When the Storm Hits...

     Seems like it's been ages since I've spent any time here! Work has been so crazy since Boxing Day with allocating students, preparing welcome packs for them and data entry in the timetabling system that the last thing I wanted to do was spend any extra amount of time facing the computer than necessary. And this was before the new semester started too!

     I barely spent any significant amount of time on my other indulgence, Twilighters Anonymous! Egad! Could that day have possibly come?  Ha ha! No need for rejoicing. I'm not quite ready to stop talking about the Cullens yet! I know my continuous heaping of accolades of them seems like a broken record but hey, here's a thought, don't get me started or shut your ears when I do! See, easy peasy! LOL

     In any case, I digress. I did have an awesome time away from the computer, first on 27th December when I had the chance to meet up with my long-time friends and former, the Sercombes, whom I've not met for close to 10 years surely! They were a family of four when they left Singapore and now they are a family of six! I knew the older two girls, Grace and Chloe, have carried them in my arms when they were babies and toddlers, but Lilianne and Daniel were born after they returned to England.

     Funnily enough, it was with Lily and Daniel that I spoke quite a bit with. Understandable I suppose, considering that Grace and Chloe are nearing their early teens. Well, I think Grace is already 11 and Chloe is 9, close enough, LOL. Lily is 7 and Daniel 3.  The whole family is ever charming and Colin and Leanne looked wonderful! They are now based in Hong Kong and were passing through Singapore while they had their cruise through South East Asia. I don't reckon they would be in a hurry to do that one again since I recall them saying the service and facilities were unbelievably horrid!

     We sat for an hour having coffee and catching up a bit. It was so surreal sitting at the same table as them again but it was wonderful nonetheless. My only regret was not having any photos taken with them. Silly, silly Noor!

     I also caught up on a lot of reading - though the speed at which I go through the books that termites would be proud of, there's nothing to really catch up on, I suppose, LOL. But shush! Books are wonderful things and I dunno what I'd ever do without them! I can't remember why I went to the Library again after my Christmas eve visit since I still had books to read from Sunny but I can never resist when there's a book I want.  Besides, it's always a pleasure visiting the library, eh?  Although I dare say, I've not borrowed such a huge stack of books since my uni days!

     The night before the new semester started, I thought I shan't be too distressed and that the most I'd have to deal was the alarm clock, ensuring that I wake up earlier than the hour later that I indulged in during school holidays since we start work at a later hour.

     Oh how wrong I was! From the moment I stepped into the office at 7.55am, it was go-go-go until about 10.30am before I managed to get my first cuppa joe and brekkie of biscuits and oh, remembered to put away my bag.  Furthermore, it was only when I was going for my lunch break, did I recall that I haven't gone to the washroom yet and realised that I needed that break as well, LOL.

     As a testament of how things hasn't seemed to have settled down yet, just look at my desk a week after the semester started. That's what happens when you seem to get new things to do before the previous tasks are completed. Ha ha!  Days like these, I miss seeing the top of my desk!  Would you believe that I clear it as much as possible each eve before I leave?