the unsound rambling <i>fines</i> of the sane & the profound rumbling <i>whines</i> of the inane
I think I’ve never ever mentioned how much I love Glee! the US TV series! I love musicals!
Using the photo below as my wallpaper. Was using the Glee! poster previously but this looks so much better!
I LOVE GLEE! Can’t wait for the season to continue in Apr! 
Up since two-thirty.
Unable to fall asleep.
Unfathomable.
I haven’t written anything for a while and it’s 2010. I’ve no idea why I’m still holding on to this domain, considering I haven’t been blogging much since 2004. 6 years!!
I did a major spring-cleaning of my room today. Something that I haven’t done for at least the past 3 to 5 years. 80% done and leaving the rest for another day. Before the CNY. It isn’t meant to signify having a clean slate for the ‘new year’. Just a deadline for myself so that I would get round to it.
And lucky I did today. I found a ToTo slip from 2005 (5 freakin’ years ago!) and I decided to buy the numbers on it. Won 60 bucks. It pays to clean! Or, does it actually pay NOT to clean for 5 years? Hmm. Food for thought.
So, I found this Doraemon clock collecting dust in a corner of my shelf. Gave it a good wipe and popped in new batteries. It works, except for the alarm. It’s fine though. I’ve been surviving fine using my phone alarm the last few years.
Anyhow, I’m giving this clock a special mention because I remember vividly how I got this clock. It was in the year 2000. 10 years ago. I just started my short-stint in JC (dropped out without completing year one) and my Mum was admitted into the hospital for an op. I was afraid no one’s gonna wake me up for school, so I bought it. I can’t remember how much it cost though. Should be less than $20 since I didn’t have much pocket money then.
I also found the receipt for my first iPod. It was a 30GB iPod Photo – the first iPod with a colour screen. It was a short-lived model because very soon after, every iPod came with a colour screen.
I’m still using this iPod. It was partly sponsored by Cara as my birthday gift in 2005. 5 years ago. I don’t know if iPods generally lasts this long. I’m thankful that mine did and hope it’ll continue to.
They just released news of the Apple iPad today. For once, I can’t think of any reason to want one, when my iPhone has sufficient capabilities and functionality for me. As it is, I can read and surf on it, and I prefer my movies in HD on big screens. So I can’t really think of a reason to lug one around. Maybe only when I’m travelling I guess, but as it is, I have an underused MacBook.
Oh, and that was bought in 2007, 3 years ago, when I decided embark on a part-time undergraduate programme. I dropped out half a year later.
I just changed my job 6 months ago. I don’t know how I survived these 6 months. Not getting enough job satisfaction. But i’m holding on though. I believe there’s much more I can learn. Even if there isn’t, the length of time I’m here will look better on my résumé.
And this is my first blog entry of the year. I don’t know how many there will be later, so enjoy while it lasts, whoever is still visiting this abandoned site. Do drop a note if you are. I’d love to hear from you. May even motivate me to blog a little more.
Happy new year!
Heard so much about FML (which stands for ‘F**k My Life’) that one of the first few apps I installed when I got my iPhone was this. Some of them are pretty funny and really FML, and since I hardly blog these days, I may as well post some here once in a while. I LOLed at the one below.
Today, my mother and father are insisting that I go on a date with a German exchange student they met on the weekend. Why? Because we have similar glasses. FML
Wow!!! I can blog using the Wordpress app even though I’m hosting my own Wordpress! How cool is that?? With this maybe I can blog a little more often!
IN TOTAL LOVE WITH MY iPHONE!!!
Gonna love Wordpress for its one-click automatic upgrade to the latest version (though I can’t see any obvious differences). If only they make the downloading of themes easier.
Anyhow, I made myself see the big picture since my last post but it seems kinda blurry now. I’ve left my job of two and three-quarter years (excluding National Service at that place) and joining a new one next Monday. Gave myself a break for a week and a half (I LOVE VERONICA MARS!) and it’s onward to jittery learning curve.
Big step.
I should be proud of myself for landing 3 offers, but somehow I wonder if my capabilities are overrated. Ah, the usual self-doubt of self-worth, but really, what do they see in me?
A career switch definitely wasn’t on my list of New Year resolutions. I must remind myself not to make any more resolutions. I hardly fulfilled any of them over the last half of the year, other than the enjoying parts.
I am glad that the switch happened anyway. I’m turning 26 and I don’t know enough about the trade. It’s time to explore and decide where I should go and what I want to do in life. I don’t have my life planned out for me, so I’ve got some exploring to do. I know I should go on and get a degree, but, well, I don’t think I want it on my plate right now.
I am hoping that I’m not going to disappoint at my new workplace. I put down reputable names as my referees, so reputations other than mine are at stake. I better work hard.
Good luck to me.
Just as the stars seem so aligned and life is moving the way I want it to be (albeit a little slowly, grrrrr), there just had to be a red herring to complicate matters a bit.
I will focus on the big picture. I will. I will. Big picture. Big picture.
I don’t know why I bother renewing my domain for yet another year. It’s not like I blog any more than I used to for the past, hmm, 5 years? Who even comes here anymore?
I’m expecting some significant changes in my life around July / August this year. I have made and am trying to execute some plans to make life a little better. It hasn’t been a very good year I must say, other than the month I was away overseas, of course. Anyhow, now is a good time for a change. The stars seem aligned.
Will update again. If you’re here, do let me know.
I’m officially moving Les Misérables up to the 4th place with Chicago. I seem to remember more than what I thought I remembered about the musical, after listening to Susan Boyle, the latest sensation on the internet for her performance of “I Dreamed A Dream” from Les Misérables on “Britain’s Got Talent”. It’s like everything that I saw came flowing back and seem very enjoyable on hindsight. I wonder why that is. Very weird.
Frankly, I miss the time I spent in London watching musicals a terrible lot. I want to go back there. I can’t imagine taking another 13-hour flight, but I really want to go back there. Sighh. Good times.
The dreams I had when I was young; they do come true, in all ways you can imagine, or not imagine actually. Everything just seems so surreal now, if not for some annoying upsets some idiot is causing.
It’s ok. It’s alright. I shall be zen about it. I shall be “ML” about it. She’s great inspiration, this (soon-to-be-ex-) colleague of mine. Gonna miss her.
May some good things happen soon.
