Time goes by faster when you're having fun
Boo, where has the weekend gone to!Friday night was the "Black and Gold" salsa party which was part of the festivities of Jitterbugs' opening weekend, where our little team of salsa/cha cha aficionados performed a quirky cha cha cha shines routine. 'Monochromed randomness' was the theme for this number. I think I made a few little mistakes, but overall it went pretty well :) In any case, it was fun! And great to see a choreo grow and develop and come to life, sorta :P
Spent most of Saturday sleeping, but dragged myself out of bed to go for Rebekah's adult ballet trial class and since I was there, went for Luv's B2 for fun too lol. Then, suddenly got a last minute free ticket to F1 rocks, so got to go see The Black Eyed Peas and Beyonce live! SUPER awesome, I tell you.
Now I wish I could've seen No Doubt too! Gwen Stefani is SO cool I can't believe she's almost 40 - she still looks so young and has super nice abs. Man. Plus she sings so well!Watching Black Eyed Peas and Beyonce was a bit like a blast into the past - the songs of my teenage years - Where is the Love, Pump it, Let's Get it Started, Say My Name, Crazy in Love etc. But I must say, the reverbrating bass and surround sound of a live concert really just makes it so much better. Can understand why people love going to concerts! The Black Eyed Peas were so feel good and happy and made me feel like dancing and jumping around, and Beyonce and her dancers can REALLY dance man, whoa, and her head flicks are MAD! And she can actually sing lol, unlike some other artistes in that genre.
Didn't go see F1 though - as much as I think it's pretty exciting and all, I can't justify paying so much for a ticket haha and I guess it's the kinda thing I'd go to only if I have friends who are on about it and want to go. But in any case, cool weekend! Had a great time at the concert :D
Finished it off by going swimming on Sunday (well more like tanning, really) with Eugene and then hitting the gym (but was so lethargic from falling asleep in the sun I didn't really do much :(). And there went my weekend, just like that. Back to the grind tomorrow!
:10:47 PM: :sugah~plum
First week without the bf :(
Boo. It's only been a week, but it feels like ages. And there are 12 weeks left til I can see him again!!! Sigh. It's kind of kicking in quite strongly this weekend though, but I guess it'll slowly not ache so much after a while more maybe. So sweet though, he left me a box of stuff to entertain/feed myself with while he's gone! Haha.
Ohwell. At least I'm working for now so I'm kind of occupied. Need to find a real job for after this though! Haha. And oh this is strange but the other day when I was buying teh to bring to work, I discovered something - that after so many years of a Singaporean, I didn't know what Teh C was!!!!! I stupidly thought it meant teh with less sugar (teh si?) and ended up being given a short description of the different types of teh by the coffeeshop auntie after a confused attempt at ordering. Sad right. And plus I used to think Kopi-O meant no milk AND no sugar, just black coffee. So misguided :/I also hear there's this debate over who came up with Hainanese chicken rice and who owns it lol. Reminds me of when I was on exchange in France and a British dude was like 'Oh you're from Singapore? It's near Malaysia right, the country where people like to say 'lah'?'. And I said indignantly, 'No, lah is Singaporean!!!'. But well. These arguments are kind of pointless - it's like how friends when they hang out together too much and are really close, kind of adopt parts of each other's lingo or habits - I think its similar here in the sense that our countries are kind of interlinked such that we would have certain similarities in culture/food etc. So... c'mon, no need to fight right?
Anywayyy. Enough rambling for now. I'm SO glad that tomorrow is a public holiday - no need to work! Have to go for dance practice though - performing on Friday! Stress!
:12:02 PM: :sugah~plum
First day as a corporate drone.
Hmm so today was my first day at my 3 month contract job. Let's just say I was very sleepy, and handovers mean that I don't do much except watching and absorbing, which can be kinda boring. Though I must say, I'm glad for company. The lack of connectivity to the outside world is probably going to take a while to get used to!
I really wonder what kind of job I can find which I will be happy doing every damn weekday. There's really this whole list of pros and cons for the fun, lowly paid, long hour jobs and the not-so-fun, better paid, shorter hour but routine kind of jobs. Will need to figure it out by the start of next year - growing up has its not so fun parts, lol.
The crappy thing is that I was SICK today, bah. Spent the entire day blowing my nose and feeling cold and tired... of all days, really.
Anywayy, hope everything goes well for the next 3 months, wish me luck!
And if anyone is working around the Tanjong Pagar/Shenton Way/Raffles Place area do contact me; perhaps we can meet for lunch sometime! :)
:9:37 PM: :sugah~plum
Sometimes I lose my temper at the strangest, smallest things and get impossibly annoyed. Strangely enough, even though I can see myself from a distance and there is this small voice at the back of my head telling me not to over-react, I still do. Funny how this only happens in front of people I'm close to; I suppose I still try to put on a visage of being a nice and calm person with people I don't quite know.
But well. We all have our days!
And I think I've caught the flu, again. So annoying!
:9:28 PM: :sugah~plum
No matter what happens, life goes on.
And so in the last 2 weeks, many things have happened.
First and foremost, my very much beloved grandmother passed away early last Monday morning, which was an extremely sad affair for my entire extended family. I remember in primary or secondary school, we once had to write an essay about the 'woman we admired the most'. Many people named famous celebrities or politicians, but to me, my grandmother, who was always patient, always kind, and always thinking about others before herself, was the one for me. She had so much love to give to everyone, while not expecting anything in return.The only consolation for us is that she is no longer suffering and battling a tiring, long bout of cancer, and that she is with God in heaven now (even though I personally am not sure about my views on this, I'd like to think so).
But yeah... this is a part of life and a process we all have to face sometimes. So we grieve, we pray, we remember and keep the love in our hearts, and then move on with life.
I will always miss her and love her.
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The bf left for London yesterday for the next 3 months, and today I just accepted a 3 month contract job as well. Hopefully it will be interesting and keep me occupied so I don't miss him too much...! Need to work; been bumming for too long and getting wayyy too broke.
Practice for the team has also resumed, and shall start hitting the gym again soon. Need to get in shape!
Haha. There are always a lot of things I need to do, but never get around to doing... it's time to try and do them, I guess :P
:2:29 AM: :sugah~plum