11 books for $62 is yeyyness. 3 michael connellys and 2 anita shreves…among others. am nursing a huge neckache from looking down too long at the books lined up on the floor. heard someone saying “they could have spent some money on tables”. was in total agreement there. not that that’s driving people away. in fact i’ve never seen so many ppl at the mph warehouse sale before. must be the start of the hols. drove round n round before i managed to get a lot. i’ve totally fallen in love wif the mockingbird so i bought it the moment i laid eyes on it. it’s a steal at only $5. have i mentioned that i’d bought 11 books for $62? hehhe

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was discussing my little germ of a business idea wif my brother a while ago at simpang. it’s seldom that we get to spend time together. the other brother joined us soon after. just the 3 of us. my brothers are older now. we all are. more mature? i think so. smarter? hard to tell...but i think yes! :P

spider got a book by richard branson just last week. something called ‘just do it’ (or something to that effect). very inspiring. like most motivational books. i’ve got many concerns, like how do i even get started? and where am i gonna get the money to pay for my current lifestyle right now? it’s hard to give up a stable income for something unknown. i don’t know. i want to do it, but do i have the guts, determination, and patience to see this through?

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so…i’ve given my 2cents worth on the hustings. managed to throw in a criticism (or two) in there, but i wished i’d said more. anyway, the whole session was thought-provoking. i sometimes marvel at how confident and sure of themselves the powers that be are. they’re thoroughly convinced that they hold all the answers. nothing and nobody else would do. i don’t get that. more on this later.

i’ve done zero exercise over the weekend. time to hit the pool on monday!

don’t know the correct way to wear a condom? i’ll give u a step-by-step pictorial account, wif live demo (just the condom, not the other main prop) to boot. cant rein in yr libido? practise safe sex then. anal sex without condom carries the highest risk of hiv transmission. theres something to be said of a young (ahem) virgin of a girl addressing rooms full of people about the birds and the bees. its funny weird. its even weirder when i’m referred to as the ‘aids girl’. hahha. people are mighty impressed wif how i was always able to put on a straight face. but hiv is a serious issue. and its amazing the misconceptions people still have about the virus.

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had a blast catching a sneak preview of this yesterday. streets ahead of mi3 if you ask me. didn’t read up on the plot beforehand, and boy i was in for a few surprises. i’m not too sure if i shd watch da vinci code though. tom hanks as the lead? errrrrrrr definitely not my first choice. heard that they’re gonna be doing a movie adaptation of angels n demons…i’ve always thot it’s a better book than dvc...

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thot i’d ‘up’ my literary quotient by reading this. which is a really good thing cos i absolutely enjoyed it. why’d i take so long to read this huh? i really shd hv followed my heart in jc…but instead i took the ‘practical’ step n studied science instead. had the chance to ‘redeem’ myself in uni…but again i copped out. coward.

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june’s approaching. i’ll be one step closer to 30. been taking stock of my life for some time now. been shackling myself wif chains of my own design. time to break free. to hell wif the wat-ifs? just do it? why not. been toying wif an idea. might just work. hope i have the guts to just do it.

in the meantime, am supposed to give my 2cents worth tmrw on the hustings. how truthful can i get without being un-pc? delicate balance there :)

spa-ing wif dearest mum

was great great great. she’s not had a massage since she had my brother, which was like 21 years ago? so this was a definite treat for her!

what we had…..

balinese urut
skin rolling…long kneading strikes…foot massage…heavenly
lulur
lots of kunyit and rice on my skin…which feels weird…but the extra massage that comes wif putting the scrub on me is nicenicenice
yogurt wrap
was wrapped in this thermal blanket kind of thingy wif yogurt...but i was already in lala land so didnt recall much of the experience
scalp treatment
wasn’t expecting this actually…but it’s apparently part of the package
shower
loved their shower!

the whole experience took us abt 2 hours…for a mere total of $196!

wayan anyone?

day off

took the day off yesterday. might as well claim it since i was in no mood for work. am still in no mood for work…but money’s got to be earned, and bills have got to be paid. so….

