Just an updated with a side dish of random thoughts
This weekend, I will be going up to Genting Highlands with my mother.
Its a hilltop resort, famous for the only legal gambling casino in Mlalaysia, as well as a world holiday resort. Just about everyone I know has gone there, everyone except me.
But we won't be going there for gambling, the opposite in fact. It's a church retreat organised by the church I have been attending. They asked me to go with my mother, and even told me I did not have to pay. So, its going to be the first time I'm going up Genting and the first time I am going on holiday (albeit a mini one) alone with my mother.
Tomorrow is also the last day of work for me at my present working place. I told my boss I was leaving early to get ready to leave for the UK. I haven't even packed, and I am totally clueless as to what to bring, or not to bring. Should I pack lots of socks? Do I bring disposable underwear? Toothpaste?
Time does indeed fly when you are not watching. It felt just like a while ago that I was just walking to this office, just days after finishing my last exams. Next thing you know, I'm two weeks away from flying off to the other side of the world, where I will stay in a strange land for 3 months and spend RM30,000 that I don't have, all in the name of a piece of certificate.
I did loose my thumb drive last week, and with it, all my important and personal items.. But I guess there was a flip side to it. I did not ask for it, but my boss gave me his old laptop, an old IBM laptop from 6 years ago to use. Now, 6 years old might not sound too bad, but if you live in the IT age, then you would know that a 6 year old laptop is as young as a dinosaur on a wheelchair. After a lot of tweaking here and there, I managed to get it in decent shape, and at least I have a computer of my own to do my blogging without the worry of someone staring over my shoulder on our home desktop. Plus, since he practically gave it to me, I can bring it along with me to the UK! So as long as the people in the UK know what a LAN cable is, I think I should be able to continue blogging. But I guess I'll only know when I get there.
My plan to get a digital camera before leaving has yet to materialize. I think I do have enough cash to buy a cheap, but I now find myself hesitating. After all, I won't die without one, and perhaps that money could be used for other purposes. For a while, getting it seemed like the single most important purpose of working these few months. But now that I'm at that point, I'm thinking perhaps getting a camera isn't all that matters in the world after all. Anyway, I did read somewhere that taking pictures is our human way of trying avoid mortality, as if capturing a picture is in a way preserving ourselves in time because there will never be another moment like this, and we will never be the same as we are not. I guess that was one of the reasons I want a camera so badly. But pictures also give a chronology of our lives, from the time we are born to the days before we die...... How many people tell you that when they want to get a camera eh? :-p Perhaps I have become too obsessed.
In other news, my mother seems to be improving somewhat, though just marginally. She has stopped trying to limp around, and the her aggression is now close to none. The only thing left is that she still talks a lot of nonsense, like talking to strangers and insisting that our housemate's girlfriend calls her mother. I gave her her house key today, and told her that it was a symbol of trust in her. It means that I will go home today believing that she is right there waiting for me.
I've had a case of writers block recently; can't seem to write any meaningful post, except the occasional blaberring here and there. I think the lack of inspiration has something to do with being trapped in the office for prolonged periods of time. As nice as the air conditioning is, it gives you nothing to write about except on how many times you've had to pee today. Barking at dogs and fiasco's in the petrol station make my life interesting! But surfing the internet all day with loads of free time has given me a lot of time to think and my mind has wondered here and there; from issues of the divine to the downright dirty (OK, I confess!), which really has no business in a work setting. But what can I say, I'm human too.
Its a hilltop resort, famous for the only legal gambling casino in Mlalaysia, as well as a world holiday resort. Just about everyone I know has gone there, everyone except me.
But we won't be going there for gambling, the opposite in fact. It's a church retreat organised by the church I have been attending. They asked me to go with my mother, and even told me I did not have to pay. So, its going to be the first time I'm going up Genting and the first time I am going on holiday (albeit a mini one) alone with my mother.
Tomorrow is also the last day of work for me at my present working place. I told my boss I was leaving early to get ready to leave for the UK. I haven't even packed, and I am totally clueless as to what to bring, or not to bring. Should I pack lots of socks? Do I bring disposable underwear? Toothpaste?
Time does indeed fly when you are not watching. It felt just like a while ago that I was just walking to this office, just days after finishing my last exams. Next thing you know, I'm two weeks away from flying off to the other side of the world, where I will stay in a strange land for 3 months and spend RM30,000 that I don't have, all in the name of a piece of certificate.
I did loose my thumb drive last week, and with it, all my important and personal items.. But I guess there was a flip side to it. I did not ask for it, but my boss gave me his old laptop, an old IBM laptop from 6 years ago to use. Now, 6 years old might not sound too bad, but if you live in the IT age, then you would know that a 6 year old laptop is as young as a dinosaur on a wheelchair. After a lot of tweaking here and there, I managed to get it in decent shape, and at least I have a computer of my own to do my blogging without the worry of someone staring over my shoulder on our home desktop. Plus, since he practically gave it to me, I can bring it along with me to the UK! So as long as the people in the UK know what a LAN cable is, I think I should be able to continue blogging. But I guess I'll only know when I get there.
My plan to get a digital camera before leaving has yet to materialize. I think I do have enough cash to buy a cheap, but I now find myself hesitating. After all, I won't die without one, and perhaps that money could be used for other purposes. For a while, getting it seemed like the single most important purpose of working these few months. But now that I'm at that point, I'm thinking perhaps getting a camera isn't all that matters in the world after all. Anyway, I did read somewhere that taking pictures is our human way of trying avoid mortality, as if capturing a picture is in a way preserving ourselves in time because there will never be another moment like this, and we will never be the same as we are not. I guess that was one of the reasons I want a camera so badly. But pictures also give a chronology of our lives, from the time we are born to the days before we die...... How many people tell you that when they want to get a camera eh? :-p Perhaps I have become too obsessed.
In other news, my mother seems to be improving somewhat, though just marginally. She has stopped trying to limp around, and the her aggression is now close to none. The only thing left is that she still talks a lot of nonsense, like talking to strangers and insisting that our housemate's girlfriend calls her mother. I gave her her house key today, and told her that it was a symbol of trust in her. It means that I will go home today believing that she is right there waiting for me.
I've had a case of writers block recently; can't seem to write any meaningful post, except the occasional blaberring here and there. I think the lack of inspiration has something to do with being trapped in the office for prolonged periods of time. As nice as the air conditioning is, it gives you nothing to write about except on how many times you've had to pee today. Barking at dogs and fiasco's in the petrol station make my life interesting! But surfing the internet all day with loads of free time has given me a lot of time to think and my mind has wondered here and there; from issues of the divine to the downright dirty (OK, I confess!), which really has no business in a work setting. But what can I say, I'm human too.
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