before that interview

i've finally overcome my inertia to update this blog. why? cos' i would consider today to be a minor milestone in my life. for i'll be having my first formal job interview later today. either i get the job, which will give me ample reason not to sit on my lazy ass all day long, or i would simply spend what remains of my vacation procrastinating in wasteful abandonment of time. neither seems too bad an alternative to spend the next month or so, which is why i'm not awfully concerned about getting that job except the fact that i really need something to bolster the atrocious academic section on my CV if i bear any desire to get a quasi-decent job. Arggh, i would hate to imagine how life would be like after graduation.

met up with LMD on monday for a couple of drinks @ the alleybar. having not met her for almost 6 months, she does indeed look alot better after her operation and even her complexion seems pretty good now - a fact which she proudly attributes to her quitting smoking. you know, it really isn't very convincing when they have someone like xiaxue who's probably never had the habit before to be the anti-smoking ambassador. the LMD now, (which i suspect would be soon be a more apt acroynm for Little Miss Drinkalittle) would be the perfect poster girl, the prodigal daughter who should front all the anti-smoking, anti-alcoholism or just about any other random anti-vice campaigns. all cos' she's da street-credibility.

anway, LMD was gracious enough to invite me over to her friend's place for what was supposed to be 'quiet drinks'. who would have guessed that we ended up finishing the entire 1 litre bottle of vodka between the 6 of us by the end of the night. it was probably my first time hanging around a group of yuppies and i must say it was a highly informative and enjoyble experience. it's amazing how alcohol seems to trigger a zeal for learning for it was that night, that we all learnt that a 'goat' could also mean 'a very lecherous man', or the differences that stem between mutton, lamb and sheep. yet another shining example of how primary education in singapore has failed us. it wasn't that intimidating as i would have imagined yuppie gatherings to be. no esoteric discussions on some obscure stock or what not, no, except perhaps if you consider add a commentary to what's on tv while putting it on mute to be an extradinarily act. more than anything, i has shown me how we don't really lose our sense of humour even when we start work. and it certain makes what lie beyond graduation look alot less intimidating.


and so, thanks to glenfiddich and the grey goose, i woke up at 2 yesterday, which inexplicably pissed off my grandmother who gave me a barrage of cantonese curses all scolding me for being the sloth that i am. then it was the family stuff, attending my niece, ashley's 5th birthday celebration. for some reason, whenever it's one kid's birthday, there seems to be a unspoken code in which the other kids will also share the limelight and cut the cake together with the birthday kid which i suspect is an ingenious ploy conceived by parents to avoid pangs jealousy from the non-birthday kids. yet it's far from a perfect solution, as a fight almost broke up between ashley and her feisty little cousin, and my favourite niece, claudia who's just four this year. apparantly, claudia was standing beside ashley when she was cutting her cake and ashley started shouting and accused claudia of blowing her candles when she's the birthday girl, to which claudia screamed and protested her innonence and started banging the table. and god knows what happened, moments later, they're all friends again, hugging together, taking photos. kids are weird. they fight and they forget. incidently, a similar event happened last CNY at my place where much to the horror of Tom who was there too, Claudia tried to push Ashley down the stairs. This whole cousin rivalry thing is really funny considering that it's somewhat an extension of the sibling rivalry between Cassandra (my godsister/cousin and Claudia's mum) who used to bully her elder sister Sharon (who's Ashley's mum). anyway, violent tendencies and上一代的恩恩怨怨 aside, they're really really cute, and i think i'm going post some of their recent photos on my blog. here's one from sometime ago.


from left: Ashley, Me and Claudia.

I probably don't have time to blog about the rest of the evening cos' i gotta get shaved and prepared for that interview. Yeah, i have to get shaved. i just look so wrong in that photo.....
till next time. tata.