i am having mixed feelings about this new project i am undertaking.

i mean on one hand it is fun, challenging, interesting and makes the day go by faster (not to mention allow you to escape some work that you dont feel like doing). Yet on the other, there is this fear in me that somehow, it wont go as well as we had hoped, as we would have expected, like so many other things that have happened to me. that it isnt what people expect it to be, that they arent ready or wouldnt like what we have prepared.

and i think i am rubbing people the wrong way this couple of weeks.

oh well, i suppose it's how it always goes when you embark on a project, when you work with a different team of people. sparks will fly and i hope things go well - 2 more weeks, and that's all we have.

watched deception on tuesday, thanks to samjo. i didnt quite like it though, the acting wasnt fantastic, maggie q appeared for no more than 5 minutes, 1 hour into the show, there were loopholes in the script and it was pretty slow, with not enough action. it started promisingly enough, but after half hour or so, it just didnt work out for me.

another long week ahead. sucks.

junyi! posted at 10:59 pm.

it's crazy how lta is once again increasing erp prices. i mean, just because singaporeans are not physically protesting against (because they do not want to get into trouble with the law) such ridiculous and constant rise in prices to "control car usage" does not mean they can keep doing it.

whatever it is, watched kung fu panda (finally) and caught the much-awaited belgian class enemy, as part of my participation in singapore arts feste. haha

class enemy was quite an experience. i mean it was bosnian and we thought it would be great to watch something different. but the fact it was bosnian meant that i was concentrating on the subtitles and couldnt quite focus on the acting. which, was incidentally pretty good. it was a forgettable play, though pretty intense, physical and somewhat interesting. it was ok, though i had a feeling some of them didnt quite like it. ok next stop, singapore theatre festival!

kung fu panda was pretty good. well it helped that they had big actors helm the show. while i liked the story and the graphics, i thought they should have put in more effort in the characterisation of the furious 5. they seemed to be one-dimensional, and only capable of making a few expressions. they were there, but somewhat characterless. aside from that, the entire production was pretty well done, and it is definitely a show worth watching.

there was a bio/chem/powder scare at an industrial estate yesterday and it is super ridiculous how they allow cameras to be in the incident site. i mean they werent even in any protective gear, which meant that their safety wasnt looked into at all. i mean they shouldnt even allow any of the media to be in the incident site. and even if it has been cleared for the media to enter the area, why are the responders in protective gear if the photographers are within 100m proximity WITHOUT protection. it is damn weird i tell you. it just makes no sense.

anyway, today's trip to holland v has been fun. my first time at settlers' too and the ambience wasnt as great as i thought it would have been. nevertheless, it's the company that matters and maybe the next time we make our way there, we could explore the newer, more different games.

going back to camp. which has always been very much of a chore.

junyi! posted at 3:12 pm.

i was recently told to read entry on the blog of a friend, which was apparently, in a way, addressed to me, in reference to something i had done a long time ago. and i had initially wanted to reply on his chatbox (whatever you call that thing), but decided to post the reply here instead due to the word limit imposed. it's not that i have loads to say, just that i hate word limits. haha.

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so yes, it wasnt a very recent entry but it i havent been following your blog very closely and hence this explains the not-so-immediate reply on my part. not that you were expecting one (i think) from the way you wrote it, but i thought i owe you one since you took the effort to write a rather long entry about the entire issue.

anyway, you were right in saying that i never understood the true impact of my actions. all along, i have come to believe that everytime i do things like these, people around me would take what i say with a pinch of salt and choose to look at things objectively. and i have never bothered to really think about the repercussions, assuming that everyone would understand that it's a joke and everything would die down after some time. everytime you told me or tried to tell me about the emotional roller-coaster and social suicide you had to go through, i brushed it away or ignored it, choosing to believe that i know better - that you were simply guilt-tripping me and exaggerating the entire situation.

i have come to realise, with the enlightenment of your entry that i was wrong, and people arent as i make them out to be.

on hindsight, you probably werent the only one who was affected by things i said or told people over the years. but those were immature years that i would like to think i have grown out of and drawn lessons from. so thank you - for clearing the air, for the entry, for sharing, letting me learn and above all, remaining a friend over the years.

and to you i offer my sincerest apologies, that i hope arent too late, for starting the whole thing in the first place. peace out.

P.S. N, i didnt really talk about the 'thing' or name you, because i'm not sure if you want to keep the entire thing to your blog only.

junyi! posted at 12:59 am.

if everyweek were a 2 day work week, i wouldnt mind signing on. haha. i say that because i am pretty confident that it wouldnt happen anyway. oh well, life's good this two weeks, with the mid year coy block leave. which means shopping (so girl i know), stoning, sleeping in, meeting up with friends etc. it's things like these that put you in a better mood after all the mundane stuff going on.

chocolate buffet was good. there were many firsts in there, the first time actually eating the much heard about chocolate buffet, the first time vising fullerton (so noob yes i know, i am embarrassed to say this but i guess there's a need for honest reporting haha), the first time i took like 100 photos over ONE meal, the first time having JUST chocolaty stuff for dinner. but above all, it's always the company that rocks. and it was a good 'meal'. although i dont suppose i would indulge myself in a similar buffet for a while - because after some time, you get kinda sick of the chocolates. desserts i suppose are meant to be enjoyed, not eaten for the sake of eating to make it worth your money. it's the singaporean instinct that never goes away wherever you are. so thank you shihern, foo, weili, gy, james for a great night, which had us acting / being high on chocolates halfway and maybe horny since chocolates are supposed to be an aphrodisiac anyway. ok random comment.

i like fullerton hotel, and one day i hope i can own a hotel like that. it's difficult, and my detractors will say it's impossible. but hey.

we saw gurmit yesterday! and the funny thing was he was sitting in front of us at billy bombers yesterday, we never noticed him until we were in the midst of talking about mediacorp artistes (in not very good terms). ie bitching. we decided against asking to take a photo with him, cos that might just give him the opportunity to give us a piece of his mind for bitching about his friends. haha luckily we werent talking about him. haha.

the oxford dudes are coming back soon. hurray. there's work 2mr, but on the bright side, it's a 2 day work week!

junyi! posted at 6:25 pm.