Time Goes Zooming By

I'm not sure how I did it, but my peak period is already over. Heeheehee. A huge bulk of my interviews are already complete and most of the calls have already been done.

This is much better than the same period last year where my peak period stretched all the way to mid-end May. Whee!

Anyway lunch with Yvonne today and shopping with Chui Hua after. Yep, I'm taking the afternoon off. *grin*

Training!

Gotta love my friends. It's about 5 weeks to the Tibet trip and recently when I told Chui Hua and Claire about it, they grilled me on how well prepared I was.

'Base camp is no joke!' was a phrase that was repeated many, many times during that chat. They gave me plenty of advice on what I needed to bring (warm windproof clothes, chocolate bars for energy etc etc) and how much training I needed to do (run up a 20 storey flat ten times!).

Knowing that I'd probably just nod and agree and slack off, the girls have now made plans to train with me. *heart* On top of the Japanese dinner at Claire's favourite restaurant, and on top of the let's get Chui Hua drunk session, we're going to walk along the Southern Ridges- all 15km or so of it.

How hard can it be? As long as you have good company, a 4 hour walk is really nothing. Hehehe.

Well, now to make sure I have enough clothes to keep me warm in -15degree weather.

Ring, Ring!

I've been brought back to my teenage days of yakking on the phone nonstop. Ever since I discovered that international calls could be so much more affordable with free idd, I've been speaking with the grasshopper on the phone almost every day.

Most days it's just a simple wake up (hence my latest nickname: snooze button), and other times we chat on the phone for much longer. Combine that with instant messaging and skype, and we're actually in touch with each other as much as, if not more than, most couples.

Of course, the only difference is that we're in different countries, but with cheap budget air tickets, this long distance relationship really ain't *that* tough to maintain.

I'm happy and thankful. *grin*

Mid April

I'm into my second week of peak peak period and I must say that everything seems to be settling pretty nicely and that we've got a good momentum going on. My temps have a better idea of what to do, and things are running pretty smoothly with minimal fuss on my end.

*grin* Anyway my tickle-word of the day is: manscaping. Lolololololol.

Monkeys!

We decided to finally go to the Bukit Timah Hill for a climb yesterday morning. Picked Wen and Ching up on my way there, and met Jeanne at the carpark.

As per all our Sunday morning jaunts, Ching bought some coffee and bao for breakfast, so we'd have some fuel before setting off. I was innocently standing there with Wen, and grabbed a bao from the plastic bag that Ching was carrying and had already peeled off the paper skin, when I noticed two monkeys (macaques?) STALKING me and greedily eyeing my bao.

In that split second I had to decide what to do. Run? What if they chased after me? Try to hold the bao away from them? What of they attacked and tried to grab the bao out of my hands? Stuff the bao into my mouth? What if they attacked and gouged the bao out of my mouth?

So I did what any normal person would do. I screamed and threw the bao at them. It was in self defense!

Soon after the monkeys gleefully ran off with their loot, we saw families of monkeys eyeing us, as if to check out if we had more food. Omg.

While still in shock, an elderly park warden came up to us and pointed to the 'Do Not Feed The Monkeys' sign. He said had he not witnessed us being frightened and throwing the bao as a reaction, he'd have to take down our particulars and that the consequences would be very bad. He told us that the monkeys were human beings too, with emotions and that we had to treat them like children. Er ok. He even pointed out a mating pair of monkeys to prove how similar they were to us.

Anyway we asked what the correct reaction should have been, and all he could say was that we should have eaten before heading there. Ok. Doesn't answer my question though. (According to Reuben, you just walk away with your bao. He also says I have no balls now. It's SELF DEFENSE!)

We started the climb up and the initial part was really steep but it was still quite manageable. 15 minutes into the climb and we were at the summit already. Wtf? It was so anti-climatic! We walked back down, decided to explore some of the other paths for another hour or so then headed off to have breakfast.

Yay Me!

This time last year, I woke up for the first time as a divorced woman.

Amazing how fast time has passed and how many things and changes I've had in my life since.

Life is good. :D

Teeheehee

I know I'm not supposed to feel gleeful over negative events or situations but I just realised that an initiative that we spent lots of money on last year was a giant flop.

Despite the large amounts of money that was poured into this initiative, the returns were disappointing. Not only did numbers not increase, they went down! Lol.

Of course the blame will somehow trickle down, but who cares. Teeheehee.