Hi! I need to put this on paper, so to speak because today has been an overall fun-ny day. It incorporates fun and funny and it makes it more fun to write it that way. I sound like a clueless teenager;) Anyway, it has been an almost perfect fun-ny day for me. It started from the hilarious morning meeting to my so fun-ny yoga session and it ends with a fun-ny episode of House. Everything seems to fall into place and I love it. The meeting started with the chairman of the FFA speaking passionate about how it was such a major crime to use paper files when the situation warrants them to use a hard cover files. It was worse than murder! On top of it all, after her sarcastic remarks, all the FFA members nodded down in shame. In some state you might get the boot and get sack. That serious! But no not in Selangor, with the new government and all…they are not that strict. These people are so obsessed with files that they will do anything to get hold of one and be surrounded by files. Yeah… FFA stands for File Fetish Anonymous (FFA). Yeah…everyone knows..i am a looney!But I was talking about an actual meeting in an established organization where people get sensitive and upset over files. It was the MK(pause)………….whatever crap meeting. Heck, I can’t remember all these abbreviations. Therefore, I refused to take it seriously because it is more fun to be cynical. Time flies faster that way. Life is filled with cynics and I am one of them! If I were to say that I had a MK(pause)….whatever crap meeting (still not coming to me) and we talked about the audit and yada yada yadda. How interesting is that? But if I tell you that some of the staff members feel so passionately about files, logbooks and documents and that they were demonstrating a fetish like behavior. ..then it’ll become more interesting. As the meeting progresses and after a heated debate about files, logbooks and documents, they have decided that they need to allocate more time to discuss about files, logbooks and documents. They need another meeting for it. Where?When? I know!I know! 10pm at the file room! Okay okay enough about the FFA. The sms I received and sent during the meeting captured more of my attention than the rightly so meeting but through practice I was able to strategically plan my responses according to the response of the meeting. Sounds complicated but it’s not.It’s about juggling I guess and being a mom, you are an expert. The meeting ended with a laughJ
After that I received a sms from Dean and he bought me fresh cherries. This is the highlight of my day. Then H called and we talked about bowel system and it was kindda funny… and gross! Then Jonah wanted to go for lunch at 3pm and we had lunch at the little English corner. Then the hilarious, LOL and roll on the floor fun-ny conversation with another good friend. A continuation from the sms and meeting. That conversation turned eery when Jonah joined us and opened up the curtains for ghost stories. I thank God I live in BJ. I remembered coming back from PP that night and it was an adventure. First there were houses and lights, suddenly there were forests and no lights. It went misty and foggy. The perfect setting for a Psycho movie. Hmm… come to think of it I should have tried my fog lights.
After the horror stories and counseling a student. I went downstairs to have drinks with Alex and Jonah and before you know it, it was time to go home. Perfect job eh? I think so too. I got home and did yoga with Hannah. Having her imitate my mountain pose or tree pose or anything else is funny enough. The best thing was that when she saw me panting and sweating. She said “mummy, I think you are going way too fast. You need to slow down”. With that she took a tissue and wipes my forehead. 9pm I watched Chuck and he’s funny and adorable. He is growing on me. I love my Monday nights more when I get to watch CHUCK. The I watched House and it was cynically fun-ny. That’s the end of my near perfect and fun-ny day. Gotta go. Goodnite!
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Snap!
I wrote this today. I know i havent written in awhile. A lot of things have happened. I have entries for those events but today i just want to share this entry.
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Hmm…I was dwelling on the title for a good two seconds before deciding that, that would be it. It’s hard to talk about this subject when I myself question my sanity sometimes. But mental illness has never been scarier since Marie. It’s like looking at an accident scene in your moving car as compared to physically standing in front of the wreck and the casualties. The intensity is magnified tenfold. You must be wondering what am I blabbering about..oh well. I want to talk about a colleague of ours who has just went hmm..koo koo? I know…a bit mean .. especially after the frappacino green tea. I can be a bit blunt. Or maybe I am not like some people who are good with words.Yep..blame it on the tea and not on mua! Ok…how am I going to nicely put it. She has been diagnosed of having bi-polar disorder. I feel sadness in me that I have never felt before. We are not close but it’s sad because she has just gotten her doctorate. It must be a horrifying dilemma for the family. Somehow I refuse to belief it at first because it just doesn’t make sense. It can happened in the movies or in another company but not ours.hmm.. until now I’m still making up stories to myself that she is doing a secret research where she’s observing how people react to the mentally unstable. It’s a secret that she has to pretend to be crazy and an agreement has been drafted with the doctor about her research that no one knows. Soon she’ll come out of it and everyone will laugh at how silly and paranoid they have become and everything will go back to normal. By now, you must be thinking I am the one that’s mentally unstable. Not bi-polar, multi-polar disorder, excessive mood swing all the timeJ Admit it..it’s funny. My friends and I have been joking about it. We tried very hard to not show how worried we are about our own sanity that we poked fun at Marie’s disorder and other mental diseases. Secretly, some are checking on the symptoms of bi-polar on the internet and matching it to their behaviors. Seriously! I bet that’s what they are doing now. It’s funny when one person has been labeled ‘crazy’(notice the inverted commas ok) by an authority, everyone else who used to look ‘crazy’ now seems normal and is blending with the crowd. I can raise eyebrows with Sienna acknowledging about some common facts that has been discussed about Marie, when before Sienna is labeled as ‘crazy’(by most people in the company) for sending uniform ‘crazy’(inverted commas again)sms to selected people in the company for just being guilty of not saying hi to her. See the turn of event. To describe in another words, the non-verbal signal I have shared with Sienna is – I am agreeing with a crazy person about another crazy person.hmm..what does that make me?CrazY!?
