Miss That Part of Life

I suddenly miss that part of life when I wake up to go for lectures, mug hard in the computer lab/c central library/ hall premises/ my room, play games in RH or visit people's rooms, and go out to eat and study in McD in the middle of the night.

The day in day out mugging wasn't that great, but I do love the little things that go along with it.

Work is all fine and dandy now, and despite whatever general complaints I see and hear, I like my job a lot; and I consider myself very fortunate to be in this job. I love the things I learn, like the things I do, and am excited about the things I will be doing.

But part of me wishes that i can return to school life - I wonder why.

Leaving 30J Kovan Road

Am leaving 30 J Kovan Road for an unknown destination in June/July, because Shu Ying is moving in with her friends. I will miss this place! Although it's probably for the better because I can move to somewhere nearer to Tuas where I work, and as a consequence save up to $60 (or more) per month, along with monthly time savings of 30 hours or so.

But I will miss Kovan loads! Everything is lovely here except the distance to work. I will miss:

• My housemates. Jerome, Wen Qiao, Yew Hong. I don't think we'll be staying together after this. But it had been so fun :( Hugglies to everyone! That's a Jerome term by the way. Things will be much less side splitting without Jerome.
• The house. It's so nice and big and spacious and cooling. And the red and orange colour schemes make everything so nice and cheery. And it's a super duperly good space-for-money deal. Our electronic keyboard would probably clog up half the living room in the next place we move to. And the rental pricing would most likely be the same, if not more.
• The neighbours. Queenie and her sister Genevieve most of all. Genevieve was just getting over her shyness and started making physical contact with me. Queenie of course is the usual chatterbox, always dressed in pink and yellow barbie dresses! And she looks out for me. Will miss them. Also their maid, the random uncles which I say hi to, and erm, the two dogs.
• The SPC gas station cashiers who are extremely friendly and polite. Sometimes it just makes my day to buy drinks over there and say hi.
• The relatively short distance to MRT, Fairprice, Hougang Food Court and Heartland Mall. It's near the bus station which I take a coach home from too. Come to think of it, I would also need to consider different balik kampung alternatives in the future.
• Nex, which is this rather new shopping complex in Serangoon that sells lots of stuff, but primarily (or so it seems), food and clothes. It has this nice selection of clothes that explains part of my impulsive contributions to Singapore's flourishing economy. And it has a public library! Enough said.
• The trips home from church in JonC's car. We won't be staying close to JonC next time. But am really really grateful to JonC for being a great companion and brother.
• The trips home in my company shuttle after afternoon shift. The bus is almost-empty, and the driver is nice (although he drives a bit too fast sometimes). I wanted to tell my colleague (who stays in Sengkang and takes that bus too), that he will soon be the only person in the bus (hence first to reach home), but I just couldn't do it today. I still need some time to come to terms with the move.

It shouldn't be difficult to find a new place to move to but the moving would be a bit of a headache as our stuff has multiplied in the past year. :S Still I believe God has a plan for us in our new place, and pray that He leads us as we prepare for move.

Distraction

Oh I should be studying now but I can't get my hands/minds/attention off that wonderful awesomelicious keyboard which sounds fantastic argh!

So I have to blog now to further distract myself. And calm down so that I can hit on my long-borrowed analytical instrument text book that I've only covered 10% of. Feel so embarrassed every time my colleague asks which chapter I'm at. I always seem to be stuck in the same chapter!

Oh no oh no.

Gail, be good and responsibly put your nose in the book. Later you might be rewarded with some piano time. All things in moderation k.

Dixit

OK I knew I would blog about this game sooner or later.

Dixit is a card game with awesome 'abstract' cartoon images (or you can call it 'surrealistic images' if you like). I like the drawings so much! And all you have to do in this game is tell stories, or to be more precise, think of a word that describes a picture of your card. And since I like words and abstract stuff and all, I love this game. It has won awards too! The pics above show some (but not all) of the cards.

Been playing it with Jon, Jerome and Wen Qiao these two days. And since we're in the high-tech era, we played it in the form of an I-phone app (no physical cards). How you play it is like this: each of us 'hold' six different picture cards. If it's my turn to be the story teller, I pick a card of my choice, put it face down out, and describe it (or title it's story). As you can see from the cards, many titles can come out for each picture.

After I choose my card and story, I lay out mine; and then it's the turn for the three of them to take out one card of their choice. Then out of the four cards on the deck turned up; each of them must vote on which one they think is the card representing my story.

Here's the catch: if everyone picks my card, all of them will get points except for me. And if no one picks my card, I get no points too! So I want at least one person to guess my card but not all. (And I don't think it's very fair to give hints so that only one person can understand etc etc so this is very tricky indeed.) And of course if you're not the story teller you'd want to lay down a card that closely matches the story title, to confuse others except yourself so that you'd be the only one who guesses. Correct guesses get points; and if anyone votes for your card which you put down as a diversion you get points too! So it's fun :D

For example, there's this picture where there's this bunch of green lily pad like plants surrounding a red one in the middle. There's kind of gap in between the circle of green plants and the red, so Jon named it 'Back-Off'. Jerome named it as 'Bad Breath' when he got the card in one of his turns. But apparently that turned out to be a bad idea because all of us put down cards that has people with big mouth or jaws or all; so instead we ended up voting for each other's diversion cards instead of Jerome's because his was more abstract.

I think the best part of the game is seeing which pictures crop up and how each person tries to link his/her card to the story or the wacky titles we think up for stories. It encourages creativity, and the cards are so nice to look at! And every game ends with aching sides lol.

People I especially want to play this game with:

1. Boss & WM (Think we'll laugh our heads off)

2. Tirza (I think you can think of lovely titles for yours!)

3. JonC (Who is capable of making creative and lame comments)

4. Simon (Reason same as person above)

Get it on your I-phones while this app is still free!