I've been staying off the net. Seems like I'm finally able to kick the five or six years habit of staying online every night.
This year feels a little different to me. Since Chinese New Year, I've been thinking a lot. Thinking about what I want to achieve in life, what is important to me and the people in my life. I haven't really reached any conclusion or made any decision but I think I feel more at peace with myself now. Maybe what I really needed was a break.
The past weekend has been a busy one. On Saturday, PL and I met at the mrt station and took the train down to Changi Airport. As SF's flight arrival was at Terminal 1, we walked down further to take the skytrain. It so happened that when we got there, the skytrain was about to close its doors. PL managed to get in while I was stupefied and just stood there. We laughed so much.
Anyway, when I got to see PL again, we went to get some breakfast. Read the changi express and we looked for food outlets to have lunch with SF. Then we went to wait for SF at the belts. This was the really interesting part because we waited like 45 minutes or so. Got to see so many people get out of the hall. Some looked really, really tired (like they hadn't slept in days). Some looked like they travelled all the time. There were also some people holding placards, waiting to receive people whom they don't know. There were also many hugs. Quite fun to just stand there and see all these people interacting.
SF finally came out after a while and four of us (SF, his brother, PL and myself) went to have lunch at Soup Restaurant.
On Sunday, after I got home from lessons, we had lunch at Baccarat with some family members. It was quite a good spread. After which, we did some shopping and I went off for the Corrinne May concert at UCC. This is my fourth time seeing her sing live and she's come a really long way.
Apart from the strings accompaniment and new songs, it was her usual pleasant banter in her lovely voice. She sings really very well live. Her new songs (Shelter, Seeds, Leaving); I particularly liked Shelter but I can't remember the lyrics (was it "I can be your answer, let me be your shelter?"). Seeds was not bad too (something about how small something may be, you never know what it brings). Her new album won't be out this year so it's going to be another long year of waiting.
Strangely so, I feel less touched by her singing this time round.
似乎少了那曾经有过的那种感动.
Happy friendship day/Valentine's Day!
