no weapons formed against me shall prosper

sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between a genuine and a counterfeit Louis Vuitton. you gotta observe it real closely before making conclusions.

so dont try to sell me no premium grade fake shit cause i can tell.

and darling, you have no idea yet what a MEGA BITCH i can be.


alijoe

please stand behind the yellow line

i take the train to work everyday.

just for the record, i prefer taking the train over buses anytime. i like the fact that it's fast and efficient. i mean, if you take the bus, sometimes you never know what time the bus is coming and then, if you factor in random traffic situations like accidents and jams, you can't really be certain what time you'll reach your destination. trains on the other hand, arrive on the average of every 5minutes and the best thing about it is that i dont have to worry about traffic jams delaying my journey. if they say you'll reach city hall in 18mins, they really mean it. unless of course some motherfucker comes along and decide to commit suicide on the train tracks. then, that's like bo pian.

so once you start taking the train every single day, you'll start to notice the idiosyncrasies of different commuters. there are people who like to sleep very unglamorously on trains and then there are those who play with iphones. for me, i plug in my ipod and i daydream about being brandon flowers, the frontman of The Killers, and performing to a sold out concert.

one odd thing, i've been noticing is that ever since they introduced the priority seat, you know the one for the old or the pregnant, everybody avoids it the seats like the plague.

like lets say, the elderly woman got up to alight at her stop, the seat is left empty. nobody wants to seat there. a train packed to the brim and there's one empty seat and everyone's just ignoring it.

i personally find it annoying. just seat la damnit! you waiting for some elderly women to elbow through the crowds of people just to go there sit meh??

ohh, and one more thing. people who give up their seat to kids annoy me. what logical reason is there that says a 7yr old girl deserves the seat more than a 27yr old female wearing high heels and who spent the past 7hours serving unreasonable customers at Mango. i'd say give the freaking seat to the the woman better right?? do kids get tired more easily or smthing? all the kids i see on the trains have like unlimited energy. they can scream and swing on the poles while the parents just sit there and smile. funny meh?! fucking disrupting my daydreaming right!

anyway,

that's like just a couple of retarded things i notice on the train. there's more la but by the time i finish typing everything, its be a 3 part novel with 24 chapters each. JRR Tolkien also paisey.


anyway anyway,

here's some random photos i took throughout the week. i'm too damn busy (and lazy) to do 3-4 post a week, so i'll just upload the whole chunk and lump them all at the end of this entry.




















have a great week ahead yeah!


(^_^)V
ALIJOE

fear not

this blog is not dead. i've just been really busy. every time i come home from work, all i wanna do is just take a shower and go to sleep. sometimes i even fall asleep while watching tv. pathetic right?! i know!

the only time where i get to really sit down and blog is probably over the weekend. i know my sporadic random blogging pattern is causing most of my regular readers to satisfy their bimbotic blog reads elsewhere. but, what to do. at least i got like 5 people still reading this, so i guess its okay. sad.

anyway,

i want to talk about fear.

fear of the unknown.

i'm not talking about ghost or werewolves, oh taylor lautner *drools*. i'm talking about smthing more relatable. like fear of uncertainty. like simple stuff can cause fear. like for example, if you're invited to a birthday party and the dress theme is Moulin Rouge. then you decide not to follow the dress theme because you fear that if you did and when you reach there seeing that only you were gungho enough to dress up like a 1940's prostitute, then it would cause you major embarrassment.

well, you know, simple fears like this. fear that deters you. another example would be like lets say you go to a buffet and there's all this awesome food but then you dont dare to pig out because you're afraid people might look at you and think you're a glutton.

these are the kinds of fear that prevents you from being yourself, achieving your absolute best.

call it worry, anxiety or just fear of uncertainty. it's all the same thing.

now, i shall let you in on a little secret. before i started work, i had this little fear that work would suck really bad. that everyone would be so darn political and hate me. that i'd spent lunch eating sandwiches alone at my desk. and that my boss would be like miranda preisley from Devil Wears Prada.

just random fears of uncertainty. not knowing what the future holds. sometimes the only way to overcome such fears is just by going through it. you've got to kill the cow to make the burger.

sometimes it turns out for the better and sometimes not. you learn and you move on. luckily for me, everything's been going great so far. my colleagues are all awesome and i've got a bunch of friends that i can hang out with and lunch with. people who i can joke with, laugh with and who make my hours at work fly by.

check out these awesome pic's i took over the week.


me with audrey leong, who constantly likes to make fun of me and then laugh at me for no apparent reason. lol!


it was our merchandising manager's birthday so the whole department decided to have a damn yummy lunch at Aroy Thai.


the food was damn good la! and their thai milk tea was just pure awesome!


when we got back to the office, we surprised her with a yummy birthday cake.




and she generously treated us all to ice cream and Spinelli's!!! wootS!!!

that night, a bunch of decided to hang out after work at Loof. it's nice to just unwind after work over drinks and random chit chat.





(^_^)


alijoe

bus ride

it's been a while since i took the bus. personally, i'm not a huge fan of taking bus rides. they kinda make me feel a little nauseous. but today, somehow i decided to take the bus home.

so damn therapeutic la omg!

you guys should try it. a nice quiet journey home at night. plug in your ipod to some awesome music. i like to listen to Jewel on long bus rides. then just sit there and stare out of the window. just stare. just look at all your surrounding, the street lights, the trees. just watch everything pass by. think about nothing else.

just take your time and appreciate your surroundings. daydream. stone. reflect. just leave everything behind and get lost staring out of the window.

now take a deep breath. press the bell. then alight.


okay. back to reality.


alijoe