swamped

met up with one company at 10.30. then gobbled up lunch and made my way to tuas for another meeting at 1.30. the rain was pouring so hard i was amazed and very thankful that the cab driver could see what's in front of him, cos i certainlty couldnt. then rushed back to the office for another meeting with yet another company at 3.30. and one last meeting at 5.20.

these are working meetings. you do work, not sit-one-corner-and-pretend-to listen-but-you're-actually-dozing-off kind of meetings. these are meetings where you have to talk and talk, and negotiate, and propose, and come to some agreement between the parties involved. the kind of meetings that drain you, and make you thirsty, damm thirsty.

i'm tired. i'm swamped. my desk is a mess. and i desperately need a massage.

i'm heading home to bed. and that warm embrace.

gonzo

I saw gonzo the other day. For the uninitiated, gonzo’s this guy I went out with for some time back when I first started working. You can say he’s my first ‘serious’ relationship. Looking back, it was laughable how naïve and susceptible I was back then to even the slightest attention from people of the opposite sex. I was extremely flattered that he wanted to go out with me, and therefore ignored the fact that he was EXTREMELY brash and cocky. Puspawangi, remember that time when I was crying my heart out at your bed in the hospital because of him?? Ridiculous eh when we think of it..hahha.

So anyway, saw him having dinner with his wife and son a few tables away from me and spider. And I told spider, that’s the guy who made me cry…who made use of me to while his time away…(I later suspected that he was probably in between relationships, or his girlfriend was not in Singapore during the period)...and who just stopped calling me when he had no more use for me.

And spider asked if I want him to go up to gonzo and give him an earful or even a bashing, cos he’d do that for me. And I realized that all things, even the bad ones, happen for a reason, and I didn’t end up with gonzo because I’m SUPPOSED to end up with spider. I felt like kissing and hugging him right there and then. Hehhe. Which I did, the hugging anyway, cos cannot kisskiss in public hokay wait the makciks around will shake their heads in disappointment and lament what’s gone wrong with the young today cos we look young like as if we’re dating even though we’re married already but we’ll keep ourselves in check so that makciks wont dosa for no reason. Muakakakaka

By the way, gonzo is short. And he’s not funny. And spider looks way better than him…hahh! Ok bitchy moment over :P

moving house

Had a busy week last week. Worked on monday and thursday, took leave the rest of the days. Not to suka-suka enjoy the school hols wif spider, but to prepare the house. Moved my stuffs from simei to cg, painted the house, cleared the backyard, moved furniture around, sertu the kitchen and all the kitchen utensils and appliances….it was hard work, and I’m still recovering from it.

Had the doa selamat cum housewarming for our family on saturday. Tiring yes, but kinda fun too. I realize that I like having people over. Makes the house more lively. And we had an impromptu bbq at night...hahha!

Like I said…I’m still recovering from it all. There are tons yet to be completed, books and clothes yet to be unpacked. But you know what, I’m happy. I have my own place, my own set of rules. It comes with a whole lot of responsibilities– cleaning, washing, making sure the place is all locked up before I go to work, etc etc, but it is still MY place, OUR place, and we get to do whatever we want with it.

I’ll invite you girls over some time.

sleepy

been rushing around like mad for meetings, slept at 4 the last couple of nites, all for the event this morning. and now it's all over.

i'm happy. and sleepy. am heading home to sleep.

to puspawangi (kuakuakua)...happy belated befday girl!

the quake

the building swayed a bit, chairs shook a bit, and then came the evacuation announcement. fortunately this was just before 12, so everyone just went off for lunch.

oblivious me was too busy zipping around town going for meetings to partake of the drama, but was finally informed by the ever helpful colleagues who seized me while at lunch and warned me not to go back to the buidling becos "got evacuation one". and then i got a call from dad, who caught it on the news, and who cautioned me not to go back to the buidling cos you never know what'd happen next.

went back anyway, and i wasnt stopped. heard some more accounts of the tremors from other colleagues. all juicy yah (cos our poor singaporean lives are so lacking in drama), but i wonder if they spared a thought to the poor residents actually caught in the middle of it all. got back to my seat, steeling myself to get some work done.

and then i felt giddy, like as if a gentle wave just caught me. and then everyone around me said that was another tremor! waited for another announcement on the pa system, none came. till a few hours later. the police has advised that no evacuation is necessary, and that building tenants can choose to declare the rest of the days off at their own discretion.

which they did btw. heard of at least one tenant who dismisses their staff for the day. but not us. nooo of cos not us. the bosses were all somewhere else anyway, so no decision was made.

and so we toil in this glass cage of ours. which is thousands of times better than being stuck in the wreckage of the aftermath of the quake. i'm not complaining.

let's hope not many lives were lost.....