so yesterday was my day wif the swift. i like! driving around in a manual is such an accomplishment for an auto-pampered girl like me. n it was quite the ride..zipping here and there doing this n that. first up…. bishan to send him off to work. next…jalan besar for some bit of swimming. although it was damm hot and glaring like mad (its 1230 in the afternoon..what do you expect??), was glad that i did it. haven’t been swimming for the last few weeks, and the inertia’s getting to me. so….swimming is good.

picked up runie from school n headed off to town after that. spent some time picking out a few tops from john little. even went to the extent of trying on a few for size. happy with my choices, i headed on to the cashier, only to realise that they’ve got this $5 voucher thingy for cardmembers, which i didn’t bring of cos since i usually ignore those mailers (you know..the ones from dept stores, banks, the like). so cheapo me decided to forgo the tops and come back another day with the voucher hahha. an hour wasted for nothing.

then had late lunch at macs centrepoint. asked for double fillet without the cheese. got a double cheeseburger without the cheese instead. which is weird. cos why on earth wd one get a cheeseburger without cheese?? wouldn’t it be better just to order a hamburger?? hmmmmm

dropped off runie somewhere else in town, and headed to hsa. i had absolutely no idea how to get there, so was relying entirely on my instincts. which served me well i must say cos i didn’t make a wrong turn anywhere n got there without any difficulties whatsoever. yeyyy! :) am super proud of myself (then again how lost can one get in singapore rite? hahha) i think the nurses at hsa are less experienced? cos i didn’t recall experiencing so much pain (ok that’s stretching it a bit. lets call it discomfort shall we) the last time i donated at one of those mobile exercises they had. this time round, i took so long to fill up the bag, and the nurse kept apologizing to me for the ‘bruise’ on my hand. i didn’t realize what she was talking abt til i see it this morning. there’s a bruise alrite! but anyway, i must say that the refreshments given were better at hsa than at those blood mobiles. plus blood donors get to park for free there! not bad ah

next on the itinerary…bishan again to pick him up. then CG to freshen up, before going adams to makan. then off to suntec for mi3. which is just too loud n explosive if you ask me. the story’s ok lah…but i wish they had lesser effects.

so…that’s how the day went for me. thanks to those who called to see how i was doing after reading my last post…u know who you are :) i’m doing alrite now. we’re only human wif human flaws, and i’ll do my best to improve and make things better. as for my dearest cousin, we miss him terribly. and his family’s still receiving visits from frens who’d only now gotten to know that he’s gone. but life goes on. and all we can do is pray

of sweat and tears

it’s been a while. the last few days seemed to be the longest in my life. filled with sweat and tears. i’d expected the sweat. but i didn’t expect the tears tho, and they came fast and furious.

the sweat..
now that the hustings r over, i can breathe a sigh of relief. i never thot five years ago when i had to do this, that i would do the same thing again five years on. it’s crazy, and demotivating. but yes, there i was involved in the hustings again. except that this time round it was much much more physical, and much much more intense. we were nearly running the whole show, which was ridiculous considering that we were not even residents there! then again it was not surprising, seeing the ‘calibre’ of the leader there… i would not even be doing this if not for the fact that it’s part of my jd. so….what to do….just do lor… i sure hope i wont be around in the organization when it comes to the next hustings tho…

the tears…
it’s heartbreaking if someone were to tell you that he’s just not that crazy for you any more. what do you do when that happens? do you give up and call it quits? or do you work at it till he changes his mind? but what about the hurt? how does one recover from that?

more tears…
my dear cousin passed away on po.lli.ng day. rushed to the scene as soon as we heard..after subuh. seeing his body there just broke my heart. and breaking the news to my aunts, uncles and cousins is something i hope to never repeat ever. but this is life, and those living now are bound to leave us sooner or later. all we can do now is pray, hadiahkan alfatehah to the arwah. may he rest in peace, insyaallah.

i’ve cried so much i thot the tears would have dried up, but still they came. it’s hard work not to just wail out in agony, but that is something we MUST NOT do, so all there is to show for the searing grief in our hearts are the tears that kept streaming down our faces. before dia dikapankan, we took turns to bid him farewell, taburing pacai on his face. it was heartbreaking seeing my grandfather, who nearly collapsed out of grief. to think he had to bury two of his grandsons….

tomorrow wd have been his 20th befday. to arwah hafiz, semoga rohmu dicucuri rahmat, amin ya rabbal alamin...