Just another Thursday

I am lost for words... Hence, it's just pictures today.

A smiley me, putting on a front... at Knox.

Packenham pear as big as my palm!!

There's just something about apples that calls to me.

Green vs Red

Types of Tomatoes.

Huge watermelons.

I do miss grocery shopping here in Australia... fruits shopping too!!

Something borrowed and cheating

Watched this on my Sammie 2 on the flight home from Malaysia. Some scenes just made me tear much to Mr. C's chagrin. He really can't bear to see me in tears. Not that he is embarrassed by me but that he can't stand to see me sad. Then again, I doubt he understand my tears.

The story is basically about Rachel (the brunette) who has always loved Dex from law school, whom she inadvertently introduced to her best friend, Darcy (blondie Kate Hudson) and now, after six years of being together, they are engaged to be married. 

What is sad is that it was obvious that Dex and Rachel had feelings for each other from day one but they both just never did expressed them. She, thinking how can a guy like him fall for a girl like her and him? God and him only knows what was going on in his mind.

And because he thought that she had no feelings for him, he moved on... to Darcy. After all, who can blame him? Darcy is vivacious and full of life. If you don't try, you'll never know what you might be missing out on... right? 

So, Dex and Darcy dates and progresses to the next step after six years - marriage. However, after Rachel's 30th 'surprised' birthday thrown by Darcy - despite knowing that Rachel doesn't like this kind of surprises - Rachel off handedly mentions her law school crush on Dex over drinks with just the two of them, leading to them getting involved (you know what I mean, I don't have to spell it out) and complicating things.

It's a messy thing to be in. Cheating on your best friend's fiancé? Even if that is the person you had dibs. Even if that person is the love of your life. Cheating on your fiancé's best friend? Even if she was the one you first loved but never had the courage to say anything. 

I won't tell you how that works out in the end but I am sure many of you have been in similar boats as this or know people who are or was in such situation. It confounds the mind what situations we put ourselves in, at times. Misery does love company and so, we sink into such depths.

But at the end of it all, does reality works out like in the movies? You tell me.

23.07.11 My Saturday and Mr. C washing his baby

27.07.11 Date with JoJo at Mocha Jo

Let me relax and chill, for crying out loud!

I love days like today. 

Days where I get to relax and chill, all by myself. No one to ask me to do this or that. No me to run around like a headless chicken with a thousand and one things to strike off my to-do-list. Oh, don't get me wrong. The to-do-list exists and is forever waiting to be completed but today, just today, I have decided to relax and watch 'White Collar' as I fold and iron clothes whilst another batch swirls and twirls in the washing machine.

The thing is, I have come to enjoy my days off otherwise known as bumming to many. However, many would ask me if I am getting a job and what not since I, now am able to work. Thanks to peer pressure and people who likes to see me miserable, I am forced to hop on the bandwagon and join the rat race.

I do wonder, is it so wrong not to be career ambitious? Is it so wrong to just be simple and live simple? After all, nothing is ever enough. We always chase after nicer things, bigger things, things we deemed that we need when basically, it's what advertisers are paid to make us want.

On the way back from the airport on Sunday night, my uncle asked if I knew how to start up a company or if I'll be looking for a job. Yesterday, a friend whatsapped me and asked if I've started looking for a part time job. Seriously. Thanks to you guys, to peer pressure, I feel cornered into getting a job.

Yeah, I know. I am still young. I am in my prime years. My qualifications would be wasted and yada yada yada.... 

Like I said, is it so wrong to not be career ambitious? Especially for a woman? Especially when I want to be a stay home mum and see my child's first grin, first smile, first walk, first everything? 

I am not dissing working mums. Hell no. In fact, I take my hats off to them. It's definitely not going to be easy being a stay home mum but for a working mother? I think it's even tougher. You work from 9am-5pm but work never ends. 

When you are at work, I am sure on top of the deadlines and what not, working mums think and worry about their kids at home, too. And many definitely wish they can stay home and play with their children but circumstances just doesn't allow it. And when they get home, the house chores  are waiting to be cleared, the crying baby waiting to be fed, the grubby son that refuses to wash up and the daughter that is throwing a hissy fit no matter what you try to do to calm her down.

My point being, is it so wrong to like the simple, easy life of staying home? If it's not, then why are people getting on my case? That being said, I will, of course get a job. 

Just saying that I love my free time and especially after being in audit close to four years with no life, people should be more understanding, back off and let me savour the rest of my unemployment.

Home sweet home...

Missing you guys...

And after three weeks away, it is good to be back. Then again, you can never trust the guy to keep the house neat and tidy whilst the girl is away. 

That being said, I have to say that despite all the emotional cartwheels faced whilst back home in Malaysia, I am homesick. 

Miss Bubbly says that I can't be homesick this fast where else Miss Cutesie says that it's pretty normal and that she feels homesick, too every time she goes back Malaysia and comes back to Australia. 

Oh well, I hope I snap out of it soon since I have thousand and one things to clear off my to-do-list!