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Yesterday Don and Mun came to visit me! Too bad the girls cannot make it... like as if it's only a TS guy's outing and not the full TS outing. But anyways, it felt like like home again just to see their faces. Instantly My appetite came back and when we went to have vegeterian for lunch I took a mountain of food! After that we went to the nearby shopping center for abit of shopping and baskin robbins for desserts, which turned out to be our dinner because it was so filling! Thus they missed out the fantastic sweet and sour pork and hor fan that i was supposed to bring them to :D but at least they managed to get some shirts, Don got his Dunkin Donuts and Mun got himself a new pair of street soccer shoes.

At the end of the day, when Don and Mun were going back Mun found out that he left his ez link card at the guard house of my condo haha so they had to turn back to retrieve it while they were almost back home. And oh, I just found out that Piggy doesn't like clubbing :P Hahaha Sorry lah I used to think you and Yogi used to go with Don mah. I shall remember about that from now on ok? Hehe Atleast I know u wanna marry Jay Chou right? :P

I was back in sg for afew days! Why? Because my company called me back lah :P Was doing admin stuff etc. overseas expenses claim and all that. On the other hand, I got to find out more about my work… actually, stuff associated to my work but not the stuff I’ll be doing but it never hurts to find out more. I take pride in my work! I’m in R&D but that part that I was reading about covered production. Sometimes read but catch no ball also :D lucky got internet, makes things clearer for me anyway hehe. Managed to meet up with my friend Rebecca too. Had lunch at some Japanese cafeteria near centerpoint sc. Not bad but wish I could bring my babe or my family there though.

Oh and guess what? My company got for me a spanking new laptop!!! As in brand freaking new!!! It’s leaps and bounds better than my current laptop somemore! Better specs, faster processing speed, infrared and Bluetooth…. BLUETOOTH!!! Who needs Bluetooth on their laptops?! It’s really up to date specs man! Working for this company makes me feel like a valued employee man! All the more I’m motivated to work harder! Where else can u work for a company that treats u so well and pays for your air ticket?

Talking about laptops, where I’m staying, carrying a laptop around is like hanging a huge target board on your backside! People(u know which ones) will be looking at you, all eyes are on you! Like today after work, my colleague brought me to the supermarket to get groceries and the ***s were looking at me(or rather, my laptop) like as if I’m some desirable object like that!

Oh and if u wanna know about danger here. One word of advice. Stay on your toes all the time. The only time I’m not like that is when I’m at my apartment. Hope im safe when im out here especially after 11 typing my blog :P Anyway, after church today I called the taxi company and guess what? No cabs around the church!! I had to walk to the nearby gas station to try my luck and it was there that I made a big mistake. After I crossed the road(more like jaywalked pass speeding vehicles because there’s no traffic light) I found out that I trespassed road passing rule number one, always walk against the traffic, not with it! I kept checking my back to see no motorcyclists with hammers hammered me and ran away with the 20 bucks I had with me.

After that episode I wasn’t out of the woods yet. I had to take the taxi. This taxi driver I tell u. No safety man! While driving he was using the handphone. Actually he use nevermind but u know what happened? He veered to the other side of the road and we almost got into a head on collision with another car! Thank god I got back to my apartment in one piece…

After chatting and blogging at starbucks, and buying groceries at the supermart I felt like as if I was being followed. Maybe its because I was carrying my laptop around... But maybe it's just me thinking too much lah. Recently, my malaysian friend told me his friend got stabbed and robbed off his laptop. Anyway, I was lucky I met my production manager and he drove me home. A message to singaporeans: never take for the granted the safety in good old singapore ok? No, dun worry, I'm my residence now. How I got internet connection? It's my little secret :P

Feels good... for now that is. Why? Because it's exciting! You get to live in a totally different environment. Not that our northern neighbour is that different from sg. But the thing is you're more on your toes and stuff since you read in the newspapers and stuff about the poor safety here. I'm more aware of my surroundings and stuff now. Looking back and walking against the traffic(so that motorbikes dun rob you from the back). Yeah... even taking the more inconvenient routes in the name of safety. In sg I'll be very carefree and careless but over here, everyone has to think on their feet. Even then, our safety is not even guaranteed! What to do? Just have to pray hard and hope for the best! I noticed that I've been doing stuff that I usually dun do while back home, I bring my rosary everywhere I go.

Yesterday, my family came over to pay me a visit. My uncle drove them over but they got lost haha. They paid the cab driver 5 bucks(rm10) to lead them to my place. Goodness How much I miss them! Just when I though I've more or less gotten used to staying out of the country When I saw them I was reminded about how much I miss them. We went to tebrau jusco and I bought a super large box of dunkin donuts for myself(and for Gloria, I asked her to choose some donuts for herself too) and a baskin 31 robbins ice cream for my lil sis. Basically the whole day I spent with my little sis because my mom went shopping for her stuff, I know my dad will spend the whole day at the electronics store and my uncle will walk around looking at clothes, I got quite afew brand new working clothes from him in the past haha. We walked around the shopping center and talked alot haha never thought a 23 year old guy can talk so much to a 7 year old right? I do. And the whole time I kept holding her close to me because I was afraid of kidnapping. This is not Sg remember? Anyway I finally found something I can buy now! A world time watch from seiko(I'll be travelling, remember?)! Much cheaper than sg also :P Must get it when I get my first pay check!

After mass at St. Joseph's we went to some roadside place for dinner. The food there was the kind of food that we won't get anywhere in sg. The hor fan has a charcoal taste and the food is like really the high fire(literally) types. It's nicer than in sg also! Like the authentic kampung food my mom used to tell me about! Must bring my colleagues there for makan one day! At the end of the day when my family had to go, that same feeling of dread I felt when I had to go back to sg after that fantastic week I spent with Amie overcame me. At the end of the day, being with the ones you love the most is still the best(TS included) nomatter how used you are to staying overseas. Damned true!