Wednesday, January 02, 2008
First day of work for 2008. The day I am left to drown and to fend for myself. Others would reckon I should be celebrating my new promotion. I am actually dreading it. Too much uncertainty amid all this chaos. And no, my promotion doesn’t come hand in hand with a fat pay cheque. But I guess that also makes things easier should I decide one day to jump ship. Enuff of work. Simply bcos I dunno where it’s taking me.
NYE was a fairly quiet affair this year. Gone are the days where I love crowds. No pushing and shoving on the streets, no sticky and sweaty bodies in the clubs. I went to pick Chixy up from Kel’s house then we went Heartland Mall for some bites and drinks at HK Café. Tubs and Marcus came to look for us there before dropping Chixy off.
We decided to go Cosy Bay hoping to catch the fireworks but when the clock stuck midnite, all we had was the sound of firworks. Haha. We weren’t that disappointed though. We had a nice spot to sit, we had beer from Brewerks, everyone around us was happy, people were playing with canned foam and steamers and sparklers.
After Dan & Sharon came, we headed over to Punggol Park and they were closing oready so there were no more food orders. Tubs and Marcus went to the nearby coffeeshop and tapao-ed sping chicken, fries, oh luat, hokkien mee back for everyone to share.
Slept til evening on New Year’s Day and lazed around. Shiok. At nite, we decided to have a good meal so we went to ECP Seafood Center cos I was super craving bamboo clams BUT it was the wrong season so not a single restaurant had it. There were so many restaurants there and we couldn’t decide which to eat at. We finally chose the quietest one cos the service was great, plus they didn’t charge 10%, we didn’t have to pay if the food wasn’t up to par, and UOB card had additional 10% discount.
We ordered, fried noodles, black pepper crab, hotplate tofu, deep fried soon hock and cereal prawns. Lolx. Yes, just the 2 of us. We ended up tapaoing the noodles and I gotta say it was a damn shiok meal.
I think this is a fairly weird feeling New Year. I dunno how to describe it. It may be an omen for all I know. Or it may be nothing at all. I gotta try to clear my head abit. Usually once it reaches the first day of the year, I am in a good mood and my mind is fresh. But this year…… *sigh* I can’t even blog coherently.
I haven’t seen my darlings in too long. Mandy’s still not back yet cos one of her passengers passed away in Taiwan airport so she has to stay to assist the family so she’ll only be back tomorrow.
But once she’s back, everything is gonna be back on track!
Asphyxiated at at 12:20 PM
