New Shoes – Again

Haha, so I bought another pair of shoes last Saturday.  I mean, really, that North Face outdoor shoes is really giving my heels some problem.  I really have to wait till my heel cushions are shipped in before I can wear them again.  Bought a new pair of running shoes at Decathlon with a surprisingly springy heel cushion – and it’s an unheard brand Kalenji.  After Googling a little, I found out that it was Decathlon’s own brand.  Most of their models are relatively cheaper than Nike/Reebok and the likes, but this particular pair of shoes is slightly over a hundred, so it’s actually not that cheap anyway.  But it’s really quite comfortable, and both Bruno and I bought the same pair – same colour too.  I laughingly told him he can never wear this pair of shoes to my home if my parents are at home, or else they’ll gonna get the wrong idea.  I’ll take a picture of the shoes this Friday… if I remember.

My mom’s now in Japan enjoying her atas travel with my cousins.  I’ll have to be waking up earlier for this whole week to prepare and tidy the house, do the necessary stuff like boiling water so that my dad has drinking water, wiping down table tops etc… after work, I have to go home to sweep the floor and wash clothes.. hmmm.  I’m not exactly complaining though.  It’s something that I’ll have to do for myself when I get my own little apartment anyway.

 

Updates.. and then some

Japan Trip

Went to JTB last Thursday to book for the Tokyo accommodation, so that we can ask them to help us buy the Ghibli Museum tickets.  But you know what?  They are marking up the accommodation prices by almost 50%.  Like, erm, really?  A room for 3 nights – I can get from Japanican.com at SGD800+, but they are charging me SGD1,400+.  Like, wow.  Literally wow.  We decided to not go for it, and give up on the hope of going to Ghibli Museum (this time, we’ll get there eventually!).  So I’ve booked the hotel on Japanican.com and now, waiting for certain dates to tie up the loose ends.

Things left to do:

  • Remind Kyoto hotel to assist with application of visit permit to Kokedera
  • Confirming Shirakawa-go accommodation with the ryokan on 1st October
  • Book Nomi Bus for the Shirakawa-Go trip
  • Change enough YEN for the trip
  • Double confirming the train timings so that we can purchase all the train tickets in advance at Narita Airport

Hope everything will go smoothly as planned. *crosses fingers*

Gaming

After the conclusion of The International 6, Dota 2 community is kinda in a lull right now.  Teams have been disbanded and rosters are in a disarray now.  There’s so many rumours going on that I’m kinda immune to all.  Now we are just waiting for official team line up announcements.

In the meantime, I’m just playing World of Warcraft’s latest expansion: Legion. I’m levelling as a Discipline priest, which is surprisingly doable.  Yeah, granted I can’t heal much, it’s about just enough for solo play.  Most of the time I hardly need to heal myself.  At scenarios against level ?? bosses, the NPCs will help to heal me.  Whenever my HP goes to half, I’ll get healed and I just need to spend my mana on offensive spells.  And being a disc priest, there’s literally only 3 buttons to press for offensive spells: Smite, Purge the Wicked, and Penance.  That’s all, really.  It should be boring, but it isn’t really.  I played WoW for the whole day yesterday, and I didn’t really get any fatigue. I find it refreshing that now, quest rewards can randomly be upgraded.  A green reward item can randomly become a blue, or a blue item could get randomly upgraded to legendary when it dropped into your bag.

Gathering professions in WoW have also been improved.  Nodes are shared (you don’t need to rush to get that herb and worry that it’ll be gone after someone got to it before you), and you can get random profession-related item on top of whatever you are gathering.  Take fishing, for example, I can get random fish which I could throw back to the water to get permanent 5 levels to my fishing skill.  Or I could get baits that could help me fish up even more unique fishes.  I’ve always quite like fishing, so I foresee I’ll be fishing pretty often in Legion.  Heh.

Misc

Jewel Coffee opened up a branch at Millenia Walk!  Yay!  Walking distance from my office to a good cuppa.  Starbucks is actually rubbish, now that more and more decent coffee connoisseur chains popped up. I think I might just stop drinking Starbucks once I’ve redeemed all the free drinks.

