For the first time since I took up the job, I felt the stress and anxiety associated with the role. We were in a meeting discussing the changes to be made to the last report, and I kept wondering how it's going to affect the next report that I'm supposed to produce. Wish me all the best! I'm finally seeing the true colours of consulting...

I'm meeting jk and p tomorrow to celebrate p's birthday over dinner! (if she turns up, that is. her boss has been giving her hell i heard.) after 2.5 years (according to jk), the three of us finally met up for tea last saturday, and we decided to meet up for dinner again because it's p's 26th birthday. i hope i remember to take photographs! i brought my camera to our tea session on saturday but i forgot all about it. damn.

my grandma is visiting next sunday! time flies.... i actually managed to convince her to come visit, and i'm feeling proud of myself. she's not that interested to visit initially, because her legs have been bad and she can't walk around like before. i told her i'm graduating, my sis is graduating, we can take photos together. and my small sis wants to fly on SQ to kl and back, and she'll only get to do that if my grandma is coming together. and then hopefully my house renovation will complete and she can visit the new place (come to think of it, it's quite unlikely). and i intend to go to kl in august and i can bring her back by flight. wow i have good convincing powers :)

one last note about the house renovation. we just brought 2 contractors up to the unit this evening to take some measurements. so we're waiting for detailed quotations and we're going to decide who we want to hire. i think we both have an idea already, but we want to follow through the process. can't wait to move into my new place. it's going to be FANTASTIC!

It's been a great sunday for me so far. H and I woke up early, went for breakfast, and then made a trip to our future home to take some photos and allow the feng shui master to give us his comments. Thankfully, he said it's "good for the money", feng shui-wise. We have to make some adjustments, but not much really. Will take his suggestions into serious consideration when I decide on the final designs.

And I'm really getting excited about moving into my own place. I went for a swim at H's place after we went for coffee cum lunch at CBTL, and throughout the swim I thought that it will be wonderful if I could get some friends over for a swim together over the weekend at my own place. We can chill by the pool, have some beers, sandwiches and exchange stories. I can't wait!

Back to the swim.. I think it's therapeutic. The weather has been pretty gloomy the past few days, and I really appreciated the sun today. I was the only person in the pool (which was surprising), and I swam on and on and didn't feel tired at all. Quite lost in my own thoughts. I'm starting to feel the tiredness slowly creep into my body now though. And I think I got a bikini line almost instantly.

I managed to do some cleanup too. Did the laundry, vacuumed the house...

I'm feeling contented and pleased. I look forward to moving into my own place so that I can enjoy my own perfect sundays!

(1) Book Phuket trip. YEAH!!! I'm doing my hotels research and I'm quite serious about splurging a little on the trip. Right now, Westin is on top of my list.

(2) Get the renovation quotes from another contractor. This is becoming kind of routine.

(3) Hunger games tonight. Don't like the cinema but it's the closest one. They should seriously upgrade the seats. They've increased the ticket prices over the years but the seats remain atrocious. If I remember, I'll bring a back support pillow.

(4) I wonder if I can get any exercise done at all...???

(5) Sleep more. Rest more. From Monday onwards, I'll be taking over one of the projects at work, which means the honeymoon is officially over. I hope I won't have to OT!

i bought two books from kinokuniya yesterday and i'm dying to find some time to sit down and read! unfortunately, my personal life has been packed with chores and tasks, and i'm more busy when i'm at home than when i'm at work. anyway i'm home today because my colleague is overseas, i don't have any meetings, and all i need to do for now is to write a research article, which i can do better at home than in the office. but for the entire morning, i've been scanning and photocopying documents, doing filing, checking bank accounts etc. arghs.

back to reading.. i'm getting excited about having my own full-height bookshelf in my new place. i wonder if it's enough, or i should add more columns. let's see what the interior designers recommend, and the price of course. can't wait to have my own study room! and of course, my own place!!!

i'm slowly getting used to my new work life. things had been slow in the first few days, because of induction classes and the fact that i haven't been thrown into a project. i'm quite sure that things will pick up pretty quickly in the next few weeks, because my colleague has deadlines coming, and he'll need a lot of help with other stuff.

i was just given a huge dataset yesterday and i'm now in charge of "fishing". surprised that they haven't tried lots of statistical analyses on the set yet. and i sent out biz development emails to some people... hopefully someone will be interested. i really want to work on the sales part.

right now i'm pretty bothered by the house renovation thing. thinking about whether or not to renovate, how to do it, and who to look for. i'm also thinking about changing my phone. it's losing its connectivity and reception, and i don't know if it's the provider's problem or mine. i know i've dropped the phone tooooo many times and it's my fault. :(