Tinkling thoughts and things

I thought being in here would give me more time to reflect on things and write in my blog about what's going in the world today. But that doesn't seem to be the case. I seem to lost the 'will' to write. I've been pretty lazy the past week since I got here. Lazy not in the work sense. I'm still doing my work as I'm supposed to. But just being lazy. Lazy to cook my own dinner, so I order in even though I've already bought my groceries. Lazy to exercise. Lazy to go out. I've just been bumming around the apartment being a damn couch potato or surfing the net or playing my computer games. Also, my tummy's been acting really strangely. I've been visiting the toilet so many times that it's now my loyal companion here. I'm not having any pains or cramps. But I've just been running like crazy. And I have no idea why. Everytime I go to the toilet, there's stuff coming out. Sounds gross, but crapping is part of life so deal with it. I think I'm either still getting used to the food here or something I'm eating regularly could be doing this to me. Could it be the bran bread I eat for lunch everyday? Or maybe the bran cereal I take every morning for breakfast? I'm eating so much fibre, enough to last me for a lifetime I think. Anyhow, I suppose it's good for my system. Get rid of the excess crap I may have in my intestines.

My first weekend here passed uneventfully. Was invited for dinner by a Malaysian colleague who's on secondment here as the big boss was in town. Her apartment was huge! And she's living alone. I should have just accepted her offer to stay with her. But then again, she's not really on the same wave length so on second thoughts, living alone here is much better. So dinner over the weekend was taken care of. Had chinese food in this Hong Kong restaurant on Saturday night. It was actually quite decent. Can you believe it? Decent chinese food in Bahrain. Plus the servers were from China. The big boss was like "Oh, you can speak chinese to them and order for us!" And I was going "Crap crap crap..." since I obviously can't speak mandarin for nuts. And when the waitress spoke to me in her mandarin, the accent was so thick I could hardly understand her! As it is, I already have a hard time understanding Malaysian Mandarin. But anyhow, the food was ordered and it was pretty alright. Very saucy. Not so much Hong Kong style but more of South China, I think. But hey, I'm no expert on food.

Sayang's started his new job. Well, technically started anyway. He's on this camping trip with the workmates. Part of the programme. I started laughing when I found out he has to go for this trip. Going camping and being adventurous is the last thing he would do.

Urgh... I just read the news that some 100 year old man married a 22 year old woman. I don't know. Something about that just doesn't seem right. Call me conservative but what the heck would they do with each other? It's just disturbing...

Okay, back to work...although I'm now in the mood to strangle some people!