Updates.
I'm back in the office. Stack of to-do's piling up on my desks–staggered deadlines are not comforting at all. Looking forward to the weekend holiday in Bangkok–I seem to go around places more often eh?
Oh did I tell you? The trip to Bangkok is the very first trip that Eric is taking with MY FAMILY! Surely this must mean good news for the relationship.
What more can a girl ask for? Am happy. *Sniff* Cross fingers and hope all goes well.
You know the thing about doing what I do for a living is the damned fact that my phone's literally ringing all the time. Yesterday I was at the beautician's for the first time in months and the lady had just slapped on a peppermint mask, and the bloody phone rang. A journalist.
Yes, I know you guys work on Sundays. But people like me, even though we're not at the office all the time, we're usually on call most of the time.
'Hi, can I speak to you for a minute? I need your opinion…'
'Urm. It's not a good time now. Can I get back to you?' Mumbling through hardening mask.
'It's very important, and I need your comment on …'
'Can I get back to you? I'm not in a position to comment now. Please?'
'But this case here, it just takes a while to answer.'
'Well, I'll get back to you in an hour. I'm with some friends now, and I need to get my documents before I can give you a statement.'
'Oh okay. Well, but right now what do you think?'
'Listen, when will your paper be published?'
'Tonight?'
'So you have some time, at least till 5 pm before you type in my statement, that is if you choose to use it right?'
'Yes. Well, of course we'd like to use it.'
'It's only 12 noon. I'll call you in an hour.'
'Why can't you give me your opinion now?'
'Because I'm at the beautician's and MY FACE IS PLASTERED WITH PEPPERMINT GEL!'
'Oh, okay. Okay. 1 pm.'
'I'll call you. So sorry for the inconvenience okay? Be patient.'
'Okay I'm so sorry to disturb you.'
KNNCB. You should have been sorry from the first sentence. Gah.
So the conversation was resumed an hour later, and then with a promise on her part to fax me the documents that she possessed at her end.
'So okay,' said our friend the persistent journo. 'I'll fax you the materials now, and you should see it on your desk tomorrow morning.'
'Awesome. Will be looking forward to see it.'
I got into the office at 7.45 this morning okay? And it's already 1020 am. I have NOT received any fax so far. Mana faks whey? Tak nampak whey!
Still waiting. Fingers strumming.
July 3rd, 2006 at 10:49 am
darn….
some ppl are just like that….
very QIAN BIAN.
July 3rd, 2006 at 4:12 pm
Have fun in Bangkok. I hear the strip joints are really fun. You even get to eat uncooked vegetables with your cooked food. You’d look great with peppermint gel on your face. That beautician probably has secret thoughts about you.
July 3rd, 2006 at 10:21 pm
Hi Minishorts,
Shopping is great fun in bangkok and the thai massage is kinda ticklish. Love the tomyam there - it’s alot different that the ones they have in KL.
Cheers!!!
July 4th, 2006 at 12:38 am
My reluctance to call you anytime is not unfounded.
Meet you some other time, minishorts.
July 4th, 2006 at 9:30 am
Here’s a video of the CHS thing I edited. Hah, you could’ve appeared in it. But man, that thing was pretty disappointing. I didn’t even stay more than half an hour.
As for Bangkok, I can’t remember anything much about it since I haven’t went there since I was 13. Incredible.
July 4th, 2006 at 9:32 am
(oops, accidentally put a link to my video on the previous comment, which probably ended up being zapped by the spam filter, gonna do this again)
Anyway, I’ve just put up a short video of the CHS thing I edited. Hah, you could’ve appeared in it. But man, that thing was pretty disappointing. I didn’t even stay more than half an hour.
As for Bangkok, I haven’t went there since I was 13, can’t remember much about it. Incredible.
July 4th, 2006 at 9:34 am
Er, oh shit, I didn’t know that both of my previous comments went through. Sorry about that. The first one didn’t show up when I press ‘Post’!
July 4th, 2006 at 9:35 am
… ‘pressed’
July 4th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Humph. Evil woman escaping to Bangkok. Lol. Have fun. You might bump into Yean there. He’s forever being sent there by his company for work. Or was it Phuket? [lost].
P/s. Remind me to tell you this fascinating story bout this massage parlour my friend experienced in Vietnam. Fuschia pink + mirrors everywhere. ‘Nuff said.
July 4th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
You should try to visit the market there… you cannot miss it cos it is just to damn big…
Many stuff to buy there.. Enjoy!!
July 5th, 2006 at 3:26 am
If you really want to avoid faxes, throw the machine out the window. Works for me.