4th July

This header is of some significance to me. Not because it is Independence Day. But it is the day I left Singtel. Anyway, met Sharon for a date. I wanted her to accompany me to buy clothes because I am in serious need of new clothes. Disagree? Just ask Sharon.

Met at Orchard and walked around aimlessly. Never took a fancy at anything we saw… Then she suggested to go Marina Square. As we walked to Somerset station, we noticed tha new shopping mall, Orchard Central has just opened. So we decided to explore. It is tall! About 11 storey (There is a sealed escalator to somewhere higher up but it’s not opened to public yet.)

Explored the place and we found it to be messy! The way it is designed is kinda messy and “anyhow”. We were amused by the way the interior is designed. Like a playground.

After our little exploration, we proceed on to MS. Dined at Waraku and bought two shirts at Domanchi. She insists that I buy from Domanchi… All the while, I noticed she keeps choosing dull colours for me. Either black or blue. I wonder does most girlfriends choose dull colours to deter their men from being too eye catching? If that is the case, why she wants me to wear a red polo? BTW, I hate polos… But… because of her, I am willing to try it out.

Then dinner at Waraku. I love the food that place offers. It’s my favourite restaurant!

Chilli rice

Sharon 06

Sharon 05

Soft shell tempura

Seafood Fried Rice

Sharon 04

Sharon 03

Enzo 03

Potato cheese

Enzo 02

Sharon 02

Waraku!

Waraku!

Cherry abound!

Fruit cakes

Wandering off again

Centrepoint

Shophouses

Walking alone

Enzo

Sharon 01

PEACE

Wall

Heaven’s Loft

Our feet

Tall girl statue 02

Tall girl statue 01

Teddy Bears

Shit

I am too angry to think of a suitable header… So I just name it as shit.

I cannot believe this… I took half day leave because of you. There is so much we need to do on Friday so I think I should take half day leave just to pack everything and make it eventful.

Why I chose to watch Transformer 2 in the afternoon is because YOU wanted to attend the dance off event in the evening. I don’t exactly like this sort of event but because it is YOU, I accompany YOU. I have not complained about this. I don’t really like taking leave for no reason and because of the kind of work I am doing, being able to take leave is like a gift. Why not choose to meet on Saturday? Because YOU are meeting your friends, to spend more time with you, taking half day leave on Friday is the next best option.

It is like everything plan nicely then on the day before friday, you can tell me “what if I say I can not free from 3-5pm?”

Win liao lo…

Everything is planned, tickets bought and you can still contemplate that idea… I feel so hurt and damn disappointed… I can guess the reason why the sudden deviation from the original plan but it pisses me off even more.

I think I should just spend friday alone. Buy my phone ALONE, Shop around ALONE and watch the movie ALONE.

I am stubborn

Sharon scolded me stubborn just last night. It has been a long time since I heard anyone calling me stubborn… It is a slap across my face and somewhat refreshing as well.

I never thought I could be stubborn when I should (not) be. I dun wanna talk about the event that led to it in my blog. All I can say is that that something really pissed me off so much that I showed my stubborn side… I am usually not like that in front of anybody. Most of the time I am easy going and very accommodating. I guess I have been too nice that I have been taken for granted…

10 months on and we’re learning about each other, long journey ahead…

BTW, 5 more days to Omnia

Movies I wanna watch

Quite a list here

• Transformer: Revenge Of The Fallen
• I Love You, Man (booked)
• Taking of Phelam 123
• State of Play
• Land Of The Lost

I am planning for a movie marathon this coming weekend. Anyone wanna book me in advance?

Be yourself

Sharon asks “What type of person are you?” I can’t find an answer to that… I am alot of personalities to everyone. I am dark, cheerful, pessimistic, optimistic, chatty, quiet, snobbish, humble all into one.

I also don’t know what I am. I seem to have forgo what I truly should be and constantly experimenting the different personalities to amuse myself. I can change myself to suit different people and situations. Such a person is called a “chameleon”. A most devious and despicable person, hard to predict and unable to truly feel empathy.

