Day 12 & 13 & 14 Monday

 i really need to type more regularly.

Today is a sunday, day 4 of CNY. 

Day 12: Saturday

Went to ah pei's house to visit. All were looking good. Ivy was there too, and very kindly prepared some fruits. i have an ego problem i think. i think when pp talk to you, and kinda squat down next to you. its a bad sign. i dunno why these days, my brain seem to jump around alot more. Ah pei looks glazed over, like staring into space. Because of a UTI, or part of it, he had his urine bag outside the body.Ah Mm was holding strong, i asked her about her house that she was building. she said it ll be ready in september. 6 months, the architect is the brother of her neighbour. n they decided to build 3 in a row, so as to get a good discount on the volume.  Dinner was at Slings. she prepared a very good fish soup, with 2 fish emperors and something else. devils eggs, and a chocolate tart

Day 13: Sunday

Had dumpling with chilli oil last night

Remembered watching netflix pretty much the whole day. Terrible, this made me realised netflix is just too powerful

Day 14: Monday

Morning was pulau ubin. woke up at 730 to catch S hitch at 815 at the jetty. we got lost and went to changi jetty instead of changi point ferry. good fun,  went cycling, very friendly with many temples, did many small prayers. had lunch at a place called little brewery, good grills n local beer. had a chicken thigh, 1 pale ale n a stout. came home showered, then went w dad to pick up the rights. and then headed back to F place to have beer, which he very kindly provided. it was nice to chill. haven't talked to R in a long time like that. didn't know she is into data science now, which is super cool. then back, showered n going to take it slow tmr..wake up a little later. As it is CNY, so office will still be close till wed. another 2 days of borrowed time.

08 & 09 / 100

DAY 08 

yesterday night was a brain drainer, had therapy after ukelele class.

L mentioned at the end 4 things to look out for, that breaks all marriages, be it straight or not couples.

-stonewall, defensive, contempt, criticism

-homework 1 was to remember what was desirable about the person, 

-homework 2 was to see if we can enact it back

It was helpful that she mentioned we would probably not be able to match back the same desire. but is how we recreate that. somehow, to me it is about reframing the "issue", it is not about the lack of desire, but rather something else.

Ukelele was really enjoyable though, the focus that is necessary to play the notes really takes my mind out. i find that when things are necessary, there is no choice but for my brain to be sharp, exactly like how i need it to be.

DAY 09

today a point learnt about houses was interesting. that it was about the circulation. how one ends up at the top of the stair. single lane stair , or folded, but then the living room becomes too small.

today i suddenly felt very sad, when i thought about L and i going our separate ways.

so much so, that one of my colleagues mentioned that i looked very tired. even though i slept early last night

07/100 A Monday, week of CNY

 woke up at 745am, as this is the swopped week. where 2 weeks of 9am-6pm, and 2 weeks of 10am-7pm.

snoozed twice, and dream was about missing a train. it was quite real, i remember consciously thinking that this is so strange, like i knew it was a dream. as i got off to feel the marble textures and carvings underneath my feet. today is a rest day for the 30mins sit-ups, so i did instead the yoga 15mins. before i knew it, it was time to scoot off. Had the haircut yesterday so it felt like a neat monday morning. Also as the feasi and timeline was done, i felt ready for work. It was off to a quick start, with a first round of drft w V,  he highlighted that for demolition, permit and submission process wld take about 4 weeks, so that went into the time as well. Then a quick racer discussion w J. where H pointed out quite a few mistakes that i felt embarrass to make. Like 

1.habitable ht to be on the roof, and also the 

2.FEA to be in front of the building, so that there can be the slab overhead internally.

3. Crossing of circulation. going out and down from ramp and drop off.

Then after lunch, a quick update. some frivolous thing, then rode home. i still enjoy v much this riding w the wind in your face. this is probably as close to flying that one can feel. with the wind in your face, and turning left and right. Home, ate the frozen carrotcake for dinner. n played the ukelele, this really puts me in a good and relax feel. going to google some stuff on archicad now, to prepare myself for the upcoming battle.

04/100

 crazy morning that i woke up at 11am today.

jumped straight up, think perhaps i was so relief  to finally have a meeting, that my brain just disconnected. So hopped into a cab, a quick washed up and straight to office.

Also today was the 05/02 dinner w s,z,v. i even thought about buying a new shirt for it, but when it actually came, i was late for work, so it was a crazy rush, a black shirt, grey pants.

we had the P meeting today at 3-4pm, in anticipation of an office sharing which never happened. but we had the team sharing instead which was great. learned alot about a waiver for workers dormitory natural ventilation vs fire code for Fire lift lobby. about grease traps locations and ventilation and also about parti wall bricks and manhole installed acute to last IC, which caused backflow of sewage, which caused many a change of hands. Only told to us, as the ID knew the plumber.

Dinner was great, at the resto Altico that W designed. .really impressive, beautiful space.

glad to be back, shower, hair blown and clean ready to call L and crashed out.

03/100 First Client Meeting ina while

 since i transfer fr the hdb team, today is the first client meeting i went out on. Haven't worn proper shoes ina while, as it had been the white sneaker shoes for the longest time. Also, put on a long sleeve shirt and pants. Quite a crash course in learning about placement of beam and column, and wall alignment to catch beams. It was a 3 hours meeting, in which suggestions were very carefully made, and direction followed. For eg, when we first sat, the client mentioned, he didn't prefer option2, and so, straight to option 1 we went. without talking about option 2 at all, at least for an hour, b4 J slowly steered us back in. Went back to TM for dinner, it was nice, attempted to have another session of online shopping w M, but it was difficult to decide on which one to buy, so this didn't happen. But good to see that it went through, as in M even thought about another item she wanted to buy, but perhaps on a different occasion. The day before yesterday, a monday, the office shared that N mother had passed on from a virus infection. this means that he did not even get the see her, as the quarantine was still on, in fact he was still here on monday to share w us that he will be gone for a month. there is no right time for anything. Covid is under control in sg, waiting for the vaccine to roll out, but was for the rest of the world, it seems numbers are still trying. going to head to bed now, at 12.50am.

02/100, a wednesday

 today i went for a run, on my own as i had some work to finish up..

it was nice, and i ended off, lying down on an inclined bench, facing the HSBC, DBS and Fullerton building.

unprotected opening can be best understood by doing a calculation in sequence. Started from the 

1. assume rectangle

2.enclosed rectangle

3.Unprotected opening area

4. percentage of unprotected/enclosed rectangle

this inclined bench, when i sat on it, i felt so at eased. it was a good moment in touch. Employed, with my namorada, and around chinatown area, and with a vespa.