Me: Huh?! Condoms under family planning?
Dearie: Ya weird. Shouldn’t be there la.
Me: Yalah. Probably they were thinking of planning, not for a family. Thus in short, family planning.

And we burst out laughing. Damn, should have taken a photo. Would have made this post even better. Hur hur.

“Please flush after use. The automatic sensor is not working.”

My first reaction upon reading that was “WTF?” Do we need to be told to flush? Are we to assume that if the automated flushing system is available, we do not need to flush? Isn’t it an action that is instinctive?

No doubt there are just inconsiderate people who justifies the need for such technology invention. But that aside, this made me wonder: Are we so technologically spoilt for comfort that we just forget the basics or the bare minimum? Just a food for thought.

The 3 were talking about how brave their soldiers were when their cordial discussion soon turned into an argument where each wanted to prove the bravery of their own soldiers.

The Pres. of USA said, “let me show u what is guts”, where upon he called his Colonel and said “Jump into the sea and swim 3 rounds around this ship!”.

The Colonel replied “Anything for Uncle Sam, Sir”, and jumped into the shark infested sea and swam 3 rounds around the ship, with the sharks chasing him like mad! After the successful 3 rounds, the Colonel came up to the deck and said, “I did it for Uncle Sam Mr. President!”. The proud US President replied “That’s what I call guts!”.

The Prime Minister of UK became aggressive and quickly called his General and said “General, jump into the sea and swim 10 rounds around this ship!”.

The General replied “Anything for the Queen, Sir”, and jumped into the shark infested sea and swam 10 rounds around the ship, with the sharks chasing him frantically. 

After the successful 10 rounds the 3-star General came up to the deck and said, “Long Live the Queen!”. The proud UK PM replied “That’s what I call guts!”

The Prime Minister of Singapore cannot control himself. He had to show that his soldiers have it too. 

He called one of his Private and said ”Soldier, jump into the sea and swim 15 rounds around this ship!” The Private replied “Oi, you siao (crazy)?” I just bought my 4-room and I am paying through my nose. Now, you want me to jump and die, eh? If you want to hao lian (show off), you jump into the sea yourself! 

The Singapore PM smiled and said “Now, that’s what I call guts!”.

If so, what seems to be pushing me away? I just wonder…

I was expecting him to tell me about how good it would be to sign up a different credit card, but instead, he looked at me kinda weirdly, that caught my attention, and said, “你很面善.” I was like “huh?!”. But before I could say anything, he continued, “GESS 的 right?” to which I agreed with wide-opened eyes.

CCG: 难怪啦. 就觉得你很面善…
Me: Err… But 已经很多年前了…
CCG: 你应该是我的 batch 的. 83, 84 的 right?
Me: Ya…
(phone rings)
CCG: oh ok, see you around.
Me: (smiled and went ahead in picking up the call. Thank God, it felt pretty awkward staying there any longer)

Hmm… GESS days till now and still recognisable??!! GESS days have been at least 10 years ago already! It seems I haven’t really changed much, have I?

Not much of a deal to me, but it seemed to be quite a deal to the people around me. Even YS smsed me “Eve, it must be serious this time, have a good rest, take care.” Perhaps, he knows just best.

Had decided to upload my photos from the camera to my laptop just now. While waiting for the photos to be transferred, I was browsing through the photos in the hard disk and I realised that my there weren’t many photos of my poly days in the hard disk. Recalling that those were the days when even a pathetic 128mb thumbdrive costed a bomb, most of my photographs were burnt into cd-r’s. And so, I ended up digging out the cd booklet, and started flipping…

Saw quite a number of cd’s in the booklet and started to get quite excited in viewing them again. But to my utter dismay, most of the cd’s are not readable anymore. Only managed to retrieve like 20% of my poly stuff… Very sad…

My poly days, to me, were the best 3 years in my life.
- The Singapore River Lantern Festival, that had us staying overnight in the school workshop rushing to finish our Effiel Tower Lantern which ended up in flames (not that kind of dramatic effect that wer were looking for, but definately was dramatic enough in another way.)
- The countless years of participating in the Singapore River Raft Race, that had us spend most of our times in the workshop, sawing, nailing, painting away. And not forgetting the waiting till 8pm, when the swimming pool closes, the lights off, and that was our time, our time to load the rafts into the pool for our daily practise.
- The 3 weeks voluntary work in Vietnam, Hue, my first trip away from Singapore (apart from M’sia), my first oversea trip with dearie, my first trip w/out my family, my first time cooking for a group of 20.
- The paper ICQ days, which Siew Wun, Brina & I would write during lecture days.
- The bungalow building days, my first blueprint which dearie almost vomitted blood in teaching me to understand, my first “concrete” experience that resulted in peeling hands cos i didn’t wear gloves, the “rebar” cutting and bending.
- The Kota Tinggi trip, our “grad” trip to see the waterfalls, that ended up with 3 people going to the hospital.
- The surveying days, where the lecturer almost fainted seeing some of the other classmates holding umbrella while doing surveying.
- Mok, never failing to amuse us with his “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” from his 二胡.

And there’s so much more… So much more memories that now, only a small part is left to see…

Just 2 nights back I had this weird dream. Well, I guess if I want to, I could have labeled it as a nightmare as well. Then again, weird dream sounds less scary thou it was indeed quite a scary one. Haha. Okok, blabbering nonsense liao.

Anyway, back to the weird dream. I dreamt that I had an appointment with my hair stylist but don’t know why I couldn’t make it. But just moments later, I was at some random salon with my hair done! When the stylist took the mirror to show me my new hairstyle, i was horrified. It was filled with chops of highlights of different colours. Highlights are supposed to be in strips, not chunks or chops!! My hair was filled with chunks of orange, blue and even white!! Not to add on, the hair cut was horrendous!!

At that point of time, I should be worried on getting my hair back the way it was. But I didn’t. Instead, I said, “Shit! Later got to go for meeting. How?”

I cannot comprehend why I said that. I cannot imagine that’s actually the first thing I said. I told my besties @ work and asked, “Am I overworked or am I just a workaholic to say that in my dream?” And to most who replied, “Both!”

Diao…

Managed to find eggs (too bad no tomatoes or else can do 番茄炒蛋), and this canned fish, and so, that ended up to be our side dishes.. As I was frying the eggs, it just dawned upon me that both of us have been doing this for years, since the day we were together. Whenever we were lazy to get out of the house when it’s meal time, that’s what we ended up doing. Instant noodles with side dishes. No doubt the side dishes changed from time to time, but there’s just that much variety that we can come up with with limited choices at home.

[A simple lunch that brought back memories]

Some things just don’t change do they? Not that I’m complaining, I thot it’s good for me to pen this down. Cos many a times, we just take the little things in life for granted, without realising, this little thing is something that is part of our lives. 还是那句老话, 简单就是美…

The Captain suggested perhaps it would help if the sailors would change underwear occasionally.

The first mate responded, “Aye, aye sir, I’ll see to it immediately!”

The first mate went straight to the sailors berth deck and announced, “The Captain thinks you guys smell bad and wants you to change your underwear.” He continued, “Pittman, you change with Jones, McCarthy, you change with Witkowski, and Brown, you change with Schultz. Now GET TO IT!”

THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS: Someone may come along and promise “Change”, but don’t count on things smelling any better.