a summary

from the 19th - 22nd, i went to bangkok. one of my clerks call it the "rites of passage to manhood". wow. it certainly was fun to go there and live like a king for a few days. stay in a 4 star hotel for only 30 SGD a day, eat all we can, shop till we drop, and feel good about being a singaporean. (thank MAS for our ever increasing foreign exchange rates) though the 4 day period is a little short of being a real holiday, the trip was... purposeful. accompanied by a shameless zq, we made many a good bargain, and not a mention a taxi driver with as cheeky a name as "money". i managed to get alot of materials (Buddhas) for my big time project, and i paid disgustingly low prices for each item. i somehow felt bad that i was actually exploiting their situation. but its not my fault that our country is doing well.

on the night of the 22nd, i witnessed liverpool losing to manchester united, with a manchester united fan. managed to minorly get back at him, by giving him a imitation manchester united jersey of uber-thailand quality. (it cost me and zq 3 bucks!) the jersey has "MCT" - for Man Chest Ter - on the fake logo. really satisfying to see CJ explode in disbelief. sweet.

den i had leave on the following monday and tuesday. i ate myself fat on the couch. chips, sour cream, alcoholic coke light (whats the point?). and VCDs. i learnt about the legend of Nezha.

on the 25th and 26th, i undertook a course. it was more of a workshop. the facilitator offered me a job in her tuition center! it was 2 (more) good days of rest. but it got me really reluctant to return to office the next day.

27th. office. did nothing. left for home before 5pm. YaY!~ 3 more days of leave.

28th. met funties for halloween dinner after a day of lonely shopping. i found the stuffs far too expensive as compared to bangkok. i jus didnt wanna buy anything. i hate singapore. at night i watched soccer, liverpool finally won. den we met bacca for supper. zq is really getting too comfortable with bacca.

29th. i met bacca. an accident happened. dun wish to talk about it. but i've never seen her cry so hard before. it broke my heart.

30th. last day of my leave. i went to teach tuition for bacca! ok WITH her. she brought me out to her niece's place and i taught the niece science! den we later had a really awkward pizza session. niece laughed. aunt laughed. niece's sister (also niece) laughed. bacca silent. me silent. den we went to vivocity. or rather, i went to vivocity. she also went to vivocity. on the way there she cried on the bus.

31st. went back to office finally. visited bacca at night.

wednesday onwards... i wasted more time in the office, learnt more about Nezha, and had a few nightmares in the night. some were jus flashbacks, some were "NIGHTMARE" caused by irresponsible SMS about fishbones. its only the second time in my life i've ever called anyone after 3am, knowing she's asleep. the first was shiangmin.

friday (and i'm supposed to be on leave), but i'm in office. tml i'm working as well. but this would give me another few days of off to spend. just in case.....