Hello there!

It's been awhile (actually only 2 weeks) but I'm in the mood to write/type so pardon me. Yesterday, I read one of my friend's, Regine, blog post on her blog. It's regarding "Quality Time Spent" and how we define it today, with modern technology taking over our lives. The link's below if you want to read about it.


She may appear really bimbo at times (in fact, all the time) but she's really good at writing/typing. Yes I know you're reading this, Regine. I hate you hahahahaha!


Anyway, I do realise that all these technology has taken our lives so much so that we no longer interact properly anymore. Last year, for my year end dance production, one of the items actually talked about people's voices being silenced due to the use of modern technology. When we use our phones, we block out their voices and it's no longer heard.

It's really sad, actually, to have the gadgets that were invented to bring people closer, actually pull them further apart. In fact, it doesn't make anybody any closer than they previously were anyway. Hmmm.

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Just today, I had an argument with my boyfriend regarding the use of phone when we're having a conversation. He has been playing a game on his iPhone and got so hooked onto it, he's always playing it. Whether we're on the road, when he's talking to me, or even when he goes to the toilet. It's quite irritating actually, if you're his other half.

I asked if he preferred to spend time with his phone rather than me, and he denied. However, he refused to put the phone down because he was so intensely focused on the game, until I raged at him and shouted at him. I got really upset, because I felt like I waited a whole week to spend some time with him, only to have him face a phone game.

Eventually he gave in and put down his phone, and promised to not touch it over the weekend. But he had one condition: He wanted to go collect his 'daily reward' on the game. I was so upset because his mind was still on the game! I don't understand humans, I really don't.

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Even so, he's actually, right now, on his computer playing video games. The fact that he plays every night has become such a common sight to me that it's no longer something I'm shocked about. (Realised how I used 'shocked" because it's a negative term?)

Sometimes, people need to realise that proper human interaction is so much more important and powerful than virtual ones.

In the holidays, my boyfriend went out with his clique of friends who played games together. I thought it was pretty decent, considering he told me about going to a Korean BBQ Eatery together for a meal and to hang out. That seemed like a nice idea, until he told me that he was meeting them early to go to a LAN Shop to play games.


I got so annoyed, not because he was leaving earlier, but because he couldn't find other activities to do with them! You can play games any day and Skype to have a conversation, but he insists it's different because all of them are facing their own screen, side by side. Sometimes, I don't understand the male species.

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He's been going to LAN Shop every Monday now, with only make-up classes in the morning. I understand it's a way to pass time, since he had to wait for my classes to end at 6pm. However, I suggested for him to head to the gym since it's been a long time he had gone to the gym. He decided that going to the LAN Shop was way more important than going to gym.

To him, video gaming means more than anything. Sometimes, I feel like calling TOUCH Cyber Wellness to report on him. Maybe they will send me a restraint or a hammer to destroy his computer. I don't know, but I do hope they do.

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I'm sorry I used my boyfriend as an example and maybe it's a little against the male species. But females do use their technological gadgets these days and tend to ignore people too. I'm guilty as charged as well. There were so many instances where I was using my phone when my boyfriend was trying to explain something to me, only to have me block it out completely.

It made him upset a lot as he felt that I wasn't interested. However, I can't be a true example because I have over 30 unread conversations on Whatsapp (since I don't like to use my phone).

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I've seen people who would use their phones non-stop and I don't understand the logic behind it. During Leptis Magna chalet, everyone went into the chalet and asked for Wi-fi! People started taking their MacBook out, 3DS out, and the rest took their smartphones and started hanging out with it. Renald took out a book and I was beyond impressed ♥

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I'm not saying that these technological advances have done us no good! I can't even count the number of times my phone had saved me from awkward situations or emergencies. My phone is my sense of security and I feel like I have nothing to fear so long as my battery isn't dead (:

I use my MacBook for school work and I can't imagine what Poly life would be if I had to do work on pen and paper or write my essay on a foolscap paper! I would die without Photoshop or Spotify as well! ♥

There are good and bad things about technology, but sometimes we need to regulate our usage and choose the appropriate times to put it down. Spending time with people (especially people close to you) should be non-virtual! How else do you talk about things that matter, instead of who just posted an indirect tweet against another somebody?

All our conversations now include .. "Hey look at this screen shot of the conversation I had", "do you know what ______ posted on twitter?", "Have you seen her latest selfie on Instagram?", "I think they are together, they have been posting photos together on Instagram, and have you seen the comments on it?"

When people ask me if any two people are together and they began to "stalk" their Instagram or Twitter to find out, I do the easiest. Either I find a time to ask the person in person, or drop a message asking if it's true. It's quite easy to do and there is no reason to misunderstand.

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I'm sorry if this seems long and draggy and repetitive but I'm pretty done with people ignoring me for games or more games! (my boyfriend, yep) I get so annoyed and I just wished I could slam his computer/phone/3ds onto the floor and destroy it for as long as I can.


If I can hang out with you for days and not check Instagram, Twitter or turn to Whatsapp when we're on a bus ride to somewhere, you can do the same.

I love technology, but I love being without it for awhile too.

I believe we all need technology in our lives, but I really do hope to live in a time where there was little technology. I think I belong in that time, those years. I really think I do.

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If there's a song I'm currently addicted to, it's this one. The Script is heavenly and so is Superheroes ♥ It's my favorite song now and you can't imagine how happy I feel when it comes up on my Spotify playlist! (Yes I'm poor so I don't have premium so my songs go on shuffle)

Hello there!

