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i've finally decided i'll blog today since my boss is on leave the entire week. have also realised how much i had missed out on writing e.g. Mother's Day, my new glasses, swimming, youth service @ church, dinner for dear's family, fixing the com etc. and i figured, if i still don't make an effort to write about it, i may as well forget it forever! so here i am.

1) My Boss in on a week and a half's leave starting from last tuesday. and he hadn't left me any work to do despite my countless hints on how bored i'd be. so i managed to find something to occupy myself - i've been helping my colleague bind books. hey that's an easy job, and who's to say that isn't tedious and time-consuming?
and in addition to that, i've also brought a book to entertain myself - Memoirs of a Geisha. i finally managed to get the book, the boyfriend borrowed it from one of his army friends. only constrain about this book lender is that i mustn't open the book too wide for fear of stretching and spoiling the oh-so-precious-and-expensive book. *sigh
of course i'm not allowed to be openly reading whilst at work, so i've been craning my poor neck like a primary school girl trying to finish her favourite story book as soon as she cans during the boring lessons in class.

number of days boss on leave: 7
any forms of entertainment: Memoirs of a Geisha
any "actual" work: book-binding

2) Vesak Day and Mother's Day on 12th and 14th May respectively, i had
followed my family to the temple for vegetarian food in the morning before i went off on my own to scout for a decent prezzie for the boyfriend. fortunately on the public holiday itself, he had duty and thus had to stay behind to serve the nation.
i've always liked vegetarian food, so whenever the opportunity arises, i will follow them to the temple to feast on it. but this year, it was a lil disappointing. there was no soup, which happens to be my favourite. nevertheless, the wide spread was good enough, really.

yes, and all the question marks must be forming in the heads. why would a Christian girl go to the temple for vegetarian food? issit allowed??? well, perhaps it ain't a question of whether it was allowed to or not, but rather, what we believe in our hearts. you see, faith is trusting something you do not see (romans 10:17) and yet still believing in it.
i honestly do not know what are the buddhists' belief in taking vegetarian food on vesak day, but i do know that vegetarian had been God's original, intended diet for us humans until adam and eve screwed up and sinned against God. that aside, though those food may have been prayed over before serving to the table, if i only have my own God and Saviour in my heart and nothing of the idols, then i am free from all those prayers prior to the serving. which means, its still food, served just like anywhere else. and that temple which we had gone to, they serve the food outside, away from the main hall where devout buddhists offer incense and chants, so as far as i was concerned, it was safe for me.
so i left and gone to town to look for the prezzie which took me almost all day before i finally found it on my way home. and afterward, my sister and i decided to treat my mom to dinner @ Soup Restaurant. none of the guys were there, not even dad. so it was like our lil own all-girls' nite out! hee=p
it was just a simple dinner because unlike other families, my family always ate together, so to us, everyday is Mother and Father's Day.

number of feasts that day: 2

3) following that, somewhere in mid-week, i had taken half day leave to drive into Johor with my parents as you would have read earlier on. well but that aside, i really miss the times we would all just drive in one lazy afternoon and spend the day just eating and eating there. =)

agenda in Johor: EAT!

4) swimming. suddenly conscious of a lil bulge, i became extremely athletic and decided i had to do something about it. and my favourite exercise: swimming. so i dragged the boyfriend during his nights' out and got him to swim with me in the night. it was so cold, but because i was so determined, i had to carry on. and so we did, first night was 10 laps. and the second was 14. big jump, but we'd slowly work our way until we reach 20-25 laps.

no. of laps so far: 14
no. of laps to be achieved: 20-25

5) Youth Service @ church last saturday, there was a warm feeling going back there though all the people are now different. but there was no doubt we felt strange. to begin with, we were like the oldest people around and it didn't feel like main service. maybe when people grow and mature, they gradually become suitable for certain things more than others, and i guess that was how it went. well but, we'll see.

6) straight after the service we got back home to prepare dinner. i had earlier told the boyfriend's mom i felt like making dinner and asked her in the cutest most manja tone if i was allowed to do so and she returned my sweet smile by saying yes. we stopped by for grocery shopping before heading back. my dear was a great kitchen assistant, like how all the palace maids were on Da Chang Jin. *lolx
so with his help, i made Sesame Chicken (and added the tonic wine, DOM to it), Silver Coin Toufu and fried the leftover prawns and minced meat together with the xiao bai cai and my favourite golden mushrooms. aunty was so kind and kept asking how i made those. because while i was done with dinner, i was still busy preparing a lil snack for supper - Fishcake or Fish Patty, however you like to call it. i had a sudden urge for it so i decided i was going to make it for all of them to eat. it was no easy job though, mincing the fish meat and mashing the
potatoes. but when you eat it, hmmmmm the orgasmic feel, aaahhhhh undescribable. its a personal favourite you see. hee =p

7) and lastly, i just fixed the new com last night. well, what can i say? i wanna wash my hands off totally when i sell the old one and get myself a lappie.

and guess what? finally my new glasses are done and i'm waiting to go collect them this weekend! decided to go for a change since my current one is plastic. this new one is metal. heh heh, and guess what? its pink!!! not bright pink but a much mellower shade. nice. i'll show it off once i get it! =p