It's ironic..

1. That i'm trying to correct someone's walking gait, when mine is obviously less than perfect..

2. That i'm currently 'attending' my first(music) lessons in keyboard..learning about C chord & G chord..

3. That i'm drinking tea(cammomile) now, so as to counter the tea(teh-almost-no-dai) taken earlier in the day..

It's disturbing..

1. My shoulder is not recovering well..or should i say, it doesn't seem to be recovering at all..in fact, i think my 'gei kiang' gym sessions might have worsen it..

2. That parents would queue overnight to get their 1-year old on the waitlist for pre-nursery in 2013..is a 'branded' school so important for a 3-years old? Or maybe it's important for the parents..that they can 'outsource' teaching to others?

3. A certain sms. It was a totally unexpected response to a totally innocent gesture. Didn't much about it..then out of the blue, i thought about it. And now, i can't stop thinking about it..

I'm not single anymore!

I'm officially..super single!


Yes, I finally bought my bedframe! And i did it in less than 15 mins..without even seeing the actual product on display..think i really outdid myself in terms of shopping this time..and immediately after that, i spent 20mins walking around 1 hawker centre and 3 kopitiams before deciding what to have for dinner..@_@


For those who are scratching your heads and wondering wat nonsense i'm sprouting..a couple of months back, yours truly went shopping for a new mattress. Was in the shop deciding which mattress to get(def spent more than 15 mins then) before i settled on one..and then came the million-dollar question : Do i have a single or supersingle bed? A few moments of err-ahh later, i went for the supersingle(Someone should have stopped me!) And of cos, it turned out that my existing bedframe is SINGLE..


Which means to say..for the past few months, i had been sleeping on a supersingle mattress jutting out from a single bedframe..


So now i have a supersingle bedframe..for my supersingle mattress!

There's something about..

..Choc Lady.

There was something well..different about her today. Maybe it was the fact that she was feeling a little under the weather..hmm..or maybe it was the blouse(thanks for honouring our shirt date)

And then..just as i was sipping my teh-siew-dai watching the world go by..it finally struck me - Choc lady wasn't wearing her glasses today! No wonder she looked different..and to think i thought i was observant enough to comment on her hair(it was really longer right?)

Now..i shall wait for her to get well enough to 'quarrel' with me again..

Orange

Was driving home on the ECP today..in the east-towards-west direction..when i saw this magnificent manifest of colours..as though a pantone of orange-yellow was on display..the orange was so piercing that i found it hard to focus on the road ahead and the reflections off the wet ground were almost blinding me..it was as if nature had painted a giant artpiece and hung it against the perfect skyblue backdrop..What a brilliant sunset..


This entry is dedicated to the person who told me her fave colour is orange..

150

That's Dunbar's number..

It refers to the 'theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships'..Do i even have 150 friends or aquaintances?? According to my facebook..no - i only have 120 friends..but this is the average number of friends one has on facebook, according to Professor Dunbar(yes, the guy who came up with Dunbar's number)

In the first place, i don't think i make friends easily..by that, i mean..really make friends. You know, by bothering to just..keep in touch..While i don't think i'm 'unfriendly'(of cos some people might protest), i can be quite picky with whom i really want to friends with(rather than just aquaintances) and i guess i'm rather 'private' at times..somebody once commented 'you talk a lot, but you tell very little' - not sure if this is good or bad?

A research was done(by Prof Dunbar of cos) and he determined that we devote 40% of our limited social time each week to the five most important people we know, who represent just 3% of our social world..hmm 5 most important people..not sure if i can name them..or even have them in the first place..will it be the people i see most often? or the first people i think of when i have something to tell? or the people whom i msn with every day?

He also mentioned that 'our minds are simply not designed to allow us to have more than a very limited number of people in our social world..the emotional and psychological investments that a close relationship requires are considerable, and the emotional capital we have is limited. Since the time invested in a relationship determines its quality, having more than five best friends is impossible when we interact face to face, one person at a time'

Hmm..best friend? I haven't had a best friend since..primary school?! I know of some friends who will tell you so-and-so is her BFF without any hesitation..but my mind is usually a blank when someone pose me this qn 'So who is your best friend?' Then they'll start prompting me..'What about A? or B? then C?' Mostly i'll just say 'er..good friend lor' Best friend sounds like there's only 1..ranked first..and i just find it weird or even difficult to do so..

There was this once, somebody told me 'you're one of the top 5 most important people to me(maybe Prof Dunbar is right afterall) and you're currently ranked 3rd' Instead of being pleased or touched, I was, in fact, quite disturbed by that statement..and i told her 'you don't have to tell me what my ranking is..but if i ever fall out of this top 5, let me know' This happened some 6 or 7 years ago? Either my friend forgot i ever said that..or i'm still in 'top 5'

Speaking of which, in this new year, i resolve to treat new friends better and annoy them less..or risk seeing more chocolate-turning-black faces..