Just watched the movie Valentine's day today. Found it rather good actually, lotsaf rather interesting storylines in it, which are connected somehow. 1 most important theme bt the show is, good frens can actually become lovers.

Good frens as defined not by frens whom we are sort of close to, or just click with, but rather, people that we are just so comfortable around that you can share almost anything. N when I look back at the time I really liked someone, its simply cos she is someone I can actually trust to tell everything to... Someone whom I'm just so totally comfortable being ard... Guess the definition of 'the one' is really just that someone who can make me feel this way... Again...

I used to look down on ppl who have no life, spending all their energy on work...

Now I realise that tts exactly who I've become... And I feel their pain... Single, no interests, no plans on weekends, no one to hang out with...

A very different experience.

Memories.
Everything in the past just seemed so surreal in fact, its almost like a dream. N now i'm just trying to recap what that dream had.

Knn, I just hate talking to some people.
Why cant monolithic answers be taken as a "sry i dun want to talk" kind of answer?
Geez... I hope we will never talk again...

Just saw the political forum on cna 2 weeks ago. Slightly outdated but nevertheless, it offers a good enough representation of the parties...

In a forum such as this, it is easy to just list out issues and throw it out as things which the party has not done well. That has been done rather frequently by the opposition. It is always easy to say, XXX is an issue, we should do YYY. But ultimately, just like in every complex engineering system, there is a huge difference between saying and implementation. The current party has the experience in implementation, and from the way they speak, it just seems that they really know what they are talking about. In contrast, the other parties just do not give me the feeling that they really know what they are talking about. This just seems like my current job, where the locals seem to really know what they are doing and talking about, while when we draw focus to one issue, we are unable to see how it affects other issues. But we are learning.

Statistics has always been 1 major part of debates. People list figures, throw out figures and use them to explain what they mean. I.e. Lets take a simple statement to illustrate my point.
"80% of the households i visit are unhappy" This seems to present a rather cogent argument. But lets think about it.

How are the households selected? By random? or is there some selection bias?

How many households are there? You really need to understand the total population you are sampling, and then select a sample size that could actually provide meaningful statistics.

What does unhappy mean? Unhappy with a specific issue? Or unhappy about every issue? Now lets think a bit about how people think. If someone were to come up to me and ask me to list what i am unhappy about, i could definitely give a list. But if i was asked to list about things that I am happy about, well, I might just give a longer list. And it is just so natural of people to be selfish, i.e. we are self-centred and want better things for ourselves. So we just focus on anything, be it big or small that makes us unhappy, and complain about it. So the qn really is, are people really unhappy about EVERYTHING, or are they happy but just unhappy about 1 single thing?

Lastly, unhappy people != change in party. If i were to say, if a wife is unhappy with the husband, does it mean that she wants to divorce him? Or does she want him to improve himself? Similarly, it should not be assumed that citizens being happy would imply that we need more opposition parties.

Basically, all i am saying is that it is really easy to make sweeping statements to insinuate certain things. However, it is really important for us to not just take things at statement level, but rather, try to understand more of what is being said to judge whether people are making sweeping statements, or people are actually understanding totally what they are saying...

I have been sort of a workaholic for some time, but now I'm in my holiday mood le! Feels great to be gng on a trip to visit Jw n Mich... Cant wait to see them and see their baby...

This 1-2 weeks is definitely gonna be the best weeks i've had in a while... Overseas trip... Soccer almost everyday... New gym... N my roommate is finally gng away! Peace!!! N just discovered that there's a real nice bakery near my work place... So every morning I can go there n da bao some chocolate crossiant or some cheese pastry... The best thing bt the place is that it has a real fire furnace... N that actually seems to make the pastry better than a bakery with electric ovens.

