It's been a superb week!
it's the season of meeting up old friends again.
those periodic "seasons" that come on its own,
when everyone suddenly wants to meet up.
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On mon we had a pri sch gathering.
we've been planning for one since chinese new year,
so it's a belated lo hei gathering.
i told jen i'll go dig them out for her birthday,
and miraculously everyone spontaneously agreed to come meet up.
the date was easy to set, the place to meet was a comedy of sms-es.
(i was the only one getting all these sms-es)
Me mass sms-ing them: hey folks choose-rice table or hanabi
(2 min later) Angie: Rice table is cool.
(4 min later) Vera: Rice table not nice. wat abt steamboat?
(6 min later) Irene: Anything but steamboat is ok.
(8 min later) Steph: Oei so where? if i call Faz must be halal ya?
In the end we all went to irene's house because she had a bad backache and couldn't leave the house.
And all these while, Jen, steph and I were speculating that she is pregnant.
lucky never buy red eggs.
Over pizza, beer and cake,
we shared and talked abt everything from facebook thumbs to angie's husband-whose-name-is-george-but-we-want-to-call-mike, to Jen's hunt for teachers (hey we all majored in O level humanities!) to Jack's "immoral" occupation (drink more beer, drink more, we understand).
Jen was happy i think.
and Irene is a really sweet friend and i was glad we could do it for her (go over her place).
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Vince and Prav called me out of the blue as well.
they were my ex-colleagues and we shared the same cluster of desks at work.
it was nice catching up with them.
vince is a really sweet guy.
i'm so ashamed of how anal i was whenever the project was having problems and i would look so pissed.
we worked on the same project and he was always privy to my piss-ness.
but he was always so sweet and accomodating,
always patiently and coolly working things out,
always helping to carry my heavy juggling bag whenever we walked to the MRT station together.
what a nice guy,
my heart is melting.
i was such a bitch. keke.
we can't really communicate on the same level so nothing further can progress,
but he is a gentleman, very simple and very big hearted.
Prav was like a little brother to me.
i respected and liked him.
Well brought up guy with good principles and very family oriented.
a filipino, an indian and a chinese singaporean girl.
what an oddball combination. :)
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SY msg-ed to ask why i've stopped juggling.
Darren, my fellow backsliding juggler, then suddenly called,
to say he's now BACK to juggling.
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Woke up yesterday frustrated.
I was tired and a part of me wanted an activity free saturday,
i just wanted to nua at home.
but i've already agreed to attend toastmasters as an evaluator,
so i dragged my feet out.
it was an ok meeting.
i gave my evaluation on a project one speaker who was a retired principal.
and my first line was
"it's a formidable task for me to be up here evaluating a principal, but i'll try."
after my evaluation, the emcee went "thanks for giving such a detailed evaluation on a P1 project"
she prob meant it as an off-handed remark
but i was slightly embarassed because usually P1s are just icebreakers and probably no need to be very technical.
Anyway after the session,
the language evaluator who was a guest from Tampines club came up to me.
"Hi i'm the VP of education from my club and I would love it if you can come by to evaluate for us in Tampines"
It was fantastic because I had just mentally marked him down as someone to call over to Toa Payoh to do language evaluation for us.
So we chit chatted and turns out he is a corporate trainer,
and i got some tips on how to break into the industry, if i wanted to.
And then another speaker came to join us.
he is the GM of an aeroplane engine company and his speech was abt bird accidents on planes.
Did you know that to test aeroplane engines, they shot birds into the engines to find out how many birds it can take before being damaged?
"Are the birds still alive?" i asked in horror.
"no la, of course they use dead birds," he laughed.
The Tampines guest was a huge airplane fan and the GM offered to get Aerospace tickets for him.
it's so warm,
to see all this unfold in front of me.
3 perfect strangers,
just talking,
genuinely interested in each other's lives,
and finding out we can all do something to help each other.
network is too superficial a term to describe this encounter.
it's connectedness.
-------------------------------------------
Went to have cell group at east coast after.
at some point we started play-acting the bible story we were studying, in hokkien.
"le si siang (who are you)," the man looked at Jesus and asked.
"ki lai kia (Get up and walk)" Jesus told him.
----------------------------------------
We then went for cycling, where dear old Poot joined us.
As usual Poot got lost in wilderness,
and i got a tandem bike to pick her up.
Tandem biking with Poot is twice as tiring as cycling alone.
we were screaming and shrieking half the time.
"eh why is the bike tilting?" i screamed from behind.
"it's not, i'm perfectly straight"
"I'm leaning towards left. keep looking forward pls!"
"what?" she turned to look at me sitting behind, causing the bike to swerve.
"ARGH!!! LOOK FORWARD!!!"
"Trust me, i'm in control. this is no control," lifts up one of her hands.
"AAAAAAAHHHH"
Shan was cycling behind us and told us she could see some cyclists going past us and smiling at us.
"I made sure i stayed far from you both. You looked like such a hazard!"
shepherd was also on a double bike with grace in front and they could hear us screaming.
"eh can we be like other pple and ride in serenity?"
