Damn. Internship is tiring.

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So my first time meeting the boss wasn't too bad. He was very nice about everything but his main concern was that I didn't have any accounting experience which is of course justified. That got me really motivated so I bought an introductory accounting book today to get acquainted with all the basics. I'm pretty fired up. Speaking of reality though, hopefully I won't get pwned too badly on monday.

Oh yeah I also went to eat a ramli burger for lunch today with my family. Like everytime I eat very little dinner, around 12 am onwards I start to get these unbelievable hunger pangs that cannnot be satiated by drinking water. And I think about ramli burgers. And I feel even hungrier. Cyclic masochism - it comes and goes. It's like I could kill for one. The one at the Tanjong Pagar railway station was pretty good but my main gripe was that it didn't have BBQ sauce. Everything else was awesome though.

On an unrelated note, I was watching my dad do some x-ray annotations for a jaw operation and I was just asking him some stuff about it. Oral surgeons are usually better known for extracting wisdom teeth or doing implants and stuff (which is all boring) but I think the aspect of my parents' profession that impresses me the most is when they do class 2 or class 3 jaw adjustment surgery. Essentially that means that they align the jaw properly for people that have an over or under-bite. It's a delicate, precise operation which is interspersed with brutality (like when they BREAK the jaw) but the results are damn near life-changing. Like some of their patients look so much better after the op that I'm left in awe sometimes at my parents' skillz. It's like my dad is Pablo Peck Picasso. The gratitude of the patients and their parents is always overwhelming as well. So yeah I do feel respect for my parents sometimes haha.

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So yesterday night my parents took their accountant friend and his accountant friend (who was arranging the internship) out for dinner. I was there as well, naturally. Both of them used to own their own firms but now they have retired and have boatloads of money. It was nice talking to them because they give out this masterly, "seen it all" vibe but yet at the same time they're totally unpretentious about it. They just laugh about things, talk cock, gossip and tell funny stories about high rollers. Like one of them will say that he found this really cheap TCM masseur in katong who gave excellent back massages for only $22, then next thing you know he's talking about his lonely friend who gave him herbal cordyceps worth 10k ahhahah. Then they'll start talking about high rollers at casinos that bet 50k in laundered money at once, and golf games with "small stakes" of 2k. It's a crazy world out there man.

Yeah so the guy who's arranging my internship is a kindly old gentleman. Very genteel in his ways. But you can smell class on him. He drives a porsche and his food order was damn classy. "I'll have the escargots for starters and the beef on the wagon". Haha compare that to my dad, "I'll have the caesars salad and the mee goreng" lolol. I had never eaten escargots in my life so I shared some with my mum. Well most things with copious amounts of garlic butter taste good so yeah the escargots tasted good. Generally though my family doesn't eat much french food. I've always asked my mum to take me to some sick french place like Les Amis or something and she'd always say "AH YA I've been there before. The food isn't that good la. Duntwan lah". Bah stingy poker.

So yeah my internship is more or less settled. I'll be meeting the boss of the firm tomorrow morning together with the old gentleman (the former boss) and I'll probably start work on Monday. I heard that there are poly accountancy students doing attachments there too so I guess I'll have some people to talk to. Apart from all the learning and stuff I sure hope I get paid too haha. My parents told me to expect NOTHING :/

Oh well the day before yesterday was wally's 21st birthday. We had his birthday at his friend's condo's function room and I met up with some of the class members. It was good to catch up though I don't hold the best conversations when there's a lot of noise around me - makes me as attentive as Beethoven. It was a nice bash with good food and all. Makes me wonder if I'll do anything on my 21st. I got a year to think about it but I've a feeling I'll be too lazy to get anything done.

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Well good luck to you Lip and good luck to me too. I'll be meeting my prospective boss on tuesday for dinner along with the so-called brokers of the internship and I hope I come off well from that. There's nothing worse than convincing your boss that you're a retard on Day 1.

So the new year just arrived a few days ago and I'm sure everyone had awesomesauce plans on christmas eve. I actually went lanning with my army friends and we played L4D2 till just past midnight. After that we went to eat curry rice. I thought it was really enjoyable actually but then again I can be pretty easy to please sometimes. More like sometimes I prefer simple over complicated simply because complicated has too many strings attached to it. But I'm no angel. Sometimes I get very anal about certain things. Like for example when I was in army and I came home for dinner on Wednesday, I'd expect something nice. If it was boiled fish I'd be like OMFG. I mean home is a refuge man not some place where I eat shitty boiled fish. Pass the fried chicken or pork ribs or something haha. I can drive my mum up the wall just complaining about food sometimes. Hell we have western standoffs over food.

Ah but I digress. So what events in 2009 meant something to me:

1) My grandmas death. It was probably earth-shaking for the whole family, especially on my dad's side since my grandma held everyone together. Towards the end communication was breaking down a lot but I guess kisses and touch always conveyed meaning that didn't need to be put into words.

2) ORD - claimed back my freedom from the dark lords of middle earth

3) Holidays to HK and USA - I was fortunate enough to holiday with my friends and holiday with my family. Both were different but both were good.

4) Friendships in general - I made some good friends, caught up with others.

5) My relationship with my parents - My mum and I have gotten closer (I hope she thinks so too. It would be terrible if she did not reciprocate the feeling :|). I think she's still maturing in her older years and learning to give her children a lot more space. I give her credit for that. My dad's as idiosyncratic as ever and sometimes I feel like doing the people's elbow on him but other than that we get along fine. I can definitely see our relationship improving as I learn more about the financial world and property markets.

That's about it really. So what are my resolutions for 2010? I realise I make too many unrealistic goals so I'm just going to have 4 relatively achievable ones.

1) Work hard in uni and do well. I have not worked at max since PSLE so I'm gonna try to rediscover that spark. Throughout secondary and A levels my studying has been plagued by poor planning and distractions so I always got the feeling that I was stumbling towards the end-goal.

2) Get closer with my family. - Well especially when my sister and her boyfriend move over later this year (he is taking a PhD in geog at NUS).

3) Get a little bit spiritual - church is like the most boring activity of the week for me at the moment so I'll just try reading the bible a bit more and praying more regularly too. And maybe dropping fewer f bombs.

4) Lose weight.

Yep that settles it.

Well the new year has been pretty exciting so far. Yesterday I went to eat 4 seasons buffet with my parents ( new year resolution 4 fail) which was excellent. After that I walked around orchard before going home and then proceeding to sleep for 14 hours straight. My mum totally didn't bother to wake me up for anything. She was like "You needed to compensate for your sleep debt. Yur on holiday you can afford it -beams-". Oh yeah I've been having lots of dreams lately too. Like in America I constantly had dreams about getting pwned for A levels and JC exams and I always woke up relieved. During the 14 hour sleep I dreamt about some road trip.

Anyway I also got a new phone. I got an E72 from Nokia. I decided against the I-phone because I already had an I-touch and I also decided against the HTC Hero because a lot of people say Android has tremendous potential but at the moment is not ideal yet. Another overwhelming factor was that I have no confidence in touchscreen keyboards at the moment. The E72 qwerty keyboard was very attractive to me because I possess stubby banana fingers. All this points to one thing: I am camping for the google phone.

LIPOST

Well I'm starting work tomorrow, just praying that everyone will be nice and it wont be TOOO boring. Mwahahaha.

Hope everyone had a good new year :D

My holiday season in 10 words:

lobster, dino, ORD, grandma, poker, carrot, AC130, (and because i have to keep this meaningful which i dont normally do) faith, hope, love.

Good times.