@work. wednesday. 11.07am and counting.
missing melbourne: approximately 7 months.
3 ulcers.
ALL THAT JAZZ
my colleague is randomly playing jazz on his PC and Nora Jones(or Joms- as how some lateral importers* call her) has been pleading me to ‘come away with HER’ for the past 5 minutes. I want to, but I can’t, thank you very much, and I would greatly appreciate it if she helps me in a more practical way. It’s really funny how music can bring you backto a certain time or memory.
Nora Jones and Jazz per se always reminds me of my crazy escapades in melbourne.
That’s where i started to love and groove…Our car driving down the highway, getting lost. 5 of us, all squirming and
squashed at the backseat of the car…Jones again, with us, as our group attempted to be all yuppie and cool…heading
down to the far-away beaches with jazz in our heads. A surreal and precious moment and few months of pure enjoying
life together. It’s often hard to define that moment in time, hard to explain and put to words. But to what it’s worth, I’m
glad to have that time to look back to and smile to myself…despite having to finally face the realities of this world. We
never thought of the future, or the worries of the next day. We just drove and drove…as far as the car would take us,
and explore the outskirts and learn to love the waves in between our toes together. i want to swing my arms again and
lie in the sand. To feel the cool breeze on my skin again. But till I can return, I have them all captured in the songs that
were present in the trips that we made.
That’s enough pondering for the day. Am grateful that I had my ‘teh’ in the morning.
It’s scary how caffeine is fast becoming a daily staple in my diet. I’m sure all these habits are going to end once i leave this company for good…
=( Am grateful to have been working with this bunch of amazing people… they will surely be missed. Even mom will miss them.
cos i’ll be home more often than not now…haha. She likes it that they make me execise. Yes surprise surprise, I went kayaking.
O well. I’ll just have to go back to the comforts of spider solitare and online scrabble. Sweet.
Time really flies huh. Went for a cg yesterday…with people i have not met in 5 years! Great time… it’s been awhile. and congrats to reubs…
another friend getting married! Gotta give tuition tonight. Tired. Sleepy. Sigh. Better get back to work.
love you from the bottom of my pencil case.
* for the uninformed, lateral importers are also known as people who see ‘pirated cds’
