Merry X'mas Y'all!

Merry Christmas everyone!!! Hope you had an enjoyable christmas 2005! The year's coming to an end so better start thinking of your resolutions!

Spent the weekend on a local getaway with the girlfriend. Got us both a 3 days 2 nights stay at the Plaza Park Royal(heng got staff discount so quite ok). Really fun and it almost feels like you're overseas anyways. Sorry if I wasn't free for the rest of you over the weekend. Hehe.

So the new year's coming.

What are YOUR resolutions for 2006?

iNano-ed

So small! 

Words can't describe my latest baby.

Its so small, so cute, so handy...wah lao...

Bought it for half normal price(should've ordered a couple more sets) and its been well worth it so far. Okie so the manual and instructions are all in Japanese but what the hey its not too hard to fiddle around with.

Christmas pressie for myself. How apt...

*gush*

Serendipity

I think I used this title for a blog entry once. I suppose its appropriate for this current entry too.

Without it I wouldn't imagine any other way that I could possibly catch up with my good friends from way back when.

Without it I wouldn't feel the impetus to blog immediately upon arrival home.

I am blessed.

So there I was after my tiring(and somewhat fruitless, but warranting another story) roadshow, had met up with June for a brief chat and get the Border's postcard from her, I was hungry and alone.

Was walking around deciding what I should eat and really couldn't decide. Then I came across this Jap outlet called Pepper Lunch which looked like the least crowded of all shops in Orchard Road. I figure if an outlet has a name with 'Lunch' in it, no one would have it for dinner.

If anyone's eaten at either the Taka or Shaw outlets, you'd realise that you have to order your food first and then go find your seat. So I ordered my pepper beef rice(extremely salty) and headed to my allocated seat, which was a counter seat since I was terrbly alone.

And lo and behold who was there seating beside my allocated seat? It was Steven and Amy! Waaaah. Super surprised. They also just ordered their food and they were seating right beside me! If its not pure coincidence and chance then I know not what to say.

*Nothing to say*

Then we chatted lor. In Amy's words, both Steven and my maturity level suddenly dropped back to 10yr old kids level. We are, afterall, a very potent combination. Steven going to be a pilot(really really!), Amy still teaching.

I learnt from them that the movie Pride and Prejudice is good, and Aeon Flux is fuck shite. Then again they thought Chicken Little was good. Brrrr....

I also learnt that when you want your friends to stop teasing you just start selling them investments or insurance. Insurance especially works wonders.

I also learnt that friends who have seen you gamble in Genting will never, ever, buy investments from you.

I also learnt that everyone has barely any time to catch up with one another anymore. Work is ever consuming. So both of them are damn lucky they are so free for each other now. Eh?

It's wonderful to have such moments when you least expect it. Chancing upon a couple of good friends and catching up with the old days albeit over oily food and drinks.

We are a lucky bunch blessed with the grace of serendipity.

November, O'Yeah?

I gotta say November's been a good month. Worked hell hard and its should be worth it. Hopefully December will be just as good if not better. Though judging from the last coupla days I'll be lucky if I just scrape past my threshold.

Haven't been doing much other than work lately.

The weekend was great. Worked the usually halfday banking hours and then whisked off to VJC for basketball. After almost a three month layoff from the regular game I still can mix it up with the best. Not bad for an old bag like myself. But was too tired to do anything else thereafter. Thankfully the girlfriend bothered to come over to enjoy a good french movie(The Chorus).

Sunday was another nuah day(my offdays are more often than not nuah), spent the afternoon crooning at K-box(bloody cheap K-lunch package), then shopped around till late. At night was another movie night at home, this time a rerun of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Brilliant show. I won't need any of those treatment what with my lousy memory hehe.

*sneezed*

Am sick. The flu. Getting better already though.

Spend alot of time in office these days. I wonder if my life is gonna be like that from now on? Where will I be a year on? What will I be doing? The same thing? Hmm...I really wonder.

I still have dreams of earning my first million before I'm thirty. How? I dunno but I only have four more years to go and I'm not even 10% on my way there. Even with my super high-risk mega portfolio of investments I'm really not flying towards the million-dollar mark as yet.

*sigh*

So anyway selling investments and insurance is fun and fulfilling. Its all that I've ever envisioned myself doing, and more! Housing loans and servicing though, on the other hand, are a total bitch. Very extra work and very tediously unrewarding.

Life is dandy. And good. Now if only I strike Toto...