The Wannabe Economist

Alrighty… going to bed now. A bit hungry… after working on CAT assignment.

I might still be sound asleep now, if Mrs Chongky didn’t do all sorts of funny things to wake me up from my nap.

I was agitated at being interrupted and wasn’t at my best mood… and i regretted that right after i woke up completely one hour later. By then Mrs Chongky is already asleep.

These two days of course and one entire week of studying is not joke.. fatigue has finally caught up with us.

I guess i need to get more rest… though looking at the time now it’s not that much anyway.

Long day ahead tomorrow. Course; dance; assignment; revision for quiz.

Ok i have a new pet. You can look for him on the top right corner of this blog space. His name is well, Zhng Neh Neh. Haha…

Do play with him keep him entertained. Lucky he doesn’t shit or create a mess, which save a lot of trouble for myself.

And best of all, i’m not worried that my pet will bite off my small toe.

Muahaha…

Update: Decided that i don’t want a pet anymore. I don’t like an electronic one. And it’s damn girly.

Just came back from salsa @ HRC. Reserving the comments to myself. =)

It was pretty crowded, and everyone was sure damn surprised to see me at all. Hee. If not for the cancelled canoe polo training i don’t think i will even have the time to go salsa at all. And i almost had my run, if not for my don’t-know-for-what-reason bloated stomach that made me so uncomfortable when i run.

Pissed off.

I want to run!!

And i still don’t have anyone for my publicity shoot for canoe polo. How ah? Don’t tell me it’s gonna be Chongky the photographer shoots Chongky the model. Haha…

Headache.

I watched Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift across the causeway in June. Don’t get the wrong idea. I watched it in the large cinema in Time Sq. Now it’s July and the movie will only be out in Singapore in August. How ridiculous is this? The time lag is easily 2 months.

Go watch it when it’s out. Totally worth the money, only if the sound system here is as good as the one in KL. I paid half the price of movie in Singapore on the same weekend and the consumer surplus is simply overwhelming.

Last Sunday i watched Rent on vcd (original kind). Rent was (no idea whether it still is) a Boardway musical, and musical movie is never my kind of thing. I can fall asleep watching Moulin Rouge on vcd. I can fall asleep on Rent on vcd too.

I didn’t fall asleep during Rent.

The opening act was enough to keep my attention on the show.

Same song by the same movie cast, but live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSnP3WrpVNs

I think it’s the “Season of Love” that caught my attention, but later on the other songs, the characters, the dancing, the performances all got to me and got me deeply attracted to the show.

It was good. An unique movie. About love, AIDS, poor artists. Nothing how deep the characters are in the shit, none give up hope and give up living to the fullest. The acting was superb. I was convinced the movie was reality before sleeping bug invaded towards the end of movie (it was a long day).

I’m not going to continue about the movie, for i might just outline the whole story next.

One amazing thing is how the majority of the original cast is retained for the movie, considering that the Boardway version premiered in 1996.

Try looking out for some of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1WW7BEZHHE

Haven’t been blogging all these while because being in the office simply drains my creative juice (if there’s any to begin with) away and i don’t know what to write at all. Ironically, i only use laptop in the office (ain’t laptops supposed to be portable) so if i can’t think of anything to write i won’t have time to write them after work.

Over these few months i have started trusting friends and all. The other day a thought that i have harboured slipped my mouth in front of a friend and many other who were around. That very night i received a phonecall from someone unexpected. Needless to say, and even though it wasn’t clearly stated, the intention of that call was to clear the air and make sure i shut my trap and drop that unholy idea.

Frankly, i’m sick and tired of the way things are run in the school. Why did i want to start the canoe polo team? When obviously the practical question of sustainability hovers in the air around the businessmen who run the show. As the student population gets larger there will eventually be a stronger demand for everything that is part of student’s life. Yes i failed to recruit and retain enough people for the last round of recruitment. Considering the high cost and commitments since the very beginning of the term, i still think the effort was pretty good. At least people do come and give it a try. *consoling myself*

Another issue that has been on my mind since i last talked to JB is the politics within KT. He was amazed that no one talked to me about long expeditions when i am the most experienced person around and easily the best internal person to advise on the trip.

Everyone’s hands are tied. Mine included. I wish i could do more to help, but i don’t have that ounce of energy, while the others are not taking initiatives.

Just got off the phone with a new staff at the company. Don’t think she knows or respect me as a coach. I’m a frigging coach and i deserve just that sort of respect you would give to other staff in the company.

