Contradictory Ramblings [Version 3.0]
"Walking around in circles... seeking a place to call my own"
"Walking around in circles... seeking a place to call my own"
Shady self-destructed @ 20:28
What the hell? Where did the weekend disappear to siahx? Lolx. Time just seems to pass by so quickly when I ain't doing anything of significance!! *shrugx* Not that I care about it greatly though ~ anyway, itz yet another sleepy Monday. Am kinda pleased to mention though - that this time, it ain't WoW that made me feel so darn sleepy. Was half-watching Man Utd kick Chelsea's ass last nite & doing some revision @ the same time. Yeah. I finally found the "kick" to study. Hopefully this motivation will continue for sometime, especially since the date of the JLPT is drawing near - 2nd Decemeber 2007. JCS examations will just be like 2 weeks before that. Though I don't have much hope of clearing JLPT, am gonna make darn sure that I'll pass at the least the JCS in-house paper. Would prefer advancing to the nxt level in 2008 to repeating the year all over again.
My greatest sin - procrastination. Doh. Been a mth since I played WoW and till date, have yet to post any screenies. Well... in the 1st place, itz damn hard to take a decent screenie for this game. Itz just different frm say, RO, R.O.S.E Online or even Fairyland. Anyway I did manage to take a couple (there was supposed to be a close-up as well but I accidentally deleted it and Blogger saved the draft automatically, hence itz gone - damn it)... so here goes ^-^
Erulisse & Neewollah (+ minion) - exploring GnomereganJust why do I like taking & posting screenshots, you'd ask. Well... itz for the same damn reason y ppl take photographs of themselves & friends. So what reason is that exactly? Fuck if I really know, though I can guess. Photographs are the only way to "stop Time". Yeah ~ ever wished that a certain moment could just stay forever? Time passes. So that will never happen. But take a photograph, and that instant is just captured for eternity. And someday, when all this is nothing but a sweet memory, I'll actually look back at those jpegs & smile to myself... the same way ppl do when they look at an old photo album.Enjoying the rain in Auberdine - the night sky sure is pretty
Maybe u can say itz pathetic, that all I'm posting are screenshots & not photographs of myself irl. Yeah it does seem that nothing worth remembering actually happens to be outside games... But one thing ppl tend to forget, or rather, fail to understand that - though itz just a game (like others that I've played), it IS real life. The places, the actions... they may all be merely virtual, nothing more than binary codes & pixels... but real time is spent, real effort is taken and real emotions are experienced. Lol. Now this is starting to sound all so defensive - itz as if I'm trying to convince myself that I'm more than just a no-lifer geek addicted to the computer. Ah well, watever lah ~ for those who don't understand, well... all I can say that itz a shame that we don't see eye to eye (the same way I could never understand why ppl can actually spend hours sitting around nursing a cup of coffee @ a kopitiam).
*sigh* Anyway, am not feeling too happy today. Yeah yeah, whatz new. Am filled to the brim with negativity anyway. Damnit. Itz just so hard to actually be positive when there are certain issues nagging @ the back of the brain. Itz annoying that till now, I've yet to settle my flight to Canada & am starting to worry that if I don't get my lazy ass moving soon, I'll miss the chance altogether. Gah! Of coz I could always go another time - no biggie... thing is the arrangement of the public holidays at the end of this year seems pretty good... and I need a change of environment lah. Don't ask me why. I just fucking do (itz something that not even exploring a new area on WoW can fix).
Anyway, main issue thatz pricking my brain rite now: the flat @ Jelapang. Based on a prior conversation with that asshole, itz made known to me that someone is interested in renting the flat and will be moving in around 20-something this mth. Itz alredi the 24th today. I hear nth from Ben's side. Correct me if I'm wrong... but shouldn't there be something substantial, like a contract or what, to confirm the rental? Plus rightfully, tenants are supposed to place a 2-mth deposit or something. I did SMS Ben sometime last week - no response. Call went unanswered. Last nite I just got so irritated that I asked my dad to call. No pick up. But oh... somehow he's too busy to answer the phone but free enuff to respond to his SMS. They fixed a date to meet-up to discuss matters & what pissed me off is Ben wants my dad to turn up alone. HELLO!! I'm the co-owner of the flat alrite!! Think he's probably just worried that I'll call his bluff & challenge the lies he probably has made up alredi.
