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This week has been extremely strange to say the least. I’m starting to get the hang of my work, and I know what, how and when to do the things I get asked to now, but it doesn’t mean its all good. For a start. I noticed that the people I work with, although they aren’t mean, they aren’t exactly the friendliest bunch of people around. I don’t know if it has anything to do with the fact the majority are engineers, and stereotypically they tend to be bookish quite type. There’s one guy who is a little more outgoing than the rest, but he is more extroverted in the sense that he thinks very highly of himself and comes off as a little bit arrogant at times… kinda like this other guy I know, who is coincidentally an engineer himself. No one likes him much, as he’s always correcting us, and when he talks I want to punch him. The guy at work is not that bad though… or maybe because I don’t talk to him as much. That being said, MB is an engineer. He is also one of the most extroverted people I know, and he doesn’t seem the type to make people feel bad bout themselves. *phew!* =)
I catch the train to work now, and it has made me realised that it brings out the worse in people. Today as I was coming home, I managed to get a seat, which is a rare happening, and so I sat down. Then shortly after, this guy comes along and stands next to me. I look up and I saw that it was a guy in his 50s. He didn’t look disabled, sick, or anything so I went back to staring out the window. Then I hear him clear his throat. I look up again, and his face was staring at me expecting me to get up for him. So I looked at him again, and I saw that he was wearing quite a nice looking suit. By this stage I was getting angry at him. I’ll give up the seat to a pregnant lady or someone with disabilities, but I’m not standing up so a rude prick like him gets to sit down! He realised I wasn’t going to budge so he went to stand something else. He stood there staring at me. I stared back at him. Eventually someone else left, and he scrambled for their seat. Then when I was getting off at my stop, there’s was a guy in the seat in front of me. As I was in the middle, when the train stopped, I stood and looked around and wen to the door behind me as there were less people. The guy that was sitting in front of me saw me turn to go that way, and then promptly pulled me back so he could get in front of me, and then pushed people who were also leaving. Needless to say, we were all pretty angry at him.
I also catch the CAT bus as it goes past my work place, and on my lunch break, it saves me having to walk half of the way. Yesterday, I got on the bus, and there was a really bad odour. I looked around for a seat and saw this homeless guy sitting towards the back. I pretty much figured where the smell was coming from, so I stayed away from that area as there were no windows. But then these British tourists got on the bus, and sat down right behind the homeless guy. Then one of them said in a really loud voice. “My god what is that smell?!” Then he looked in front of him and realised where it was coming from. Most people would just move away but stay quiet, but not this lot. They sat there cracking jokes about the homeless and the guy’s smell. I could see from where I was sitting that he was getting more and more uncomfortable. This kind of behaviour you’d think would come from some young backpackers, but no, this was not the case. The woman and one of the men was in their late fourties and the one cracking most of the jokes was in either his late thirties or early fourties. They were dressed really nicely as well. And just to make sure people know who it was they were referring to, when another person got on the bus and her face crinkled from the smell, the younger guy stood up pointing down at the guy in front of him and started giggling.
I don’t know about you, but I think that public transport brings out the rudeness in a lot of people.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: new job, new phone, picnic, Valentine
Since the last time I was on here, I’ve started a new job. After all those years running away from accounting, its come back to bite me in the arse. I’m now an accounts assistant. Its not too bad. I’m getting the hang of it, and I’m more efficient than when I first started. But damn there is a lot of scanning of invoices. ><
Valentines day was also on the weekend. Original plans were that we would go on the Ferris wheel and then take the ferry across to have lunch in South Perth, but the deary weather meant that we canceled that and I chose to do something else. After much thinking, I settled for a late night picnic on the South Perth foreshore. But as the weather still didn’t look that great I organized for the picnic to take place in my car. 
How, you may ask. Well basically I pushed down the back seat so that it was flat in the back, and lined it with my picnic mat. Then to make it more comfortable I also put in a giant cushion. Food wise, I made a chicken and leek pie that my friend’s mother taught me to make the last time I went over for lunch and a simple salad. I also got some cheesecake and fruit flans from Michel’s patisserie. Being in the car meant that we could have the music on and as it was South Perth, the mosquitoes couldn’t get to us, and it was very secluded and private.
Unfortunately, weather once again played a trick on us, and it got warmer gradually through the night, so after awhile it was quite hot int he car. We decided to go for a walk to walk off our food and to get some air. Only after a few minutes I gotten attacked by mosquitoes.
Whilst on our walk, we saw several interesting things. We went past some couples pashing on the lawns… a couple and their little daughter with some high powered-looking camera…. pashing as their daughter played in the area next to their mat… then a bit further up, I found someone panties in the middle of the footpath. Lil bit inconspicuous if you ask me. After awhile, it was becoming obvious that I was getting bitten a lot so we went home.
