Nation Fabric @ HDB Hub - Lynn and I discovered this on Sunday. Never knew there was such a pretty thing! I've never been the very patriotic sort (in spite of watching the NDP at the national stadium almost every single year for the first 18 years of my life)... but seeing it, and realizing that it was made up of little patches sewn by Singaporeans from all walks of life... made me realize, there's something about living here that I like after all. It's where I can usually run at 3am and not feel scared, where travelling is so easy (even if you get insanely lost, it takes barely 2 hours to drive from one end to the other), where I find my ban mian, sushi, teh-bing etcetcetc... I wish I could sew my own little patch and put it up there too.

Today, I met Linli, my new piano partner. We're going to play Saturday Night Waltz by Copland... haven't heard it, but the title sounds so pretty already. Hope it's pretty easy to learn as well. Anyway, she seems like a cool person... so there goes the original plan to play with KC. Which is good, because

(1) he loves to insult me

(2) he loves to insult me

(3) he loves to insult me

(4-97) he loves to insult me

and the most important reasons :

(98) he makes me look fat in pictures

(99) he made me look fat in pictures

(100) I make him look skinny in pictures.

And Linli has found the Copland score, really can't wait to get down to playing again... it's been a long time. No piano in pgp, still.

Now that school has started, working has become a form of relaxation, which leaves me a little reluctant to quit so soon. The few pathetic hours a week I work, I just forget about using my brains, forget about all the things I need to settle... and just take orders, clear plates, smile like an idiot, say stupid things to my colleagues, say stupid things to may manager (e.g. 'steven, can you get blue ketchup for me')... I don't know what is it about the place... it could have been the people, but most of them who were my friends have long been gone... I think it's the different company, the people you meet, the nature of the job - it leaves me humbled, keeps me grounded, reminds me not to take things for granted.

But sometimes, I still forget. And some things, I can never forget.