Hope you've had a better New Year

It's disgusting how unpleasant my CNY is. I spend a large part of my Saturday and yesterday doing school work, and am both pissed and frustrated that I got to do these nonsense on the only festival that I celebrate.

Today was terrible, I didn't go into the classes feeling prepared, and though I think things were done satisfactorily, it was terrible going to classes. Anyway, I got to quite complaining now, much more work to do!

Frankly speaking this is a terrible job la. Wonder when I'll call it quits in school and move elsewhere...

Settling down?

There is an eerie calm in school, and I wonder when the storm will break out.

Somehow, I find myself able to feel pretty lax at work for the past week. No doubt there are things to be done, but I don't find myself chained to work at night, nor rushing to churn out things during the day. But that has not made my mind feel much more relaxed though. I'm just waiting for the work to hit me. Or could it be that I'm finally getting comfortable with my work life?

These days I'm actively corresponding to my renovator, helping to make small decisions about the wedding, and even squeezing out much time to try ways to rediscover an entire folder of pictures in my kaput hard disk. I'm just thinking when I'll be paying for the slackness, sigh.

It has been so long since I even thought about going back to climbing, skating, polo, sea paddling, and even playboating. Such a scatterbrain now, my attention is all over the place. My priorities are definitely changing. I'm growing up, I think.

But no time for pessimistic thoughts, it's gonna be CNY soon! A much looked-forward to holiday. I'm gonna mahjong day and night, if I could, and stuff myself with sinful snacks.

Shopping again...

It seems like every weekend will include some kind of window shopping it seems. But I have to say that Sunday is a good time to shop, without ERP and with cheaper parking (it was $2.50 per entry at Clarke Quay!). We visited a wedding fair to look into organising the ROM ceremony, went to Liang Court's Audio House to look at appliances, and was nearly tempted into buying our bed too.

Actually, it's quite draining to keep looking at these things without buying. I felt that it's going nowhere comparing products all over, and we probably waste enough time and money in the process to warrant buying it all in one go at one megastore. So when I found a good deal for the cooking hob and hood, I had to pounce on it. I wanted to get a cheap DVD recorder too, but Karen think's there'll definitely be a better deal 3 months down the road, or she'll pay the difference. Ok, we shall see about that. At least that's one thing down.

And we paid $1800 extra for wedding photos yesterday when we couldn't decide which ones to leave out of our photo album. To think that I was initially scornful of the whole idea of doing posed wedding photography. Surprisingly I don't really feel the pinch, though I know it's a big sum. But all the bills are really adding up...

The work has started!

Have visited the new place the past week sporadically, and am surprised the hacking work goes quite smoothly. One day the whole flat was full of wood piles from the torn-down cabinets, the next day it was all cleared, and a pile of sand appeared instead.

Kitchen all ready for further work here - the wall on the right of the picture encloses the toilet, which will be demolished to expand the place. Wall hacking has not started however, as all other hacking work will have to wait for HDB's approval first before being carried out. Can't wait!

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And of course, my work in school have started. I can't say I have been terribly productive at the office, but yet at the same time I am constantly worrying about my next few literature lessons. It's terrible - I think of that in the middle of badminton action on the court!

Can't wait for CNY to come and I can play mahjong again! I'm gonna do back to back sessions then haha. Hope I draw back this hand again!

Going in circles

I saw an advertisement for Barang Barang's warehouse sale on the papers yesterday and ended up spending today running around the industrial estates of Singapore browsing around for furniture buys. One shop leads to another as each area has at least 2-3 big stores, but eventually we ended up with no buys. On the one hand it is nice to catch a deal that will make you proud even years down the road, but on the other hand it feels as if I've wasted a full Sunday afternoon.

We both ended up quite tired and drained after the expedition, and ended up at Geylang's He Ji Bao for some food before going home. It's back to work nonetheless, as with any other Sunday evenings.

We're gonna make Sundays a no-outing day soon I think.