Bleargh

It’s Deepavali! Happy Diwali to all those celebrating it. It’s also All Souls’ Day, I think… Yesterday was Halloween and All Saints’ Day… In two days it’ll be Raya, so Selamat Hari Raya Eid Ul Fitr to all Muslimin dan Musliman. Is that right? Musliman sounds weird…

Anyhow…

I’m working today. There are about 10 people in the office (on my floor at least) now and it’s a little too quiet and I hate it. I don’t mind working on holidays, but only if my friends are in the office too. Otherwise I’ll just do whatever needs to be done and go back three hours short of the obligatory eight-hour work time… Nobody cares, really.

Today is different, however. My work only starts after my writers finish their stories. And after that, I have to wait for the artists to finish their work before I can go home. It’s a whole lotta waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting… Ugh.

I guess in that sense I do miss writing. Writing takes up about three hours of your time, max (minus interview time and all that crap of course). Once you’re done, you go home or you hang out with your friends in the office bitching about pregnant ladies and old men with bunions. No waiting necessary.

Oh well. Itu kisah dahulu kala…

Oh man I’ve been wanting to eat lemang for a whole month now! Hmm…

been on leave for the past week. today, finally came in to the office after five days. i think this is the longest i have been away from the office while on “holiday”, except for the times when i actually get out of kl.

it’s been a tiring week really, working my ass off packing stuff, throwing stuff, cleaning stuff. i’m in the middle of moving, btw, and my whole body starts to ache all over again when i think about the fact that i have to move out again in two months. don’t ask. really, don’t.

my housemaets and i have been throwing stuff out of the house like crazy. one garbage truck came by the other day and practically parked in front of our house because they were sorting through our stuff. then another garbage truck came the next day, this time taking away our bulky items. i hope the garbage truck comes by again today cause we STILL have a lot of rubbish that needs to be sorted. sigh…

last night i slept in the living room of my empty house, on my rugs, bean bag and some throw pillows. couldn’t sleep really, haven’t been sleeping well for past few days and i’m sure i’ll have trouble sleeping in my new place too. it’s kinda depressing going into the house now cause it’s empty, save for a few boxes and plastic bags. when i walk i can hear my footsteps echoing all around the house….

why so sentimental?

well, i didn’t really want to move. but it came to a point where i really didn’t have a choice, at least not one that agreed with me. that house has seen a lot of shit, and has had a lot of my friends staying in it. even dear oton stayed there for a while.

my housemate said that the has also seen a lot of vomit, thanks to our numerous drunken bbq parties…. ah memories….

oh well.

time to move on I guess. things change. addresses change. at least i’ll still have the memories.

to quote rachel from friends:

bye house…

I am up to no good, I can feel it. I don’t know yet what evil thing(s) I will be doing in the very, very near future, but my mind is plotting something sinister.

Yeah, I have no control of my mind sometimes. It runs amok every now and then, and I gladly let it be. I think it’s healthy to be crazy sometimes - to shout at a stranger for no reason, to pick a fight with a colleague just because you can, to loudly curse a salesgirl whose only fault was to ask, “Can I help you?”

Of course, you have to be prepared to go all the way when you do it. The stranger might shout back, the colleague might squeal to the boss (or worse, cry - horror!) and the salesgirl might call you a bitch and tell you to get out of the shop. If any of these happen, don’t worry, just smile like a raving lunatic and pretend as if nothing’s wrong.

People are always afraid of lunatics who can’t stop smiling. You just can’t tell what they’re thinking….

* This entry is dedicated to Miss Smile-At-The-Computer-Screen-Like-A-Crazy-Fool, who finally quit her job. Yeeha!

I broke a wine glass the other day in my kitchen.

Apart from bosses fighting in the office, that was pretty much the exciting thing that happened to me this week.

So, haha. Fooled you into visiting this page!