The one with the 表叔s

The little ones engender such profound yet subtle effects on adults. Sometimes you won’t realize that you’re doing things that you don’t normally do. So awhile ago, i was thinking what the baby nephew would call my cousins by.

I established that the baby nephew would call my eldest female cousin as 大表姑. Then the others would be 二表姑, 三表姑 and so on. Alternatively, they can be called using their names like 阿婷表姑.

Then when i come to the uncles, i kind of got lost. Here’s a tricky question. My 2nd auntie has a son who is one month younger than my 3rd auntie. So which one is the 大表叔?

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The one where i make a random update

I hadn’t been blogging much. The reason is that i’ve been devoting alot of time and energy into my mmorpg. I have three characters in the mmorpg, one for each class. Just a while ago, i thought it peculiar that all three of my characters begin with the letter L.

There’s lbandit, Lymeth and Lizzie Elspeth. Well, the third name would have remained as Lizzie if i had the choice. But more often than not, the name Lizzie would have already been used by someone else. So in my games, i usually just append Elspeth to Lizzie.

Anyway anyway. I’ve just signed up for the Addidas Sundown run. And i’ll be running..

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Twenty one kilometers ^.^

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The one with christmas presents

I went to my cousin’s house for the christmas dinner celebration. Food was impressive. The spread included turkey (whole, i think), ham, kebab, satay, roast chicken wings, sambal eggs, some sweet pastries, cooked salmon pieces, sotong balls, siew mai and one more dimsum thing which i can’t name, various vegetables, noodles, yam rice. Not sure if i forgot any food. For dessert, there was bo bo cha cha, log cake and lots of coke. No diet coke : ( nuuuuuuuuu..

I chose not to participate in this year’s christmas gift-exchange for whatever depressive and angry reasons. In fact, i had decided not to participate in any gift-exchange ever after. Until just hours ago, i think i might change my mind and participate next year. I recieved five presents for not participating in the gift exchange !!

Five presents! Gosh, people love me..

Set of body shop product which includes facial wash, shaving cream, after shave and one more tube called face protector. I have no idea how to use that tube.. Its description is, “MOISTURISES and helps skin feel FIRMER, enriched with Peruvian maca root.”. Upper casing not done by me. Anyway, firmer makes me think of boobs..

Bicycle back lights. The LEDs emit red light. Oo, my bicycle is becoming prettier, lol.

Good ol’ cookies. Who doesn’t love them.

Mug again! And a huge gigantic one at that. Um.. i think i better shut it about what i find wrong with a huge mug, lol. This is after all the third mug from her. I’ll start using this mug as my daily beverage mug.

The cover on the mug is not part of the mug. It’s a cover mum bought and found that it was way too big for everything she had. And then with a stroke of inspiration, she dug out the cover and placed it on the mug and it fits perfectly. With matching color too!

Bookmark! Like my mugs, i actually do have very fussy requirements for my bookmarks too. Basically, it must be flat, and have soemthing that dangles out, and one piece that doesn’t have any slots for pages. That is, the bookmark is slotted into the book, rather than a page from the book being slotted into the bookmark. If you get what i mean.

A Precious Moments bookmark !! No prizes for guessing which is my favourite christmas present, lol.

Anyway, i always thought getting a present for me was a hassle. Frankly, i’d have no idea what to get for myself if i picked my own name for a gift-exchange. However, this year i got some very nice presents. A mug, a bicycle back light, and a Precious Moments bookmark. I’ll say that the gifters put some thought into the gifts.

Cards.

Inside of the cards.

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The one with the girl called Lymeth

Ok, i just realized that the previous post was boring in the extreme and that no one in his/her right mind would want to read something like that. So here’s a make up for it.

I’ve been playing a particular mmorpg alot recently. My ingame character is a female by the name of Lymeth. I don’t chat much in the game and try to be as helpful as possible. But i still don’t give in to ingame beggars most of the time.

Anyway, i don’t understand why, but people seem to like my character alot. It’s not like i flirt with any of them. In fact, given an opportunity, i would try to give fake details to turn potential suitors away. Like being divorced with baby or being lesbian.

