Back to the Traphouse

there was a line of people waiting for the condo gym treadmill when i went there just now, making me feel like i had entered some crowded female toilet by mistake.

damn it. you have no idea how hard it was to finally managed to drag my butt outta my house, and for what? just to face this parade of sweaty people.

seriously, don't they have anything better to do? like cook dinner, walk their dogs or something.

i definitely didn't wish to be there if i could help it. it's just that when i looked at my photo backgrounded by this year's lighted-up orchard's christmas tree, i wished i could be toner.

i could do with feeling a fresher a little bit longer too. nowadays when i got back from work, i just felt like lying down lazying on bed and watch heroes. i swear that's all i wanna do.

i don't even know what i did that could drained all my energy. it's not like i work in the field under the blistering sun the whole day digging earth or anything of that sort. i just sit in my air-conditioned cubicle and type.

well except today. today was a bit extraordinary. we had our last intra-departmental game at the office. by 3.45pm, we stopped work and headed for free refreshment in the seminar room.

the things we did though, were as far away than seminar as it possibly could. instead of notes and papers, there were balloons, hulla-hoops and giant dices.

who says engineers don't know how to have fun? we tied our legs together with balloons at our ankles, then assaulted our fellow opponents trying to burst theirs. we raced using chairs as our stepping stones. we threw dice and acrobated our bodies through hulla-hoops. even our managers played musical chair.

we normally have our technical seminar here but today we just got technical on how to tie balloons on our legs effectively

i haven't done this since.. i think the last century or so....



i can tell you it wasn't all pretty, but those were as far as we could go. there won't be any stripping or poll dancing or anything like that. heck, most of them don't even manage to have as much fun as having proper dinners most of the times.

call it lame. most of my fellow department colleagues are just bunch of all-work-and-no-play-dull-jack type. i wonder how i ended up with these group of people in the first place.

i'm lucky that i befriend some fun ones though, my lunch kakis. they really made my working life worth living.


my super cool lunch buddies during our usual coffee breaktime


i mean, not that work is bad, but must we sell our soul away and be the most boring person on earth for it?

my mum called when i was working just now. she said she managed to get a bus ticket for me for next week's holiday weekend.

that settled my problem then. i was so frustated going from counter to counter in golden mile complex trying to find tickets few days ago. this thursday is eid-adha holiday so most people take leave on friday to have long weekend break. there was just ain't no ticket from kl to singapore on sunday when i plan to return, totally extinct from this face of the earth.

you know, i don't know why i still have to go through this holiday ticket rush madness anymore, considering i already paid a thousand bucks every month to own and maintain a car.

not that i don't wanna drive back, i totally do but everytime when i brought up the idea, i was being made to sound like someone who would hit the toll-post the moment i cross the causeway.

i mean, ok i don't really know the road, and the weather is kinda crazy too nowadays. who knows when it will eventually flood the highway as well? the last thing i want to do is get my car stuck in the water during my virgin trip to malaysia.

so i guess next time then. after all, my mum already got the ticket in kl for me. and to tell you the truth, i wasn't all in a hurry to drive my car through the narrow, branches-protruded cow-dung-filled-earth pathway to my grandfather's village anyway.

it's friday tomorrow, thank god. i still have one more weekend to enjoy before going for car-trip-no-it's-now-bus trip back to kl end of next week. we organized a christmas gathering on saturday at this friend's house who already quit our company. there will be chestnut-stuffed turkey, chicken ham and log cake.

i must remember to find santa hat tomorrow. we're gonna have fun, although i can assure there'll be no strip-tease and poll dancing kind of fun. really.


..ed