Here I Go Again....

All right, so once again, a new semester had begun, and it's time for me to hit the books again.

(For those of you not updated, I am currently taking a part time MSc course in NUS. Already I had gone through one semester, and.... well, you can contact me if you wanna know more...)

A new semester always brings about a feeling of a new beginning, a new hope, and an opportunity to start afresh. There is always this belief (at least for me) that with all the experience gained and lesson learned in the previous semester, this will be a better semester where finally one can catch up with what one missed the last time round. (I seriously need this sem to be better, and I have lotsa catching up to do...)

If only life is like that.

But life is not. Life is rather repetitive for me right now (mostly due to work I guess). In fact, it is so repetitive, it erodes away a bit of the excitement of the beginning of a new semester. It only hit me yesterday that the semester had already begun, and my first lecture is tomorrow, and I am supposed to be gearing up for it and getting ready for the challenge a new semester brings (at lest mentally, I should be getting ready...).

It's past 10pm now, and I am still so unready for tomorrow: I had not get my stuff ready, and I had not get myself readying. Instead, I am down here writing this blog. Hmmmm... so I should stop writing this blog and go pack my bag. At the same time, I will get myself into the mood for the new semester.

The new semester had begun, and here I go again....

Couldn't Get This Out of My Head......

Huey 'piano' Smith & The Clowns - Don't You Just Know It (Snatch OST)


Over the weekend, I was able to catch 'Snatch' on HBO (I seldom watch HBO....). I have to say, I really like the movie, for its' fast pace, good plot, and top of it all, its' bunch of interesting characters.

However, what really stuck in my head was the song that was played when the ending credits started to roll. The tune was so catchy, that I Google it, found it on Youtube, and played it over and over again until I lost count. It got so stuck in my head that it was still playing in my head when I started work this morning (especially the chorus), and must had took me a good half an hour to finally 'switch' it off.

So here it is, I putting it up here for all of you to enjoy. Hope you guys like it as much as I do.

I Run Again

Less than 30 minutes ago, I just completed my first run in two months. All I can say is, I am happy, and.... WEAK!!!!!

After more than two months of inactivity, I finally decided today that I will go for a run. I am so glad that I did, for I had almost forget how good a mood regulator that running is. Also I had also forgot how running form a part of my life/ daily routine.

Maybe that is what is missing for the past two months, which is why I find it so hard to get life back to 'normal' after the disruption that is ICT and examination.

Yes, I was kinda struggling to put life back in order after my exams. It's been a month since my exams and I find it rather surprising; I was only away from work for one and a half month, and I didn't expect it will take so long to get re-accustomed to work again. (My boss might played a part, but that's for another day...)

So anyway, I came back home, immediately changed into my running gear and out I went running round the neighborhood. I didn't know how far I ran, but I ran for 45 min. I wasn't very fast, sometimes I was just jogging fast, but by the end of it, I was hot, sweaty, a bit light-headed and happy.

It feels so good to be running again after so long. I should do this more often. In fact, I will do it again tomorrow.

Been a Long Time.....

It is entirely possible, that some of you are wondering why had not I been blogging for almost 5 months?

Especially since I was supposed to write about 3 weddings.

Especially since I still have the final installment of my Epic trilogy to complete.

The answer is, I had been busy.

Busy with work. Busy with studies (yep, I am studying now... part time).

Busy with life.

Blogging can wait while life goes on. And on. And on. And on.....

And then I had also been lazy.

While every now and then I can spare some time here and there, I was just too lazy to blog.

Or simply too tired.

I don't know. But now since life had kinda resume back to some old pattern, maybe I can get back to some regular blogging.

Or something like that.

I hope.

A New Year

A new year, a new hope.

Before I look at the year ahead, let's start by looking back at the year passed. For me, 2008 had been a rather good year. Got a pay raise and a bonus; extended my contract; the project I was working on is moving on to the next phase; caught up with K (my boss in Basel) when he came visiting; and most of all, got a education grant and successfully fought back to school when my application for the MSc course (part-time, coursework) was accepted.

However, that's not all. My sister got married; so was few of my friends; made new friends when I picked up inline-skating again and reunited with some old friends through the power of internet (Facebook, to be exact). I also got to see my nieces and nephews for the first time! They are so cute!

I'm sure there are a few more good things that happened last year, but it slipped my mind. It doesn't matter. Because I'm sure 2009 will be another good year with many good things happening. Of course, there will be challenges and bad times, but why bother about them? What's the point of remembering them? There is no point; just get through them, learn the lesson, keep the experience (if there are any) and forget about the rest.

Yes, 2009 will be another good year. It's up to me to make sure of that. There are a few things I want to achieve in this coming year. I ought to make them into the New Year's resolutions, but then I read an article that said making New Year's resolutions might be bad for mental health. So I am not going to make any resolution. Nonetheless, I do have plans and I am hopeful I will achieve what I want achieve. This is the year where everything will happen.

There is hope, there are plans and my morale is high. Therefore I shall not wait.

Let the year begin.

3 Weddings

Over the period of 3 weekends - from late November to early December - I attended three weddings. One of them was my sister's wedding, another was my ex-classmate's wedding and the third one was my friend's.

So did I have any after thoughts and gathered any experience? Of course I did, or else I would not be writing this entry, would I?

However, to squeeze everything into one entry will not do as each wedding is special. Also, the thoughts and experience gathered from each wedding are also unique and different (ok, some of them are the same, but people who know me know how much I like to repeat myself again and again and again...).

Therefore, what I will do is that I will (try to) write a three part series about these weddings. Each part will be about one of the weddings (duh...). So stay tune.

(At this point, some of you might ask: then what is the point of writing this bit? Well, just to add something new and update my blog. How about that?)

My Tail Hurts....

OK, so in my last post I said about wanting to run often. However since then, I had yet to go for another run.

Why? Cos during my previous run, I felt a sharp pain at my tail bone (wait, there must be a proper term to describe that segment of the spine, let me check.... ah, coccyx). The pain persisted into the next day and at its' worst, it hurts whenever I stood, sat and even when I sneezed.

So went to see the doc, who diagnosed that there might be a crack at the coccyx which was caused by the fall I sustained (landed on my bottom) while inline skating a couple of weeks ago. The doc prescribed some painkiller and advised rest, which means I shouldn't be running; other exercise are still ok, but "if it hurts. Stop."

Running certainly hurts, even if it means chasing after a bus 100m away. It aggravated the pain, so that means I didn't run for the past week. Just as a precaution, I didn't join my kakis for the weekly skating session over the weekend (in case I fall again).

OK, the pain is still around, though it's much subsided now. The positives I am getting out of this episode is that I now sit (and can only sit) with a proper sitting posture. It also make me realized how much strain and stress was placed on the coccyx whenever I stand or sit or in motion. But for now, with the weekend approaching, I only wish the pain will go away.