I like to Move it..

Took part in some partial house moving during the PH, and it was really kind of tiring. Not the actual lifting itself, but going for the many many trips.

Spent half a day moving, and half a day a Ikea eating, courtesy of the owner.

Came Sunday, and again, i'm moving people and things. LOL.. band pract once again shifted from boonlay to tampines. The east seems nearer, but i always missed the PIE-CTE exit.

Band pract seems alright.. since i haven't been playing for quite a few months liao.. My tone changed drastically for the worse.. and i lost the embouchure too. So again, they chose "Haha".. a song which i am quite scared of playing actually.. lol.. coz i remembered the last time i played, i mis-pitch it as well. The D entry note is really kind of uncomfortable.. especially with the excessive tension of over preparing for the 1st note. As it goes, any piece with the horn playing the 1st note is a killer. The nut cracker, the wmc set piece and the solo rainbow. LOL..

So i failed twice in a row.. and then i started finding all sorts of excuses.. but the fact is, i wasn't trying hard enough. It became a convenient excuse really. Watched some shows on the BBC (accidentally), and really, not having a particular skill doesn't mean give one the reason to fail. It just meant that one has to work and try even harder than others.

I really wasn't trying.. it seems, i had shifted my attention elsewhere - work that is.

So while i am trying to find a way out, i missed the way out on the highway. Not once, but plenty of times. While i was trying to hope for a nearer exit, it always give the opposite. I ended up in outram.. lol.. how i also don't know. So i took my instrument on a ride, to many great places in town, and even to the backyard of Mr P. Just that there are far too many traffic lights in town, and i spent quite some time waiting for my turn.

This is quite silly.. but at the same time quite a nice experience. At least it isn't as bad as i thought.. and really, sg is super small.

Ah T

Ah T came as a replacement, and indeed, locals can't even match them in terms of ability and salary. Like that how to compete?

But then again, willingness and ability are two different things.. plus, sometimes, some seemingly smart people will do stupid things too.

In anycase, i think some are just too complacent le.. as the poster say, 'no crime doesn't mean no crime', and as it goes, no wonder the youngsters are hacking each other. Since when are we heading back to the 60s? Nothing better to do than to risk one's life for the sake of "brotherhood"? Tio hoot probably. Somemore don't know whose brother. Perhaps they all ain't heavy.

So while i am also wondering what i am defending as a sgrean, i do still consider this my home.. most probably coz i haven't been to elsewhere. I might like to have a different kind of life. Yet as if seems, i can't even fight for what i want here, however basic it might be to the others. Just becoz we are small. And it seems even smaller as people are pouring in. Having faced all the Ns, Bs, and Ts whole day long at my workplace, i still can find them at my void deck, playing badminton! Argh... not my badminton court too! So tell me.. where we are, and who are we?

And i not 厉害.. coz if i 厉害, i would have earned a lot. So don't tell me 你厉害你来 wor.

I have been wondering.. Since they are so talented, why not let in our closet? Highly likely that we are not prepared.

Would really love to see the outcome.. coz youngsters these days don't really care a dime. They have great aspirations.. so they don't care who did what.. only what they did. I think this is the reason why they own.

Old at New Double O

Double O moved since after our schooling days, yet nothing much changed. The crowd is still as happening, the price per jug is less than $15, and the shots are still $3 each. What more to ask for?

So happened that we aged.. and i don't feel as energetic. Work is really taking a toll on all of us, and with things being so expensive, there is no choice but to work OT and on weekends. No wonder we need to de-stress.

Just that day, i met a very unreasonable customer. Damn pissed but had no choice. In the end i said sorry again, and even made compensation. Argh! My mistake really.. but the customer is all out to e-99. Afterall, everything is still the same.. just that the parts in between is different. In the end the usage is same, so i don't freaking understand what the damn commotion is all about. Unless so people are out take advantage. Well.. plenty of them. Just paid for my lesson again. And again, this is coz of unclear instruction and me jumping into conclusion. Heard it all the time, that i will have to assume that people have no knowledge of whatever they are involved in. Well, sometimes they really don't have. So this is no surprise. Just have to be careful the next time.

Blogging about it makes my blood boil. Argh.

Work is draining my energy away, coz it seems that there is always nothing i can do to protect anything of my own. Any wrong move and it might just be the end. Sigh.. the burden is heavy at times. So much for being seeded.

I need to de-stress more.

Anyway, OO is nice, and so is the mambo jumbo. Especially so when the sequence is so predictably nice! Also, the low price of each jug makes way for variety. A bottle is too boring le.. such that now the taste of cola reminds me of martell, lime reminds me of vodka, and green tea reminds me of hennessy. Not to mention, a jug of beer cost $14 too! Plus, the guy that used to climb the metal frames is back at the new OO!

School days are so nice.