Tuesday, 30-Aug-2006 5:01 PM

I was waiting in line at the post office yesterday and had a look around at all the people in there. There was a Chinese man who couldn't speak a word of English, an American man who kept whispering under his breath how the wait time was ridiculous, a Hispanic man who was talking to another lady in Spanish and a number of other people from all different parts of the world. That's when it really dawned on me that, wow...I really am here, in the "land of opportunity" and I'm in an area where there is a wide range of ethnicities. Not but a few seconds into this thought, the music overhead starting playing The Beatles and I noticed the guy on my right and another two further down in the line began humming and singing to it. Amazing how we're all so different and yet something like The Beatles can bring about a commonality in us. It was really cool and I found myself humming the song silently in my head with them. I had put it down to the fact that The Beatles are universal and then I was shocked to find even more people singing along to the song that played after. Even the lady working behind the counter was getting into it and the only communication we had between us was when she told me to "just lay down and boogy and play that funky music til you die."

Sunday, 20-Aug-2006 11:32 PM

Oh so much to do in oh so little time! I'm up to my ears organising the bachelorette party, accommodation, shoes, hair, accessories, transport, wedding speech (ack!) and more, all from overseas, and it's causing me to break out in small attacks of panic....and I'm not even the one getting married! My poor sis. As much as I wish I was there to help her go through it all, I'm kind of glad I'm not. Shh.

She called and woke me up this morning, which, by the way, I hate. Especially when my alarm is just about to go off (those precious few minutes are golden! Golden!). Anyways, she needed sheet music for a particular song asap and could only order it from the US so she wanted it sent to my place and then faxed to her. Sure, no probs. Just to make things easier for her, I searched the net and found it available for her to download digitally. I called her up and told her that the sheet music looked rather simple and asked if she wanted to listen to a sample of it.

After taking the phone away from the computer's speaker, I asked her 'did you hear that?'

She starts laughing and then says to me 'are YOU playing that? That's TERRIBLE.'

Thursday, 17-Aug-2006 12:48 PM

I secretly wish I could breakdance.

Okay, so Lynn tagged me all the way back in JANUARY (has it been eight months into the year already!? Yikes) and because I'm so normal that it's taken me this long to find 5 weird things about myself ;)

1. I am definitely a noodle girl. I prefer it over rice any day.

2. I've been told I close one eye whenever I drink a drink with icecubes. How else am I supposed to see down the glass?

3. I'm terrible at drawing arrows on paper. The head of the arrow never seems to line up with the line.

4. If I take a multiple choice exam, coloring the circles for my answers is an artform. I never leave until the circles are perfectly colored in. No gaps, no pencil mark outside the lines.

5. I don't untie my shoelaces to get my shoe on. I just wedge my foot in.

Tuesday, 08-Aug-2006 0:14 AM

It's like every step is in quicksand.

I'm having one of those days again, where I plan to take advantage of my day off and get a million things done on my ever growing "To Do List", but instead I'm down in the dumps. One of my biggest problems is a lack of confidence in myself. I see people outside, on the street, in the mall, in their car and I'm always wondering "how do THEY do it? Why can't I be like that??" . I really need to do something about this and I know that it is all in the mind, but mind-over-matter is not working for me right now and although I'd like to surround myself with more positive, go-getter people, I'm also under the impression that more socialising means less time to get things done and my list of things to do will start going over onto its third page (!).

How do you all do it and come out of it unscathed and happy???? Argh.

Saturday, 04-Aug-2006 10:13 AM

The funeral is over. We did my grandpa proud. I'm told it was beautiful and there were so many people there and so many flowers and kind words spoken. The days following up to the funeral took me through some heightened emotions. I was torn between going back and staying put. It was one of the hardest decisions to make and I made it even harder for myself by asking a number of people for their opinion. All of which were different. Basically wanting someone, anyone to tell me what the right thing to do was. I know it's all a part of growing up and I'm realising that I chose to be so far away and from now on I can't be there for every event that happens. It's just hard to accept the facts and it only highlights more how much I miss my family.