that the boyfriend's been playing too much computer games. Lol. Some 4 days after he reinstalled the SIMS 2, the university and nightlife expansion packs, and then added on the business expansion pack, I haven't seen him online in well.. 4 days???
Yes, he officially has a new girlfriend, and her name's the SIMS 2. Guys..*rolls eyes*.
I'll be nice and cut him some slack because he works (and I don't, mainly because I enter and start university in 2 weeks) and can only play at night and over the weekends. I can play all day long if I want to, but I haven't been doing that because I've been away at a chalet for the entire day on Monday and Tuesday and I was out today with my ex-colleagues (from my 5 month stint at a rather renowned auditing firm). Tomorrow, I'm returning to my junior college (where I suffered for 2 years) AND meeting my buddies from junior college. Friday... I'm off to the university for some briefing, might take all day too.
I don't feel the urge to really get involved in the game, probably because I've already pushed one business to the top (but it's still in deficit, that will be my next goal; to get it out of the red).
Anyway, next week will be interesting, with Matriculation Day on Tuesday (1 August 2006), declaration of my major by noon the next day and then bidding on the 3rd and 4th. On the 7th, (the Monday after next week), I'm off to school for Week 0 of my first semester (I personally hate the ideas of week zeroes, why must we start at zero? Can't we start at one as most normal people do? Why zero? The last 2-3 years of my school life in uniform was spent having week zeroes as well, whatever happened to the traditional starting-the-new-school-year-with-week-one? It's almost as if I'm back in that uniformed group when I was in secondary school where our seniors were sadistic enough to make us recount our push-ups from zero, yes to include zero in our counts, whenever they were dissatisfied).
I just spotted this on the ChannelNewsAsia website:
SINGAPORE: Public Transport Council Chairman Gerard Ee says the announcement of new service standards for buses was not meant as a precursor to any possible fare increases next month, and that the timing was merely coincidental.
"We can choose to do whichever piece of the work first but there is a certain logic to it - some will interpret it as a sweetening of the pill - but imposing standards is a priority and the question of fares will come later on," said Mr Ee.
He did add, however, that operational efficiencies, which include incidents like the recent NorthEast Line stoppage, will be taken into consideration when looking at any applications for fare increases. - CNA /dt
And then I'm thinking that these despicable public transport operators can simply widen the frequency from 5-35mins to 5-60 minutes just so that the frequency by which their buses come won't deviate by more than 5 minutes from the stipulated frequency. People have despicable ways of dealing with things. I live at the extreme eastern corner of the island and my university is almost at the extreme western end. I need a good 105mins (if I'm lucky, 120 if I'm not) to get to the campus. Bus fares are going up, train fares are going up. Taxi fares have ALREADY gone up. University tuition fees are FOREVER going up. Movie ticket prices are up. The only thing NOT going up is my allowance, I bet it'll still be that $5/day that I've been getting since I was 13. $5 a day as my daily allowance, I'll need more than that just to cover transport. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) must be jumping by the truckload instead of the mere 1++% that we're always led to believe.
I find it unbelieavable that when the price of everything (including groceries and medical bills) increase so substantially, the CPI only increases by a minute percent. It doesn't feel like 1% to be, it feels more like 10%! On Monday, I topped up my fare card to $15 and I came home today with only about $7 left in it. And I haven't been doing much travelling, I haven't been venturing to the other corners of the island. $8 for 6 bus rides and 1 train ride. Maybe it's cheap in some other countries, but I'm starting to feel the pinch because I used to be able to go EVERYWHERE and pay 45 cents for a bus/train ride regardless of the distance I travel because I was a student. I've started calculating which methods are the cheapest ways to get from A to B. Oh well....
I am off to bed now, it's past 11pm even though the HORRIBLE weather has rendered me an insomniac. I lie in bed for hours, tossing and turning in frustration from the humidity. My airconditioner is down, I shut the windows when it gets too late (because it's the Hungry Ghost Festival and I am superstitious enough to think that something will fly in in the middle of the night, not to mention I heard 2 rather monstrous shrieks from outside my bedroom window when I reside on the 3rd floor just 2 nights back and I am still rather freaked out by it), the fan's not strong enough. And when I do sleep, I can't seem to sleep for more than 4 hours at a stretch. I feel asleep at close to 2am this morning, woke up at 3++am and ended up watching a rerun of the Ellen Degeneres (is that how I spell her name?) show and slept past 4am, only to wake up a little before 8am, and then got a negligible amount of sleep before the alarm clock went off. So yes, I am going to bed to try to get some sleep. Hopefully tonight will be a more restful night.
Phoebe
P.S. I'm supposed to plan the date for this weekend, with the boyfriend going MIA, I suppose I can skip that one now. *Chuckles*
