All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet

Daddy works a long day
He be coming home late, yeah, he’s coming home late
And he’s bringing me a surprise
Because dinner’s in the kitchen and it’s packed in ice
I’ve waited for a long time
Yeah, the slight of my hand is now a quick pull trigger
I reason with my cigarette
And say your hair’s on fire
You must have lost your wits, yeah

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet

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The LV Maison was pretty neat as well. You can get in through the underground tunnel which had these commissioned artwork on display. You can also go outside to the balcony and relax by the bayside.

Also, there’s a pretty cool rooftop bar/restaurant which is a microbrewery called Level 33 at the Marina Bay Financial Centre. Wonderful, wonderful view of the MBS, Esplanade etc. Definitely need to get a reservation though if you want to sit at the balcony.

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I wonder what I should do today. I kinda want to go and try out new food places. But I also want to cycle around. Hmm… Maybe I can do that later when I get an extra shelf for my bookshelf.

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I feel pretty happy recently. I’ve been kept busy, I’ve met new and interesting people and I feel like the future ahead is full of possibilities. I hope that this mood hasn’t hit its peak yet. I want to enjoy it a little longer…

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Sigh… I feel happy. But I worry I’m too happy. It’s really frustrating how my mind thinks. Maybe it’s self-regulating since I figure being too happy or sad just makes the trip back the other end all the more painful.

But anyway, I want to talk about the pleasure of exchanging words. There are some people who have a natural gift for making words sensual and putting them together in just the right way to tickle your mind. It makes you want to feel out the meaning, to find the shape of it all. I know there is an art (maybe even science) to being clear and concise but to be able to gratify the senses through words is beautiful and uncommon.

If I were to put together a list of qualities which I wish my other would have, one would be this: to be able to turn on my mind. More than physical qualities, I crave the intellect more.

Sometimes, I wonder what would have happened if I never met someone like him. Would my preferences still be the same or was it all be shaped by the past? I dearly hope it’s not due to imprinting — it’s hard to find anyone like that in this corporeal world. But I guess there’s no use blaming imprinting; I’m currently who I am and there’s no helping it.

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Yesterday, I wondered what the term ‘emotional connection’ means. I mean, think about it. How do you even define it? It’s a lot like love: you know it when you feel it. There have been people I feel that, in theory, I should feel predisposed towards but it doesn’t work out that way. But then there are people who I wouldn’t say are my kind but I still have an intimate feeling for. It’s weird isn’t it? Attraction seems like such a complex thing for me — what I think I’d like aren’t what I necessarily feel I like. Either I think wrong about what I want or attraction is just a mystery. (PS. I liked this article about emotional connection.)

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That’s my thought quota for today. Like I put in the tagline, [t]hinking too much is not a good pastime.

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RAWR!

Karaoke time (thank you to friends for bearing with the singing)!

Saboteur, Citadels, Chinese chess and Bridge! The latter (Bridge) I learned there. Another skill-up for me!

Movies were terrible. Like, seriously? Even the one I chose, Horrible Bosses, sucked. Sigh.

Fireworks!! It was very pretty sparkly and boom!

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With You
by LMFAO

It’s crazy, I never want this feelin’ to end
This is what it means to be friends
Only when I’m hangin’ with you
Oh, I can’t stop dreamin’ ’cause

It’s crazy, I never want this feelin’ to end
This is what it means to be friends
Only when I’m hangin’ with you
Oh, I can’t stop dreamin’ ’cause

Yo, it was only dreams
I used to play chess at the coffee bean
And as my coffee steamed
I thought about my life and my lofty dreams

It’s so sick that I’m startin’ to mix
Thanks to Ann, rest in peace, banana split
Was the place that we all went Sundays
To make people feel this way we would one day

And now I remember when you gave me a secret
Popped in the DVD and peeped it
And if you dreamin’, you achievin’
After that it was a wrap

And now I walk in the club like a million times
Spit on the mic like a million rhymes
We party rock to a billion drops
And this shot makes one zillion shots

Yes, I’m feelin’ good
And we the best, I’m feelin’ good
And in your breast, I’m feelin’ good
Ha-ha-ha, LMFAO

I’ma bro with this party thang
I love Jay-Z, call him ‘Bacardi man’
Hey, I’ve been the same before it started fame
The only that has changed it would change the game

You and I and the crew that I roll with
It’s gonna be the the same crew I roll old with
Memories fade like old leather
But the music that we make gonna last forever
Legacy

It’s crazy, I never want this feelin’ to end
This is what it means to be friends
Only when I’m hangin’ with you
Oh, I can’t stop dreamin’ ’cause

It’s crazy, I never want this feelin’ to end
This is what it means to be friends
Only when I’m hangin’ with you
Oh, I can’t stop dreamin’ ’cause

I feel like flyin’ on top of my game
And I ain’t even tryin’
Nowadays I’m stylin’
And when she make it, I feel like cryin’