It was quite a a nice night.
Oh, and I got a new phone. The Samsung f480.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cirque de solei, dralion, surprises, thai food, valentines day
On Friday night, friends and I decided to throw Mr Capsicum a surprise birthday party among ourselves. I thought that I wouldn’t make it on time as I had a family dinner that night, but as it turned out, I managed to make it there before the birthday boy did. We didn’t do much. Just gathered at a friend’s house and went on-line and played Wii. It was quite nice to just hang out. We hadn’t done that in ages.
Then on Saturday night, I wasn’t in the mood to go out, but thought I’d go anyways to a friend’s farewell party. Ended up at Metros and bumped into MB who said he wasn’t going to go out. Had an early night either way. Got home about 2.30am.
Then this morning, MB was suppose to come over when he woke up. Only because he had a really late night last night, he didnt’ wake up until 11. He didn’t end up coming over til 2. >< I could have gone shopping had I known that he was going to be that late. Dammit!
He told me a few weeks ago that he had a surprise planned for me, an early Valentine’s Day gift. The past few weeks, I had been going insane trying to work out what this surprise was. At first I got scared because he told me he wasn’t telling me in case I didn’t want to go. It made me think that this “surprise” was actually a rouse to get me to go donate blood with him. He knows I am terrified of needles, and if I have to go, he’d have to knock me out first. 
But then he assured me that it wasn’t to donate blood, and I relaxed a bit.
As the date drew closer, I have been wondering more and more what it could be. I thought maybe it was the gondola ride thing that I was hinting to him about, but then I freaked out, because it’s quite expensive, and in the same position, I wouldn’t use that unless it was a proposal or a major milestone anniversary, and as the latter wasn’t possible yet, I got even more worried I wouldn’t have an answer for him should it happen now. Then I realised that I was being stupid, as we have discussed it before and we both agreed that there were other things we both wanted to accomplish before if it were to happen.
So two strikes out. Then it suddenly occurred to me that he said that he wasn’t telling me in case I didn’t want to go. So I started thinking again and thought… hmm… I think we are going skydiving! He has mentioned previously that he would do it should the situation arise. For a few days I was thinking that it was skydiving. I tried to get more info out of him by asking if I should dress a certain way etc, and he was like: “Nah where what ever you normally do. ” >< Back on went my thinking cap. I couldn’t think of anything else. Until later that night, I was thinking back through everything that was discussed between each other in order to get a hint or something. Then all of a sudden, I remembered that around the time we started going our and it was nearing his birthday, I considered getting him tickets to Cirque De Solei’s Dralion show. It suddenly occurred to me that this may actually be what it is!
It wasn’t until this morning, when he asked me which restaurant on the city side was open that I finally got the information to confirm that it was indeed the surprise. When he came to pick me up, he told me we were going sky diving. I looked at him, and I saw him smirk. I knew then we were NOT going skydiving, but I played along and asked him questions about it, until he admitted that we were indeed not. I had a small bit of doubt left, but once we got to the city and parked the car, I was convinced that I knew what it was. We got out of the car, and I, forgetting that I wasn’t suppose to know where we were going, started walking off towards riverside drive. He glared at me and asked me where I thought I was going. I was like “Oh yeah. I don’t actually know.” So I kept playing along for awhile, chatting as we went. Then when we were pretty much across the street from the big top, I stopped and asked if this was where we were going. He grinned and told me yes, and how did I know. I told him my method of deduction. He laughed at me and said I should stop being so annoying.
The show was amazing! I loved every minute of it. But when it got to the ballet on the light bulbs act, one of the girls fell, causing the others to fall too. They all landed on one girl in particular, who got hurt pretty bad. They had to cancel that part of the show, which was a disappointment, but at least it didn’t appear that the girl was injured too badly. The show ended up finishing 15 minutes earlier than it was suppose to. Still it was a really good show.
We then went to have dinner at Dusit Thai. We ordered the green papaya salad (Som tum), which made me remember a moment in Penang, where Tc, Dzoom and I ordered the same thing, and it came, but it was so hot, only Dzoom could eat it, and made me cry while Tc just gave up after one bite. The salad apart from being really hot was quite nice. We made sure the rest of our dinner was mild. LOL. We ordered the pha neang curry with beef and the mixed seafood pard mah-prow-on which was basically seafood stirfried with young coconut flesh. It was really good.
I had an amazing time and loved every minute of it. You did well babe! Thanks heaps! *MWAH!*
Next week…. its my turn to organise something. 
