Friday, January 25, 2008
I'm going to Beijing tonight! Many thanks to my colleagues who have so valiantly offered to cover my duties while I'm gone.
Wenky
5:53 PM
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Run-up to CNY
Been tinkling in the garden, and muahahahahaha .. guess what I dug up, literally?
This is an Amorphophallus tuber - it started out several years ago as a potato-sized tuber which Maria brought back from Indonesia, but I was really quite surprised that it grew so large! It's still sitting on that table, and will be relocated to a more convenient spot near the tree fern - my mom's been complaining that the annual foliage from this plant has been overshadowing her spot in the garden.
Also did a spot of nursery-shopping last weekend, Yx and I ended up on a flower shopping spree. Had to act first, before my dad tries too hard to buy absolutely disgusting stuff for the garden. Things like kumquats, Dendrobium hybrids etc. The usual CNY works. The usual lurid things. I've been looking through those LOVELY UK plant catalogs, and I'm once again so blown away by the kind of things that you can actually grow, given the right climate. Would have loved to line the garden with crocuses and hyacinths, irises and pansies (mom calls them the monkey face plant ...)
Still a lot more left to do in the garden, and I'm just embarking on a semi-large project with the CP area.
Wenky
11:00 PM
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Many thanks for the correct ID, Kelvin! Apparently the flower I posted just a while ago was not that of Coelogyne pandurata, but C. rochussenii. Thought it looked a little different from the C.pandurata I had, since the flowers were yellowish and not green. So where did that C.pandurata go?
Had a bit of sun for the first time in a long, long while yesterday.
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Thanks for the chat last night, Monty. It somehow seems like things just keep getting bleaker. Major decisions in life, seeing how your peers do differently from you, and trying to project into the future. We will all do fine in the end. It's the road there that's sickening.
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你说的话
在我心中生了根。
也许是刁难
或也许是自己蒙上了眼
Wenky
6:19 AM
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Not too bad, woke only once this morning half an hour before I was supposed to. Not looking forward to work though, have a whole day in front of me plus a long night. Hope work will be good! For some reason, I always end up having these leg cramps on call day. Maybe it's anxiety causing spasms or something? Going to miss out on a JC gathering though.
Wenky
6:32 AM
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The Nag
It's refreshing to be nagged at during work by bosses, rather than being told off. No, I'm not being psychotic. I meant nag, as in Nag - like how your mom would go on and on about an untidy room or unfinished food. It's funny actually, how someone nagged at all of us and brought us on a 30-minute tour to look at fire exits today. "Do you know where to run away if there's a fire?", in an Auntie-ish tone. "Come, come, I'll show you." I couldn't help smiling through it all.
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My glasses have, once again, gone through their annual smash-and-destroy routine. I slept on them last night. Not altogether ruined, but it does credit getting a new pair sometime soon. And soon as in when I get my paycheck.
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Sleep and dreams have been very unkind lately. Waking up at 4am, then 5am, then 6am for the last 2 days, with uneasy and vivid dreams in between. I'm sure you'd have had this before. Annoying enough for this to happen once, but downright debilitating when it happens twice in a row. Yx - I think this is the reason why I've been so spent. In a desperate bid for release, I'm now dabbling again in aromatherapy oils tonight. 我要一觉到天亮。
Well perhaps not strictly 到天亮, seeing that I start my waking up routine before the neighbourhood dogs even reach the bone-gnawing part of their dreams.
Wenky
11:24 PM
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Monday, January 14, 2008
回味
Dug up some really old photographs yesterday - still during the film era, and took digital photos of them.
First up, 黄城夜韵. On hindsight, it's easy to see why people thought the theme of the entire play was ghostly.
I can't quite remember why, but we had this 没（眉）毛 thing going on.
And we really do hate some people eh? I wonder what happened to him - back to PRC? Caberet boss/sex change op? Or rich financial advisor/tycoon?
And just to track back a wee bit earlier ... the disgusting camp. All I ever remembered from this fiasco was the High Rope, abseiling and trek through this thick grey mud (which I suspect is cement - how the hell can mud be GREY in colour?).
String Orch. Oh, how I hated those practices! And EP3 day. And 老 Lau. All I wanted was to GO HOME after lessons.
Nepal. Now that was fun, so many fond memories. The donkey on the bridge, the run-in with the scouts and KHY's exasperation and bitchiness, the freakin' early morning climb up Poon Hill and our little trick with the baked beans and "room service".
Venom & Toxin research group. Can someone explain to me HOW I even dug up time to do so much at the same time previously? I feel so jaded and old. And all I do now is bitch and grouse.
Hong Kong, during my aunt's wedding, and while my grandparents were still around..
Our class & juniors. I still miss everyone, after so many years.
Prom. I look like a prat.
Being very unglam on a kelong - I think we were deciding which mussels to catch.
Wenky
6:27 AM
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Quite a bit better, now that the new people have come in - and they are pleasant too!
