Dim Sum + A New Hairdo

After having only 2.5 hours of sleep (see post below for reason why), I woke up with a horrible headache and bloodshot eyes. Instead of just sleeping for another 15 hours like I normally do on weekends, I had to go have dim sum with the colleagues before “shipping” Ming Teng back off to Sabah boo.

We met up at the dim sum place in Damansara Jaya which was quite a large establishment with plenty of old people already chomping on their breakfast. But seeing as we’re not yet exactly “old people”, it was no surprise every one of us looked downright drowsy and blur at 8.30 on a Sunday morning.

Ming Teng pondering the next time he would be having dim sum.
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Voon Yuen decided to skip the contact lenses.
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Their “tai pau” is really huge!
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The bureau HQ with our first visitor, Ming Teng wtf.
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After a hearty meal, we adjourned to Su-Ann’s place to lepak whilst awaiting Ming Teng’s predetermined departure time. Her house is in this really posh neighbourhood – the guard house has a frigging build-in cupboard wtf!! I wouldn’t mind being a guard there man.

Something about the eyes…
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Su-Ann’s beautiful garden.
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Somebody needs to lose a bit of weight.
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Su-Ann darling and I lol.
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Her room is full of interesting knick-knacks and art wth.
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Sewing ala Soon Seng/Yenli.
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My honeybuns.
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The time to say goodbye came all too soon, and so we had to send Ming Teng to the Kelana Jaya LRT station and bid farewell. So saddening.

I presume everyone who got posted to East Malaysia would possess a backpack like that.
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Right after the farewell, I drove back to Subang to meet up with Yenli and Shun cause it was our “hairdo day”. We were initially scheduled to go to Sungai Wang, but as we were behind our schedule, we decided to just be lazy and go to Summit.

Not-so-clear “before” photo.
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Went to Super Style as usual cause no other salon can offer anything nearly as cheap. And quality-wise it’s ok also lar. Beggars can’t really be choosers, so oh well.

I wasn’t sure about getting anything done to my hair, but then it was only RM150 for the dye + cut + treatment so I couldn’t resist. Besides, both Shun and Yen were getting theirs dyed as well, and waiting alone isn’t fun.

Stupid sampat.
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“Crocodile” clip.
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Yen getting a spot of counselling.
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My stylist turned out to be quite the poser as well.
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Cling-wrapped head.
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They have BOOM BOOM POW heating devices wtf.
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She got hungry and decided to go tapau food… looking like that oh god.
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Soya bean tong yuen courtesy of my tak tau malu friend.
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Hair all done =)
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Lending the stylist a helping hand.
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Somehow Shun is ALWAYS the last to finish.
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Messing around the shop.
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Super creepy looking mannequins.
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Yen’s bf came just when we were all done – right on time to help us take a few photos and to pay for Yen’s hairdo cause her debit card got rejected lolz!!!

He needs quite a bit of training in taking photos *slaps forehead.
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“After” photo.
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Can see Shun’s gold highlights.
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Random: The conditioner was on 50% discount, so Yen and I decided to share a bottle. And because I’m such a good friend, I’ll give her the half in the original bottle and take the half refilled into the Sunflower mineral bottle lol.
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After getting my hair done, it felt really smooth and silky for about a week thanks to the treatment. But right now, it’s getting a bit dry and the colour has washed out quite a lot too. I guess that’s what you get for RM150 sigh.

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My 18th Birthday

OH MY GOSH before starting I just HAVE to rant about how absolutely terribly EXHAUSTED I am!!!

Weds: 5 hours of sleep
Thurs: 5 hours
Fri: 4 hours
Sat: 2.5 hours WTF!

And it looks I won’t be getting much sleep tonight either sobs.

Yeah so anyway Yen “made” me a cake and I blew out the “candle” (note: singular) at midnight on Wednesday, but Soon Seng hasn’t sent me the pics of her uhhh whimsical cake yet, so sabar lah.

On Thursday, I was extra happy cause Ming Teng was back from Sabah for some forensic training kursus thingy at the bureau. Damn lucky ok he got selected to come =)))

In my state of euphoria at getting retained, I susah-payah made “name cards” for everyone. VY and Linda decided to join in the fun too.
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Ah ma-style name card.
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Messing around with Ming Teng’s newly bought goggles.
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It like totally goes with my outfit don’t you think?
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Anyhuu,

In honor of my 18th birthday (wtf) Voon Yuen, Su-Ann, Edm and I plus Ming Teng plus Tan Eng Tat/Tan Egg Tat/Tan Tan Tat were supposed to have a karaoke session at Amp Square in Pyramid.