But of course, i could simply have stated that i’m a guy. But what’s the fun in that. It’s mmorpg no? Where rpg stands for role playing game >:) I’m evil like that.

Anyway, there’s one particular guy who’s coming onto me pretty strongly.

I’m the girl with the santa hat. He’s the mage on the right. I was sitting down, afk and all, and he came to sit infront of me giving me the hearts emoticon -_-”

Then another time, i was mobbing (rounding up) the monsters and was running around with a i’m-in-deep-shit emoticon. And then he comes along with several others to finish up the mob. He comes up to me and says in general chat, “I’ll protect you, Lymeth”. Man.. how corny can one get..

Maybe i should’ve replied, “My hero..” and give him a hearts emoticon, muahahahaha >:)

Then another time, someone released a huge monster and some of us were busy slapping pillows (part of the game) at it. So one other person who was also slapping pillows said, “Save me!”. Then this guy replies, “I will only save Lymeth.” and stands by watching us slap our pillows at the huge monster -_-”

Omgwtfbbq!

What the hell is wrong with him. If i were a girl, i would be so turned off loh. All girls like their guys to be kindly and friendly and helpful, no? Atleast i know my inner-girl does.

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The one where i don’t remember

I used to forget the things that happened several days ago. I think it’s getting worse. I don’t remember much of what happened today. I vaguely remember waking up while it was still dark with the baby crying and all.

Mum came out of the bedroom to take care of things. So i did what i did best, which was to sleep under the commotion. I remember waking up after the sky had lighten up.

Hmm.. Missing days..

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The one with the little one waking at 0500

Time now is 0520. The baby woke at 0500 having wetted his pants and shirt. His first feed was still two hours away, but there was no stopping the force of nature. Fed him at 5+, mum heard the cries and came out of the bedroom and is now putting the baby back to sleep.

While waiting for the littler one to finish his milk, i lay back onto the mattress to attempt to sleep. But i couldn’t and my mind wandered. I began thinking about the girl i saw just the night before. I was at my aunt’s place for dong ji (winter day; where we eat glutinous flour balls) and was coming home on my bicycle.

Anyway, i only caught a glimpse of the girl, long hair and stuff, 10th floor, my wing of the building. She could be living above me, lol. (Security cameras in the lift with the Tv in the void deck invades privacy that much.)

So the imagination wandered and i imagined talking to her, she was asking about the baby, then asked me to go her house for a coffee or something, entered the house to discovered it empty, no one else was home, she lived alone, and happy things usually evolves from there, lol.

Hmm.. coffee sounds nice now.

So here i am, blogging about my neighbour whom i’ve not even seen the face.. Oh well..

Ok, mum has managed to put herself to sleep. Baby is not one bit sleepy at all. Now turning to my direction at the computer, i don’t think it’s going to be long before he starts screaming for me.

Ok.. ciao. Baby to attend to.

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The one with paypal

I tried to pay for something with Paypal the other day. But i couldn’t. The reason was that my historical transactions had hit a total of $2000 in payment. Which meant that i could no longer pay through Paypal unless i verified my card with Paypal.

Yes, omg.. I’ve bought $2000 worth of stuff online. Unimaginable.

Anyway, i got Paypal to begin with the card verification process. To do that, Paypal charged me $3 so that i would have a pin-code in the item description in the bill for me to submit to Paypal to verify my card. Not too much of a hassle with Internet banking. I could see the item in the transactions history after a couple of days.

After that, the $3 was refunded to me and now sits in Paypal. Now.. what do i do with that?

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The one in the grand ballroom

Yesterday was Mr Omy’s wedding. The poly (polytechnic) friend whose wedding i mentioned that i was invited to some posts ago. The guy whom i said was so eligible that i would marry if i liked guys. Or was that Mr How?

The invitation was addressed to Master Wong (no, not my army rank). The sitting list had me on it as Master Wong. So i suspect that Mr Omy doesn’t know my name at all. Oh well..

The wedding was at Orchid Country Club’s Grand Ballroom. When one reads the words grand ballroom, one would think that it’s just a fancy name for a normal ballroom. Like King’s Ballroom or something like that.

So i entered the ballroom and i was like omg, grand was a descriptive word. The ballroom was huge, with a circle balcony as the second level.

