Out of office

Water will be out of office from 1/6 and returning on 23/6. Should you have any urgent matter, please do not even try to contact her.

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I was having this complicated conversation yesterday evening. It involved both business and personal. After the brief business talk, I annouced the change of my identity from a bank officer back to a friend. The change didn't happen only on me, but him as well. From a serious businessman, he turned into a whining baby. He was complaining about the nitty gritty that he has to clear on his table before he flew for his hometown in few hours time.

Without eleboration, both Pisceans fell into a romantic illusion for a minute or so. One of us woke up and cut short the conversation.

Well, both Pisceans know it won't work. A distance should be kept between us to avoid any causalty.

Getting old...

I realised, when I get older, I am less insistence in certain aspects of life, e.g. going out with guys. I used to rely a lot on my gut feeling about guys, especially with whom are interested in me (well, could be platonic...!?). In the past, I would shy away if I don't have a strong feeling. I thought, why waste time anyways. But now, I learn to give myself a chance to find out more, hoping there could be pleasant surprise. (up til here, monolisa must be nodding her head while reading)

Well, so far, the result is within expectation, yet life is more "interesting" than being alone always. Life moves on if there is no chemistry and continues with the search in the "people sea".

Mystery solved

Spontaneous Steph once mentioned to get more Ziga Zaga homemade 地瓜片 on Satuaday night. Well, we all know this is not the real purpose.

Tonight, we went to the opening of Tcing Tcing (some bar opened by local celebs). Guest who I ran into at the bar - the real purpose of Ziga Zaga. Oh my god! Again, "Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me."

This was the first time to meet him outside his work place and out of his black fitted suit. He gave me this gentle stroke on my arm made me wonder if he is straight... or he is simply trying hard to be seductive... :p

Curiosity kills. But once the mysterious of a person is gone, it feels sour.

Mid Summer Night's Dream

Love me, love me not

The heavy base of the same old song was banging along my heart beat. I activated my build-in infrared detector and was searching for him. When our eyes met, I smiled. Yeah, it was one of those betrayal smiles.
Chats, laughters, smoke and free flow of champagne were brought along into my dream.
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I stepped into the dimly lighted apartment. The table was set for dinner with candle lights. He was busy preparing our dinner. Simple pasta served with chilled white wine. The conversation was delightful.

A few thoughts to share before bed

- I had a nice talk with another pisceian over a brief lunch today. It was nice because through the conversation, I realised there is actually someone on this planet as dreamy and as sensitive as me. Interesting still, a male version of me

- Among friends, there are roles to play. Listener, head nodder, care taker, counselor and simply a talker (just talk don't listen). I am lucky to have one very good listener. May be its my turn to listen to someone who love to talk but have no patience to listen. Its all about give and take

- The bad thing about me (which I believe is inherited from Mom) is that if you have no patience to listen, then I would rather keep things to myself, period

- A long waited MSN conversation was taken place tonight. It was brief yet lightened my heart a lot. Well, sometimes, all we need is just to know the one over the other side is doing fine

- Da Vinci Code movie is okay. I will rate it 3.5 stars out of 5

- "Rainbow Connection" was playing in my ipod. The voice of Kermit reminds me of my dear listener

- Good night

Math

Today I took out the newly bought GMAT official guide and started working on the quantitative part of the "diagnostic test". It has been 8 years since I last solved a math question.

I felt like an idiot as I scratched my head and couldn't figure out the answer.

I hope "practice makes perfect" is true.

Left work at six sharp

I felt uneasy since I got the phone call from monolisa at noon. She ended by saying "you better be prepared for its coming". The message she brought was haunting me for the whole afternoon. Time passed slowly and finally it was six. I couldn't wait to pack my bag and leave the office.
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Last night, I was offered two alternatives. He would decide his next stop according to my choice, Macau or Malaysia. Well, this is just a joke. Am I that influential to make such important decision? Okay, let's say if I could really make the call, where would I chose? I would chose the third place, by my side.

iboss II

Yes, it is a waste of time to talk about her. So, please just ignore this entry if you agree.

