I love sleeping in.

I love sleeping in.

Especially when I wake up at 7.00 am and realise I have the luxury of sleeping in, without any tuition or appointments to rush to.

I think my skin will also thank me for letting it rest and breathe for a day.

I love my bed and pillow. Heavenly bliss.

Ok – but imagine how I gasped out loud this morning when I next looked at the clock, it was already 1.00 pm!

Such a pig!

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Caught the preview of The Extraordinary V Conference 2009. Although it was the usual slapstick humour which made fun of the happenings in Singapore and around the world, it still made the audience (and me) laugh out loud.

It was still hilarious – seeing them poking fun at (some of which quite sensitive issues):
• The relationship between Singapore and Malaysia
• How our government may plan to receive Mr and Mrs Obama should they decide to pay Singapore a visit, and on Mr Obama being the first African American to hold office, Mrs Obama’s toned arms and the famous “Yes, we can”…
• The AWARE saga
• The rojak food poisoning saga
• H1N1
• The numerous/countless campaigns that Singapore runs in the past few years (Speak good “Engrish”, Speak Mandarin, Quit Smoking, Two is not enough, the revival of Singa the Lion for the courtesy campaign, etc, etc.. how many of these campaigns do we actually remember?)
• The proliferation of the new language (acronyms) used by youngsters nowadays – many of which I don’t understand at all
• The gung-ho attitude of many developers who competed to launch retail malls, one after another, this year despite the economy’s performance
• How Buddhists/Taoists should consider learning from the Christians to conduct roadshows to recruit more followers
• The standard obtaining-of-three-quotations by the government bodies/stat boards for any jobs
• How and why we should be “thankful” to our “gahmen” for agreeing to dip into the $2.2 billion reserves for the first time…
• The relationship between Zoe Tay and Fann Wong, the “flop” of The Ultimatum and the “success” of The Little Nonya (and Joanne Peh was there too… with her ang-moh beau)

Quite refreshing also – that this was held at the nightspot, Zirca, instead of the usual Esplanade or Drama Centre.

And it felt good to walk in and out of Zirca, Lunar and Rebel, as we wished, when there were super long queues forming outside all three nightspots – to which I don’t understand because the three places were practically rather empty inside!

Talk about forming false impressions!

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Heard some news about a friend. The friend who told me was kind of surprised that I reacted to the news so calmly with just a “Is it? OK. Why and how?” in the most monotonous tone and not what she expected “Oh my god! Why??” in my 8-octave higher shrieking voice.

She said she was shocked and speechless when she first learnt of the news.

Oh well. I guess it’s partly because the thing she shared with me did not only happen to that one friend, but I already knew of three other people who did the same thing. So I guessed it is either I am getting more liberal-minded or I am already kind of immune – though I still can’t make sense out of how such things can happen.

But I guess it just goes to show:
* Good, stable and mature guys are rare and almost extinct? And similarly, young, demure, gentle and slim girls are also slowly becoming dinosaurs of age? Stereotype stereotype...
* Girls understand girls’ wants, needs and moods better? And similarly, guys understand guys’ wants, needs and moods better?
* Loneliness is more than scary – if one does not know how to manage it well, it can make one do the most unexpected (and maybe, regrettable) things at times.
* There is always a 99.9% possibility that “something” is going on between two parties (guy-gal, gal-gal, guy-guy) – regardless of whether the involved parties are conscious of it or not – if both willingly spend too much time with each other (regardless of gender)

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I guess I’m easily pacified.

And I guess I should be even more understanding.

But I still think there’s a limit to everyone’s tolerance and level of trying to be understanding. No matter how kind, easy-going, good-tempered, understanding one is, there is a limit to everything – to which, of course, the level of elasticity on how much one can stretch to “tolerate” depends on who the other party is.

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Dunno why - suddenly recalled the quote from the movie UP.

“Sometimes, it's the boring stuff I remember the most.”

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I think I should start blogging about my Langkawi, Malacca and Cameron trips soon, before I forget…

I should also utilise my baking utensils and oven more often, I think… They are collecting dust man…

Mummy’s cooking now and it smells great! I think I should also start to pick up some culinary tips from her. Then again, I would never match her standards – just like how she still complains that my method of hand-washing clothes is not thorough enough and then make me do it all over again… Tired leh… It takes so much strength to hand-wash clothes! grrr… I should tell her that the washing machine is TOO under-utilised.

Then again, sometimes, I find my mummy quite "cute". She just walked into the room, stood behind me and gave me a "lecture" on what she thought of Andy Lau now. And ended with a "haiyoh - to think you still support him all these years! tsk tsk tsk!" and then, she walked out of the room! hahha...

Anyway, I wonder what's the huge fuss over him being married, or hiding the fact that he's married. Didn't everyone already assume or guess that both of them are already married since ages ago? It is just a matter of confirmation from him.

Granted - talk about 天时地利人和, the only "suay" thing was the timing - this piece of news surfaced and got hugely amplified when his father-in-law passed away.

Yes, talk about social responsbility.

But again, all he did was not sharing he's married mah. Besides, it's between him and his wife. If his wife willingly agrees to be the woman behind the scenes, who are we to criticise her husband and who are we to try to play saint and stand up for her - sympathising and empathising with her? And who are we to conclude that she has suffered all these 24 years? For all we know, the couple discussed it and agreed on it, and she has been feeling blissful instead?

You can never underestimate a woman's power and endurance level when it comes to the man she loves.

Just like what I mentioned in an entry in March 2007:

女人其实很简单。只要她所爱的男人对她好，她就可以不惜一切地为他着想，以她自己的方式守护和照顾他。尽管多少委屈，就算天塌下来，也能承受下来。

On a more serious note, I think I should also start to give my resume a look. It has lain dormant for a few years… Time to re-visit and update it again.