Fire Drill @ New Tech Park

Heard the fire alarm today and the person announcing the fire drill over the PA system sound so…. blockish. Her english is read out word by word and sound a little pissed off too. After we were given the instructions to get ou of the building in an orderly fashion, we took our own sweet time to walk. I was surprised when I saw a woman bringing potato chips! “-_-

Best… I’ve got nothing to say… I was quite amazed by the presence of traffic controllers to stop vehicles for us to cross the road to our assembly point at St Gabriel’s School. This is some serious fire drill exercise. Assembled at the area, took our attendance and waited around. Saw the woman sharing her chips with her colleagues… I’m speechless…

When it’s time to return, Patrina say “people wil wanna faster go back.” which I reply. “people wanna go back because of the air con… not because they wanna go back work.”

Assembly area

God bless our school

St Gabriel’s School

Statue 01

Psalms 119:105

Statue 02

Ghosts of girlfriends past

I have wanted to watch this since I saw the trailer in Mar ( I think). What surprises me is the horde of women that Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) dated. I gotta say he’s the man. He’s a successful and famous photographer who dates tons and tons of women based on his fame and his way with women. First class player.

Anyway, the crux of the movie starts when he starts seeing the ghost of his uncle, the man who taught Connor how to be a player and the “ghosts” during his younger brother’s wedding.

He sees three ghosts, past, present and future. As such movie goes, Connor is shown how his actions led him to be the person that he is presently. The movie manages to describe love and marriage cynically which I agree with wholeheartedly. The ghost of past shows the events and reasons why Connor became the man he is today. I should say that it is pretty standard and predictable stuff. Boy loves girl but boy has no courage to confess and ends up having someone else getting the girl he likes.

So comes along his uncle, Wayne, who teaches him how to get girls. As the years go by, he gets better and better. Next comes the part which amuses me alot. A whole lot of women appears and they are the women that he has dated. Personally, I am disgusted and yet impressed. If a man can get so many women to fall in love with him, he’s the MAN.

Moving on, he faces the ghost of present and lastly to the future. Each ghost shows a very touching and tear jerking moment (testimony from Sharon).

The movie has its share of funny moments but not hilarious. A good movie to watch with your loved ones.

How I met…

On Sunday, Khloe and I chatted about how people meet for the first time (sorry for not remembering how I met you for the first time). I thought about how I came to meet Sharon for the first time… I traced back all the events that led me to meeting her… It totally blew my mind… We actually met through work. Some sort of outdoor sales thingy. What led me to take this job is that I wanted to try meeting strangers and to help fight my shyness. Through the job, I met her.

Today, after dinner, I continued thinking hard about the exact details… and here it is….

I started work on 5 Jan 07 (Friday) and I am pretty sure that Sharon joined the company shortly after that. I am guessing 8 Jan which is a Monday… That time, our supervisor, Bernard intro-ed me as “This is Enzo, he is 22 this year and he is not afraid of approaching people and closing sales.” That is how I and Sharon met… Pretty unromantic… So we worked as colleagues and stayed friends. She strikes me as an ice queen… No facial expression and utterly not interested in her work. LoL. During that time, my mind was not in the “gf finding” mode. So I am not interested in knowing more girls at that time. So just stayed neutral.

Soon, I left to pursue some other job that pays me a fixed salary and to experience abit of office culture. After that, we lost contact and in Dec 2007 when she sms “Merry Christmas” to me, fate came knocking. I don’t know what made me wanna meet her… I was not so into meeting people at that time.

Can’t exactly remember how I met her again… I know it was for movie… and I remember we had dinner at New York New York at AMK hub. That was when I actually get to know more about her. Her outlook in life and her drive attracts me.

So in the next few months, we started going out. I told myself that it’s not a date and I only treat her as a friend but I got scolded by Suhaili… “Wa lau, if a girl wants to keep meeting you that means she is interested in you la. So obvious!”

Looking back on the circumstances that led me to meet her… It’s pretty amazing… I think it should start with me choosing to go to a Polytechnic after my secondary school. There, I know my ex and somehow I got my knee injury indirectly coz of her. Coz of my injury, I got enlisted 2 months later. ORD in Dec 06, saw the ad in the papers, applied for that job. Got it. Chose to stay instead of leaving. Then along came Sharon. So imagine if I did not enlist by 2 months later, I won’t ORD in Dec 06, I will ORD in Oct 06 instead and found another job which I will never meet Sharon. Moving further back, if I never had the knee injury… If I choose to go to a Junior College which most of my classmates did. All these will never come to being.

Then of course if you wanna trace it further back to how my parents decide to have a child during that time, how my parents met…….. then that’s a different story… As Khloe says… can trace it all the way to dino age. LOL!!!

To put it simply, it’s fate! Short, simple and sweet!