N I'm so looking forward to this weekend... Arsenal vs Liverpool! After watching Liverpool thrash manc last night, I was ecstatic... Couldnt wait to see them play again... Then suddenly in the middle of watching, I picture 10 yrs down the road, my wife asking me to do some chores... Then I thought to myself, wife criteria number 1 = allow me to watch my game in peace... N then I further extended the criteria to living my life in peace... The thing about here is, its so completely boring but yet, everything's kindaf stable. No drama, no aggro and I'm actually in a relatively stable state. And I guess, I have sortaf found what I want. A stable life.

A surprisingly good 2 hours... I went to the travel agency and all of a sudden, I seem to have options...
Trip to Rhodes Island + Hotel for 900 USD.
Or ticket to States for 1.3k USD
Or Chelsea vs West ham for 1k pounds.

OR/AND

in may, Manu Chelsea for 1k pounds...

Now that's a good thing to decide on...

Then i went to the new gym... Haven hit the gym in over a week, mainly due to work n fatigue and my reluctance to try out the new place...But I finally did. And its better than what I expected. Not as professional and stressful as the private gyms in sg, but spacious, sort of new nonetheless. Better than the old definitely. N the crowd is younger, n better... I guess change can be good too at times...

I foresee a 8 pm leave work 8 30 workout, 930 shower 945 watch champion's league routine next week.

N the counter girl is rather cute... Cuter than the counter girl at the previous gym, n cuter than the girl i met in the bar... N I was so bored with life I actually asked for her number...

I hit my target... Now the next one will be 25... But it prob wun happen until sometime later. Its really hard to work OT alone, cos I cant open the door after 630. That means I cant go to the toilet from 630 until I decide to leave...

I'm glad the weekend is here... I can just sleep n rest n watch my soccer after a hard week of work... The hardest part is always the weekly update to sg... The time when I just feel that these bloody ppl just love overlooking me and all that I have achieved...

Deja Vu...
Guy irritates girl, girl tells guy off, guy continues irritating, girl tells guy off, Girl guy get into heated argument... and I go talk to both parties...
Nope, its not YnS-ish, but still why am I ALWAYS the middleman? And why cant people just handle their own emotions? I mean no matter what comes my way, I have been sucking things up... So why cant these people do the same? And I thought I was pampered and emo...

And that leaves me 20 - 5 - 3 - 4.5 = 7.5...

I am very pissed off yday... So pissed off I decided to set a target for the week: 20 hrs of OT... 5 down 15 to go...

But yday wasnt too bad a day... Went for a nice jog along the beach before heading to a pub. It wasnt opened yet, but I had the chance to have a nice conversation with a Manu fan about soccer... Its nice to be able to talk to people who are more moderate and respectful in their views...

Being the only guy wearing a Liverpool jersey during the Manu match, I had a crowd of MANU fan singing songs about how they hate Liverpool, Leeds, Man City behind me... Even though I did not turn my head back, but I have a feeling that they are pointing at me when they are singing that... Reminds me of the days in army when we used to sing songs... N how much those songs irritate me...

But for the first time here, I actually managed to make the acquaintance of a female whom I actually think is not bad... It was quite coincidental as I was just looking for a place to sit. And turns out that she is just sitting opposite of me. And that her fren was actually a Liverpool fan I knew from all the times we shared cheering/cursing at Liverpool... But unfortunately, I din get her number...

As I was walking home today, I smelled a very familiar scent... N it reminds me of someone...

Good weekend... Surprisingly...

Went out wif colleagues for dinner which was rather pleasant... actually, it was 2 colleagues + 1 spouse, without 1 colleague...

Then went out with another grp of frens today... Visited the Ba'hai Gardens, which was really nice, but the shrine just seems slightly empty and small, with nothing much inside. Considering that its the headquarters of a religion, perhaps i was expecting more... But I was dying in the car on the way back... Eyes kept closing... Been sleeping lesser over the past few days... But I'm glad there is work to do...

Now I'm just looking forward to the 3 soccer matches tmr, esp Liverpool vs West Brom... =)