Ironically....

Yay!! Parents came back already...woah talk abt a shopping trip...finally i get a pendrive of my own and hmm other stuff s well...anyway so thing is things happen for a reason and only now I can see the full circle of what is happening...lets just say Ive just about reached ground zero and where the old me would mope about it, I think I will approach this as the proverbial blank sheet of paper and rewrite my life character on it...after all I think thats the least I deserve to do to myself...mind you, after whats been done to me...I think I deserve to at least see what I can do with my abilities...why should one be constrained by peer pressure and expectations...??Or not...

I wonder how that happened...

Here I am, back again...a situation happened yesterday which got me thinking, you know with all that government initiative for encouraging SME (small-medium enterprises) to start up & contribute to the economy..has led to a mushrooming of small mum-n-pop enterprises..which is all great and fine..until what I experienced last night got me thinking...I think we're missing something fundamental here...
So Im with my friend going around looking for a night snack when we get to this place in the estates...so order 2 packs of food, costs $2, pass the lady $10.. can you believe the reply was
"Sorry boss, no change available.." hmm...why? "Boss, my boss took away all the change already" Uhh....what followed was a total 'strip' search of the car to dig up all the coins we could find...ended up with a grand total of.......$1.80!! So how? "Ok lah, wat to do.."
Someone please tell me is that totally unreal or not, you're running a midnight business & any basic common sense should know that as long as your business is open you should leave some change...so because of this the business has effectively lost profit???hmm...
anyway yea on another note...its annoying when our intentions are misinterpreted...especially when friendships are concerned...most especially so when the intention has been attempted to be clarified twice but not taken...I hope that it all clears up in the end...happiness is a prized commodity and that should not be taken for granted...on a happier note, thank God the parents are coming back...now the house will be full again...

On growing up...and Harry Potter

So I was thumbing thru d local newspaper the other day and came across an article on Daniel Radcliffe and how he had starred in a film with sex scenes and hence was seen as an automatic 'outcasting' from the Harry Potter 'genre' so to speak..the whole doesnt-fit-with-the-image-of Harry Potter anymore...and that got me thinking...he's finally grown up..its the whole McCauley Culkin (I spelt that right??) drama all over again, albeit with a tad more success...this whole outgrowing of a role which a person is associated with (is it typecasting??)..its time to taste the world at its fullest, and not just a piece of it, not to linger with something but to move on, to chase the cheese so to speak..on the other hand I was watching "The Devil Wears Prada" and the whole story just hit me in between the eyes like a truck...wow that is the epitome of what happens to people when they subtly get sidetracked in the quest for success and cast away all others important...I can humbly say that that movie was a tad educational and brought home a few facts to myself....but hey who said life was a bed of roses, even roses have thorns..urgh..dont remind me...roses...overpriced only on a certain week as if its the sacred offering & the key towards a certain goal, yet is priced as a normal flower the other 358 days of the week, talk about irony, hypocrasy, etc etc...go figure!!

A post about nothing...

Finally, I can step back, relax and unwind...after a highly eventful friday-saturday, its nice to be able to step back, relax and sit at home doing nothing on Sunday..I even found time to catch up on movies & go hiking...what a relief...anyway today is d last day of the CNY celebs...nothing to celebrate anyway...hope everything turns out alright....what an eventful CNY this year was...lets hope that all goes well for the rest of the year...anyway Im off now...