{"id":45,"date":"2009-02-02T23:06:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T15:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2009-02-03T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:12:28","slug":"lifes-good-kinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/02\/lifes-good-kinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s Good&#8230; Kinda."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on leave tomorrow, as I have to bring Dad to the hospital for a neurology appointment.\u00a0 Since I don&#8217;t need to wake up early, I can afford to stay up a wee bit later than usual tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Work has been better lately, with Jane coming back from her maternity leave.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve passed her work back to her, with profuse apologies of course, for messing up all her stuff.\u00a0 XD\u00a0 Ey, at least I tried to keep it nice and tidy!\u00a0 It&#8217;s just not easy to juggle 2 persons&#8217; work for three months, you know&#8230; hmph.\u00a0 Well anyway, it&#8217;s back to normal for me!\u00a0 Yay, no more whining on Sundays about having to go work the next day.\u00a0 :D<\/p>\n<p>Just met Ka Wai and Yeh Yun for dinner last Thursday.\u00a0 Pei Fong was supposed to join us as well, but she was totally overworked and couldn&#8217;t make it the last minute.\u00a0 We headed to Sushi Tei at Raffles City (again &#8211; I kinda realised our meet ups were there most of the time o_O), and caught up with each other over dinner.\u00a0 Yun will be coming back for good at the end of this year, and Ka Wai is still happily married with some *cough*goodnews*cough*. (That&#8217;s an obvious hint already, right?\u00a0 XD)<\/p>\n<p>As usual, gossips and rumours went around the table, and some giggles here and there.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard not to laugh or smile when I&#8217;m with them.\u00a0 They knew what the right things are to say to crack me up, and my \u51b7\u7b11\u8bdd never fails to crack them up either.\u00a0 I have to say, I really treasure my friendship with these three ladies.\u00a0 They are the only people from AHS whom I&#8217;ve regularly kept in touch with (with the exception of Chang Yuan).\u00a0 Even with Facebook, I didn&#8217;t have a lot of AHS friends in my Friends list, because they only knew me by my Chinese name, not my Christian name which I used in my Facebook profile.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I could always have taken the initiative to add them and say &#8220;Ooooh, I&#8217;m Yanming!\u00a0 Remember?!?&#8221;\u00a0 But uh&#8230; I&#8217;ve only friended a few of them that way.\u00a0 All the others&#8230; well, never mind.\u00a0 I&#8217;m quite sure they won&#8217;t remember who I am anyway.\u00a0 :D<\/p>\n<p>On the same note, I wonder if how many of those people who are going for the OldSkool Gamer gathering that Sue organised over Facebook will remember or even know who &#8220;Scottie&#8221; is?\u00a0 Haha&#8230;\u00a0 I&#8217;m quite apprehensive about attending the gathering, to be honest.\u00a0 I was part of the gaming community for such a short period&#8230; and I was so low profile that I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m just &#8220;one of the faces&#8221; in the crowd all the time, despite being part of the Khabal committee.\u00a0 Oh well, we&#8217;ll see how it goes, if I&#8217;m able to make it for the gathering.\u00a0 :P<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, for those who are concerned, baby Dylan will be due&#8230; in a few weeks&#8217; time.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be a \u5c0f\u59e8 soon!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve already bought a &#8220;gift&#8221; for Dylan&#8230; hope he&#8217;ll appreciate it!\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ll dote on him a lot, but don&#8217;t expect me to carry or hug him&#8230; I don&#8217;t like kids.\u00a0 Or babies, in this case.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t like to be near them, especially if they are unattended.\u00a0 If one comes crawling towards me, I&#8217;ll run.\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t matter whether he&#8217;s my nephew or not.\u00a0 No unattended babies near me.\u00a0 (Sis, you hear that?\u00a0 :x)<\/p>\n<p>I need a new computer, dang it.\u00a0 This one is lagging a lot on me, thanks to all the too-many-to-count files under the Documents and Settings folder.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just too lazy to move them to other folders, so&#8230; they&#8217;ll be sitting there till I manage to haul my lazy ass to SLS and grab a new CPU (Shinji, remember to get me all the latest parts!\u00a0 I want Quad-Core!! *waves fist*\u00a0 :D ) and a spanking new huge LCD monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Gah, it&#8217;s also because of this super-slow machine that I&#8217;ve lost interest in playing my rogue and priestess in WoW.\u00a0 At least I don&#8217;t feel like playing at home.\u00a0 My PC at Reko&#8217;s place is like a space rocket compared to this big clunky &#8217;60s Beetle.\u00a0 Maybe I should try moving my iTunes libary over to that PC some day and see if it will lag like this&#8230; This PC, after all, is not <em>that <\/em>bad if it could Doom 3 with no lag&#8230; (Okay, I know that game is super old, but still.)<\/p>\n<p>Bleh.\u00a0 Nevertheless, life&#8217;s still pretty good for me.\u00a0 Though, a new PC will make my life better.\u00a0 =D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on leave tomorrow, as I have to bring Dad to the hospital for a neurology appointment.\u00a0 Since I don&#8217;t need to wake up early, I can afford to stay up a wee bit later than usual tonight. 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