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Thursday, January 05, 2006
Okay. I'm like some kind of nomad or something. Or at least I feel like one, jumping from one cybercafe to another. Sigh. I hope to get my modem back soon...
Anyway, just wanted to note some strange sightings or things that happened in the past few days that I just can't keep my mouth shut about. Here's one - I thought parents would be more responsible with their kids when driving the car. It was raining, or rather, drizzling when I saw two kids, probably no older than six, one obviously younger than the other, stick their heads through the open window, to spit out sweets. It's probably a thrill to see the sweets smash into smithereens as it hits the ground while the car is moving, but it frightened me to see that one of the kids had half the body out through the window! Not only that, it amazed me when the kid spit out not one, not two, but six to seven pieces of sweets!
Another would be at the post office. Why on Earth do you make a few service counters? Duh. So that service would be faster, and more efficient. People don't have to wait in long queues, let alone all the way up to the outside of the building! Well, what is the point of having those service counters when you only open one? ONE? I wanted to buy stamps, to post a few letters and Chinese New Year cards. For that, I had to queue with those who wanted to settle their bills, those who wanted to bank in their money, and all-sorts for ONE WHOLE HOUR. Just to purchase four stamps?
Thirdly, traffic never fails to irritate me. Yeah, since I do have free time my parents left me responsible for picking up my two sisters from school. I do not understand why drivers like to double park and wait for their kids surrounding (not to mention blocking) the main gate to the school. The traffic light before the school then becomes almost useless as less than ten cars could cross in one turn, because no one can move any further! And when I do get past the gate, there's barely any traffic in the school car park area. Exactly. WHAT THE HELL?
Lastly, there were two incidents that happened while I was away on vacation, both involving sudden death, roughly at the same location. One was a person just literally dropped dead at the lobby of a certain club house, and not too long after that, another person had a heart attack while working out in the gym of the same club house. With these events, I'm not sure about going out to the gym. In fact, I'm not sure about exercising now!
Anyway, enough with that. It's not cool! A few days back in this town and I'm already bored. I met up with Wade at Seattle Coffee and Tea yesterday, and since I haven't had a slice of wonderful chocolate cake and aromatic coffee from them in such a long while, it made me recall many things that I had been through in the past few months. No doubt it was painful, and a few times during the day after that, I felt like bursting into tears. Thanks to Wade for letting me take some out on him. :) With him around, it reminded me that I have made plenty of good friends over the past year, and without them I would never be the person I am today. I managed to hold back my tears because if they did flow, it was not worth it. There are other things in life that are worth the tears - war, famine, plague... and for the person who had me decieved and believing in empty promises, I know better. I know there are greater things waiting to happen for me out there, and I know one day, that person is going to look back and regret pretending and hiding behind a mask which was the only reason why people couldn't hate him. Well, tough luck dude. You're just not good enough for me now!
There, that made me feel a lot better. :) Eep, come to think about it, it sounds a bit... harsh. Ah well. I did type it out after all.
Ah. So in comes the new year, I should run a list of the new year's resolutions! Fresh new start, bigger pictures in life, maybe? Ah well. Better late than never, eh?
1. Learn to speak Mandarin. Hey, professional communication, is it not? :) I want to do my best!
2. Tone down on being such a shopaholic/having the eye for the expensive.
3. Slow down on caffeine and sweet stuff(wrinkles and eyebags are getting pretty ugly).
4. To be strong, witty and let no boy control my life!
XP Yeah, short list, but will do.
Just before I go, I want to leave a note of thanks to my family and friends out there. THANK YOU, I love you all!
3:24 PM Azzie's got style