See what happens when you make the wrong move in Life? All this nonsense. I just can't wait for this entire thing to be officially over so I can fucking move-on w/o further care (yes, he can decompose and I won't even bat an eyelid). Phooey. I've alredi been trying to take this easy all this while. Yeah sure, I can allow myself to go all depressed and even more negative than I alredi am (hard to believe but yeah I can be worse) but I ain't gonna do that. Trying manx. TRYING. Know that? I may have become soft afterall this years but I think I still have it in me to grab his head & smash it onto a kerb or something till it becomes nth more than a bloody mess. Gah!!
Shady self-destructed @ 10:11
Bleah... after a really looooong time, I finally returned to Phuture again. Mind you, I haven't exactly been back there ever since the place was renovated; and on the overall, I never really clubbed after I left Secret Recipe [I did go to random places now & then but I never "went all out"... if u get what I mean] - which was like what, in year 2004? Back then it was Mambo/Phuture almost every Wed... and I'll certainly request for an off (or a really late start, say 6pm) on Thurs. Those were the times *shrugx*
Anyway, rambling aside, I went back on Wed. Yeah ~ the last time I went to Zouk (which was earlier last year?), I didn't step into Phuture at all so that was the 1st time I saw the changes that had been done during the renovation. The position of the tables & dance floor were slightly different... and yeah the floor seems slightly bigger now. But that doesn't mean the place is any less crowded though! The atmosphere is still the same - same kinda R&B, same kinda crowd... and even the long island tea tastes the same as ever. The same 1-for-1 thingy. It still takes forever to squeeze thru' the crowd & there are still the usual queues for the cubicles. There are still the typical bunches of all-girls who obviously become targets to the same 'ol chee hong patterned guys as the nite progresses. The typical folks who pass out after drinking too much... etc. What a friend mentioned when we went out for a smoke break pretty much summarizes everything - "Zouk doesn't change in 10 years" (translated from Mandarin). Zouk is still Zouk. Retro, tertiary students + synchronized dancing. Wonder if the DJ ever edits his playlist -.-"
Note: I've always felt that despite it looking pretty nice with everyone doing the same movements, synchronized dancing is rather stupid... and it seems that most of the ppl who do it can't really dance. Itz like... just hand movements for gawd's sake! Can't someone just really... well... u know, dance on the platform instead?
Ah well, btw, the reason I went is coz I wanted to bring David there b4 he goes back to his country this Sat. Apparently he kinda liked it, and so did Chris & Brian who went along... and yeah the plan is, we are going back there tonite. This should be the last time for quite a while, coz no one else I knows actually clubs anymore (which is not really that bad a thing - I don't need to club to "have a life"). Darn, am gonna miss him when he returns home... he's been pretty fun to hang out with. Hmm anyhow... considering that itz a Fri, and if things are still the same as before, I reckon we'll be spending all our time in Phuture. If I don't remember wrongly, Zouk's music ain't appealing on Fridays. Then again, bleah... idk. Ultimately it all boils down to the company I suppose. Am just gonna sit back & relax today though. Am aching all over since I woke up yesterday. Which is a sign that I need to exercise more. Pffftttttt.
Work is still as confusing as ever. Oh, was on medical leave for the past 2 days and returned to find myself completely lost again. Lolx. It was hard to resist the temptation of taking MC for today as well. Yah lah ~ someone should just give me a sharp slap to the side of my head for being so freaking lazy. 2 spates of MCs in 2 mths. Now how does that sound? Not too good huh? That was the only reason why I dragged myself here today. So how did I spend the time at home? I was online, on WoW.
WoW is Evil.
