i want to work. i regret leaving the job so early...im just wasted my freedom away...for nothing. i could have exchanged it for more experiences, knowledge, more company, satisfaction. save for the money part.

most of these days i just stay alone at home playing, watching tv. of cos i could cycle ard a few more times but i can't do that all day.

most male frens i know are already in...and then some of those who haven't have their own...partners. female ones.

What did i do in Ipoh? nothing much really.

on the coach, i filled my mind with economics to make me less bored. =/

on the way, i saw alot of advertisements on the highway. i tink if roads are privatised, there'll be more ads. then i started to imagine our roads and expressways with big boards at the sides. probably, road markings and arrows on the ground would show some credit card or soft drink ad.

associated thoughts are why roads are not privatised, which then i'll recall some vague arguments here and there. then 10 kilometres will past, with 500km more to Ipoh.

if you been to KL/Ipoh/Penang/Genting or which city north of Johore, the coach taking the highway is likely to stop at Lucky Garden. there i bought a box of bubble gum, and the cashier added in two 'sticks' of Polo into the plastic bag. i never knew why at first.

until donkey hours later on the coach, i found out - on the flip side of the bubble gum box, it reads

2 POLO FOR EVERY OUTER (60's)
2 POLO PERCUMA BAGI SETIAP KOTAK

i tink the person who had this idea had succeded if he wanted to give the buyers a surprise...but i tink his real intention is to make consumers choose his brand of bubble gum over the others.

i dun tink consumers will look at the bottom of the box unless people start comparing the nutritional value of different brands of bubble gum...ineffective marketing?

i guess i was real bored.

property in Ipoh is cheap. a newly renovated extended semi-detached only costs RM 200K. not enough to buy a 3 room flat here. it led me to think if its possible for the std of living to rise without inflating prices. fortunately i fell asleep on that one.

paying respects to my late paternal grandfather with my relatives seemed like a male affair. only the males went except for my da4 ber4's wife. my father has 2 brothers and 2 sisters, and is the 2nd child. his brothers has all their sons named Zheng smth.

Zheng Qun, Zheng Kai, Zheng Tong...and 2 more.

i have 8 paternal cousins. say - if each of them marry and have 2 children, that's 32 people. when im old, their children will marry and maybe have 2 children. then that's 80 people. (by typing like this it may seem that i took seconds to calculate that. actually i spent 5mins...)

sigh. even remembering 5 names is hard.

i have 10 maternal cousins...

i went to cameroon highlands for a one day tour thingy. bought tickets on the spot.they really don't need to install air-con there. outside's cooler than in the bus. the view is really nice. went to a buddist temple, a rose farm, a strawberry farm, a butterfly farm, a tea plantation. its not really natural cos i feel that the place is too commercialised for tourism.

other than that i felt i wasted a lot of time travelling. it feels like a...deadwt loss? (irrecoverable) but the bus drove very quickly too. i took several 'tests' to confirm that the bus was travelling at 120km/h on the highway. on the taxi in Singapore, 80km/h on the TPE felt...very slow.

i returned on the evening of the 2nd (monday) and went to CH hse to play overnight with xm and ci. played mahjong too. that was great. other than that, (and a little smth else) i had been wasting my time.

i have nothing to look forward to for the next few days. and years. unlike at work where i could set new records and...act arrogant. for eg, "omg we did so xxx much again today...i bet jenn is going to cry when we leave! oh no!"

and my favourite : "im leaving soon and jenn got 2 people to replace me. that's obviously not enough! i tink she'll need five."

lol...those where the days! and i can sharpen my acting skills also. good acting really makes the difference. work can be boring at times, forcing us to lighten up and start crapping. i tink im best at those really dumb humor.

"i tink i better dun do so fast."

"why?"

"its ok for me cos im leaving but - what if jenn sacks you when there's nth left to do?"

(acts concerned) "(*gasp)...omg...why not u go slack then?"

(acts serious) "NO...i will not slack. you're doomed."

lol

i tink i can spend the rest of my days relinquishing the best times i had while working. and there's one more special reason why too. but that's a longer story.

xm and weijing misses work, and im sure CH does too, albeit its less(i think). that's ok...we'll do it tgt again after we ORD.