Friday, April 14, 2006

daydream believer

i have turned into an inefficient, unproductive, irresponsible slob. to say that i have lost focus at work is a major understatement. the reality of this hit me hard when i looked at the Sent folder of my mailbox. between 1537 - 1725hrs, i had not sent a single email out. the emails had not stopped coming in, but i had stopped replying to emails. it's like being a cashier at McDonald's, you keep taking in orders and their money - but the burgers don't come, and the queue of irate customers keeps growing. like an ostrich, i dig a hole and put my head into it - i surf the net for random things that pop in my head, but my body is still sticking out of the hole and i am still in trouble.

there is, however, only a very, very slight nagging feeling to being this irresponsible. i have overstayed. you should quit when it's still good, not when your favourite colleagues leave, your boyfriend gets stationed overseas and your parents are fucking up your wedding plans.

the only things i can focus on are good things like books and music. books, the other orgasm. i'm just done with blink and have started on the historian by elizabeth kostova. blink was an easy read and confirmed i am an absolute sexist (read not feminist, i love chivalry too much) - this is not going to change anytime soon. on top of the 7 unread books on my bookshelf, i bought another 8 books including bram stoker's dracula and *cough* jane austen's sense and sensibility. yes, i am attempting to be a littérateur.

and then, i've discovered eMusic. as you can probably imagine, i have already gone ballistic and used up my free 25 songs in 45 minutes. they have an unbelievable collection of oldies which you could not otherwise get access to unless you buy whole albums at the cd shop. downloading is super easy and the cost of downloading songs after your first free 25 is peanuts. for the first time in my life, i feel legitimate a.k.a. not music pirate.

i do this comfortably while stuffing my face with ice-cream. ben & jerry's came up with a new flavour - marsha marsha marshmallow. the flavour makes you stutter. choc ice-cream with fudge chunks, toasted marshmallow and graham cracker swirls. i'll spare you the drools by only showing you the shiny new design for this spunky new flava.



iina came over and we do as friends do, nothing, just bask in the comfort of each other's presence. then we walked around, went around. as we were walking along killiney road back to my place after a night on orchard road, we came across this stencil art at the entrance of the old mitre hotel. we stood there just staring at this cherubic face. something so innocent, yet so un-naive about the expression on his face that pains me. it's extremely beautiful - took this shot with my motorola v3 (yes, go ahead, be jealous and it's only a VGA!).



boredom is a good thing - it drives you.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

on emusic there is a lot of good stuff, i dont know exactly what type of music you like but i m listing a few of my picks in case you wanna try some of them:

-jolie holland (especially the track 'old fashioned morphine', i love her voice)

-tom waits (almost all of his songs
are great, i think. but to pick just one track - i hope i dont fall in love with you from the early years album)

-arab strap (the track: who named the days)

-van morrison (the track: brown eyed girl)

-neko case (i hope you like her,
i ve started to like folk music since i came to states)

-the decemberists (the track: we both go down together)

-flunk (blue monday cover and honey's in love)

-cymande ( i havent checked it yet but heard it's good)

take good care of yourself. :)

-zeren