It’s better than I hoped it’d be
I walk down the street and people notice me
No body was as broke as me
They say you never get nowhere smokin’ weed

So I roll one up
I stepped on a landmine blowin’ up
And I ain’t never growin’ up
And if the party rocks and you know it’s us

Me and Foo in the club, straight pose it up
Back when I wasn’t old enough
Now bottles all night, still we rollin’ up
Cheers and toasts to us

Oh, we winnin’ now
My whole rock stage is thinnin’ now
My fans show love and women shout
Make me feel like I’m the man

All of my friends and my fans
They don’t let ‘em change you
Been from London to Japan
And I’m still the same dude

And he’s still the same Foo
Struggles we came through
Stuck with our team and our dream
And look how it came true

It’s crazy, I never want this feelin’ to end
This is what it means to be friends
Only when I’m hangin’ with you
Oh, I can’t stop dreamin’ ’cause

It’s crazy, I never want this feelin’ to end
This is what it means to be friends
Only when I’m hangin’ with you
Oh, I can’t stop dreamin’ ’cause

Oh, oh, whoa, with you
Oh, oh, whoa, with you
Oh, oh, whoa, with you

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My life has gotten kinda crazy recently, way too much has been happening.

Let me go through each aspect:

Work – Pace has picked up. I discovered that I was probably bored and just tired of doing the same-old, same-old and lacked the kind of autonomy I liked. I guess things are looking up for me now that we’re handling projects which clearer primary person role things for me. I like that much better!!

Social – I started to feel excited about life once again after I took a chance and agreed to meet some guy on OKC. Haven’t met him yet but I feel like it’s a first step towards more social activities.

Really had a good time going to the Avalon at Large Go! concert and saw LMFAO. First time I was at such a concert as well! Loud and had tired feet but had a lot of fun grooving to the beat. Saw Quest Crew! The next day I caught a colleague’s band’s documentary (done about them), it was cool. It was a very hipster kind of thing to do to be up at Old School and enjoying the evening at Chalk with yummy Brothers cider.

Looking forward to an upcoming weekend with my friends in Kukup. Just met best buds from JC at Molly Malone to see Gerald off (or not – his visa got problem and he’s staying another week). Had a yummy Thai dinner with some friends at Sunshine Plaza the other day as well.

Home – I finally got rid of my old bed and now enjoy a loft bed (like a bunk bed but the bottom’s a table instead). My room is a lot more spacious these days and laid out in a way I find more functional. I’m just missing a bookshelf. No one supplies a decent bookshelf these days and IKEA’s delivery charge is the only thing stopping me from getting their shelves. >_< Will think about this. In the meantime, the books are stacked beneath my table and some of the floor.

Reading – After the whole rearrangement of the beds and what-not, I discovered books I hadn’t read or forgot about. Nice to go over the books I hadn’t finished or started. Also got rid of quite a lot of books I don’t need anymore. So I have a leaner collection. There’s probably a lot more fat I can cut but this will only be cut when I get those new bookshelves.

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Other than that, what preoccupies me recently has been the subject of organisational structure and culture. I was mostly thinking about the changes my organisation has underwent in expanding. The way a company is organised really affects the roles people play (seems obvious but it’s quite interesting to go through it). When it’s small, the kind of way of working and people who are needed are different. There’s a need to give a greater degree of autonomy and also very direct interaction with the top since the hierarchy is much flatter. As the company grows bigger, the layers you sift through is more and by the time it approaches the top, things are much different from what you have been experiencing most of the time.

Roles have also solidified. Whereas you were most likely a jack-of-all-trades and wear many different hats while the organisation is small, the division of labour is more apparent as the organisation gets larger. I think that I do enjoy the former more but it is just a lot harder to do everything efficiently and things get missed. I don’t know if I have transitioned very well since then but I do appreciate that my focus is sharpened and some of the lower level tasks can be delegated away and portions of the portfolio is no longer solely or primarily borne by me.

There has been good and bad to the changes. The camaraderie which was shared right across the organisation has now been focused on the unit. While my interactions with the old crew has been kept up through informal exchanges (ie. dinner after work, outings, etc), I don’t think new staff members have quite the wide social milieu which we run in. Which reminds me, I should probably jio people more. Sigh, maybe after November ends… But it’s not too surprising since each of us only have so much resources and accommodating a larger and larger group would just be too much. Last Christmas was really a case study — gifting everyone became too much. It’s going to be much tougher this year unless clear rules to manage these problems can be enacted.

I guess this story is quite classic but it’s my first time experiencing it first-hand. The organisations I had previously been in have either been quite small and informal or large and already established. The transformation from small to big hasn’t been surprising but watching how everything is now clicking in place makes for a fascinating study. The negotiations and solidification of roles while everything and everyone adjusts to the new culture and structure holds important lessons for change management.

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