Home alone for 2 weeks

Firstly, quiet. Really quiet. No kids at home, parents also not at home, I'm the only one in the house. It is still ok in the day because my brother's maid will come over for a few hours in the morning to clean the house during weekdays, whether I'm in town or not. But, I don't see her much as well. When she's around, I'm usually asleep. Once she leaves, she'll either call or sms me, and I wake up after that...

The house is clean and neat, only my clothes being washed and put up to dry. the toilets are clean and dry as well, with the pails neatly stacked up and they are DRY too...haha..

I tabao dinner, or cook instant noodles for dinner, and I eat and watch TV at the same time..I make my own comments, talk to myself, sing to myself, laugh to myself (loudly). I helped my Dad to bai4 bai4, pour tea for Toa Pek Gong and other deities, light the joss sticks and pray to the deities as well..praying that my parents and other family members be safe and happy wherever they are, whatever they are doing, and of course for my own safety and happiness as well... :)

I go out and meet my friends, come back super late at night, to the quiet house again...but one good thing, I don't have to worry that my parents will be disturbed when I come home, or worrying about me when I'm out late.. hehe... Totally guilt-free!

But before going for flight is depressing...especially if I don't know anyone within the set of crew...it's just so...ultimately lonely...sometimes even feel sad for no reason...dread to go to work, and yet there's no one to encourage me, or talk to me about other things, there's even no one to send me to work, other than the taxi driver...

But, it's alright! It's a different kind of experience...although I am SOOOOO lucky I don't have to wash my own clothes...I realised...it's not difficult to be independent, or to even survive. But, surviving is one thing, existing is another...without love from your family, you are just like a corpse living in this world, work, eat, sleep, wait to die...
Life can be very simple when you're alone, but you cannot live without love...

Oh and I forgot to mention, I went to my brother's house for dinner once, met my nieces and sis-in-law too...

有家人、朋友的陪伴，人生真的更充满了意义，还有生存的价值。

记得珍惜你身边的亲人。 :D

Random random

Haha...realise the trend, everytime I put "Random" something as title, it means I don't know what to blog about...

In the end it becomes 流水账..just talk about what happened in my life...

Yay I'm on leave now! The only sad thing that it's going to end...but nevermind, it's coming back again in November and December! Woohoo! Slack...wahaha...
But next year, back to full force work liao... :S

It is always good to have holidays...slack, no need to work, just nua big time....but sometimes, cannot nua too much, will feel useless, or feel that time is going away...for nothing...jialat...

BUT, do what?! I don't like to study, so keep going online, sometimes read book...when I'm really bo liao, seriously bo liao, I thought maybe I should dig my past readings/notes out to read, perhaps I will 温故知新，重新了解我以前在读什么书...WAHAHA...that is actually quite scary..last time don't understand, or never study, 毕业了 then study...WAT THE HECK...haha!
Sekali I realised I could have done betta...how?! Aiya, also too bad lor...what can be done??? LOL

I gotta go already, later going for my friend's chalet...meeting my batch mates...yay! Long time no see le... :D

爱情的成熟与不成熟

刚刚听到YES933的周重庆说了一段关于爱情的话。有个名人（不知道是谁，我听到但忘了，应该是某位西方的思想家之类的人物吧）说了这句话：“成熟的爱情是因为爱而需要，不成熟的爱情是因为需要而爱”。

我认为或许也能这么说：“真正的爱情是因为爱而需要，而不是因为需要而爱”。很明显的，一个是爱对方，另一个则是爱自己。

我还在等待一个爱我，而我也爱他的人。爱情应该是双向的，如果不是，那只能说：“对不起，NEXT PLEASE!”

Hmm..the above statement is meant to be funny...with a funny sound saying..N.E.X.T P.L.E.A.S.E lidat...when I read it, hmm, seems a bit "arrogant"...I'm just trying to say...if not meant to be, then one gotta look forward and look for the next Mr/Ms Right...it's just a general statement...haha...

Finally Blogger is back to normal

Hmm Blogger is normal here in Manchester, I wonder if it will be the same back home. Previously I can't upload pics here...weird..

Now since I got the chance, I can post some pics taken in Manchester...last week...haha



A friend told me that this street is the gay street. Many gays will gather together at night for meals, drinks etc. It's called Canal Street, I did not take the pic of the street's name.




Manchester street in the morning...late morning...gloomy sky hor? That's UK..




Chinatown! Forgot to take the 牌坊! (forgot what is it called in English, it's like the gate, the entrance to Chinatown)




Yummy dim sum! And quite cheap! This whole table of food for 6 people, costs us 6 pounds each..cos got half price promotion! :D Not in Chinatown though...it's at Oxford Street...




Uniquely Singapore! Cool hor! We were so excited when we saw it, 2 times in a day! This time I'm lucky enough to take a pic of the taxi during red light...haha..


More pics to come next time, I forgot to bring my cable so I can't upload the pics from the camera into my comp...this time there will be more pics! :D

Manchester

For Ireland trip, I'm a bit too lazy to blog about it because it's a whole 9 days experience! Was thinking of blogging about it day by day....but I guess, haha...Just visit my facebook to see the pics once I upload them lah ok...LOL

My friends took like 1000+ pics, excluding my 200+ or so? LOL... It's gonna take some time...hahaha...

I just came back from Manchester. People who have been there are right, there is really nothing much to see in Manchester. We missed the opportunity to visit Scotland, and due to the fear of being trampled upon at Old Trafford on the day of Man U VS Arsenal match, I had decided to give Old Trafford a miss too. No worries, HOPEFULLY I will go there next week. Ya I got the same flight again, back-to-back flight as we called it. Heng I don't have to work both ways, so, I don't mind going back there, it's a good deal...hee...

