The Buzz

Important Dates:

August 2006 - Prison Break Season 2 / House Season 3

September 2006 - Desperate Housewives Season 3

October 2006 - Lost Season 3

Disclaimer: Dodgy-ish sources on the net and some forums.

However, I am looking forward to all of these!

Man Cleavage and Change of Address

OK, so to address the man cleavage. Rajen and I found ourselves wondering down to the Creative Warehouse sale on Saturday. It is a scam - too little items and too many people. The tea time special supposed to run from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. lasted all of a grand total of 3 minutes before some dude on the public annoucement system announced the rest of us lined up should look elsewhere for discounts. And that is when I saw him - wandering around flashing HIS cleavage.

And for a while (and being big myself allows me to analyse this critically) I was stunned. I was like - does that really help. He had like a grey basketball t-shirt like thingy and a cheap shirt with all the buttons open (so it definitely was not a case of ignorance). Well, as long as you can rack up those discounts...

And we are moving out to Hougang. To a condo. And there are loads of people who are looking forward to a housewarming treat. To this, I believe we need to urgently need to set some guidelines:

1. It is strictly pot-luck basis. If you have food, we got a roof.
2. A toll is charged. The money does not compare to the company provided. And if that blows, we have a pool and a gym.

[This part of the post is particularly directed at an intern at IBM who studies in NUS in the SoC]

I have done only a couple of things I should have done this weekend. But I cannot be bothered... I am tired and a slacker. People don't change.

Motivation

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Cricket

Another one of my addicts - for all your cricket needs, visit CricInfo

And Lanka is in fine form. This is when the game is at its sweetest and the epitome of Lankan cricket. Its good to have you back Sanna!!! ('Cos he did temporarily retire - but fuck you Vandort and Mubarak - stick to volleyball you bitches!)

Addict

While a lot of people suffer from a lot of different vices, mine is definitely content.

Here is the list of series and movies that I have finished recently.









I watch too many movies. Maybe it is not healthy but here are two that I really enjoyed:

All the Right Reasons: Nickelback

I am not sure but that album name really stuck with me. You should listen to Nickelback. They are good.

I am listening to some new stuff - Gatman and Robin - Eminem and 50 Cents (the whole G-unit thing taken too far again). Eminem has got the mida's touch - dang! he is good.

Anyways, apart from the music, the last couple of weeks have been too exciting and too many things happening.

Moving out go Houngang - in a condo - Evergreen Park - and we signed up for Starhub - Cable and MaxOnline. Things are gonna becoming even more expensive with the settling of the loans. I will be sharing it with Shavanka and Chandhana. We signed up and things look good so far - hoping to move in around July 1st :)

The other big thing, of course, is Barclays. It has its moments. The biggest plus being that the day goes by really quickly - I am officially using that as a proxy to gauge that I am doing well at Bar Cap. I have this massive problem - slacking - especially after creating a huge opportunity. I am trying my best to not this happen here. However, think I have pissed off a couple on my team due to my inadequate performance and even though my current supervisor ('cos I have rotating supervisors weekly or so) also feels that I must be slacking. But it is not true. I am working at the task - which is to understand some really mind-numbing process but its loaded with tricks - and is also rather time-consuming. Another truth is that I am stuck in a room with two insensitive and rude collegues and there is nothing I can do about it. Fuck. It is all chinese the whole day and it is like someone pricking your ear with a sharp pin while one is trying to really concentrate.

Anyways, this weekend has to be used constructively - things I planned

Creative
Cricket
Formulate objectives
E-learning @ Bar Cap
Sleep

I am sure a couple of other things might come in but - well this is what comes to a sleep deprived brain.

But it is a blessed time indeed - too many good things happening and loads of fun. Everybody and everything looks good and I cannot wait for graduation. My bro is coming down so I need to plan some stuff for him.

Man! There is so much to write. But I am sleepy. I am going to sleep and come back to this later today. Promise.

Life is so so good...

Sounds like a complete contradiction to my recent post...

BUT it has been such a good couple of weeks and come Monday, I am starting at Barclays Capital and I intend to perform, work my ass off, and add value to the extent that they will have to love me and offer me a permanent position. It will be ideal to CIMA and I can finally do more along the line in Finance that really has been my true calling.

And then then - this weekend is shopping for houses, pants, shirts and other goodies. I am planning to get a PlayStation 2 and also an iPod 30GB with Video. Sweet.

My bro should be coming down with his family, which includes the sweetest 1.5 year old niece - so life is really on a high!

Well, I am going to do laundry and then knock myself out - my last day at the library tomorrow. I am glad to be out of there but the people are so so so so nice! Sucks. I will miss them.

Dealing with morons...

Well, anyways, some overdue photo's of my dean lister friends :P Yeah - agreed. They don't look bright but hey - they made it. Anyways, some other photos from the celebration - belated celebration of Meera's 22nd.

------------> Need to get this out into the open!

Dealing with people is such a bitch - i mean the fact that we all have our own agenda's. It is so much easier to arbitarily cut them out of the picture altogether. I guess this whole notion of the need for human touch and hogwash results in the need for friends...

And I have some pathetic ones - I mean I did be one to judge yeah - but at least I try to maintain some semblance but some people are just so pathetic.

Really, apart from all the dishonest and cunning ones who do not give a fuck, to the one that always seems to promise and never deliver - be it small or big. I guess fucks like these are probably the strongest case for weak ties as opposed to strong ties. To this extent, I wish I could have just avoided a couple of people altogether 'cos they are pathetic but then - I wonder whether it is because I am just too harsh. In any case, I have always done better with a small group and maybe make this group smaller - which means only me.

And I get into these wild and really bad moods where I just wish that I could not see these pathetic pieces of shit ever again...

And yet life is all about a million second chances - god knows I needed them. I am willing to salvage some of these pieces of relationship as long as they at least compromise to some extent. I am a demanding dude - there is no doubt of that.