby Ghaut cause I had to puke. Didnt realise it was already 0900hrs and class was starting. I got a call from school and drats...I didnt realise. Called my boss, called in sick and had Auntie MannyManny to cover my class. Went home at 0930hrs and slept.

 

No I didnt take MC cause I am not covered by the company.

Raffles Medical will cost me $40.

Polyclinic will kill me.

i just stayed home.

This is stomach flu...been getting it since I was 11.

 

So I woke up and go to work, hoping that I could only claim half day...or do a change shift to the afternoon shift. Went to Resource Planning and they told me I couldnt. Great. Am at work when I could just rot at home.

 

And well since I am at work already...let me just do stuff. Hopefully I'll get better by 2200hrs cause I want to club with CY, Dear, IT and Yvonne. No...stomach wont stop me.

 

Besides, it's pay day.

Woohoo!!

 

 

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