First of all, Happy New Year 2006 to all of you! I hope that the new year would be a better year to everyone.
The server has been acting up lately, so if you suddenly see my blog going missing, please wait for a few hours and try again. Lousy, lousy server… What to do? This is what you get for a cheap price.
Anyway, let me get you some updates on the happenings for the past few days.
I went for my first movie date with The Gal on Wednesday, and we watched “The Chronicles of Nanyang: The Bear, The Bug, and The University” “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Witch, The Lion, and The Wardrobe”. We managed to get one of the best seats in the row furthest from the screen, right in the middle, thanks to The Gal for her experience in booking at that particular cinema.
Although I enjoyed the visual effects, I was lost at times. Maybe I should go and read the book one day.
On Thursday, I went to register my modules for the next semester. I managed to get all my preferred slots for core subjects, and put five modules into waiting list for General Education Requirement-Prescribed Electives. Hopefully my final timetable will be a good one.
Then at night, I went to Jurong Entertainment Centre for another Digital DESIGN ‘06 meeting with the business managers, where we discussed the possible sponsors and advertisement venues, and touched up the proposal to be sent to these sponsors.
On Friday, I stayed at home and slacked. Slacked, slacked, slacked, until I realised that I had work to do for Digital DESIGN. Then I worked, worked, worked, until I got bored and switched my M1 OK Buzz Call Plan to SunTalk 150, where I can get free incoming calls any time in the day. Knowing that I receive calls much more than I make them, this would be a good investment. When the notification came that my call plan had been changed and would be effective the following day, it was 23:59:35. What a luck.
Then I continued my work on Digital DESIGN, worked, worked, worked until I got a call from SIGGRAPH Vice Chairperson and got even more work from SIGGRAPH’s side. The call lasted for 45 minutes, and I was grateful that I had switched my plan to one with free incoming calls, otherwise I would have wasted $12.60. I entered my timetable into my digital calendar, and built my to-do list for all my work. It’s a very long list currently, which I really hope that I can finish as soon and as much as possible.
And like The Gal said, “How come it’s the last day of the year and I have work to do?”. I agree fully. I mean please lah, we still haven’t enjoyed our vacation ever since we worked for the courses that SIGGRAPH held four days before Christmas. Not that I mind working during the vacation, but don’t put the bulk of the work next to a festive season lah. And give us a break, now that our vacation has been cut to a pathetic one week, at least don’t give us more work during what is left of our vacation.
Not that we’re not dedicated, but truthfully, we’re starting to get a burnout from our work with all the mess that we had to clear, ranging from the disappearing Art Director and logistics problem like softwares that refuse to run 5 days before the course. And getting a burnout from our work during a festive season is something quite serious.
OK, enough of that.
Saturday marked a week into our relationship. To say that I’m happy to meet The Gal might be an understatement. It’s not everyday that you have someone that you can really talk to, someone who can listen to you when you’re having problems, someone who shares almost the same interests, someone who can accept you as who you are, someone who is cute, someone who has a nice voice, someone who is wise, someone who cares for you, all in the same person.
Someone who knows our background may not believe that we are together. We are in different years, taking different courses, in different divisions in our ECA, and staying in two opposite ends of Singapore. But fate brought us together during an animation screening. A few weeks and a Photoshop course later, we started to click together and got to know each other better. It was a long journey of mugging sessions, Cinema 4D trainings, MSN chats, phone calls, meetings, and course organisings, before we end up here.
So to The Gal: Yes, I’m happy and thankful to meet you too. <3
So on Saturday, we went to Maxwell Food Centre for dinner. It was claypot chicken rice and pig stomach pepper soup, which we thoroughly enjoyed (someone LOL’ed at my previous food description, so I won’t do the same this time). Then we walked around in Chinatown, before proceeding back to Maxwell Food Centre again for dessert, which was mango with papaya with vanilla ice cream with almond with raisins and cranberries.
Then we went back to The Gal’s house. I quite like The Gal’s house as it is so comfortable. At the moment, I can pretty much say that the environment in the house is much more relaxed compared to the DoTA, DoTA, DoTA environment in my own house. Of course, another reason that it was more comfortable to me might be simply because there was a bug The Gal in the house. I’m also thankful that I can click pretty well with The Gal’s sis and mum.
By the way, yes, almost all of my flatmates are back. So they’re currently playing DoTA, and I’m getting quite disturbed by the noise. It’s 2 a.m. in the morning for goodness sake.
Tata.
The Guy,
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Check out more about it in The Gal’s blog.