I’ve seen 20 tables in a ballroom and every nook and corner of the room would be filled. Chairs would knock with chairs from another table. The Grand Ballroom had 76 (Mr Omy is rich sia..) tables and there is enough space to drive a buggy to the stage.

Which the bride and groom did. Well, they didn’t drive, someone else drove while they stood in it, waving to the guests. Imagine the job of the SG president and you’ll know what i mean.

This wedding dinner, like big sis YyY’s wedding dinner, was fun. It was like a poly gathering! Faces i hadn’t seen in ten years suddenly appeared. Some rounder (guys), others slimmer (girls).

I’ll do a long almost-digression here, coz Mr How requested for some blog content. Every now and then, when i go running, along the way, i would see this girl in missy uniform walking in a direction opposite from mine. I had a vague idea that she might be my poly classmate, but she never seem to show any recognition beyond mere glances.

So it was, i’ve been running pass this girl several times at different hours of the day over the span of the year, coz she being a missy has shift hours and me being me had all hours of the day to run.

Until i decided one day that the next time i run toward the girl, i would call out the name of my poly classmate to see if the girl would actually respond.

I didn’t bump into her again after i made up my mind to do the afore-mentioned.

Until Mr Omy’s wedding that is. I approached Ms Qy and said, “我每次跑步的时候会看到一个很相你的女孩, 那个是你吗”. I thought it pretty spiffy of me to be able to convey the exact intent of my query in a single stream of words.

Obtw, Ms Qy and the girl i saw in the street, they’re the same. So i told Ms Qy to say hi to me the next time she sees me running toward her, lol.

There were two girls at our table, Ms Qy and Ms Lixia. We were in engineering back in poly after all. Not a hot favourite for girls back then. Both married. Ms Lixia changed alot. Slimmed down a-huge-lot.

I’ve always liked Ms Lixia. She’s a rather friendly person and was about the only girl who actually talks to me in poly. And she wasn’t even in the same class.

Disclaimer for the previous paragraph. Please do not let romantic interests take monopoly of the word like.

Oh wait.. there were three girls at our table. The third girl is the wife of one of the guys.

At the table, i was thinking about what to say if one of them decides to ask me what i was doing. I was thinking of self-employed post-beta stress-tester specializing in the computer gaming industry. I work long hours from around 7am/9am to 1am+ at night.

Fortunately, no one asked me. Or no one asked me directly that is.

For my referencing. Mr Teddy work brings him around. No idea what he does. His wife is a missy too. Mr Philip is getting married next year. ROM in Jan. Wedding in mid-year. Mr How’s wedding is year after next. Ms Lixia works in a bank, don’t remember which bank. She is on the server-side. Mr Xinwei is on the project-side.

P.S. Can someone who reads my blog please tell Mr Omy that i want the photograph of our table? I think that would be only Mr How, lol.

Miss Icy Cool, marry me !! You know my marriage proposal to that random girl in the previous post was in jest.

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The one with ballet

The time now is 0315. I begin my post.

The day began nondescript. Mmorpg as usual. No one reminded me to bring the tix for the ballet thingy. Fortunately, i remembered myself at the last minute. Phew.

What ballet thingy? Well.. my cousin’s dancing class has this performance thing and she has a part in two of the fourteen scenes. Attended something similar two years ago. But since i’ve lost a year of my life after quitting my job (i don’t remember anything of it), it seems like it was only last year.

Anyway, i met sworn cousin and their friend Zen at Cityhall before heading over to the theatre. Decided to buy flowers. Again they chose a single flower boquet. Again i was against it, i always prefered multiple flowers boquet. Well..

Zen said that my cousin likes white roses and that we should get the white roses instead of the.. i have no idea what flower we picked. I think it was germanium or something like that.

That’s when i did my rolls eyes thing. With regard to liking white roses.. You know. I know. She knows we know. We know she knows we know. So why not just let her boyfriend do the white roses thing and we give some other colors? If everyone in the know gives only white roses, she’ll never get flowers of other colors.

Obtw.. the flowers thing.. what happens is that at the end of the performance, people, friends and families, gives flowers to their loved ones who performed in the performance. So that’s why we were getting flowers.

