can’t help thinking of that line, y’know, that one, that goes “don’t work”. and that’s what, uh, work, feels like. it’s been so full of new things and nothings that it doesn’t really feel like work. i like that feeling. it’s like a new adventure everyday. it’s coming to an end (no, not because i’ve found greener grass, it’s because the novelty wears off), but it’s been good. i might have been pulling 12 hour shifts the past couple of weeks, but i enjoyed it. and hey, i feel like i know more about batch files now! (nothing practical though, because i don’t know anything about dos commands!)
so coming up - trip to kl and malacca. planning to head deep into the batu caves (yes, der, i’ll get past those pesky renovation signs and get wet and dirty seeing stala and staga whassernames!), trapise about buildings “of architectural significance”, climb in asia’s largest climbing gym, take a ride on malaysia’s version of the flyer, visit the zoomelaka (that’s malacca zoo in url-speak), see stuff the dutch/portugese/whoever left behind, and eat bak kut teh and chicken rice balls and authentic nonya food!
after this, i’ll have 5 days of leave left. (which i probably can’t clear in one shot until july..) anyone with any ideas?
thinking maybe, just maybe, if i can save up enough, i’ll head to finland in december instead and see santa. but i’m dreading the winter cold. any advice?
and here’s a baby blues comic, about 10 years old, that i relate to absolutely.
Categorized in Comics, rockclimbing, travel and work
am trying to e-file my taxes right now, having suddenly realised that i have only 2 days left. unfortunately, much of the working population seems to have the same inclination towards procrastination as i do, and i haven’t been able to get pass the login page. and it took me about fifteen minutes just to get that far. *sigh*
as for my resolutions, i’ve decided to scrap the “vegetarian twice weekly” plan, and to just eat vegetarian as much as possible, i.e. when my friends are not insisting on eating somewhere that doesn’t have a reasonable vegetarian meal option, e.g. macdonalds (because i refuse to lunch on only french fries and apple slices!).
in other news, i’m planning to do a 3 day getaway to malaysia with my colleagues, and a 9 day holiday to taiwan with my jc friends. the malaysia trip is making me sad because of… the complexity in planning, ala trying to accomodate everyone (and yes, i know we can’t please ‘em all, but since it’s a vacation i’d like to try my best for everyone!). the taiwan trip is making me sad because i’ve no idea if i can actually go, reason one being my jc friends have all booked air tickets except me, reason two being i still can’t confirm if i can take leave during that period of time. *mumbles grumbles rawrrrr*
there’s also a europe trip in the works, mainly centering around the fact that a friend will be on exchange to finland for the first half of 2010, and i’m angling for free accomodation and companionship to travel through the surrounding countries. and der might be able to take leave and go travelling with me! :D i’m looking at something along the lines of moscow – st. petersburg – helsinki (or wherever zx will be studying at!) – lapland – south through sweden (any suggestions, xuan?), then maybe a flight to an eastern european country (estonia? latvia? lithuania?) before heading off from moscow. please suggest/criticise/etc as you wish, bearing in mind that i’m starting in moscow solely because i have the impression that planes from singapore only go to moscow, london, and a scattering of german cities.
ps: i give up on filing my tax. hope to have better luck tomorrow!
Categorized in life and travel
errr. let’s review my resolutions:
1. vegetarians 2 days a week – for the past week i’ve had 5 vegetarian breakfasts (and one macd’s big breakfast and one skipped breakfast), 3 vegetarian lunches (admittedly one was a grab-and-go muffin with bubble tea!), and 1 vegetarian dinner (only because my mom ate up all the bak ku teh).. all in all, FAIL. maybe i should revise it to eating 2 vegetarian breakfasts/lunches/dinners?
2. shutting down my laptop on even days – done, and exceeded! i shut down my laptop on tuesday and haven’t switched it back on! however.. i’ve been surviving on the incredible battery life of my work-laptop. which i only put into hibernate mode. whoops.
3. chuck out an item of clothing – err. currently KIVed because of unexpected guests sleeping in my room. and i’ve been relegated to my brother’s room. (who is, incidentally, spending the night in camp.) will update on this.
4. to cook/roast/bake whatever – still being KIVed too… been busy this week. maybe next week?
oh yea. i went to JB yesterday! i had an overseas holiday! it included the prerequisite long journey (a bit of a jam over the causeway and a 5k ride into the depths of JB…), exciting rides (2 x 10 mins of go-karting, with one bonus skidding off the tracks!), sumptuous dinner (yum yum, sambal sotong, sambal stingray, sambal crayfish, for less than SGD10!) and being scammed by a local (.. a cab driver went off with our money and didn’t come back to pick us up).
oh yes. also had the obligatory meal at secret recipe (half-priced cakes!) - tried the pumpkin soup (tasted like mild curry, probably would taste great with white rice), black pepper lamb pie (more spicy than i could handle, but pretty good for a filler) and had a slice of chocolate banana cake (yummy as always!) to go.
Categorized in food, life and outside
it started off with an innocent dinner of crab on saturday night. i cut my finger on a piece of belatedly defensive crab shell. that’s my first open wound.
on monday i went a new pair of flats, which viciously dug into me and gouged out matching injuries on both my heels.
on tuesday i avoided shoes that will have any contact with my heels, and instead wore (a new pair of) heels that ate into the sides of my feet, leaving me with not one, not two, but three new blisters. the skin’s barely hanging on.
just now, i went rock climbing, and struggled my way through to 7 sore fingers, and one finger that left a square of skin on a particularly tough tile.
walking home made me cringe.
showering was pure torture.
(oh wait. the crab wasn’t culprit #1. some moe basketball player was. the stitches above my eye stings.)
Categorized in basketball, injuries and rockclimbing