Okay… serious stuff. When I feel that I am on the brink of going koo koo, I turn to GOD for some spiritual Prozac. It works all the time. It’s no charge and embarrassment-free. I ask for peace and sanity. But it’s sad when in Marie’s case, she couldn’t turn to God anymore. I hope that with time, medication and therapy, she’ll be ok. I seriously hope that she’ll be ok. One thing is good though that people can still distinguish between what’s crazy and what’s not. With all that’s happening in the world right now- attacking another country without being provoke, open burning, body markings(it’s revolting unless if you think having fish fins grooves underneath your skin is cool) and many other not normal things that people are doing right now. It’s hard to distinguish between what’s crazy and what’s not. It’s good that we can still do. Today has been lazy and sleepy for me until I was awaken by a good friend and caffeine of course. Now I’m all charged up and ready to work. It’s 4.30pm by the way. I guess I’ll save all my energy for tomorrow. Chao earthlings!
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Hmm…I was dwelling on the title for a good two seconds before deciding that, that would be it. It’s hard to talk about this subject when I myself question my sanity sometimes. But mental illness has never been scarier since Marie. It’s like looking at an accident scene in your moving car as compared to physically standing in front of the wreck and the casualties. The intensity is magnified tenfold. You must be wondering what am I blabbering about..oh well. I want to talk about a colleague of ours who has just went hmm..koo koo? I know…a bit mean .. especially after the frappacino green tea. I can be a bit blunt. Or maybe I am not like some people who are good with words.Yep..blame it on the tea and not on mua! Ok…how am I going to nicely put it. She has been diagnosed of having bi-polar disorder. I feel sadness in me that I have never felt before. We are not close but it’s sad because she has just gotten her doctorate. It must be a horrifying dilemma for the family. Somehow I refuse to belief it at first because it just doesn’t make sense. It can happened in the movies or in another company but not ours.hmm.. until now I’m still making up stories to myself that she is doing a secret research where she’s observing how people react to the mentally unstable. It’s a secret that she has to pretend to be crazy and an agreement has been drafted with the doctor about her research that no one knows. Soon she’ll come out of it and everyone will laugh at how silly and paranoid they have become and everything will go back to normal. By now, you must be thinking I am the one that’s mentally unstable. Not bi-polar, multi-polar disorder, excessive mood swing all the timeJ Admit it..it’s funny. My friends and I have been joking about it. We tried very hard to not show how worried we are about our own sanity that we poked fun at Marie’s disorder and other mental diseases. Secretly, some are checking on the symptoms of bi-polar on the internet and matching it to their behaviors. Seriously! I bet that’s what they are doing now. It’s funny when one person has been labeled ‘crazy’(notice the inverted commas ok) by an authority, everyone else who used to look ‘crazy’ now seems normal and is blending with the crowd. I can raise eyebrows with Sienna acknowledging about some common facts that has been discussed about Marie, when before Sienna is labeled as ‘crazy’(by most people in the company) for sending uniform ‘crazy’(inverted commas again)sms to selected people in the company for just being guilty of not saying hi to her. See the turn of event. To describe in another words, the non-verbal signal I have shared with Sienna is – I am agreeing with a crazy person about another crazy person.hmm..what does that make me?CrazY!?
Okay… serious stuff. When I feel that I am on the brink of going koo koo, I turn to GOD for some spiritual Prozac. It works all the time. It’s no charge and embarrassment-free. I ask for peace and sanity. But it’s sad when in Marie’s case, she couldn’t turn to God anymore. I hope that with time, medication and therapy, she’ll be ok. I seriously hope that she’ll be ok. One thing is good though that people can still distinguish between what’s crazy and what’s not. With all that’s happening in the world right now- attacking another country without being provoke, open burning, body markings(it’s revolting unless if you think having fish fins grooves underneath your skin is cool) and many other not normal things that people are doing right now. It’s hard to distinguish between what’s crazy and what’s not. It’s good that we can still do. Today has been lazy and sleepy for me until I was awaken by a good friend and caffeine of course. Now I’m all charged up and ready to work. It’s 4.30pm by the way. I guess I’ll save all my energy for tomorrow. Chao earthlings!
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