It takes up way too much of my time, really. The effect it has on me is just as bad as The Sims 2. When I play it... I dun even know how much time actually goes by - and I dun even know how all that time was spent... considering that @ times I'm not really "doing anything" in game. Bleah, RO wasn't half as bad for me. At least for RO, I do take a break now & then to watch anime while having my meals. Now? I just shove food into my mouth in between battles. Am missing my weekly anime fix (though I somehow managed to squeeze the Bleach movie in between). Gah, can finally understand what David means when he says he ain't gonna play again coz it takes up too much of his Life... but hmm... am not giving up trying to influence him into starting again - this time rolling a charc on the server I'm playing on /gg Even my bro is now riveted by it, and he'll be switching to a paid account once his 10 day trial expires.
Sheesh, that'll just deprive me of even more sleep coz I gotta help him with his toon. Guess I'll just quest with him using my rogue till he's of good level to join my warrior... then I'll pause the rogue for a while till I reach lvl 70 for the main. Gahhh if he wasn't playing, I would have gone to sleep by midnite yesterday - started Gnomeregan early hence it ended early... but as he couldn't do the quest alone, I ended up lying down at 2am. Couldn't wake up in good time, and had to skip breakfast. Damnit. My mum actually prepared mee tai mak! I would have loved to eat that. *grumbles* Maybe I'll just have to arrange with her to see if I can "da bao" the food to eat in the office. Am fine with skipping breakfast... but well, I'd prefer to eat if the food is good. I can't afford to lose any more wt. At the very least I still retain much of my (tiny) social life - am still meeting friends for dinner, movies now and then... so guess it ain't that bad afterall? Itz just the other hobbies that are taking a backseat. =X
11:50am. omfg. Another 1hr 10min to lunch. *yawn* Yeah I should just go for a puff and then actually start working on something. Damn. Wish I was home & questing in Ashenvale rite now instead.
Shady self-destructed @ 11:51
"Have you ever wondered why people tend to be so cheerful and simple when you meet them, but whenever they're online or msging, they tend to be more emo, pessimestic, just like a different person. An example will be people's MSN nick. They tend to think that the whole world are against them, they wanna sucide and all the stupid stuff. I bet you can see at least one right on your MSN window now. Are they not as simple as they look because they think deeply or they think it's cool to follow such a tread that emo phrases on sms nicks?"
Happened to come across the above post while doing some forum surfing during work hours [ya ya I know – what I should really be doing is working my ass off & trying to learn as much as I can but am just too lazy aight] and hmm… my 1st reaction was: everyone has a “split personality” to a certain extent. 2nd reaction is - the ts is too immature to recognise it & is probably struggling with his/her own emotions. Note that when I mention “split personality” (which is the thread topic btw), I ain’t referring to those really hardcore ones as in speaking in difference voices, having a totally different persona and all. What I believe the ts is referring to is the “other side” of a person – the side that people tend to keep private & hardly surfaces.
Itz like… well, do u frankly know anyone whom u can say for sure doesn’t have a "darker side" to themselves - be a a bad temper or insecurity?
I’m guilty of that too as charged – posting self-destructive nicks about the end of the world, about not being able to break free (am worse in my blog actually)… yadda yadda… and yeah I do admit that it might get a little exasperating to people who read it… coz I know some folks whose nicks are forever that way and it irks the hell outta me @ times, but hey, I’d rather do that... and annoy others in the process, than keep that part of me suppressed. In fact I’ve gone as far as to recognize the 2 different “personalities” that when together, form Me. From my pov, regular people are faced with dilemma day in and out. One classic example will be the brain vs heart struggle that I’ve blogged about before.
Anyway I do read the blogs of others too… and I tend to avoid those “cheery” ones. Not coz they make me feel that my Life sucks big time in comparison… more like becoz they don’t seem real enough. I mean… who the fuck has ‘good things’ happening to them day in and out… feeling happy every single day w/o any trouble or care in the world? Hmm… well, the innocent (or naïve) maybe but just point out to me someone you know for sure who doesn’t have a single worry @ all – I’ll go get some tips from them siah. Who doesn’t like to be free of nagging thoughts? Who likes to feel as if the world is against them & who likes contemplating of suicide? Besides, since when is it cool to have such negative nicks on MSN? Am alredi trying to ‘cut down’ on the frequency of my own… but difficult lah. I am human too, and I have my own share of worries to think about.
That doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate what I have now. I might be on the verge of falling asleep on my desk; there’s tuition later tonite which means I won’t get home till like 10+; my room is in a total mess with a lot of unpacking & rearranging to be done; I’ve got no time to watch the stuff I wanna watch… much less level up my warrior on WoW; I have yet to fix Harusame’s seat & cancel my GIRO season parking @ Jelapang… etc. but I’ve got a job – am able to keep myself alive (though thare are plenty of things I wanna get but can’t afford it) and I’ve got something to look forward to now and then, which makes Time pass slightly more easily. If I were to rate my Life rite now on a scale of 10, I would probably give it a 7… coz I’ve been worse. At the very least, right now, my 2 main personalities aren’t in conflict with each other – I’ll attribute that to not being in any r/s at this point of time [though I gotta admit that there is someone who is constantly on my mind].
*sigh* But I still do wish I have someone though.
See? Conflict again. Bleah… the world is not done in black & white lah. Everything comes with pros & cons. The only thing that differs is a person’s ability to ignore the negatives for the positives. If u can do that, good for u… remain in denial if it makes u happy… but pls pls pls enough of those cheery cheery nicks alredi. I know u in love and all, but I’m not and haha I’m prone to envy alrite? And oh… enough of those suicidal nicks too… am so tired looking @ those over and over again. Hahaha what the fuck am I saying siahx? No nick lah. Best!
Ignore me. Am sleepy rite now.
Shady self-destructed @ 12:36
Hmm... I remember I had an entry once, about something I read - that your Life is like a bus, with you being the bus driver, taking a journey from one terminus to another. Passengers on ur bus will be the people whom you meet in ur life. Well ~ I ain't gonna repeat that all over again [+ I can't be bothered to go search for the post so am not gonna like link it]... but suddenly that "theory" resurfaced into my mind. Just one of the random thoughts I seem to have so often.
In brief, during ur journey there'll be passengers who will board the bus - some will be there only for 1 stop or 2... they'll board & alight so quickly that u don't really notice them at all. Some will stay on for slightly longer though u don't really give a damn about... and there are others who u'll build up a relationship with (aka ur friends). Those who have been with u since the start of the journey will be ur parents... etc. The only thing for sure is, after the journey is done, u'll be driving the empty bus alone back into the parking lot with nothing but memories of the trip. Well ~ you get the point.
Anyway, my dilemna ~ I'm starting to feel something for a fellow bus driver. Lolx, I dunno how to really describe it... but, well, he didn't board my bus, neither did I board his. We aren't even driving along the same route. Guess we got to know each other thru' the "ntercom" (driversnet.com hahaha) and somehow, he's become an important part of my life. No kidding. He's the one whom I wanna see on MSN when I logon, and he's the one I always smile while I'm chatting with him. *sigh* Itz been awhile alredi, this feeling... and am pretty confused as to what it is. The thing is, we are following 2 totally different routes. The routes are scheduled to intersect sometime in the future... but it'll just be for a really short distance. Whether anything will take place during that point of time, am not too sure. I recently got a headset + mic, and heard his voice for the 1st time last week. It was an awkward conversation though - with both of us at a loss of words & our accents making it so difficult to understand each other when we actually do speak, but yeah... was kinda glad that I finally got to hear how he sounds after so many years.
*shrugx*
And if Fate wasn't cruel enough, She had to throw another curveball my way... bringing a passenger on board my bus. Someone whom I've enjoyed hanging out with... someone who is gonna alight too soon. Hmm... one thing for certain though, for this one, there's just "interest"... thatz all. Went out with him to watch 1408 @ VivoCity last nite, and I should be meeting him again this Wed. Bleah ~ but Wed should be the last time I suppose, since he's leaving on Sat. Itz a shame though... coz he seems like someone whom I can really get along with, and will probably be included in my "buddy list" should the situation be different. Hell... I even found out yesterday that he shares the same birthday as me... only that he was born 6 years later.
