I recognize that my response was a bit too much and perhaps wrong. In my defense it is a knee-jerk reaction to what was equally wrong which was the demand for an apology when… this perceived “estrangement”, if any, really wasn’t any fault of anyone of us.

Nothing queerer than people and no one queerer than queers, since it seems to me empty flattery and agenda-laced praises are more popular with people. I guess I haven’t been making myself entirely likable because this whole mess could have been avoided if I just emulated a fraction of UF’s 做作 ways, but at least I’m not pretentious like that.

So meaningless, this type of distaste, and I never wanted things to become so ugly. Just making myself look bad when I haven’t really done anything wrong initially, so short of an apology which I’m reserving for R and I think you should have one too, I am retracting my previous few angry, mean tirades.

Life’s too short and homophobes too many for wasteful anger like that.

Between a few weird “parking lot” incidents and being called irritating by someone because I didn’t invite him to a sleepover, it does seem to me that events happening of late are pretty much WTF. As much as I want to chronicle some matters, there are certain things I guess are best left to personal verbal discussions. As much as it does not seem like it, I’m actually one who does not really like ugly confrontations unless absolutely necessary.

Nevertheless I suppose blogging about things like how I find it amusingly cute that my “employee” gave me mandarin oranges for New Year can be done more often so I don’t forget what happened in my life with this poor memory of mine.

Sleaziest sentence in the whole wide world: “抓到你了！”

Wow what a crazy year!

When I was 21 years old, I -

• ORDed from the army
• Took a job that paid less than $4 an hour
• Got rejected from all three local universities
• Took a job that paid $8 an hour
• Came out to my parents
• Got contracted as a financial planner and became officially self-employed
• Bought my own life insurance
• Fell in love with Thai because of The Love of Siam
• Got my first, own non-Apple computer
• Got my first 5-figure pay cheque
• Won a company award
• Became “boss” of 3 part-timers

And now, 22 is the age life really begins!

So remember this little thing about dollar coins I started almost 4 months back? I disregarded the $2 note thing after the first few days, since I was getting dollar coins almost every day.

Anyway, here’s what I have so far!

$189!

That works out to $50 per month since I still have about more than a week to a full 4-month period. Fifty bucks just on coins alone – not too shabby.

I’m going to embark on something different soon.

Wow, has it been six months since all of this craziness begun? Half a year! I can’t really wrap my head around how fast time has passed.

I guess it is quite pleasant to be able to annotate this milestone by closing the biggest deal I’ve had since joining this industry. Very satisfying indeed, and I do hope I can maintain this to end the year beautifully and start the next one with momentum.

Through the ups and downs of working life, I guess it is really important to have colleagues who push each other on, and I’m lucky to have such great colleagues as friends.

Here’s to another great six months and beyond!