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Random Ramblings

 

Thursday, November 24, 2005

I've been hit (on)

My day today, ended pretty badly. I shall tell the tale of one of the reasons why it went downhill (when it started on a pretty high note).

Due to my meeting at my normal lunching hour, I hurried down to a nearby food court-like to grab a quick bite. This is the conversation as I remember it:

Food shop aunty: Wah, less cloth. So sexy you dress.
Me: err… *tries to get her to take the money*
Food shop aunty: Very good, your body very nice.
Me: *grabs food and walks away really fast*

It’s not like I eat there once a week – I hardly buy from that stall. In all the time I’ve worked in this area, I doubt we have exchanged more than 50 words (outside of me ordering food).

This aunty hitting on me (in my opinion) was just beyond belief. I was so shocked I didn’t know how to respond at all. Should a friend of mine, who I knew fairly well decided to say something like that to me, I would have just laughed it off and with her/him. But if you don’t know a person, this is highly inappropriate. I was so utterly uncomfortable… looks like I’m not eating there anytime soon.

 

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Days pass by…

Days of supposed importance, days that have a special significance to me, days which remind me of certain things in my past – all seem to be floating by without much ado. Have I become numb to the days? No, I don’t think so. Now that I think back upon, I wish I had done something or was able to do something.

It feels like I’m just monotonously going through the days of my life – with no feeling or thought; which really scares me. Where is the passion, the drive, and the hunger that I have (or has it become used to have)?

It doesn’t help that my friend is half way across the world and it is like this huge gaping hole in me. It’s really hard not to have the person you can talk to best around. You feel like you are missing out on each other’s life and no matter what, letters, phone calls, online messenger and emails will never make up for.

The end of year is approaching and instead of gaiety, I’m feeling this huge sense of dread. I haven’t really enjoyed the season I used to love so much for three to four years running already. Will it change this year? Or will it end up the same as the other significant days this year?

 

Sunday, November 20, 2005

To a few of my dear friends…

To the one who bought panadol and brought it all the way to my place coz I was sick as a dog and pretty much immobile.

To the two of you endured my whininess, stubbornness and your hunger when I was just being utterly difficult for nearly 6 hours.

To the other two, who help solve my cake craving at such an ungodly hour.

THANK YOU!!!

I really did appreciate it; whether or not I was capable of showing it at that very point of time.

 

Friday, November 18, 2005

Living with kids

In the place I rent, there are now 3 kids – of which one is my goddaughter I mentioned previously. The toddler girl (hmm… at what age does kids stop being a toddler and become a child?) my landlord is looking after for now.

In the past week, I feel I’ve been pretty short with her – I can’t even be sure why; if it’s the fact that I’m just completely worn down and therefore have no patience to handle her or if it is just my tolerance reaching its end.

I really shouldn’t be blaming the child; she has grown up previous in a place where the adults didn’t really care for her. In some way, she is created as she needed to survive there.

But it really does test my patience at times…

 

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Rambles on insane week

It has been a crazy week. Feels like 2 weeks worth of work all compressed into one. From cleaning up after people at work, a big meeting on Thursday with screw ups before and a full day launch on Friday – where I was running around in heels the whole entire day! – I am so beat. Finally I managed to get some time to unwind on Saturday – it was great to be able to not have to worry about the launch or work for those few hours. Thanks so much guys, I really appreciated the laughs, conversations and company. :)

To lift my drooping spirit, I decided to go shopping and have my favourite laska for dinner. Although it was two stops away, achy me took the bus to spare my ankles – which are cursing me right now. Dinner was a slight disappointment; the laska is not as good as it used to be - the activities after which perked me up a little.

I went shopping (tho my body said I shouldn’t) and got myself an amazing pair of boots! It’s not CFM boots – but I think they are really really damn fine.

I also passed this store which some of their clothes caught my eye – I even tried on something. But the sales assistants were so darn pushy I couldn’t stand it. As I was flipping through some of their tops on the rack, I saw 2-3 items that I swear belongs in a sex shop or something one would wear for Halloween. So darn scary.

I think I’m getting old – my body cannot handle the pressure I put it through anymore. Though I lazed around the whole day trying to recuperate from last week; less than two hours out and I’m so beat. My feet are screaming in pain, and my body doesn’t want to sit up.

Anyone wanna give me a massage?

 

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Busy busy busy little bee

I've so many things I want to blog about - this sudden urge to write is fairly overwhelming. Unfortunately - between work and outside stuff and friends (of which some of them have been solid pillars due to my circumstances) - I am very worn down and have hardly anytime to write. Quite a few of the subjects are kind of out of date, but I’ll see how things go and if it makes sense to write about it.

Today was quite an amazing day – from watching people play paintball (not being able to join in really irritates me) to catching the teaser campaign for the Star Wars exhibition where a whole bunch of dedicated fans took a march from Far East to Ngee Ann City library in full Star Wars costumes. I took tons pictures today and my camera battery had to die at the most inopportune time so a lot of the pictures I took with my friend’s camera. Now I’m patiently waiting to get all the pictures!

 

Saturday, November 05, 2005

A kid’s life

Last week, I saw my goddaughter after a few days or more of not being able to see her. Every time I don’t see her for more than a couple of days, she looks so much bigger – she seems to grow so fast.

This time, she finally can hold her head up for slightly prolonged periods of time. When I was happily playing with her, she looked right at me and smiled, which turned into a giggle. She is such a sweet little one at times like this, yet when she starts to cry, I just want to run as far away as possible. Counting in my pretty bad day, that just made everything paled in comparison.

Just the other day, it was my baby cousin’s birthday and I even texted my aunt to see what time I could call her but by the time came, I completely forgot. I didn’t manage to call her until yesterday. Now I’m going to plan a time to take her out during her holidays.

Anyone up to take some kids out?

 

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Quip of the day

Speaker 1 - It doesn't count as it’s flying, until the kite is above your head

Speaker 2 - See there are advantages of being short