MIA - Updates!

Hihi!!! I'm back!! Miss me?? *muahaha*

Yay i will be able to update my blogs and msn and icq more often! Soon!

no no there hasn't been a change in the company Info Security policies. but *drumrolls* i'm getting WIRELESS ACCESS @ home soon!!! *does a dance* oh finally.

Have been extremely busy lately. So moral of story is: maybe i shudn't have complained that i had nothing to do. cos truckloads soon came my way!

By the time i get home - LATE (but i don't leave work very late. Somehow i just get home quite late. Somehow something happens to the time in-between. and don't ask me about the French classes, it hurts.) I'll be too tired to bother logging to the virus-bogged desktop to do anything (i still love my lappie, but it's pathetic dial-up only for now). I actually have to ASK my bro to log me in the desktop, cos somehow HIS desktop profile works perfectly fine but all other profiles, no matter how many i create, always hangs. So anyway, here's to greater online presence! hopefully :)

It's been good  For the past few weeks till the end of the year, it's good! Cos i haven't had a complete work week in some time.

- 4th week of Sep: took 1 day leave for Sentosa

- 1st week of Oct: country company orientation whole friday at hotel

- 2nd week of Oct: took 2 days leave for short getaway. simple stuff la. bats and lizards and squirrels and sandflies and all.

(then attended bf's colleague's wedding luncheon on sunday, where he was swordbearer! cool stuff!!)

- 3rd week of Oct: country MA teambuilding whole friday

- 1st & 2nd week of Nov: regional training. stay-in. although this year kena in our own sunny little island, still get to chill (okie la, maybe not so chill) in indiv hotel rooms!

- 1st week of Dec: compliance leave cum holiday in HK!!!

- 3rd week of Dec: Christmas!! *la la la* ahem

You noe what i simply love?? the end of the day, when i record my "away" voice message, set my "out-of-office" email, close my in-tray, such a thrill!! haha. addictive.

Btw i'm blogging now cos i'm so sick of my complicated relationships... with excel...

okie actually the real reason *shhh* is in retort to jouste's complaints about lack of updates - pls refer to sunday's blogs - it's a justifying kinda thing la. muahaha...

P/S: btw i always change my mind and edit after i submit my blogs. Do you guys get multiple email updates on the same blog then??

Rules of Taking Lifts

As we grow up, we learn the necessary social graces and etiquette. Among these (unfathomable) rules lies embedded the Big 5 Rules of Taking Lifts:

1) The moment lift doors close, all conversations are to cease immediately.

2) Avoid eye contact at all times, for it will either lead to conversations (not allowed) or awkward silences and shifty eyes.

3) If you happen to be holding a book/paper, be deeply engrossed in it. If not, bring a book/paper next time. Or take out your mobile to sms. Or just rummage in your bag for something u can't seem to find (and decide it's not worth finding once you step out of the said lift).

4) For lifts that happen to be fitted with Bloomberg/TV Media screens, conscientiously try to catch the news events, never mind that fact that you step in after a story has commenced and rush out before it concludes.

Yesterday was a very happy day. I did something that I've been longing to do for the longest time:

1) I took leave (mid-week!)

2) I went to the beach with bf

Much of the excitement was in waiting in anticipation for the day to arrive – proudly displaying my little twin stars "closed" sign on my in-tray, informing various people (to help me with my work), setting my email out-of-office notice, etc.

After a long and hectic Tuesday, I finally stumbled home, and defiantly declared to mummy that I'm taking leave the next day and DON'T wake me up.

Wednesday morning, I comfortably snuggled into my comforter thinking what a glorious day it's gonna be, when a slight tinge of guilt crept into me. I felt bad for not going to work, almost like skipping class! (But at the end of the day I decided that taking leave is so addictive that I feel like doing it again, and again, and again... not that I have many more leave days... sigh)

In short, the sun was brilliant, fluffy clouds drifting lazily across the blue sky = perfect day! Bf actually rented a car for convenience, jetted over first thing in the morning for breakfast and a bout of grocery shopping, and helped with food preparation (shredding chicken real patiently... heh). We drove to Sentosa and had a lovely picnic by the sea (I stomped my heel on an ant and it splattered blood all over… ants have blood??) then shifted to the beach for sun-tanning. It was actually too hot. A dip in the sea and some hours later, we washed up and had a nice little sip in a café. It was chill, chill, and chill the whole day, topped off with sumptuous dinner at Dan Ryan, then to NUS to watch a couple of IVP matches.

I had a perfect day... thanks baby  *touched*

okie, i shall succumb to peer pressure (cos i have many great ideas but too lazy to blog them down )

Currently Playing The Reason By Hoobastank see related

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Which Child Will You Choose?

As I read on about the recently ended Russian hostage crisis, I feel so sad. Reading about how they put bottles of water as memorial symbols cos the children were left without water made me sad. It's all well and good for me to say I'm so sad I'm so sad, then go about my day as usual. But there's nothing we can do about it.

Last night as I walked home along the dark pavement through the quiet estates, there was a young boy in front of me. He was on the phone, presumably with his family, who wanted to make sure he's safe. It struck me how fortunate we are, to be safe here. I always felt this way when I travelled around the Europe on many occasions, but promptly forget when I return to Singapore (here, the whole slew of complaints start). I imagine what an easy target this young boy is. A person can just run from behind him, snatch his phone and run off... or worse, grab him, stab him, rob him, and run off... and no one would know. Incidentally he stays in my condo, and upon reaching, I felt his relief as he looked up and waved enthusiastically towards his living room window. What a warm and fuzzy feeling...

So I suppose what we can do here, indirectly, is to appreciate the security of our system and land, and contribute in our own way towards maintaining it, for ourselves, for our children.

If you are bringing your 7-year-old girl to school, carrying your 2-year-old toddler in your arms, and meet these terrorists who allowed you to take only one child away with you, which child will you choose? Will you ever forget the cries of the other child? Will she ever forget?