nope.. this blog hasn't died out.. just in case you were wondering.. been more than half a year since any decent post appeared here.. not that i didn't try posting anything during this period.. just that the post was halfway in the making when my fingers stopped their dancing on the keyboard.. partly because the post was in chinese and i found some difficulty in getting the concise message across.. prolonged non-usage of a language, or just a component of it, such as the writing component, can really have a detrimental effect of one's proficiency levels.. but i guess the other reason was that the post was a little extreme.. quite a couple of things happened at the turn of the year and i wasn't really happy during that period..

anyway i'm currently on leave for the whole of this week, which explains why i have the time to write things here.. work has pretty much taken up my life since i started this job.. ... i think i'll leave the discussion here as it is for the moment.. i really dun quite know how to continue the post on this topic.. probably that's why some of my friends turned to locking up their blogs, just so that they can be more free to type whatever they want and be more assured that the chance of any unwanted guests stumbling upon their posts are kept at a minimum..

had lunch with the e2i team on tuesday.. like finally.. haha.. quite a couple of changes since i left.. sumei went back to MOM, meiling joined the team and the present temp is the 2nd temp after me.. anyway i was wondering during the lunch why the team decided to revert back to using a female temp.. haha.. and i thought they wanted a male temp to "somehow" balance the ying-yang in the team.. haha.. lunch was at HANS, somewhere near the office.. reminds me of the team lunches that we often had back then.. i probably mentioned this in some earlier post, but i kinda like the inclusive atmosphere and dynamics of the team.. and probably of the company too.. the team was like a small closely knit family.. probably would be some time before i meet up with the team again, with ming going on maternity leave soon and jessie joining her a couple of months later..

so what else did i do during this week? nothing really worth mentioning, but i'll just write down anyway.. just letting my fingers jump around the keyboard along with my thoughts.. played texas on fb and finally got past the cursed 500k mark.. hah! and yup.. reached the 20m mark.. only to reach the peak of 33m and go down back to 0 with a series of bad bets and reckless play towards the end.. had RT as usual on mon, wed and sat.. my right ankle's still aching from over exertion from 2 consec days of RT.. crappy.. cos i'm still not sure if it'll heal in time for the next session on sat.. went back to playing pangya.. probably like 2 years after i stopped playing it? let's see.. yup.. a check with wikipedia puts the time at around there.. still pretty much the same gameplay.. but i must say that the new players have it way much easier than when i used to play during seasons 1 and 2.. ok.. maybe not that exaggerated.. but definitely easier..

have been thinking about how i can post more often here.. haha.. or well, at least have something appear here on a more frequent basis.. and i thought the tweeter style of blogging might work.. short, simple messages.. of course not that short as to have only 1 sentence.. not that kind.. what's the mentality behind a tweet anyway? from what i've seen thus far, seems to me that tweeters seem to be attention seekers.. or at least that's the impression that i'm getting.. and from my small unrepresentive samples..

i guess the thing that i've been doing the most during my free time these days is really to listen to songs and trying to enjoy the piece from the different perspectives.. from that of the melody, the lyrics, the music arrangement, the vocal techniques, the music video.. fresh points of view do make a song that much more enjoyable and for a longer period of time..

unknowingly i've blogged past midnight and now is the last weekday left of this long 11 day leave.. time really flies.. even when you feel a little bored and are doing nothing much.. this sux.. was thinking i'll return to working on the current set of incomplete lyrics and see how it goes along.. after all, it'll surely be ages before i have the time to lay my hands again on those pieces of paper..

some nice songs to listen to.. just close your eyes and listen..

简单的歌，意境却唱得淋漓尽致：
費玉清 - 小小羊兒要回家


用心去唱的歌，别有一份感动：
陈伟联 - 大海


我个人觉得这是她唱得最好听的英文歌之一：
鄧麗君 + 林子祥 - Endless Love


on a sidenote, i discovered that teresa did covers for a substantial number of songs that were popular during her period.. on yet another sidenote, found this song from a fb newsfeed..

多首歌于一首:
古巨基 - 情歌王