Update one:

i finally celebrated halloween's. you know i'd always been envious of those american kids in storybooks dressing up and going around to have fun? i finally got to do it too, at 23 years of age! haha! yay for happening mncs!

4 days before halloween's, HR suddenly decided to have a best themed team competition and shot an email around. at first it looked like no one gave a damn coz it was the middle of the day, and we're all conservative chinese aren't we?

but one thing led to another, and our team decided to participate - secretly. and it was a huge secret, not even the MDs and VPs knew, and we waited until the very morning of the competition to sneak into the office and decorate the place. one day before, other teams were even shooting snide comments at us like 'whoa! its really scary how its so empty here!' and we won. HA HA.

pictures are up on facebook~

Update two:

i went windsurfing. i didn't know sunblock is to be applied to the face. the sun sheared the skin off my face~~~!!! Graaargh~! my face was so amazingly red everyone in the office commented on it. ironically, everyone felt i looked better this way. nooo, girls should be pale and ivory skinned! just how bad was i before? (T___T)

windsurfing was... fun... i guess... i felt like i should have gone and done weight-lifting or something before, as i kept falling off the board not because i couldn't balance, but because the sail was too heavy. and its really sad because there's another ten year old using the same sail as me.

and whenever i fall into the water because of the sail, the instructor would call me to self-rescue back - which is to lie facedown on the board and paddle back with my puny arms.

its useless. if i'd tried sailing back, and succeeded within ten attempts, i'll be faster and closer to the shore. i swear i WAS NOT MOVING AN INCH. I KNOW BECAUSE I KEPT TRYING TO GAUGE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE BREAKWATER AND ME AND I WAS NOT MOVING AN INCH although my arms were all sore from all that thrashing around in the water.

in the end a motorboat had to come and lug me back to shore because my attempts at lugging myself back to shore were too pathetic.

Update three:

Mostly because of the windsurfing - i'm sick. on monday i was horribly sick with a fever, dizziness, nausea, migraine, cold and sore throat, but i went to work as i didn't want my mom to worry. i thought it was 98% a case of dehydration and heat exhaustion and lots of water and sleep would cure it anyway, and i'll just pop by the doctor's after work.

work ended too late to pop by the doctor's, and my fever subsided with lotssa water so i headed back to work the next day with a sore throat and a bit of dizziness. my throat was totally making a turn for the worse - people can't help laughing when they hear my voice, and i was advised to take an mc, so i tried finishing up my work for the next day...

and i lost my voice. totally lost my voice. i had to write down notes for my parents to explain the situation and get them to translate for the doctor's. and as usual mum is easily flustered in front of strangers and she went 'uh... on monday she... had slight fever... umm... ummm... 27.9 degrees, and uh...' *checks note* 'a bit of nausea and dizziness...'

doctor: '37.9 you mean'

me: (>_<)"'

so i got a 2 days mc, during which i'm not allowed to talk to anyone. which is swell, because i love annoying people, and there's nothing more annoying then someone who doesn't respond. and they can't do anything about it coz i can't say anything in response anyway. my mum would be nagging from downstairs and i'll be totally... quiet. and then she'll realise i can't say anything anway and she'll stop. hahaha.

i'm going back to work tomorrow. then its the weekend again!

my company is giving out two half days for free! 

its super old news, coz this was decided way earlier on in Aug, and we must take these 2 half days by Oct or its gone.

and i finally managed to squeeze in my two half days! just before the end of Oct - guess when - 29th and 30th Oct.

yay.

Two half days (where i'll finish up all my work faster than usual before i leave) and then i'll get back just in time for the next round of month end work. (>_<)

its amazing. my vacation is two weeks away but the anticipation and hopefulness is keeping me alive. fu fu fu.

then the next bout of leave is in December. *looks forward*

just watched inglourious basterds.

i'm not a nazi, racist, facist or whatever evil-ist person, but damn Hans Lander the Jew Hunter was cool. deadly, efficient, sharp, intelligent, capable double-stabbing son of a bitch. i loved him.

the movie was fast, witty and funny, with a huge dose of gore and immorality, which made it a freaking fun romp.

what got me ticked off was the final attack on Hitler, which was really anti-climatic and stupid. or maybe it wasn't, but it was just my personal dislike for a lack of planning for important missions. a hundred deaths to the allied forces for the lack of planning. one death to the nazis for the lack of security. BLEAH YOU GUYS SUCK AT YOUR JOBS.

i can't do it better than you, but i'm sure someone with your resources could.

Once again~ Hans Lander was just too cool in the movie.

its now 2 months of 13 hour work days (although it felt like i aged 5 years). and i want nothing - nothing else but to chill at home and hug something. or go out to the seaside and stare at the sky. or make out with a cute guy. anything that'll get me away from having to think complicated thoughts.

meh i feel like a lump of meat... a cold cold lump of meat nearing the expiration date. my body shudders like a machine that's gonna fall apart any second, and my RAM is full and i'm skipping thought processes, my heart goes into overdrive with the simple act of sitting up in bed. picture this 1st generation laptop that's been left on for 2 weeks, and you get the picture. (>_<)

i am so so so gonna die before 50.

and i'm always cold, so much so that i stopped ordering the sashimi and cha soba bentou set for dinner (its fantastic, and did i ever mention that we eat sushi at least once every week), coz i'll just shiver through my dinner.

i'm so cold that i almost pounced on one of the bulkier guys in the office, who was happily sitting beside me and radiating heat like a summer heater.

i need a bolster. with in-wired heating. and maybe with arm-like extensions that i can wrap around my neck.

and then i remembered i think they might have something like that on the market - its called a sex doll (issit? i think i'd only seen those blown-up plasticky ones though). bleah.

current brain process :

needabreakwantsomethingwarmandfuzzytohughmmisthiswithdrawalsymptomsfromhavingaboyfriendneedabreakwantsoomewarmfoodneedtogetbirthdaypresentfromdadneedsomealonetimehavetolookthroughinsurancequotationshaventhadagoodwashfordayswantasunnydayoutitsmidautumnhalfthedayisgoneneedtorelaxandrestcustardpuddingpleasesighneedtogodoamillionthingsandthenitllbemondayagain

i just went to the HortPark at Alexandra yesterday. there was this fantastic green interior design showflat thingy there, with really interesting ideas.

so the next day (today) i brought my parents there.

they're real green fingers, so they're really able to appreciate it. like the vertical brackets, growing mint on the wall, the climbers, the vegetables, and we bought new plants to add to our happy family.

i got this little cactus called a Living Stone.

its mostly the name that got me, and the fact that it looks like this cute little coral - and a small flower would sprout from the middle if you take good care of it. when i got my eyes on it yesterday, no one could understand its appeal and my attraction to it. i thought it'll be a cheap $2 like all the rest of the cacti.

when i bought it today... its the price of a full-sized potted plant! if price is an indication of value, it means that i have good taste, hymph! or it might just be a case of low supply and demand... :(

i'll work hard in taking care of it~!

another thing i got my eye on was a marimo ball. firstly that's coz the nickname for Zorro was Marimo-head, secondly, its SO CUTE! where do they sell this?!