Cow Clog

My 101 post
Now I have a silver camera icon beside my name!

yay.
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Misunderstandings and Disappointments.

..are they the result of mismatched expectations between people?

I smsed a secondary school friend to wish her a happy belated 22nd birthday (one day late). Her reply was cheery until I apologised and said I was back about 2 weeks but was busy and didn't contact her or our common friends.

She was pissed.
Quote, "DIAO! you best Super bo sim (i.e. heartless) Dont talk to you"

Tried to call her, she wouldn't pick up.
So I messaged her.
Hope she understands.

Haiz.

Is it so wrong to be MIA (missing in action) sometimes?
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The following is long overdue.. about 1month+ since Shihui tagged me. Besides fellow Blippers, about 6 of my friends know that I have this blog. So if you have time, you could post/email me your own 10 things :)

Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little-known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks.


1. I can go to a buffet and spend my first 20 minutes just eating buns with butter and a bowl of cream of chicken soup A relative/friend will then remind me that it's 'just wrong' to fill my stomach with bread when there's so many other things to eat. But I lovvvvvvvvvve my buttered loafs and soup! Easily satisfied perhaps? ;)

2. I am a "grounded" person-- i.e. I do not know how to swim nor cycle. Friends (pri, sec, and JC) have tried on three separate occasions to teach me how to cycle, but they were excrutiating experiences.

3. I like to sing and dance when I'm alone in my room.. I do so very horribly but hey, it's to my own amusement..! lol~

4. I dislocated my left collarbone once when I fell off my bed at the age of 6. My mum was waiting with me in this room when I laid on the cold steely table, and that was the first time in my memory that I saw my mum cry.

5. For as long as I've known, I have always thought that those cute little sparrows grew up to be mynahs.

6. I am very annoyed by people leaning against the pole in MRT trains, especially when it's crowded. So amusingly (and eh, childishly), I annoy them back. Even though I could get a seat, or stand at one side, I would purposely stand grab onto the pole the person is leaning against, and either stick out my little finger so it'll jab the person's back, or I'll shift by hand up and down periodically to irritate the hell out of the guy (yes, normally it's a guy). All this time I'll either be looking straight ahead at the window or reading a book. over time he'll get the message and just hold on to the pole with his free hands. Gawd, I mean, come'on! You're not holding onto hoards of bags nor do you look old or unfit, so quit acting cool or being lazy and inconsiderate by obstructing people from holding onto the pole! Especially "vertically-challenged" people like me who find it difficult to hold onto the grip above us! :p

7. I hope that one day I will be able to write my own book and have it published. It can be fiction, biographical, poetry, photography or a mixture of this and that :)

8. When I was very young, I thought that rubber bands, once used, couldn't be used again. I would proceed to fling them out of our apartment's windows and before anyone discovered, there would be relics of several rubber bands etched on the parapet floor below us. lol ;)

9. I was quite weak as a child when I had asthma and bronchitis. I have quite clear memories of being in the SGHospital, where I would be in a ward with five other people. I remember..

a) the times my mum stayed overnight with me by my bedside, and there was a night she was sitting in the lighted corridor outside the ward by herself, and I didn't know how I did it, but I climbed over the grills of the hospital bed and onto the floor to get to her.. she was very surprised.

b) being amazed by those mechanical letter boxes travelling everywhere on the 'tracks' along the ceilings of the hospital.

c) this Chinese bespectacled girl in her early teens from the 4-bedder air-conditioned + TV ward (the more expensive one) who would come visit me from time to time and draw for me on my exercise book. She drew very well, with lots of colours, and even wrote down her name and contact number, though it was unfortunate I lost them soon after. She was in the same ward as another young boy whose family attends the same church as us and stays in the same block as my aunt (dad's sis). Small world, ain't it? (Though I don't think they kept contact with the girl)

10. I'm a sentimental sucker. In primary school, I cried when my mum threw away my lunchbox (because I had accidentally dropped it in the school's toilet bowl.. -_-"), even though she said she'll get me a new one. I think I hold on to a lot of things.. letters, items, ordinary day-to-day stuff, as if I'm afraid that memories will slip and cease without them. Over time I've convinced myself that one cannot keep on finding solance in tangible objects.. so now once I feel that it is time, I discard them or give them away.. kinda therapeutic and I feel that something within me comes to a closure.
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Felt extremely sick yesterday after being awake and out for 16 hours where I attended 2 meetings. Hot on the outside, cold on the inside.. had to take two pills and sleep and sweat and shiver in my jacket as I slept.. decided to skip the birthday lunch of a distant relative..

Feeling better now.
Physically, that is.
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I am no super woman.
Fatigue does get to me.

15days since I've touched down back home.
Yet I've yet to:
-meet up with Liying
-visit my aunts
-spend more time with my dad
-spend time with my secondary school friends
-spend time with NUS EL grpmates

Busy with work.
With responsibilities.
I can be strong for my friends.
Not always.
And I can't expect all friends to be there for me all the time.

I'm not trying to be cynical here..
Just that everyone's limited, and have their own problems/thinking/expectations etcetcetc.

Hey, but at least we all try.

Pray.
God will sustain me.
He will sustain you.
We will learn to live and be understanding, and perhaps in certain times, we will be pillars of support for one another.
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