Another Weekend Passed

This weekend, I was just relieved that the week is over. I've missed my Q1 numbers and I've missed it not in style, just by a couple of hundred thousands. Oh well, there's always Q2. But then, it was such a relieve to see the Quarter ending. It was a horrible quarter and it was a quarter, I fell hard and couldn't bounce back as fast as I could. Also, this quarter, I've learnt the true human instinct and the need for its survival. I've learnt to rise above and rise to forgive :)

In the end, I've decided to spend the weekend at home, in bed after all the hustle and bustle of work and ching ming. Yes, its the time where every single chinese would perform their annual rites for their ancestors. Lazy and hoping I don't have to go, it was a hot sunny day but yet, I've endured it and survived it and then later be comatose for 6 hours straight. It was the best sleep I've had in the past month~~!!

Bring It On

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade out of it. When things get rough, show them the right attitude and tell all the shit, BRING IT ON~~!! Arrogance you might say, but to me, its to show them your fighting spirit and also, to tell everyone else watching the drama, you have got the balls to do a man's work~~!!

I call this reality check, because in reality if a woman were to be seen to have "balls", she's a bitch but if a man were to execute the very same thing she did (maybe with a little more action and less all the emotions and drama), its called wisdom. But at the end of the day, when the man goes home to the woman, he'll be at her beck and call. Is that fair? Oh well, let's put it this way, women may never run a country and may never been seen as a equal to men but at home, women reigns and their stronghold maintains. So, if a woman lets her man go out and be the king, ultimately, she's the queen to the king and regardless whatever it is, when the queen allows the king in her bed, the king will be the good obedient subject :)

Pleasantly Surprised Weekend

The weekend is here and I've found out that it is always better to spend the weekend sleeping and eating and basically being a couch potato. Somehow, migraines and hangovers are big over the weekend and I've had my fair share of it with large dosages of Berocca and Ponstan to tide me over :p

However, this weekend, I had a pleasant surprise. I had a miserable week at work and added on with my unwillingness to push and be aggressive, I somehow found myself floundering the whole week and trying to play catch up on Friday. As silly and stupid it may sound to you, I've really not picked myself up yet emotionally and mentally posthumous of the last week of February. That aside, drinking on Friday doesn't help, although I was still sober enough to go home and have my dinner. I was saddled with a bad migraine that I confirmed wasn't hangover~!! I suspected it was my pillow and time for me to shop for a new pillow, the current pillow I have is 5-6 years old. It has gone soft and its no longer at its ideal height. Also, I suspect there is a thriving community of dust mites on it as well.

As I was lying on the bed trying to nurse the bloody migraine, which 2 Ponstan and a glass of Berocca didn't cure till 4 hours later, with a cancellation of one dinner appointment and several misses in trying to get another friend to meet up for tea, my dear friend called and asked to meet up. I was hoping and wishing to meet this friend of mine for the past 2 weeks and after all the downs and stressed out week, I couldn't have asked for a better weekend to spend time with this friend. Although the time spent together was short but it was fun and we ended it with good old nasi briyani from Insaf with a nice, cooling sweet mango juice. Yummy~~!!

By the time, I've got home after the dinner and a short trip to Ted Baker (they were having a sale~~!!) I'm tired and exhausted from all the buzz of fighting the migraine. But I'm just surprised at how well timed the visit of my friend and it was one that left me smiling and of course, I didn't leave Ted Baker's empty handed :p

Now, at this point while I'm lying down on my bed blogging, I've realized that this weekend was a good one for me because I didn't start it with any set objectives and I've just decided to go with the flow. Sometimes, its not that bad to take a step back, sit back and watch how life guides you through it all. But after this weekend, I've got a big battle on my hands and I hope to come out victorious from it. I've learnt to pick my battles and I hope this is one battle, which I had forced it, will be able to resolve some of my problems. Let's hope I can persevere to the end and emerge from this battle, with as little scars as possible but with a promise of a better future for me and a changed Pei Jet. I apologized to those that had to suffer through my emotional and mental breakdown that had made me into a super duper BITCH who gets stressed out over the smallest little thing and lashed out at people. SORRY~~!! My sincerest apologies...

