Productive weekend

This weekend was absolutely fantastic because I got so many things done. :)

- Did the laundry

- Dropped some old clothes off at the local charity bin

- Bought some merino thermals on sale at Kathmandu (I won't freeze this winter!)

- Got a haircut (about time too)

- Bought a mango sponge cake from Breadtop (managed to get it home unsquished)

- Visited my godmother before heading to church to give her aforementioned cake (she is having a lot of mouth ulcers from chemo so I was really happy that I got her something she could eat)

- Went to church (nearly made it on time despite taking the train, tram and walking part of the way!)

- Had lunch with friends (my regular bunch of kakis)

- Bought myself a bottle of wine (was going to drink it today but I got distracted)

- Decimated weed population *insert evil laugh here*

- Did the groceries

- Experimented with new salmon teriyaki recipe (success!!!)

- Called Poh Poh :D

I love productive weekends!

Urk

Meet my garden.



We need to do some serious weeding.

Mom and dad arrive next week. :p

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Update:



Two hours worth of tugging at weeds and digging out roots with the garden fork.

To be continued next Saturday.

Need to cook dinner. If the salmon still hasn't defrosted yet I'm telling my bro we are eating out.

Random

I found this as I was browsing through the vast collection of photos on my computer. I take so many photos that I had forgotten about it. It is a newspaper clipping from The Star. I took a photo of it to send to John. :)

It still makes me laugh. :D

Happy thoughts

I love the thought of having John with me next year. :) I'm so excited that I have been looking up the rental prices in my area so I will be able to help him choose a place to stay. It would be nice to be staying within walking distance of each other. Actually, it would be fantastic to be living in the same time zone. :D

I have even been buying him stuff like pillows and blankets... things he will need when he moves into an apartment on his own. :) He definitely won't need to buy a bed and mattress. I have a spare under mine that he can borrow. Oh! And better yet, John will be able to join my brother and I for dinner every evening after work! :) That would be really nice. Maybe we could even catch the train to and from work together. :D The best thing is we'll be able to spend our weekends together!!

:)

So much to look forward to.

Earthquake!

Okay. So it only lasted a few seconds and it wasn't that strong. But still.. at least now I can say that I've felt an earthquake! :D

It happened at around 4.30pm today when I was still at work. I was at my desk when suddenly the whole building started shaking. The experience was a little bit unnerving now that I come to think of it. I reckon if it had lasted longer than it did, we probably would have thought to panic. But it didn't and it was gone just as sudden as it came.

After the earthquake, my collegues acted damn gaya. We looked at each other had a brief conversation that went like this:

Me: *tentatively* I think that was an earthquake.

Colleague 1: Wouldn't be surprised.

Colleague 2: You'd think it would have lasted longer.

And then we continued with our work. The only person that came over to our department to mention the earthquake was the guy from Accounts. Everyone else just shrugged it off and continued what they were doing.

Train waits

Some of the people on public transport are quite creepy. I think the one that tried to chat me up yesterday takes the cake. I was reading a book while waiting for the train and he kept asking me questions like "Are you attached?" "What are your hobbies?" "Do you drink a lot?" "Do you go clubbing?" etc etc etc. On and on and on.

Bloody hell. I'm all for friendly small talk but this was something else.

This weirdo even had the cheek to ask whether there was any chance I'd prefer dating a white guy (meaning him) as opposed to seeing John.

#@$*%!

I was so glad when the train finally arrived. I purposely jumped into a different carriage from the one he was going into... And ended up in the same carriage as another guy that approached me a few weeks ago. -__-

Strange guys approaching me at train stations seems to be a recurring thing. I know I should probably be flattered but it scares me when total strangers try to ask me out. Flee for the hills kind of scared.

Family

If you saw me with my cousins, you probably wouldn't guess that we are related. The same goes for the following generation.


These little ones are first cousins.

You wouldn't have guessed if I didn't tell, huh? :)