My lucky stars haven't exactly been shining on me this past week, but I guess I should appreciate the haves and not whine about the have-nots.

Hopefully next week will be a smoother one, and the mistakes I made from the previous week won't carry over to the next.

What is done is done, whatever I can do to salvage them, I'll try, but I rest contented that I've tried my best.

It's hard to be perfect.





Tweaked the font on this blog a little. I've come to realise how important colour and fonts are to the overall presentation and look to a website. I'm pretty happy with the current look now, except I wish I could use Lucida Sans Unicode for the post body instead (it messes up with the link underlines on Firefox though).





I've been listening to my mp3s for hours on end at work, that I've fallen back to a bigger playlist so that I don't hear the same songs over and over again. I feel that sense of nostalgia whenever songs that are nearly a decade old start playing. To think that when I first started my iTunes library they were still new, current songs. Comparing then and now, I can sense how music has changed since... be it for the better or the worse.


For now, I'm hooked on this.





I thought this video cover was pretty lame at first, but it actually carries a much deeper meaning.

I'm spending A LOT of unnecessary money. I should stop this obsession.

Work has been pretty daunting. But the incentives keep me going... Well, haven't got to know anyone yet, though somehow I have seen many familiar faces around the area!

Today's a leap day, and this is the obligatory post.

After so long, I can finally tag something under 'work' again :)

This seemed like yesterday. On the Penguin ferry, to a remote offshore island for a few months; then, being thrown to another remote area in Singapore which I never knew existed; until finally, returning to some place that seems more familiar.

It's over. It's like waking up from an incepted dream, being stuck in limbo for the past 22 months.

Reality hasn't really sunk in yet. I'm not really elated. Rather, it's just a sense of surrealism. But, I'm finally free (for a while at least). It's great that I don't need to answer to anyone for now. I wouldn't trade anything material for that.

Sometimes, I wonder if this is just all a dream. What if tomorrow morning, I wake up only to discover it's 26th April, 2010? I won't want to go through everything again.

Then again, on hindsight, the past 22 months have been really enriching and memorable. Maybe I'm looking through them with nostalgia-tinted glasses, and I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but NS was a great experience. Not necessarily pleasant, however I realise I now understand myself much better, and have grown tougher as a person. My perspectives have changed, now that I am exposed to people from all walks of life and forced to work with them.





And next week, I'll start work in the civilian world. I suspect the reason why I don't really feel anything is because I'm starting work too soon, but in life, not everything goes according to plan. It's better that I secure a job early than to spend weeks and weeks worrying about not being able to land one. Compromise.

I hope I'll enjoy it though. Hopefully I'm more apt to socialise now.





While juggling work, I have my own fitness to work on. My target is to be much fitter by the time I enter university. Tennis wise, it's time to up the tempo too. I just hope I can find time to do so...