i’m sure most of you have read my hubby’s “note” on his FB about our experience living in a HDB.  just thot i’d add something myself here.

i think my neighbour upstairs is rearing a baby elephant.  seriously!  i hear soft trumpeting sounds coming from upstairs that sounds like a poor baby elephant that is crying.  i hear it first thing in the morning, and then every hour or so.  and sometimes at night.  thots come into mind on whether i should call SPCA (society for the prevention of cruelty to animals) to investigate it and of course sad thots of how this poor little elephant might be lonely and missing his/her mother so much.  but then again, i know it is something else.  how in the world could anybody manage to bring in a baby elephant into their HDB homes?  on the 3rd floor for that fact?

just a quickie before my boss steps in and gets me buzzin around.

well, its been 3 weeks since i’ve had meat (with the exception of fish, eggs & dairy products).  i think i’m starting to move towards being a pescetarian.  i guess its not surprising - getting groused out so easily just by seeing the roasted/steamed chickens hanging in the chicken rice stall, meat being served to me almost raw, disliking mutton becoz of its ’smell’, and me liking to eat uncooked cabbage and tomatoes?!  my colleagues think that by being a pescetarian or a vegetarian for that fact, i wont be getting enough nutrients for my body.  and that by having vegetables alone, i am still susceptible to something becoz of chemicals/fertilizers.  of course, i wont go to the extreme of eating only organic products lah..geez!  i might as well go vegan. 

i also remember seeing a dr once and he concluded that i should take more red meat, better still pork, becoz i was anaemic!  but now with the recent swine flu pandaemic and with whats going on in the world, i’ve never been more serious about maintaining my current diet! 

go fish!

time definitely passes by slower when you’re looking forward to something.  cant wait for our trip down to darwin. i seriously need a holiday.

btw, my nails are shorter now. 

Yay!  My 2^nd entry in May.  I think I should get a trophy for the most blogs written in a month! 

So, I finally have nails!  I realized it when I scratched my head last night and scraped out some flesh – OUCH!  Guess I’ve been so busy that biting my nails have taken a back seat. Maybe I should be happy that I now have nicer looking fingernails, but on the other hand, I don’t know how to manage longer nails so much so that I seem to be scratching myself everywhere.  On another down side, my hubby seems to be taking advantage of it and makes me scratch his back more.  And doesn’t it irritate you when your nails tap tap away on the computer (or on the piano) keys?  Its high time I get it trimmed….or chewed off?  *giggles*

Come june and the following 3 months thereafter, I get to take half month off.  Instead of retrenching, our company has implemented shorter work days and we now work just half of the time.  I remembered months back how much I wanted to work at Starbucks and learn to be a barista and make wonderful coffees.  Now that I can actually make it happen, I’m seriously having second thoughts already.  Unless I know for sure I can be stationed at some remote area where I can totally be rest assured that I wont bump into anybody I know.  Ya, I admit its more of a “face” issue.  I guess the asian mentality is to always try to look good amongst your peers which include having a great job or hold some high ranking position or just don’t have any at all.  I remember back during college days, I didn’t mind washing toilets or cleaning people’s houses or wiping butts at the day care centre.  All that didn’t matter, it was just a means to get by.  And I do recall having fun doing just that.  But why cant I bring myself to learn making coffees at the most famous coffee joints?  Besides learning to make gourmet coffee, working at Al-Ameen’s along upp bukit timah road as an ‘intern roti prata’ chef also came across my mind.  Have you ever seen a lady roti prata twirler?  Al-Ameen’s would certainly go a long way with one considering that their entire workforce is male dominated.  I for one, would surely have fun working there – it’ll definitely be long and smelly hours there but at the end of the day, I get to twirl pratas! Maybe I’m thinking too much and I know my hubby’s reaction would be, “why not just google it or log on to videojug.com or youtube and learn to make one from there?”

So putting aside my thoughts of a skills-upgrading cum part time job, I’ve also been googling about hobbies.  Besides piano playing and housecleaning and occasional facebooking, I really need another hobby.  Maybe somebody can help me out here.  In the meantime, I do have some conditions before starting on a hobby.

1. it has be something that doesn’t take forever to see results.  I cant bear to work on something that wont take into form until its 90% completed.  Like crocheting, or cross-stitching.  Gawd, I’ll only end up having to wear thicker and heavier glasses.
2. something that doesn’t cost so much money.  Remember, I’m on unpaid leave for a total 2 months long. 
3. something that is mobile and that I can take around to work on.

so what does that leave me with?  Reading?  That’s not a hobby, its more a pastime.  So, readers, please help! 

xoxoxo

I can literally see time fly just by visiting my blog!

All i can say is that april was a crazy month for me.  Thank God I have such a supportive husband who doesn’t nag about when I’ll be home or when the house/laundry/dishes will finally get cleared etc etc etc

There were a few special bday celebrations this month as well and I thank God for giving my 2 dads another blessed year.  Here’s wishing them many many more to come, good health and much happiness (toast, cheers!)

So at work, we just completed our 2 biggest shows – the much anticipated Boat Asia and Asia Dive Expo.  Again, I have to thank God for keeping us strong through those trying times bcoz with what we were faced with, I don’t think us staff would have survived physically or mentally.  My company’s headcount was reduced drastically in dec-08 and just 1 month before the show, we had to deal with another 4 more resignations.  So by the end of may, we are left with 1 managing director, 1 marketing director, 1 operations director and 1 office manager.  Also, the night before the show, we had to deal with a (real) freak storm!  I wasn’t on site at the time, but from the stories I heard, they had to call on Him to calm the storm.  It had to be really something bcoz my colleagues are not that religious or spiritual.

For now, I’m just gonna concentrate on the post show stuff and pray that june will come fast.  Shawn & I just purchased tickets to Darwin in june to celebrate our 5 years’ wedding anniversary.  We’re planning on roughing it out there and rent a caravan.  I can just imagine it now:  sleeping under the starry starry skies, taking a dip in their clear waters, being attacked by joey-ies or koalas (crikey!), taking a leak in the portable wc in our caravan (I don’t know how we’re gonna manage that!) and taking turns on the wheel.  Hmmm…. Anybody wanna join us?

xoxox