IT’S MONDAY LAH…… nehnehpok.
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This is what went on with my boyfriend and I today.
M: snow is greatly overrated :P
There’s a difference between the regular crazy cleaning I do, and then there’s the annual spring cleaning that I do.
It’s the period of time – the week before chinese new year – when my family gets on their edgiest in terms of their tempers, getting this big flat of our’s cleaned to look reasonably presentable to our visiting guests.
While M says my room (while at its messiest) looks like a room to live in, I think it could do better.
I don’t like new year’s because it means I have to hide out in my room while the rest of my family busy themselves about while I clean my room – alone. I get no help but then my room is rather big and super messy for one person to live in, my parents understand my need to do things at my own pace whenever spring cleaning comes along.
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MacRitchie walking, just past 3.5km
This was my outing at the reservoir. Every place in singapore is NEVER too far from civilisation. Just look at our reservoir trails, they’re all paved with tar and granite. We’re pampered, much?
the persian table carpet
This is the persian table rug my colleague Joyce gave to me. (: I had my keys and my phone placed on it actually, but for this picture I took them away. It’s preeeeeeeeetty, right? :D
I strive for pretty things to beautify and make my day. Nevermind that I have terrible days – everyone has them. I’ll look to the better days.
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TODAY IS SUNDAY.
Meeting up with zach later. gaaaaaaah. haha. he’ll bring his monster camera, i’ll bring my credit card sized one and we’ll go take over the town, us two.
We’ll take tonnes of photos for the sake of capturing moments and uh, nonsense that ensues? yes, yes. That’ll do.
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M got his jacket stolen! >_<
He was so bummed out by that. I would be too, if I had to walk around with just a shirt on (of course with pants and shoes and gloves) but still, no winter jacket?! In all of 2degrees celsius?!
Whoever stole his jacket is really a jackass. :( I HATE YOU, JERKWHOSTOLEMYBOYFRIEND’SJACKET.
We were skyping over the phone pretty late last night. I can’t remember half the stuff I said. >_< I hope I didn’t say anything silly. hahaha :P
The hilarity is that we’ve been dating so long right (a year plus) and it’s mostly been long distance. We only found out skype has the best clarity when we’re doing voip calls. Like, really. All I need now is enough data for my plan not to exceed with the calls. :P Or that my battery doesn’t die on me half way.
Anyway, gotta run, i’m supposed to be out like now.
eeps.
tata!
Anne
I love Wednesdays.
For the mere fact that it’s the symmetrical day of the week in the gregorian calender, it is mid-week. Central to the rest of the days. I like balance, because I am nothing like balanced. XD I take comfort in balance.
Anyway, yesterday was good, it was busy and it was hectic. It was also trying. Cumulated till today, stuff at work, actually.
Because for the love of all things positive and good, I had to take such a stupid attitude to my job today. Some of my colleagues have taken me for granted – that I should be stupidly happy about right? It would mean that I’m in total demand right now, just that they’ve decided I should continue doing a particular thing because I’d been seen once doing whatever it was that I was doing.
>_<
To make complications simple, I sort of asked for it. I feel ungrateful about it now. Even though I felt exceptionally shitty and crappy for having to deal with back and forths, side stepping this and that, the additional workloads and all, I should be grateful for having the work given to me. Perhaps I am asking too much for perhaps wanting a nicer tone, a nice voice, a nicer way of things said to me.
I have to rein myself in now and remind myself I am no longer a child; I am an adult, so, the older people will talk to me as such. I just won’t stoop to their level and talk to them the same way.
Reminder to self – more work is always good. (: means you’re in demand.
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Other work related things to talk about?
:D
Well, there’s been these two adorable little souls. Bless them, they’re the cutest, most adorable little children. EVER. They’re the monitors to their class, and their names are Damien and Audrey and ohmygoodnesssssssss takbolehtahan lahhhhhh~~~ You hardly watch me squeal over kids no matter how cute and well-mannered they are. HARDLY.
This is your one lucky moment to watch (or rather, read) me squeal away like the fan girl I never am. :P
These two cute adorable children came in yesterday and today asking me for papers. Blank papers. Blank ‘4A’ papers (they meant A4), for their class.
Boy: “Hello.”
Me: “Hello.”
B: “Good morning, teacher.”
Girl: *loud whisper* “Oh yah.” *giggles* “Good morning, teacher!”
M: “Yes, good morning children. How can I help you today?”
