Christmas is Coming!

By next month I will be packed with work and celebrations. I must make conscious effort to bring my camera along to capture those important moments. But most importantly to also enjoy the moments at they come.

So far, work has been pacing quite well. Making the effort to not let myself be stressed when there is not a need to, and of course when there is a situation. But sometimes I actually worry when I do not really have challenging work to do. Would this become normal as compared to the job at the previous department? I do not know. I am slightly daunted with the idea that once I get comfortable, I would not be able to handle a situation that is out of my little box.

Which reminds me, I have been relocated to another cubicle. I am now closer to the rest of my colleagues and away from the really cold zone. I say that because one of two assistant managers I have, loves a cold office. She sets the temperature at 16 degrees celcius at high fan speed. Previously I happen to sit within this zone, exactly inside the four 'walls' of the centralised unit. Brrr.

So now, being away from it I do not have to worry about catching colds and flexing frozen fingers. Interestingly, there is a pillar just at the end of the partition making it part of the cubicle wall. Due to this, the walk way into my cubicle is narrower. Plus I arranged my workstation in such a way, it is U-shaped with the desk in front of me, a long side table and a cabinet behind me. I have aptly named this workspace my Cube-y Hole. It just lacks some pillows and a blanket. ROFL.

I am going to personalise it soon. Unfortunately I do not have the ideas yet as I am now 'busy' with all the coming events, outings and celebrations. Roadshows and Open Days, a couple or so birthdays, a couple of weddings to attend and Christmas, are the things occupying my mind. On top of that, I have also been planning to get a car of my own, looking at replacing a really broken but temporarily fixed handphone, plans to purchase the original Windows 7 at a discounted price, shopping for dress(es), prepping the current condition of my hair for a new hairdo, purchase a new Christmas tree and setting it up, and thinking of ideas for Christmas presents too.

How excitingly busy. But I am so enjoying all these *smiling with glee*. So looking forward to Christmas. I am already thinking of the colour scheme for the new family Christmas tree. I think I am ready for it. Are you? :)

What Am I Thinking...?

While waiting for the food to be prepared on Cafe World, and seeing my blog looking so miserable with nothing new, I thought I could write something.

So I am thinking out loud what I want to write about.

But I have not anything to talk about.

No, I am not in a real cafe waiting for food. It is one of those games in Facebook. You spend a big amount of time waiting for something to happen while you do some other stuff. They call it time management. They call it multi-tasking. You still wait. After awhile I just give up. Like Restaurant City. I think collecting stuff or materials in WoW sounds more exciting all of a sudden.

Wait.

So I changed my mind.

I will stick to the girlie stuff. Though when I think about girlie games, in my opinion, I am reminded of games for or the actual PSP or Nintendo DS. In which case I have no interest in. Come to think of it, I do not have a good reason why.

So scrap that.

Okay I think I prefer games that have fast multi-tasking time management. Like Diner Dash or Farm Frenzy. But those are almost no brainers.

So I am an idiot for saying.

I think I need some form of escapism since we are at it. And when I think about it, it is either reading, watching TV or shopping. Now that is girlie *wink*

Crap. The Chips and Guacamole just went bad.

Great. I still do not have anything creative or constructive to talk about. I guess that means I have many things of the real world on my mind that are hindering me from writing. I am unable to 'escape' from them and pour out my creative thoughts here where I write to only satisfy myself and not care if a soul out there reads this.

I think the next best thing is to put up pictures to enhance this post.

But I have not been taking any pictures either.

Back to square one.

Gah.

When There Isn't Anything Else Better To Do...

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
Karen Casey

We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.
UNKNOWN

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made in love.
1 John 4:18, the Bible

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
Abraham Crowley

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Cyril Connolly

No man is worth your tears, and when you find the man who is, he'll never make you cry.
UNKNOWN

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
Mother Theresa

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
Mae West

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius

Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King

A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better than steak with someone you hate.
Proverbs 15:17, the Bible

The one who loves least controls the relationship.
UNKNOWN

Love just doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

One heartbreak is like a thousand lessons. Loving again is learning them.
Sandra McKendry

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
Anais Nin

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we love not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is
essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein

Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery

If you love someone you would be willing to give up everything for them, but if they loved you back they'd never ask you to.
ANONYMOUS

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.
Mignon McLaughlin

...let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
1 John 3:18, the Bible

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
Ralph Connor

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting.
Todd Ruthman

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

...A simple I love you means more than money.
Frank Sinatra

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you' re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU... The one who turns to his friends and says, thats her...
UNKNOWN

The couple that fights the most is the one most in love... it shows they care enough to notice the other one screwed up and care enough to mention it to the person so they can fix it. When you stop fighting it means you stopped caring.
Shawna Waltemyer

Don't let someone become your everything, because when they're gone you have nothing!
Kenya Mitchell

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Theresa

I get the best feeling in the world when you say hi or even smile at me because I know, even if its just for a second, that I've crossed your mind.
UNKNOWN

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Theresa

The bravest thing that men do is love women.
Moht Sahl

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Fuller

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 Corinthians 13:1-7, the Bible

Twittering

9:00 am - wooo...arrive at the office on time. No traffic! Wahhhhhh!

9:05 am - hungry -__-

9: 06 am - la la la la~ oops. wrong password. thought how funny it is that today i did not open my facebook first right after opening the company email. Har!

9:09 am - staring at pile of papers on table. flip flip flip. move move move. open drawers. shuffle shuffle shuffle. bleh. what was i doing again?

