The process of ageing

So henceforth, there shall be a new tag/label - Health. By having this new tag its a reconigation that one has pretty much primed out the better years and it's going to be a downhill ride from here.

Come to think about it, the peak is really short. The first 20 yrs of your life you spent growing. Then next 10 are the golden ages. Cherish it! Where really health concerns are at the back of your mind. As you approach the big 30. Back pains, that might be the no1 aliment that everyone faces. Soon there'll be the worry about blood test results. Cholesterol and hypertension becomes a bit more common around you. Before you know it. CA125, CA19.9, PSA and the rest of the tumor markers become table topics. And when there are 4 big candles on your cake, you start celebrating your first normal colonscopy,gastroscopy. Fast forward a little more, arthritis, osteopenia, osteoprosis. Then it won't be when was your last visit to the mall but rather to your doctors.

Then the fear of every man starts to kick in. erectile dysfunction. Should we all cheer the little blue pill? Pfizer got it right with that invention though. 8? good years of patent rights have all but finish. Blue chip advise: Do not invest in pharmaceutical's but rather in healthcare. ie: hospitals.

Bloggin - The lack thereof

I reckon the reason for it is simple. Simple? Well I realize I can't blog cause I'm too influence by certain writing styles. Mainly that of news articles. Economist, and of late New York Times. They do write well and yes, I hope to emulate them. And yes, I need practice to get there.

There has to be a point(s) in the whole blog entry. Of which, some of you might disagree. But why blog if you don't have a point? and for that matter one that couldn't be elaborated? Then it'll just be factual reporting which I believe can be done in 160 words - tweet!

Which explains why I heading that direction more often. Maybe I should take 5 tweets, elaborate them and make that 1 blog entry. Worth a shot! It'll be of a decent length, decent content and will have more than 1 point. (But it feels like cheating as well)

So there's the catch 22 situation. I need to blog to be able to be of a certain standard, yet not being of a certain standard deters me from blogging. (I must say though, this feeble attempt sure bets you's Mr Lau)

I still have lots of ideas in my mind, of things I wanna say. But the lack of concrete point(s) deters me from doing so. I don't want it to become a dear diary of what I did today that's for sure.

I need my muse!

Taking stock

Its time to take stock of the relationships. Not that this a special day to do the evaluation. But it's been a long time since there's been an entry. Still lots on my mind. Always is, has, been.
Yet i appear carefree to people. It's a blessing to be able to be carefree. It's stressful mostly and it's a good feeling.

In the last 3 months.
I've lost a friend. Which is quite a pity but might not be a bad thing after all. We need to be forward looking.

I've gone no where in dating with this guy. Its been a small roller coaster ride. Which is better than a monotonous smooth one. But it leaves one clueless. Just when things seem to be getting better, suddenly it goes in the opposite direction and when you least expect it changes direction again.

I've gotten closer to 2 people at work. Now there's a mini group. I've found comfort in them. Someone who understands what I go through and I understand what they go through as well. Changes for the good at happening at work. Those who skive, will find it much harder to skive soon. Forces are working to the person's disadvantage.

I've managed to spent sometime with the aussie chicks. Even though a just a bit. I've seen Ms G more often this 2 yrs than in the entire past 8 yrs?

G out of the blue what's app me. The boy's got iphone! I like him! But it's just 1 of those weird mysteries that I never figure out why, you just aren't the best of chums somehow. Everything seems in place except for that 1 particular thing, that you've no idea what. Perhaps the missing ingrident is Fate. But if it's missing you won't have cross paths.

M looks so cute in his cardigan. Told him and next thing it was his FB profile pic. haha. That's one person who I always wonder if I'm in his life enough or if I'm just neglecting him. But he's got his own life.

I think i've neglected R also.

It's back to the pre 08 days, where life is no longer sexcandalous. It's back to the dull old boring drawing board. With the increase prevelence of STD/HIV. It's not a bad thing. But it does feel boring.

Increasingly, the financial future seems bleaker. With hearing success stories a plenty last week. A is a finance manager in Singtel, B is a audit manager in DT who now has her own river valley condo and mini soon after giving up her alfa. C with her husband is selling off their old condo to get a new 1.4M one. D earns 70k p.a. E who's some private banker or sorts get to fly to HQ Zurich for work. F at my age was offered partnership @ 1 of the big 4 audit firms (kind of skeptical of the last 1) So where does this leave me? And just this lunch, boss painted a really bleak view of our job. The other companines have longer working hours. Though they pay much more. And things at our side don't seem too bright as well. My collegue will prolly be the next in line to get promoted, not me. Though it does make sense. Thus my pay is going to be stuck for quite sometime.

Yeshy, some good news to end it off. I'm enjoying my tweets and the meet ups with A and his boy.