They obviously have not met my parents.

STORY 1

Text from Daddy, "If I was there, I would whack it!" in reply to a text from my Mom saying that there is a Komodo Dragon/ Monitor Lizard the size of a bicycle in the compound. This coming from a man afraid of cockroaches!

I literally just burst out laughing when my Mom showed me the text.

STORY 2

Then of course there was that day when Miki was in the car with my Dad and the radio was playing at a ridiculously low volume. Both of them just kept quiet because Miki though my Dad wanted some peace or something. So finally,

Miki: Dad, how can you listen to that? I can barely hear anything at all.
Dad: Huh, really? Oh thank goodness, I thought I was going deaf but I didn't want to tell anyone!

HAHA. My Dad, who suffers in silence.

STORY 3

My dad was just insisting that I register to vote when for some unfathomable reason, I said I was apolitical. It's quite true to a certain extent I suppose. I am apathetic but I do support a certain party more than the other.

My dad replied by saying that if I did not vote, I would no longer be living in Villa Flora and could camp in some jungle.
And went on to say that the Church is apolitical but that I needed to speak to the Bishop who would tell me it was my duty to vote.

Now my parents think I'm a horribly selfish youth who doesn't care for the country.

I will concur that I'm horribly selfish but I do care for the country. Haha

That's what they say girls are made of. I think some boys are too.

Was supposed to catch the Inglorious Basterds today but due to the blackout, I missed it. Stayed home and talked to Daddy for ages about very grown up stuff. Scary.

Daddy's got the condo, so at least I know where I'll be living come January! Uber excited about it.

A platonic friend said to me earlier, "opposite the place where we 1st met and knew each other".

Then just as I was falling asleep, I received a text speaking of beautiful clouds, blue skies and things gone with the wind.

Just earlier, I was telling Miki that it's absolutely awful how even without a boyfriend, I am heartbroken and she brushed me off saying that everyone has their problems.

Miki is very unsympathetic to my very insignificant man-made troubles, rightly so, because I am currently wallowing in undeserved self-pity and Miki is a woman wise beyond her few years.

Anyway, back to the point. I guess everything has its ups and downs.
I may be nursing a wounded, not broken heart but I also have sweet nothings and beautiful poetry.

I go to sleep tonight just very slightly comforted.

I'm just realising that when I make time to meet friends, I always try to meet as many as possible, not all together but one after another.

Work although I love it, takes up too much of my time and I'm just generally too tired and too grumpy to socialise after.

I've always been rather anti-social, I am getting better, just very slightly.

Mostly I'm still only meeting people within my comfort zone but I am trying to broaden my horizons.

I really don't know what my problem is. I'm generally secure and confident enough but crowds of people just bother me. Wait..not exactly either.

Like, if I were to attend a formal function with say, judges, senior counsels and such, I'll be fine. In fact, I would probably enjoy it to a certain extent.

But ask me to go mingle with a room of my peers and BAM! I'm gone.

Friends are okay and when I say friends, I mean true blue friends.
Crowds of them are tolerable. Not ideal, tolerable.
I don't really like meeting friends one on one unless we're THAT TIGHT and I less than a handful of such wonderful beings.
I like meeting friends in teeny-tiny groups. Anything more than 5 bores me.

Acquaintances fill me with dread
and Strangers fill me with nothing so much as fear.

So here we are now
A sip of wine a sip of water
Someday maybe, maybe
Someday we'll be smarter

If you don't don't know
Why would you say so?
Would you mean that please
If it happens?

Just watched the music vid for the first time and it's very, very sweet.

It's strange how I'm listening to it with a sort of resignation.

I guess I am resigned, very healthily so.

I can't lose something I never had, so let's just keep it that way.

Suddenly I'm so so thankful for this 2 month break.

So many thoughts, one fixation, no distraction.

I hate having moments like this when I want to write about a million little things which are just too personal to publish on cyberspace.

My Kakak's gone back for hols so the house is currently maidless. I hope this won't stress Mom out too much.

I had just walked out of my room this morning when I realised, and I walked back in to make my bed. I have not folded my duvet in a stupidly spoilt amount of years.

Tears and fears, feels just like home.

On the bright side, I'm going white water rafting this weekend!
Dad's none too pleased. He went a couple of years back when he had to save one of his colleagues.
It doesn't help that some children died when the bridge collapsed and 3 UTAR students drowned at some waterfalls as well.

On a totally different and totally inappropriate matter, I need to stop obsessing! Rawrrr

As Jess calls it.
Because it's Just My Luck.

Back in good old Melaka.
I love being back here but it kinda bums me out that I have to return just as I'm finding my place in sunny Kay El.

I honestly can't wait to be back, in sunny Kay El I mean.

I'm just trying to clear my mind, and focus.
And not think of things which are too far away and unlikely.

Why are boys asking me along on a boys' night out?
I think I'm becoming one of the boys. Strange.

5am. Had a pretty good albeit slightly stressful and very question-filled night.

How many nights have you come across that you wished they would never end?

I can't pinpoint any, I'm sure I have had them before, just probably not one for a very, very long time.

Spent a lot of the night smiling.
Sometimes unconsciously and weirdly enough, sometimes consciously.

Two months till I'm back in sunny Kay El.
Two months till I'm all grown up and responsible.

The last two week break worked wonders.
This is to hoping the next unwanted but much needed two months will do the same, if not more.

by Chris Brown.

Pretty good day considering.

I honestly think my boss has the patience of a saint.

Witnesses, especially untruthful ones, are such a Pain.

Had a pretty good lunch with the swanky lawyers.

My last week in KS and L decides to give me my first not so swanky assignment, fifteen minutes before I'm due to meet a friend for dinner as well! But I think that although L is all macho and cool, he's really a marshmallow so :)

I'm in such a good mood and really looking forward to tomorrow although I'm dreading this week to come to its end.

I'm gonna miss working here So So So So Much.

Met Shah for dinner and he's such brilliant company.
They just don't make them like that anymore.

I can't can't can't believe I won't be seeing everyone till January.
It breaks my heart.

It's Tuesday and that was the first song that came to mind.

Had a pretty interesting day.
Very different from yesterday.

Yesterday I was utterly and completely fascinated by you.
I was uninspired and bored and distracted and I could not work.

Today, much to my relief, I am back to normal, bored and uninspired, by everything and everyone.

Tomorrow will be a new day and I wonder just what it might hold.

You, perhaps.

Being sociable, anyway.

Hung out by the pool with Shah for a bit who came by to play Badminton with some lawyers from his firm. New neighbour! (for selected weekends anyway)

Had to go to the library and return MissAfiah's book on her behalf (which was 6 months overdue) because she was indecently dressed and was told she could not go across the lobby to do it.
You're NOT a government office, you're a community centre.
LIGHTEN up, seriously.

Meatball plan was cancelled because IKEA was just too packed and I had totally forgotten MissAfiah turned vegetarian approximately three weeks ago.
So we ended up going to this vegetarian place in the Curve. It wasn't too bad for healthy food.

Then decided to send my car for a wash while MissAfiah and I had limau ais at the mamak just a minute away. Sure beats walking to and fro Villa Flora on my own.

Meeting Gerry for Thai. I LOVE THAI FOOD.

Still not sure who to watch Inglourious Basterds with.

Or should I just go out tonight?