have a superfab weekend.. every weekend!

Saturday 30/8 – Went to look at more pianos, this time with Jed and his friend. Was initially not looking forward to having a third wheel on board, but Jed’s friend turned out to be friendly and easy-going. We went to Wagner Pianos in PJ, then Graceful Pianos in Damansara (the latter turning out to be a graveyard for pianos, broken and battered pianos left idling in the corridors, such a sad sight indeed). After that, we had a late lunch at Monte’s in Sunway. Much later, tried to set up Jed’s Mac for torrent downloading but didn’t get very fair. Streamyx throttling for torrent packets was active and the throughput was pretty sucky. May have to do this another day.

Sunday 31/8 – National Day celebrations! Well, I wasn’t really out there partying a storm. In fact I stayed home the whole day and helped my mum with some yard work in the morning. Watched the 2008 MTV Movie Awards downloaded months earlier. Kept me entertained somewhat. Loved the antics between Robert Downey Jr and Jack Black. Of course, this was before Dark Knight came out and blew away all known movie records. :p Finished reading M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman (fabulous book of short stories).

Monday 1/9 – First day of the fasting month. Despite that, I braved the heat and went to check out the MPH Clearance Sale. Bought a bunch of books. Disappointed by the limited selection. As usual, I am not up to scrutinizing the bargain pile, takes too much time and energy. Jed end up buying more than I did, including a Merck manual as a tribute to his forgotten dreams of becoming a medical doctor. I sent him home then drove by Shah Alam to pick up Ammar. Breaking of fast was a low-key affair. Got a bit lethargic after that but still end going to bed late despite having to wake up at 5am for sahur the next day (meal before dawn prior to the start of a fasting day).

All in all, a good weekend and as usual, started with lots of good intentions which remained just that. :p

Since I’m such a stickler about faithfully updating each weekend’s happening under this entry, I figured might as well be late than never.

Saturday was spent attending yet another wedding. Went with Jed. It was OK. We didn’t stay for very long. Sent him home afterwards but stopped to have coffee for a while. Chatted for a bit, the usual stuff. He had to rush for a gym appointment later that day so we kept it brief.

Sunday was spent at home. Didn’t do much. Played Text Twist, read “Turning Thirty”, watched my shows. Slept in the afternoon. Generally vegetated at home, all the while nursing my guilt for not getting any actual work done. Later that evening, had to go pick up Ammar at his dad’s. My parents were away for the weekend. Waited for them to get home before I left for my 2-hour road trip.

Generally, it was a quiet weekend. I just wish I could stop feeling so anxious and guilty when I force myself to not do anything and just be. Yeah.. still working on this one.

Spent most of Saturday frantically reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett. A most engaging read indeed! Must get more of these authors soon.

Jed is away this weekend. Means I’m pretty much free to basically do whatever, or nothing at all. Still, I do miss spending time with him. Guess the novelty hasn’t completely worn off.

Am meeting old school friends tomorrow for lunch. That should be fun. Been a while since our last gathering. Not sure how many will turn up. My best friend is back for a holiday. She’s been back for almost 2 weeks now, but we haven’t had much time to ourselves. Her sister just got married and she’s been spending time with her family. I really should make more effort to spend some time with her before leaves for Cambridge next month.

As usual, I have an unbelievable amount of work to do. So far, I have not summoned enough motivation to just do it! Oh well, there’s still Sunday. :p

Saturday:

• Attend Zaza’s wedding
• Meet Jed, check out the house he’s about to buy
• Off to Sunway Pyramid, get my bus ticket, hunt down a new pair of headphones
• Off to Singapore at 6.30pm, ETA 11pm
• Check in to my hotel (pray it’s decent!)
• Snoozeland by midnight

Sunday:

• Meet Farhat for brunch
• Window shopping
• Off to Fort Canning for Singfest!
• Sing my lungs out, drool over Mraz and indulge in Karaoke sing along with OneRepublic – have a blast!
• Back to hotel and sleep with a smile on my face

Monday:

• Wake up early to catch the bus at 8.30am
• ETA arrival at Sunway Pyramid around 1pm
• Get my car from the office
• Go home and resist all urges to drop by my office
• Rest and revive my spirits and energy for a brand new week!

^{This is a gameplan, it has not happened yet. Normally I post after the events have occurred, but figured this reflects my excitement just as well..}

^{Now, if only I can get Jason to look my way and dazzle him with my smile, I can inclue “Romance Mr Mraz before I head back to KL”.. hehe..}

I spent almost the entire weekend outdoors. On Saturday, it was a wedding in Melaka, roughly 3 hours drive from where I live. It was pretty fun, we chartered a bus and I joined about 20 people from the office to see one of our ex-colleagues get hitched! ;) After the wedding, we dropped by a friend’s house, had so much to eat that I skipped dinner that night, still feeling quite full hours afterwards.

Sunday was spent at the bowling alley! I didn’t do very well. OK.. I kinda sucked, BADLY! Haha.. I need to bowl more often, else my friends might ban me from entering any more tourneys after this!

After bowling, I went to pick up Jed. We drove to IKEA, him wanting to check out blinds for his new office and I wanted to buy new pillows. We didn’t get anything from IKEA except for a box of swedish cookies (for me, of course!). After that, we had a late lunch, went to Borders (I walked out empty-handed for once!) and then, we went to eat ice-cream! I told him about the current book I’m reading (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) and he shared his definition of Quality (you need to read the book for this..).

I sent Jed home at around 6ish and arrived home in time for a quick work out on the bike. Watched “Secret Life of the American Teenager” and am about to have dinner. Am gonna be fasting tomorrow, so I better eat enough! Need to catch up on some work, coz I haven’t done anything that resembles that this last 48 hours! :P

..what listless truly means. And I don’t like it one bit.

