It's been more than a month since I last blogged. I've no idea why I just can't pick up the habit of blogging on a regular basis. It'd totally spare me the time of typing a really loooooooong post & trying very hard to recall what happened in the past month. Nothing much has changed during this month though. I've a new hairstyle now - got it permed before Chinese New Year. I've cancelled my membership at Fitness First to save money & am trying every day to motivate myself to run when I get home from work.

Movie watched: The rebound. It is a romantic comedy about a woman discovering her husband's infidelity & decides to move to the city. She mets a guy who works at a coffee house below her apartment and hires him to be her nanny. Typical love story would pan out to them falling madly in love with each other. However, being many years older than the guy, she encouraged him to travel the world & experience new things. He adopted an Indian child while on his journey around the world, they bumped into each other at a restaurant years later & decide to pick up from where they left off. Ever since watching this movie, I've been thinking of taking an alternate route in life: go ahead with leaving everything behind, pack my bags & just go places and do things that I've always seen in movies, the internet and just live life.

Life's too short to be stuck in traditions & systems that dictate one's life with no freedom of expression & speech. As democratic as the government tries to potray the country, we're actually bounded by rules & restrictions. Unlike North Korea, we've decided to take on an extremely subtle approach to propaganda & in turn, have successfully manipulated the minds of everyone. However, being human nature, there is always a handful who yearn to break away from conformity & try to make a difference in their own lives. It seems that in modern day society, it has been instilled in our brains that education, paper qualification, materialistic things like cars, houses, stable jobs & incomes etc. are essentials & norms that one must have in order to be successful in life. It's those who decide to seek another way of life who are deemed outcasts in this society. We have become too afraid to climb out of our comfort zones. We'd rather stay onboard a sinking ship & grab onto whatever floating by that can save our lives than 'hop' onto a drifting log and see where the waves take us. I really want to get away from all this stereotypes but I guess timing is also an important part & my time is just not yet. Maybe next year, I don't know?

Anyway, Chinese New Year was spent at Melvin's place with dinner & gambling. Yearly tradition & I love it! Week after that was my 21st! R managed to get a discounted price for a room at Marina Bay Sands & it was party time. Lazed around most of the day, rushed out to get mixers at the last minute because it totally slipped my mind & everyone started coming in from 10pm onwards. Lucky for us, our room was at a corner & the rooms around us weren't occupied so no complaints!

I'd loads of fun that night. People got drunk by 2am & everything just mellowed down.
Thankfully, I didn't wake up the next morning with a nasty hangover because that'd have just ruined the perfect birthday. Turning 21 also meant that I'd to have another go at brazillian waxing & this time it was great. Towel-clenching painful but great.

Another movie watched: No Strings Attached. It was basically a typical movie where a guy & girl are friends with benefits and they try very hard not to fall for each other & when they do, one of them is living in self-denial and refuses to reciprocate feelings. Classic ending: they become an item.

19 February was spent at Orchard in the afternoon for the NATAS guerilla stunt that we did followed by BBQ at Melinda's condo in Simei. Food & chit chat; never grows old.

Took half day leave on 22 February to spend Kay's 20th with her. Met up in town & had lunch at Strictly Panckes. I'm planning to go back there another 13 times to try every pancake dish on their menu. Went to ICA to collect her passport & I went to renew mine. Raymond bought her air tickets to Melbourne for her birthday. JEALOUS MUCH!!!!!! And I just found out that they caught soundwave in Melbourne & Perth. I'm sooooooooooooooo going to kill her when she gets back. Hung around Esplanade before heading back to her place for dinner. Managed to surprise her with a cake which I thought she knew I'd all along in my bag.

I can't wait for next week to come so that I can book tickets for Phuket & apply leave for R's social night. We've hit our 40th month now & we badly need to get out of here. Trip to Langkawi in January didn't happen & I'm dying to get out of this place. Just a short getaway from everything would be really really nice. I'm also looking forward to Kay coming back on Sunday. It'd mean presents & awesome stories that'd make me feel like strangling her & packing my bags and heading over to Melbourne too. I've been learning driving for 5 months now & I've only had less than 8 lessons. My PDL is expiring next Saturday & I've yet to book my TP date. I feel like a loser. I shall aim to get my license by the end of this year. There's no wayI'm going to renew my PDL for a second time. I can't wait for work to end today. I've recently started baking & I'm kind of enjoying it. Last week, I baked chocolate chip cookies for R & my colleagues and they liked it. Tonight, I'm going to attempt to make oreo cookie cupcakes basically because I promised R that I'd make them if he passed his IPPT & he got a silver! Great job, love! I'm really proud of you. Your 7 weeks are coming to an end & you'll be handsomely rewarded with a holiday trip. I really hope you book out tomorrow!