urrrrgh am feeling incredibly detached from real life after coming back from Tokyo. it's like, reality only sunk in last week, where real life aka work + JLPT spilled over. work has been dull, boring and incredibly energy-sapping. pretending to be busy when you aren't is the most tiring thing in the world. registered for JLPT on the last day of ( Read more... )

remember my credit card fiasco two years back? it struck again, only this time it was my Paypal account that got hacked, and i lost USD$631 worth of balances! i got this weird email thingy on my phone, saying that i sent payment. tried to log-in to Paypal, password was not valid! managed to change my password, MY BALANCES WERE EMPTIED. in three ( Read more... )

crazy weekend. Sat: late for mock exam, so i called to reschedule, watched KungFu Panda 2 ($11 cuz i forgot to bring my GV card >:@), then went down to Liang Court for Kino 20% sale + dinner. 
Sun: mock test + class = 6hrs on non-stop cramming. then dinner with mum, we ate Korean ginseng chicken and it was so hiong that I COULDN'T SLEEP that night.

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so today my dept got our first official meeting with the new GM. our concerns weren't addressed; instead we got a whole load of negative comments, strongly suggesting that our dept isn't "value-adding" and in fact is rather dispensable, as our "interpersonal skills" cannot be measured.

well then, my mind is made up. am sore over his remarks, but at ( Read more... )

while i absolutely hate and am unwilling to give Motherland a miss this Aug (and burn S$480, and miss seven awesome lives!), the current nuclear situation isn't helping at all. pleasepleaseplease let everything be resolved already! hadn't booked air tix nor accommodation yet, now all i can do is pray and wait for good news.

work is.... great! okay i ( Read more... )

wanna headbang all this annoyance away. >:(

every chinese horoscope prediction i've read wrote the same - it's going to be a trying year for the Rooster cos 犯太岁. life will be uneventful, possibility of getting hurt/injured/sick, work fraught with difficulties, etc etc. actually, without all this predictions, i also know damn well that this is going to be a very difficult year for me. ( Read more... )

it's Lunar New Year! quick quick 恭喜发财 红包拿来~! am so glad that the mandatory house-visiting is over, i really suck at it. when we're younger it was easier, cos we'd gambled the entire afternoon away. then as we grew older it just waned off and house-visiting became a dreadful chore. and we only had to go one place! this year we lasted 45mins before ( Read more... )

sigh. this house-cleaning is not getting me ANYWHERE. forever and ever there will always be stuff to pack/throw, and now i found an avalanche of stuff to sell AND I DUNNO WHERE. old comics, Gosurori(s), mag tote-bags, Glay stuff.... and none of the sales post stuff got moved out either. damnit this is really so frustrating. i miss the days of ( Read more... )

to get it off my chest, AND to make sense of my last entry;

( lengthy rant )