the official 'Last blog entry of 2007'

I can't recall if I have ever written a nice proper positively cliched end-of-the-year-blog-entry over half a decade housed here in olibia.blogspot.com but today, at this very moment, it feels called for. not to worry, this will not turn out to be be a freaking essay, just some short paragraphs of commemoration, to what had been a wonderful year, of 2007. yes. very much to the dismay of certain people (no I am not being paranoid), it had been a WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL year despite the emotional baggage (what else is new?), the numerous fall-flat-on-face episodes, lull periods of unproductiveness, the unfortunate meetings of acquaintances better off dead. and so on, everyone's usual everyday life-stuff. if anything, the reaction time of composure regain has been on a steady increase after each set back so it's all good.

I thought 2006 had been a great year. well 2007 turned out greatergreater. sure it was a year of What Next's, for many months even, surprise surprise, I had absolutely no clue to which chapter in life I was supposed to embark upon and it was a lot of 'grabbing at things blindly'. may I say this again - can you believe I was a freaking teacher in a freaking secondary school for one whole semester? oh anyway that doesn't matter now because honestly, teaching would be my absolute last resort to a career... or just until I am all old and wrinkly or something. not that I HATE teaching, I just don't enjoy blood vomiting. then again one could argue the reason is merely because I do not know how to teach properly BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT NOW IS IT but yes blahddeedah I grew through all of that emerged a better person all mentally spiritually physically etcetcetc. so it's all good, AGAIN.

wow I suck at this. hmmm yes so not too long ago I landed a terrific job (terrific is a bloody understatement - just imagine; NO SUNDAY/MONDAY/ANYTHING BLUES, NO PRE/POST-WORK DREADFUL FEELINGS, TOTAL ANTICIPATION FOR START OF WORK, FOR LUNCH, FOR END OF WORK TO GO TO SLEEP SO TOMORROW IS WORK AGAIN just kidding about the last part, ETC.) and hopefully my thoughts stay GENERALLY consistent at least, throughout my time with them. this HAS to be the ultimate highlight of 2007 as many characteristically interesting individuals come with the job too so it is all veryvery visually/thought provokingly entertaining, everyday.

so all in all 2007 had been an excellent year, here's to an even better 2008 and to end off, a little peek into a world of amusement; something I call my day job.

pictures from google


Olivia is in fervent anticipation of Bus Shelter Shoot at 11pm today
and again at 6:30am on Friday

there seem to be some sort of scripting error on the blog. well hopefully it is temporary, for Now is certainly not the right moment to place html rendering in consideration. not that I'm in a lousy mood but there many other matters that require immediate attention...

FOR EXAMPLE.

to complete the reading of 7 (not literally) literary works, one of which includes a freaking canon eos400d instructional manual.

working up a moxie to get through an anticipated Events Marathon -

7pm-9pm > 'leisure reading' at guthrie house
9pm-12am > grocery shopping/cooking
12am-4am > movie marathon
4am-9am > drive home/nap
9am-3pm > brekkie/shoot at tanjong pagar
3pm-5pm > more 'leisure reading'
5pm-9pm > quality time with lovelyness

anddddddddd that marks the end of the weekend. it is and will be all good despite the flux in activities, seeing how I woke from slumber only at 1pm today (SUFFICIENT SLEEP) and monday's gonna be (hopefully!) another slow day, like thursday and friday had been. boon is out of town and it is Totally unreal that andres and I have not received a single email from him since he left.

anyway I am positively in love with and awe of the new camera and accessories we acquired last saturday. tomorrow's shoot with nasehr is going to be a Great Affair and that means pictures next week ok. probably will upload some of my cubicle too. it is becoming a space of amusement by small doses, with the 'cute' Singapore Design Festival hat/frame catalogue collage, the Amazing!New!Camera!And!Its!Lenses! and of course, us, the artisticallyfartysillycrazy occupants of o&o FO. <3

YES I AM STILL AT WORK


the problem with

hi-res. beautiful photographs + overloaded imac = SUPER SLOWNESS + LOW PRODUCTIVITY

boss we need an upgrade please

TODAY HAD BEEN EVENTFUL. slumber was til noon after lunch (sorry but I tend to be a complete pig sometimes especially when there is nothing planned in the mornings) and then it was off to pasir ris for a (more so an attempt of...) HEALTHY skate session. the muscles we 'worked on' most were probably our facial muscles. well I'm not sure just how many years these ... (cavepeople?) friends of mine lived in caves for before today but they were real amused amazed at everything pasir ris park, in particular this bridge built between a span out to sea and the flow into a reservoir. there must have been at least a hundred photographs taken, between us all :) we managed several good shots, myself included and that's a quite a rarity as I usually would rather shoot than be shot (because not photogenic so why waste effort right LOL.)

after that was a ride to marina south for some steamboat and grill buffet....... less than an hour into it we were all stuffed and some needed to relieve their rectums of built up STUFF and with me it was generally air. LOL. we decided to ta pao some food ILLEGALLY because there was wayyy too much food that would have gone to waste if we didn't... and it wouldn't make sense to pay more money for not finishing it because well the food STILL goes to waste doesn't it?

so we headed back towards TPE (that was the plan anyway) but for some reason ended up at changi airport. then we thought OH WE COULD VISIT THE SSPANKKINGG NEW GRAND AMAZING TERMINAL 3 but well we were in the wrong lane and traffic was heavy. LOL. got back to punggol and were all oh we're gonna go skate again at that really nice roof garden but then all of a sudden HEY LET'S GO TO THE BEACH INSTEAD! SO, we bought some drinks and probably spent like over 2 hours at the really windy a bit chilly, nice chilly beach... just talking talking talking talking talking talking talking talking sharing talking talking sharing talking our asses off. and it became this ... bonding thing, an outlet for emotional release... well individually it seems, we each have rather conflicting issues to deal with o.O

all in all it was good, our friendship is on a heightened ground now and I FINALLY learned the truthiesttruth behind Oblivious Olivia LOL. SORRY THAT MY ATTITUDE SUCKED SHIT, I WAS YOUNG AND ... OBLIVIOUS. LOL. it was also a good break from the strange and kurious 5 day week I had... today I could be real honest up front and truthful without worrying about stepping on toes or annoying someone or causing casualties. well I try to be that all the time but for most of the time, it isn't accompanied without... consequences, unfortunately.

it really does get kind of shitty to be new and thrown in the midst of office politics

in other news, my boyfriend was diagnosed a concussion due to an accidental knock out with the opposing team during rugby match earlier and he's asleep now hope vitC works fast and has his right brain healed by the time he wakes <3