A rough day

It was a rough day today, to say the least. It was deceptively slow in the morning, then everything came wham-bam around mid-morning, catching me unawares and causing me a great deal of stress. Add to that some other factors, and I was near tears as I stared furiously at the screen, willing my eyes and hands to move fast.

The interns went for lunch together. I went alone. Headed for my comfort food- Chicken avocado sandwich. Only it wasn't as nice today. Maybe it was just my mood. The chicken was rather tough, and it took me ages to finish it. I got full after eating half a sandwich.

I wish the monster somewhere in me would stop rising up and make me turn into an angry and unhappy person. Today as I was crossing the road, I almost wished I would get knocked down by a car. Isn't that morbid? The phone call just made me more miserable. And then the tears started again.

Right now, I am not going to think so much and just escape into my fictional world of novels. It's kind of mindless to come home and just surf foodblogs and read books. But at least it takes my mind away from things, and in a sense, give me some purpose.

Maybe it's just today. But God, let me have a good day tmr. Give me the strength to last through the week. And make me a nicer person that I am.

Beating the monday blues

It was great finally pushing my lazy butt to the gym after work for a heart pumping, perspiration flowing, fats zapping workout. It felt so good after that, all the angst, lethargy melting away. I do have to start a regular exercise routine soon. My colleagues all admire that I can eat so much at lunch and still eat so much snacks and still stay 'skinny'. But I know that it won't last.

At least I had a healthy lunch today, so healthy that it made the guilt of snacking on Loackers Vanilla Wafer(my new favourite) in the afternoon go away. Today was a slow moving monday. And I am glad, after the stress of last week, I deserve a rest. Anyway, I digress. Here it is, introducing Rosemary Chicken Sandwich from the Bratwurst Shop: It tasted so good that I felt it would be my new staple for lunch. Its the best sandwick around, apart from Cedele, I think. All that succulent chicken, cheese, healthy veggies in a foccacia bun and toasted in a panini press. Thats my idea of a good lunch. Of course they do sell a variety of other sandwiches and the juicest and tastiest hotdog buns, but that's for another day.

So yes, a healthy lunch, a non-so healthy afternoon snack and an exercise to beat the Monday blues

I get real work finally

It was quite a good day today because I finally got real work to do today, in the form of writing articles for a client. I got to talk to big boss herself. I find her very intimidating and also awe-inspiring. I wouldn't deny that I was quaking in my sandals prior to meeting her because I was so nervous. And no, she didn't eat me up. But I sure wouldn't find to find out the consequences of screwing up what she tells me to do. Thus, I face great stress indeed.

We had lunch at QQ Noodle House at Park Mall. The QQ specialty noodles is indeed rave-worthy. The noodles were springy and each strand was coated with their special seaoning and shallot oil, which is probably what makes it so unforgettable. It is not very waist-friendly though, I suppose. One major complain is the $3 portion is too small. Mine was gone in a matter of minutes. I really do regret that I don't have any pictures to post. But somehow I seem to have lost the habit of taking pictures of my food. That is probably because I get very self-conscious of taking pictures of my food nowadays.

For the next three days, I predict I would be kept busy, very busy indeed. I am not sure whether I like that.

I love weekends

The weekend flew past as usual this week, and I am having Monday blues once again. At least I packed a whole lot of things into my weekend to make the full use of it. I find it interesting how I face the same whole pattern of dreading Mondays, a whole long week of dreariness to come. Then on Tues, I would be glad that Monday is over. On wed, I would be happy that midweek has come. On Thurs, yay, its is past midweek. And of Fri, triple hooray, weekend has come. I ought to throw myself into work with more zest and enthusiasm. Sadly, I have been unable to thus far. It makes me worry and wonder about my future, just what I like to do. In this so very competitive society, do I have what it takes? It is something I can ponder about for the next few months while I can still afford to.

This has been a really enjoyable weekend, to eating delicious ramen at Tampopo, to finally going to the much acclaimed chocolate factory. It certainly did not let me down. The Vienna's hot chocolate I had blew me away with the intensity of chocolate and the sheer richness of the cream. Just thinking about it makes me smile. And there was the chocolate tart, which was every bit smooth, rich and delectable and sent me straight on chocolate's high. The black forest cake was just quite ordinary. I would be back again, for the flour less chocolate cake. And just the pure pleasure of soaking in the atmosphere, with chocolate in the air.

Today was just a great day of chilling out with mb, from eating my favourite piping hot kueh tutu at Clementi, to the famous Ah Balling rice balls..What a great way to spend the weekend!

The company lunch that beat Monday blues

My Monday blues are over. The day passed so quickly without me realizing it. I spent the better part of the morning uprooting from the room I have been occupying for a month, to another place where I had problems accessing the network drive, then back to my old room, then to another workstation whose occupant is on leave for one week. Two hours was wasted just like that.

It was the Senior VP M's birthday and she treated us all to "pub grub" at Stumps at The Cricket Club. It was quite a nice and atas place, full of seemingly leisurely men lounging around. Lucky M who was on leave that day had countless glasses of frozen magaritas while the rest of us who had to go back to work could only look on enviously while sipping our juices. We shared casear salad for starters, and the table of 12 women all ordered beer battered fish & chips, except for one who ordered chicken. The portion of it was HUGE and the fish was very fresh, though it was nothing to rave about. I feel that Fish & Co's fish and chips are undisputedly the best I have ever tasted. That being said, there are many other restaurants I have not tried, Greenwood Fish market & bistro being one of which, thus I shall reserve my comments.

Then came desserts. M was very generous, and ordered one of everything. Everyone was very full by then, and I was one of the few who gamely went for more. Three hours was gone by the time we headed back to office. A very satisfying lunch indeed.

The rest of the afternoon passed in a whirl and I was kept so busy that by the time I left work, I was very stoned. And so the cycle continues...

I am making a last ditch effort to save my blog by changing the frilly pink skin and and changing it to a minimalist look. I kind of like it, and as lease it has the comments options where you guys can leave comments instead of my flooble constantly expiring on my because its underused. In time I would probably add more stuff to it, but for now, this would suffice.

Its been exactly 1 month since I started internship at a PR company. Lets just call is WS for now. Its been 4 weeks of great changes, of great stress, of learning many things, and of course making friends. There are other interns from NTU, SMU and poly there, so lunchtime is always quite a jolly affair. I am supposed to intern at this company for 6months, which is an awfully long time to survive on an intern's pay, especially when I have to start paying off loans and such. I suppose I will find a way around it.

I have not beeng blogging for quite a couple of reasons. Firstly is because after a long and tiring day at work, the last thing I want to do when I come home is to involve my brain in anyway. Secondly, I am afraid of sounding boring. I don't want to sound like a run-of-the mill kind of blogger who just talks about her everyday life and bores the shit out of everyone. Third, I might be tempted to blog about work, and that is risky, considering what a big company I am working for.

Well, we shall see how it goes. Its another long week ahead..argghh.. I hate Mondays