The haze is clearing, what with the rain and all and now I'm all back in school which I so affectionately referred to as the Hellmouth. Come the new semester, I'm taking on uncharted territories of Psychology and Creative Writing. I love the courses already, even though it's only the first lesson and I had to spent like 20 minutes looking for the classrooms because they're in the Engineering building instead of Business. And I wasn't the only one; the Psych lecturer lost his way too. I'm never that versatile when it comes to directions but i found it so yeah to me. Met with new people and might do my social circle some good. The only glitch was that I had to stay in school till 7pm every Wednesday for the Psych lecture and it's not very nice because I live real far. Well, at least the lecturer acknowledged the whole determination we're showing for turning up. Haha! Talking about courses, I think I would really enjoy CommSkills 2; I took an instant liking to the lecturer, not in a gay way. I'm gay but not in that context.

I'm making tiny progress on my tattoo. The outline's healed good and the guy was so nice he did parts of the shading for me yesterday, 26 Oct 06 though I still owe him $550...We talked about drunk driving and how some macho-looking guys ended up screaming and crying like a baby while getting the tat done or they get too loud and irritating and obnoxious like most guys do...it's all very interesting. We talked about our favourite show on cable tv, it's called Miami Ink and the kind of rates they charged their customers...and it's really expensive. Imagine US$450 for an hour of tattoo. Well, by some of the best artists in the world no doubt but still, it's pretty steep. I needed money, I always needed money. Guess I needed to get a more stable job. Let the ritual healing begins.

27 Oct 06 5.00pm

11 October 2006 7.21P.M.
Almost 2 days after the outline and still sting. It's a phoneix I'm doing, kinda resembles a new lease of life and how things would be for the better.

Sorry again for not updating this thing for many things have happened. Remember Rian, the charming chef I wrote about last update? Guess what, he got terminated last month. I've no idea the reason(s) why but someone from TP called Suntec HR and the management decided it's best they let Rian go. Rian's a Malaysian and he could not understand Mandarin and other chefs who worked with him heard about the news about letting him go started either talking bad in front of him in Mandarin or simply ignoring him. He's still on probation and all and because of something like this, whatever it is, he's got kicked out of a job he barely held for half a month. I don't know why my friends and I felt so strongly for him, I mean we barely knew him but it was super unfair that he be terminated.

Rian held the list of names and contact numbers of those who worked during IMF and somehow he started sending weird and very very lengthy messages to some of the girls, one including my classmate. He talked about stuff, i don't know what and those girls were very unimpressed with him. They actually showed the other people working in the same kitchen the messages Rian sent and they were laughing at it. It's pretty cruel, even for me. And in one of the messages he sent to my classmate, he mentioned about not understanding women at all but at the same time, he never underestimate women either. And, he also mentioned that he has been with at least 12 women, whatever it meant. I believe that was the last SMS he sent to my classmate. After that, we've heard nothing about it until a couple of us went back to Suntec as casual labor and my friend heard about Rian's termination from this other chef we hanged out with. Most of us who knew about it was fuming and couldn't really understand the situation. All we felt was injustice. And there is nothing we could do. The thing about rumors and impressions, especially if they are untrue, is that they travelled. Words go around in the industry and soon, everyone in the culinary industry might catch wind of it and no one will even try to employ Rian or hear him out or whatever. God, this is so unfair!!!