Just some photos of a Coelogyne pandurata plant. I got this plant as a cutting from my gran nearly 10 years ago, and here it is today! Wonderful scent of ylang-ylang, but as with almost all beautiful flowers, they are short-lived.
On call tonight, here's hoping that it'll be a good one!
Wenky
6:41 AM
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Yesterday was really nasty. Received a strange call too. Here's hoping that today will be better.
Wenky
6:27 AM
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Had quite a horrendous call, and as I learnt, so did my friend last night too.
On a happier note, Brownie's getting better. He can actually walk now, thanks to the TLC given by everyone. He got his last dose of painkillers this morning, but will need another month of Neurobion (yes, doggies eat the same kind of meds as humans ...). Apparently the vet said it's a sacral plexus injury, somehow he managed to fray his leg nerves and so was lame for the last few days. Nice vet, gotta send her a card one day if I can remember. =)
Also, got myself a packet of gladiolus bulbs! Probably won't be in time for CNY, but it's exciting all the same, being able to buy bulbs here in S'p.
Wenky
6:29 AM
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Monday, January 07, 2008
Sitting here and wondering when I'll ever get over this. Many, many thanks to those who cared. Mustering up the will and strength isn't easy. I'm afraid that despite years and years of knowing and being told, I still can't stop fretting about things that are yet to come. I know, abysmally stupid thing to do. I slept uneasily again, and woke at strange hours again. It's a maladaptation. Thing is, I hate to admit it, but I'm frightened. Of the known - like that the bosses are pretty nasty - and of the unknown. Losing control like this is one thing I can't stand. Perhaps, it's once again time to start the countdown. A little premature, but it does symbolise what I really, really want.
And once more, I really miss my friends. Had some good news about a crazy friend getting married this year, and I feel so happy for her. You go girl! =)
On call again tonight, wish me luck! Stuff to settle:
1) Leave
2) Call swops for leave
3) Find old parking label (it's missing!!!) and photocopy other stuff for car park
4) Return old work phone etc
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Crying inside, and I know you are too.
Let me just do a book of gratitude right here - I don't need to spend $30 on that. I'm grateful for:
having you here at the end of every day, to listen to the most utterly boring rants;
having friends who sms for chats, and that makes me feel like I'm not so alone after all;
having you go through all that in the past many, many years just for me, even if it wasn't your interest in the first place;
having Brownie to play with and take care of and cuddle;
being able to buy most things that I need, and many things that I want;
having a loving family whom I know will be there for me anytime I need them;
having the autonomy of doing most of what I want, and making decisions on my own;
having you putting up with my crazy temperaments and occasional tantrums;
having time to do things that need to be done;
knowing that each day will end, for better or for worse. And that things need to be put behind me, for each morning is a new day and it won't do at all to mope about what has been, or worry about what is to come.
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Wenky
6:06 AM
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Friday, January 04, 2008
Worried, stressed and disoriented. Throw in "feeling stupid" too.
Going to start work for real today (been doing orientation over last 2 days), and even on call I was feeling utterly stupid. And the environment is so alien. Really should have just stayed put at NUH. Heck with Aurora and the rubbish, at least I won't have to look around trying to figure out everything else. How are the rest of you doing? I'm definitely having some sort of adjustment disorder here.
Feeling really worried. Brownie is ill, and he isn't improving even after seeing the vet last night. He had some blood tests done which were normal, but he may need an X ray I think. Can't walk properly.
Wenky
6:31 AM
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Day 1 of 120.
I'm on call on my first day, like a few of my friends. Good luck to all of you, and wish me luck too! It might be an extremely traumatizing experience. And as usual, anxiety has gotten the better of me, and I barely slept for 4 hours. That, and my travelling time has quadrupled from 5 mins to 20 mins. I have absolutely no idea why I chose that place. Maybe this apprehensiveness stems from me not having fantastic experiences in that place. Kind of bleak, really. I suppose I need to find some goal to work towards - not work-related, of course! Just something really ordinary to look forward to at the end of it all. Whatever it is, the morning will come, and I'm deeply thankful I'll always have something to look forward to at the end of each day.
Can't help feeling somewhat sad. Perhaps I should've just stayed put in one place. Like Yx said, I'm a plant. I don't take well to being transplanted.
I wonder what's at the end of the road.
Wenky
6:03 AM
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Last of the fun times, before this spate of holidays ends.
I received a Jamie Oliver book from Yx for Xmas, and decided to try out one of the recipes. 2 actually, but the fish didn't turn out well. The chicken was great though!
Baked chicken in pastry.. it does look a little intruiging, doesn't it?
And we finally cut it open to reveal a whole chicken. The juices were all contained in the pastry.
Happy 6th Anniversary =)
Wenky
11:48 PM
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Once again, hating this feeling of change, of being at the crossroads. It wasn't too bad I suppose for people who do change departments etc as a batch, like a few friends together. I probably wouldn't mind as much. But as things are right now, it's a cold, bare kind of feeling.
OK, twilight-ish feelings aside, time for some merriment! Have a fantastic dinner waiting for me. Will update later!
Wenky
6:36 PM
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