"ya ok, i'm getting used to it. eh stop changing bike gears!"
"i'm not touching the gears. i think the bike is spoilt"
"how come everytime we do tandem the bikes spoil. i think it's us lei"
On the way back we switched and i took the front.
And poot started eating cheese balls behind.
"hey Henry's over there," WJ shouted over.
"where?" I turned.
"eh, eh, look forward look forward. don't zhong se qing you. concentrate!" poot got flustered.
"Heng li GE (brother henry)......."
"AAAAAAA...look forward!!" poot screamed.
-------------------------------------------
After cycling we got a car ride to parkway.
there were 4 girls squashed behind and poot chose this time to wiggle her phone out of her pocket.
because we were so squashed,
i was tickled and we were squirming and laughing uncontrollably behind.
and then Poot reached into MY pocket.
"eh how come my phone is sliding phone? oh shit i reached into YOUR pocket!"
We then had a 3 hour dinner at Sakae Sushi.
it was a splendid dinner.
again we shared and talked abt everything.
And again Poot made a mess of the table.
"i'm quite embarassed at the mess i'm making," Poot said as she wiped the fish roe balls that were all over the table because she dropped the roe sushi.
"maybe we can move down the counter. keep changing seats and let them clean up after us," I said, just before i accidentally pivoted my soft shell crab onto Poot's shorts.
it was super cool.
we talked abt how "technically," a certain person still has the gift of celibacy.
and how disrespectful lusty messages are.
"ooh gross. imagine he has one hand on the phone, and the other..er hmm"
"YUCKSSS!!"
"clean thoughts, clean thoughts," and we did a face wiping motion.
"you know pple from the other side of the counter don't know what we're talking abt and all they're seeing is our hands flailing in the air and our face wiping motions. they'll think we're crazy."
"just don't be so animated until we fall off the chair ok."
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it has been a crazy lot of fun week.
oh yes,
thanks to all who replied to my "kindness" sms.
shepherd asked if "you really just want us to humour you?"
and i told her no.
it's when you reply that you take time off to remember the kind things you've done and the kindness received,
and i hope everyone remembers how they felt then.
When i recalled the things i've done and received,
i was so touched i went to email the person who did the kind act for me to let him know i've never forgotten.
when you do something kind,
something changes in you.
We are all just temporary containers of God's love and greatness.
that's why christians thank God all the time, for everything.
From the book i'm reading now, "Random Acts of Kindness",
i've learnt:
Everything we have, we must give.
it's the only way to truly live.
it's the season of meeting up old friends again.
those periodic "seasons" that come on its own,
when everyone suddenly wants to meet up.
-------------------------------------
On mon we had a pri sch gathering.
we've been planning for one since chinese new year,
so it's a belated lo hei gathering.
i told jen i'll go dig them out for her birthday,
and miraculously everyone spontaneously agreed to come meet up.
the date was easy to set, the place to meet was a comedy of sms-es.
(i was the only one getting all these sms-es)
Me mass sms-ing them: hey folks choose-rice table or hanabi
(2 min later) Angie: Rice table is cool.
(4 min later) Vera: Rice table not nice. wat abt steamboat?
(6 min later) Irene: Anything but steamboat is ok.
(8 min later) Steph: Oei so where? if i call Faz must be halal ya?
In the end we all went to irene's house because she had a bad backache and couldn't leave the house.
And all these while, Jen, steph and I were speculating that she is pregnant.
lucky never buy red eggs.
Over pizza, beer and cake,
we shared and talked abt everything from facebook thumbs to angie's husband-whose-name-is-george-but-we-want-to-call-mike, to Jen's hunt for teachers (hey we all majored in O level humanities!) to Jack's "immoral" occupation (drink more beer, drink more, we understand).
Jen was happy i think.
and Irene is a really sweet friend and i was glad we could do it for her (go over her place).
--------------------------------------
Vince and Prav called me out of the blue as well.
they were my ex-colleagues and we shared the same cluster of desks at work.
it was nice catching up with them.
vince is a really sweet guy.
i'm so ashamed of how anal i was whenever the project was having problems and i would look so pissed.
we worked on the same project and he was always privy to my piss-ness.
but he was always so sweet and accomodating,
always patiently and coolly working things out,
always helping to carry my heavy juggling bag whenever we walked to the MRT station together.
what a nice guy,
my heart is melting.
i was such a bitch. keke.
we can't really communicate on the same level so nothing further can progress,
but he is a gentleman, very simple and very big hearted.
Prav was like a little brother to me.
i respected and liked him.
Well brought up guy with good principles and very family oriented.
a filipino, an indian and a chinese singaporean girl.
what an oddball combination. :)
------------------------------------------
SY msg-ed to ask why i've stopped juggling.
Darren, my fellow backsliding juggler, then suddenly called,
to say he's now BACK to juggling.
-----------------------------------------
Woke up yesterday frustrated.