B: “Uhm…. We need some help?”
M: “Okay, what do you need?”
B: “Our teacher sent us here…”
G: “To get some papers!”
M: “Alright, follow me, come!”
They were running behind me, because I walk too fast haha :P
M: “How many do you need? Just one piece? or 20?”
B: “uh, oh nooo.. I don’t know! how many? 25?”
G: “25 meh? I think 28?”
B: “or 25?”
G: “Maybe 28. I think we take 28 first?”
B: “Ok, 28! Teacher, we need to lend 28 pieces of paper from you!”
hahaha and I was standing next to them while they were having their conversation. Cute, much!
M: “Just 28?”
Both: “yes, just 28!” (haha too cute for words when you have kids beaming up at you like they’ve just struck the best deal of all times)
Anyway, I passed them the papers and they thanked me while still beaming and then looked at me quite lost. :P They wanted me to split the papers into half so each of them could carry the same amount of paper! :P I couldn’t say no to that, they had me wrapped around their pinkies by then. I’m such a sucker. :P So I gave them half each and sent them on their way with their “Thank you, teacherrrrr!” and “Bye!!!!” very happily. hehehe :P
They make my job so worth waking up to. : )
They dropped by today, and again, they politely requested for more ‘4A’ papers. :D haha I corrected them to request for ‘A4′, and gave them 30 pcs this time, because there wasn’t enough yesterday.
I even found out their names. So at least, if they drop by tomorrow, I know how to address them. :D cute, much? very VERY CUTE, much!
I must take a picture of them when I get the chance and keep it in a folder in my laptop. : )
They reaaaaaaally make my day.*gleeful smile*
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Oh, we had a hike today. Treetop walk with the staff. For staff bonding and all that.
It was great fun, since we were exercising (happy endorphins are love love lo-o-ove) and catching up with each other like friends normally will.
I had alot of fun on my trip there. Didn’t take too many pictures, but I’ll post them up when I can get some time.
In any case, the happy part of my walk was at the end of it, when a colleague came up the bus, bearing news to me that I have been much talked about during the walk – because I’d be leaving in about 2.5 months (and like I said, I have my work cut out for me) and the words that made me dissolve all frustrations I had this morning came sounding like this, “Anne, you were much talked about just now! The rest of them are saying that they’re missing you already..!”
I had quite a shock hearing that, because I’m not even gone yet, how can they miss me already? I’m not dead, still quite alive thanks, and I’m still at work everyday unless I get sick with this really bad cold (like since after christmas week till 2 weeks into the new year) but I’m still at work either way.
:D
It’s not much of an ego boost as I’d thought I’d feel it to be – sure I feel good that they miss me already, but more importantly :) I feel really touched by the fact that they talked about me, discussed and decided collectively that they’d all miss me starting right now. Aw man, I miss them too, right now. (:
It’s infectious how good moods can spread. It’s infectious how bad moods can rage. It’s scary to know that I’m easily affected by moods of anyone. But I react and I want to keep only the good stuff. (but it’s karma, isn’t it? To feel ying, you need yang. To feel the love, you have to have some bad moods.)
It’s what the chinese call ‘因果报应’ karma.
So, tomorrow I will go to work with a smile, take nice pictures of people for the display board, and go about my day positively.
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Yesterday, mom found this reaaaaaaaaaaaaally old post card. (:
It was the postcard my dad sent to my older brother and I when we were 5 and 3 (or 6 and 4), while they were on their honeymoon, in Europe.
This was sent from Paris. :) This actually sparked my love for receiving letters. and postcards, and anything in the mail, in general.
From Paris, With Love
I want to visit all these places again again again (: (one of my colleagues thinks otherwise. she says I HAVE to go to barcelona. ‘totally skip out on paris, i’ll give you the lowdown and 411 on barcelona!’)
Love, mummy and daddy
haha My dad is waaaaaaaaaaay cute. :P Reminding us all the way in france :P way to go, daddy-o!
But this is the stuff you’ve gotta keep you know? It’s things like these that make everything worth while. :)
When I’m in norway or wherever I go, I must remind myself to send out some postcards to every destination I hit. Sure, emails mean I can attach the photos I take, but, you don’t know a thing about postcards, you young people. This is nostalgia at its best.
When your computer dies, photos won’t remain. When you die though, your postcard? That will remain.
Decide. (:
Love, much.
Annnnnnne
