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Saturday, April 09, 2005

attachment, detachment

thursday marked the end of my internship with defence science & technology agency, to be frank i am happy that there won't be anymore early mornings and late nights every weekday and spending short weekends with loved ones. yet a tinge of sadness lingers in my heart when i left the office, contradictory as it may sound but; i guess i'm attached to the people and things around me during the 4 months spent with the company.

you know how it's like, when the relationship between total strangers begin to build up over a certain period of time, just when they are getting all attached to each other, you are forced to leave them? i don't know how this works for the rest of you but i hate it when the relationship just stop developing from there, be it a friend-friend relationship or whatsoever. the feeling of detachment has quite a bit of funny effect on me, i wonder if any of it has surfaced lol..

oh well, ringo treated a small group of us to curry fish head at ymca around orchard, chee wei drove us around the neighborhood to check out some really cool houses; quite an eye-opener for me. on the trip back, we drove past a primary school and was shocked to see a bunch of kids cornering a small boy!! well anna wanted to stop the car and shout at those kids but we kinda sped pass them so we just continued on with ringo sharing his experience with fights back then in secondary school~

later that day, we celebrated zihao's birthday but got the wet blanket when we found out chinablack was closed, so much for our excitement eh? nevertheless, we decided to make a trip down to boat quay and settle with a pub and indeed, the chocolate bar was our choice of the night!! can't really say that it was a gud choice nor was it a bad choice, the waitress was trying so hard to persuade us to buy a bottle of vodka for 180 bucks rather than wasting money, in her own context, buying 3 jugs of drinks. zihao as usual couldn't make up his mind so after a lot of hesitation, we all settled for 3 jugs of vodka mixed with red bull, lime and sprite; we aren't heavy drinkers all right?

had a few games of pool with 2 indian guys, how nice of them to treat us to a jug of beer~ rayston and jianfei couldn't tell what brand of beer it was, well my speculation was beck's since the jug was labeled that and everywhere around the bar had labels of it, go figure~ headed off to grab a bite when a big group of malays took over the place, my head was spinning while my other friends were eating and chatting, shared a cab with tse yen back home, bathed and stoned on the sofa before crashing the bed.

friday was the post-internship briefing which i suppose was nothing more than a mere check of the log book. before i met up with my liaison officer, i attended a mini conference with a visiting professor from the united kingdom to review our course of study, it was pretty amusing when some of us shared their viewpoints on their 3 years of study here, but i kept quiet throughout the session, guess the atmosphere wasn't conducive enough for me to speak back then, tsk..

coming monday we'll be flying off to taipei!! started packing a little but will finalize everything by tomorrow, the itinerary has been decided and i'm planning the specifics, well in the midst of it but it'll be ready soon i hope lol~ looking at the itinerary, i'm reminded of how i missed the first 2 episodes of the o.c. and how soon it is i'll be missing the third episode in a row!? thank god i have my sources and i can catch up on the series anytime lol~

okay enough of me typing, it's getting way too long already and i suppose this is also way too long overdue? here are the photos taken during my birthday celebration last week:




won't be blogging until i come back from taipei, till then take care and peace people~

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