re-design

going dark blue at present.

after four years, maroon seems so tiring and dated. plus red represents a lot of fiery, abhorrent team affiliations. were the lakers ever red? the template could be totally unpleasing to the naked eyes. the grey could go lighter or darker or a picture header might just be the key to magnificence. i'll tweak and match for a little bit. i'm a creative disaster in more ways than one but at least, they're my colours.

kinship

what do we look for in a friend?

i tend to use the word nice a lot, a lot and a lot, especially in describing close associations.

helpful, congenial, beautiful (on the inside). down to earth.

a kind soul that may not embrace the crap that i like, but accept the aeryn suns, the sheldon coopers, the carol hathaways, the samantha joneses, the jane eyres, the rachel greens, the michael corleones, the jimmy mcnultys, the niles cranes. life may not always revolve around what we see on screen or read in a book, but there's the charm in knowing that although our choices differ, we have friends. we have family, and that the schmaltz keep on pouring.

reality nap

Plans to levitate towards the nearby shopping center to purchase perfume and spend the M&S gift card I've accidentally bought myself fell through when I drifted off to sleep before midday. Again. Shouldn't procrastinate really.

sparks

in the vat

the first, second and third days of this new year were either spent working, thinking about work or preparing for work. didn't even breathe through a retail high during the holidays. the vat increase is a current gloom, the scourge of the not so cash rich. it is reflected in my phone bills, sending photos from one mobile phone to another hit my bills pretty damn hard. it's all hidden charges, or checking facebook in europe. can't wait to get rid of the other phone.

for the winter's tale, it's still dark and cold, no longer hideously frozen but nonetheless penetrating for my tropical skin. january would flew past by the hectic activities, opening the windows for february swirl.

gracious

i don't really do new year's resolutions. but i will stain the authenticity of that statement by promising to consume more green and leafy garden's delights and procrastinate less, to move about after a stint of nine hours straight in bed regardless of the very heavy workload at the place with one office. be more gracious and polite. but i will still revel in the goodness of belgian chocolate trufles and pie's cupcakes. dance. read more books of merit. visit more museums. try to grasp the meaning behind my friend not knowing reese witherspoon.

good night

i could have danced the whole night.
but i was working the next day.
and new year morning in london is not
for the fainthearted.

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