Life Is But A Sojourn
..somewhere i belong..Archive for July, 2008
Can we make delicious cupcakes, not war!?
I feel so pitiful - It is Friday and I have nobody to eat dinner with me. :( My mum is not cooking tonight, my baby is having dinner with his colleagues, Shereen is not free to eat with me… And so I have to go back home and eat alone.
Since I have to watch the tv show on Channel U at 10pm so it is okay. Anyway this is not the first time I have to eat alone.
A nasty and ugly incident happened when it’s time to knock off from work.
Just now while I’m still in the office trying to finish updating the events calendar… My colleague, Vi, came to my table and talked to me about the stupid exhibition vendor who provided a lousy service to her while Dav was helping her with the email thingy. Then while she’s talking, she saw a wallet on my table and asked who it belongs to. And so I said it should belong to Dav as he came to my table earlier too. She then wanted to play mischief on him and hid the wallet. I warned Vi that Dav might get angry if he cannot find it. I should have insisted to stop her instead of letting her to continue with the prank.
True enough, Dav soon discovered his wallet is missing and frantically looking for it. I’m sure he knew one of us (me, Jo and Vi) hid his wallet and somehow he lost his cool and exclaimed to return his wallet immediately or else…… Eventually Vi returned the wallet, Dav took it and stormed off.
We were all dumbfounded *imagine our eyes were popping and mouths uttered with a silent HUH?* by his sudden action. He was supposed to go for wine tasting with Vi and see her pretty cousin. A minute ago he was jolly and the next moment he went fume and gone. Poor Vi was flustered. She then texted Dav to apologise. I guess this “cousin-in-law” relationship has turned sour – for today only I hope. Pray hard things will go back to normal on Monday.
Somehow I feel that things went wrong because we are too friendly to each other and it did not come to our mind that someone who we see, joke and laugh everyday will get so pissed over a small matter. Perhaps the prank has gone overboard? Could be.
I miss the good old times when just me, Val, Nikki and Harriet and minding our own business.
So…… Are we still going baking lesson or what???
Relationships
Many times I heard stories from people around me about their love relationships with their partners. We would often feel that someone else’s relationship is better than ours and envy them. But who would know what’s the real story behind?
Sometimes we just don’t know how fortunate we are. We expected too much and ended up the result is not what we expected. If we never open our mouth to tell him/her, how would they know what we really want? A lot of times during quarrel, we would say something nasty to cover up what we really want from that person. Why can’t just TALK things out? And after trashing out, will we understand and compromise to each other? Ha…
I pity some of my friends. I don’t want to say who are they. I just hope they know that we should cherish what we have now. To meet each other is a fate but to know each other is a chance. If you don’t even know how to seize the chance to know each other, what is the point of carry on and suffer with misunderstanding and unhappiness? But of course we must know what we want before asking in return.
Tuesday at work
Lately my workplace seems to become more lively. Thanks to our new colleagues, Viona and Joanna, as they are really fun-loving people. We would joke and laugh… Most of the time we were teasing David as he should change his most controversial style (1. geeky grey hair 2. no dress sense… HAHAHA!!!) in order to meet his Miss “Mango” and/or “Cherry”. Hahaha! At last, he heeded to our advise and finally spot a new hairstyle this week!
Hmmm… Should I post up his before and after photo? Heehee… 
Ok Fine… I will respect his privacy. But hopefully he will get to know his Miss Mango real soon!
I can’t wait for Friday to come. Work as usual, busy, but glad that the address directory distribution are all done and over. *Phew* This is one of the major group project and imagine if I screw it out? But glad all done smoothly. The next big project is the 2009 calendar distribution. I think this may be a little complicated but pray hard everything goes on smoothly!!!
Most importantly is to keep myself happy! I’m so looking forward to my next shopping spree!!!
Grown up
18 Jul Friday night… Met up with the girls for dinner at Minori Dining & Sake Bar at UE Square. Supposed to celebrate Xinyi’s birthday with just me and May… Ended up Lena joined in and Eileen after her work.