I’m going for Frozen Planet in concert this Thursday! I’ve been waiting for it for two years. I’ve managed to procure 2 tickets and I’m gonna drag Bruno to go with me lol.  I think he’ll be napping halfway through though… :x

I’ve pledged for 2 Bobby backpacks via Kickstarter, and have received them!  I think I -might- bring it for the Japan trip – but we’ll see how it goes.

Sigh, now with the haze and dengue issue, we now have to worry about Zika.  And my block is just right outside the Zika cluster border at Bedok North Ave 3.  Insect repellents have sold out everywhere, but I’ve managed to order some online via Giant website, so hopefully I’ll be getting some OFF! insect repellent lotion later.  I’ve also bought an essential oil burner for my mom as she wants one in the living room, and the seller has offered it together with a free essential oil, so I chose Lemongrass (naturally) to repel the insects.  Not sure when I’ll be getting that… hopefully soon!

I’ve been repeating this song on youtube/iTunes for quite a bit.  The lyrics are so sad… it tugs my heart strings everytime he sang “你退半步的动作认真的吗? 小小的动作伤害还那么大”. T_T

绅士
作词:薛之谦
作曲:薛之谦
编曲:郑伟、张宝宇

好久没见了什么角色呢
细心装扮着
白色衬衫的袖扣是你送的
尽量表现着像不在意的
频繁暴露了自欺欺人者
越掩饰越深刻
你说我说听说
忍着言不由衷的段落
我反正决定自己难过
我想摸你的头发
只是简单的试探啊
我想给你个拥抱
像以前一样可以吗
你退半步的动作认真的吗
小小的动作伤害还那么大
我只能扮演个绅士
才能和你说说话
我能送你回家吗
可能外面要下雨啦
我能给你个拥抱
像朋友一样可以吗
我忍不住从背后抱了一下
尺度掌握在不能说想你啊
你就当刚认识的绅士
闹了个笑话吧
尽量表现着善解人意的
频繁暴露了不欲人知的
越掩饰越深刻
想说听说别说
忍着言不由衷的段落
我反正注定留在角落
我想摸你的头发
只是简单的试探啊
我想给你个拥抱
像以前一样可以吗
你退半步的动作认真的吗
小小的动作伤害还那么大
我只能扮演个绅士
才能和你说说话
我能送你回家吗
可能外面要下雨啦
我能给你个拥抱
像朋友一样可以吗
我忍不住从背后抱了一下
尺度掌握在不能说想你啊
你就当刚认识的绅士
闹了个笑话吧
你能给我只左手
牵你到马路那头吗
我会像以前一样
看着来往的车子啊
我们的距离在眉间皱了下
迅速还原成路人的样子啊
越有礼貌我越害怕
绅士要放得下

等着

信,写好了。

心情,暂时收拾起来了。

就等着对的时机,就会把信交给你。可能是几个月后;可能是一年后;可能是几年后。

那时的我,应该是心痛过了,累过了,不想再折磨自己了。也许,到时那对我会是一个解脱。虽然会是个结束,但也会是一个新的开始。你我都是。

Terribly tired

You know, sometimes I was thinking… maybe it’s better if I can just die in my sleep.

I doubt many people would notice my absence / miss me anyway. I don’t have many friends that I talk daily with, LOL.

… Yeah.  How nice would that be?

If one day I disappear from the face of earth… what would you do?

Maybe I’m just bored out of my mind at work now, to be thinking about all these.

Maybe I should just go plan my Japan trip.

But I don’t feel like planning Japan trip.  Just wanna, you know, walk around and explore when I’m there.

Meh.

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我,是你填补寂寞空档的人。

Quick update

Yes I’m still alive!

