More memories from 2005

It is back...2 weeks after the turn of the new year. But better late than never.
This time I will try to keep it short and concise, unlike my last year end review that seemed to go on..and on.

KL Trip:
Drove up to KL. One of my dreams is to drive around the entire Malaysia peninsula. Although I have yet to realise that dream,I did fulfill this one. I been to KL before but it was usually on packaged tours or with family(Noel and Paula actually),so I was not able to manage my time doing stuff I liked but rather had to do what 'everyone' wanted to do. I would have prefered if Agnes came with me but she had her own stuff to do and it was not possible at this stage of our relationship.
Before going I had Sunny sent for his servicing so he was in tip-top condition for the long trip. I had initially planned to drive up on Saturday but instead took 1/2 day off on Friday. So I drove up on Friday evening instead. That gave me a full weekend to do my stuff. Places I visited included Zoo Negara, KL Tower, Petronas Tower, Batu Caves beside the usual shopping and eating. On the second day I went up to Bukit Tinggi and Genting Highlands. Stayed at the *can't quite seem to remember the hotel name right now*.It was something along the lines of mandarin-pacific-oriental hotel or something. All I recall that it contained the name of 2 bog hotels here in Singapore.

Work
Worklife was better in 2005 than in the previous 2 years. The reason was because I has Sin and Hasli to help me out whereas previously it was only me having to run the section. It did not help that I had a biased and unsympathetic supervisor then. I still have the same biased and unsympathetic supervisor now, but at least the burden is not on my shoulders alone so I can at least breathe a little, and actually be able to take my off, leave or even go for reservist training now whithout having to come back to a mountain of work left by my biased and unsympathetic supervisor.

Driving
Ever since Agnes and I hoooked up I have had to drive a whole lot more than before. Not that I am complaining because she is worth every cent. Agnes lives in Bedok South and I live at Upper Thomson. So that is a whopping 27 km each way. Agnes has also started school at NUS which also adds up to a substantial amount.
I cannot bear to be without her for too long so in order to see Agnes as often as I would like I have to clock up the miles. It was more than double after we got together what it was before we got together. Now with the NUS factor I can only imagine how many miles I will have clocked up by the end of 2006.

Paula
2005 was also the year when Paula came into her own as a bitch and a whore. As it turned out she has been sleeping around behing my brother's back all this while. The worst part is that we welcomed her into our home and treated her as one of the family. For her to mock and stab Noel (and the rest of the family for that matter) in the back like that was beyond low. She turned out to be a despicable human being in the light of all that transpired. The story goes even further in that besides the hurt and pain heaped upon Noel, she was also the 3rd party in another relationship that resulted in the break down between one of her guys and his girl. WHAT A BITCH!

Fishy stuff
2005 was also the year when more fish died in my care than at any other point during the time I been keeping fish. If it was not fish dying due to mysterious causes, it was snails or an algae problem.

Church
I had a rather see-saw year as far as church going went. I love my church and learning more about Christ. But for this year circumstances conspired to keep me away for more than I would have liked. Part of the reason was that I had no one to go with. Agnes does not quite like my church although she does think the pastor to be quite dishy. Faith accompanied me here and there whenever she felt like it or was not working. Caroline went away to work. Auntie Susan became physically unable to walk let alone attend church. Joyce and me broke up and were not even on speaking terms unlike the first time, where we still continued to attend church together whenever possible. Lyn could not longer attend church with me. Neeven and I lost contact for a while. Maybel and Daphne stopped attending due to work reason. Lost touch with Rachelle round about the time that I got together with Agnes,and she got attached and Faith started to join me for services.
Think that about covers everyone who used to attend church with me but stopped doing so in 2005.
In short though,it became rather sian to attend church alone after a while and I stopped doing so for the slightest reasons as the year drew to a close.

There is more to write if I could only remember...till next time...