朽木百哉のブォグ

I had a wonderful time chatting with Elaina; was supposed to meet her nearby her place but thought of giving her a surprise to pick her up at her school as her school hours ended quite late.

The journey was quite a challenging one as I had been seemingly doing a night race, while looking for the mentioned location. In the end, by the time I’ve found her, she has just reached home…in any how, it’s a trip worth for as I am able to find shortcuts for various towns.

Driving past my old workplace certainly does bring back memories of those late shift-hours; the calls, the colleagues, the jokes we had during silent hours…all these will always be in memory.

We went to a nearby coffeeshop which seems new, yet quite incomplete as there are limited stalls and definitely serving limited variety of food. She showed me the pictures taken at her school and she has a nice company of friends…it’s so nice to hear her just talk about what she does during Christmas eve, and the day itself, as she only meets up with these friends once annually.

She only took rojak for dinner, which definitely won’t be filling, but according to her, she doesn’t want to eat anything heavy, so it shall be. I had a fish porridge to keep that stomach warm after all that clouding in the aircon while battling my way to search for her.

We chatted till around 11:30pm and I sent her home, accompanied by her mum’s call while the way back; wish I could spend more time talking to her but time seems to pass so quickly.

Shortly after I said goodnight to her, I entered slumberland.

Had a quick lunch even before the cleaner auntie has finished clearing the bins around office; it’s nice to chat with her as I constantly joke with her as and when I see her.

Elaina just woke up at 10:30am. Hope she’s feeling better as she was having a cold last night, most likely being chilled by the pool water. Her lessons will be till quite late in the evening today, so might not see her online till late.

Am thinking of getting another laptop but have been withholding that back as it’s better for me to invest in education for future and to have a speciality skill in future.

The morning had been quite a challenging one but so far so good on the emotional side, besides some disturbance from calls / SMSes received yesterday. I’m letting the past go and focusing on what lies ahead and achieving what I want in life.

Back to the arena.

Awoken again at 4:15am, I returned to sleep and for a moment, timelost mode was felt. It took awhile for me to recall that it's already Thursday and coming to the end of a busy week; that spells good news too as I had been pretty loaded lately.

Pretty quiet morning as I get ready to go to work after eating, washing up and getting changed.

Managed to chat with Elaina when she returned from her swim around 9+, and have cleared my PTRs so far; and realised that she has got a cold as the pool water was too chilly, but she had felt better after a hot drink; it's already 10:40 when I learnt about it and was going to go down to her place to pass her some flu tablets, but she didn't want to trouble me.

We talked about where to go this weekend and she also mentioned that she would like to cook barley drink for me. aww...it's so sweet... Will be accompanying her for grocery shopping as a "memory card" role though she may not have many things to get. Since she's going to be out till quite late on Friday evening, I'll accompany her back as the road outside her home is not quite safe, especially so for a girl.

We chatted and recalled the time I took her out for supper last Saturday and chatted till the wee hours of Sunday morning; though she doesn't recall, I have the memory at hand; just lacking a few details which can be traced after a short spell of recall. The conversation was ended before midnight to let us each have a good rest.

I was in a rainy and dilapilated, Nazi-style kind of military building where was with a whole group of people; there were lots of noises and people were moving upstairs and down, like after some sort of big meeting, and when I was on my way down, I saw Kevin and Ruisheng, and walked together with them; and heard Ruisheng telling Kevin that their case has been brought up to some military superior by the name of Nor, and Kevin was listening quietly.

The moment seemed short till I woke up adn realised it's only 4:15am.

Tried playing a little of 9 Dragons but seemed to make me even more tired mentally and causing strenuousness to my eyes; I reverted to chatting with Elaina till around 10pm where we decided to retire for the night. I had a fright when I received a call from her this morning but was unable to answer it; later realising from her that she could have called me accidentally; thought someone was trying to bully her in school...good thing, nothing happened...

It's the first time in a long while since I had an early night's rest. The cause of dark eye rings must have to do with this, since I realised it vanished after a continuous period of early night rest which I had done so in a continuous number of days.

Let's do it again.

I left office unexpectedly early with a few complicated matters left to handle, but will need sometime for appropriate action to be taken as time goes by.

Had a good catchup with Lena after work, who also takes the same bus as me since the travelpath of the bus is the same, since she alights earlier. We talked about fishing which was a pastime I had during my teens, along with a couple of my friends, where we used to hang out at Bedok Jetty, under the hot sun and preparing the bait and tamang hook, which was specially used to catch tamang...ah...those were the fun days we had when I was still a student.

Good idea for me to polish those skills but it certainly will be dull to go alone...having a good company is what matters most; I gotta go and find those rods which had been kept away for sometime.