Manatau on Thursday itself, this Su-Ann failed to turn up to work, apparently due to horrible diarrhoea sobs!!!! And worse still, she wouldn’t be coming to the karaoke session cause she had to shit every 5 minutes wtf. Buuhuu!

Nvm. We planned to sabotage her at her house after singing.

Voon Yuen and I.
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MANATAU!

After singing for a short while, the door opened and Su-Ann hopped into the room!!! With 3 balloons in tow!!!

OMG!!!

BOOYA!
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AWWWWWWWWWWWW she went all the way to 1U to hunt down balloons for me cause she knows what a childish bugger I am <333

So after that we naturally kept using the balloons for props to camwhore with lol.

Obviously this pic is just lakonan semula lar.
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Su-Ann and I.
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BOOM Yuen and I.
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Ming Teng and I.
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Edm and I.
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Groupie sadly ruined by my shittily out-of-focus camera.
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Pink, heart-shaped and strawberry-flavored OMG!!
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All I could ever ask for wtf.
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Ming Teng bought me that thing which makes a noise which he likens to my nagging ish.
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Yen: Spot where I photoshopped! lol.
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We sang from about 7pm til the clock struck 12 wtf and then we remembered that we still had to work the very next day oh no. Super pooped. But the night was really fantastic, thanks guys <333

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On Saturday night, my main koncho-koncho gathered at Yun’s house for dinner to celebrate Alwyn’s, Kien Fei’s and my birthday – simply lump everyone together since we’re all busy people wth.

We were supposed to head down to Teluk Gong (which is in Port Klang ahem) for dinner. Sadly, the stupid weather was all wet and emo so potong stim. But we still went anyways.

WuuuUuUuuU~
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Went to the Coconut Flower restaurant as usual. No idea how that stupid name came about, one day we should really ask the people there lar.

Everyone thought I damn thick face go call myself “Assistant Director” ish. That’s really my post wan ohkay!
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Slurps. Now I can sleep peacefully for another month or two.
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Groupie, sans Soon Seng the cameraman =(
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Our cake was damn funky cause we stuck 69 years worth of candles in it: 26 for Alwyn, 25 for Kien Fei and 18 for me. Like some Ah Ma’s cake only.

69 year old grandpa named Alwyn Soo Kien Fei wtf.
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So bright! lol.
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Doing the honors together.
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We found Pokemon Pocky Men’s biscuits in Shun’s bag.
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Our favorite baggies =)
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We’ve been using them since Taylor’s rite? That’s like 5 years man!
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After dinner, which only cost RM20 per person btw, we headed back to Yun’s house.

On the way back, we suddenly got all excited and decided to go clubbing at Euphoria since it was still quite early.

Sad to say 5 minutes later all of us started dozing off. Sigh.

So in the end we made a pact to go clubbing next week, and we ended up merely karaoke-ing in Yun’s house since no need to pay money.

Yen had funky hair that night.
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Gay buddies for life.
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No 1: Stupit. No 2: Why is it I seem to be glowing SKII rocks wtf.
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We sang from like 12am til 3am and only stopped when people started falling asleep one by one. Actually I was still quite hyper lar but then it’s never any fun singing alone.

Shun sleep also damn stylo milo man.
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And now I’m going to fai fai bathe and hop into bed cause I simply cannot survive on only 2.5 hours of sleep. Got to get up early for work tomorrow too haiyo.

Sorry lar got no time to blog properly. Sleep comes first, always.

Lastly, here’s a big thank you

THANK YOU!

to everyone who celebrated with me and to everyone who remembered to wish me. To those of you who forgot, may your backside grow 6 mushrooms and 99 butt hairs.

Random camwhore pic from the MIFW.
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Oh ya btw did anyone realise that my camera pics are only blurry on the left sides? Damn weird rite. Sony cameras suck balls man.

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Happiest Day of the Year

So the happiest day of 2008 was when I got my posting letter stating that I was to be posted to the bureau.

Guess what the happiest day of 2009 is?

Lol.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEE got posted back to the bureau. For the next 3 years (probably). Super happy!!!!

Thank you god, thank you Ministry of Health, thank you bosses! <333 muak muak I love all of you. Even though I always complain about work, I swear I will turn over a new leaf and become super rajin!!!

K, now all that's left to do is to go to Putrajaya to collect my posting letter; only then will me future be confirmed. Takut nanti we terdengar salah over the phone and I actually got Sarawak or something boo.

Can't wait to hold that impossibly important document in my hands. Please En Osman, please don't give us the wrong information hor.

