I am Thompson Boy

Weekends are great. It gives you a chance to recuperate and rekindle tides with your loves one and leaves you very a little time to indulge in those things that must be put aside for most part of the week in the pursuit of an income. I must say that however invited the weekend rule must be applauded indeed though the Sabbath or rather Sunday has always been commissioned as a rest day since the Bible time and Saturday is a welcome addition indeed. Having said all that, sometimes you just feel that it’s just not enough. No matter how long or how very often you come to it. Or in my very own case, how much I love my profession, a break is always welcomed and indeed sorry when it concludes. There’s always the usual to do but someone must be brilliant to say that time indeed passes by rather quickly when you are at ease and enjoying yourself. Sundays are like a ritual for me, hardly go out but will spend most of it in front of the telly or in bed. There will be meals in between and then ...

As I was having my instant noodle the other day even though it was late and I shouldn’t be eating, a thought came over me. It’s not often that I managed to reach home before 12 (if not work then it would be drinks) but I did so a nice little supper is in order and the menu of the night would be chicken flavored instant noodle with an egg, the yolk abit runny. That’s simplicity to me. Simple happiness found in a bowl. Simplicity is about having two slice of hot toast with thick butter spread across them and as it melts, you crunch into them and taste the slight bitterness from the burnt bits and the salty velvety texture from the butter. Simplicity is also about having two nicely and evenly scrambled goldenly yellowy eggs that is neither too runny nor too dry. A teeny spread of them just on top of a small piece of toast with butter is just pure basic bliss. Either that or some half boiled eggs seasoned with ample white pepper and soy sauce and you just dip your crunchy toast into them. ...

So this is what I've been working so hard on. Anyway abit update on the casting. I was shortlisted and apparently the director wanted me very much but I don't look Chinese enough for international market. Truth to be told, Malays has mistaken me for their race and Chinese speaks to me in Malay so that's life I guess.

Oh, so little time and yet so many things to want, buy, do, touch, lick and do whatever your heart desires and though it has been said many times and again that life is short and unpredictable so one should make full use of it before it ends just like that, a lot of us will wait. There’s always tomorrow in our mind and somehow something is pushed for next week. Or next year. Or when I reach 45 or when I start earning 10K per month. Do we think that we are almost invincible? But we go around buying insurance and get things like that prepared but what is the use to all those things when you are six feet under? Not to be mistaken for a depressing post but rather a delightful one as I reflected on the past few weeks about how fortunate I am to be in the state that I am and doing things that I’ve never thought possible or even thinkable years ago. I had the privilege to embarrass myself recently when my group celebrated the boss’s birthday by going skating. So I was far from being air...