She is trying hard to pick on me and so she found the chance when approving my expenses. Here are her comments: -

Phone Bill (less than TWD3000 each month) -> Please make sure to identify each phone call (on the phone bill) next time; Try to use "fixed line", it is cheaper.

Cab fare (less than TWD2500 each month) -> Please try to best utilized our department car. Try to use the time slot when the car is free to visit clients.

Lunch bill -> Make sure the money is well spent on client with good business potential and deals monitization.

Okay, in another words, I should sit there and do minimal marketing for cost control sake. Minimal entertainments, minimal meetings and minimal phone calls. Well, sounds familar. Isn't that just exactly described the person sitting next to me, i.e. iboss?

This kind of bullshit comes once every month (u know why) and the underlying reason is very simple - She hates me, period.

Mosquito

i killed a mosquito with my pointing finger and thumb while it was sucking my blood. Would the "needle" be broken and stuck in my skin, or would it flow along with my blood circulation in my body?

Posing or roller coasting

Thought we were living "Sex & the City".

Thursday night, Steph and I met up at Joyce East after work for a drink and shoes posing. It ended up to be a light dinner with dessert and coffee. It was my fault.

I was starving upon arrival, so I asked for some finger food to bite on along with our champagne. Unexpectedly, a delightful antipasto platter was presented. There were smoke salmon with fish roe on egg cake; olives; pate de foie gras on crispy toast; beef cappaccio wrapped around roman lettuce and parma ham on figs. Of course, dessert followed ~ a crispy apple pie with ginger ice cream.

Over the delicious antipasto and peach almond champagne, the two girls were bitching about work, life and relationship. Both long for a roller coaster ride but keep holding back. We are up for the thrill, yet acknowledging the fact that we are unable to take the foreseeable consequences.

Just as we got hurt when putting our fingers to the fire, we learn from experiences and stop ourselves from repeating mistakes. Isn't it painful to hold yourself from chasing after your desire? Okay, again, it is a philosophical discussion.

Ladies Night

It could be a random offer, an offer to passerby of the hotel lobby (I said that hotel is haunted)

No one cares whether I took the offer or not, but me. Simply because I am the only one thinks it is important and it is important to me only.

Put away the phone and start the GMAT exercise.
Spending a quiet night at home is safer.

Want a good cry?

Watch 藍色生死戀.
Even I accidentally came across half an episode on TV, I was tearing. 好慘... sob sob sob ~

Hollowness

The gap has to be filled. It could be a chain of smoke, a repeated sad song, a sms message, a voice from the other side of the phone, a weblog or a company of irrelevant people.

Have the emptiness filled and then move on.

The End

... to my crush. It is official.

The one who woke me up is someone I bearly know, not even her name. Well, let's call it fate. It is good to put an end to the episode.

I am going to bed now.

My Sunday...

I am seriously stressed out from work. To be exact, it is stress of hating my work. Like everyone, I enjoyed the long waited labour day weekend. Last night, I was up til 5:30am surfing net, making reservation for our Barcelona accomodation.

This morning, Delia, my maid, has done an excellent job in taking care of my housework, so that I could enjoy my weekend without worrying about changing my bed sheet and doing my laundry.

In the afternoon, I met Jasmine for tea. Nice chat at Spot over coffee and marble cheese cake (mostly consumed by me), and followed by some browsing of DVDs and books at Eslite @ Spot Taipei.

After tea, I went to Shin Yi for suit and travel book hunting for over two hours. It was pressure free as I was wondering on my own. Of course, I didn't leave empty handed.

Steph called for a drink. Taipei was strangely quiet on a long weekend Sunday. We first went to Champagne III which turned out to be empty. Then Mint, it was empty as well. We had our last try at Room 18, although it was empty, we decided to stay for a drink and then moved on to In-house for another round. While wondering where all the cute Taipei guys have gone, we were checking out the transvestite waiter/ress, thinking "she" is twice feminine than the two of us added together.

What a fulfilling and enjoyable day!