Happy New Year everyone (although a little late now, but better late than never, right )! I hope that you had a lovely new year’s eve celebration with your loved ones.

Sorry for the lack of updates lately because I have been taking (or I have been trying ) some time off my computer. Instead of gluing myself to the computer screen all the time, I’m trying to find time for things/activities that isn’t computer related. Easier said than done.

I have a feeling that as we grow older, time seems to past faster than we might want it to. It is not like a video recorder, where we can simply press the pause-button when we need to ponder or to work things out before going forward or just rewind yesterday’s episode.

So my personal goals for the year 2009? I hope to make time to do things that I love. There are still plenty of songs that I would love to play on the piano and there are still huge amounts of books that I wish to devour. Not forgetting to spend more time with the people I love.

I’ve been quite looking forward to herald in 2009! Going to spend my new year’s eve at home with T’s family, with a few round of poker, some sparkling wine to toast the new year and some firecrackers as well!

2008 wasn’t a bad year but 2009 can be better! My new year’s resolutions?

*fingers drumming*
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Still haven’t figure it out. Will list them down when the new year arrives. We still have a few more hours to go.

So, here’s to another new year! Bring it on!

Guess what is this? Nope, it’s not a bomb and no, it’s not a decoration either, although this ‘thing’ has been occupying a considerable amount of space at the TV room cabinet. I was dumb-struck the first time when my boyfriend shown it to me and told me he built it himself.If you take a closer look at it, some of the parts are made of cardboard and cellophane tape glued together! Those two vertical ‘thingy’ which look like screwdrivers are used to hold the electrical components, underneath the metal plate, in place. Jeez..and I thought that they are real screwdrivers with its pointed end sawed off.The top view looks even scarier with its eight huge bluish cylinders with small threads of wires in every direction. What’s with that thing that looks like a toilet roll? Tell me that your first impression of this is not a homemade bomb. The first thing that flashed into my mind was, which wire to cut to deactivate the whole thing?

Actually my fear was misplaced. It’s just an amplifier he built for his sub-woofer to enhance his TV-watching experience..duh. I’ve gotta admit that thing works fine . I guess I’ve been watching too many movies these days, but hey, you can’t blame me (blame those movies), right, when it looks so ‘explodable’.

I was up early on a bright Saturday morning, eager to beat the crowd on Boxing Day. When I hit town an hour later, it seemed like everyone had the same idea, that is hunting for the best buy at post-Christmas sales!

I’ve noticed one thing while hopping in between shops that day. Have you ever wondered why are there plush cushions and comfy-looking sofas at certain corners of a shop? Do you ever noticed that most of the time you’ll find only men making themselves comfortable at that corner?

I call it the men’s corner while my boyfriend named it his retreat for the woebegones. Whenever he took a seat at that corner, there would be undoubtedly a handful of men already occupying the seats, giving him an emphatic smile.

It was as if an unspoken comradeship has built up between them within that moment, everyone sharing the same fate, that is waiting for the girlfriend/wive/mistress to finish browsing through rows and rows of clothing.

Each one of them would either wear an expression of complete boredom, wishing they would be somewhere else, or you’ll find them totally clueless to the complex mind of a female because to them, that dress is still a dress whether if it is in black or pink.

So now I understand the tactic used by the shops to prolong the stay of potential buyers in their shop because they got to separate men from their females, preventing them from trailing behind their girlfriends/wives/mistresses and thus at the same time preventing them from pestering their companions to hurry up! What a brilliant idea .