What am i doing?

I'm so overwhelmed at work that i'm on the urge of just quitting and going back. I don't want to ask why everyone else seems to be having so much lesser work than me. Everyone thinks that i'm so popular in office cos the whole world's looking for me, but i dun like it. Not one bit. It just means a lot of sacrifices for me, like having to go to tianjin for a meeting at 7am tomorrow with the Far East Asia leader. Come on, I'm just going to be sleeptalking at that hour. Face it.

Then my older sis had to ask if i can go back for my niece's competition if she really gets into the finals cos my niece actually mentioned that she hope to see a wishing star to wish that i can fly back and see her. Oh man...

Anyway, frustrations aside, my holiday plans are also getting delayed because of julynn's moving house last weekend. Then i'll have to go hebei this weekend to help out with a catholic youth retreat. Thereafter, i'll be flying to inner mongolia for work, but i'll try my best to squeeze out time to ride horses there during the weekend. Thinking of the holidays just cheer me up, or rather, keep me going. Maybe it's really time to start thinking what i'm doing here...

Heating up

The week flies past quickly. Finally, I spent one of my weekends on a movie. Saw kungfu panda with brenda n lichin, which i tot was quite funny. Very simple storyline and i didn't know the tiger was angelina jolie until the end! Damn!! On sunday, i caught the ballet Sleeping Beauty performed by royal ballet held at the national theatre. While the individual performances were good, i was slightly disappointed with the combined movements as i tot they lacked practice on the coordination.

Last weekend was scorching HOT. It was hovering between 38 to 40 degrees and everyone felt like they were radiating heat. One thing for sure is that, beijing is definitely quite energy-saving as the airconditioner was so weak that carol literally used a fan throughout the ballet performance at the theatre. I remember in singapore where i had to wear a jacket or sweater in the cinema and esplanade..

Yesterday, i called my regular cab driver to send me to the client's place as usual. Didn't realise that he had a troupe of people filming for the olympics together with him. 2 japs also came from tokyo to film beijing for their programme. I ended up being filmed in the process and they convinced me to have lunch together. Apparently, the beijing filmmakers love er-guo-tou and i had to drink some too. Sighz... i know, i'm quitting alcohol.. and i went back to office in the afternoon with a total splitting headache that lasted till night. Sighz..........

Too much food

I know I've MIA for about a month. It had been an eventful month. Firstly i had to fly to guangzhou for a couple of days to fight fire. Then i had to fly there again the followng week. This time, i brought my grandma with me. My younger sis flew from singapore to meet me at guangzhou during the weekend. Pretended to work on the following monday before taking off to HK. It's holiday time again!

Right, i chiong all the food that i had been drooling over for the last few months. Even if it meant eating yong ji gam lou (the mango dessert) 3 times in 8 hours and walking in the rain. Fortunately, i made the right decision in staying at the hotel right next to hung hom station cos we were just THAT close to missing the train after dim sum breakfast. Took the train back to guangzhou, then off to the airport for hainan!

Sanya was beautiful but ridiculously expensive. Jet ski costed 150RMB for 10 min. So i took the power boat with my younger sis instead. After all, i've got my license. Ok, it's not recognised in china but whatever. Travelled to haikou and stayed at the sheraton. It was so much like a paradise! For the entire holiday since HK, i had been staying in hotel suites, but in haikou, the suite was the biggest (we could literally play hide n seek) and sea-facing with a balcony! The entire scenery was just perfect. Rented jet ski from sheraton since it was cheaper at 120RMB for 10 min instead. Shiok ah!! Of course, my grandma wasn't very keen in beach activities and was mostly in the room watching her dvds.

Finally it was time to head back to beijing. Rested for a day before going back to work. Yesterday night, I had scheduled my grandma n sis to eat dadong duck with carol n julynn but as it turned out, i had to go to wuhan last minute and miss my dadong! And even so, i had to pay for my grandma n sis's share of the meal!!!!!! :( Anyway, they're heading back to singapore tomorrow morning leaving me here all alone again. This just means that.... it's party time!!!