A final prep

13th/14th (th/fri) - Back to working in the office as usual. Decided to stop playing games for a while, but ended up being distracted online all the time anyways. Had CG on friday, sudden change of venue last minute back to How’s place instead of Jenny's. Had new interns that came to our CG.

15th (sa) - Had breakfast then headed out before noon for kids worship practise. After that I went home and binge on HxH

16th (su) - Woke up 3.30am, imsonia, was awake until I head out to church at 7:15am. Served in kids worship today and helped out a little with serve-fest. Met a few new people. Went to CRC for lunch afterwards, then I headed home, continued binge watch HxH. I should stop watching HxH for a while...

Going back home this friday. From today until then, I need to focus on my preparation.

To Wuhan, Dalian and back

5th (We) - Packed in the morning for this afternoon's speed rail from Shanghai to Wuhan (Under Armour event), had lunch with my colleague before departing. I'd hope to play some Overcook with her, but she was working the whole time on the train. We got front row seats, but something stank a little, and the seat recliner was broken. We arrived in the evening, checked in the hotel then went to look at the venue which was a basketball stadium. After that, we walked around a lot looking for a place to have dinner.

6th/7th - Woke up, had breakfast, headed over to the stadium in the afternoon, carried some equipment, arranged the videos here and there. Finished by early evening, and had quite a lot of free time. On the 6th evening, I cycled around the area to look for decent food, ended up eating at McD. 7th evening, we had japanese food nearby.

8th (Sa) - Was suppose to be similar to the previous days, but I got called up to go to Dalian (Mary Kay event) because they needed help with the projection alignment. After lunch, we went to the stadium, at that time they confirmed that I gotta go Dalian so they booked me a 5pm flight to go to Dalian. I went back to the hotel, rest a little, packed up and took a taxi to the airport. I arrived Dalian near 8pm, took a taxi to the venue, and began work after settling down a little bit. I redid the 3D model of the stage, and spent all night aligning the projection and somewhat finished around 5am.

9th (Su) - Went to hotel and slept around 6am. Woke up around 12pm, was told they are rehearsing and my work will start at night. After resting for a bit, I went out for lunch and took my time familiarising myself with the surrounding area. Went back to hotel, rested a while then went out exploring some more. I hung out for a bit at a nearby park, enjoyed the cooler temperature, then I discovered a skating rink close by. I went back to the hotel when it got dark. 10:30pm came, and I went to work to touch up and tweak some settings to make the projection better, involved readjusting and correcting alignment and fixing the overlap. Finished around 3am, went back to hotel and slept.

10th (Mo) - Work doesn't start until night. In the early afternoon, I had lunch at a fake cafe Man Cat, terrible ham and cheese sandwich. After lunch I went ice skating for about an hour and a half. Went back to hotel after. Suddenly, at 3pm I was called to go to the venue. I arrived at the venue, but turns out I didn't need to be there yet, not sure why they called me to go... I discussed about booking my return flight before heading back to the hotel on my own taking public transport. I spent the rest of the time in the hotel, went for dinner and back, before going to the venue around 10.30pm. At the venue, I continued to fix the overlap as well as straightening the alignment at the center. I finished around 2am.

11th (Tu) - Time for free time. I'm only still in Dalian today bc today was the first day of the show and I was told to stick around if they wanted to change anything after the first day. I headed out and had coffee and waffles for lunch. I pondered on what to do with all the free time I had till 10pm, I wanted to go to the zoo, but it was going to close around 5pm, and it'll take an hour to get there... I went to Xinghai Square instead to hang out. I found out they had an ocean park nearby so I walked there. I bought tickets to see some artic animals, and a little walk-through exhibition. After I was done, I walked back to Xinghai Square along the coast and just admire the scenery. I headed back by 6pm, had a simple dinner before returning to the hotel. Turns out there was no change needed, so I went to bed.

12th (We) - I returned Shanghai today, regretted booking with Spring Airlines since I wasn't even paying. Reached home around 4pm and was rather tired.

During my spare time travelling or in the hotel, I caught up with weekly anime and a lot of HxH. Just finished the Greed Island arc over the week. Played Undertale, VA-11 Hall-A, and Rhythm Heaven Megamix.

Aug -> Sept

This week feels strangely long, it was pretty good. I forgot to blog ytd, but it felt like it's been a while since my last post.

Last week, I remember the weekdays not being any different from usual. Perhaps the week really began on..
Thursday, There was a Nespresso event happening on Friday really far away, north of The Bund. A simple short event, work consisted of setting up 4 projections on a screen with a large hole in the middle. Lunch today was really good, at some "farmer" restaurant. After the files were lined up and ready to go, there's was a short rundown before we could go. It wasn't too late, I went home with enough time to prepare for slides for cellgroup worship.
Friday, headed out at 7am, played Tomba (not as fun) on the way. Had decent breakfast on site, and rehearsed until show time which started at 2pm and ended after 4pm. With some time in my hand, I headed down to West Nanjing, had dinner, then headed to Jenny's place early for cell group.
Saturday, I relaxed at home, had lunch, then headed out to play tennis at a court I booked, it wasn't very big and it was on the roof. It was cloudy and the air was rather polluted. Halfway, it rained a little bit, but we could still play after a short break. After that, I went over to Henry's place to shower, we ended up watching Antman, had dinner afterwards, then I headed home.
Sunday, I served in media today, sermon was about sticking to your local church, supporting the pastor and not divide the church. Lunch was at a nearby japanese restaurant, it wasn't very good. After that, some of us went to watch Mission Impossible 6. After the movie, I went home.

