Heh, these mornings I have the option for instant coffee, plunger coffee or espresso based drinks (the milk based ones are pretty limited to being flat whites as I still can’t make a proper frothed milk). Still stick very much to plunger coffee as the coffee maker is a little noisy (only cause I have housemates occupying the living room area) and the stages of noise are the grinder, the pump when it presses the coffee out and finally the steaming wand (which incidentally, shouldn’t be making so much noise).

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It is the end of the year. Maybe feeling a holiday mood now, but working life is sad in that you don’t have an extended 3 month holiday for you to just unwind before looking forward to some new challenges in the following semester. I keep remembering how life’s gonna be like that for the next 40 years or so. Heh, not that I’m complaining. People have lived their lives just working day in and day out before.

I don’t know what dads and moms of today feel like with work. Do you just go on with it? Maybe at times it looks like that’s all you’ll ever be doing, apart from the weekend golf or some socialising occasionally. As you grow older, get a fatter paycheck, you tend to cling on to things more and more. There is that job security that will fund your lifestyle and you can’t just wake up one morning and decide to sell your house and give it all up to go on a world tour or something. Kids my age seem to question these things a little more these days. With all that exposure to other culture/media (it’s a recurring theme for me) and a microscope on our lives, we seem to be less content with just blending into society and being washed out. Maybe from an Asian perspective anyway.

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Heh, still just contemplating about the larger things in life. The day to day stuff you just plan as you go along.