this chinese new year eve... hmmm... had lunch with my parents at Crystal Jade, where i got really bloated thanks to my wonderful parents who kindly ordered Dim Sum for 5 person with generous portions to each... all that on top of a four-person serving of 鱼生... hmmm... the 鱼生 itself was extra because we all love to eat that and so we decided to have an extra portion of it for lunch... their rationale??? i've worked hard in tekong and it's time for me to enjoy this festive season... after all, it's once a year... and so, under their effective persuasion, i indulged myself in the biggest portion of a meal i had for a very very very long time... so much so that i was totally bloated... and we still had 4 "har kao", 3 char siew bao, 4 glutinous rice with chicken untouched... goes to show how much we ordered...

when we came back, i came online and got really bored... so i came online and chatted with my friends... and so surprisingly i met two of my secondary school mates (on seperate occasions) whom i haven't talked to for a very very very long time.. so we chatted and caught up on each others' life... but after a while, they had to leave.... so i went to surf the net... howstuffworks.com... AGAIN... hehehe... and got bored of it too!!! so i went to google video and decided to watch some educational video... and i chanced upon this video talking about choices... about how more choice is actually bad...

a pretty interesting video... because it compares previously when we had few choices, we are more easily satisfied with everything... and it causes us to be happier... when we have more choice, we want each of our choice to be perfect... when it is just "good", we aren't satisfied with it... so we have higher expectations of everything... so much so that nothing actually becomes perfect... how true... often when we are spoilt for choice, we end up not making them and procrastinating because we don't know which is better... we "anticipate regret" (to quote from the presenter)... and the first thing i think of: GP Essay... we have 12 questions... choose 1... weird cambridge buggers.. why can't they just give us 1 or 2 options... so we won't have to decide so much... haha... so much for DLF's "all of you are pampered for choice"... i think it's more like "all of you are tortured due to choice"... haha...

to think i even thought of that now... like 3 months++ after GP and around 3 months since i last stepped on CJC... hahaha... but soon i'll be back... to collect my results... gRRR... now i'm scared... haix... the rest of my life tethers on the edge of the A level cert... knowing fully well that straight As is out of reach... how am i gonna secure my future??? i don't know manz... sianz... and thinking of it now is just total contrast... IT'S CHINESE NEW YEAR BENJAMIN!!! lol... haha...

just 2 and a half more hours to go to Chinese New Year... i'm not really looking forward to it... it's like Chinese New Year is getting more and more dull, year by year... last time i look forward to it, because can get angbao, can play with the other relatives and can eat lots of good food... now... angbao yes la... but not with that much innocence as compared when i was young.. like "i'm taking money from someone else"... playing with other relatives is out of the question... i'm freaking 19!!! haha... and eating lots of good food, i'm trying to maintain this weight or loose weight... ah.... on top of that, most of my relatives are overseas... my maternal relatives are located in Indonedia and only left with paternal side... but i'm not too close to them too... hmmz... well done... i tink tmr i just have to stay home all day and enjoy chinese new year with mum and dad only... haha... but not too bad too... a nice time to catch up with them... after being in army, we haven't really talked face to face for a long long time... maybe we'll go to ECP... enjoy the sea breeze and have a nice talk as a family.. hehehehe... maybe...