The Country Votes

Yes, the general elections are over and the country is experiencing the aftermath of their decisions. The ruling party has lost its stronghold on the most advanced states, namely Penang and Selangor. FT will still be ruled by BN. The rest are still a mixture. All I can say is, I hope the country has voted correctly and all that is said and promised by the opposition will be fulfilled. To me, the country is voting based on emotions. Yes, a lot has been said about BN's arrogant ways and how corrupted our systems are and how our government overspends on their budget for Minister's private use. However, I would just like to say this. Look around you in KL, selangor and Penang (sorry for leaving out the other states, as I'm only familiar with these 3 places). We have modernization, we have the best of everything, the world class facilities albeit the maintenance of it. If we argue and say BN has not done its job, that's wrong. But if we look around the opposition governed states, what do they have? These are just my views and observations. I just hope that Malaysia is not spiraling downwards. All I hope for is, corruption will be wiped out, all that is promised by the opposition fulfilled and there will be lesser frictions among everyone. I hope that the opposition knows what they are doing and let it not be empty promises to the country when its citizens have had their fair share of empty promises, bureaucracy, corruption and false hopes.

Malaysia is currently experiencing its winds of change, whether its good or bad still left to be seen. Let's hope this wind will bring about a fresh breathe of air for the years to come.

Me In Singapore AGAIN ;p

Yes, I'm down in Singapore again for a break. It was a stressful week and one that left me resigning myself to faith and chance. The after effects of this week has left me exhausted and left me wanting a change in all sense. And Friday started at 4.30am with a trip to LCCT. So, I made a decision to hitch my bags and hit the road to Singapore again on a Friday evening. I've arrived here at midnight and went on to have a bowl of Bak Kut Teh at Balestier Road. Its the peppery type that takes awhile to get used to and its not as delicious as the Klang Bak Kut Teh which I grew up with. Nevertheless, at midnight, something soupy is not around every corner and beggars can't be choosers. :p

After several wrong turns, I finally made it to my sisters place. I take no part in the wrong turns as I wasn't navigating, I was just taking in the sights and trying to place in somewhere in my memory so that I can learn to navigate myself in Singapore. By the time I settled down with a shower, its already 2am. I was exhausted and went to sleep only to be woken warm with a broken down air cond. Although I promised to go yoga with my sister, I ended up sleeping through it all and woke up to shower and meet up with sisters for lunch.

Of course, I was the blur jet that I am today. Its the weekend and my brain decided to shut down to celebrate the event. This means while taking the public transport, I obviously missed my stop, got down 2 stops later, hopped on to the MRT and got out of the MRT station on the opposite side of the road. Talk about a series of wrong turns. In the end, spotted my sisters at Starbucks while I happily went to grab myself an Iced Cafe Mocha. I had never so loved a coffee as much as that moment to awaken my senses and powered up my brain cells in "safe mode". The other time I had loved my Americano is on Friday where 5 hours of sleep is just not sufficient for a growing Pei Jet.

Oh well, after I found my salvation from my coffee, lunch at Thai Express was a quick affair followed by shopping and a movie. P.S. I Love You was a book I had enjoyed and I was secretly hoping that the movie will not kill the book. Pleasantly surprised I was with the movie. The storyline line is still the same, but the settings and how the scenes took place was altered. I was sobbing through out the whole movie. Well, Hilary Swank is not the person I would imagine to be the soft, crying, wimpy character and damsel in distress, to boot. Heck, her features are so sharp and manly. But her role here is something unexpected and she played it well. The person that was really well cast was Gerard Butler. His Irish brogue makes it all the more irresistible and charming. The story of losing someone you loved has always been a well explored theme. However, this one tells the story of how the person you had lost guiding you back and getting yourself back on track with life. He does it so by sending well timed letters starting from her birthday. For me, the idea of someone capable of loving you so much and in return, continue to love you and nourish and cherish you even after they had died, is so surreal. But it also spoke of how we had always taken things for granted till its lost to us. Then only we start to cherish those we had lost. Whatever it may be and how much of a tearjerker this movie may be, do watch it and enjoy every moment of it with your loved one. You might just learn how to cherish that someone special in your life.