Same Old Brand New (Us???)
Since I've tendered my resignation, I've blissfully stayed at home and been busy catching up on movies I'd previously missed or refused to pay the exorbitant ticket prices to watch at the local cinemas. Thank goodness for DVDs and VCDs...
Went on a whirl of big-time socialising to catch up and meet up with long-time friends, people whom I (sadly enough to admit but it's true) have not had the time to meet up with as much as I'd like to due to the constraints and demands of work. Now that I am free from the shackles of such long hours (at least for the time being), I've packed my days to the brim. Varsity friends, and even friends from days of yore (yeah, it's the very first line of the school song from my beloved alma mater), it was certainly good to have caught up with them. Chip away at the veneer of 'professionalism' each of us had grown to adopt (in part due to the competition and pressures of work), and the same old riotous natures will surface. It had been a hoot, to say the least. These groups of people are the very ones I have spent the most bit of my student days 'rioting' and 'crapping' with. It was heartening to know the friendships forged have remained steadfast as before, perhaps slightly bogged down by the demands and constraints of work. Beneath it all, however, the same 'gungho spirit' remain. Shared jokes and pranks played on one another....truly good to reminisce over those times. Man, I've known them for almost a decade (my JC pals) and half a decade (varsity friends)....how time flies.
Of course, some of us had been more 'prosperous' than others, and there were those who have transmogrified to become immaculately coiffured and made up, as compared to the 'sloppy' chilled-out student culture then......the changes have been none too subtle. What I really dig is how 'barriers' come crashing down when old friends meet....you revert to the same wacky person you were, which is a side that would not have seen the light of day in our respective workplaces.
On another note, I am totally gearing up to put a screeching halt to all social events from Saturday 16 July onwards for as many days as I need (perhaps just 2) for me to devour the latest Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince. Yes, I know, I have been sucked into the commercialism behind it, and have made my pre-orders (3 copies - the others being for my younger cousins). There was a feature to whet our appetitite in the local papers today. Hmmm, think I have never even been so excited about convocation or anything else. Harry Potter just triggers that off in me. Oh, and another series of vampire hunting fiction by J.C. and Barb Hendee is also on my recommended list of must-reads. Yes, you've guessed it. Apart from socialising, catching up on DVDs and shows (no lengthy OTT Korean melodramatic soaps for me), I've also been devouring literature. Hmmm, this hobby of buying books needs to be curtailed (cannot help it, the local libraries don't have extra copies).
Till the next Harry Potter book is over......hold your breath....
Went on a whirl of big-time socialising to catch up and meet up with long-time friends, people whom I (sadly enough to admit but it's true) have not had the time to meet up with as much as I'd like to due to the constraints and demands of work. Now that I am free from the shackles of such long hours (at least for the time being), I've packed my days to the brim. Varsity friends, and even friends from days of yore (yeah, it's the very first line of the school song from my beloved alma mater), it was certainly good to have caught up with them. Chip away at the veneer of 'professionalism' each of us had grown to adopt (in part due to the competition and pressures of work), and the same old riotous natures will surface. It had been a hoot, to say the least. These groups of people are the very ones I have spent the most bit of my student days 'rioting' and 'crapping' with. It was heartening to know the friendships forged have remained steadfast as before, perhaps slightly bogged down by the demands and constraints of work. Beneath it all, however, the same 'gungho spirit' remain. Shared jokes and pranks played on one another....truly good to reminisce over those times. Man, I've known them for almost a decade (my JC pals) and half a decade (varsity friends)....how time flies.
Of course, some of us had been more 'prosperous' than others, and there were those who have transmogrified to become immaculately coiffured and made up, as compared to the 'sloppy' chilled-out student culture then......the changes have been none too subtle. What I really dig is how 'barriers' come crashing down when old friends meet....you revert to the same wacky person you were, which is a side that would not have seen the light of day in our respective workplaces.
On another note, I am totally gearing up to put a screeching halt to all social events from Saturday 16 July onwards for as many days as I need (perhaps just 2) for me to devour the latest Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince. Yes, I know, I have been sucked into the commercialism behind it, and have made my pre-orders (3 copies - the others being for my younger cousins). There was a feature to whet our appetitite in the local papers today. Hmmm, think I have never even been so excited about convocation or anything else. Harry Potter just triggers that off in me. Oh, and another series of vampire hunting fiction by J.C. and Barb Hendee is also on my recommended list of must-reads. Yes, you've guessed it. Apart from socialising, catching up on DVDs and shows (no lengthy OTT Korean melodramatic soaps for me), I've also been devouring literature. Hmmm, this hobby of buying books needs to be curtailed (cannot help it, the local libraries don't have extra copies).
Till the next Harry Potter book is over......hold your breath....
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