Just a quick update:-

  1. I jerked too much on my W4 cable, and the right connection broke off internally I think.  No choice but to buy a new pair of IEMs – and I went for W30.  It’s odd but even though it’s a downgrade in specs (W4 has four way drivers while W30 only has three way drivers), it actually sounds better than my W4.  Weird.
  2. I finally signed up for Friends of the Garden membership – that will allow me unlimited entries to Flower Dome and Cloud Forest at Gardens by the Bay!  And immediately upon collecting my member card, I went to the Tulipmania exhibition!  Very nice exhibition this year, way better than last year’s! Got a couple of photos posted up on Facebook, but I’ll post more here when I have the time.
  3. Na’Vi is back!  China doto is back! Too bad I can’t catch tonight’s SLI GF as it’ll be way too late when it starts and I have to work tomorrow.  But I’m still hoping for a Chinese team to win it.  Asian pride, kappa!  :3
  4. Caught a couple of movies this year already – didn’t really have the chance to list them all down.  Caught The Jungle Book yesterday (not too shabby, but the child actor was pretty bad – not much facial expressions at all actually). Maybe I’ll do it in my next post or something… but gotta go soon, meeting up with Bruno to catch Huntsman: Winter’s War.

But yeah that’s about it!

PS: Hate the horrible hot weather lately omg. I’m perspiring as I type this… even though there’s a fan right behind me.  -_-

 

Dream

So, I had like the weirdest dream ever.

It’s almost as if I’m part of a movie/game plot. I was a princess (oh, how predictable /s ) of some small city/village/whichever you name it, and due to some treaty, a bunch of my people and I need to be exiled / leave our land. Willingly.

So okay, the people who were leaving started streaming out and bidding tearful goodbyes, but I remembered feeling no sadness. There’s just endless green lovely fields right outside the village and different paths. Some people went this way, some went that way (I guess they were all heading to other villages or something), and when I stepped out, I started heading another path which had considerably less people, and I had no idea where that path would lead to.

Suddenly, almost like your typical RPG title, some text popped up in front of me and told me I’m supposed to lead my people despite being exiled. And I still remembered in my dream, I was pretty pissed and kinda said it out loud, “Huh wtf kenna exiled liao still want me to lead? Everyone went on their own ways liao leh, how to gather them up?!”

*cough* Yes, I think 1) I played too much games; 2) its quite obvious that I hate responsibilities; 3) I think I just preferred to be left alone, seriously. I’ve left the restrictive royal family, now give me my peace!

Anyway, I don’t remember if I did follow the instructions, but I did remember there was a guy with me. Now as you know, other people are just faceless humans in dreams, so don’t ask me who he is. I have no idea.

So, this guy kinda stuck through thick and thin with me, being an awesome company and all… We explored unknown lands, ventured to the coast and watch the horizon, the clouds, the ships that sailed by, etc.

Can’t remember what happened in between, but somehow another guy turned up and he was someone whom I was in a mutual relationship with. OK that’s not the right term, but its like… It’s somehow being seen upon by many that I would end up marrying him (if I wasn’t exiled, that is). So this guy turned up to “save” me and bring me back to his kingdom and I’ll get to be a princess (or queen?) again.

So, cool. It wasn’t just a status match thing, but seems like this guy really liked me.

But somehow, I didn’t go with him immediately, and the three of us were like spending the days together instead. My awesome company started to be a little quiet as the prince-status dude was a little condescending towards him. So I kinda ignored that pompous ass and just turned my attention to the friend who stayed by my side throughout.

So, the day finally came when I was supposed to go back with the pompous ass, and I guess that was what everyone was expecting me to do. Somehow I managed to get my hands on a large canvas, and I started drawing a portrait. The pompous ass laughed at my work and said he totally can’t get what I was drawing. And when I was done, I told my friend to stand opposite side of me, and I turned the drawing 90° and faced him.

Guess what? The drawing was unrecognisable if you looked it at normally, but once you turn it, the portrait was my friend’s face. (Like really, I suck at drawing. I have NO idea why I would think my drawing is so godlike in my dream.)

