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The Wish List (in no particular order)

Mum's the word? I'd agree to that for now.

As I went past the tree-lined path near where the bamboos are, I felt something heavy-ish land on my head.

I put my hand on top of my just-washed hair, praying it's not something a little bird might have dropped post birdy breakfast.

I breathed a sigh of relief realizing it must have been one of those red flowers that have been detaching itself from the trees.

Lovely flowers they are, scattered along the paths and making you feel like a princess walking on rose petals.


Sorting through all emotions. Glad mum's back. At least we got the cooking and the house stuff taken care of for the most part. And the brother-nagging's going to be significantly reduced.

Almost time for another year-end inventory of sorts. The stress will never go away. Yes, I'm acknowledging the fact that I am stressed. Not sure whether I've been for the last 5 years but right now, I definitely am.

Major cause of stress, still unknown but part and parcel of which might be the following: 'shrink'-less existence, unfulfillment in selected areas, frustration over lack of time for 'worthwhile' activities and some uncontrollable factors - the latter I deem not worth batting an eyelash for, and ignorance on extreme emotion management.

With business-lik demeanor, all of the above should be addressed within 2007.

Off for two days and maybe a bit more... sans the world wide web, sans the computer, sans make-up, avec much needed rest, submission and just some sort of chill out where hopefully I won't have to feel strongly about ANYTHING.

CHILL-OUT...

Woo do you think you are?

Supposedly cruisy but a tad emotional weekend. Skipped the Friday night haps, decided to come back home to catch up on a little bit of film fest work and some shut-eye, enough to sustain me for the following day.

French class was fun. Had a little party during the break where people really outdid themselves - drip coffee maker, french presses, croissants, brioches, baguettes, fruit platter and punnets of strawberries, jams, cheese platter with red wine (in the morning!).

Lunch was rather frustrating due to my diet. Plan A was fruit salad, which we can hardly find, believe it or not. So I went for an undressed garden salad, asked for honey and lemon and then towards the last bite, I noticed that they've put some shredded cheese in the salad, which I cannot really eat.

Hung out at Starbucks to get my buddy to teach me some francais which he's way better at than moi, then hurried home to get changed and went to Manly. Minie's Farewell. Hope it won't be the last we'll see of her!

Met up with the gang at the wharf, headed to the beach for some photos, had dinner in what seemed like broad daylight (it's summer, it's daylight saving time). I had the most expensive, plainest steak ever.

Off to Candy's Cafe afterwards and played Monopoly - The Las Vegas Edition over tea and cakes (which I cannot eat so I only had 2 pots of green tea). A weird after-dinner activity but hey, we're getting old and not running of creative ideas! I love the Las Vegas dice! If I can buy a dozen of those, I will! Very retro.

Here forth are les photos!



Slept at 12am, woke up 5-ish the next morning. I didn't really sleep from caffeine OD but managed to rock up at the airport 7-ish to see Minie head from her airline queue towards the food court queue.

Was silly (and jumpy) the whole morning from lack of sleep and with the caffeine still kicking in. The problem is, I cannot really tell when the caffeine will kick in in general so I cannot rely on such probability to say coffee keeps me awake and all that. I just love coffee so what the heck.

Expecting to see Minie in December for her graduation. Fingers-crossed. She was emotional and I was not perhaps due to my silly state of well-being.

Grabbed Starbucks at the airport. Had decaf. Went to Gloria Jeans in Town Hall to say hi to Rosie and kill time prior to church.

Home time after church. Went to the gym, walked a bit and got some DVDs and groceries.

Went to see Revolutions last night at the Opera House. The last bit was the best. Contemporary ballet. Really cool costumes and set.

Off to Excel training today. Little holiday from work! Yay! Then three work days left.

Watched a few of the DVDs I borrowed Sunday night. French ones. I love film. And oh, I wish I am related to John Woo.

Happy Friday, everyone!

I used to be the Powerpoint Queen. Back in the days when we thrived on those little floppy disks with the little data capacity to match, they were pretty useless as one can never contain an entire presentation. If only we had CDs or USB drives back then.

Another all-nighter last night. 1:00am is not too bad, especially when I started working on it at 9pm. Take note, my loyal companion (read: PC) is kinda old and sluggish.

Thank goodness Jono layed out the presentation and all, I just had to pick some music, lay-out the soundtrack and tweak the timings a bit to match the beat (or lack thereof).It was good fun. Ended up in a massive audio file of 6 something MB for a total duration of 50 seconds. Maybe even less.

clock out time: 7:00pm. seriously!

Joy called me this morning for a chat and she was asking if I am sick. Cos I sounded DRUNK. I was groggy and that was it.

I had to run off for a high-sugar cup of coffee. No milk or soy, just your three shots of espresso topped up with hot water. Err... let's not forget the Hazelnut syrup.

Lunch was a mere 'eat-while-you-work' affair. I managed to sneak out for 20 minutes for a bit of sunshine, which was great. It's one of those days when it's a bit chilly but then the sun is quite intense. It is as if you get a choice between hot and chilly. :)

Work was pretty hectic today. My plan to go to the gym is officially canned, muchless my plan to get more forty winks but still get to French class in time tomorrow morning. I've got some work to do and I have to eat dinner. Thank goodness I didn't have to cook!

I am seriously tired. Yesterday was horrible, but today's better. Much much better. 4 days of work next week, 1 day of training (Tuesday!), ballet at the Opera House (at 25-year old rate) Monday night.. ahhh it's gonna be a short week! :D

That Sunday, Mum comes and then I've got 2 days-off work. :D