Blissfully broke

I have been busy offline these few days. No, I was not working very hard. The vet went to Malaysia for the weekend, and brought back some stuff from my parents. So I picked it up on Saturday. Then I proceeded to watch five hours of drama series episodes. Is that good or what? (Fine, my tolerance level is not as great as some seasoned drama series watchers) I have finally finished drooling over the oh-so-gorgeous actors and snapped back into reality. And it is not aided by the fact that I had two cups of coffee today. Okay, so caffine keeps me awake too, I don't normally drink coffee, and even the tea I take is peppermint, which has little or no caffine.

Work has been okay-ish. I went back to work on Monday to find that my assistant is leaving us. I didn't do anything ok! I was shocked, yet I understand why she would. I would want to take a sabbatical too after working so hard. She will hopefully be back in February, maybe I should tell the boss? Hmm.. Maybe not. But it drives home the fact that I NEED to learn enough cantonese to be able to work alone, and I need to find out what size and where my uniform is kept.

A short detour to Ladies Street in Mong Kok on Saturday brought me some goodies. Got some more cute stationary and two tops, one dark green and the other grey. I also got two more drama boxsets for emergencies. Let's see, there was a necklace and some plain coloured socks for work. They are still bright fun colours, but at least they are less showy. It is very important for me to wear bright socks to contrast my shoes, as it woud make it easier to show people how to wear their shoes properly. It was interesting to see them hawking their wares 'copy handbag, copy watches' or 'come back, I give you discount, give you 25% off.' But I came back smelling horribly of smoke as they smoke like chimneys!

Sunday got me in a singing contest. Yes folks, I was singing. I have been wondering why they have been singing the same song for the past few weeks before they invited me to come along and watch the competition. Before you knew it, I was also part of the group on stage singing some random chinese christian song. We did okay and came in third. I think the fact that I refused to buy their boring grey clone-tshirt and insisted on wearing my same-colour-grey-even-if-I-have-never-seen-the-t-shirt top may have affected the outcome. *shrugs* They were happy because it was the better than the previous year's results.

I realised I have not spoken to anyone close the whole weekend, and was feeling withdrawal symptoms when my mum called. I admit I am a homebody, and will probably never get married ever as I will refuse to leave home. My mother is anxious to get rid of me though. *sigh*

Note to self: Don't let Mrs Chai near other women with similar aged children. They will start a 'my kid is better than your kid' conversation. My mum lost because her graduate daughter does not have a boyfriend.

Oh! The results of the game. Yes, some people were kiasu and went to find out. Let's just say there is an eagerness for knowledge and they are self-motivated! :)

The similarity of the word in the last post was: *drum roll*

No, they are not edible. Besides potato which is good with cream cheese and wasabi.

No, they are not toys and are not to be given to children under 3 years old.

If you take the first alphabet of each word, and put it at the back, you will be able to spell the same word backwards. Cool eh?