an unknown day

do not be misguided by the picture above. today drifted by pretty slowly. i must agree with qiang's blog title, "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice...." i truly appreciated the meaning of that phrase today. time really moves slowly when you are waiting for things to happen. i did a lot of waiting today. waited for people to pick up my call. waited for people to return calls. waited for replies to my emails. wait. wait. wait.

woke up many times in the wee hours of the morning because of some mosquito bites. have been suffering that problem for many nights now. that dreaded mosquito! wait till i get my hands on it (literally)! dragged myself out of bed to switch on the aircon and close the windows to fend off the mozzies. then slipped back under the covers to get myself into dreamland. come to once again at 9. had to make some phone calls to solve the problem on my notebook. called singnet to check the problem with my connection and they had the stupidest voice recorded message... it goes like that, "thank you for calling singnet helpdesk. we are currently experiencing high call volume and may be unable to answer your call in the next 5 minutes. if you are experiencing connection problems, please visit our website at technical dot singnet dot com dot sg. or else, please hold for a customer service officer to take your call." DUHZ! if i have connection problems, how can i visit your silly website?! when i got through to the tech helpdesk officer, i immediately feedbacked to him and he laughed! but i made sure he passed this feedback to his manager.

*pause. phone call*

oooohh.... claryce just rang. called me on her way to work. can't believe she's changed jobs again. everytime she rings me, she's always in a new job. perhaps it just means that i have not spoken to her often enough. anyway, she's working as a receptionist at hotel 81 in geylang. oh man! how she found herself such a job, i'm not sure! *wondering*

oh well... where was i? yah, the singnet phone call. i'm so thankful that i got my notebook working again. freaky virus! but it was just two steps to get rid of it. so it wasn't much of a problem.

got myself all prepped up (mentally) to go to office today and meet sharon. but saw her on msn and she was telling me her appointment list today, so i decided to go over tomorrow instead. that got me so down. wanted to get out of the house, but too bad, no chance to do so. dropped a msg to jo who was on her way to the airport. leaving for london. after which, i found myself some breakfast and gobbled down some paos in front of the tv and monitor.

felt so bored by 12 that i was thinking what i can do for the rest of the day. i knew i had some work to do. call a client for second appointment. call an educational institution to speak to the course manager. call the caterer for 40 DoP. call lady at DBS auditorium. write some emails. edit schedule for 40 DoP. send out some letters. but those were all such mundane stuff that would probably bore me even more. so i called jon up. poor boy! he was busy revising for his paper in the afternoon. but that was going to be his last paper. so i'm glad for him that it was going to be all over. spoke to him for a while and left him to do more brainwork. spoke to zihui. she was having a tim sum buffet with wei! tsk tsk... such blissful life. happy for her. i've gotta go try the buffet one day soon. shan and i have been thinking of tim sum buffet for ages. and i really mean ages - half a year, at least. thought of meeting zihui for dinner, but since she's going to start work at 4pm, it was called off too. perhaps another time, girl.

so came the quiet and boring afternoon. did all i had to. did even more, like playing a few games of minesweeper. watched quite a lot of tv. surfed some auctions. read some blogs and livejournals of some of my friends, and even those of some i don't even know. quite interesting to see what some people are going through. and it's truly amazing how small the world is when a friend's friend's friend's friend is someone you remotely got to meet in the past. i guess that was the driving idea behind friendster.

time creeped towards the evening... jon called at 5.30 after his exam. seems like it was a tough one. gotta just pray that he would get through it. after all, he spent the whole week preparing for it. but it was just a tad too difficult for all of them to handle. and now they are off to holland v for dinner and some catch-up. glad for him that he can take some time off and enjoy his classmates' company.

so here i am... watching some happy fish show, writing about my less-than-ordinary day and waiting for dinner to be ready. hoping that my night would be a bit more eventful than my morning and afternoon added together. perhaps i should learn to be thankful. coz the rest of my week is going to swift past quite quickly. diary is quite packed. but let those days worry for itself...