Eventful saturday

Actually, I had only two events for that day. The “Bare Your Sole” charity walk in the morning at Pasir Ris park. Originally, it’s supposed to be at Sentosa but the venue changed. Felt so cheated…

I kinda regret going for this because we had to walk 5.5km barefooted… on part tarmac/ part walking path. Feet hurt like hell while walking over tarmac… We had to resort to light footed jogging to minimise the pain. Walking actually makes the pain worse. Learnt that from a bunch of school kids.

Speaking of school kids, there was one group who is EXTREMELY hyper and noisy. They were practically singing and cheering all the way……. And those girls talk like……………… (nevermind). Let just say there is a fine line between cute and irritating… No prizes for guessing which one.

After the event, we walked over to White Sands for brunch. Chi Ho was talking about Hong Kong and buying branded stuff at cheap prices… I don’t really understand the whole meaning of branded luxury goods… So I did not show any interest in the conversation. But he seems really into them. Then Xinyi talked about going to HK for a holiday… Then I respond that if I were to go, I will need to bring my work over there which kinda defeats the whole purpose in the first place.

Sad la… I must find a way to go on a holiday. Let’s start small first… I wanna go on a cruise!!! Been soooo long since I been to one…

After brunch, took train home… Journey is so long… Was on the train with Cindy, talked abit and along the journey, she kept giving morning call to her bf. She kept hitting redial for like 30 mins until he finally picked it up. OMG! Who the hell keeps hitting redial for 30 mins to give a morning call??? I’ll just heck care after the 4th attempt la… Lazy pig can’t wake up then can forget about waking up forever… Seriously… If you have no self discipline to want to wake up on your own, no morning call is usefull…

Reached home and work……. SIANZ……. showered, worked somemore then took a very short nap before setting out to meet Sharon. She is with her friends for one of her friend’s birthday celebration. So halfway through, she met me for dinner instead. Ate at Carl’s Jr. I miss the beef…. yum yum…. Talked alot as usual… My life is never boring with her around… She amuses me so much that she brings meaning to my weekends. After a long week of work, a weekend downtime with someone you adore is always uplifting. Somehow, a date with Sharon is akin to a reward after hardwork.

After dinner, we went to meet her friends for a brief moment. We were greeted with loud “HIIIII”s and I was abit lost on how to react but to just smile and wave. They are so young………………. Envious…………… Anyway, Sharon said they were all curious about how I look and wanted to see me in person. Well, I can only say the same to her about how my friends also wanna see her in person. Khloe even refer her as the “legendary girl” because I keep mentioning Sharon in my blog but never seen her face before.

Then we went to Loof. Read reviews that it is a nice place to hang out but Sharon don’t seem to like it so we changed to Helipad. I so “swaku” la… Never been there. But the place is quite an eye opener. It is located at The Central and besides a bar, it has a rooftop gallery as well. Quite nice… I will get Alec and gang to go there some time soon.

Drank and chatted and I really enjoyed myself. Nobody has ever made me feel so light hearted and relaxed before and I really mean NOBODY. It made me feel that it is actually how a relationship should start out or maybe she has certain qualities that makes my life more colourful. With her, it’s more relaxed and natural and secure. She makes life very simple for me. She makes me see the fun and easiness in life.

Took a cab home and came to know more about why she always go to her aunt’s house instead of her own home when the clock strikes 12. Sounds like Cinderella…..

Doing good?

Some people keep telling me that I have been doing well and good so far in my job. I am not sure about that though… I don’t know whether are those compliments or an actual evaluation of how well I am performing.

Personally, I don’t think I am doing well on my job…  When i took over the job, many things are messy and things are changing fast and furious. Very dynamic and you need to be on your toes to know what is happening around you. Having only 3 days to learn, I can say the transitional period is dope. I learn to live life day by day. Don’t think too much about what will happen later, if it does happen, let future me deal with it, for now, just concentrate on the matter at hand.

Am I pushing myself too hard or have I really done good enough to warrant praises from my colleagues? I always think I can do better and is forcing myself to perform to my own expectations. Somehow I wish some people will just say “Enzo, you work like shit. I want you to do better.”

Due to my personality, I tend to take compliments lightly and value criticism alot. Because anyone can just come up to me and say nice things but not everyone wants to come and say shit about me. However, I do value appreciations, you can choose not to compliment me but you cannot belittle my comtributions.