Last game of the season

For me, that is.

With the game today, we are going to have a shot to win the league. But since I have to fly off next week, I will miss the finals. From the underdog to being placed at least top two, it has been quite a ride.

Hmm.

I was quite glad that I finally can give the back some rest and get to solve the problem somewhat first. The surgery that a relative had to take after nagging back pain which graduated to a full scale numbness kinda spooked me.

At the same time, I was wondering why the dispassionate feeling. Oh well, it has been at least 14 years of the same league. Will there be a 15th? Donno.

Let me get my back sorted out first.

Where is my CD?!

I suddenly felt like having "Across the Universe" OST on while driving home..when I realised that I couldn't find the album in my Ipod.

Hmm..that's really weird.

And when I came home to check on my Itune, I couldn't find it on my cover flow no matter how many times I scroll to and fro..it was getting too weird when I tried to find the original album in my boxes of CDs. And the CD's gone too!!!!

My favourite OST is missing!!!

ROOOAAARRRR!!!!

*&%*$%

Did I lend it to someone?

Don't think anybody has weird taste like me

Did I delete it?

Why would I do that?!

Ok..did I delete it by mistake??

............

but why would I do that?!?!

I guess I got to go buy another one again. I hope HMV carries it still!

Or maybe..it gives me a reason to buy the deluxe version. Woohoo!~

感情 感观

Oooo..I love it when dinner is a cosy affair, talking to a friend over things that matter and things that doesn't, simple but flavourful fares, and over glasses of wine.

Darn I was driving so I only had one. (Okok, not if I could down more even if I didn't drive.)

As our conversation flowed, I wonder why our world had become so different from our parents. 长相厮守变成例外，感情世界变得复杂到让人怯畏。

I always remember there was a time when a friend told me, in his kind little way, to drop the idea that marriage is ever lasting. The sooner I realise that, he told me, it would be less painful when shit hits the fan.

But I always held this little ounce of hope that it need not be that way.

预祝友人感事世界顺利 , 找到一个能依靠的人 :))

The Rob Crowe Situation

One moment I was in dire state for want of something to read.

The next moment I have 6 books and 1 half inch stack of documents to bulldoze through by next Monday.

But one thing cool that came with one of the books that I mooched from bookmooch.com (coolest thing ever for book junkies) was a CD. When I opened the package ("This guy's really generous - UPS express??") the CD dropped out with a cool caricatured namecard taped across. When I opened the sleeve, I found this non-descript looking CD.

Hmm...to be on the safe side I went to google on "Rob Crowe Situation" before I pop the CD into the laptop just in case the CD crashes laptop with some virus (you can't be too sure! My mother taught me never to just take things from strangers :p) and found them on myspace. Ok, so it is a genuine band who are selling their songs on ITunes as well. And I am getting a free CD with 20 tracks :D Though it's something that was different from what I usually listen to, but they remind me of Everything But The Girl..something good for some laid back moments and not too jarring.

Only thing is..the tracks doesn't come with any track names. So even if I tell you that this is this really nice track 10, I don't really think think I can feature it somehow, though Rob Crowe Situation is on myspace and ITune too (when are they ever going to have ITunes in SG??)

Popped the CD into the laptop and dropped an acknowledgement receipt of the book on bookmooch to the moochee, and of course thanked him for the CD :))

I wonder if I should go see the band perform when I go to NYC...

Tired Tired..

I hate to whine, but I am really super tired now. Two back to back games are really no joke. Have been stretching almost everyday for the past week to make sure that the back don't act up. Thankfully it hasn't. But still, when you are unfit you are only good for one tackle.

I donno which hurts more - the legs (which totally felt like mine with the scale of pain they are sending through my neuro system) or the ego.

So glad that I took one day off tomorrow. But looking at my schedule, I am kicking myself for planning to run so many errands on my leave.

張懸 - 喜歡

no prize for guessing who's CD I am keeping on the repeat mode nowadays.

