Updates
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!