Fluffiness

I've slept 20 hours over the last couple of days trying to fight off a flu that Weng generously gave me. That's a lot, considering I've only averaged seven hours a night since getting back. I've just been lying around all day today too, looking at everything through a super fluffy haze. I hate being ill on a holiday, there's just too much to do.

Good news came this morning. My work permit's been approved and is on its way over. Now I just have to get my butt down to British High Commission in Singapore and all should be good for the September start.

I'm also really looking forward to the Kim Possible movie this Saturday. It's going to be followed by two back to back episodes of the new season!!1! I kid you not, I've been waiting for two whole weeks! But I'll be at Wings, so I'll have to set the VCR. Ah, technology.

Oh, and the people at the Massimo Dutti store in Bangsar Village are snobby, pretentious twerps. Actually, the lady sitting at the information counter in Bangsar Village is a ... grumpy bum.

Shiokness

There is a reason that one of my yoga classes is quite simply called "Hot". They close all the windows and the door and turn on the heaters, then you proceed to do a series of poses where you're completely distracted from the pain by the rivers that course down your face and gush off the tip of your nose. Some poses are impossible because you just cannot get a grip on the sweat-slicked limb(s) involved.

I also got a new baby. A beautiful Canon IXUS 850. I haven't been this thrilled with a camera since my last IXUS that took a walk somewhere between Southampton and South Kensington three years ago. I'm going to guard this one with my life. Given my rather limited photography talent, I love how you can just point and shoot with this camera and the picture quality is amazing.



I finally have an excuse to put up pictures. Here's half the youth from CBC - there are so many of us now, it's fantastic.

After lunch on Sunday there was torrential rainfall, so much so that Joel commented that our church was now waterfront property, blessed by a raging river flowing down the hill on it's right.

Contentment

Being home is bliss. The good food, clean house, comfortable bed, and loved ones all around more than makes up for the chores. I don't have to worry about what to eat next, and we haven't had to so much as look at soy sauce chicken, leeks and chicken, oven chicken, or steamed egg. Thank goodness.

Popped down to Singapore last week, just as the flu was setting in. I must've passed it to at least the half of the country that crammed themselves into Orchard Rd. The new things I bought distracted me sufficiently though, so all was well in the end I suppose.

Other than that, it's mostly been a flurry of important things like facials, food, threading, food, pedicures, food, and yoga to counter the eating. Oh, there was also the small issue of finalising things for our place next year. Weng and Cheryl managed to secure one in the last week they were there, which is excellent news and buys me another week of home time.

I want to stay here forever though.