not so drunken prawns

so my colleagues (well, not really. i'm like way way the youngest person there) and i went to this fancy restaurant in Tianjin for dinner after a long day of meetings and it's this cool beef steamboat place where everyone has their little steamboat and like 80% of the food was beef. the beef wasn't the most interesting though. one of the bosses ordered a drunken prawn dish, and the waitress came with this huge bowl of live prawns jumping around. so we're like, ok let's leave them there awhile and let them get drunk first, and then we can cook them. after about 15 min, one of the prawns jumped out onto the lazy susan, and it was then that we realized something was wrong. we asked the waitress, who told us that it was water, stupid, not wine!

everyone suddenly went queasy. we contemplated asking them to cook the prawns first, but then someone was like, aiyah, like that not nice already... so in the end we all had to fish out live prawns one by one and throw them into the boiling soup. gross! at least they all died in like 5 seconds.

but this must have been my most guilty dinner ever man.

fire drill

today, we had a fire drill in our building.

in which i learned that fire drill = mass exodus of non-critical staff out of the building half an hour before the fire drill starts (in order to avoid being caught in the fire drill when it happens), followed by a 45min long tea break.

the little perks of being non-critical staff.

went for my 45min tea break with 3 of my colleagues (all girls), 2 of whom didn't eat or drink anything. why are girls like that. regardless, i had a very agreeable breakfast of sausage mcgriddle with egg, hashbrown & orange juice. so sad when we had to go back to office!

i miss you. sausage mcgriddle with egg makes me think of flynflyn!

i'm a growing boy!

another day, another 12 hours sitting on a chair, another layer of fat around my waist. sigh.

that's why i just did 20 crunches! although that isn't going to help my physique AT ALL, it makes me feel like i'm being a good custodian to my body.

maybe i'll do 5 more before i sleep.

haircut

after promising myself every single day, for 2 weeks, that i was going to "cut my hair tomorrow", i finally did it! after lunch, at QB House, where haircuts are but 10 minutes long and everything is sterilized in microwave-oven-like contraptions that glow ultraviolet. the tv screen shows QB House ads over and over again, which is kinda silly and surreal at the same time, considering the fact that the potential customer who is watching said ad is actually already sitting there having his hair cut.

but i dutifully mesmerized myself with the tv, and in just about 10 min, my hair was cut. i was a little annoyed at being rudely snapped out of my reverie as the girl started vacuuming my head and face but come to think of it, it actually felt pretty nice. after i got out of the chair, she said, "come i give you a comb", and gave me a comb. huh!? too short to comb!

so anyway i went back to office looking different from what i was in the morning, and dropped my new comb into my pen holder. i'm sure it would come in handy sometime, perhaps as a weapon or something. i realize i haven't combed my hair for more than 5 years... no wait, make that 8 (army days + uni). i don't think i could handle a comb.

anyway, my new haircut being worth all of 10 bucks is nothing much to shout about, but i promise i'll look decent before you come back ok? :)

oh and i saw a geoduck today. awesome.

mj

i should seriously learn how to play mj. for the past two mj outings, i've sheepishly won from pure luck and blurness, and you know when you blunder into good things too many times, it kinda gets embarrassing. can't really say that God is keeping an eye on me too cos i'm gambling and it's WRONG.

don't gamble.

but then again gambling probably gives us better odds these days than putting our money in the bank. unless it's posb lah posb won't die right?

can you see the stars
from the windows far
up in the sky above
they are full of love

for us but we only know
to curse at all the things we have
to lose and all the words we have
to choose not to
say we're sorry

and if we could see them smiling
we would know that we're not lonely
it's just that time moves slowly
sometimes but we're only
human

and if we could find a way to love
the things that hurt us most
it should be so much easier to lose
the pain that stirs inside us

can you see the sun
it shines for everyone
no matter who we are
or what we've done

to those who never stood a chance
as we wave our flags and dance
to a song of our own making
with words beyond their comprehending

i'm scared.

i feel like i'm walking on thin sheets of ice, with dark water swirling underneath my feet and threatening to engulf me.

i'm afraid that it won't happen because i take a bad step, but because, if i just give it a little more time, the ice will simply melt.

our rabbits

i love their eyes, cos they remind me of you. for some reason, tobi is starting to have helicopter ears! maybe it's a seasonal thing.

ooh the weekend is here! i love weekends... cos it means that lunchtime isn't a limiting factor anymore!