so today marks the last day (for a while at least) i'll be having the bed all to myself. he's away the past few weeks, and i must say that it's been liberating. a fren said that it's akin to being single...minus the desolation that accompanies those who are lonely. we are alone, yes, but not lonely. do i make sense? nevermind.
strangely enough i've been deprived of much-needed sleep these few days. strange because i'd expected to sleep even longer since i had the luxury of space - me the puny one on a queen-size bed(!)...yeyyy! but yes. the tv and the net were too distracting...and so i allowed myself to be distracted by them. have i mentioned that youtube's addictive? make that potently addictive. and it doesnt help that the football matches were all shown at ungodly hours....
speaking of which, i'd never thought there'd come a day when i'd be supporting isr.ael in a match. and i didnt! i did 'not support' russia, i did want russia to lose, but it's not the same as me supportig is.rael ok. same same but different. i stayed up to not support russia, and in the end, i was rewarded with england being kicked out? thanks. so whats the point of me staying up all those nights again?
and so now i'm severely deprived of sleep, and i'm still here. i HAVE to get rid of my panda eyes so that i'll look ravishing later today when i pick him up from the airport, but i'm still here! it's a big mistake having your laptop in bed - or at least thats what the experts say...something abt not doing any non-sleeping activities in bed cos yr mind will be conditioned to not go to sleep even after you're ready to sleep cos you're in bed and being in bed = doing your non-sleeping activity
ok now i'm rambling. i have to sleep!
oh but before i go a shout out to the top psle student wif the highest score ever in the history of the psle...woohoo! you go girl! melayu boleh!
ok i have to sleep. nites!
sleep
the latest it bag
speaking of all things green, fancy carrying this bag about town?
going green
this wasnt inspired by the go green movement thats been in the news recently, but ever since we've moved to cg we've been separating the plastic bottles from the glass ones from the paper carton boxes from the metal cans from the rest of the rubbish in our kitchen trashbag - our very small contribution to making this world of ours last that little bit longer
(sidenote: i find this a bit hard to reconcile initially cos we all know that dunia akan kiamat eventually so why go thru all that trouble to stop the inevitable? and then i realised that just because something's inevitable doesnt mean that you cant do anything to make your life and the life of others better. it's just like dying - we all know we'll die someday but that doesnt mean we go around trying to kill ourselves. hmmm ok my attempt at explaining's not going anywhere. back to topic..)
it helps that the recycling bins are close by. every once in a while we'll trudge down to the bins wif the various things and the pile of newspapers, and we'll often get curious stares from patrons of the food centre beside which the bins are located. and very often we'll find the bins empty. either the recycling companies have been very diligent in clearing the bins, or people have not been making use of the bins.
IF people have not been making use of the bins, i can understand why. it's really no easy feat separating your trash. as i'm writing this, there are 4 empty coke bottles, 2 olive oil glass bottles, 1 orange juice carton, 1 milk carton and 1 pasta glass jar waiting to be disposed. they're all sitting 'nicely' beside my waste bin, and they make an unsightly mess. there are times when im tempted to just dump them in the bin, and i've done that on a couple of occassions. so, recycling is hard work.
a japanese friend we know was happily showing off her rubbish chute when we went for her housewarming. this rubbish chute is similar to the ones found in hdb flats, you know, the ones wif the small door covering a hole that leads straight down the chute. "you just open the door and throw yr rubbish!" she said gleefully, demonstrating this by throwing a piece of tissue paper down the chute. and i tell you, she was deliriously, positively, happy about it.
it was all very amusing, but we couldnt understand why. then she explained that back in japan, they had to separate their rubbish (it's a law or something). in fact, the rubbish collectors would even refuse to collect your rubbish if it's not separated. which was why she was soo happy wif the rubbish chute - throwing rubbish wont be such a chore anymore!
maybe rubbish throwing has been made too easy for us singaporeans. perhaps if we had been MADE to separate our rubbish, it'd be second nature to us and we wouldnt think twice about recycling.
we'll continue wif our 'hard' work. hopefully it'll be second nature to us some day.
it's been crazy
there are a million and one things left for me to do, i've yet to upload the tons of photos from my camera, and yet i'm here, offloading. hahha
its been a crazy couple of weeks. at work, we had this huge event that never failed to give us a major headache every couple of years. and preparations started way before, wif reports to be done ad nauseum. what have we done the last few years? what will we be doing the next couple of years? and more importantly, how will doing all these things help WORKERS?
it's easy to be carried away by the numbers game, but it's hard sometimes to know what it was you're working towards cos it's all so macro and big-picture. i yearn for the time when i could do what i do best (at least i think i'm very good at it), which was....getting down and dirty fighting for the common man. the satisfaction is immense, and you dont have to do reports and projections for that. you just do your groundwork, fight your fight, and move on to the next case. will i ever be given the opportunity to go back to this? chances are..nope...cos they need specialists...and being at the wrong place at the wrong time kinda made me one.
and then of cos there's the hari raya visiting, and receiving visitors to our place. it's been crazy cooking for them, tho we're not complaining cos we love feeding our guests. but since there's only 2 of us, you can imagine how crazy it's been. have i mentioned that it's crazy? hehhe ok thats like my favourite word of the moment.
anyways..the other day as we were leaving the house we bumped into a few 'unearthly' creatures
since many of my neighbours are foreigners, they really got into the whole halloween trickortreat thingy. i know halloween's not exactly our thing, but it was fun seeing the whole neighbourhood transformed, wif candles and pumpkins and cobwebs and skeletons and witches and monsters running everywhere...heee