A change in season to come

The second month of summer is coming to an end, and I very much look forward to the coming autumn.

Mon/Tue - Work in office as usual. Tuesday was a holiday in Malaysia. Play MonHun till late

Wed - Took my time waking up, because work starts late this day and so I headed to work at an event at 2:30pm for an Award Show. Went home by 2am/3am.

Thu - Work starts 12pm, I needed to head out by 10:30am, despite less sleep, I got out of bed with some extra time, so I went to Starbucks got some breakfast and coffee. Worked till 12am, reached home and was in bed by 2am.

Fri - Work starts at 9am, so even less sleep for me as I had to leave by 7:30am. Had breakfast onsite. Good thing I had PSV and wifi to keep me entertained during standby. Show went well with minor issues. Took home a free bottle of Bailey, yay. Show finished before 9pm, and I left at 9:30pm. Went for a taco and a beer before I head home.

Sat - Relax day, played some monhun, then connection got bad, so I watch anime, caught up on a lot of HxH. Went to Carrefour in the evening to buy stuff.

Sun - Church, had lunch with YP at Benjia. Went home a while, went to Starbucks and office to do some work, finished by 9pm, had dinner with colleague, went home and watched more HxH.

Easy sunny days and rain

It's no longer as hot and being under the sun feels good instead of scorching. It rain pretty heavy on Friday and a little bit on Sunday.

Just like last week and the week before, I can't remember the weekdays. With most my weekdays ever unchanging (go to office, come home, do nothing really) it's hardly worth remembering.
I just know I failed every night to sleep on time and ended up not sleeping enough and waking to alarm feeling like crap. I just have unspent energy so i'm not tired by bed time, since I don't exercise or anything. The game I played a lot this week was Monster Hunter: World.

Friday, I went to XTD again, manage to get up early to eat at Mr. Pancake before work. One of the projector light bulb is busted, didn't take long to replace it though. I finished before lunch time, so I thought I might as well head back to the office. I took the metro, and by the time I reached my stop, it was raining very heavily, in the end, I just went home and made last minute preparations for cell group.
Evening, went to cell group early, it was MingYang's last cell group and farewell. Had beef rendang.

Saturday, spent the whole day playing MonHun.

Sunday, went to church, had lunch at QianQiu, it was also the last day for MingYang before he heads to Sweden the next day. There was a beer festival that weekend and I wanted to go, but nobody was going so I didn't go in the end. Went home instead and played more MonHun.

Bored as heck

Mon to Wed, what even is this, same old same old, the days passed with nothing to do and it's really driving me nuts how bored I am at work, no one seems to be in the office as well.

Thursday, suddenly more people were in the office (wonder where they all were) and I've been given adequate work to do, I didn't have to wait around idly for hours today. Also, I'm concern about grandma...

Friday, didn't have to go office today (yay). Went to XTD for check up on projections. We finished fast and I got to go home early and chill for awhile until cell group. I manage to somehow scrounge up an idea for a member's farewell (with help) and those who attended this night signed the farewell card. Stayed a little longer than usual.

Saturday, bored the whole day, played some Nekopara and God of War challenges. Manage to clean my kitchen a little bit (I should really call the landlord to fix the fridge). Bought the new Monster Hunter: World, but only played it at night when my friends came online, we played till quite late.

Sunday, despite sleeping late, I managed to wake up fine for church, today's sermon was about the peace of God, the key point for me is about men in the bible that chose to ran away from God and find their own solution to their sins instead of turning towards to God (Adam hid naked, David's lust problem, Jonah ran, Peter's denial vs Judas betrayal).

(I notice my blog mostly cover my weekends, because nothing frikin' happens on the weekdays, how long until I fix this problem, hmm)

Half of summer

The past weekdays, did nothing in the day, played God of War after work, mostly just that.
Friday cell group, leader is away, had fried meehoon and we watched a movie about Paul and the prosecution of christians in Rome.
Saturday, was suppose to go out or something, but ended up just doing my usual saturday shtick, played God of War until evening, headed out for dinner, bought nice footwear for the summer, checked out a photo studio but couldn't find what i wanted for someone's farewell. Bought Thumper, game is a bit too hard and hard on the eyes.
Sunday, served in media, our cell group is highlighted this week. We went to a restaurant called 1965 for singaporean food. After lunch, hung out with Gracie for a bit, she's helping me out doing the farewell for our cell member. Bought shirt and short pants. Went home and finished God of War. Played a bit of Starbound and Thumper, then went to bed.
Monday, work, nothing again, came home, finished bits of God of War side quests, played Starbound.

Super uber bored week. No work whatsoever. I wish I had some work to do or short events to work on. I somehow just got through the whole day in the office doing almost nothing. Gotta find a goal to work towards to. What then shall I do? My desires are out of line, I need some spiritual help to realign my life.