Recently...

I have been very slow in updating my blog recently. Work has been really busy, and when I get home, all I want to do is to grab whatever time I could have to do all things except to be stuck to a pc... Even though I cannot access to personal emails and many websites in office, I got sick staring at the screen during those 8 hours, so enough is enough...

Yes, work has been driving me mad recently. Things are piling up, enough for me to rush through things whole day long without going for lunch at all. Luckily that was a rare case (hopefully). N fortunately too, I am going to have a new colleague coming in next mon to share my workload... Phew... Hopefully I would have fresher air then.

Talking about rarity, I made a trip to JB last sat too... Yes, rare cos I seldom walk thru the customs just to go shopping in JB. I hate the crowds and the struggle to get through the custom checkpoints. Yet, it was surprisingly a smooth and speedy journey last Sat. I took about 10mins to get from JB customs back to Woodlands! Gosh... It was faster than going to Orchard from my house lor! Anyway, I spent a bomb there... a total spending of about S$400, with contact lens, shoes, clothes, and some facial stuff... =P

And I am on leave today to bring my dad to the eye centre for his eyes review and to set a date for his cataract removal. As he is diabetic, the risk is obviously bigger… And yes, he got lotsa hospital and polyclinics visits in these few coming months too... enough to make my brows crossed and shoot up my blood pressure... haiz...

Luckily, I got some time for myself in the afternoon... thus I grabbed a magazine, packed my barang, popped down to the swimming pool and landed myself on the pool chair... and I could not resist the water of course – I took a leisure swim of 20 laps before coming up... Finally a treat for myself...

On that note, I look forward to my diving trips this year... I miss the sun, sea and feeling of being free... To be made happen soon... *fingers crossed*...

Quote

Latin poet Ovid said

"You who seek an end of love, love will yield to business: be busy and you will be safe."

In another word, if "you are too busy for the demands of love, of giving to another person, you can avoid them by being busy. Love will give up on you and you are saved plenty of exertion. Busyness as an escape?"

张靓颖《我走以后》

V'day

It was V'day yesterday. I am never a huge fan of this day as it is certainly oversold by the marketers. Yet, I do appreciate the meaning behind all the extravagant and overt expressions of love on such a day.

I remembered how I used to celebrate this day as a "Friendship" day, giving friends some small pressies on such a day to express the love for one another. It was also a day in school where there were much excitement in the air - friends gathered in groups, giggling away while witnessing some of the foolish acts, gossiping about who was into who, cheering when a friend walked over to express his liking for a girl... Yes, sound like childish days huh? But these were all the fun and memorable times back then... We were only young once, aren’t we?

I could not remember exactly what I did for these years of V’day, yet, I have vivid memories of my 1st V’day with my 1st love... Young then, it was a simple yet sweet evening spent together.

What did I do this year? Some amusing smses that made me fall off my sofa, a dinner at the hawker centre, gobbling away the tasty handmade noodles, and then an 8km run, sweating it out together. Sounds boring? Well, I feel this is quiet and good enough for me...

Life can be so complicated yet so simple at times...

Haha

Was flipping through the Feb Female magazine over lunch today, and caught a few interesting points in an article about women and men.

And these were brought up by this author of a book about:

“Men are conditioned to obey women…” since young from Mom’s time. Just need to steer them in the right direction…

"To stay in a man's heart, you have to praise him. To stay in a man's mind, you have to criticise him" as men would love women who are intelligent, know how to think and be able to make comments…

So all the men out there, if there is a woman out there who is criticising you today, all she wants is to be in your mind…

LOL…

What the Sh*t!

I hate it when people send me on a wild goose chase, when it can be easily achieved by giving clear instructions or the necessary information/directions for me to work on.

It is a complete waste of time, trying to figure out what is next, cos I am not a psychic - I cannot read minds.

But what else can I do? I am just a paid employee, at the beck and call of my bosses, to satisfy their whims and fancies, and tolerate their nonsense and absurdity…

Irritating.