Tuesday, May 20 

Long weekend

It struck me: I actually have my weekends back again, like every other normal proletariat worker.
 
No more guessing and second guessing whether I'd be put on duty (yaay), no more freaking out about the strength of my news pages on monday -- whomever was duty editing on Sunday, and if you're reading this, it was a real struggle to find Home Cover right? Cheap haircuts at a Bedok reservoir shop?? on H1? erh...okaayyy, but man
 
The weekend was suitably debauched: Friday night, it was yoga and then drinks at a very nice Klee on Portsdown road. Definitely loved the whole experience - bespoke cocktails etc.
 
Saturday: a tough yoga class, fab fried chicken at lucky plaza, shopping, and I - the bimbo that I am - went to get my hair blown out and styled. Very gratifying to receive the comments I did - but one DID go "You must be in PR".... errhhh. Then, there were drinks on Sat night - we were trying to relive our halycon days of youth - with classmates from a decade ago. Hence my current vocab = we were shouting insults over the phone at one of our mates who decided that he had to attend an auction instead - calling him a bourgeois sellout. hahahah
 
Sunday - simply too much pain to exercise. So the proletariat bourgeoisie that we are, we went hunting for cars - well, more like we went oogling at cars.Then dinner with mom - which was fab. Then, sat down for beer at Red Dot brewhouse at Dempsey. Well, the beer is nothing if not novel - there's a green one, they call... monster green. Not too expensive, so hummm.. will remain an option, provided one can get parking space there.
 
(can u tell there's a pattern already, drinks, eat, drinks, drinks...).
 
Then last night we had a meal to end all meals. Am still full from yesterday's crabs, sambal stingray, mantous etc etc. yes, F-A-T is a big bugbear now. 
 
Okay, now, after my happy three days, its back to the grind. Blagh.
 
Kisses
 
Nat
 
 
 

Wednesday, May 14 

Adjusting to a whole new life

Alright. It's week 2 into my new job as a corporate communications manager, and man, I am sleepy.
 
Primarily because these days I am up around 7 am to dress up and put on the layers of make up so I can be on the road by 8 am.
Arriving at 8.30 am in the office, fully coiffed and in corporate mode is well, unusual for me to say the least.
 
Okay, before I go into the sordid details: Have you watched Iron Man?
If you haven't: do! do! Fallen in love with Robert Downy Jr all over again. Oops, sorry gene.
We always knew that he could act, and he was pretty good on screen - and he did buff up for the role as well.
Gwen P - sigh, not much I can say there. Wasn't horribly inspired, but then again, how does one hold up against the likes to Downey Jr. That said, Jeff Bridges, wasn;t too bad. A tad bit of overacting towards the end, but hey!
 
Watched that on Friday with Gene and Mom. Mom liked it but said the ending was a bit abrupt, I thought it was fine. Gene strangely didn't think the movie was so hot. But then again, he likes B-grades. Snigger.
 
Another part of the new life: we've moved back to Gene's parents' place. Sigh. It's strange not having your own place after years on our own, but his parents are being really nice about it.
Am feeling massive guilt about not spending enough time with mom though.
 
But its been kinda hard. Splitting myself in different directions; new home, new job, mom and all... its been a little bit tough. Sometimes I feel as if I'm going to split at the seams or die from the guilt.
 
Anyway, I gotta run, have to go help babysit someone at a cocktail affair. Ah the things we do for our jobs!
 
Ciao for now
 

Friday, May 2 

Okay okay

As the title oh so cleverly aludes to, we're okay.

Things have been real busy -a bit tooo busy actually. Been a whirlwind of packing, (we move out of our rented apartment tomorrow, part of the resurgent relive-in-with-parents generation because we refuse to pay anything more than $2,000 in rent, and these days, that gets you not very far at all)

It's back to Gene's parents' place. We've basically taken over three bedrooms. We're getting the attic, with the attached bath, his old bedroom is now a walk in wardrobe, or it will be after the wardrobe and the clothes get to his place, and his study... his going to be my study.
Dunno how or why his parents let us do this to them.

Mom's still a bit fragile. she's living day to day, in her own words: Am trying to encourage her to think beyond this year, what she wants to do in her later years.

I'm starting work on monday (realise that there were a lot of things I haven't done, including going to the dentist and hairdressers - my coiff's a mess). I'll have to be in a suit with full closed toe shoes. Yup, welcome to the corporate world.

And oh, okay okay, am succumbing to the nagging to post something up on the blog.

Yesterday, Gene turned 37! didn't organise a big ass thing - just some of his work mates for wine.
Must do a huge ass party like mad thing a la his infamous 33rd - er, you will know what I;m talking about if you were there. But getting old lah, no energy to go do this kind of thing liao.

Anyway, gotta run. More things to do...

Nat

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  • I'm Nat
  • From Singapore, Singapore
  • Nat is 30-something and rediscovering life and Gene works in the life-saving business. This is a blog about their random adventures through nat's eyes.
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