Starting a New Life Abroad

The best way to spend the day off is doing absolutely NOTHING which sadly, I can’t afford to do this weekend. I have to work on a project report that has to be handed in this Thursday/Friday (Thursday: send the hardcopy by post, Friday: send the electronic form). Too much data to collate, so little time, not enough amount of functioning brain cells.

The report writing has been going on and off as I get distracted by the fact that this is a weekend (dur!), making long distance phone calls, hand-washing underwear, booking stuff for my upcoming leave, thinking of how to ask my boss nicely to ask for more annual leave than what I’ve initially requested due to a just recently told family visit to here and a sudden and undecided request to there in March. All of those plus, my undying desire to make sex. I fell asleep in between distractions and tasks, dreaming about statistic and thematic analysis, and etc. Good fun.

My lady is turning 54 today. Happy birthday, mom! I called her when my family were getting ready for a birthday bash/family gathering at a Javanese-themed resto somewhere in South Jakarta. I normally hate family gatherings and would come out with various lame reasons to avoid attending one. Yet, today, I sort of wished I could be there meeting everybody, eating the delicious traditional food, and being extremely annoyed when asked about finding a good wife.

I asked my mom when she’s planning to retire. She laughed heartily. Not for another five years, she replied. She said that she’s entitled for a pre-retirement period in which she doesn’t have to go work everyday, which probably she wouldn’t take as none of her collegues did. I knew she does love her work but I asked her anyway, why wouldn’t she start the new trend and take the pre-retirement period? She laughed again and replied, surely she could do that but what should she do then when she retires? Take up a hobby or do some non-professional-related things that she’s wanted to do for a long time… or something, I rambled. She laughed again. In the end, I wished her to stay healthy and happy and not too busy with work.

It’s her birthday but why do I suddenly feel old? I haven’t had birthday blues in a long time.

The rain’s gone. It was raining yesterday and earlier today was sunny. The temperature has actually increased  within just two days. Maybe today is the first day of Hot.

I watched dvd the other night and I gotta say that the movie really lives up to the good reviews it’s been getting. The storyline is pretty good and the lookalike-ness between The Queenie and Tony Blair characters with the real ones is just uncanny!

I’m listening to Fastball’s Out Of My Head now. I can’t think of any reasons why I should not put the song on repeat.

Back to spreadsheets and pre-wedding design webpage for my old friend.