Thursday, April 12, 2007

Carita Retreat

Pensive.
I was happy... and then I thought, I was really happy...

My gal pal Tessa and me... on the speedboat ala... Miami Vice...

Hold your horses and imagination...
This is a posed picture.
Trust me...


The Glossy 6

@ Pantai Carita


Hard pressed to find anytime to write about my recent Good Friday holiday sojourn to the beach resort of Carita, a 3 hours drive from Jakarta...
Pictures... of my fellow holidaymakers...
I feel inspired to go on another holiday now. Actually, I already am in the process of planning for a year-end extravaganza. It is going to happen! Nothing perks my weary soul like the prospect of traversing across a foreign land, ancient civilisation no less.
So, the initial fiasco of deadlines is over. I managed to switch into battle-mode and approached the "enemy" with a heady dose of pizzazz. It was like a war zone, free periods were converted to multi-tasking moments where I paid no attention to the fact that the crumbs from my meals were littering the keyboard, marked like a machine but... there is still that cumbersome exam paper to plough through over the weekend.
Will do... will do. Nothing will ruin the sleep that I have been looking forward to all week. The weekend is here. Glorious.




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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Bottleneck

I am currently suffering from a bottleneck of sorts.

There is so much to do at work... exam papers to set and mark, daily work to plough through, lesson plans, design a training session for colleagues and even a morning assembly session to organise! Deadline for the above.... scattered randomly in the upcoming two weeks. I will get through it, I always do. Not because I am especially gifted at handling stress or multi-tasking, but, like anyone else... my survival instincts are at a competent level.

Mum and Mal came and left. The trip was exhausting for me as we zig-zagged Jakarta for 6 whole days. Trapized through shopping malls, pirouette along the paths of street markets, devoured the best food Jakarta has to offer and yak. I was talking and talking non-stop! Consumed by the fact that the next time I actually have a honest-to-goodness conversation with the two closest to me would be 6 months later. I was dying to introduce Prince Charming to Mum and Mal too. Their radars are more prolific than mine at discerning and coming to solid conclusions about the good and the bad.

Verdict: The Charming One Charmed.

I promised myself that I would only take 10 mins for this blogpost update.

Coming up soon:
The Aftermath
Good Friday Holiday Update

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