Excited and Dumb

I was, probably for the first time in many years, looking forward to going home. Sure, it was only for the weekend, and I would have gotten to see dad for less than 24 hours and mum is away, but I still felt excited at the thought and that is pretty rare. But a mistake on my part and a string of events meant that I missed my flight home, and wasted money. So I decide to do what I love doing today. Bake and exercise. Banana cake is in the oven, and kickboxing this afternoon to vent :)

But Ben is coming tomorrow and will be here for a month and I am so excited. No definite plans as yet, but some ideas have been thrown about and the folks and relatives are being very nice about it, which is a relief.

Dad just called and asked if i wanted to come back today. Sigh. So tempting, but not practical. It would have been a less than 24 hour trip home... :(

Not much has been happening at work either. I haven't been updating this blog from work coz it's not right to be doing it, but really some days have been the real doldrums. There was the prospect of working on a pretty exciting project, but that fell through, so now I'm back to doing the bits and pieces handed to me.

It's so depressing. Thinking about going home and then not going and then going and not going. Argh. I'm going crazy.

A different environment

After years of living abroad and for a certain period, in a single bedroom apartment, living in someone else's house was always going to take some getting used to. What I didn't foresee is how hard it would be to get used to the constant ranting of a jaded human being.

It has also been a bit difficult not having friends here like the ones I hung out with in Kuching. The traffic and the cost of things, coupled with the fact that I don't exactly know where to go to get cheaper things, means that it is both extremely time consuming and expensive to go anywhere. So I bought a book on the weekend, and hopefully that'll keep me occupied this week and/or weekend.

Last week we celebrated a colleagues' birthday at a nice cafe and I had a grilled vegetable sandwich. It was so good, and made me miss Melbourne coz it's always so easy to get food like that everywhere. Here, you have to go to special cafes that charge RM15-18 for something like that. It converts to about AUD$5-6, which is quite reasonable if you make AUD, but less so in RM.

Also miss playing futsal with the boys. Can't wait to go home next weekend and have a good kick around.

First field assignment!!

Work has been picking up, but I still find myself with nothing to do some of the time, although admittedly down-times are becoming less frequent. And starting to get to know the people. Spent much time talking on my 2-day field assignment. I've been told that I'm quite lucky to be able to have gone on an assignment so quickly. Apparently field assignments are not that common...boo. Luckily, I had a good time on this one and will have good memories that ensure I look forward to the next one, if/when it comes.

We had to meet at the office at 5am to make the 4 hour drive and get there in time to get to work, so I was up at 4 am. Tried to stay awake the whole trip to keep the driver (manager) company, but eventually the heavy eyelids won, and I had a 1/2 hr snooze. While on the trip, I got to catch up with a guy I knew during my high school days (GW), and he took us to dinner and drinks. Good that we didn't have to think about where we were going to have dinner that night. And of course, it was great to be able to catch up with yet another person from my childhood that I can still have a decent conversation with.

No exercise this week, except for Monday. Feel like crap. Can't wait for squash tomorrow. Never thought I'd say that. haha...