For a Thursday afternoon

You are my mid-week relief.

The abruptly placed comma in a busy sentence.

The unbashful yawn in the midst of somebody’s ramblings.

The scent of tea from a pot that needs rinsing.

A welcomed imperfection.

autumn leaves

I imagine myself racing into the swirl of falling autumn leaves with outstretched arms and open palms. The crinkled colours disintergrating at my feet.

It’s yet another autumn leaf pile that I couldn’t avoid. Couldn’t resist.

A blast from the past

I was googling ‘resignation letter’ in my gmail yesterday as I wanted to submit my resignation letter today. And look at what the search engine dredged up.  I kid you not.

29/07/2005

Private & Confidential (no longer)

Celadona
Singapore

To Fed-Ex
Hong Kong

Dear Sir,

Letter of Resignation

I would like to tender my resignation from the position of your
girlfriend with effect from 29/07/2005, citing the period from 1 Aug
2005 to 31 Dec 2005 as 22 weeks notice as required.

I would like to thank you making our relationship a pleasant one.

Yours sincerely with hugs and smoochies,

Celadona (sent via email)

 

Once of my friends sent an e-dear john this afternoon and I fwded her this email. She said she didn’t know if she should laugh or cry if she ever received such an email.

I recalled the fed-ex’s response: He laughed when he read it and he called to say that we should still give things a shot till the end of the year since there was nothing majorly wrong in our relationship. So I withdrew my resignation letter that day and a couple of weeks later, with still nothing majorly wrong, he msned to say that it was over.

Another lesson learnt that year. Never retract a resignation letter.

good doc / not-so-good doc

I must have coughed out a rice-bowlful of phlegm throughout thurs night. Woke up repeatedly to spit out the phlegm. Even breathing was an effort.

I called in sick and managed to sleep though the morning. Saw a new doc in my neighbourhood and was flabbergasted when I was charged $48 dollars for a consultation that lasted less than 3 mins.

He asked less than 10 qns and did only 4 examinations. What a rip-off! I tried to reject the antibotics to reduce the cost but he refused.

When I went home, I got back online and raged abt the consultation fees to my faction mates. Zac sweetly suggested that we should go lvling at the doc’s clinic. Definitely~ Growl*

***

Last night, I had dinner with A & A. When we were done with dinner, I felt a pain in the center of my chest. Hmmm… indigestion? Coincidentally, A was having indigestion that afternoon and we had medication on hand, so I took a dose.

3 hours later, the pain was still present. I went to bed, hoping to sleep the pain off but still the discomfort refused to bugger off.

When I woke this morning, my chest was still hurting. So I dragged myself down to my usual doctor.

There was no clear diagnosis for the pain at the moment, but he listed some possibilities:

1. the muscle was cramping due to stress.
2. possibility of heart-burn & gastric
3. fracture or hairline crack in my ribs due to the coughing and sneezing
4. heart-attack

On hearing the 4th, I bleated, “but my heart is on my left, Dr Sim.”

“Yes, but the pain could start from the centre. Anyway, since you are young, the probability of a heart-attack is low. We’ll have to monitor you and send you for an x-ray if the pain persists.”

The good soul examined me thoroughly and prescribed medication for the pain and charged only $24.

Thank you, Dr Sim.

***

When I left the clinic, I whimpered on the phone to Cat.

Cat: It’s prolly not a heart attack lah, dear…

Eva: Yeah, but just in case anything happens, can u do me a favour if I conked off?

Cat: Okay. What?

Eva: Make sure you get to my room before my family does and remove the sex toys.

***

Updates:

Revisited the doctor this morning as there was still some pain. The pain has been rediagnosed as gastric reflux. Okiz dokz! And I’ll only be back at work on wed… Great!

A pretty interesting booklist

I’ve only read a small fraction of the following books… There’s quite a couple more that I ought to pick up soon/someday…
Let me know if you are willing to lend any of the following books.
books I have read/browsed through

ArfF!

I’m so gonna bitch-slap elton john.

Sorry isn’t the hardest word.

Work lunch

“Why’s there still one last piece of fruit on the tray? Can someone finish it up?”

It was a slice of tart starfruit that no one relished. I picked it up anyway and bit into it.

“You know, if you take the last piece of food, you will get left on the shelf. It’s just an old Chinese saying.”

I smiled.

“But we, Indians, believe that the girl who takes the last piece of food will marry a handsome man.”

“Well, I guess I better be checking out the Indian dating sites then.”

“Yes, just make sure that his mother has passed away. Nothing’s worse than an Indian mother-in-law!”

“How could you say that! You’ll be an Indian mother-in-law yourself!”

Everyone laughed as the conversation turned to the subject of mother-in-laws.

having trouble sleeping again…

98%ALCOHOLIC

And the meek

shall inherit the earth because they are being trampled into the ground.