Wasn't Elroy's birthday fun? I think that that rain game was like the coolest celebration ever. We had so much fun and we didn't even need to get drunk! Healthy lifestyle -1 Drinking -0.

Then again, it was just today that I realised that army begins in 19 more days. 19. Thats not even three weeks. Doing what I do everyday now(play), I am so not looking forward to it. On another note, the TH guys are all out of BMT and it seems that almost everyone got into OCS! Allright! Good luck and happy chiong-suaing. Everyone is going back in on monday though, so guess its time to actually plan what to do. Damn I'm getting fat.

It started out with me going to CCAB to this stupid adidas thingy, where they were all kids. Then we took a cab down to funan, god knows why, to watch zhonghua play dota against hwa chong and yuying. We won both matches, which pitted both zhss teams against each other but I didn't catch that. PS, mercurial was damn imba... manta plus refresher means 16 images running around... Anyway, after that I was on my way to the australia fare when i saw...



The beautiful, amazing, enchanting, awesome and just plain gorgeous GESIT 012787! Next to the australia fare was a food fare where I basically got a free lunch, and I met carine and her friend from TJ! Turns out that her friend wanted to study vet science too, but it also turns out that vet science is about 50% tougher to get in than medicine in austraila. Guess animal's health is more important huh. Plus, most australia universities don't offer scholarships to international students, and even then, not for veterinary science. Then we went to MOS to eat but honchan was not there. Then I went to Bugis to meet my friend. Ouch!

Not that beautiful, but still kinda cool. You're very brave (: Well done!

Next up, 3 good men. A movie my parents are bringing back for us to watch, then it is off to matthew's house!

Lunch at Marche. The pork knuckle was damn nice la.

But dinner was just as superb!

Thanks guys, for making my last year of teen-agery so memoriable! Yep, and this is what we all look like mildly intoxicated: We start seeing womanly curves on certain people.

At last! Its over! And I had such a wonderful last day too! For one, the bitb was NOT THERE, which already made it a nice day to begin with, but I actually did some things that I have never done before, like, erm... doing credit payment. Anyway, I made lots of drinks and drank lots of things I made. But seriously, the feeling and exhillaration of liberation is so great that it feels like its such a special day... almost as if my birthday was coming up... wait a minute...

Last day last day last day last day last day last day!!! Think I'm going to SMU(:

Such a small, seemingly insignificant event has opened up my eyes. My last day on the job is on Sunday. University open house is also on Sunday. My grandmother's birthday is also on Sunday. I decide, with much prompting from my dad, to try to weasel out of work on Sunday.

It seemed simple enough to me. A matter of weighing the costs and benefits. For working. I'm afraid to tell the bitb that I don't want to work. For not working: I will be able to get a better picture of all the courses in all the universities which will enable me to make a better decision as to what I should study in uni and hence my career path. Besides, I want to go for my grandmother's birthday dinner.

It seemed such a simple decision. Face your fear. Go ahead and demand an off. Its not like I am a permanent employee. I may be irresponsible for springing it on them, but its better than taking emergency leave on the day itself right? Besides, what I am doing is already quite good considering the way they usually treat their employees. If they can call me up at 2 in the afternoon when my shift ends at 3 and demand that I go to vivo and work till 10, I can tell them that I cannot work two days in advance.

I figured that most people will think that way. Not true, josh provided me with a totally alternative point of view. For him, he will work on Saturday even if it means he cannot go for ntu's open house. If SR calls him to cover for me on Sunday, he will come and work even if it means that he will not be able to go to any of the open houses. I found that totally ridiculous. How can something as trivial as a part time job, where the employer treats its employee so badly, be more important than deciding your future? Why is he so loyal to SR? I suggested that he simply refuse to work on Sunday. Its not like they have the right to force him to work, besides, what can they do? Forfeit his pay for that day for which he was not scheduled to work anyway? For me it is quite simple, no work, no pay. Am i willing to make this trade off? I am. End of story. The management can go and find their own replacement. Besides, I hate working there anyway.

I just simply cannot understand why he will still be willing to agree to work on Sunday. What is it that I am missing out. Because of this, am I now willing to make the trade off if my friend's future was thrown into the equation? I cannot be that selfish. Yet, I am selfish enough to put my interests ahead of the company I was working for while josh did not even consider such an option. Does that make me selfish anyway?

I think that this shows a fundamental difference between two people's personalities. I have always felt that my personality differs very much from josh, which does not mean that we do not get along or that I do not treasure him as a friend. I do, very much. But I find the differences in the way we think very interesting. I seem to be very objective, even mercenary. I do a quick weigh in my mind then decide on my action. To me, josh's reaction seems strange and illogical. But I am quite sure that is not the case. I think that to him, his decision is based on his own experience and personality and that it makes perfect sense to him. Probably my thinking will seem strange to him, maybe even very mercenary. For that I accept his reply.

Then again, maybe that is it. That I am mercenary in this aspect and he is not. That I feel unattached to the shop because I have only worked there for a month and don't like certain people there. Because of this emotional detachment I can very easily make the decision to skip work and leave its management to solve the problem, which I'm pretty sure they can. On the other hand, josh has grown more attached to the shop and its workers and thus is not willing to make this decision that is against the interest of the shop. If this was the case, we would be thinking on the same wavelength. But something tells me that this is not it.

What is it? What is it? How can our thinking be so fundamentally different? Because of that, it has forced me to seek alternatives to settle this internal dispute. I think that I will probably work on Sunday after all. After all, I still have 2 years to make my choices, two more openhouses to go, it is not too late. As for my grandmother's birthday, this brings me to another round of weighing. This time the trade off is not that big, only four hours of work. They will not call josh back just for 4 hours right? Right?

Hey, I know how skeptical and cynical I can be. For all I know, maybe josh is one up on me and has successfully manipulated me to work.

Likky has to shape his destiny.

Ha. It went as I envisioned, but I guess its also human nature to feel greedy. Why didn't I take 's'? Oh well, the funny thing was that the thing I was most proud of wasn't even an A level subject. It was an AO subject. its like I am happiest for something I got an 'O' for. Thats because almost one-third of the school got 4As. Bloody. Irritating. But I still am proud of my GP (:

Doesn't it make you feel good that this crap I write is high quality crap?

Results are tomorrow. Exciting shit. But this will also mark the end of our government provided education. Even though it supposedly ended 3 months ago the waiting for results are sort of like the end game freeze. It could even be seen as the most important day of the past 12 years, the day that vindicates all that studying (or not) that you've been doing for the past 144 months. So what if you are a 0 pointer in 'o' levels? What matters now is that you do well in the 'a' levels. And so I will feel that all the junior collages are equals on this day. Whether your A comes from some pro JC where people name themselves after smelly flowers or JC's that just call themselves a location, it is just as good. In fact, I think that an A from the latter JC is that much stronger as it shows that you can do just as well as the pros without all the fancy LTs and shizzaz.

But that is not the point. The point is that I am going to be quitting SR soon! I believe in less than 2 weeks. I would gladly trade the lousy staff welfare and evil colleagues for the ability to complain about restaurants charging me for water with impunity. No matter how it turns out I'll be back to living the bum life before by burfday! Ahem.