mended shoes

now im wearing the 4th pair of shoes i mended in the past 2 weeks... (actually 3 were mended by uncle at People's Park la... last one i did it myself....) and i love the feeling of wearing a nice pair comfortable shoes... no more "opened mouth", no more worrying abt trippings... somehow it beats buying new pair of shoes... 1stly, it might not fit that well, even if they fit when u tried them on... but after some time, who knows.... 2ndly, money, time, effort...to get a new pair....

i had this pair of track shoes for a couple of yrs already and they 1st "opened up" on me after i used them for an adventure race last june, ever since then i haben got down to fixing them.. the tear got bigger day by day, after more walking, running, climbing, cycling... and one session of mud-playing... soon the rubber sole is starting to come off... oh shit i better do sth abt this fast...

we allow small problems to slip thru our fingers while we deal with "more important" matters we haf on our hands.. little do we realised that when problem r small, they r usually very much solvable and it won't take up too much time, and perhaps juz a little bit of effort... however most fo the time we'll juz let the problem go, thinking that small things like these don't matter, forgetting that the point of weakness is made, and things will start to accumulate...

my teacher in college used to say tat i procrastinate a lot, that's the 1st time i heard of this word btw... she said i've great plans, good ideas... but slow in putting them into practice.... which boils down to not having any thoughts at all...ya? it sunk into me i guess... has become part of me... thou im still procrastinating once in a while, im conscious of it...

if things get really lousy, so much that u find that u cannot fix it anymore, perhaps it's time to get a new pair of shoes... u'll need to take some time to browse the shelves, try on some which u think may fit, and perhaps get disappointed a few times... get pekchek with cheaper prices elsewhere if u haf already bought them.... of course, unless u decided to walk everywhere with ya slippers.... play tennis with sandals... go marketing (market buy fish) in heels.... we haf to move on eh...

was on the phone with an ex-gf (while i was at yb's place!!).. she was juz rambling abt things at work and her life in general... wasn't having an excellent working relationship with her colleagues.. internal conflicts, misunderstandings... etc etc... perhaps bits of politics.... seems to me like things are getting kinda out of hand... and it's not going to be easy to "undo" wad has been done... so now it's either she juz sits in and wait for things to get better... or juz to move one... elsewhere... (wad can i do? afterall im juz a listening ear...)

oh lucky i nv buy new mp3 player from IT show ah!! my creative muvo tx fm gave me some problem in the past 3 days.. "file system error" showed up when i tried to power it up... managed to fixed it with numerous formatting and downloaded updates and firmware... finally got to the right solution... hehe... now it felt like i've got a brand new player in hand... of course...with a new playlist... well i did say formatted... lucky i nv jump into easy solution ah...