Haha what a guy weekend!!
Yes it’s been a guy weekend for me. Peanut (aka Joe, what a XXXXsucking name…well as long as he’s happy with it, hahaha…joking lar~) came all the way from Shenzhen to Zhuhai, taking firstly a bus from office to the ferry terminal, then ferry from Shekou port to Jiuzhou port in Zhuhai, with 30 minutes delay of arrival, the whole trip takes a miserable 3 hours, just for me. What a bro he is! And we spent the time just like we did when in university, well, not really, but more crazily!
So what a guy weekend would be?
Pubs, chicks, alcohol, disco, cigarette, World-Cup, sleep late, talking shit, dirty jokes. That’s normal. But between me and P, we can also talk about career, life, dreams (maybe a little bit too old for that for us…but fuck it, we did talk about that!). That’s right, he’s my bro!
Dear gracious me! I haven’t been so relaxed for more than half year.
Since the day I started work, I spent all my energy on it unreservedly. I never looked at my life for the time being that I didn’t realise I haven’t made any new friends yet. Okay Jason counts for one but that dickhead went to Dubai and only thinks of DuoDuo. I’m not moaning…
Knowing P has moved to a new flat with extra space, I could go to Shenzhen and spend some time for relaxation as long as I don’t disturb his personal life. No, wait, I don’t fucking care about his personal life, I’m going anyway whenever I feel like to. That’s a bro for me, hiehiehie~
A pleasant day
…I have had.
Maja’s joke made my day. I haven’t laughed like that for a long time. She says she likes sharing the happiness, and indeed she does.
So Jason has left for Dubai. He corrected one of my mistakes before he left. I admit it. I did misjudge someone, but not in the way that Jason said. Whatever, that doesn’t usually happen.
From the day I joined the company, I devoted all my energy and time into work. Too much energy and time that I haven’t taken really good care of my life. Returned from Sri Lanka, I indulged myself a little bit. Drinking and staying late, watching world-cup and flirting with girls. Suddenly I started to realise that I am actually quite lonely in this city. Where are all my friends? Why am I working so hard that I haven’t even got time to made any new friends yet? I know, because I have a plan, an ultimate goal within my 5-year career life, and I want to stick to the plan. But it’s never easy to stick to the plan.
It happened to me before though.
I also felt lonely when I was in Stirling, especially during the time I lived in St Ninians, on top of the hill. I felt extremely lonely at that time that I tried to give up my plan several times. My plan was to learn whatever I could learn and enrich my life experience as much as possible, and I will gain what other Chinese don’t normally gain when living abroad. I came over the loneliness. I did learn a lot more than most Chinese did. And I’m sure I’m already benefiting from my overseas exp.
So I have the experience of gaining experience. I set up the goal, made a plan, then stick to it, as easy as that! This is a colorful world though. Targets are easily lost. ‘Don’t blind yourself!’ my mom always tells me. Thank you mom! I love you!
I’m not lonely, because loneliness is with me. – Jason told me that, purely classic!
The people I like
This is absolutely a shocking night. Germany 4:0 won Argentina!! I was expecting Brazil and Argentina til the final, you know…
Anyway, I went to watch the football game between the two teams at City Inn Karaoke tonight. It’s the second time to be there, not bad a place at all.
The girl who has recently transferred from the other subsidiary went. She’s a very smart girl, and very funny. She gave me a feeling of maturity that she knows how to separate life and work. When work, she concentrates; when live, she enjoys. That said as she’s good at being a colleague as well as a friend. Honestly, I like her very much.
The boy, who just joined our company a couple of months ago, is also a guy I like. He’s good at socialing, and very considerate to others. However, he’s not that focused on his career that he appears not so responsible for himself during work. But I like him anyway, a good guy, can be a good friend. I should tell him what I think of him before he leaves for Dubai again.
And there’s also this Ausie joined us tonigh, a CBA – Chinese Born Australian, to be precise. Nothing much to talk about him yet, I only knew him for less than a week. He’s a new asset to my team, I would expect him to be a good colleague and a good friend too.
There were other colleagues and people having fun together tonight. They were nice.
Tonight reminds me the days of my Scotland-hood. I’m sitting at the balcony, sobering up myself and enjoying the breeze. The moon hangs on the night curtain with half face covered, a shiny star not far away from it, looking like approaching the moon, but never gets any closer. I used to go out with Alex, Michele, Michal, Ruta, and Cicy, then do the same in Stirling, though the view was way much better. I also went out with Larry and Nickie, and Annie and Maja. Remembering those Salsa nights and Edinburgh visits makes me feel warm inside, so warm inside.
I miss my friends, I miss Maja.
Maja gave me a call this afternoon when I was still in office. Hearing her voice surprised me and made me very happy. When seeing other couples, I always think of her. Not knowing when I can see her again worries me. I’m not old, but not young either. I’m at the age that should prioritize the key issues of my life before it’s too late. I would like to multi-tasking, but that always generates unsatisfactory outcome. So no way to go there. Prioritize, prioritize.
I was told there was some eyesore in the department about me recently. I don’t care at all to be honest. I can roughly figure out why it happens. It’s not big deal, but just like Jason said, it could lead to some difficulties in my future work. I’d better see into that. When I am deciding what people I like, the people are also deciding whether they like me. Human beings are so complicated, or is it just Chinese? Eh well…whatever…
Isn’t it just stupid to loan for a house…?
