Belated Merry Xmas!

Hope everyone had a great Xmas ytd! Had a pretty simple day on Xmas and essentially did just 2 things - gaming and sleeping. Played DOTA through the night for like almost 14 hours and then just conked out for the next 11 hours... Not the healthiest of lifestyles but it was good fun playing =)

Anyway, think it's almost time for me to lay off the computer gaming soon (again) though I just barely started on Tues. Been playing like almost every night till late and it's kinda unhealthy unlike in Australia where it's so boring I sleep at 10-11 pm haha. K, updates!

Tue (21st Dec) - ended up in the gym early with Jon and LJ and had a good workout after my time in Australia then I followed them to this shop, Phoon Huat, where they sold stuff for baking and I think I shall try my hand with something really simple like making jelly since everything is prepared so just need to follow some simple instructions and I should be able to get it done! Oh and I decided it would be too sad to start work so early on Tue so I chilled and just played com and watch TV haha.

Wed (22nd Dec) - went out in the late morning to donate blood and it was all quite chop chop stuff - not many people donating at this time of the year I guess! Then went to Clarke Quay to walk around - Central doesn't have much interesting stuff - before heading down to Funan cos I wanted to buy a computer game before school starts.

Thu (23rd Dec) - played DOTA in morning before going to school in the afternoon to return the survey forms for the Australia trip and I saw 3 of our students from the trip doing their holiday homework in school! I was like, wow, they are so hardworking haha and I never did that when I was in JC! Met up with Jon and LJ and we went to Roy's place to play MJ - it was good fun but it was 2 of the longest 'poks' I played - almost 5.5 hours! I showed them the statistics template that I prepared recently and they were quite amazed and it was funny to see their expressions haha. Went to Bedok Interchange's hawker centre for a late dinner and we had this Hokkien prawn mee which seemed to be very popular, BBQ chicken wings (which we agreed seemed more boiled rather than BBQ), and oyster omelette, which was pretty good stuff. All that variety and a drink for just $8 - you never get that in Australia!

Fri (24th Dec) - played DOTA (again!) before going out for standard Xmas Eve dinner at my aunt's place around Buona Vista. Some of my relatives were discussing about the ugly Singaporeans and what they do at the wet markets and supermarkets (e.g. sneezing into a tissue and putting it in the stack of vegetables - yucks!!!) and bad drivers. My uncle was telling us about this funny story where he was driving at night with my cousin and there was a lot of space on a wide road and he drove past this car. Suddenly the lady driver started horning furiously and made obscene gestures at him and then proceeded to overtake him. The irony of it all? When she overtook them, both of them saw this sign on the back of her car saying "World Peace!" LOL, what a joke. But ya really, I think there are plenty of rude Singaporeans and many more who lack decent manners and I can't stand it sometimes. People who take things for granted and lack the decency to thank others or to apologise for mistakes and stuff...

I think it really has to do with our society and lack of proper parenting and teaching of values and it reminded me of this incident during our CIP on Monday where some boys were really rude and on reflection now I regret not taking a firmer stance on things but I have a tendency to try to take things easy which also means I tolerate too much nonsense sometimes and that has its pros and cons. On the one hand I tend to not blow up at people and I like to try and stay happy but on the other hand, people tend to get away with bad behaviour. I realise that I really do think through a lot of things when I make decisions and I tend to go less with feelings so I usually only feel something when I have thought through it quietly. Anyway if I had thought through this earlier and acted the way that I would have wanted things to the boys would've had the crap scared out of them I think. Logically I would have just grabbed them, smacked them and scolded them fiercely and I would the next time I find myself in the same situation... =p

Probably gonna try and sleep soon again though I don't know if I can having just woke up a few hours ago. Have an intensive workout later so I should get some more rest. Updates later today!