Home early

Today I was home early from work. However early has evolved to take a meaning of leaving at the office at 8+pm.

Crazy eh. I used to feel that my day has streched too long if I stay beyond 8. Now I feel, eh, not bad. Bad Bad.

In a way, I cannot wait for these 3 mths to be over soon. Then I be offcially doing stuff I am paid to do instead of being in the training phase. 3 mths, 4 mths max. The though of an extra month is tortorous though.

I forgot that I left work early today, I should have made a trip down to get my hair cut. Now, looks like I have to wake up early on Sunday to go cut my hair. Its too long and out of shape.

You know what, I need some gelato now. I have grown out of eating ice-cream unless they have a gelato kinda quality. It has evolved to the state where if you put a tub of Ben' and Jerry beside gelato, I am not sure what I will choose.

Its a rich man's world.

I was going to blog about how great it was to have Fridays feel like Saturdays because this means that we have 2 more days of rest.

But, while waiting for blogger to load, I checked my bank account and got a little depressed. My insurance payment is dued this month and that adds up to almost a thousand for both my mum and I. The problem is I have done my usual transfer of money to my savings account and I barely have enough to pay from my normal account. Confusing eh. Well, like most people I have 2 accounts to make finances clearer. It distresses me to think that I have to transfer money back to my normal account. That would equate to not saving for this month. It makes me mentally imbalance.

Anyway I saw this ncie dress. It wasn't exactly a snug fit but I could still wear it without alterations just that I have to be extra carful not to expose my cleavage too much. I would have bought it if it were much cheaper. I initally thought there was a 15% discount but apparently this dress was in the excluded list. Why do nice things always have to cost so much.

I'm so happy, oh so happy today....

Really so happy...

It’s the happiest day in my worklife since I started work!
Why? Cos I skived!

I skived! I skived! I skived!

Before you prejudge me as someone who finds every opportunity to skive, I don't. I do my fair share of work, just that sometimes things plateau and your morale is on the low side, it feels really good to skive.

I did not work the whole day at all, although I did check and reply my emails when I got home.

I bought a cinderella skirt. Its a green skirt with purple trimmings. I was wearing my $5 coat white singlet today. Pair it together with the green skirt and I look just like cinderella singing while doing her household chores. I will wear for you guys one day. Its the longest skirt I bought. At knee length - even longer than my school uniforms.

I went expo for the bookfair. I love books. I bought Life of Pi, The rule of 4, Black Beauty, The Orange Girl, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Douglas Adam, Alice in Wonderland at $39 in total. Lovely.

I reached home at 6.30pm. Imagine its wonderful. Usually 6.30pm marks the start of the 2nd shift at work. The evening sun was so warm to the skin. A lovely kind of warmth. I took in the sights and sounds as I see office workers carry food home, smelly school kids with their mums. Its really lovely. Although I did wonder how the office people actually manage to reach home so early. I conclude that to have a healthy lifestyle or in fact to have a life, you should be out of the office by 6 and indulge in other stuff. However I do not think that will happen at my workplace.

Also in between, I manage to try on some dresses for all the weddings I have to attend. Nice dresses but so ex, so I am on a wait n see mode. The irritating thing is most other girls wear the same size as me and the dresses get sold out so fast. The dress I saw was really nice, in fact it was featured in the SFF recently.

Oh, the best thing was. I was actually sitting on the bench in front of the shops waiting for them to open at 10am. I went in immediately after they opened. It was a wonderful feeling. No queues at the fitting rooms and all the service staff at your attention.

I was smirking at I made my home at 6pm when I saw all the office people start their shopping.
Oh, so happy. Really.

STM?

I have just finished re-reading catcher in the rye and it really is a lovely book. I read it once long long time ago in secondary school but kinda forgot the storyline. I love Holden.

I still cannot figure out how I can forget the intricate details of books that I read. I remember everything I read before age 10 perfectly. I start to forget details from age 12 to 20 , and I simply do not retain anything from age 21 onwards.

Its like I know SCUBA stands for Self contained underwater breathing apparatuses, Yahoo stands for Yet another hierarchal officious oracle but I cannot for the sake of my life remember what laser stands for. I distinctly remembered learning it in JC. Yet, I cannot remember.

Facts I read from my Charlie Brown Encyclopedia I remember them all. Now when I read "The handy history answer book" I remember nuts. Not even the next day. I know I read about Saladin few nights ago but now I cannot even remember what his significance is. I only remember he appeared in the show 'Kingdom of Heaven' Duh, see I cannot even remember the show's title. I only remember that his father slapped him when he made him a knight and the father died.

I was going to comment last week here that I seemed to be taking the lift at work in the morning with a bunch of guys. I am usually the only girl in the life. I was about to comment that it really is a guy's job to earn the dough. Really, 4 days in a row, I was the only girl in the lift in the morning. Then yesterday, I took the lift with a bunch of girls. No guys at all. Today, I took the lift with two heavily pregnant ladies. Sigh, there goes my theory.

Of afternoon sun and getting darker.

Today one of my colleague came from a 2 week reservist and it seemed so long since I saw him. Within that span of time, so many things happened - so many things that seemed so long ago.

Let see, I last saw him when I went MoS. Since then, I went bought so much stuff (short for shopping and listing out my purchases cos it scares me such), took time off, bought 2 pairs of shoes, attended a malay wedding, a colleague's wife gave birth. It just seemed so overwhelming. Am going to watch west side story on Friday. Yeah!

I'm getting tanner from mid day scorching sun swimming. Its so hard to swim after work these days with the stuff I get to do. If I miss my mid day swim, chances are i dun swim. Two reasons, I get plenty of flake plus the people ard me work so hard, it seems so wrong to go swim. I am under sever peer pressure. I try not to swim every day during lunch because I hate the lunchtime crowd(apparently day gym is cheaper) and because it is so not good for my aging skin. I have to keep reminding myself that I am no longer 18. Should make it a point to moisture myself after afternoon sun swim.

Thus, I only swim like 3 times a week. Last week I swam only twice cos it started raining the 3rd time I wanted to go.