Got to Victoria Concert Hall, got redirected next door to Victoria Theatre, got into our seats and switched off our phones and waited. Our seats were 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14. I think. Zen took 10, me 11, sworn cousin 12. 13 and 14 was dancing cousin’s one among five best friends and boyfriend.

While waiting, i caught sight of the dancing cousin’s brother. Came with girlfriend of three years. First time i’ve seen her in person. Akwardly pertified when i sat beside her to talk over her to my cousin. Well, the seat beside my cousin was occupied.

As i was heading back to my seat, someone was occupying a seat near us resulting in me having to excuse my way in. After i shimmied past the guy, it suddenly occured to me that that guy was in seat 14. I don’t know the cousin’s boyfriend’s face, but since this guy is in the right seat, i hailed him anyway, “Hello Victor.”. I’m not sure if he even knows who was hailing him, lol. I’m not a big fan of introductions.

Hmm.. i’m very friendly liao loh. I greeted him wor..

Anyway, the performance began with some spiffy fast non-ballet dancing with lots of screaming by the dancers. Sworn cousin didn’t like it. I thought it kind of refreshing.

The pas de deuxs were nice even if all were quite similar. The gymnastic cum ballet thing was also nice. The costumes for the Beauty and the Beast scenes were impressive. The one where the dancers were in red.. was it tutu? was also kind of nice.

After the performance, we were waiting for the dancing cousin to change and come out. There were three boquets. One with three white roses from her friend. One with 4 roses (i think) 2 white, 2 pinkish from her boyfriend. And between sworn cousin, zen and me, we shared only one flower. See, told you we were cheapskate.

Anyway, as i said, we were waiting and the boyfriend was holding onto two boquets. He said he wanted to go to the toilet and passed the flowers to me. So i was holding the program in one hand and the flowers in the other hand.

Then this young babe in purple (i think) top came up to me with a camera to ask me to help her take a photo with her friends. So what did you think LB was gonna do. What else does he ever do when approached by lovely young babes.

I raised my (technically my cousin’s) flowers and said my (in)famous line: “Will you marry me?”

I kind of mumbled it out considering that i’m a shy guy afterall. She didn’t quite hear what i said but saw me raising the flowers and asked Zen to help them take a photo instead.

Actually, i think she heard what i mumbled. Just that she couldn’t exactly be sure that what she heard was really what i said. I mean like, you don’t expect guys to randomly ask you to marry him when you ask him to help you take a photo.

Anyway i thought i caught her eyeing me eyeing her after that, lol. You know you want me, babe.

So what’s worse than a rejection after you proposed to your (potential) one true love? You get totally ignored.

Anyway.. it was off to Macdonalds, my most hated food. By the time we parted, it was pass midnight. Headed off to get a taxi at Fullerton Hotel we did.

I hadn’t checked my savings account balance in a long time. When i did recently, i discovered that i’m kind of in a critical red zone. I can no longer afford conveniences like taxis if i’m to survive the next few months.

So when the person who lives in Toa Payoh asked me if i’m sharing a taxi with someone who lives further away from me than Toa Payoh, i know no one is going to give me a free ride.

So i walked.

Aimlessly.

I figured if i get to Suntec -> Dhoby Ghaut -> Orchard Road -> Serangoon Road, i would be home eventually. As walking around aimlessly doesn’t exactly get you places, i ended up in Bugis (seems like all roads lead to Bugis for me) backtracked a little, came to Beach Road, and decided to walk along Beach Road just to see what happens.

Fortunately, an idea struck me before lightning did (it was drizzling slightly). “Follow the bus route”, a voice from above resounded to me. So i did, following bus 100’s route, came to Kallang MRT and i was like.. hey, i could use the park connector and cut over to Braddell.

Hell.. the distances seemed so much shorter when i’m on a bicycle.

Along the park connector, came to Yvonne’s block, briefly considered waking her up with a text so she could bring me a drink, but decided against it coz it was 0200+ and i was a nice guy.

Along the park connector, came to Serangoon Road, and i was like.. hey, i’m back on track. So i followed Seragoon Road, which was the original plan, which was also a big detour and finally came home.

The time now is 0405. Here i end my post. Good morning, blogosphere.

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