Should have taken photos during the dinner!!! The girls damned me for forgeting to whip out my camera. :X But anyway, we have sushi buffet and I find it good (as usual, Lena kept complaining it was no good and expensive) and much better than Sakae Sushi. We talked and ate and kept ordering since all were on free flow…
May is going to hold her wedding on 5 September. I feel happy for her and hope all preparation goes on smoothly. My primary school classmate, Jeremy is also holding his wedding in September! But I don’t think I will be able to attend his wedding. On the other hand, Xinyi will be holding her wedding on 18 December and my not-close-at-all-cousin’s wedding in October. Gosh!!! So many weddings!!! I can feel the big hole in my wallet now.
After our dinner, we met up with Eileen since she worked in Liang Court now and we headed to Clarke Quay Coffee Club. I noticed that Eileen has ballooned so much since we last met in March. She claimed she had fast food almost everyday. OMG! That is so scary! Too much fast foods make you grow fat faster!
At Coffee Club, we waited for a looooooonnnggg time till we got our seats. We ordered our drinks and finger food (so sinful to eat at 12 midnight). Xinyi’s tempting to order a little piece of cake and so we eventually sabo her…
When her cake arrived, we requested for a candle. Xinyi was violently against the idea as she knew that our daredevil Lena will create a scene by singing at the top of her lung! True enough, we sang loudly until the table behind our table applaused and sent their birthday wishes! HAHAHAHA! This is so fun! As you can see from the picture, the birthday girl was painfully embarassed but happy. 
Some random pictures……
I want to highlight that this dinner was planned at the very last minute! That is why the rest of the gang was not invited!
Looking back, we have all grown up and most of us are married. Lena is already a mum of a two-year-old son. Who’s next? Heehee… I really miss the days when we were young and free.
Suffering
The Truth of Suffering
Although we would like to be happy and wish happiness for others, but our nature is to suffer and to cause others to suffer. The Buddhist defines “suffering” not just as physical pain of the body, but also the discontent our minds are afflicted with most of our waking day. This truth sounds extreme or even contradictory. How can the essence of life be suffering, when also sometimes feel great happiness – even so joyful that we believe life couldn’t get any better? The conflict between our occasional feelings of joy and the turth of suffering – Examine closely at any moment when you feel fulfilled, you will find that down under the joy there is a subtle undercurrent of tension, the knowledge that no matter how great the moment is, it is going to end. No matter how much you just gained, you are either going to lose some of it or spend the rest of your days guarding what you have got and scheming how to get more. And in the end, you are going to die. In the end, you lose everything. It is all transitory. Happiness and suffering are a natural part of the human condition. To find a better way of being in the world, we must first find the cause of our suffering. (extracted from the book – Empowering your Life with Meditation)
“Suffering is nothing but existence enslaved to ignorance.” – The Dalai Lama
We are born to suffer. How true.
Whatever it is… live life to the max. No regrets before I die. Ha….
蔡依林 – 好想你
我喜歡你 緊握我的手 一股安全的暖流 滲透到胸口
我喜歡你 叫我的語氣 理直氣壯的粗魯 卻有私密的親暱
☆好想你 不停止 好想你 我愛你
寫在手心 你笑容你觸碰 還是讓我心動
好想你 不停止 好想你 我愛你
給我勇氣 那包容那激動 都是我 珍藏的內容
我喜歡你 吻我的時候 看你專注地低頭 像永遠不夠
我喜歡你 叫我的名字 一副若無其事地 又像公開的秘密
Repeat ☆
好幾次我怕會來不及 還沒抱夠你
不管我是你幾分之幾 我只要愛你
好想你 不停止 好想你 我愛你
寫在手心 你笑容你觸碰 還是讓我心動
好想你 不停止 好想你 我愛你
給我勇氣 那包容那激動 都是我 被愛的光榮
