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… and I still can’t sleep! What the fuck is becoming of me? I know I always turn nocturnal during holidays and weekends, but it has never been until so late (unless I have a reason to stay up) - it’s normally until around 3 or 4am, but now 6? This is bad…

Some people tell me that if I’m bored, go to sleep… but now, I’m bored, really bored and can’t sleep… so I ended getting off my bed, turned on the lights and my monitor and started blogging this piece…

Today (or rather, yesterday) been a pretty mundane and boring (nothing new really about boredom in my life)… let’s see what I did… I was still pissed at Holland’s thrashing of Scotland 6-0 in the Euro 2004 playoffs… yeah, coz I lost a football bet… damn, there goes my brand new pool cue I wanted to get…

Besides that, I read the book I bought yesterday (started reading yesterday already… nothing better to do mar…) and now I’m over 1/3 of the book already… really nice piece of autobiography by him, with added dark secrets of the food business and his wicked sense of humor… I’ll probably do a review on the book later…

Then I chatted a bit with Julie (sigh, time difference really sux, daytime here, nighttime there in US for her…) and then a lot with Tsewei (no, not my godsister, but someone else with the same name…) about hanging out when she’s back from Singapore for holidays…

Played a bit more of FIFA 2004 in Career Mode… got so bored of the commentary in the game that I turned it off… the game’s starting to get boring and repetitive already… there’s a few quirks about the gameplay and the lack of certain features, but I’ll rant on that another day… they’ve packed some great soundtracks from all over Europe and US though!

Guess that brings us back to my boredom here now… sigh… why I can’t sleep? Perhaps I shouldn’t stay home so often and go out more, but going out generally means spend more money… I’m trying to be really thrift here now… sigh… what a holiday for me… Perhaps December would be more happening when more old friends are back from abroad… yeah, I think I should go out more in December… and get laid too… been on dryspell way too long already

Or perhaps I should go get myself drunk now so that I can get some sleep… geez, I really can’t remember when was the last time I wasn’t sober… hmmm, the last time I had any alcohol (beer doesn’t count, I generally don’t drink beer nowadays anyway) was in Genting, with a bottle of wine, think it was a Beaujolais Villages wine… didn’t even get drunk also, don’t think I ever got drunk with wine before…

Oh yeah, of late I was thinking up a new business to venture into… it’s not IT-based, so probably can’t get venture capitalists to invest on my business, spoke to my dad a bit about it… he’s still a bit skeptical about it… but I’ll study and research further to see its feasibility and all… I wish I could tell you what this new business idea is about, of coz, if I did, I’ll have to

you

…hehe… so CheeV, keep it quiet ya?

I really think I inherited a lot of my entrepreneurship skills from my dad… I totally respect him in his courage and dedication to go into uncharted seas of unfamiliar business industries… he was from the construction industry… had a small partnership back then that did housing projects, bridges, highways, and anything that needs construction I guess… and then a few years back, economy started going downhill, the construction industry was not spared as well… construction projects were still available, but getting the payment was an even bigger issue due to the economic slowdown, so he was doing lesser and lesser work…

And started going fishing on a regular basis… not from ponds or rivers or the open sea, but rather those man-made pond made for sports fishing… those that normally charged RM 10 per hour… he was hooked into it, but instead of being suckered into the fishing fever and going for it countless hours in the day and night, he looked into starting his own fishing pond business instead… and so he did, at a piece of land beside the industrial area in Bukit Kemuning, Shah Alam.

He had a lot to learn prior to opening his own business, and he had to learn fast, coz once more ponds open up in the Klang Valley, the market would be even more saturated. And he built the pond on his own (or rather, with his own men) and started everything from scratch… business was swell, we even get fresh seawater fishes like siakap and prawns on a regular basis on our dinner table…

But alas, the downside of him having that business was that he had to take care of it (in shifts, with his other partner) and he’s gotta take care of the graveyard shift… during the day, he hardly come back or if he does, only for a few hours of sleep and rest coz he’s always needed over at the pond or improving the pond, after all he was the architect and technical support in one

So there were lesser and lesser time of us having dinner at home… mom started to cook less too, since she also joined the team, running the canteen at the pond… sis would always follow mom there, and I had no homecook food to eat for quite a long while… which is kinda sad… coz back then I was working in ASTRO still and you know, after a hard day’s work (not so much physical, but rather brainwork), I come home and gotta buy my own dinner, and sometimes, gotta put up with that useless sister of mine who is a bitch when it comes to buying her food… typical conversation goes like this:

Me: What you want for dinner?
Sis: Anything lar.. cincai lar…
Me: Okay, wantan mee alright for you?
Sis: Eee… don’t want!
Me: Then, hmmm, fried rice or hokkien mee?
Sis: No, don’t want!
Me: Like that ah, (insert-another-food-here) okay?
Sis: Nolar, don’t want lar!!!
Me: Then what do you want to eat?
Sis: Anything lar.. cincai lar…
Me: (WTF???!!!!!)

Stupid isn’t it? Sigh… but nevermind ler, those days are already over… he sold his share of the business to his partner and left the fishing pond business for good, and now doing some immigration work with some of his brothers. So now we all get to see more of him, so much more that he’s at home most the time that we’re constantly fighting over the ASTRO remote

Wow… I really wrote a lot here… I started at 6am, and it’s now 6:37am… perhaps I’ll write more next time yea?

I think I’ll stay awake until afternoon nap I guess… I think I’ll take my mom to Taman Megah for dim sum breakfast… she’s leaving late tonight for a tour of South Korea with some friends and relatives… lucky her… and sis’ going for Energy concert this weekend… lucky lil’ devil her…

Oh yeah, that reminds me… gotta give a call to my ex-gf who’s back in Seoul… perhaps she’ll meet up with my mom there…

Anyone wanna go for dim sum with me?