It has been quite a busy week since my last post. Gosh, has it really been that long?! This has been a week of full-on eating out, attending a concert, catching up with friends I have not seen for a looooong time, and a tiny bit of sport.
On Monday, I flew to KL to attend an interview scheduled for Tuesday. It started to rain just before the plane took off, so it was a very bumpy flight, and made me feel quite ill for some time afterwards.
The interview itself went ok, and I got offered a position (that was different to the one that I applied for). I'm considering the offer, because various parties feel it would not be in my best interests to take up that position.
Tuesday night, I went out for dinner with an aunt and her family, and was gifted with a gorgeous ring from her friend's newly-opened store in Bangsar Village. Both her friend and I were recipients of her goodwill (i.e. supporting her friend's business). Can't complain, can I?
On Wednesday, I hung out at said aunt's place, and met up with a couple of guys from futsal who happened to be in KL at the same time. It was a very strange night, because I met a couple of other guys I had not seen in a while, and didn't even know they were all connected in some way. This includes one whom I was supposed to meet with but never got back to me to confirm(!). By the end of the night, the 2 I came out to meet had gone home, and I hung out with a group I barely knew. I went to bed at 1am that night; annoyingly, I woke up at 4am and couldn't get back to sleep!
Thursday - I came back to Kuching, and dragged myself to a mixed futsal session. It was the eve of Malaysia's National Day. I have never seen the venue so quiet, almost eerily so. Only 3 courts were being used, and the light must have been so attractive to the insects, because there were hundreds if not thousands of them flying around our faces and into our ears that night. Many lives were sacrificed... We squished them, not intentionally, but somehow they got under our boots.
Friday was the celebration of Malaysia's supposed 50th year of independence. I say supposed, because there is a debate about whether Malaysia was formed in 1957 or 1963. The argument goes that
Malaya achieved independence from the British in 1957, but
Malaysia was formed in 1963, when the East Malaysian states (Sarawak and Sabah) and Singapore joined
Malaya in September of that year. Regardless, it was an opportunity for many a patriot to stick miniature flags to their cars, attach flags to the bonnets of their cars, and hang them from balconies and shophouses in the days/weeks leading up to the event.
I know that I woke up late on Friday, after another restless night (fell asleep at about 4am), and can't really remember what I did the rest of that day :) Oh, how could I forget. We went to the airport to see off a friend whom we played junior squash with. She's my sister's age, and is going to start college in Harvard! On a scholarship! Another candidate for, if not already a member of, the
Overachiever's Club. :) But she deserves everything that she has achieved and will probably one day be a famous scientist.
Saturday afternoon, we went out for lunch at a 'fine foods' outlet. Then it was squash with the sister. That night, mum and I attended a charity concert, where I met a couple of my futsal teammates, and one of the guys I met up with in KL, R (who is the boyfriend of one of the girls). It was nice to see familiar faces! lol. I'm starting to feel pretty comfortable with this couple, partly because I have seen them in a social setting that does not involve shouting and chasing a ball. After the concert there was a 'wine party', so for the second time last week, I drank alcohol. If you know me, you'll know that this is unusual. Even more unusual is drinking the company of people I haven't known for long. But from what I know of R, apart from the fact that he has a girlfriend, he's decent, and not the type to take advantage of a girl :) Well, mum was there so I didn't have anything to worry about. lol.
Yesterday we had a Korean/Japanese family lunch, which was quite good. Then I met up with some friends from school, including one who's back for a holiday from Germany. It was good to see them, although I look forward to a one-on-one catch up session with LL over lunch tomorrow.
Last night, we had dinner at the Sarawak Club with 2 other families. One family we see every once in a while at the Club; the other we haven't seen in ages, much less caught up with as a family! The latter are the girls that I grew up with, until the age of 10 when we moved to the other side of town(!). I missed that neighbourhood, where everyone was so sociable and friendly. I used to climb over the low wall that separated our car porch from this family's, because apparently walking out the gate and into their garage was too much effort for me ;) Then there were the evenings playing street soccer, barefooted, with the boys who lived in the other houses around ours. This is probably where my love of soccer comes from, before I even started watching the EPL. Dinner was such a laugh, and the conversation was so smooth, it was like we'd never been apart. But that, as someone once said to me, is how you know you've got a friend for life. You don't see each other for years, but one day you meet, and you talk and talk and talk, and then talk some more.
Today I went to a bank to get more information on a particular position that some people have suggested I consider applying for. Basically to get a feel of whether I would like the work, and can see myself doing it. I can see myself doing it, but not necessarily for the reasons that most people would think of.
That is the last week and a day in a quick wrap. You can understand now why I have not been able to update this blog as much as I would have liked!
I originally took a photo of this truck/ute to show my dad - it belongs to his friend's company. But then I noticed the right wheel at the back - it's not even fully on the curb!
