Salam!

April 30th will see me in Dubai for a week where I can look forward to being all dressy and fancy and riding around in fancy cars (courtesy of J. or should I say his neighbour). Now just so everyone's clear, I'm not big on the fancy, bling-bling, wine and dine combo. It's too much of a chore and too expensive an image to maintain. But getting out my stilletoes and cocktail dresses (that I barely ever wear but have just because they're pretty) and being zipped around in a Porche for a week makes for a nice change ;)

Anyway, what I'm REALLY excited about is the DESERT SAFARI that I intend to go on!! Camel riding and dune bashing in a 4WD sounds exhilirating, don't think I'll try sand boarding though... Watching the sun descend from the top of a sand dune... then when day light has faded, relaxing by a bonfire while savouring an Arabian barbecue in a Bedouin tent and sipping cups of traditional coffee and finally, reclining on carpets with a sheesha while belly dancers shake and shimmy to the beats of traditional arabic music. Oh how absolutely glorious!!! I'm so looking forward to it!!

Happy Anti-V Day

OK so it's valentine's day... that time of year when most couples go googly eyed, the singles feel like crap, and flower shops rake in the big bucks, thanks to the few guys out there who think that buying their better half 2 dozen roses for triple the price, means "I really care for you". Thankfully, moi is resistant to such overrated celebrations and have always (and always will) treat it like any other day. So while sickly sweet love was in the air and couples were getting all mushy, I checked out a Turkish restaurant that I'd been meaning to try, by myself, made friends with the owner and an hour later, surprise surprise, we have dinner plans for sat. HEH! Made another new friend!

PS: Just as a clarification, I LOVE flowers! I buy them for myself whenever I can! Though of course it'd be great to receive some once in a while, I just don't see the point of wasting all that money on one particular day.

My Ever Shrinking Social Life

I finally understand how some people are able to remain unfazed when they realised that their work had somehow snuck up on their social life and leeched off it to the point of oblivion. I'm at the mouth of this particularly nasty spiral and I'm hoping I'll come to my senses soon enough and dig my heels in / grab on to anything I can find before I get sucked in entirely and become like one of my superiors... (she's beyond help!)

I've stopped making plans to go out, due to the fact that more often than not I'd have to cancel coz I'm either too tired or I gotta stay late. The weird thing is I don't find all this particularly frustrating. I wouldn't say I've accepted the idea, more like motivated to do so due to the fact that I'm in a start up company and we all just want to make it work.

Anyway, so how did I realise that I'm so close to falling into this spiral? When I canceled, yet again, on someone I was supposed to meet tonight, and not being the least bit bothered when he bade me a very curt goodnight. (he was obviously fed up with my 'excuses') I'm treading on dangerous ground...

Retail Therapy

While most females seek therapy in shopping, in particular clothes, shoes, bags, jewellery... I prefer to throw my money away at supermarkets :D Cruising the aisles and randomly throwing snacks and tid-bits into the cart is soooooooooooooo soothing. And it gets even better once I move to the fresh food section, coz that's when my brain starts scrolling through all the recipes I have stored in there (which isn't alot really) and I start planning my dinner menu for the next week. Fun Fun Fun! Now grocery shopping will be even more fulfilling coz I found all the oven trays that I thought I didn't have! Woohoo!!! Roasts! Casseroles! Cakes! Brownies!! Oh I can't wait!