9: 23 am - nature calling

9:25 am - damn hungry. see what i need to do first. oh yeah. fuck. 4 tasks to complete. must remember to print the design and bring home. wooo...can't wait.

9:33 am - fucking hungry man. must go already.

9:40 am - Om nom nom nom...butter bun. Eee...quite greasy lorr. Teh tarik kurang manis. (silence)

9:42 am - looking at Meebo. The person(s) i want to chat with are not online. Thinking about my gfs going to have a ball in Bangkok soon. Why i am i here ar?

9:45 am - Tappity tappity tap tap tap. Read read read. Flip flip flip. Tappity tappity tap tap tap away.

9:50 am - just told by colleague that my boss wanted him to assist me in my attempts at completing the task by today. Gee...how nice of the boss. Pooit.

9:51 am - thought of writing these thoughts on Blogger as though it's Twitter. LOL.

9:59 am - this is cool. i wanna go gym. nature calling round two. ergh...wait wait

10:01 am - long sip of teh tarik. (silence)

10:05 am - okay go go go

10:16 am - wtf did i ate last night?! oh. yeah. dragon fruit. eh heh.

10:16 am - and i said romeo save me they're tryin to tell me how to feel is this in my head something something something oh is this is in my head something something pulled out a ring and said marry me juliet you never have to be alone i love you and that's all i really know i talked to your dad go get yourself a white dress it's a love story baby just say yes oh oh....oh oh we were both young when i first saw you. whee...

10:31 am - left comment on bro's facebook thread. LOL!

10:43 am - Fatt sun king! Long time no use

10: 49 am - thinking about Japanese breakfast...damn it. eggs...eggs...aik. udon in the picture!

11:35am - wonder what my name is in Japanese. Hmm....

12:16 pm - tapau!

1:10 pm - Dry Pan Me. Awesome! Bleh. continue work

1:43 pm - Yay! Level 23. Aik...cannot hire anymore. Damn

2:42 pm - lifting weights by carrying a stack of study materials. Need to do some workout on the back today. Roar!

3:31 pm - Yay! Pneo's online <3 finally...

4:14 pm - meh

4:20 pm -bitching to my colleague about the old lady sitting at the front. can't stand her. everything she does gets to my nerves. and i just remembered one incident that is so icky. YUCK! she made coffee for the boss and she taste-tested it. later she added stuff to the same drink and used the same spoon to stir and taste-test again! argh!

4:45 pm - yummy! Seremban xiu pao... ^_^

5:13 pm - OMG. I finally finished the task. can go home soon! and go gym!

5:49 pm - what the...they bleeped "beer" from Beyonce's If I Were A Boy on the radio

6:54 pm - gym time! shit. left the padlock in another bag. how ar?

6: 59 pm - Used my spectacles to "lock" the locker. i so smat

7:55 pm - Hmm...don't see Pneo and Tatsumaki. Wonder if they're still playing the game...

8:02 pm - sms from Pneo said they just arrived. okay...i'll enjoy my shower then

9:00pm > - found Pneo and Tatsumaki at the towel counter.
- off to dinner at KFC.
- hmmm...wonder what the Cheezie Chickeroni is like? Aww...no Jelly Ice Cream, shucks.
- The Chickeroni is "Eeee". Making my own would have been tastier.

11:01 pm - just took measurements for the dress making. hope i'm doing it right. Pneo is still at it. Don't know how much longer i can take this... but only 2 more days to go though...boleh lar

11:27 pm - tomorrow need to work. better to sleep soon.

11:33 pm -Roger Out.

Up in the Gym Just Working on MY Fitness

During this Raya break, while the boyfriend is busy with his mates playing a new kind of MMORPG called AIon Online on Open Beta now, I am writing on how better looking my biceps are today.

Yup, 'gym time' is on steady motion now. I just met up with a trainer at Celebrity Fitness today for the first free session out of two. I learnt how to use some of the basic machines that would be of use for reducing/toning the lower body, enhance/strengthen my upper body and discussing how to better improve my abs workout while reducing my back problems. Next week, will be the second session where he will teach me more stretching, some other free weight type workouts and some other thing I forgot. Looking forward to starting what I learnt today for the remainder of the week.

Meantime, nothing much has been happening since my cousins left. Shopping has come to a halt as I have gone over the budget for the month. At home, the nagging still continues. Other than being more lazy with keeping the desk clear and bedroom tidy, things are so far so good. I just hope it continues that way for the time being while I get the ball rolling on the workout regime and have discipline in the tidying and washing department again.

Work has been consistent at the moment ie boring. However, I will need to get back to my boss on my decision. At this moment I am assisting in the local accreditation for the department, assisting my boss in ad hoc projects, plus helping out my colleagues in the operations and/or academic side. Now, on top of what I have mentioned I need to take on one more responsibility and that is either marketing of the programmes or managing one of the programmes in the department. I still have not decided as I do not have enough information. It sucks to make your decision based on gut or feel sometimes.

Also, my friends are pretty excited about their upcoming weddings - one in December and the other in June next year. We are in the midst of choosing the right theme colour for the bridemaids' dresses for the June wedding. December wedding is not that far off either and I hope that work will not be in the way then. December is peak season in the higher education line. I am still looking for a dress for the December wedding. I just cannot seem to find what I like at the moment. Fingers-crossed that I could find something before the end of November. Yikes!

Before I go off and continue admiring my arms, I would like to wish my Muslim friends Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, maaf zahir batin! To the rest, enjoy your holidays! Till then take care all and will write when there is anything interesting.

*Flex some muscles*