Friday, Feb 16

I am looking forward to tomorrow. Liz wants to go shopping! I want to go shopping! We are both in agreement, hip hip hooRAH!!

Let me justify myself. I need a pair of black shoes. The only one I have:

1) has grey and blue heels (and is therefore not COMPLETELY black and CANNOT be matched all the time); and
2) is four inches high.

It has arrived!

Today I have more money in the bank than I’ve ever had before.
Know what? I can’t withdraw any. Don't remember what my PIN is.
Nevertheless, it still feels good.

Wednesday, 14 Feb

I wore a Cheongsam to work today because














I was the only one in a full length one! Liddat:

This pic is quite similar to what I wore. Same colour and cut.

Most people didn't bother at all. Either that, or their 'CNY best' tak bes langsung, haha. Only a handful were dressed up in Chinese tops or even something red. I’m not complaining though, I won RM30 in Manhattan Fish Market vouchers without trying very hard. And someone told me I looked gorgeous! I’m not telling you who.

Yesterday's feel-good vibes continued today. Yay! Granted there was a hiccup last night but I shalln't ruin a perfectly good streak of happiness by dwelling on it.

Happy Valentine's Day!

"Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it." Anon

"The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost." G.K. Chesterton

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties." Jule Renard

"The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned." Somerset Maugham

"It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves." Anon

Tuesday, 13 Feb

I had a great day today.

Slept for 8 hours, got up to an empty house and had a leisurely start. No rushing and the house devoid of everybody else was still but not lonely.
Cleared away the remains of a hurried breakfast from the table. Cleared away peelings from the sink. Hung a small load of towels to dry. Heated up soup leftover from the hurried breakfast and sat down to read the papers.
The domesticity of this morning's routine (which is NOT routine) was soothing.

I arrived at work at 9.30.
Surfed the net. Replied personal emails. Found interesting sites.
Put in a solid bit of work which was fulfilling.

Had a hilarious lunch. I finally went with the Dengkil Squad to Dengkil. Before this it was anywhere but.

We discussed bedroom worship after stuffing our faces and bedroom golf on the way back to the office.

“My opinion is, based on personal preference is: A no, O yes.”

“What’s a good Christian song to…”

I laughed till I teared. We laughed for a good 3 minutes straight. The food was extremely satisfying. And cheap.

It's 3.30pm

I feel terrible.
I ate fried noodles for lunch and I feel nauseous now. Shouldn’t have taken the risk after recovering from that hurling marathon on Wed. It's another hour and a half before I can make a decent exit (I’m only supposed to leave at 5.30). God, it seems like an eternity. I can’t do any work. I just want to curl up and die.

Office Politics

Well. I’ve never really understood the fuss about it. And after my first brush with it today

I still don’t.

A lot of it seems to be like hens squawking over tiny bits of food in the dirt. And subject matter aside, bitching happens all the time. I bitch too. Maybe things are supposed to be different in the professional environment.

On an unrelated note, I went out for a drink with three of my teammates. It feels strange to be the minority.

Chinese.

Christian.

No time to go into any of this further. Leaving for the weekend heavy in heart-but it's communion service tomorrow.

Shhh...don't tell me mom!

I'm horrible at washing my dishes and cutlery at work after eating. It's usually left till the next time I need to use it again, even over the weekend. And when it's clean I don't bother to rinse it before use in case any creature crawled over it in the night. So there goes all two decades of training by my mom.

Today I've eaten:
I pack of sugared sotong
2 mini Toblerones
I meter of Sour Power Rip Rolls
I mini Milky Way
2 plates of fried spaghetti
2 'siew pau' biscuit thingies.

I think I should at least leave my Kit Kat chunky for tomorrow.