(i) breadfly's flutterings - the reality is shat post
Which pretty much sums up my past two weeks.
I have been doing terribly nerdy things post-As, all of which may be categorized as "enhancements". First, i set about improving my net profile. This is a kind of scary thing to do and it is quite hit-and-miss. (i), i tried to develop some sort of fanbase for my hopeless-as-leehsienloonglocalreferences naruto fanfiction; (ii), i signed myself up to some social networks, notably MySpace and Last.fm, hoping to meet likeminded invisible friends (this one was a great success!); (iii) i set about cataloging my material possessions: namely my books at LibraryThing, my fledgling writing at Editred and my humanity at Wishlist (most are empty, still in the process of setting about); (iv) i categorized all of my Firefox bookmarks into a beautiful tag cloud for easy retrieval of all kinds of things from photography to hunger reports, from themeparks to memes of pure genius. Second, i spent 3-4 days installing Firefox add-ons, iBook software applications, Dashboard widgets, etc. and basically upgraded everything there was to upgrade. Third, i went to play rpgs. Until I was sick. Really, really sick with a flu. Then, i set about returning to the human world and had a shoppingasm where i spent most of my 2006 savings on books, tops, shoes, earrings and health food.
Needless to say, i felt terrible afterward.
I also met up with all the important people in my life. My three cousins from other countries (two tiny ones, size not age, from KL and a tall, athletic one from New Zealand) came over and we had a ball of a time in a KK hotel room truth-and-daring-without-truth-and-daring. Well the three of them plus my brother. I was the female cousin, which means not-really-a-girl-but-sure-as-hell-not-a-guy and my role was primarily to swear oaths of secrecy ("I will not tell Ah Ma...") and keep them just this side of decency ("...unless you call me a fucker one more time."). We also played Casino Royale poker, which i kept winning because in a room of men, only the sober girl can keep a straight face. (And also cause the "money" was pieces of hotel pad paper which the guys kept insisting "didn't count for nuts!"). My grandma went up with us too and I was mighty happy to be with her. I mean, she's 70 and she hikes. She's a sort of benevolent goddess.
Also met up with Des and Tiffybunz. Walked around all our favourite places and ate good food. Talked about everything and re-established our immortality.
Then, I remembered life goes on in 2007 and begun volunteering for every food distribution programme in the country and offered to freelance write for all kinds of local NGOs. I also figured i better get a job so i went to cut out classifieds and roam Orchard looking for the "Jobs Available" posters outside restaurant doors and, after 6 hours, went into Cedele (which didn't even have a sign), asked if they had an opening, and was promptly told, yes actually, can you start work next week? To which i said, anytime! And so they'll contact me next week cause it has to go through several levels of bureaucracy but i sure as hell hope to get the job because i love cedele food and there was a china boy chef there (from the tough-as-hell north) who talked to me while i was waiting to be interviewed and told me he was really sad because he can't speak a word of english and, frankly, singapore sucks like hell. I really want to see that china boy again.