Monday, 23rd May, 3:50pm

just got home from soccer with the cat high guys this morning. once again the weekend draws to a close. and what a long weekend it is. time to take a break from the seemingly endless mundane office work that completely occupies the weekdays. although i like what i am doing now, in mindef, part of me cant seem to break away from the counting down syndrome. 2 weeks down. 12 more weeks to go before i am done with work, and fly back to ann arbor. isn't it ironical that i want my vacation attachment to end, but i dun want to go back to AA just yet? sigh... one of life's numerous paradoxes...

sunburnt!!! 3 consecutive days of basking in the glorious sun... with no rain at all! that's the summer i'm talking about... rain just brings so much gloom that it's hard to be optimistic about anything.

now ladies ladies... pls come forth and educate this dumb ignorant fool. forgive me when i am wrong, but when u look at us and smile, isn't that a "passport" for us guys to come talk to you? haaa i guess singaporean girls are indeed strange... ok maybe exotic would be a better word. but after all the eye contact and what-nots, the things you do to put us off/push us away is funny and indeed food for thought. case in point:

guy dancing without a care. girl and friend (partner?) brush their way through the crowd and plonk themselves beside guy. constantly bumps into guy. looks and smiles at guy. guy says hi. girl pulls out a tissue paper from her purse and dabbles herself furiously. guy, amused, takes it as a sign of non-ccompliance and leaves.

ok, if u thought the guy is case is me, well you're wrong. it happened to my pal tommy recently. we had a good laugh about it. tissue paper??? maybe she was afraid that her sweat would ruin her makeup. but what a way to blow a guy off (by blowing her nose??). i mean, if u don't want to talk to the guy, just say u're not interested. we're not obnoxious enough to labour the point. ladies don't understand the huge amount of courage we need to muster to walk across the bar to make conversation. haa so don't make it more painful than it already is!

had an awesome dinner with some of the s14 fellows. no matter how long is has been since we last met, there's always something to talk about, some joke to laugh at (usually at my expense of course), some fond memory to recall. but the 4 yrs' seem too short and burstling with new experiences to be fully appreciated. maybe its only because i feel old. but everyone is embarking on different adventures now. wilson is starting sch in nus this august. zhuyi is still struggling to make the grade against the chinese scholars in ntu. yaojin is with me in umich. kok seng is exploring his sexuality (by attending a "male bonding session" with 3 other guys... hah). huiying is going to japan to try become a commerical artist. jiayi is a few months into her marketing job. leoyun has unexplanable relations with her boss at work. ade is still doing her phd. emily is in full-time prayer now. i wonder how what we'll become when we're 30.

shall stop here. gotta go catch some ZZzzzss....