千九百八十二： Spring!

Grom in Firenze, Italy

The weather has finally turned warmer! But I blame myself for being lazy, even though it's almost bright & sunny everyday, I'm just filled with too much inertia to go out for even a walk. Ryo has been working late the whole of this week, which makes it even harder to go out by myself (just because I'm feeling too lazy to) and eating all meals alone is not fun. If there is only me in the house, I'm very lazy to cook something proper, and alot of meals seem to be leftovers from Ryo's breakfast (miso soup & rice) or instant noodles, or canned food. or sandwiches meaning bread with peanut butter or kaya. I lost 1kg easily this week, due to the lack of meat or the smaller than usual meals I guess (>.<)

It's Friday, which means it's almost the holidays :D Next week is Golden Week, with Public holidays on Monday, Thursday & Friday. There's a holiday in Singapore on Tuesday which means I also get to relax (& wake up at my own time) so effectively only Wednesday is a work day. Even though I have no plans for going anywhere, I'm just happy to have time to myself and not be stuck at home to the PC (again, it's just laziness, I can bring the laptop out to work but zzz, it's so hard to find seats at starbucks that have a power point). Ryo has to work most of the days though, which means I have to have my meals myself again bleahz ...  but maybe I'll think of something soon.

I feel like having an ice cream everyday, or should I say I've been eating an ice cream almost everyday, which explains the Grom picture. I feel like having Grom! Maybe I'll go have some Grom this weekend as well. I need to check if the chicken rice set at tea time at the Singapore food restaurant is really available. They should offer for lunch instead of teatime! What an irritating timeslot - 3-5pm, too late for lunch & too early for dinner.

Starting on a new project this week, which is really a headache with the piles of documentation to wade through. But at least I can't say I have no work to do. Although I'm just trying to finish up the crochet pouch in the meantime. It's taken me 6 months + (including the winter months where I just gave up on it because it was too cold to hold the crochet needle); maybe I can finally complete it in the coming month.

Will be going back to Singapore in June - looking very much forward to all the food & also the Jason Mraz concert!

千九百八十一：Travelling is not for Everyone

LV window display

I'm very much done with negativity from other people. Especially family members. All they do is complain about other people or stress me with stuff that isn't going to happen in the next half a year, and all I want to do is scream, SHUT UP! Why are you always criticising other people? It's not like you are perfect yourself, and we don't find every single chance we can to criticise you behind your back right? I really hate such hypocritical behaviour, how can you smile at someone in the face one moment and behind her say this and that about her??

I'm really glad to be back on my own this week, enjoy some peace in the house and my ears can take abit of rest. I don't want to join in those complain sessions, I get my TV and couch back and at least no one tries to boss me around in my house. I must make it clear though, it's not that I don't enjoy company; I highly look forward to friends or family coming over and visiting, but some actions are really too much to take (eg. loud proclamations of "oh it's so easy to navigate around I could have done this myself (because I make it look easy & all you did was follow me)", or reaching places of interests that I've planned and then refusing to go in because it isn't free admission (which pisses me off because you make me plan and then you come sightseeing and you don't want to go in?!), or telling me to stop because I AM TIRED when actually you are the one who wants to rest and then after that boast about how energetic you were this trip (because i planned lots of rest time in between?) etc etc. ) I mean, the trip is over, but it wasn't enough to complain during the trip, you had to call me after the trip to complain again about the other party, about money, about how I should stop showing people around because it costs me money to take trains / sightsee with people. I got really angry there. How petty can anyone get?! It really sickened me to hear such words coming from someone I'm related to, I take people around because I want to, who counts those expenses as expenses anyway?? After the phone call, I felt totally depressed and exhausted.

Apart from the negativity, all the sightseeing was quite good because I went to quite a few places that I haven't been to myself, and also managed to see sakura at several places. Caught up with my cousin, had some of mum's cooking and got a bit of break from work. (although now I need abit of a break to rest from the break) Golden week is coming up (hopefully that will be a break). Although if I could go to Hawaii or Phuket now I would be very happy as well.

千九百八十：Thoughts from the iPad

Recycled plastic bottles at the Marina Barrage 

 I'm watching the Twilight movies for the very first time & it's quite captivating so far. The movie adaptation is quite close to the book (maybe it's because it's been years since I read the book so I can't really remember). Overall it's strangely romantic, and unexpectedly violent when they killed James.

 Also realised that some things are just better done on the PC. The blogger site is formatted a little strangely on the iPad and its alot harder to type.

OK I'm now continuing this on the PC because it's just so much easier. This week feels super long. I went for 2 hospital visits on Tuesday which turned out to be a good thing because we were indoors during the typhoon-like storm. We had planned to go to Sannomiya for me to do my work in a cafe but ended up we had no time. Which was lucky for us, cos it was flooding very badly. I'm having headaches daily, I don't know is it from lack of sleep or just headaches but I must try to sleep in tomorrow until i feel that I have had enough sleep.

I realise I have alot of photo editing to do! From last year that is. I had so many ambitious plans to create photobooks from our travels but nothing has been done yet.

& I need a break! i want to go for some spa treatments! I can't wait to go back to SG actually.. even just warmer weather will probably make me feel better.

Yawning like mad now.. & thoughts are not really flowing properly. Rambling a little.. will head to bed I guess..