Posted by Terr.Z in Meaningless Gossip, My CHINA on June 11th, 2010
50k for downpayment, then 2k/month, 15 years in total to afford a moderate quality apartment. With only around 5k/month income, there won’t be any leisure in such life. Work for the apartment, live in the apartment, and die of the apartment…pathetic, while common. OMG WHAT KIND OF WORLD I’M LIVING IN!
I would rather settle myself in Greece or Spain or Iceland…well, maybe not Iceland since I can’t stand the volcanic stuff. But I am just saying!
What are people thinking when they are happily paying for the coffin they will be dying in? It would be fun to find out.
This is not a news already, not for at least a decade. And the situation is worsening, I can feel it around me. Quite many people are on a loan for their ‘own’ property which the government actually ‘let’ to them for a few years. Yeah yeah I know there haven’t happened any cases that the government force to recycle anybody’s house, but still…these people say to me they are happy with it at a time, then moan at it at many other times. Why do they say they are happy? I think because they are told to be happy with ‘owning’ their own property. They don’t even think about it. It doesn’t sound right at all to me, not in whatever way it is put. People are blindly following something, they follow what the mass are speaking, and the mass is not actually THE mass, it’s just some propaganda say ‘the mass say blah blah blah’. People don’t need credible reference, they are already used to it, they only need to be told ‘it is said by the mass’, then they are convinced.
Agreed that having one’s self-owned place to live through the senility is wonderful. But really? If that place costs all one’s post adolescence?
Am I making sense? Maybe no…but I really don’t know how I can express what is in my mind precisely…this stuff drives me nuts…
It’s just stupid to load for happiness at the cost of one’s most valuable life time.
Day 217: I am awesome!
Posted by Terr.Z in Meaningless Gossip on May 31st, 2010
I just am!
How much time have I spent on studying some so-called useLESS stuff, see now how useFUL they are! I learned ASP and web design, now I can use these technique to develop a web system to aid my daily work. I learned Photoshop so I don’t need to ask for help on some image processing. I am awesome!
I took one year to taste this neither familiar nor fremd world right after my uni graduation, can’t imagine how correct that decision was. I saw some tip of icebergs, and I figured out what I need. Then I went to seek, abroad; and returned, emptied handed, but fully minded. And I am still young! So I am just awesome!
I got the chance to try something new and I seized it. I know I haven’t been successful yet but I am on my way because I know it. How many people can be as awesome as I am?
Right, I’m done…never!
Keep being awesome!
Now I am even awesomer. I feel like writing rap lyrics.
We are not the same
It’s an…okay day, that is neither heavily raining nor bloody-helly sun-shining.
There is a cafe called Jane’s Place in Huafa New Town. It’s quite western style, with bar and cafe services mixed. The menu is obviously re-designed to meet Chinese flavor, but they have the authentic cheese, and Bockwurst sausages!! Coffee are those regular choices, but they do ice coffee besides the hot ones. The room’s of moderate size, simply decorated, with one AC and several wall mounted and ceiling hanged fans. Foreign customers are often seen in and out. Generally it’s a lovely place feeling like a coffee shop from the west, and I like it.
I have never met the owner of this place, at least I can’t tell her apart from the rest of the staff. I assume she (presumably it’s a lady guessing by the name, and there is a SHE in the picture above presenting the shop…) is either a native westerner or has a western mind developed from her rich experience working and living in the western world. A lot of ‘cafe’ have I been to, few of them made me feel real. The word Shan Zhai is not a new entry to the dictionary which best describes most coffee shops I tried. They are pretentious. Oops I’m not judging them on a ‘Being humble, being filled with modesty’ basis, but ehh, whatever. My point here is that the very mind behind the operation of this business is what makes it unique and fancy.
This uniqueness is unduplicable. No minds are identical. That’s why we are all different.
Being humble, being filled with modesty.
Posted by Terr.Z in Meaningless Gossip on May 13th, 2010
- to move forward in life as a person who realizes that there is something to be learned from everyone and everything
- no human’s life is more or less valuable than another’s
- to educate the misinformed, but in a compassionate way
- to aid those in need, and to care for all fellow people, regardless of their dispositions
- not proud or haughty, not arrogant or assertive
- unpretentious
- accepting that what is thought may not be the correct answer and that someone else’s view may be better or at least worth considering
- being gentle in actions and spirit
umm…being humble is tiring…living is tiring…
Paris and Prague
Posted by Terr.Z in Worldology on May 7th, 2010
Only to share some pictures taken recently.
New Toy!!! Yay!!
COMING ON TUESDAY!!!!!!!
DON’T KNOW WHAT IT IS? GO GOOGLE ‘MOTO MILESTONE’. IT’S MY MILESTONE!!!
It’s Complicated
Posted by Terr.Z in Movies & Music on March 27th, 2010
Am I being single for too long? Why am I always finding these kind of movies interesting?
Just to recommend another 82 Academy Nominee: It’s Complicated, by Meryl Streep.
Quote a nice one for ya: I have a young wife, but I’m having sex with my old one.
Purely Classic!