It's been awhile and I can't remember what I wrote about in my previous post but here I am again! The holidays passed by in a blink and I can't remember half of what I did. We don't have summer holidays here it's just permanently humid holidays YAY. Oh well. Well, here's a recollection of how my holidays went (:

Whatever I can remember anyway.

Work.


Work pretty much took up 1/2 of my holidays or more. I worked my plans and social life (near to non-existent) around my work schedule. It doesn't hurt that I give my work schedule more than 2 weeks ahead of time.

Working at Stickies is like a good and bad thing. The bad thing would definitely be the pay because we don't get paid high. But due to privacy reasons, I won't disclose the pay. However, the work experience makes up for the financial disappointment, I would say. The experience is good because we handle real customer orders personally even though we're just part-timers!

The full-timers teach us a lot more than we usually learn from holiday part-time jobs and we are treated as a part of the family instead of just working for the money (: I've met many people who gave me a beautiful holiday despite working 12 hours sometimes!

Although I may be leaving the work place permanently after October, I can still say that they helped me spend the holidays well. And it doesn't hurt that I get free candy a lot though I don't fancy candy hmmmm.

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Jian Hung.


Well that took up the other half of my holidays I would say. HAHAHAHAHA. There is almost no more than 2 days where we would be apart. Call us overly attached, but we decided that we wanted to spend the holidays together a lot more since we do enjoy each other's company a whole lot (:

Most of the time, we spent the days at home watching Pokemon or playing Pokemon (since he recently bought a 3DS). Occasionally, we went out to do things a little special. We went out to East Coast Park for Cycling + Eating BBQ Food and Adventure Cove! (Which was his first experience there and he was quite afraid HAHAHAHAHA)

We also planned a Leptis Magna Chalet, which I will talk about later on! Pretty thankful for this little bulk of happiness he has given me in this 1.5 months and I would say it's just like any Nicholas Sparks Movie/Book where they spend a beautiful summer together (Singapore is warm so I get to say Summer) except we don't have a heartbreak at the end and meet 20 years later ^^

No, I'm still not bored of him. He's actually walking around his room looking for his game now (which he misplaced) while I'm typing this.


Oh and he's shaking his butt. That ass though. HAHAHAHAHA.

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Camp.


Haven't been a camp person since FMSFBC2014 ended but I guess I relived the experience from a whole different perspective. Joining TBC 2014 as part of the Crew gave me a different experience from being a camper or SL. Although I started out really awkward and regretting my choice to sign up, I ended up really loving my company (:

Crew is Cool.

It was nice catching up with people I haven't met in a long time and meeting new people I've always heard of but never had the chance to properly meet. People like Hayley and Chloe, and Janelle. Oh and lovely Jing Yee too!

Although I was happy that camp ended and I could go home, I still had an experience I couldn't relive anywhere else.

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Chalet.


I started off the holidays with Zodall Chalet. Much awaited I would say, though we were all much to lazy to plan a concrete one until Elson got frustrated and went ahead with the booking! Although it was right at the beginning of the holidays, everyone were rather enthusiastic about it (:

With more than 10 people turning up for all 3 days, we are the definition that camp groups do last and nothing can replace the family you hold close to your heart despite being physically apart a lot.

Since we are all sloths (although it's mainly Priscilla but I'd say all), we spent the first night drinking and sleeping HAHAHAHA. We spent the half of the second day sleeping and then headed out for lunch + buying barbecue food. Apart from the barbecue, we spent the rest of the time lepaking in the room and talking about nothings (:

I couldn't describe the experience I shared with them but they gave me the best chalet to remember by. Nothing replaces family and it's something you feel with your heart more than share with your words.


Thank you Zodall, my roots. And yes, Zhengning, I'm still angry at you for scaring me with a frog though you didn't do it on purpose.

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Chalet. (Part2)


Well, the end of the holidays was marked with an impromptu Leptis Magna Chalet! Jh and I decided one day that we wanted something to remember the holidays by and decided to plan a chalet. Although it was booked only 1 week before the actual chalet, many people were welcoming to the idea and we had 10 people who showed up YAY!

It was a short 2d1n chalet and we spent the time really well. We shopped for barbecue groceries together, played at the beach and had our 那些年 moments, barbecued for hours (though I did nothing except eat) and drank through the night.

We danced half-drunk (most of them) and talked a lot. Which was nice, and comfortable. Comfortable people are the best people to be around with hehehe.

Yes, we are still alive today. And they are coming over to Jian Hung's house for Steamboat tomorrow (which we impromptu initiated today and they agreed hahahaha).


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To those who are thinking that this is going to be a real long post and I'm only halfway done, I'm actually already done. I have no recollection of doing anything else that was real special except random outings with friends here and there.

In less than 2 days, the holidays would be over and it will be a whole new semester of hell. But I've braced myself (like Heimdall YAY) and I'm ready to face it.

I'm not ready to face people though. I haven't socialise much in the holidays apart from Jian Hung and my colleagues and my family, I don't think I can do it. Sorry if I appear awkward with human relationships from now on, I can't do it anymore NO.

Shockingly, dance wasn't a part of the holidays like I really wished it would have been but I know December will be a filled period of that. Especially since I've already decided to co-choreographed with Xuejing my sunshine (:


Yes, I can't wait to write that post either. I really can't wait (:

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I hope you had a great holiday too! And I hope those secondary school kids + O/A Level Grads (which will end their exams around November mid or end) have a horrible holidays 'cause I'll be studying my ass off. Just kidding. HAHAHAHAHA.

Bye!