It was ironic, cause I thought not having a list of stuff to do this weekend would be a good thing. Turned out it was not. And I was overwhelmed with lethargy and ended up watching one show after another.

I didn’t do anything productive. I did go shopping yesterday in Chinatown and bought new handbags, a whole bunch of necklaces and crystal jewelery. That satisfied me for a bit but then the exhaustion gave way to boredom.

Sometimes I wonder why I feel this way. I tell myself it’s normal but it does bother me a lot that I just can’t be at peace.

I did the grocery shopping this morning. My parents were out in the yard as usual. There’s always something to do there. They can’t sit still. I think anxiety runs in the family.

I was gonna have coffee with an old friend. But he probably forgot. And I don’t want to come across as needy. So I didn’t call to remind him. It doesn’t matter, I’m probably not in the right frame of mind for company anyway.

A friend called me after an overnight trip out of town. As usual he’s whining about something. I was watching a Friends marathon at the time. His whining was the last thing I needed to hear. Still, I persisted and tried to be as emphatic as I possibly could. He didn’t linger for very long, excused himself with laundry. Probably he could sense my disinterest.

Almost 5pm, the bloody weekend is almost over. I remain apathetic and detached from everything and everyone. I don’t know what I would call it. I don’t think I’m any danger to myself, it this borders along depression. Sometimes I wish something great would happen in the next five minutes. As if this lull of nothingness, my killing time doing nothing is a meaningless feat that defies any coherent definition. And yet I persist. Hoping something would lift me and my spirits once again.

Saturday was spent mostly home. Went out to get a birthday gift for the boy next door @ my neighbour’s kid who turned 7 yesterday. Ended up shopping for stuff – a brooch pin set, 3 pieces of head scarf and a water bottle. Yeah, don’t we love impulse buying! :p

Today I had brunch with S, after not meeting him for some time. Caught up over some of the recent happenings over lamb stew at Secret Recipe. Chatted about the current local political developments which echoed more like a tabloid rag these days. Quite shameful if I may say so. But I should just stop giving opinions on these things.. really.

About to drive up to Shah Alam, pick up Ammar. Then swing by my suster’s house for dinner. Then back to do more work! Need to catch up on emails and prepare the coming week. Doesn’t look that I’m about to get a break anytime soon.. :S

Nothing much to shout about this weekend. But I did meet an old friend for tea. We used to work together in Petronas, him supporting the Unix servers who would force me to learn all the commands I need to administer the Domino Servers on the mighty E10K Sun Solaris box. We got off to a rough start initially, but now I consider him a good friend after everything we’ve been through.

I truly enjoyed talking to him. We swapped stories about our respective workplace. Asked about friends from those good old days. I was thoroughly enjoying the encounter not realising we had already spent almost three hours talking.

It was getting late and he had to go hunt some office furniture. He’s into real estate and have bought a luxury condo which he’s furnishing for rental. He’s doing really well for himself and I’m truly happy for him.

On the homefront, pretty much stayed indoors and caught up with work. Signed up for Twitter and tested the major functions. Pretty cool, but I worry the damage it’ll do to my phone bill since the SMS feature uses an overseas number.

I’m baking bread today. I tried to change my recipe but I don’t know if it’ll turn out any differently. I’m not big on experimentation when it comes to baking. Will report on the outcome later!

My cousin got engaged, down south in Johor requiring a 4 hour drive. I promised my parents I’d go, so I did. I drove all the way there and we reached the rendezvous point with a good half hour to spare.

It was good meeting up with uncles and aunts, cousins and of course my grandma. The engagement ceremony itself (yes, around here even the engagement is as big as the eventual wedding!) went well and the future bride’s family was very hospitable.

We were gonna stay the night at my grandma’s house but dad suggested we drove home that night. Which was fine by me, at least I have Sunday (once I’ve recovered from the tiring drive) to do whatever needed done.

We pushed off at around 11pm and hit the highway about an hour later. Around 1am I was so sleepy and started seeing lorries instead of cars. I knew I was on the verge of dozing off.

Luckily a stop was nearby, so we stopped for a hit drink. My dad offered to take over driver duty so I sat at the back and tried to sleep. But I knew he was sleepy himself so I couldn’t possibly doze off. I kept asking him if he was okay and tried to make small talk. But the latter was almost impossible since we were all very tired from the day’s event.

Anyhow we finally got home at around 2.30am. I was beyond grateful. Got home, changed my clothes, crawled into bed and only woke up almost 12pm Sunday morning! It’s now 3.30pm so I have slightly more than 8 hours of the weekend… About time I get some work done!

I have yet another wedding to attend this evening. But I’m looking forward to it cause I’m going with a friend, someone I’m getting to know better in these last few days. Not that kind of friend.. so let’s not get our hopes up just yet! :p

Tomorrow, me and that same friend are going to check out the Bookfest at KLCC Convention Center. It’s the last day so we’re gonna get there bright and early. I don’t intend to splurge.. hehe.. I never do. But like some people who melts at the sight of shoes, books have that heady effect on me. Yeah, I’m kinda nerdy like that.

Else, I need to get some serious work done. Coz I aim to kick some major @$$ next week during our weekly management meeting. Time to get real and relight that fire!

I hope to get some gym time this weekend. I’m getting addicted to the Kickfit routine. My shoulders still ache and waking up this morning to a sore back is not pleasant. But what is pleasant was the dream I had last night. I think I just had a major epiphany, so now I need to see if it’s worth a shot.

Wishing all of you 43Ters an amazing weekend! :D