normal weekday, tennis weekend
work was as usual.. nothing really exciting.. nothing really non exciting.. i'm starting to get used to things though.. talked to more pple, went out chilling with my colleagues, settling myself in and finally understanding what my job scope was..
weekend was as usual too.. enjoying the break the weekend gives and learning to cherish every moment of it to do the things that is necessary and the things i love to do.. played squash and love the thot that i'm exercising.. i seriously need to have some weight loss plan.. finally understanding what i have to do to get my visa.. which i realised that it was an entire list long.. played my computer game.. watched prison break.. too bad wire in the blood got postponed :( but i read my book though should be finishing it tonight.. slept a lot a lot a lot.. haha
well the rest of the time i watched tennis.. :) and i juz came back from watching federer win!! on clay!! haha i think one of the best sports games to watch is tennis.. coz it's always so close and so exciting.. but federer did it this time.. and i have to say that he deserves the win tonight.. well i watched him and nadal at the semis and din really have the same thot yest.. but today he was way too good and for once i truly understand why he still remains his title as the Great Roger Federer.. though i was starting to doubt his ability to maintain that title after he started losing quite a bit.. but it was really great tennis.. so strategic and so intense on the mind and the body.. i hope he does that too in the coming French open.. haha maybe i should really get down to getting my US open tix.. and i'll remember to wear red for him on that day :)
eventful week
i should be sleeping now, given the experience i had for the past week of being part of the corporate world.. besides squeezing into mrts and trying my best to maximise sleep and minimise probably of being late, it is about making efforts in the internship to stay busy and not bother my supervisors too much for work.. trust me.. having work is always better than having no work in my case.. i spent the first 2 days juz plain reading.. and that was the most painful experience i have ever had.. i have never been so desperate to anticipate the arrival of my laptop, which finally meant that i could quit pretending to be busy when there was absolutely nothing to do, and relieve my guilt of always being the first to leave the office on time.. fortunately people there are understanding and friendly, and i have a fellow intern as company, which allowed me to survive what i call the lost 2 days in my life (with respect to the lost decade for japan haha) what followed was work which i was so happy to receive, and spreadsheets after spreadsheet of data to analyse.. so it wasn't as idiot proof as i thought.. well i proudly used some of my IT skills i learnt haha.. macros! saved me some effort really.. but i believe there's a whole lot to learn at group audit.. as much as it may sound accounting it actually is equity fx and interest rates everyday rather than financial statements.. well it's all too early to say, and indeed i have to admit that i still don't really noe what is going on..
work aside, i was really really grateful for the weekend.. precious weekend really for everyday free time seemed a luxury.. dunno how corporates actually survive.. i wanted to juz stay home and sleep my weekend away, of course considering that i am a person who needs plenty of sleep.. but friday was great with wire in the blood surpassing itself episode by episode.. saturday was great though i had to wake up early for a handover for my cca.. had a good exercise playing squash and i felt so much healthier after which, without the aching i expected to have.. followed by a great dinner! watched nadal-davydenko tennis match which was extremely rewarding.. and slept almost the whole morning away.. it is always the best thing to sleept without having to set the alarm clock.. woke up to watch prison break 2 haha was interesting and exciting looking forward for the next episode! started preparing for mother's day present when my mum went out.. haha no one can guess what present i gave to my mum (upon her own request.. she's really good in demanding her own present haha) went to to mel's birthday party!!! haha happy 21st birthday mel really enjoyed the decorating and talking and ice creaming there though it was short.. went home to celebrate my dad's bday.. yes it was indeed eventful for me.. and finally i gave my mum her present with one eye coz i couldn't remove the contact lens from one of my eye after the umpteemth attempt.. haha so i was techincally spared coz my mum was more worried abt my eye..
reluctant to go to sleep now coz i wanna play my computer games and watch tv.. but i noe i gotta go sleep.. fortunately i'll be on a course tmr so it doesn't demand so much attention i guess.. but i hope it'd be rewarding tmr such that i could finally find out wad's going on around here.. :) the start of another hectic week for me.. i believe this week will be better in terms of work.. and finally i understand why people say that the life of a student is always better.. i muz learn to cherish that really..
peaceful disaster
disastrous day with a peaceful ending.. tt's probably a good description of today.. the last few days have been alright.. shopping watching movie spending a lot of money.. haha.. prob what people do when they are free involves $, so i spent more than the past month in juz 2 days.. heh :)
the sign to a bad day is waking up realising ur handphone batt is flat and that u have not much time to charge it.. so i smartly brought my charger down to the breakfast area to make sure i don't forget my phone when i step out of the house.. well the story is of course that despite all my efforts, my brain didn't exactly cooperate..
my mood hasn't been really good ever since i permed my hair and din really like the way it turned out.. and today i wanted to dye it hoping it might look less ugly.. and then the hairdresser refused to pick up my call today to let me noe if she'd be there.. alright.. i had to go to the area anyway coz i needed to pick up my contact lenses.. and considering i did not bring my phone my hairdresser couldn't even call me back to let me noe she was in the shop already.. but anyway luckily they managed to contact my mum to tell me and i was there happily noeing that there was a little more hope with my hair then..
great.. i din turn out bad but my mood din really change for the better coz i realised it looked very much the same overall.. after spending $80.. hoping my new contact lenses will make me happier, i went looking for my optician.. great.. my optician wasn't in the shop and he would only be there in an hour's time.. and i had an appoitment with a friend which couldn't spare me that one hour.. my mistake.. i din give him a call and assumed he'd be there as early as his shop opens.. i noe i couldn't spare next week either coz i would have started working, i could only juz hope that somehow i could makedo and end up there next week after work or sth..
wow.. that wasn't very much of a boost to my mood.. so generally i was grumpy and annoyed.. went to look for my mum and dad preparing to go for my appoitment.. i spent the morning without contact lenses looking like a perfect auntie with my permed hair and spectacles because i had to rest them for the optician to check the curvature or sth.. and yes the minute i put in my contact lenses the optician calls my dad (again after failing to contact me on my handphone) and lets me noe that he was there already.. frantically realising i could still make it if it were only gonna take half and hour, i rushed over to the optician again and got my new soft disposable contact lenses.. checking my eyesight was always saddening.. esp when new lenses don't correct astig.. sigh..
new lense, new hair, i realised i would be slightly late to meet my friend now.. great.. the best i could do was to rush there asap.. without a phone.. ok my fren called me 5 times.. my fault i noe.. i couldn't apologise more.. but all turned out well fortunately.. i was a happier person after shopping.. it's perhaps very seldom that i actually buy clothes myself.. and when i was about to buy an office wear shirt.. i had to be out of stock.. haha but that din really dampen my mood that much la.. so i felt like my day was gonna turn out better..
happy shopping, then realising when i got home that i could settle more stuff for exchange like tix and accommodation.. i got happier.. realised a way to make my hair nicer.. i got happier.. well it turned out everything went quite my way in the end.. and it had to be that i realised i don't noe how to remove my lenses.. ok i'm a hard lens wearer since i was 12.. so that's 10 years.. and suddenly telling me that i had to touch my eyeball to pinch out my lenses.. that's like.. ok i don't noe how to do it.. by the time at night i realised my eyes were extremely dry and soft lenses din feel as comfortable as it sounded.. fortunately my bro juz happened to come back home and helped me a great deal over there.. really fortunately.. otherwise i might be spending the night attempting to remove my lenses and being the first ever person who is unsuccessful in that..
a disaster averted with my family's help.. really glad to have this day reminding myself again the importance of them all..
