the list 。。。

it's always dreadful when I have an actual "to-do list" on the weekends.
I'd prefer to have zero agenda Saturdays any day, hands down!

by the time this Saturday hits, I'd already had more than a couple of virtual post-it-notes stuck to my phone...
well it's a lil' past 3 in the noon now, and I'm actually feeling a little 'phew!!' for I've cleared some of those annoying yellow ones :) *beaming.. with a mug of Nescafé in front of me**

but oh wait .. there's still the floors, .. and the direly needed car wash. palani, the guard at our office had actually threatened to not let mine in the next time he sees it 。 。 。

oh well, life's not always perfect!

year-end.. again :)

yearend.. yearend.. it's that time of the year again.. =)
can't help feeling pleased about it
year-end is the time when you feel that you can get away with just about anything and everything
after slaving away for close to a full year now, I'm sure we are all deserving what we deserve now.
good, or bad, it all boiled down to what it is now since the beginning of the year.
so are you currently now at where you want things to be?
are the results now satisfying? anything close to what you wanted to achieve since you last resolved to?
it's that joyous, capping months of another year now, and then some... it's time again to figure out what's in for next year. hmm.. what do I want now for next year?
this should be nice ... ;)

from zero again。。。

is there such a term as leg-ache?..

after more than 3 months, finally, a long overdue trip to FRIM again ..
starting from zero again, am suffering the consequences of laziness today ..

a Myanmar sojourn ..

it was another trip by the company, a period to rejoice, in re-living the smile-carving days of our hurry-hurry trip around shanghai/hangzhou back in '09.. yes, it was that long ago.

it was my first plane-catching trip for the year .. very close to a full, long year since my last trippin' to bali, indonesia last october.. yes, it was that long ago.

it started out pretty annoyingly i'd hav to say .. not too much on the paying part (altho a lil'), but really a lil' more to the woek-related annoyances. schedules had to be fixed, travel itinerary books had to be pre-printed, the royalties had to be taken care of like kings with their consorts.. literally.

a lil' out of place in a ground-travel-package oriented tour, me and mate Audrey almost got stranded at the hotel day One at Bagan.. the land of golden stupas, temples, and more stupas. yup, i guess we both took our lil' sweet time a lot longer than the others...

the place where we actually had 2 nights in a row without having to check-in-one-night-check-out-the-next-morn, we had to put up with a water chalet without A/C or TV or Fridge on the waters of Inle Lake (Heho, Nyaungshwe) ...

read: "put up with" .. but turns out a blessing in disguise indeed it was.

as we slowly took time to actually unwind from it all (not much choice on the plate anyway), the simplicity of our 'hut' made us spend more time outdoor on our cozy verandah.. me and audrey, doing our thang ..


the simplicity of the entire resort, made us spend more communal time at the communal lobby.. resorting to card games and fortune-reading sessions and plenty of beer cans to pass the nights..

the entire resort, and in fact all the other inhabited structures being kept afloat on stilts around the lake meant it was in-and-out the sampan the moment we step off our resort lobby. the restaurant, the temples, the gift shops, the handicraft workshops, they were all floating on stilts. the only difference, if you've been to Tonle Sap, the waters there were a murky tek-tarik and they were actually supported by floats and buoys. here at Inle Lake, the deepest depth was recorded only at 5metres plus, hence the stilts, said our friendly guide 'Lei'..



all in all, a longer time here around the lake meant more lasting memories on our part here ... this was where most interactions with colleagues were at, more smiling faces etched in the mind, and more opportunities for picture-taking too.

the serenity here really is, something different i must say.

when one has no choice but to adhere to a different, slower setting .. one gradually adapts and tunes in to the surrounding as well. and life here, really is, s l o w . . .

and uhm, nope, no picture-pretty line of saffron-robed monks encountered .. only hordes and hordes of petty dwellers .. hawking and selling everything from lacquerware to longyi and 'precious stones' . . .





another itch scratched...

a quickie

hmm.. yes..
I foresee October will be a quick one.
busy days in the office .. woekends inclusive,
a co. trip (which has this part-woek nagging feelin to it) scheduled for next week..,
& the 1st half mgmt meeting the following week..,

I'm lookin' forward to deepavali
a l r e a d y . . .
=.=

>.>

mondays are always Psychotic..
like, i could totally get it.. the blues, the gloominess, that's Oh So Associated with mondays..
today we even joked about avatar and smurfs on this monday.

but this.
the randomness..
the world wide web..
the others' blogs.. just some of the things that got me through on this first night of the week. t h e l o n g w e e k . . .
and of course..
the taiwanese soap im currently at .. once you pop, you just cant stop.
the agony .. i know, i just can't Let it Sit!
will be ending it tomorrow i think, the second and last episode.
>.>




another itch scratched...

the 1st day

back at the office today, slavin' over all the miscellaneous stuffs.. i started to miss my sweaty sofa at home . . .

back home finally from woek, i reached into the calm of my room, and started jumping around ..
should i say in glee? or maybe even bordering on maniacly?
;) i had to loosen up . . .

and now, after some bouts of touring the world wide web
i'd decided to drop by here, and found this to my delight tonight...




should've jumped to this earlier . . .
= D




another itch scratched...