Thursday, September 07, 2006

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it is doodoo's enlistment day today..

i didn't go to tekong with him.. but i intend to "pick him up" when he can bookout for the first time in 2 weeks' time. :D i will be looking forward to that day~~ cos this is the very first time that we will not be seeing each other for a whole 15 days.

of course i've gone away on holidays before without him.. but they have never been for more than 15 days! LOL.

and i can't believe he'll be tied down to the military law for a whole two bloodeh years... X_X!!!!!!!!

i'm still too lazy to upload pics of tortie.. even though i've already taken them. i've wrapped her up in cling wrap (transparent bandage) - just like a mummy! i specially bought it from the supermarket (just for her) and used up an entire roll of it! :) hopefully that'll protect her from the dust and all for a while - until i decide to play with her again! i don't want to hear about how cruel some people may think this is.. because in my opinion, its for her own good. i want her to stay clean!~ oh.. and did i mention.. we played dress up? :D tortie is so pretty!

oh. and on the 27th of August.. i had the biggest SCARE ever. (i received tortie on the 23rd). Wan, my classmate, smsed me and said.. "Hi abby, this is Wan. Wondering about the possibility of dissecting turtles this week, say.. Tuesday from morning to noon?". my goodness - she sounded so serious. Wan - if u're reading this, i'm so sorry for publishing this without your permission, but it just scared me so i had to relate this incident to everyone. it just fit my Tortie mood at that moment!

yeah so anyway, i thought about the terrapins i had at home. and then i remembered TORTIE! "noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" i could imagine myself jumping around the house in disbelief. LOL. so i just had to clear my doubts and i asked "eh.. is this a joke?". she replied saying that she sent the message to the wrong abby.. PHEW. my tortie and korkor's terrapins are safe... ^^

sigh. i just recalled all the things we've been doing for the past 2 and a half weeks since my hols started. we played a wee bit of DarkAges.. we also watched a hell lotta Bleach.. and spent tons of $$ on good, hearty meals with doodoo (dimsum included!!!) that proved to be money well spent. hm. i can't seem to figure out why i feel so broke now. it was $xxx.xx for some clothes, and another $xx.xx (approximately) or so for another 2 pieces.. and THAT's IT?!?!??! hmm.. i can't always seem to retrace the footsteps of my spending. even when i do, i'll forget it all the next day.

yeah yeah i know i'm kinda slow.. only started to watch bleach last week, but i cleared all 94 episodes within days. everyday it was like 15-20 episodes and i didn't even want to sleep cos i wanted to know what happened next. i am so totally addicted to it. but now, i intend to leave bleach alone for the next two years (since he's in NS ANYWAY!) so there'll be another 104 episodes or so then (52 weeks in a year!).

hm. talking about $$. i sometimes wonder if i'm the kinda person who values $$ over company? or am i just greedy and i want BOTH $$ and company? after watching Big Man Little Man on channel 8 everyday.. i wonder if i will start to consider $$, status and a guy's eligibility (as well as how wanted he is by other women) as i grow older (just like one of the characters in the show who's turning 30). are these things gonna be what's important to me in the future when i move on into the twenty-something age? cos i don't want things to sound like a rat race for me.. career wise, and marriage-wise. its ridiculous to me to join other women in their fight for a rich man or worse.. and also to fight a time-battle within myself to force myself to find a rich guy before i hit 30. if these TV situations really occur in the working world of twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings, will i be the sort that would not be pulled into this world? or would being part of that world be inevitable?

everyone wants the best for themselves.. so i will not in any way criticise the women who go for $$ (if they really do exist - it takes all kinds of people out there to make this world!)). if having tons of $$ is what makes them happy, then so be it. we all have different definitions of happiness so i am in no position to judge them - what's more speak ill of them, as i am not in their shoes and i don't know what it's like to be like them for a day. i won't deny that $$ is important as we can't live without it. but do women out there really give up love (from a guy) for their own love for another guy's $$?

my dad always said.. $$ will never be enough (even if you already have lots of it). i guess that's true. why else would the rich want to be even richer?

i guess its a good thing when people take things a day at a time (but of course, putting our dreams or the kind of life we wanna lead in mind) cos we never know how our future would turn out. i must admit it definitely is good to have hope and to look forward.

i just turned 19 in august. and some of the people around me are caught up with owning branded goods and cars. and guys slightly older than me know that their girls expect their bfs to drive them around in a car, while my guess is perhaps such girls really do exist. and so i realised i am growing and moving onto another world now. a world where people who get stuck in it view cash and status symbols as king more so than EVER before(perhaps) and are no longer what they used to be? maybe that's why people become money-minded.

when we reach that stage, should or shouldn't expectations change? would i change? can life be as simple as before?

apart from all that, doodoo and i spent some time experimenting with sewing. yes - i am on a new project. i won't say anything else but it is gonna be something like Sw**t C*nd** G*l*r*. no pics as yet, cos i'm not done. it takes me forever to sew.

we bought a sewing stapler.. it was $9.00 with like several extra needles (for what? honestly..) but i pressed it till my left thumb muscles are sore and overworked and injured. PAIN!!! but i guess it helps me to sew faster if i could sew straight with that device. LOL.

and i think i've given up on looking for a job. i'll leave my job-hunting experiences for the next post X_X. oh i am such a procrastinator.
bee at 12:45 PM