If I am going to be tied to something... The best imagery I have right now is not to an imaginary marriage.

Explains my utter flabbergast-ION when I chanced upon this silly observation.

I was making a side remark to Kien with regards to a mutual friend of ours regarding their relationship status. You can view them the "new couple in the making" and they have a sweet history of 1 year and going.

So being the child-like me (and yes, i prefer to use that word), I told Kien.

"Dear, look! I also want to be "engaged"!"

And there explains a little innocent gesture of "up-ing" our stale and boring status by giving it an extra iconic boost.

I was severely traumatised by the 35 plus congratulatory notes overnight. Imagine the shock I had when ppl whom I haven't talk to for ages express their genuine state of mind via FB to me. I really do not know how to explain.  A TOTALLY TONGUE_TIED experience.

Plus, I was tormented with several "Why was I the last to know, and thru' FB???!"

So I found Me a broken record when i explained the same story to different close friends in the process of one single day. I really can't figure what I have gotten myself into... Damn FB, and yes, I could have sue them based on their default paragraph when people update their status to "engaged".

Marriage planning is in the air, but not in this year or next.At least not with our meagre savings for the moments.  2 years down the road seems more plausible. Oh well, this early alarms are gona blow over. *attempts to shrug*

And, to do justice to this private space that I hardly visit, I make it a point to write. It's so rusty but I guess that is the purpose. It's truly private! And I tried it. I did a move by typing my full name in google, and yeah! this blog did not manifest in the "top 10" finds! And Mandy upon chancing on my actions, put up her iconic "W" sign, which means "Weird".

However, my rationale for this is so that my students will not haunt my blog next time! A whole load of private musings I have in there... And luckily for my old blogger, it still exists... but I blocked it up and filled it with a piece of white, vast blankness.

And anyway, I realise time is getting really tight for me, as always.

Some things being cleared, just like a heavy fog that has been weighing me on my mind ocassionally. It makes me realise how much time one can truly give up for. Be it to friends, loved ones, family and to your own passion, i feel it is really simply a case of additions and subtractions. Astract mathematics maybe, or maybe, it's simply how much time one can truly afford to not give away.

And speaking of that. I was reminded of this Guiness Stout Black advertisement. Remember this quite cool HK moustached guy? He could be considered suave in our mum's standards.

"Bu zai hu tian chang di jiu, zhi zai hu ceng jin yong you"

A really lousy translation by me:

"Do not care for eternal possessions, only care for what you once own in the past".

Yeah, it sucks. At this hour to translate from my rusty chinese to english.

I think that philo line is from that old ad, correct me if i am wrong.

Could it be that sometimes we minded too much, or we gave up trying? Could some distance in perspectives, when used appropriately, might be better in allowing us to loosen our reins on certain issues?

Little updates of my life... before my blog turns to an empty space.

This last sem at Nie seems fraught with deadlines crashing and plummeting across time.

And the one year stint seems shorter, marking my full-fleged identity as a school teacher near.

To prepare myself, i chose a counseling elective mod with Mandy, a rather cute girl from school.

And my nie clique is really a funny bunch of friends who love some corny jokes.

Daniel had a can of tuna as his "bdae cake". (Cos the tutor branded him as "tuna"- a slang for a cute, hot guy.

Christine had fishcake.

And me, Hotcakes.

So me and Mandy were brainstorming for the next cake to pull on the next person.

Guess?

It's "Fa Gao"!

The sweet and brown delectable chinese delicacy, found sometimes, to serve for the chinese gods. grins...

Some New yr resolutions:

1) blog more

2)Meet up more with friends

3) Love my dearest man more and more.

Next entry  bloggie, till then.