Friday,Nov 27 2009, 11:37:37 AMDead of the Night

Just feeling particularly blank right now. Was talking to a friend one day on the topic of the latest time we've ever returned home at. So... Yea... Mr Too-Innocent's latest was 3am while mine was 12pm the next afternoon. Kinda got me thinking about the things I've seen while out at night.

I'm not a particularly exciting person - I avoid it like the plague, but it finds me like a homing laser beam. So yea... Here's how the dead of the night looks like through my eyes, through my words. I never bother taking pictures when I'm on the brink of sleeping.

Granted, my parents are definitely the typical asian type - so they kind of prohibited me from going out too late. I always get a call or SMS from Mum whenever it's 11pm, but it changed eventually ._. She kinda gave up after I was dragged around by friends around Singapore in the wee A.Ms in the form of road trips.

So whenever I replied my mother that I'd be home soon, I really meant it, but I was always brought to some really weird location in Singapore where even the glimpse of a cab is impossible to catch. First weird location that I was dragged to was just a simple dinner at Carls Jr for some burgers in the middle of the night during year 3 (think 3a.m). I think I was still carrying my laptop and pile of crumpled camera scripts too while I was there. I really wouldn't know when I'd get a call for a gathering, what it's for and when I'd be going back home. Since there wasn't much people there, the guys who just started riding motorcycles started giving the girls rides around the carpark as if it were an amusement park ride. We weren't drunk at all, but we acted like we were. It's dumb crap, really, but it's fun.

Weird places include Kallang Stadium (the place where we normally hold Singapore's National Day Parades) where we would just walk around and chill like the place belonged to us. I have no idea why the hell the female toilet was locked at night, so all of us crashed at the mens for a toilet break (yea, we did bewilder some late owl guys who happened to be there at that time too. Hell knows what they were in that area for as well.) We didn't really enter the stadium area, we just walked around it, enjoyed the riverside scenery and took a few group pictures... And yea, we girls camwhored in the Mens as well (it's just a female habit to camwhore anywhere, we can't help it).

Then there was Mt Faber, not quite a mountain, but still the highest point you'll ever get to in Sg. It's much prettier at night than in the morning. It looks touristy in the day, but at night, it just looks divine. There's the stars, a view of the sea, and the directions towards neighbouring SEA countries are pointed out in blue glowing arrows sprawled out on the pavement. Of course, with the romance, comes the people who refuse to get a room (no pun intended). Granted, I never really saw any of them orgasm, not that I wanted to look on. Lotsa fresh air there. Lotsa thrash left over from the tourists in the morning, and lotsa view to see.

So much for romance in Singapore, really. Never. Never EVER try to sleep on a beach at night without a tent. I think my friends and I averaged 20 mosquito bites each after our night picnic at Siloso Beach. The guys rented out the cars, the girls made the food. So fair enough, we got together at the beach for some grub by torch light (yes, singular). I tried to sleep, but really couldn't. Every five minutes or so, salt from the sea would crust on my face and I have to brush it off. In the end, I slept with a face towel over my face and a towel over my body, looking quite the hobo. Stranger still was how we girls ended up having girl-talk like we were in someone's bedroom sharing some Japanese snacks or playing with makeup.

o.o And there was the unforgettable Orchard Road in the middle of the night. It was so quiet that you could have a 15 minute nap in the middle of the road without being run over by a car. Ok, maybe with MY luck, I would, but yea, I don't wanna try that for a million bucks. Don't really have the time to rant on, so I guess I'll cut it short for now.

In a nutshell, walking around Singapore's sleeping time is nothing short of interesting. Granted, when you're sleepy yourself, you won't really care much. Working a day job kinda forces you to go out at night, throwing normalcy out of the window. =.= Honestly, I never got a NORMAL life after graduation. So I guess I shouldn't expect to be getting a boring job, finding a nice guy and having his babies when I'm 25.

Have to study now. I don't wanna fail. With so many people backing me and a friend waiting for me, I can't possibly fail this one simple test. (_ _) I will pass. I have to. Where I'll be in five years still kinda depends on my performance now ._. I hate myself sometimes. Then again, high expectations can be a good thing, no? ^^

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Friday,Nov 6 2009, 03:33:50 PMIronies

Four years ago, I bought an English grammar book for my "O" levels and mugged the hell out of it. Three years later, I'd never imagine I'd join that publisher ._.'''' When I was with the publisher, I made press kits, I called the various media and disseminated the kits via courier.

Feels surreal to be back in the game. Kinda like having back an old friend you thought you'd never see again ~^.^~

So the trade-off isn't exactly my soul for invincibility all along - just my silence ._. My friends are still around me, once again, I'm really grateful for ...

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Monday,Sep 7 2009, 03:27:13 PM*Trips and stumbles*

Hellooooo Zorpia. It's been ages since I've been here. I know I say that everytime I come here nowadays... Indulge me. Geez. Even my profile photo's of me when I was sweet eighteen. Ahah.... Time flies, doesn't it? ^^''' Don't worry, I haven't turned into a monster yet, so I guess the profile pic's still applicable to some extent.

Whew. I lived through Tertiary Ed! I'm alive! And yea... After bumbling through half a million obligations, dramas and jobs... I'm back here again to rant ._. Still sober, thankfully...

In my abscence from here, I've been ...

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