Kinda miss the days when JB is around. Actually Jeremy and Andy ain’t too bad too.

Latest update from internet.

Portugal is going to semi finals. England is going home. So no more low class soccer hooligans.

Woo hoo.

I feel so glad. I was thinking of placing bet on Argentine coming into first and second, and Germany ending their world cup stinct in quarter finals. England shall play its second last world cup 2006 match in semi final.

Lucky i didn’t bet. If not i would have lost badly.

It’s a good thing in fact, that i have never allowed myself to place any bet, no matter how much i have thought though about my chances and decided that i have pretty good chance.

Like everyone says, “the ball is round”.

And like Shamsul who didn’t make it to officate in the quarter finals and later matches, life is never fair. Who pities when you lose money?

I have a good reason for staying up so late.

I was packing my room! I threw lotsa not-so-important things away. And while i was packing my room, i made a few discoveries.

#1. I kept letters from the angel-mortal game from JC days.

Yes surprisingly i kept all of them. It’s so weird reading them again. These people could just be strangers to me. We don’t even talk / exchange email / sms anymore. Then again i haven’t been keeping in touch with a lot of people these days. People have changed so much over the years. Mortal Han is now a chongster and very different from her days in JC OAC. Angel Winnie is more outgoing, great different from her introvert nature when i met her during orientation. Apparently she just came back from exchange in the states. How cool. And this mortal Liling from LEP, don’t know how is she now. Another “let-down” like me who never continue our intense interest in chinese language that motivated us to go for LEP in the first place.

#2. I kept this letter from Lian for my 21st birthday.

Yes Lian is such an ass that she gave me letter on plain white paper instead of proper birthday card. But then being a lousy friend i would just save the letter too. =P

Lian - i keep cards. Not letters.

But thanks for being such a great pal though i have never been one.

It’s sad how i have drifted apart from all the dance people. Lian is my closest friend on the team and we only talk when we see each other for work. Needless to say i hardly talk to the rest. And now Alice and Wayne have left the team, probably for good. One less people that i can talk to. Lucky Gerry is still around. It’s hard to develop that friendship with the rest who are attached within the team.

#3. Air rifle should be a thing of the past.

Yes it should be. I shouldn’t had took part in the last competition. Disgrace.

No point consoling me. I was way better than this. I can keep on shooting the whole afternoon and never miss the black target. But now…. zero one two three are almost my best friends. I see them nearly half the time.

I used to enjoy shooting. I dread it now. Could it be the disappointment in NS? That i could never pick up the real gun and get my marksmanship which forced me to push the very idea of shooting again to the backroom of my head.

#4. I had never been a good friend to anyone.

I am rather selfish. When things caught up with me, friends are the first to take a backseat, before resting and then other things. I no longer write those thoughtful postcards to friends. I no longer drop messages to check on people. I no longer call people out because i simply don’t know what to say when i see them.

It’s not as if i such at communication. I have no problem striking up a conversation with a stranger. I reckon it’s just that i can’t stand that discomfort facing someone whom i knew every well and now i can’t gather recent knowledge about this person from my head.

What an eventful night, although i have been in my room most of the time. Amazing isn’t it.

Shall spend some thoughts on my friends.

I have decided.

I want to be a bouncer.

So everyday i shall go gym in the day and work at night. Soon my neh neh will truely be zhnged and no longer be the rice neh neh anymore. *read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner

Hey don’t laugh alright. I have even thought up of the nickname. (Because according to Vin Diesel whose real name was Mark Sinclair Vincent who was an ex-NYC bouncer, bouncers do not give out their real name).

VON DIESEL!

Cool right? So i’m going to go around checking I.C.s and pushing people out of the club. Should anyone ask me for my name, i shall *clear my throat and gek a deep voice* “Von Diesel”.

So going along this line, i have figured out the best names for my kiddies.

If baby son cries in husky voice - Von Diesel Jr.
If baby son cries in high pitched voice - Von Beckham

If baby girl cries in husky voice - Von Ella
If baby girl cries in high pitched voice - Von Hebe
If baby girl cries in normal voice - Selina

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair some time declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm`d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breath or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

This is one of the most famous of the sonnets written by Shakespear. Beautiful isn’t it? It is refered to in the films “Dead Poets Society” and “Shakespear in Love”.

Too bad the content isn’t something that is socially acceptable. Even in this century.

Over the last short weekends, i went up and came back from KL!

I is damn demoralised now.

Well on the bright side, i’m going back with the missus again this weekend.

Woo hoo!

To a certain someone, life is great with you by my side.