Vals...

Life's been good to me. I had an excellent Christmas and New Year. Got rid of the 3 scum bags who were destroying my life (all 3 came back mind you! and 2 got chucked again) have become closer to my sisters and family. Work's been good too. Hard to imagine that, since I'm always ranting about it =) But it really has been good. I've been swamped and stressed, but this is good stress, I like the challenging stuff that I'm presented with, it keeps me on my toes and my mind's alert. The only downside of this is that I'm exhausted after work and during the weekends. And so i choose to stay home. In fact had to bail out on a few meetings with friends. I'm sure they are pissed with me but I just can't do too much. Heck I don't even like to go for drinks after work anymore. It seems like such a hassle nowadays.
Valentine's Day was pretty good this year, for my standardslah. I've grown out of it I think. I used to be one of those people who wished the whole world on this day and had to celebrate it. But I think it's too commercialized nowadays. You don't need one day in a year to express how much you 'lau' someone. They should know you love them throughout the year. My previous blog entry - "I can see clearly now!!" says it all. Maybe i'm just not too cynical this year. Gawd! Am I actually growing up..sob* sob*. So anyways, my colleagues (who are also my friends) gather at D's place to celebrate the eve of Val's day. Composition of total population - 2 in a serious relationship (both long-distance), 3 singles, 1 divorcee. All women! We met up at D's place and ordered some food from the cafeteria at her condo. I tell you, the assam fish was to die for. We had that during S's bday and I so had a craving for it this time around also. The sauce was just right, spicy (even for me) and not sweet but with a slight zing to it.

The infamous assam fish

Slurp! i'm salivating just thinking of it. Then we ordered other local dishes to complement the assam fish but I tell you, that dish, was in the limelight. So after dinner, Sb & MP show up, late as usual - real yindian timinglah. By this time we had already started on the drinks.

We watched the first movie - The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons. I had already seen this movie but recommended it for the others. I know, I know, it starts of quite interestingly enough then drags....and drags....and drags....but then it comes to a point where it moves along nicely. Just before that part, SC,S and Sb left. Impatient! Anyway after wiping tears from our eyes, at around 1.30am, we started on the 2nd movie - P.S. I 'lau' you. I hadn't seen this one but they said it was pretty good. I cried from start till end. I know, I'm such a wuss. But I have become a bit of a softie lately, just trying to get in touch with my feminine sidelah. The movie finished at 4 something. D & I went to send PM and MP home and we stopped by at 7E for my ciggies and Magnum ice-cream. We came home and she continued online dating with her other half (she was doing that the whole day) talk about multi-tasking hehehe. I finally crashed at 6.30am.

Speaking of D, she is the main recipient of flowers in our office. Almost every week or fortnight, she receives a bouquet of flowers. Each time the flowers are of different variety and sizes. It's so sweet. And mind you, her other half - Mr. T is miles away in another continent and yet he sends her flowers so often. No excuses for you guys here!! I know he sends them to her cause he always calls me to check if the flowers have arrived and what was her expression. HE is such a sweetheart. Too sweet for my liking but such a darling. Anyways, he called me a few days in advance to let me in on the secret, he was sending her 2 bouquets - 1 on Val's day to her house and another on Monday (16th). One of it was a 100 rose bouquet. Altogether now..awwww..........So on Friday, she gets a bouquet - no surprise there. But she was not in the office yet, so I sent him a text message telling him that the bouquet arrived (I thought he changed his mind about sending it on the 16th, and i thought the 100 rose bouquet was going to be sent to her home). It was a small bouquet of tulips. No reply from him. Hmm...strange. Then D walks in the office. She was on the phone (with him of course). When her call ends, she comes to my workstation and says " babe, the freaking flowers were not from him, he's so pissed now." I was like shit, shit, shit! Did I mess it up? I told her I told him but she said before that she already asked him if he sent flowers cos the receptionist told her. Phew! So it was not my fault. But I felt bad nevertheless. Then in the afternoon another bouquet arrives - it's from the same guy not Mr. T. So every one goes like "ooohh, aaahh, so sweet, oh gosh he must be spending so much on flowers alone, ladi ladi da" only S and i know the truth but we play along of course. We begged D not to tell him considering he was so upset. He wanted to take a flight back after she got her first bouquet. I told her if she told him about the 2nd bouquet he would definitely take a flight back and he'd be worried sick. He a bit emo-lah but that's his only flaw. She din want to lie to him, but we told her it's not lying, it's preventing him from getting hurt and doing something silly. And since she had already told him about the first bouquet, it was not lying. The poor guy would be suicidal if he knew about the other 2.

The 3rd bouquet - Lillies, my favourite flower

The 2nd bouquet - The roses

The 1st bouquet - The tulips

So we told her to keep it quiet. Next day, we woke up late and lazed, chatting away. We watched Sweet November, aww.....it was quite sweet. Then at about 5pm I finally decided to go home. Was meeting J and Y for drinks later. Was quite lazy but dared not FFK again. But on the way home J sends me a text asking to postpone the meeting. So went home and lazed, watched tv. Was too lazy to do any work. At 10pm K (one of the scum bags) calls and says he's at Rum Jungle, asked me to go. I KNEW why he asked me to go =P. Decided not to waste the precious me-time that I was enjoying. All in all it was a good vals. All in the name of 'lau'