Washington D.C.......

Am actually writing this post while sitting in my hotel room in D.C just before trooping out of the room for dinner in about 15 mins.....

Yeah! Never thought that I would be here on an unplanned trip albeit it's for work purposes... Anyway, it's been a long while since I thought anything worthy of blogging it down...

It was a pretty horrendous flight that I took, considering that it took 19 hours to reach Newark (New York) for a connecting flight to Washington. By the time I reach and checked into my hotel, The Fairmont, it was a good 24 hours since I took off in the plane in Singapore.

It was a pretty sight, when I first saw Washington from up in the sky, from the plane. Plentiful lights... and the song comes to mind... "One small child in a land of a thousand..."... Hrrmm.... makes me wonder why too but it just happens...

Reached my hotel last night at 11.30pm (23rd July). That would be Singapore 11.30am (24th July). My hotel's pretty decent. In fact, I thought it more than decent. It has a rather 'English' feel, with nicely cushioned sofas, and wooden furniture in the room. The bed's high and huge, with somewat like a bedpost. Pretty decent place to be staying in for 5 nights!!

However, it was a bad night last night. I tried to log into the Internet but failed. Spent 2 hours of the night ironing all my clothes as there was meeting with the Ambassador scheduled today. Thought I better appear as decent as I could, with the limited work wear that I have, while being away from home. Tried to sleep by 2.30am but woke up consistently every other hour, and gave up sleeping by 6.00am. Ask anyone who knows me well, waking up at 6.00am and not going back to bed's pretty much an miracle.

Am feeling rather 'stoned' now, and it feels exactly like I've not slept for the entire night. Jet lag I believe....

I can't wait to be able to explore more of Washington. Feels like I've got so much to see, a pity I've such little time. Drove through Georgetown on my way to the meeting with Amb, and it sure looks pretty! Oh! Another thing... I'm going try my best to find Krispy Creme donuts to try! Everyone's raving about it at home... time to try it for myself if possible! Heheh....

Can't wait to actually take photos... Haven't been able to take much pictures cause most trips out of the hotel so far, are pretty official... ALSO, the real reason is because my two bosses seem so familiar with the place, like it's so 'normal' to them that it seems weird for me to be clicking away, taking loads of picts when everything seems so normal to them! I would definitely be known as a 'sua ku'!!!

Oopppss... Boss' knocking on my door... time for dinner now...

Will blog more... I'm sure.. everything's new, refreshing and an eye-opener for me!

See ya in a while! :)

My Room

Fairmount's Garden

Georgetown

Burning and crying out...

My whole body is burning... and it's aching... and it seems to be crying out loud...

I'll get better... I will...

And I'll leave watever that's eating up my body right now behind...

Phlat!

Fresh air...

Am sick... On MC! First time that I've taken MC in one and a half years.

My body's aching, my head banging, my nose feels swollen and my throat's bad...

But feels like this time, my being sick symbolises the purging of all old infestations, and that this will help me move on....

Recovery... It's good....

Time to breathe in fresh air...

Who am I to judge??

For some funny reasons, I think there certain seasons / phases when you realised that suddenly, everyone around you is getting attached.... OR married... OR breaking up...

This period seems to be this phase.... ppl around me are going through some experience of sorts... And I've been talking to some of them....

And I can't help it but formulate some impression of sorts about them... when I know I shouldn't... They are confiding in me knowing that they can trust me... and in retrospect, I'm now asking myself who am I to do that? To formulate impressions, to pass judgements about them even if it's within me. Human err and so do I... one should never pass judgement until I have an absolutely clear picture of what's happening... until I have a complete outline of the nooks and crannies of both sides of the coin. I wouldn't like people doing that about me as well... Saw this statement in the newspaper by one of the celebrity recently. She said "Don't say you hate me when you don't know me." Guess she's right...

Oh well.. what am I doing contemplating about stuff like these in the middle of the night? Time to get to bed...
Work's getting fast paced though I still feel stuck at snail's pace... Time to buck up Zennie!

Here comes the rain again...

Falling on my head like a memory...
Falling on my head like a new emotion...

For God knows what reason, as per gazillion other times of having songs stuck in my head the whole day, this song has been stuck in my head for a good half of today. Can't wait to get it out of my head by sleeping it off...

Anyway, my Nano's here! I'm a happieeeee girl... hehe... But my colleagues accused me under utilising it. I need more MP3s!! Can't wait for Ran to pass me his external HDD... Am expecting a store of jewels... Heh...

Felt the need to revamp my life today. Need to add in more activities such as swimming, blading etc. Can't help but feeling that time passes real quickly and in a blink of an eye, the weekend's over. I don't wanna live the later half of my life regretting things that I've done, or worse, that I've failed to do.

Am off to bed now... Looking forward to a brand new day ahead with tonnes of challenges, plus yummi-licious smelling Lavender tea that I bought at Market Place today!

Music... the soul of language?

Am eagerly awaiting the arrival of my ipod nano! Rob ordered it online for me and I chose to have that inscripted on my black nano for free!!!

Nothing but the truth to me, music is the soul of language in many ways. Many a time, melodies and tunes bring out the essence in words and the meaning of the lyrics. Imagine having lyrics from a certain song, accompanying another tune and you get a different feel completely. Try lyrics of "Hotel California" to the tune of "Bridge over troubled water"....

In anycase, met Gerald for dinner today... and after that dropped by church to visit the 'new' RCIA music ministry. It was the first time in a few months that I stepped into Holy Spirit. Sitting there listening to the short practice (cuz Gerald skipped practice to go for dinner with me and by the time we went there, they were at their last couple of songs), I can't help but miss singing hymns and all....

On one hand... music has the power to lift my spirits, on the other, it could easily throw me into the pits of depression... perhaps depression is too strong a word to use but you get what I mean... It's like the minute I hear "Wake me up when September ends", I turn all gooey and stuff.... yet I simply love that song.... urgh....

Anyway, looking forward to nano~! Yippeeeeee.....

Time to be back?

*Yawn* * Stretch arms*

I'm back... took a long hiatus I must agree....

Dannie was asking whatever happened to my lifeless blog... And I told him that I just kinda stopped updating it... And I swear that it's not that I lost interest in it, but for the longest while I did not know what to pen down...

AND NO WAY am I going to treat it like writing minutes... my life's not a meeting!!!

But, life's getting back on track... still some tuning to do I must say, but it's coming along fine...

Like the many other aspects of my life, I shall try to create new and healthy habits... You shall hear more from me... :)

Ironies of life...

Isn't it funny how frequently we're faced with why this and not that and because of this, that's why that situations? And through all the throes of logical reasoning (often in the head) , confusion arises and you get thrown into the - so often logic rules and it conditions me to be wanting this, but yet I want something else - syndrome.

Anyway, the previous para only speaks of what I'm going through... confusion to a certain extent amidst logic. Sometimes I wonder how I can become so lost as to what I want when I've been 'firmly rooted on the ground' as one of my friends put it, for the last 26 years of my life. But then again nobody's perfect and no one's a saint. I'm only human with a weak nature.

Many moons has transpired since I last filed my rather mundane life episodes here. Many things have come and gone as well... Christmas, New Year, Cindy's wedding, Margeret's wedding... Even with so many things to talk about, I couldn't find anything to put up here on my blog. The irony of it all is such that when something's supposed to be done, it can't be done and when it's of no importance, everything is said and done.

OH well... what a confusing entry... Perhaps when you next see an entry that you can totally understand, my life's path has also been straightened out.

Feeling foolish...