Crossroads

Felt breathless...

The minute i stepped into the office, somehow oxygen seems to be sapped out from the air. Is it me, or the people around me? Losing momentum is not something i encounter often, in fact rarely... Strong urge to move, and yet i need to curb myself, force myself to stop and evaluate my options.

New environment would do me good, new challenges, new things to learn. No doubts i will also be crossing path with the same kind, or even more "powerful" colleagues than now. Come what may, I am willing to accept them.

Remaining status quo doesn't guarantee any prospects, job satisfaction is at all times low, the minute I'm off for the day, i could immediately feel the rush of euphoria (no exaggeration at all). I have to admit this used to be my comfort battle zone. Achieving more is not impossible, but i just couldn't find the motivation to do so. I have adopted the "wait-and-see" attitude for so long, diligence and efforts doesn't equate to rewards. Getting recognition from the bosses does feed the egoistic side of me, but yet the monetary value never appreciates along with it. Fellow collegues are of great disappointment as well, plenty of backstabbers and red-eyed monsters.

My lear told me "you are wasting your youth and intelligence away". What worries me is that she might be the only one who thinks that i still have the market value?

Welcome to Taiwan (Part 1)

Spent 6 days in Taiwan. Departure date was on 25th February 2010. It was a short, but spiritual and eventful trip. It wasn't fun at all, because *cough cough* the weak me fell seriously ill during the 3rd day.

Every Taiwanese I came across were gentle, polite and even passionate. But it's comforting to know that most of the Taiwanese ladies "teh" when they speak. Ok, a few of my friends (especially LF) finds me extremely abnormal, as they insisted that I have 娃娃音, oh please *roll eyeball*

Taiwan is famous for their night markets (夜市), so I visited "Feng Jia" (逢甲) and "Shilin" (士林), the former is in Taichung and the latter in Taipei, both sell similar merchandise & served similar food varieties, and I always feel like fainting every time I walked past the ever famous "Stinky Doufu". I had tasted that 16 years ago, wasn't that fantastic, and I still can't stand the unbeatable stench. Sampled the goodies, and I still prefers the baked potato.


Didn't take much photos during the journey, I was terribly tired and sick. Woke up at 3am, went uphill at 5am, start climbing steep slopes at 7am, any moment I lose my footing, I would be rolling myself down. Amazingly I went up and down the mountain safely.



Their washroom is also a killer for me, "Vicks" or medicated oil must be applied before I step into one. I was really looking forward to the end of the journey. I lost 2kg for this trip, and was really in a bad condition when I returned to Singapore. Took me more than 1.5 months to recuperate my health back, my TTSH doctor, chinese physician and my mum all decided that I cannot make another trip out of Singapore that soon.

I can't seem to upload the pictures in my mobile, there is an interesting chinese-english translation I found in Taiwan, so I will be posting them up real soon, once I figured out how to do so.