So finally, Yingjie moves to a computer and starts writing. Despite the unique environment of being in a cybercafe with Bench (benjamin_choi) on his right trying to play CS and epic failing to PRC pro gamers, he strives to give the world an update to his life. With a 4-14 kill-death ratio, of which Ip Lan (the modified version of Ip Man, using my surname) controlled by me accomplished 2, in the first game I took over from.

GOGOGO BEN.

Now, on a more incidental note, the week has been very interesting. I've managed to go watch Very Nationalistic Kickass Film(s) like Ip Man, which features to great detail the wonderful Japanese soldiers who all graduated with distinction from the Imperial Stormtrooper School of Marksmanship and there was gratuitous verification of the Stormtrooper Effect. Awesome nonethless.

It subsequently led on to a buffet sushi tea with Kylie and then the highlight of the night, coffee with Jia Fang. Now, it was at this little coffee meeting where I Ingested A Bug. After a lot of insults, Jia Fang proffered her birthday present (highly overdue, yes), which was a nice tequila flavoured lollipop. It would have been sweet, if not for the little worm larvae inside. And I had to finish it in Starbucks, after downing coffee and birthday cheesecake.

Crunchy.

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The night before, it was the astro camp/sleepover at East Coast with Yam, Philip and Mingwei. I haven't seen all of us together for a while, but it was really nice to sit back and talk, about the things we share and just banter lightly. I've a feeling what I'll really miss during NS is the friends I've made all through High School and College, I really want to hold on to them.

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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is good. It's a film that somehow would be very rushed on the script but the pacing's wonderfully relaxed and appropriate. I caught it rather last minute with Ben and Nat on Christmas Eve, but it was worth the extra cost of the weekend ticket.

With Christmas service and all, it's been a far better, happier Christmas this year than it was last. I hope they all go this way.

So Christmas is over. I spent the day at church, reading and resting. Then today it's back to SRP work I suppose. Somehow even Christmas this year feels different. It feels quieter, and a bit more subdued.

Maybe it's the way I see things these days, or perhaps an indicator of how I've changed. I can't wait for 2007 to be over actually, perhaps it's the escapist part of me, or maybe it's the symbolic fresh start you get in a New Year. Though technically speaking, it's not the year that caused the problems, but it's still some symbol anyway.

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I want to read One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. I've a feeling answers lie there, and I'm somehow drawn to it.

It's Christmas, and I guess I just want to write something here which I remember my old principal back at ACS shared with me. She was Daisy Ong, a very nice person, but this is one of the things I will always remember.

She insisted on using "Christmas", instead of "X'mas", because she told the school during Devotions one morning, that using X'mas, takes the Christ out of Christmas. And no matter what we do, the most important thing to was to keep the Christ in Christmas, otherwise it just loses all meaning whatsoever.

Fine words, that we should all remember.

Merry Christmas to all!