戏子

台上 傀儡

欲望 心计

投影在

每一举手 一投足

台下观众

拍掌 欢呼

只为了

让这出戏 更精彩

曲终人散

冷清 孤寂

谁在乎

鬼魅正义 的结局

毕竟

只是 旅途的

另一出戏

老歌 新唱

谁知道 原来女生唱这首歌，也有一番味道。

Sex and the City 2

Granted, it had been many years ago when the show first started. I only caught the whole series when my BFF got her hands on a box on the 6 seasons after a work trip in China (Authenticity? let's not go there. It's China)

I remember doing the marathon series of watching the whole box of DVDs back to back. And I regretted not ripping them out to watch them again. Also, other than the truly austere, I have never met any girl who do not love the series- with all the girly insecurities about situations, wardrobes (shoes!!!dresses!!!men!!!!) (ok the last one probably didn't fall under the same category as wardrobe).

Then SATC the Movie came. And I was anticipating if Carrie would eventually marry. And when she did, I was wondering what SATC 2 would have in store - what would be more dramatic than a marriage?? Carrie having a kid?

In the end SATC 2 felt more like probably another 4 episodes of SATC. Nothing too dramatic, and felt like it had provided an ending to the 6 seasons of SATC plus SATC the Movie 1 - everybody happily leading the lives they want.

Of course the 4 looked more aged since the series. I looked at Carrie's biceps and see Madonna's age-defying ones. Charlotte's face looked sunken, no longer the cherubic sweetness. Miranda eyes looked so weirdly heavy, and I wonder if Samantha was starting to look more matronly. For a while, I had the flash guilt pang thinking that perhaps they should have stopped at SATC 1 (what's with all the heavy eye makeups? However wears them at home like that??) while they still looked decently middle-aged rather than grasping at straws. But then..Gosh! I am falling for the Sweet-Young-Things-Hollywood trap (shame on me).

That got me thinking about the story of these 4 women through all these years. I guess everybody kinda of want to be Carrie - the interesting and glamourous one (I would kill to have her gold high heels) (ok maybe not. Her walk in wardrobe would probably be more worth the crime), but looking back, the one that I really like was Miranda, with her sense of practicality, independence, quirky humour and strength being a single mum (for a good part of the seasons), and yet suffers the same fate in relationships (should I? should I not?) It's a pity that SATC made her looked like some goofy brainiac. Urgh.

Anyway it was a feel-good chick flick. Female issues are somewhat quite universal - like when Mr. Big asked for 2 days breakaway every week, I think all the females in the theater were going.."uh oh.." (damn you female insecurities!) And it kinda felt good that the whole theatre of women were laughing unabashly at breast/gay/guy jokes.

Ah...maybe I should go watch the 6 seasons all over again (where they can still decently show their faces without the heavy makeups..)

Ironic

I never thought I am one to get hooked.

Rueing about the bad navigation pad to move my character and I kept crashing my car..Now I must try to dissuade myself from downloading the full version.

Making sense of Insurance policies

I have been procrastinating. Maybe subconsciously I know that realisation would be painful.

Damn I have been right. The insurance policies which I have been paying regularly since 8 years ago are worth less than 40% of the total amount I have paid up over all these years.

Ouch. I could have been been better of putting the money in a bank. I mean, what happened?!

Ok, I guess I haven't been reading the letters the companies sent, informing about fund name changes and stuff. I also still couldn't pull myself to read through all the annual report updates as well.

My bad.

But I also blame the fact that after I bought the policies, I have not heard from the insurance agent like maybe for the last 6 year after my account changed hands (the person whom I bought from, who was a friend, left and was handed over to someone, and he also left). I guess onus still falls on me to at least call the insurance agent to find out what happened..But I do have a right to expect the insurance agent to advice me whenever there are fund changes right?

I wonder if I was the only one who ends up in this predicament. Now I would have to make sense of the terms of my policies before I meet up with this agent (who I never met before) next week.