*crosses fingers.

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MIFW & Kien Fei’s Dad’s 51st Birthday

Both Soon Seng agree about one thing: We should try and do as many different things as possible while we’re still alive and kicking. Like the crab hunting down in Port Dickson – now that was fun!!

And on Saturday both of us managed to cross off yet another something on our list: Attend a fashion show.

Not as obvious as, say, bungee jumping I know, but I am a girl and girls naturally love this sort of thing. Not too sure about how high up it was on Soon Seng’s list tho.

Anyhuu, I was damn excited when I got the invitation from Mr SS to attend one of the shows during the Malaysian International Fashion Week. The designer in question was Celest Thoi, whose husband happens to be (a very good looking) colleague of Mr SS hence the complimentary passes =)

And of course I had absolutely NOTHING to wear, so I headed to SS15 for a quick shopping stint right before the show and ended up ringing up a credit card bill of RM400 T.T ZOMG. But then again I bought 3 dresses, 3 tops, 1 skirt and 2 belts, so I think my RM400 was well spent hmph.

Every guest took a shot with the MIFW wall (It’s not MILF hor!).
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Hordes of cameramen.
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The show was in Pavillion KL and thanks to Mr SS’s brilliant sense of timing, we managed to reach the venue and plomp our buttocks on the seats just minutes before the event began.

I felt pretty under-dressed as compared to all the bejeweled Datins around me.
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The MC was Stephanie Chai, oh gosh I lovelovelove her dress!
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And with surprising punctuality, the show began right on time, with model after model strutting her stuff down the runway. I guess as with all fashion shows, timing and coordination are key hence the minimal delay.

The team of Celest Thoi, Elaine Kong and Stephanie Ong were debuting their “Pretty in White” bridal wear collection which consisted of a whopping 30 pieces of your typical white bridal dresses as well as more culturally-influenced pieces and a few colorful designs thrown in here and there.

Love the dress, hate the model who totally overdid everything.
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My favorite model of the bunch.
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Quirky, colorful piece.
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Creative use of traditional selendang fabric.
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Piece after piece came flowing down the runway, and just when we were about feeling exhausted from trying to focus on the details of each and every piece, Stephanie Chai announced the end of the show with the finale piece being modeled by celebrity model Deborah Henry.

OMFG insanely gorgeous!
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[OK wait. Is it just me or can you like actually see her breasts and nipples under the sheer fabric??? OMG flash lights suck lol. Nipple tape anybody? But seriously, she is HOTTTT.]

She actually looks really really young too. Geez I need some of those genes.
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Finale walk: Celest Thoi and Deborah Henry.
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The crowd was really supportive too.
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Right after the show, Soon Seng and I grabbed a drink before rushing off to Balakong to attend Kien Fei’s dad’s 51st birthday.

Apparently, some people have gotten confused as to whether Balakong is actually famous for balitong and other sorts of seafood. The answer is no. It’s just an inside joke lar.

So anyway, we followed Kien Fei’s rather dubious directions (Use the highway along Mines. Keep going straight until you see a pedestrian bridge and a Petronas station on your right. Keep going straight until you see a house with tents right beside the highway. Make a U-turn. WTF??!!) and ended up at his house without getting lost woohoo Soon Seng we rock!

Despite being an hour late, we found out that the rest were even later -_- why does this not surprise me.

House with tent beside Petronas station and pedestrian bridge, yup yup can’t be the wrong house.
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They had a very big dead pig!!!
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Stupid boys found amusement in watching me struggle to put on my shoes.
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I was damn famished cause I had only eaten a bun the whole day!
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Kien Fei looking rather tan beside me hehe.
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As with any noisy neighborhood party, a karaoke set is key in entertaining the guests – although it tends to get increasingly annoying as the guests get increasingly drunk.

Much to my amazement tho, all the uncles there seemed to have astoundingly good singing voices!!! I swear there was this one uncle (his neighbor I think) whose voice was so good I thought it was Beyond themselves singing!

Uncle not drunk yet.
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Damn professional: They have slips to write down song requests!
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The ginormous specially ordered cake from Secret Recipe cost RM270 which is actually quite cheap considering its size.
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The boys. MEN. I should really start referring to them as men.
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Yen and bf were the last to arrive, about 14 hours late wtf.
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Kien Fei and family =)
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Right after cutting the cake, all of us cabut upstairs to Kien Fei’s room to escape the noisy drunken karaoke singing. Jae Shen took to streaming anime cartoons which got the rest of the childish dudes engrossed too.