I was tired and a part of me wanted an activity free saturday,
i just wanted to nua at home.
but i've already agreed to attend toastmasters as an evaluator,
so i dragged my feet out.
it was an ok meeting.
i gave my evaluation on a project one speaker who was a retired principal.
and my first line was
"it's a formidable task for me to be up here evaluating a principal, but i'll try."
after my evaluation, the emcee went "thanks for giving such a detailed evaluation on a P1 project"
she prob meant it as an off-handed remark
but i was slightly embarassed because usually P1s are just icebreakers and probably no need to be very technical.
Anyway after the session,
the language evaluator who was a guest from Tampines club came up to me.
"Hi i'm the VP of education from my club and I would love it if you can come by to evaluate for us in Tampines"
It was fantastic because I had just mentally marked him down as someone to call over to Toa Payoh to do language evaluation for us.
So we chit chatted and turns out he is a corporate trainer,
and i got some tips on how to break into the industry, if i wanted to.
And then another speaker came to join us.
he is the GM of an aeroplane engine company and his speech was abt bird accidents on planes.
Did you know that to test aeroplane engines, they shot birds into the engines to find out how many birds it can take before being damaged?
"Are the birds still alive?" i asked in horror.
"no la, of course they use dead birds," he laughed.
The Tampines guest was a huge airplane fan and the GM offered to get Aerospace tickets for him.
it's so warm,
to see all this unfold in front of me.
3 perfect strangers,
just talking,
genuinely interested in each other's lives,
and finding out we can all do something to help each other.
network is too superficial a term to describe this encounter.
it's connectedness.
-------------------------------------------
Went to have cell group at east coast after.
at some point we started play-acting the bible story we were studying, in hokkien.
"le si siang (who are you)," the man looked at Jesus and asked.
"ki lai kia (Get up and walk)" Jesus told him.
----------------------------------------
We then went for cycling, where dear old Poot joined us.
As usual Poot got lost in wilderness,
and i got a tandem bike to pick her up.
Tandem biking with Poot is twice as tiring as cycling alone.
we were screaming and shrieking half the time.
"eh why is the bike tilting?" i screamed from behind.
"it's not, i'm perfectly straight"
"I'm leaning towards left. keep looking forward pls!"
"what?" she turned to look at me sitting behind, causing the bike to swerve.
"ARGH!!! LOOK FORWARD!!!"
"Trust me, i'm in control. this is no control," lifts up one of her hands.
"AAAAAAAHHHH"
Shan was cycling behind us and told us she could see some cyclists going past us and smiling at us.
"I made sure i stayed far from you both. You looked like such a hazard!"
shepherd was also on a double bike with grace in front and they could hear us screaming.
"eh can we be like other pple and ride in serenity?"
"ya ok, i'm getting used to it. eh stop changing bike gears!"
"i'm not touching the gears. i think the bike is spoilt"
"how come everytime we do tandem the bikes spoil. i think it's us lei"
On the way back we switched and i took the front.
And poot started eating cheese balls behind.
"hey Henry's over there," WJ shouted over.
"where?" I turned.
"eh, eh, look forward look forward. don't zhong se qing you. concentrate!" poot got flustered.
"Heng li GE (brother henry)......."
"AAAAAAA...look forward!!" poot screamed.
-------------------------------------------
After cycling we got a car ride to parkway.
there were 4 girls squashed behind and poot chose this time to wiggle her phone out of her pocket.
because we were so squashed,
i was tickled and we were squirming and laughing uncontrollably behind.
and then Poot reached into MY pocket.
"eh how come my phone is sliding phone? oh shit i reached into YOUR pocket!"
We then had a 3 hour dinner at Sakae Sushi.
it was a splendid dinner.
again we shared and talked abt everything.
And again Poot made a mess of the table.
"i'm quite embarassed at the mess i'm making," Poot said as she wiped the fish roe balls that were all over the table because she dropped the roe sushi.
"maybe we can move down the counter. keep changing seats and let them clean up after us," I said, just before i accidentally pivoted my soft shell crab onto Poot's shorts.
it was super cool.
we talked abt how "technically," a certain person still has the gift of celibacy.
and how disrespectful lusty messages are.
"ooh gross. imagine he has one hand on the phone, and the other..er hmm"
"YUCKSSS!!"
"clean thoughts, clean thoughts," and we did a face wiping motion.
"you know pple from the other side of the counter don't know what we're talking abt and all they're seeing is our hands flailing in the air and our face wiping motions. they'll think we're crazy."
"just don't be so animated until we fall off the chair ok."
-----------------------------------------------------
it has been a crazy lot of fun week.
oh yes,
thanks to all who replied to my "kindness" sms.
shepherd asked if "you really just want us to humour you?"
and i told her no.
it's when you reply that you take time off to remember the kind things you've done and the kindness received,
and i hope everyone remembers how they felt then.
When i recalled the things i've done and received,
i was so touched i went to email the person who did the kind act for me to let him know i've never forgotten.
when you do something kind,
something changes in you.
We are all just temporary containers of God's love and greatness.
that's why christians thank God all the time, for everything.
From the book i'm reading now, "Random Acts of Kindness",
i've learnt:
Everything we have, we must give.
it's the only way to truly live.
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