footprints

we had another training workshop at the office this week.. this time, it was on Customer Service. as usual, i was not involved In the training, only, to arrange for the things preceding it. half day through the first day, our branch head from the pahang branch had to rush back to office.. as he had received news that one of the members of our technical team there had met with a road accident.. a fatal one.

this late morning, while preparing brunch in the kitchen, dad came home from his sunday swim at the selayang public pool. apparently, he cheated death (that's how i thought of it.. ) when an out-of-control cab drove straight into the back portion of his mini-lorry. the lorry was okay, the cab was not. the bonnet was up and the windscreen a goner. the driver looked like he wasnt there at all... dad was unhurt. i imagined all the worse things that could've happened.
for example, like if he was at the doors having his back facing the oncoming cab. or when he was just reversing his ride to hav the cab bang right into his driver side door.

yes, fragile. not in the humorous sense of fuh-gile, but really, life's good and Life Is fragile.

i'd have to remind myself time and again,...
that i shall not be too calculative on the petty stuffs in life.
i shall remind myself that work is after all, just work (it is a miserable pre-monday, sunday night after all..)
loathsome as it may be, WOEK.. i'd still hav to conform to it.. who else is gonna fund my trips and my dinners and my shoes otherwise yea??...

that being said, a recap of my weekend is a must i guess...
SY finally had her wedding reception tonight.. while yesterday morning was the tea ceremony at her parents' home at SD. we were roped in for the jimuis thingy... which we all obliged. turned out not too bad though.. better than what i'd expected. consolation came in the form of the outgoing jimuis... at least, they were less passive than i was (shame on me!).
consolation also came in the form of the old faces i saw from my college time.... Soo and some of the other guys... :)
my my, how things have changed. and yet, they still looked kinda same to me, like we were just hanging out at the mamaks not too long ago.. but then i had to tell myself.. that it's been almost 10years ago. some things must have changed... people grow and people move on.

dinner tonight was bearable... again, more faces from college time.
i cant help noticing too though, that ive been attending dinners lately where i've been seated near the aisle (to the door, that is..). so ive sort of concluded to Bo that, recent dinners had me attending to those of my acquantainces. either all my best and closest mates are married, or they're still very much single. hmm... a pretty simple conclusion, but still.


this week too, me and office mate Hristine had lots of 'free time' chatting away while the bosses were attending to the training. being the avid singer that she is (she freelances at events and cafes).. we very naturally chatted on songs.. from over the years to now. she had the courtesy to extend to me, some mandarin songs which i'd not been listening to for a while now.
well u know, a bit of Sandy, a bit of Shin, and a bit of Billie... :)



footprints.. all i wana say is, i guess... people from all sorts of manners and patterns leave footprints in our life.. at different stages, at different time and different places. school, college, work, holidays.
scattered they may be around our memories... but still.. you cannot deny the presence they once had in your life...
hmm,.. i do wunder how many sets of prints i've left in others' life...






another itch scratched...