I am sooo hot and humid and uncomfortable right now. Gosh, I don't know what happened but all of a sudden my airconditioner has contracted the disease that has been plaguing my internet -- random irrational unknown malfunction. It was just working this afternoon. I had just turned it off because I was cold and I was coming out to cook and chat with my friends. Now it just refuses to turn on again. Whyyy? I'm so gonna burn tonight. I might sleep in the living room.

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So what did I do on V day?

A bunch of us got together and cooked up a huge pot of soup and rice. :) Nothing spectacular, nothing too crazy, nothing too lovey dovey, nothing too mopey either. Definitely special though. Lazing around with friends watching soccer, playing games and finally eating too much. :) I am so satiated right now.

I had actually force fed myself a bit too much and got a little sick from being bloated. :( But it was funny for everyone else because I kept groaning and complaining and cursing and swearing away. I swear. I felt as though my stomach was going to burst from all that food. :p

Simple pleasures. That's what it is. :) You don't get much of a chance. Comfy. :) I think much of the time we over look the joy simple pleasures can give us. Prolly because we expect too much. We always wish to do something fantastic, something amazing, something that's so ultimately cool. Either that or we're just buried in work, buried in the stress of life.

After that all my friends left, we had school tommorow and work still left undone, study still pending completion and all.

Just a few simple hours tonight was enough to make it feel so special. It feels so good. I reckon that's all you really need.

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Today I had the fortune of sitting in and chatting with a group girls about their friendship problems.

It seems that the girls admire us guys who seem to be so easy going when it comes to friends. I told them that's not always true. I have witnessed problems between guys too. They claimed that guys being guys with all their heck-carish attitude make friends well with each other. Perhaps in our youthful hay days anyways. Mostly, they claimed that we don't have much trouble. Adding that most of us tend not have political struggles (very much at least), or go about remembering grudges, or using disgusting psychological tactics to get to someone, or being disgustingly discriminative and dismissive and most of all manipulative. At most when we get pissed off with each other we'll break out in a fight. Which is above all things pretty entertaining.

Girls apparently to them are really vicious and mean beings. I felt pity for some of them who had the misfortune of actually being friends and being close to some of these terrible girls. This girl who was in the debate as well as interact club back in school was continually "bullied" by her "friends" in the club as well by being given lousy jobs to do all the time and was denied of posts which she was more than fully qualified for. Moreover whenever these "friends" had a party or an outing they would conveniently forget her and come the next day and be so falsely apologetic just to do it again the next time. This girl thought nothing of it initially but it got worse and her treatment continued with them not even talking to her unless there's something annoying that needs to be done then they go over and tell her that she needs to do it. She continued to perservere, to forgive and forget, even though it was so obvious. I thought it wasn't very bright of her to do so and I thought these girls were worse than scum. Oh, on one occassion, these friends had ganged up and attempted to kicked her out from the club when she didn't turn up for her duties. She didn't turn up because her grandma passed away and she had to stay home and attend the funerals and prayers. She was rather close to her grandmother as well and she was somewhat tender during this period. When she returned she found out that she had been kicked from the club by her so called "friends". She had to kick up a big fuss about it to the teacher supervisors to get herself back in. I was thinking that the worst thing was that these girls were in the interact club and going around helping people in the name of care, kindness, selflessness and altruism. What a con job. After she left school she didn't ever want to see any of them again but recently she's got an invite to meet up with them again. She doesn't know what to do.

Thoughts? Comments?

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It's Valentines day and I bought Tottoro 2 boxes of Belgium chocolates and a box of cupcakes!

Look how happy he is! :)




Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians: 13:4-7, 13 The Message/NIV

Don't we fail in at least one area? I know I do.

Do also take note of what we succeed in. Love yourself too. :)

p/s: zOMG MY AIRCON IS WORKING AGAIN. Happy. Happy. Smile. :)

tfaduh.