Other than shopping and food (we ate Macdonald's and collected the Coca Cola glass! I wanna collect another one on my next trip!), we did nothing else. Haha. A few of them went partying, cos it was Gay Festival during the weekend. But I am not a party person, so I gave it a miss and watched movie in my room.

And thanks to Kester who has wished me good luck a few times because of the weather, we really kena quite a bad rainy day, imagine 10-minute rain, after which the sun came out, shining brightly, and 10 minutes later came a sudden heavy downpour... All of us looked like this: -_-|||

I will post a few photos up soon, something is wrong with my windows, I don't seem to be able to upload pics...

对于工作，我似乎越来越想放弃。可是我又不想作出一个冲动的决定。也许，我需要更多时间去适应，毕竟又是新的环境，可是有时候做回最简单、最基本的事，我还是会...不舒服。换句话说，我对自己没信心。我知道逃避不是办法，而且我也经常想，如果我有这个问题，我到哪儿工作都没差，因为，本来就没有信心。我也不知道我在害怕什么，也许我太在乎别人怎么看我，又或者我对自己的要求太高，也可能我不能承受压力……也许，3个可能性都有……

我干吗要这样啊？难道就不能够开开心心、轻轻松松地工作吗？真是个笨蛋！烦死了！

I still believe in beating kids...

When it's time to discipline the kids, you just have to do it.

小孩子都是不懂事的。不懂事，就要教。好言相劝，不要听，刷性子、搞固执，就要体罚。到现在我是相信这些的，只要恰当，我觉得没有不对。Of course don't go overboard, to the extent where the kids got abused and lived in fear...how to prevent that? For a start, don't do it often I supposed.

I scold my brothers' daughters at times, at most I threaten to beat them if they don't listen, sometimes they are just so stubborn that you either give up, or you lift the cane and whack once, or twice. So far, I've done it twice. Today I hit the youngest one. She's getting stubborn, just like her elder sister. But the elder one is more sensible now, and getting smarter, so when we discipline the young one, she knows how to avoid making the same mistake again. Of course, she has her naughty times too...

The little one was playing with some stickers with her name on it, and the maid was "niam-ing" her, telling her that her mum bought it for her, and she herself wanted it as well, so should not play like that and waste the sticker etc... When I heard it I was a bit pissed already. "真不懂得珍惜！" That's what I thought to myself.

Next, she refused to eat. She has the habit of "siam-ing" and play a fool when the maid was feeding her. We can see when she really has no appetite, her mood would be bad, and she would be begging the maid that she does not want to eat anymore. But this time, she is just playing a fool. The spoon was going towards her and she backed off, all the way till she lie down on the floor. She just lie down and refused to get up. That is when I got real angry with her. We asked her to sit upright and eat her food, she refused to budge. I threatened her that I am going to bring down the cane, she totally ignores me and continue watching the TV...guai lan kid...I took the cane and hit the sofa, she's not afraid. I went in front of her with the cane asking her to sit up again and she still ignored my warning.

忍无可忍。

The cane went down to her butt, and as I hit, I scolded her.

After 3 seconds, she cried. I carried her to sit upright, now she is willing to sit down and eat her food.

When I went back to my room, she came in. Trying to get near me liao... -_-|||

I think I will discipline my kids this way too. If school teachers want to punish them for their mistakes I will say, "Go ahead!", unlike some parents who instead wrote in to complain about the teachers.

Sigh. Kids nowadays.

Long time no see!!

Hey all! Long time no updates!

Haha...not that nothing happened, just that so many things happened that I do not have time to blog...

Super tight schedule, my uncle's passing, meeting up with friends and family etc...lazy to blog etc, watch drama, TV, movies etc...haha..

Actually, there are many times when I have the urge to blog about something, but I'm always outside when I have things to say...perhaps next time I should carry a note book with me, so that I can jot down my thoughts and feelings at that moment, so that I can blog afterwards. Many of those thoughts have been forgotten, so as I am blogging this, I don't know what should I blog about...LOL

After a few months of not-so-good destinations, I am finally going to new places in August...hee...

Not to mention my August holiday to Ireland with Keelee. After that I am also going to Sydney and Manchester! The Manchester one is interesting, I will be going to London first as a normal passenger, then transit in Heathrow to Manchester, via British Airways...a few days later back to Singapore via Manchester...woohoo!

Of course, I will also be trained..to work in a more atas environment...
And I have also enrolled myself in a one-day Elementary Korean course sponsored by the company..haha...it's going to be an eventful, busy and perhaps stressful August..
:S

*cross my fingers*

I just came back from Beijing and realised it is quite a cool place, as in the "city hall" area is actually quite amazing, and I didn't know it is so near to the hotel!


Nice lightings...

href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NCyVceO2Yak/Slg08DAwlLI/AAAAAAAABDc/G_fM6qTiTys/s1600-h/SNC00069.jpg">
This place is very cool...the screen on the rooftop is super huge, and I think they should broadcast some movies there, people can lie down on the floor and watch..LOL!





The famous recycled bag brand Freitag in Switzerland...the bags looked dirty and all, but they are made of 100% recycled materials and can cost SGD$100+ and above ok!
The toiletries bag has the same name as my baby niece! Cheyenne!



I had Spring Chicken pasta at the hotel, and I have the privilege of having a feathered chicken wing...my colleagues all laughed at me...haha...

Anyway, I realised India has very lame/funny slogans on the roads that remind drivers not to use handphones while driving, and to practise safe driving etc...they came out with things like:

"Lane driving is sane driving."
"No mobile while mobile."

Can see that they really love playing with words...there are more...but I forgot to note them down..so I forgot the rest...shall observe more next time..LOL...