and the story he left behind. I am moved by his love for his ex-owners.

I just read a very, very depressing story. It is about a girl whose life was almost perfect. She had a bf whom she loveS very much. He loveD her too, and even told her that he wanted to marry her.

Then one day last month, something bad happened to him and he left her, left his friends, left his family, left his dreams, left this world. He has been greatly missed by the girl ever since.

She has a blog. She seemed like a happy girl, until her 18 June 2008 post. From then on, she just lost it. Every post is a sad post. In all her subsequent posts, she talked about him, about how much she misses him and about how much she wishes to see him. She is still posting old pictures of him, of them and of his old mobile messages to her. Sometimes she talks about him, but most of the time, she talks to him.

I think it is devastating when you lose someone you love very much, and it is worse when that someone loveD you just as much. I find it hard to believe that she is still able to pen down her sadness on her blog. I dont think I would be able to do that.

I never believed that I would ever be touched in this way. She really misses him and she is still talking to him even after a month. I hope she moves on but I know it is very, very tough because he was really nice to her before he…

I tried not to be too upset by the story but when I saw her 21 July 2008 post (Baby, It hurts so much, Can you come back now?), I decided to stop reading it. I dont want to read it anymore… I feel like crying.

From her blog, I know that his name is Clifton and that he had left for Brunei earlier. I googled on Clifton and Brunei, and I found this.

Remember someone told you that you will be greatly missed when you leave for dnalloh…

Look at that bridge! It is a hanging bridge! Anyone went on it before?

I cant stand myself. I know I keep saying that but sometimes I really mean it. Sometimes like now. In three weeks’ time, I will be having a three weeks’ break. Yes, break again. I am so looking forward to a good break. That is why I cant stand myself. I mean, is there anything else in my head other than looking forward to breaks? It is not as if I didnt have a single good break in a long, long time or that I have a good reason to need one that badly. My job is nothing and the last break I had was only like a month ago. That break was well-spent but well…

I miss the good old times.

The time has come - 28 September 2008! SG will be hosting a round of the 2008 F1 World Championship! Mark this date on your calendar! Actually you dont have to, especially if you are not a F1 fan. I mean, what are you going to do after you have marked it down? Even if you are a F1 fan, you dont have to because I am sure you will be reminded of the event by all the advertisements!

The race will be held at the southern part of SG and it will be held at night. This will be the first night-time race in F1 history and the reason is, SG’s weather is too hot for day-time race. That is, of course, not true! SG’s weather is too hot for ANY race at ANY time of the day or night. ARGH! Just as I am typing this, I am sweating like a fat pig. My air-conditioner has died on me and that really improves my life a lot because now I am very lonely, very angry and very HOT. Okay, the reason is to allow the race to be broadcasted at a convenient time for the Europeans. Blablabla…

This is a map of the race track. Double click to see a larger version.

Who needs any other brand when Hello Kitty has everything! You name it, Hello Kitty has it! I was just going to rant about how much I want this water dispenser when I thought about something. Do you think an Evian or Blue Mountain water tub would fit into this dispenser? What if you can only order water tubs from Sanrio because they have had it patented?

Talking about Hello Kitty, anyone playing the Hello Kitty Black Wonder game? You have to log in using your Sanriotown account before you can start playing. I have been playing it since yesterday and I am so not good at it!

The game goes like this: There are three houses, one for Hello Kitty, one for Dear Daniel, and one for Kuromi. The characters are released, one at a time, from a permanent point of entrance, and the objective is to send the character to his or her house. You have to rotate the black arrow on the path before the character reaches it. Only the black arrows can be rotated. The rest are fixed on the paths. You get points deducted for sending the character to the wrong house. From level 2 or 3 onwards, you get Bomb coming from the entrance too. You have to make sure that the Bomb ends up at the dispose area and not at any one of the characters’ houses because when that happens, it’s Game Over almost instantly!

It starts with a really easy level, one character at a time, but soon gets so impossible, when clones of all three characters are constantly being released. When I got Daniel, Bomb, Daniel, Bomb, Bomb, Kuromi… on one path I gave up. HAHA!

I sometimes dont get it. From the introduction page of Hello Kitty Black Wonder, it seems that Kuromi is the evil one but when I sent a Bomb to Kuromi’s house, it said Game Over! Hey, I was only trying to help!!

No, I didnt go to HK again. I wouldnt have dared to.

These pictures were taken more than a month ago when I was in HK. We spent a day in HK Island. It is only a few train stations away from Kowloon. From Kowloon’s Tsim Sha Tsui, we took a train to HK Island’s Causeway Bay.

All the streets were so busy, and we kept getting lost. We had maps with us and I am sure we ace at reading maps. C’mon, we are females! So it must be the maps’ fault. Anyway, it was nice walking around Causeway Bay. I bought a Hello Kitty top from one of the shops in a shopping mall. I should take a picture of it some day and post it here. Hee. After a few hours of sightseeing, taking pictures, and queueing up to use the washroom, we took a train to Central, HK Island.

We bought tram tickets to take us to The Peak! Is The Peak really the highest point in HK? I dont know about that for sure, but the view is really nice. Everything looks grey. The only thing that ate me was the long waiting queue for the tram. It was not only about the long queue, the width of the queue space was so big that people at the back could move past you to get to the front. Hey, what version of queueing theory is that? I hate that! It was ages before we finally got to board the tram, and going up The Peak on the tram was not the nicest moment in my life. The tram was going up at an angle of 45, and it stopped a few times. The feeling was argh!

I came home in the evening and found Nijntje lying on the floor. Her eyes were wide open, and she was not moving a bit. I tried talking to her, but there was no reply. I tried shaking her back to life, but she was already gone. I cried.

Goodbye, baby.

Yeah. I will be leaving my current job when my contract ends in a few month’s time. I do not know where I will be going, but I know I will not be staying. The new 3-year contract looks pretty okay. I mean, nice salary, nice colleagues, and most importantly, nice supervisors. In my first four years with the school, I did not have such wonderful supervisors. These are really great people. Well, at least one of them is caring enough to think with her heart, and the other one is smart enough to think with his brain. My first few supervisors used to think with their you-know-whereS.

Staying with the school has been such a pain, and it is not the work that is bothering me. I love the job, really. In fact, I cant think of anything better to do than this but I know I need to get out of here, to get a better shot at something which is very important to me right now. I am thinking of staying in another country for a few months, and see what happens. Maybe when I run out of cash, I will just beg any rich to take me in.

The only thing that I cant bear to leave behind is my car. BOO!

Will you always be mine?

What a dream! This image just makes the place I am living in right now looks like crap. A friend of mine told me about the preview and I acted like I was not interested. Sure, I had immediately searched online for more information on it, and came across this image. I loved it at first sight. The pool is so cool! I wish I could stay in one of these with you. I know you will love it, love the splashing, love the gurgling, love the fishies, oh sorry, no fishies, while I chat online on my waterproof laptop in one of those coffee tables and chairs in the pool.