Summary

OK.
Basically: FUCKING MOSQUITOES GTFO STOP BITING ME DAMNIT
^ This is the reason for the warning upon entry to this blog. Don't say I didn't warn you.

So long story short, i was typing my post when i got bitten, and so i yelped, pressed a random key on the laptop (i mean, netbook) that was probably shutdown, caused the windows to close, then i couldn't hibernate the thing so i could close the lid and flee from my sister's room to downstairs, and closed the lid anyway, and opened it downstairs, and realised the laptop froze on me, and pulled out the battery, and restarted the machine, and restarted typing.

*takes a deep breath*

Yeah, so i hate mozzies. Damned irritating bloodsuckers who aim for me (when i have sooo little blood) and cause the utmost uncomfortable sensation in many people around the world cos they're bloody endemic..

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And now for what I'm supposed to type.

A summary in chronological order of what happened in the past two weeks or so when i was being lazy and refusing to update this blog which nobody sees..

Last wednesday night, there was a call from a guy from RI/JC. So: 'Hi I'm Kwun Tong' and behind him: "HII IM RUI-EN :DDDDDDDD" ..
Which told me that i was accepted to RJC. Actually from then i felt that the guy sounded slightly gay and the gal slightly (okay, REALLY) hyper. And then orientation started, from Thursday-Fri and Monday-Tues, although my OG (orientation group) went out on Saturday anyways for various purposes. So yeah my feeling that Rui-En is super hyper was confirmed rock solid since the day i saw her face to face lol. Kwun Tong is an O--kay (O--rientation.. harhh harhh :D LAME DUDE FTW) dude and boy do i envy him for his falsetto..  lost mine in mid- sec2 , about half a year since i broke my voice, cos i was straining to be retained in the soprano section in choir in VS.
Anw. So basically orientation is quite weird, and for me now RJ is still weird, but i guess i'll get used to the school culture in time. In the words of Rui-En orientation is 'fun' <(_  _||)> LOL. You have to do stupid stuff, and the war games was.. well.. let's just say i experienced the scarier side of girls then. But i guess it motivated me to be a little more hyper and active after the sluggish emo days/months after O'lvls. I was so busy, there wasn't any time to play IMO anymore :D So I'm mostly quitted YEY and i don't regret mostly leaving the game (i just log in for battles now and then). As an OG we bonded through Ultimate Frisbee (lololololol) after the day's activites at the parade square for about an hour before going for dinner, so i came back at 10-11+pm for those days, the first time i stayed out this late since the noobier form of PW(project work) back in sec 2, where i was at a friend's house till 2am and my dad had to pick me up. There was also the Batch Dance in which a guy and girl form a couple(about 10 in an OG) and DANCE.
Batch dance vid:

MUHAHA LETS EMBARRASS KWUN TONG FURTHER XD HES THE GUY WHO JUMPS EARLY AT THE LAST SECOND XDDDD

ehe~ XD

Yeah so anw on Saturday the OG actually had to buy stuff for O'(rientation) Nite. And i stupidly ate a second lunch at Mcdonalds', drank fizzy coke, and proceeded to have indigestion throughout the journey from Plaza Sing to Bugis to Orchard and back to Plaza Sing. Okayitwasreallyunglamsoletsskipthatpartshallwe

My biggest regret however was not really talking to my dance partner(s) because i'm from a guys only school and girls are... a culture shock O-O"   haha. I had two dance partners cos the previous one fell sick (T T) and another one replaced her... Oh well what's done is done i guess. So that concluded O'nite, where everyone sang songs, cheered for our respective houses, and looked on as the OGLs tried in vain to completely light this year's theme (D'elchanto, Portuguese for... uh.. something) as words hanging from a woody support network. It would have looked cool, tho. :'(

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Wednesday was chinese new year(CNY) eve, or 除夕. There was an alternative this year to go for reunion dinner at someplace besides my paternal grandparents' house, with my grandmother cooking. So we went somewhere slightly further and the first dish was yusheng (raw fish salad), so we had to 'lo hei'. Etc. I'm really happy that my grandmother's condition improved because she wasn't all that great last year and had to stay in the hospital for a rather long time, more than a month. My grandfather on the other hand deteriorated somewhat, because he fainted the other day (he refused to drink enough water). This reminds me of last year when i was already debating whether to blog, and i was dumb and stupid and i just watched my grandmother's hand trembling very visibly as she held the big bowl of soup and set it on the table.. i felt so horrible then, and so this year i resolve to spend more time with them in their golden years, before i regret it.

This was the main lesson i learnt over the past week: if not now, then when? In the RJ magazine there was a guy who said: 'People ask me why i work so hard. I ask them, why not?'

So we should all start doing something for ourselves now. To make ourselves better people, to plan for the future, to be filial grandchildren... It all starts from now. The RJ vid shown by the principal (i think) was also really meaningful. It says: everyone has the same hours, minutes and seconds as famous people; Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci etc. So we should make the most of our time and we, too, can be equally successful in life.

Now over CNY and long before it my father has been playing mahjong. He's pretty much an addict and before long it escalated to once per week to 2-3 times weekly. He escapes on Friday night to his friend's house, where he and his friends play the entire night, and he crawls back home at 3am, showers, sleeps for 3 hours and wakes up again. I couldn't stand it anymore and so i nagged at him like an old fusspot just yesterday and yesterday. He played on Thursday and Wednesday night and on Friday he played mahjong in the afternoon again when the whole family was at his other friend's house. And today (saturday) right after i told him not to, he's playing again, even when he has a flight to Hainan, China tomorow in the late afternoon.

And the flight he told everyone only very recently, and God knows how much he spent. It's not only about the money; regardless of winning or losing, he's sacrificing petrol and precious sleeptime to drive over to another place, play mahjong and get back. Doesn't he fear for his own health? He's 50 plus and should know better.. but i guess not. Hence I couldnt take it and had to lecture him. I drew up a New Year's Resolution for him to read through, including the paper form of the summary of <<How to be Rich and Happy>> to take to Hainan Island (he's playing golf and visiting my relatives but who cares, he can read it in bed). You'd think a middle-aged man knows how to say "no" to other people or knows how to better manage his money well, but.. no. Hence, i'll be lecturing him more in the future, however weird it seems to be that the son has to play the bad guy to his dad, and i'll MAKE him save by hook or by crook, even if i have to utilise the whole family. I now admire my mother for putting up with him for so long. I just want to quote from the book to him: Those around you are your mirrors, be it friends, family etc. So take a long, hard look at yourself, and wake up, FINALLY, and realise you have to cut down on your mahjong addiction and spend that time more wisely, be it on work productivity, family, sleep, or a better hobby, or learn about fnance.

WAHHH IMO BATTLE REGIST NOW KTHXBAI GTG

p.s. i'll post the summary of the stupid finance book soon in abt an hour.. i know its long overdue T-T