An ultra last-minute announcement:
LGF will be performing at 7.30pm at the National Library official opening event on this Friday, 22nd July (which is tomorrow!). Event will be held inside the ground floor sheltered area of the National Library at Victoria Street. (Lifted from Mel's blog. heh)
First time making so much 'noise' in a library...Hiak hiak ;)
The past week hasn't been kind to me as I lay wasted and unproductive with flu, fever, sore throat, cough and headache pounding on me. I hardly take such a long time to recover from these ailments but unfortunately, this is one of the rare times.
After a wastepaper basket full of used tissues and toilet paper for my ever running nose...
...and tonnes of medicine prescribed from two different doctors, I can only let time do the rest of the job in healing me. It's quite frustrating to be this helpless when sickness gets in the way of my plans and schedules...I could've done a lot more, and I've missed out on so many things due to it...Baybeats, my trip down to Sim Lim Square, etc. Now I'm not even sure whether I can cope with the 3-hour jamming later.
But amidst the suffering, I'm thankful for those well-wishes, spirits-lifting chats, kind smses and sweet phonecalls :) Hope I'll get back on my feet soon. Can't wait for the National Library opening gig this coming Friday and the Guitar77 one on the next.
I briefly studied that small piece of paper and couldn't help but marveled at its importance and value. It was a cheque of 30K I drew to transfer to my dad's acccount for the purchase of a car (not for me though) and for the first time, I'm handling monetary transaction of this magnitude (okay, I'm 'suakoo', cannot ah? *lol*). Somehow, this triggered a series of thoughts about my future, my plans, my financial situation, etc...
I never had any concrete planning financially and I sorta live on a day to day basis. Once in a blue moon, I'd splurge on new guitar and other times, some other music-related equipment. I think that's about it. It worked for me and I never really worried about other things. Then suddenly, I opened my eyes to some things I've never really consider before. Things like marriage, housing, retirement, etc. It took a fair share of triggers for me to notice it...a good example would be my ex-polymate informing me of his upcoming wedding. Gee...I'm the same age as him but I've been much more non-chalant about such stuff. I'd like to conveniently blame it on my lack of motivation/need to think about such stuff since I haven't even got a girlfriend to start with *lol* But try as I might, I can't shun these issues forever.
So, taking the opportunity on my trip down to the bank, I've finally made some 'serious adult' decisions. I channeled some saving funds to some investment schemes and boy, it was like playing monopoly *lol* With a couple of signatures, I laid some paths to my financial journey and hopefully, they'll reward me well in years to come. I guess this is a good time to maximise my funds and make good use of it while I'm still single and not having to worry about marriage/housing/kids. Hopefully by the time each phase hits me, I'd be better prepared.
So, enough of buying more guitars. I think 4 can last me for a long time to come. Heh.