Yah I know what u gonna ask - what the fuck is with me & younger guys huh? Idk. And trust me, I dun really like that either. It just seems that guys my age or slightly older... well, they are either alredi attached or folks that I'm totally uninterested in. Plus I don't really get the chance to meet many new people now.
Bah! Enough of all that. Got more things to worry about - the main one being... how the fuck am I supposed to shift everything into my room? Manx ~ I was astonished as to how much stuff I had to actually bring home frm Bt. Panjang on Sat. Can u imagine it? ellone was driving a lorry/van and we actually had to make 2 trips to carry everything? Oh... and thatz only like 3/4 of my stuff. 1/4 was alredi @ bugis (coz I never shifted those over). Seems that I made the right decision in bring Phoenix, my PS2 & SubZero back on Thurs. Yes. The problem. I found out that my computer table doesn't fit under the shelf... so I've gotta like drag it out a little, which means... the chair can't fit in. So ended up having to sit on the bed to play WoW. Backache siahx. Currently the TV is left on the floor, haven't bought the stand yet... maybe later tonite after wrk I'll go to Ikea for a bit. Thankfully my parents helped settle the pets in. The no. of tanks is amazing I tell u... just ask those folks who helped me on Sat [thanks a million!!].
I don't have much space to walk around now though... lol. Due to the renovation my parents had the other time, most of my stuff are in boxes & containers that are all over my room floor. Due to me shifting back on Sat, there are also boxes & containers that take up 1/2 the floor space in the hall -.-" Think I'm gonna end up having to throw loads of stuff out *sigh* I'm such a bloody pack rat. Irl, my room is full with my stuff spilling over in other spaces... in game, I always run out of bank space. Wth. Goal for this week though, to settle @ least the bookshelf & wardrobe. With those 2 outta the way... I can start deciding which cabinet to keep and which to dump... then it'll be the ultimate headache. Where the hell am I gonna keep that many stuffed toys? Wah piang... it actually took up 3 huge bags (while my clothes only took up 1). Dun tell me gotta end up putting all of them onto my bed & I sleep in the hall again? X-(
So many things that require my attention. Still gotta make my way down to a HDB branch office to cancel my season parking for Bt. Panjang & get Harusame's pillion seat fixed. Think I'll do that this Sat if I ain't too lazy. Hmmm and last Fri, I just registered for my JLPT2. Woohoo, sheer suicide dude!! And sensei had to make this comment on Sun that got me totally demoralised - that it'z a huge level gap between JLPT3 & JLPT2. To think I barely made it thru' JLPT3... and tat was what, in 2004? Loads to catch up but I doubt I'll ever get ample motivation. The only thing I'm thankful of is that I managed to persuade someone else to sign up for JLPT as well. Shame that he's doing 4 though - which means I gotta figure out my stuff all by myself. Maybe I'll go get a guide book frm Kino... but ex siah. Anyway, the good thing is, he has agreed to study together... so I guess I'll be meeting him on a weekly basis - either a weekday or after class... and outside, I actually do get some studying done w/o the distractions I have @ home. Plus he's pretty fun to hang out with too >=)
The ultimate "tiring" thing that happened this weekend? My bro created a character on WoW using a trial account... and chances are, he's gonna activate it /swt. A female night-elf druid. (damnit, I was hoping that he'll create a priest) At this rate things are going, I foresee I'm gonna get even lesser sleep this week. Think itz just sooner or later that I'll experience k.o. siahx. I just hope that when I do, I'll have at least my room back to normal.
*stretches* Anyway I'd better put more effort into work... before the boss decides that I'm expendable! Am actually supposed to be working on something rite now, but I just couldn't concentrate. Damnit. I gotta do it by lunch. Bleah.
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