Oops I did it again...

The clumsy woman did something stupid just before her D & D again... AARGH. Remb this Jan for HDB D & D I screwed up my nail polish cos the tissue paper got stuck on it?? Yest night, I hit my knee when climbing over low fence to get to Dad's car... and got like a huge blue black on knee. And I'm like going to wear short above-knee dress and bruise would totally show. Great. Dad was already shaking head on car disapprovingly at how careless her daughter could get ( right after I 'injured' myself) Seems like I have to do some cosmetic touch-up to the blue black patch on knee later, wasting some foundation and powder to cover up... :(

**Pulls hair**

After being largely muddle-headed the past 2 years with ppty sector jargon (but still managing to smoke way through), finally saw some light today (on one tiny aspect) after attending some seminar at URA on development control guidelines. Stuff is technically not directly related to what I do at work, but I was really keen to learn more about all these devt guidelines... Else everyone always use terms like DC, GFA blah blah and my understanding always half-baked. Well, not that I have turned expert overnight, but i mean, quite interesting to learn about existence of various guidelines. And listening to architects complain about why this this guideline must be like that :P

Most intriguing part of lecture today for me was intro on specific guidelines for landed housing/ strata and cluster housing... The setback requirements, defn of basement, attic and what-not was just very interesting to me... I suppose having lived in a HDB flat practically all my life has unwittingly given me a rather I-cannot-do-anything-funny-to-my-house mentality... When all these ppl living in bungalows and what-not seem to be able to make all kinds of modifications to their houses, "subject to approval":P . Oh well, I suppose when you're richer you also have the means to do so. Somehow after becoming more aware of resi devt guidelines in sg I feel like it will totally change how I look at houses next time! Though I also wonder if we are so strict, prim&proper (VS other countries) that overly creative proposals by owners always kena shot down...

Another morning of lecture tmr! Hopefully would not feel sleepy twds lunch though, like I did today... :P

had lunch with "long-lost" tennis coach today and am now somewhat psyched up to take up lessons again :) maybe I am just very imaginative and unrealistic, but somehow during lunch I was half picturing myself playing tennis decently some years down the road... And it was a pretty cool thought. Coach highlighted/ reminded me that it's quite possible for anyone to pick up tennis (I give him benefit of doubt that his comment was not corrupted by specks of moral hazard-ness ;P); it's more a matter of how much time and effort one wants to put into it to become good at it. The nice little chat about tennis led me to think about life in general. I suppose as with many things in life, if one is passionate enough about something, willing to put in effort and not impatient to just skip all the necessary steps to desired outcome, he/she would likely enjoy the sweet and hard-earned fruits of success. Though I kinda know this, at times it's still easy to be lazy and wish that your dreams come true without any sweat. Perhaps it's just human to want instant gratification...