Happy New Year!

I've started my new year with a good night's sleep, a new wallet, and good food in my stomach. Now I need to get new pants, and start the first day of the year well. Booked my ftt but I haven't found an instructor yet. Bad... Christmas presents and cards are still taking awhile to wrap up, but I think that's fine since I'm doing more detailed gifts this time round. To all the people I wrote I.O.U.s to... namely Mark, Kader, Chris, and Aaron... fear not! Your presents will arrive... soon .. soon . soon.......

I'm more and more decided on going for the special term in NTU this year. I think the time will be well spent getting re-adjusted to studying life. I still have to decide whether I'm going to put time in to try for WCG with my camp mates this year. I'm also trying to spend more time in church with the Disciple bible study course, cell group, and perhaps ushering as well, from time to time.

Army is just about wrapped up. Haha. I guess I have mixed feelings about that =/

Must get a girlfriend this year. Haha. Well not really la. But. It'd be. good though. The loneliness is making me despo, although some might say that I already am, haha. I'm not la. Really. la. But getting there someday =/

Reading: Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods'

Relational styles?

BBDC will charge you TEN DOLLARS+ if you forget your password. WTH. Luckily the shock of the phone assistant's statement was so great that I managed to recall it. Hahahaha.

Maybe with you, it's a respect of privacy thing, or that i'll forever be just another despo army guy... I wish you'd just tell me your reasons. If you don't want to initiate any sort of conversation even once in awhile, that's fine... but if I do try to talk to you I'd appreciate if you'd at least tell me that you're busy or that you dislike handphone radiation.... I'm not trying to lash out here or anything, maybe I might be overbearing or something... But if you really think that, I'll never know it until you say something... Sigh.

The Golden Compass, The Golden Pillow

Yesterday, I broke one of my own cardinal rules by going with Kader to eat at X sushi place. Drawn in by the cheap buffet prices, we sat down and started eating. 4 plates later, we realized that there was no raw fish sushi on the conveyor belt, and we feared that this was the reason for the cheap prices. It was only at this point that we mustered up the indignation to ask the waiter about it... We were told that you simply had to ask for it from the menu. The raw fish was not put on the belt in order to preserve the freshness. A logical idea. Little did we know that worse things were in store for us...

After the meal, we resolved to never eat at X sushi place again, what with its mutilated tuna sushi (with thin red 'things' inside it), or its slimy cuttlefish sushi... The only nice thing about the place was the waiter. =/

Kader has observed that I have become rather more petty and prone to anger this year. Undeniably it is true. In moderation, I think it can only be called a positive character development, but perhaps I am a little past that line... It's people. Just a select few people. And perhaps also the bi-weekly challenges I face in cell group.. haha.

We met with Jevon and watched the Golden Compass; I suppose it is undeniable that the story has something to say for atheism. I haven't read Pullman's books yet, so it'd be entirely unfair and silly to base all my thoughts from scenes in a movie (although I'd be somewhat disturbed if Lyra really turns out to be his atheist poster child). Somehow though, I've come across a couple of books on atheism recently.

Still, if there is anything in the movie that unites movie-goers (whatever your religion may be), its watching a giant armoured polar bear HEADBUTT a man to death... Or a giant polar bear slapping the jaw off another polar bear. And Nicole Kidman.

X: I'm glad we left the place when we did. I was really emitting alot of gaseous substances nearing the end.

B: I couldn't smell any of them, but ignorance is bliss, right? An atheist wouldn't think that, though. He'd want to suck it all in.