A fruity story

February 22, 2008 at 3:34 pm (Random, Short stories, Thoughts)

Once upon a time Apple, Orange, Pear and Grape are a group of close friends. Pear and Grape have been dating since before Grape came into the picture. Apple was close to everyone but Apple was particularly close to Orange because they sit together in class and are always together in everything they do. After more than a year of dating, Grape started to develop feelings for Orange. Grape confessed to Apple and asked for advice. Apple didn’t really know what to do because they were after all, friends.

Orange has never said anything but Apple has always suspected that Orange likes Grape too. Ever since Grape’s confession to Apple about liking Orange, things has started to get rocky between Pear and Grape. At the same time, Pear met Mango and Mango likes Pear. After all the arguments and tears, Pear decided to break up with Grape and go with Mango. Now that Pear and Grape are no long an item, Apple and Orange were stuck in the middle.

Apple and Orange managed to maintain their friendship with both Pear and Grape. A year after the breakup, Orange and Grape decided to date for real. This is where Orange broke the golden rule. Orange hooked up with a friend’s ex without asking the friend if the friend was okay with it. Orange and Pear decided to be silent about it and no one knew anything. Apple was also left in the dark.

All four of them have graduated from high school before the hooked up and times to meet have decreased. Since Orange didn’t want Apple and Pear to know about it, Orange decided not to contact them. Apple tried to keep in touch but to no avail. If Apple made no calls, Apple will never hear from Orange. Apple got tired one day and decided that if Orange doesn’t want to remain as friends, so be it. Apple still managed to keep in touch with Pear though, but that’s because they were studying together.

Many months later, Grape confessed to Apple again. This time Grape confessed that Grape was dating Orange. Things started to get awkward. Everytime Orange sees Pear, Pear will be ignored. Orange gave up two friends to be with Grape. Apple was sad for not being left out and not informed about anything. Many things happened but Apple still wished the very best for them.

Many years later, after not hearing anything from both Orange and Grape, Grape decided to start keeping in touch with both Apple and Pear again. Apple and Pear has always been friends and so, news travels fast between them. Then they found out that Orange and Grape has broken up because Orange cheated on Grape and went out with Watermelon.

I wonder if this is what you call Karma. Grape developed feelings for Orange while Grape was still dating Pear. So now, Orange develop feelings for Watermelon while Orange was still dating Grape. Or was it because Orange let go of two friends to be with Grape and now Orange is left with 2 less friends and no Grape but with a brandname of a cheater?

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Privacy and respect

February 19, 2008 at 4:25 pm (Thoughts)

My boyfriend’s phone rang the other day and I saw there was a message. My boyfriend was in the toilet so I shouted “TS, you have a message”. That was when he asked “You’re not going to read his sms?” I shook my head. “You don’t check his sms-es?” I shook my head again. And he continued “what about his email? And his blog?”. I answered that I don’t check his email but I do read my boyfriend’s blog since it’s public and he usually tells me if there’s an update. He responded with a weird laugh. I knew very well what that laughter meant because she told me before that she checks his sms-es and email.

Now, here’s my thought. I do have access to my boyfriend’s emails, blogs, Friendster and Facebook accounts but I don’t check them because I respect his privacy. If there is something he wants me to know, I believe that he will tell me. I know that TS wouldn’t be happy being with me if I do that because he’ll feel restricted and he’ll feel like he is staying with his mom. Therefore, I like to give him a little space and know that there isn’t a cctv watching his every move. This is what I think it should be like in a relationship; trusting one another. He has my password to everything too but I know he doesn’t check them.

So, do you check your boy/girlfriend’s account? Or do you give him/her a little privacy like me?

Sometimes I do pity them especially him because everything needs to be reported and approved. TS, don’t you feel lucky now?

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ACCA results

February 19, 2008 at 3:56 pm (Daily log)

I’m feeling a lot better to be blogging about this. The results for the exams I took last December was finally released yesterday. I kept having nightmares of failing one or two of my papers. Although I was still sleepy, I decided to just wake up, sit in front of my lappy and wait for the results.

I passed 2 out of 3 papers and failed my corporate reporting, the one subject I hated the most ever since MMU days. Later at night, I found out that a lot of my friends failed too. And quite a number of them did worse than me. So far, I have not heard of any friends of mine passing all 3.

While talking to Jun Ming today, I realised that we both actually did pretty well. I didn’t really start studying until I confirmed I could take these 3 papers for exam and that was less than 2 months before the first paper. There was a lot of problems and there was even a possibility that I would have to drop one subject and take Law and Tax (F4 and F6).

Even after Louis from ICPAS told me that I could sit for the exams, I was still busy playing Facebook and Fluff Friends. And of course I was busy playing The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.

So yea… I might have failed, but I think I did pretty good considering the fact that I put so little effort in trying to pass the exams. Oh, and in case you didn’t notice, this post is written just to make me feel better about failing. So, don’t start commenting and telling me that XXX or YYY took 4 papers and pass all or anything like that k?

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The ups and downs of February

February 18, 2008 at 9:17 pm (Daily log)

It’s been oh-so-long since I last updated this blog of mine. Many things happened during the past 3 weeks. I’m kinda lazy to blog about what happened but I’ll just sum things up. Went home for a week during the Chinese New Year break. Harvest wasn’t very good. Didn’t visit a lot of houses either but I get to meet up with my 2 best friends, Yann Ping and Jaclyn. The three of us go way back and it was so nice to see them again. I really miss these 2 and I always wish they are here in Singapore with me. I hope I’ll get to see them again when I go back to Melaka end of this month.

And then it was Valentine’s day. Probably one of the best Valentine’s eve I ever had. You see, TS bought me the adidas jacket I wanted for the longest time before CNY because he was afraid it’ll run out of stock by V-day. And he said that was my V-day present. Obviously I thought that was the ONLY V-day present. 2 days before V-day, TS picked me up from Karate and he gave me my Valentine’s card. TS makes a card for me for every occasion. That’s 4 cards a year. That’s 15 to date. One day I’ll post pictures of his cards.

Anyway, on the eve, I was lazing around as usual. Suddenly the door bell rang and 2 delivery men from Yamaha came. I thought they knocked on the wrong door. And then they showed me the invoice and I realised that TS bought me a DIGITAL PIANO!!!! Now I’ll never be bored again. Later on he confessed saying that he bought the adidas jacket to keep me from guessing what he’ll be giving me for V-day. He didn’t have to, but nevertheless, I was touched deeply. He even rushed his jobs that day so we could have dinner together.

We had our dinner at Swensen’s. One of my favourite restaurant in Singapore, not for the food, for the ice-cream. By now, you’re probably thinking, “if the eve is so good, the day is probably way better”. On V-day itself, we both fell sick. I was down with a sore throat and cough and TS had sore throat and a cold. So, on that night, we just stayed at home and watched American Idol. Not exactly the perfect Valentine’s Day but it was great to me.

And of course, today is the day all ACCA examinees for Dec 2007 have been waiting for. Results Day. I’ll blog about it another time but one thing for sure, it’s not part of the “ups” in February.

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