A saturdated Saturday...

This morning I woke up at 9 in the morning after barely 6 hours of sleep! YES, we slept at 3 a.m.! I and P’Oy were tying up loose ends for the President’s farewell on the 17th at the Board room… it’s so far being planned well.

Well… went to the office in the morning and made a call to Express to see if my ‘extra-luggage’ confirmation was ready ‘cos my shopping would solely depend on that, won’t it? Anyway, it wasn’t yet ready but I’m promised that I’ll get it…

Future Park was the next port of call where we frantically looked for a place to make the photo frame. Finally found one on the third floor!

We kind of spent more time at the Thai studio checking out the Thai fashion and admiring the elegance in the costumes. I’ll be going there again to get some portraits done. The seller asks if I’d want to do wedding photos as well!!! Yeah, right! And I ask her if she has an album where I get to choose the groom! She laughs and says NO! She probably thought I was joking!....

Did I mention breakfast here??? NO! So… breakfast and lunch at a newly opened place called Pizza Today! My comments on the place: American pizza served in the Thai style with a bowl of vegetables to balance the ‘healthy’ diet! And their spicy fried chicken was actually sweet and sour! Was that a mistake??? Well, drinks are ‘drink all you can’ for 29 Baht… and the good thing is that there’s hot coffee… really cool! and the most exciting is the handsome chef (?) at the oven who spins and tosses the dough and also manages to pass on a smile at you in between!

Ok… now let’s go to Chatuchak. It was P’Oy’s 31st minute at the market! She loved the place, that I’m sure of ‘cos she said she’s going to come again!!!.... I’d be glad to bring her again. We did quite a lot of shopping or should I say the volume of the goods was large i.e. we bought a little of BIG sized stuff! The steel stand with the glass bowl was what I had to bring back to AIT safely without causing injuring to humans on the way and also not breaking the glass bowl as well as 11 ceramic flower vases!

Where the hell are the taxis when you want them??? We tried hailing them one after the other and it was either they won’t go to AIT or they want a flat rate which almost equals the price of the stand and the bowl put together. Anyway, P’Oy left in the same taxi that refused to take me and I came back and lined up for the van. I half expected them to tell me to get off!!!

Half an hour in the shower was what I needed to wash off the JJ weariness, cool off and increase my chances of prolonging my cold!!!

A call from France!... and now I’m ready to sleep!

Tomorrow… fireworks???

Reflecting...

Today… I feel much better!!! Feel so happy to wake up in the morning without feeling sick! The taps are still running but at least, the head isn’t spinning and neither is the temperature skyrocketing!

All in all, I think I’m getting better! Guess it must have been the XXL bowl of chicken rice soup and Vitamin C tablets! And loads of rest and sleep?

I used to have a nurse who shoves down ginger and honey down my throat but she doesn’t come around anymore. She seems to be preoccupied! What to do?

In times of need, we tend to reflect… more because, there’s time to reflect on your personal life and not on work! I reflect on friends this time… who stands by you and who doesn’t? Some just tend to disappear from your lives and appear in others’…. That’s the case with 2 of my friends now. They both got attached, so to speak.

Oh well.. that brings me to think of the definition of friends. We’d spoken about this at Sister Early’s place the other night and it was strange how each person defined it differently. It kind of depended on how much value you put into a friend. Some don’t put much. Some put a lot! And for those who put a lot, it’s saddening to know that the friend you placed so much value on, didn’t do the same for you.

Life pretty much goes on… with or without friends, doesn’t it?

But, there’s something to keep anyone going and that’s family! They’re always there for you… aren’t they? But we don’t tend to put as much value to family than we ought to and when it’s time to reflect, they come first in line! Why is that?

Nevertheless, I go home next week and I’m really looking forward to that more than anything else right now. We’re moving into the new house and that’s exciting for all of us I guess. Thathi has put so much into it that I almost feel guilty going back just to move in. It’s not the cash I refer to but the effort and the patience to carry on for the sake of the whole family. I’m proud of you Thathi… and I am proud to be your daughter!

And this time I go, I don’t intend to shed as much tears. Anyway, don’t think I’d be shedding tears all around the island, would I? ok… I’d rather not think about it. It’s another long story all together. Not good to start on that now. May be some other time or no time would even be better!!!

For now… let’s think of something else… hmmm… aha…: