The month of July has been my busiest month ever. It was packed with birthday celebrations, promotion celebrations, farewells, relatives' hospital stay, mother's visit, GMAT, and lastly an increasing amount of workload, which I'm struggling to handle. I am really sorry that I have to cancel and miss many outings.

I did not even have time to go for my exercise for the whole of July!!! Imagine all the scrumptious food that had filled up my stomach and the minimal calorie-burning, haiz...

By the way, when someone acknowledges your presence by just raising his hand and asking you to talk to his hand, without even looking at you, what will you feel? It's damn irritating! May as well don't wave at me! Don't even talk to me! So freaking arrogant! Ok, this's random!

I'll blog more about my GMAT next time! hehe...

26th Birthday Wishes

I find these two contradicting wishes very interesting. Let me quote my parents:

Mom: "Semoga cepat dapat jodoh, cepat kawin..." (May you find the one soon, may you get married faster...)

Dad: "Maju terus pantang mundur. Semoga jadi CEO..." (Keep going, don't give up...may you become CEO...) My dad has always been very proud of my work achievements!

I think I should be born a guy, and life won't be as complicated :)

When I saw an email on the testing, which I'm supposed to inspect, my heart sank. It's scheduled on 1st July, at 23:59pm.

There are 31 days in July, which they can choose from, and how unlucky I am to get to inspect the one that falls on my birthday! And it's a Friday night!

Well, despite many responses asking me to either pretend to be sick, ask someone to replace, or tell them it's ur birthday, I replied to that email: "1st July is my birthday! Haha, but it's ok...I'll be there :)"

This morning, I was so touched when the staff replied this: "Oh really...what a coincidence! This does not feel right. I will propose an alternative date for your inspection because all human beings alike, nobody wants to be doing LSC05 Testing on their birthday!"

That email just made my day. Luckily, I don't need to feel guilty, as last minute, there is another testing, that has to be scheduled on that day, so the one that I need to inspect on can be postponed!!! :)

The moment the bonus appeared on my payslip, the amount of workload suddenly shot up exponentially. Damn!

The amount of things to be settled that I always write down at the beginning of each day just grow longer and longer since I came back. Spending at least half a day out of office daily is making things worse :(

I miss HOME!

Two days after coming back to Singapore, I booked the next flight home: 24 Dec - 28 Dec (total 2 days leave).

How can I not miss home?

My super comfortable bed

Super high-tech shower box (complete with remote control and choices of water coming out from 3 different sources: normal shower, rain shower, and wall shower!) with very beautiful roses background


KTV at any time of the day

And most important of all, my parents and my brother, whom I can always see everyday.

The more I think about my future and the more I observe what is happening around me, the more I am convinced that I can be richer back home, and not here.

I want to go home :(

I'm going HOME...back to the place where I belong!

I will be off to Jakarta on Saturday morning, attend my cousin's engagement on Sunday night, and be off to my hometown on Monday 5 am! My dad and I already plan not to sleep after the Sunday party, as we need to get to the airport at 3 am. That's how urgent I need to get to my hometown to enjoy undisturbed sleep on my new bed and karaoke-ing at any time I want! Damn shiok!!!

A friend of mine who just got married message me today, "We are going to Singapore for honeymoon tomorrow, let's meet up!"

My immediate reaction was, "Another one!" This is not the first couple that I had to entertain during their honeymoon in Singapore. And I have another couple coming in June as well. I took the bumboat along Singapore river with one couple during their honeymoon and I was there all the time to take photos and to observe their lovey-doveyness (is there such a word? haha). I even met them again when they came back to Singapore for their 1st year anniversary. Why must they always haunt me??? May all my good deeds bring good karma into my life!

With my cousin getting married in less than a month time, the conversation in the family always revolves around her wedding, especially she's the first one to get married among all my cousins from my mom's side. The only time they turn to you is to ask you, "So when is your turn?"
Standard reaction: *fake smile* full stop.

I am looking forward to go home to enjoy my new room and not really for the wedding. I could predict what is going to happen during such a grand wedding. The whole town will be there. Most likely i'll meet my primary and secondary school mates and they will be with their husband and kid/s. All my mom's friends who know me, will be there too. They will be saying these, "Wah, Lydia is so big already! Long time no see...So pretty! So when is your turn? Faster...don't wait anymore." Then they will turn to my mom, "Faster arrange for her..."
Standard reaction: *fake smile* full stop, with a strong wish that they stop talking. Oh did i tell you that all the sentences above come only from one aunty or one group of aunties? I will be listening to at least 10 sets of those sentences during the wedding night. Imagine how sucky the feeling is, you want to scream at them but you can't, you want to throw wine glasses at them but you also can't. Luckily I have mastered the skill of faking my smile such that it looks very innocent and genuine, even though my heart is crying! Isn't it cool? haha...

I promise myself that if I ever get married one day, I will always be sensitive on this issue!