*buying a new phone is almost like starting a new relationship

i've got so used to the way bala converses in the past 2 years that its become pretty much intuitive. with the jet, i literally have to look at the phone when i'm typing out my msgs.

brought the jet home yesterday after the pretty good reviews and the lack of good looking sony ericsson competitors and today was the first date. the jet looks good and typing touchscreen is fun but i'm not sure. i think i'm more comfortable with my bala. my bala churns out good pictures even without iso800.

but still the jet connects to wlan in an idiot-proof manner and i'm kinda happy with that. never managed to figure out the IE settings in bala.

nowww. to find a name for my look-cool new partner.

021209*something tells me that i have become very attached

:) weij is away in cambodia on a business trip and i find myself spending evenings with the parents or walking through toa payoh alone and eating dinner in dingy dark foodcourts under the interchange.

its a little funny that i didnt find anyone to hang out with. but on hindsight, its not very surprising either. i'm not a social person by nature. :) i enjoy the time to talk to the parents and to do the stuff i wanted to do.

but still, roaming shopping centres alone and occasionally feeling alone, the amt of time i usually spend with weij really hits home.

and its kinda cool that despite that.. it still never seems enough.

:)

131109*i would like to confess

i've been lusting after bags online.

:) heh. just realised the beauty of kate spade bags after dee showed me her full leather blue kate spade bag.

so, prowling the kate spade website does have its benefits! i just bought a bennington lori at USD 139 at their online sample sale!!! haha. and its all thanks to my cousin minghui who lives in NY. Ah, she was really lovely. helping me to buy and bring back. and thanks to aunt christine for volunteering to go see if one of the dept stores is selling it for cheaper. :)

much love i dont deserve. but my mum does. :) the other bag is for her. hee.

i dont think i'll ever be as great people as my parents are.

091109*its oddly liberating to walk around toa payoh in fbt shorts on a monday night. :)

almost as though i'm a student again.

hehs.

work is picking up pace which is fun but vaguely messy as well. running around like a chicken with too many heads. FUN!

:D

i miss the hecticness of huangcheng & organizing events. hee.

031109*its been a pretty long while

and its only when you meet with old friends that you realise how each of us have grown in a short 4 months. and that you're thankful that your paths crossed, even if each of our paths are intended for different directions.

thanks for the little bit of me that you contributed to. :)

031009*

weij once said that my blog reads like a stream of consciousness. i guess the stream is getting a little blocked with so many distributaries running into it at the same time.

work is a little draining, not particularly exciting but it brings a sense of order. as though your life is normal because of work. which is ok. and that's the trouble, its ok. its not fantabulous, it doesnt make me especially happy to start a new day.

so what do i need to put a smile on my face when i wake up in the morning, for that spring in my feet as i walk pass centerpoint into the hotel?

i think of ntu and i remember that feeling of home. of feeling very comfortable in the freezing gray hallways.

and i remember the funny lunches i had with my 2 cups of tea at northern trust. how we met each other every morning at the mrt and walked over to onegeorgestreet.

now. to find that spark again.

060909*besides the fact that blogger isnt working that well

there's a little preference for solitude during my free time. i think i appreciate the quietness of the home when no one is around. perhaps thats why i love thunderstorms. the world seems to go into a standstill when the rain pelts down and lightning flashes across the sky.

of course the brother always manages to break whatever quietness there is in my home. there he is now sitting on the sofa listening to some rapper stuff that is not particularly nice but always very loud.

but i guess thats how life balances out. you get a quiet one and you get another that's noisy and speaks to you as though you're 2km away when you are just next to him.

on a sidenote! i found gorgeous nectarines at ntuc! 4.90 for 6 or 7 of them. (so aunty i know)

as for work. thanks for helping me realise how much i've lost my focus in the midst of rotating around the hotel. :)

i miss the people i can have quiet breakfasts/lunches/dinners with.

for now, i think the joyous spirit in me is a little over-taxed at work. hence all you get is the auntish quiet soul.