Saturday, October 20, 2007
Maldives, France, Spain, Finland, London, Cambodia - 6 New countries this year.
Possibly Indo in Dec, yet another 3rd world country.
Msia, Thailand, Phil, US - Total Count 10.
Have reached the stage of slight OD,wanting to sleep on my own bed for as long as I want. It helps when the hotel is good.
Cambodia hotel was great, porters helping with my luggage all the way, room service, nice big towels, abliet a little musky smell, it was better than expected. The country itself is still pretty much third world. Gravel everywhere, disgusting toilets, schools like look like TCS8 Zhao An Lao Shi. It was the land of Gap and Abercombie though. I wasnt sure if the sure were real, so I bought only 25USD worth, at 5USD a shirt, it was not bad. I am sure I was being ripped off but I didnt feel like bargaining much that day.
I didnt expect much, so everything fell nicely within expectation. Having been to Vietnam helps, though I think Vietnam is probably a tad more organised.
Feel a bit lost, work is going to pile up, the thought of it is just saffocating. Alboy's going to be busy. End of the year festivitals are going to start soon. Usually I feel slightly light hearted and high as the year ends, I hope this feeling ovwewhelms me soon. The thought of having only 2 months left in the year is slighly terrifiying.
One more BKK trip at the end of the year. One more flight, that is if I squirm my way out of Indo.
Possibly Indo in Dec, yet another 3rd world country.
Msia, Thailand, Phil, US - Total Count 10.
Have reached the stage of slight OD,wanting to sleep on my own bed for as long as I want. It helps when the hotel is good.
Cambodia hotel was great, porters helping with my luggage all the way, room service, nice big towels, abliet a little musky smell, it was better than expected. The country itself is still pretty much third world. Gravel everywhere, disgusting toilets, schools like look like TCS8 Zhao An Lao Shi. It was the land of Gap and Abercombie though. I wasnt sure if the sure were real, so I bought only 25USD worth, at 5USD a shirt, it was not bad. I am sure I was being ripped off but I didnt feel like bargaining much that day.
I didnt expect much, so everything fell nicely within expectation. Having been to Vietnam helps, though I think Vietnam is probably a tad more organised.
Feel a bit lost, work is going to pile up, the thought of it is just saffocating. Alboy's going to be busy. End of the year festivitals are going to start soon. Usually I feel slightly light hearted and high as the year ends, I hope this feeling ovwewhelms me soon. The thought of having only 2 months left in the year is slighly terrifiying.
One more BKK trip at the end of the year. One more flight, that is if I squirm my way out of Indo.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
I can't believe I am soo sooo sooo sleepy in the morning. I slept at 11+ midnight, so that gave me a good8 hours sleep but I am still terribly sleepy. My head feels as if it is starved of oxygen and I just feel like sleeping in the sauna at lunch. Maybe I should go swim then sleep. Plus I think I have a naturally sleepy face so people always think I look damn tired.
This week has been crawling for me. The past few weeks have been a blur but this week is agonising. Maybe its the eagerly awaiting Monday holiday thing that is making time pass so slowly.
I had a strange dream last night. I dreamt that of Emily, Ben, Jiliang , Samuel, Hanwei and this one other girl. I was going to alter a dress cos someone insisted I alter it and I met Emily there with a girl. I had to go to work after and Emily kept insisting my mum should give us a lift cos its on the way, but it really wasnt cos she was going to NTU n me to JE. But we still all hoped in. Surprising the car could fit us all, Hanwei took the wheel with my mum at the passenger seat. It was super weird. Then I realised it was 8am and if I stayed in dreamland I would have to call in sick. Which may not be such a bad thing afterall.
I reiterate, I am terribly sleepy.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
the hunting
I think I got picked up today. Woohoo..it was quite a nice feeling.
Was spending the whole of today and yesterday at an event, spoke to a guy briefly on some work related stuff, then i forgot how he looked like cos i was talking to a whole bunch of different people the whole day.
So today, this guy whom I thought looked like huge grant was kinda looking at me the whole day. I blankly stared back having no recollection of having spoke to him. He was ang moh so I wasnt very interested too, plus I was falling half asleep standing up.
At the end of the day, he finally came up to where I was stationed and talked to me. There was almost no work stuff, then I remembered I talked to him before after he repeated some stuff. Mostly, we talked abt Singapore, and the influx of foreign talent and my take on it (That i shall elaboraet in another post). He was going to take a train through 'scenic' malaysia to reach thailand. Thru the 'jungle trail' of pahang etc etc, the guide books really write it well. I told him it would be nothing by foilage and mosquitoes and that he should be worried abt dengue..hahah
Then of course, he asked me out for dinner. Maybe it was just a friendly , i have no friends here gesture, but it felt nice. I rejected of course saying that I have to go back to the office to work. While the feeling of being hunted is nice, I dont think I have the energy to entertain him the entire evening. I wasnt even very interested either, it was just nice while it lasted.hahah
so u have it. *head swells*
Was spending the whole of today and yesterday at an event, spoke to a guy briefly on some work related stuff, then i forgot how he looked like cos i was talking to a whole bunch of different people the whole day.
So today, this guy whom I thought looked like huge grant was kinda looking at me the whole day. I blankly stared back having no recollection of having spoke to him. He was ang moh so I wasnt very interested too, plus I was falling half asleep standing up.
At the end of the day, he finally came up to where I was stationed and talked to me. There was almost no work stuff, then I remembered I talked to him before after he repeated some stuff. Mostly, we talked abt Singapore, and the influx of foreign talent and my take on it (That i shall elaboraet in another post). He was going to take a train through 'scenic' malaysia to reach thailand. Thru the 'jungle trail' of pahang etc etc, the guide books really write it well. I told him it would be nothing by foilage and mosquitoes and that he should be worried abt dengue..hahah
Then of course, he asked me out for dinner. Maybe it was just a friendly , i have no friends here gesture, but it felt nice. I rejected of course saying that I have to go back to the office to work. While the feeling of being hunted is nice, I dont think I have the energy to entertain him the entire evening. I wasnt even very interested either, it was just nice while it lasted.hahah
so u have it. *head swells*
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