Saturday, April 02, 2011
been meaning to blog for awhile and today provides me with that opportunity because it was quite simply a great day! today was fun and eventful and meaningful and everything you wish for in an off-day when you don't have to head into the office. agreed to follow su ching to the old ford factory to help her do research but she wanted to go to a mosque first so i met her there. and we had time to kill after that so we went to meet a couple of her friends at coronation starbucks. and then we went down to the factory, which has since been converted into a WW2 museum, which was undoubtedly the highlight of my day. i mean, i know we've learned about the japanese occupation in history and social studies classes, but they were mostly superficial: like who invaded where on what date, and stuff like that. this was a real eye-opener. reading about life during the occupation. we all only focus on japan invading malaya, ruling for three and a half years, and then the british came back to make things fine and dandy. we never realise that life HAD to go on somehow, and what did it mean to live everyday life with restrictions placed on you, kempeitai soldiers patrolling the streets monitoring your every move. i want to write down everything that really hit me throughout the one over hour we were there, but it would just be too long. it's better to keep it with me in my thoughts, where i can delve it every once in awhile. at the carpark, we also let su ching have her first ever taste of roasted chestnuts; where she's been all her life, i have no idea. we then went for coffee at this yuppie place called papa pahleta. it was really cool, i like it except they're really prissy about their coffee. like you get ridiculed if you ask for sugar apparently. most amusing bit was when she was trying to spell out the name of the place to the operator to get details, and she went "L for Linguini". HA. not exactly the first word that pops into your mind that starts with L. after that we walked around and looked at nice houses, and relived our youth in the playground. then i went to play soccer at east coast with my new group of kakis which i find it hard to explain how i'm recently started playing with. really nice bunch, jinglun asked me to join them once, and ever since then they've been calling me back. had a pretty great game if i may say so myself, although i got trodded on many times. WAS FUN. and then i headed down to aliwal street for my departing editor, kelvin leong's farewell. although i've only been working at espn star sports for over a month, he has imparted alot of industry knowledge and give me lots of advice. i wish him all the best in the future. so here i am, i have to wake up in four hours time for work, but somehow, when you've had a day as great as today, somehow i don't think i mind lacking sleep. i know sometimes we wallow in self-pity, i do so myself very often. but i think we only need to take a step back and make an effort, and you find that life can be pretty swell at times. this has been a uncharacteristically happy post from me. gabriel out!
lights off, pyjamas on
12:54 AM