So… That’s where the dream ended. ANTI CLIMAX RIGHT? I KNOW. There’s no proper ending, I don’t know did I really go become a princess / queen in the end, or did I reject him and end up exploring the rest of the world with my friend. But knowing myself, I doubt I would want to live the rest of my life with a pompous ass. :3

Anyway that’s that. Thought it was too weird and funny, so I just wrote it down here before I forget about it. 

In other news, I’m now totally addicted to playing Grim Dawn while streaming DOTA2 live games on my mobile at the same time. :D

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不是你的,就永远都不属于你。

不能勉强的事,就不该去勉强。

不能控制的事,就放手吧。

不是你的,再怎么牢牢抓住,都不会是你的。

Let go of the things that you have no control over.  Let go of the things that never belonged to you.

Only then, you’ll become a happier person.

Wait what?

So where do I start?

Plenty of stuff happened… yet it feels like nothing much happened.

Hong Kong trip’s over, and although there’s some really bad incidents that happened during the trip, I’m really way too tired to recount those incidents here.  At least the trip ended well, though my mom started nagging the moment we stepped back into our house.  Sigh… so much for a “happy” ending.  I hadn’t bothered to do any write ups, upload any photos, and geez I didn’t even bother to do reviews on Tripadvisor.  Darn.  What’s with this laziness….

Bruno recently taught me some basics of DOTA 2 (did I mention that he was a semi-competitive pro DOTA 2 player?), and we had fun watching the just-concluded Shanghai Major.  We met like 3 times consecutively after work to catch the games together on his tablet, mostly at Suntec because there’s free Wifi to take advantage of.  Streaming of video just eats so much data, omg.  Although the event was a huge mess, there’s some really awesome dota games that went on.  And even though I’m still newb at everything, at least now I roughly know what exactly the game is about, what objectives are the teams trying to achieve and what they are trying to do in the game.  DOTA is definitely not a game that I will play as it requires too much strategy and skills (yes I’ll admit that I suck when it comes to using brains in a game, and I have zero gaming skills), but it was much fun watching the games.  Just like I’ve never played StreetFighter, but I love watching those tourneys too.  And Bruno was very patient in teaching me certain game play terms, some rules here and there, some character abilities, etc.  And it helped a little, I guess, that I’m familiar with Warcraft races and skills. But I have to give credit where it’s due – Bruno’s a good teacher.  Thank you!  :D

Oh, and I was somehow swooning at two guys from Team Liquid, who happen to be Finns.  :3 Hey I didn’t know they are Finns until I googled about them… Too bad they have girlfriends already, haha!  =X

The next Major will be held in Philippines, and Bruno and I have this crazy idea to fly there just to catch the games.  LOL!  I mean, it’s quite rare to have a Major held so close to Singapore, so I guess Manila is probably the closest it can get for us.  But yeah I guess we’ll see if we can grab the event tickets this Saturday first.

And no, in case any of you reading this is wondering, no no no Bruno and I are not together.  Nor will we be together.  He isn’t looking for a relationship (he values his freedom too much) and it’s really purely just friendship between us.  Okay, maybe slightly more than friends, since we know each other’s innermost secrets, but that’s where the line is and we both have no interest in crossing that line. Yes we enjoy each other’s company, but no, we really are not that compatible.

On to work~  Work has been dull.. it’s just a mad rush every first two weeks, and then slack for two weeks, and then mad rush again.  I don’t know how long can I continue to do this… sigh.  But what else can I do anyway?  Meh.

Hadn’t been playing any PC games lately.  Was so addicted to Crusaders Quest for the past couple of months, and now that I’m gonna quit that game (I just haven’t uninstall it), I’m suddenly at a loss what to do.  Yeah I have some games in Steam that I haven’t touch (Bastion is one… it’s just sitting there in my Steam library), some games that I wanna replay (oh Neverwinter Nights, how much I’ve missed you), some old games that I’ve just bought (hi, Arcanum~), and some games that I’m waiting for DRM-free version before I buy (oh yes, I’m looking at you, Grim Dawn).  So, we’ll see just what I’ll play this weekend. Hurhur.