I don’t know why, but his graduation picture tickled me so.
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His parents’ old-school wedding photos.
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Buah tangan: Insanely cute animal-shaped strawberry-flavored jellies!
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Don’t understand why I always gotta ruin the pic =(
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Much to my dismay, I started feeling drowsy at about 10.15pm. And as if by clockwork, I was sound asleep by 11.00pm. Damn sad ok. I was still semi-conscious tho and found all that flashing and photo-taking rather annoying. All I know about what transpired after that is based solely on the photos they took.

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See see, MAC’s gel liner really doesn’t budge!
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Apparently Jae Shen was the next to fall asleep, so the rest left him and I in dreamland and they went off to some mamak to yumcha. But before they did, they made a pitstop at Kien Fei’s dad’s factory to collect some equipment (that’s what Soon Seng told me lar).

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And then Jae Shen started snoring so loudly I woke up and went to pee. And then I went back to sleep until the rest came home. By then, I had already slept from 11pm-3am ohmygod.

The rest of us went home after that, leaving Jae Shen, Alwyn and Kien Fei to continue playing some lame Wii games.

And that was how I spent my Saturday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIEN FEI’S DAD!! =)

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1st-Year-of-Working Anniversary

Namun takkan mudah bagiku
Meninggalkan jejak hidupku
Yang telah terukir abadi
Sebagai kenangan yang terindah

- Not really related to following post

Rumor has it the posting results will be out on the 12th of November – right smack on my birthday.

Geez. Birthday wishes had better come true.

Today makes it exactly a year since I started working gosh and golly. WEEE 365 days already!

I can’t say I’ve learnt the most I could possibly have. I’ve always been a slow learner I guess – taking my own sweet time to warm up to things and to adjust and adapt and to slowly crawl out from under that thick coconut shell I like to call my comfort zone.

But what I can say is that throughout this year, I have gained invaluable life experiences – things not quite related to work, not technical in quality; these are aspects that upgrade our lives from monotonous survival to lives that are rich and fulfilling.

For one, I’ve always been the sort who bonds for life, but those I bond to are unfortunately few and far apart. Perhaps it’s because of my inherent tendency to distrust people from the start. Jaded, I think.

However, being with the people I’ve been with the past year has slowly eroded this defensive wall I could never fully knock down on my own (although I have taken the sledgehammer to it, my work was never complete). Whilst the people who knew me back then would describe me as having frustratingly immovable tendencies of keeping things to myself, the past few months have seen me unleashing torrents of rantings and random emotional outbursts on these people whom I see everyday.

Whoops.

Besides “opening up”, as they call it, I also find myself becoming ever so slightly more responsible. Stop that now. I can hear you rolling your eyes.

I vividly recall the first month I worked. Oh lord, I swear I had the urge to ditch work every single morning at 6.00am. And in fact, I sure has hell did, a few times too many.

Twelve months down the road however, my body now wakes itself up like clockwork every single morning at 6am. Even on weekends which is goddamn annoying. Usually the part of my body involved is the good ol’ bladder, begging to be relieved. Strange but true.

Not too sure if that’s considered being responsible, but I like to think it is. At least I’m not doing as I please (quite as much) anymore.

And of course, I’ve also wisened up to the cruel reality that the world is never really that simple, and that the people in it strive only to accomplish their own motives.

But then again, selfishness is probably one of the prerequisite human traits that drive us to succeed – as we move to bring improvement into our lives and bring improvement to the lives of others who play a role in our lives, which will then of course inadvertently further improve our own lives yadda yadda.

Take the example of “love”. When we fall in love, it’s usually (I say usually because this probably doesn’t stand true for you sadistic/masochistic weirdos) because that one person makes us feel like a better person. Suddenly, we become more confident, and they become our confidant. We know we are no longer alone. That person is a reflection of what we think should/could/would make us more perfect. Whole. Complete.

Thus, lending a perfect example to the selfish “I” syndrome. I feel like a better person. I feel happier. I feel whole. I love him/her.

In reality, first and foremost, we love ourselves.

Hmmm. Which could be why most people who have “issues” and who haven’t come to terms with their flaws and who do not in fact “love themselves” (yup, you broken screwed up thing, pwned for life) find difficulty in maintaining life partnerships.

I probably fit right in there quite nicely aw shucks.

Anyhuu, it’s just a thought, don’t quote me on this.

Yeah so today I blow a candle to my one year of working at the bureau. In a few days from now I’ll blow another 23 to being uhhh 21 *cough* AND hopefully to continuing my journey through life, nice and happy at the bureau, where we all know I belong =)

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