26 October 2011:
Today is a happy day for me.
This is so different from what I felt a few days ago. I don't really know why I am so happy today, but I would think it's cos today was rather productive.
First up: I've been having an affair with books since recently. Not textbooks (all the more no since exams are over), but story books, or rather novels. Or maybe, books in general. The library in school has been selling old books for $0.50 each.
This, obviously, is very good news, since there are some priceless books that are unavailable now. For one, I bought a book on the state of teenagers in the 1980s. To everyone else, this may seem as a useless book and start calling me "boliao". But to me it's actually a good sociological read. Then, one can compare the traits that youth had in the 1980s and the traits that youth have now.
I don't know why I like sociology and forensic pathology so much, but I just do. And of course, history. Which is why my "history antenna" was upright since all the books were so old. I have a thing for old things, I guess. I like to imagine what happened at the time when a particular artefact (I just call it that) was produced. From there, some details can actually be deduced. I guess it's like forensic pathology, except that in the latter you do the sleuthing on a human body.
The second thing that made me happy was visiting Uniqlo. I am really very pleased with visits to Uniqlo. For one, their service standard is very high. No matter which staff member you approach, they will make the effort to serve you to the best they can. It's not everywhere you can find such high standards of service.
Which is no wonder actually, cos it's a Japanese company. And Japanese are always No. 1 at service and hospitality. Another thing that I was happy about at Uniqlo was their wide range of products available. There was everything from shirts, T-shirts, jeans, pants, jackets, hoodies, and belts. (LOL the last one sounded random.)
I really wanted to buy everything there, but of course some like belts were not applicable, and coats were also not applicable. Okay, I'm digressing, but you get the message: Uniqlo is simply an awesome place to get all your clothing. If I'm not wrong, they even have briefcases! Oh and their catalogue is simply delightful to read and browse through. It's compact (around A5 size) yet informative.
For your information, I was not sponsored by Uniqlo to write this part of my post.
The third thing may be something that most of you would probably brush off as useless as well. That is, I've discovered that commentaries from Lianhe Zaobao are published fully online as well. This means that I do not need to buy the paper everyday to read interesting articles. Since I found out (which is not today, so technically this did not make me happy today) then that I could view commentaries, I've been printing them out to read for a later date. At least, I won't have the constant worry whether or not I am missing out on anything interesting.
I've even bookmarked the site so that I can refer to it easily. And, I might even pin the site. This would mean that everytime I launch Google Chrome, the page would be open as well! :)
The final thing that made me happy would be Chem. Okay, not exactly Chem, but the recording of the Chem podcast which is part of our project. I like doing recordings, so yeah I'm very happy that we have to do a podcast as part of a project. The feeling when I held the mic and my group members and I were speaking into it ... Seeing the volume meter jump and go back ... All the scenes I like. Of course, I'm not going to go into radio industry or anything, but yes, I just like it.
TTFN.