remind me again...

what was the main reason of coming here??

sigh.. it's my last week here in taipei and i can't quite figure out if what i've done this entire time is enough.

my most important task was to get myelf a freaking job and so far, i've only gone for one interview (which led to me attending a coupla meetings and event with them), sent out my resumes to two other places and zilch. i've got a coupla suggestions to try out at a friend's travel agency, i could go to more hotels or more wedding companies but the main problem remains the same. most of them require me to already have a work visa or some sort of visa that enables me to stay here over a longer period of time, which is sickening coz i need the companies to apply for the visa for me.. i need job for work visa and i need work visa for job. fucking chicken and egg theory.

my only consolation to this whole job seeking shit is that thankfully, i'm blissfully happy.

i must admit. i'm having a minor freaking out moment here. i guess that's what happens when one has too much time on their hands.

timbre has been an angel. he's doing great now and his life is no longer in danger. i guess it's also time now to learn about the responsibilities of taking care of another life. it's no longer just me or us. i can't quite say, 'hey, let's go for a drink' and head to the nearest bar. i can't. anymore. i'm not complaining coz he's such a sweetie (i'm talkin abt timbre). i'm just having a little alcohol deficiency here, not enough nutrients running through my blood stream. kinda missing that freedom a little.

maybe the loneliness does get to me everytime he goes to work.

once again, timbre's such a sweetie, he's just lazing beside me while i whine my afternoon away. i can't really go out too far coz of the silly fuckingly stupid financial situation i put myself in. fuck, i can't even do my hair. ok now i'm ranting. methinks it might be pms. i wish i could bring timbre to more places but i need money to travel and dun even know the place well! i wish i could bring him to the freaking zoo or just somewhere where he can run and play freely.

i wish i could do that too, to do what i want, whenever i want. okay, maybe i am missing my freedom a little more than i thought i would.

fuck man, i need a job. i'm going crazy doing nothing when everything that has to be done has been done. i'm so occupied with just taking care and being around timbre, i'm turning into a neat freak that wants to buy my doggie shoes so that he wun dirty his feet after a bath and dirty the house with pawprints. he's got a hoodie though, haha.. only to keep him out of the chills since he's scrawny as heck and to prevent people from thinking that we starved him till his ribcage showed.

check out hip hop timbre. we intend to bling him up. haha.. shit.. poor boy!

i'm happy, blissful, dun get me wrong. just not peacefully happy. the nagging at the back of my head keeps going on and on and on and on... omg i can't wait for gracia and sam to get their asses here.

i need to be practical. i need a fucking job. NOW.

another day with the little one

it's been 3 days since we got timbre. good times and bad times, painful times and silly times all make it worth it i guess. and he either recognises our voices or his name coz he responses pretty well and is soooo obedient. maybe more so just coz he's sick. sick but still damn freaking strong lah.

my poor little boy had already been having diarrhoea since the day we got him. and with the poop was a little tinge of blood. doc said to monitor it. last evening he started pooping just blood. and a whole lot of it. sigh... then almost every other hour we had to bring him downstairs just so he can let go. not pee though, just liquid poop and blood all the way. sigh... gonna bring him in to see the vet and he might have to stay for 24hour observation. no marneeee ahhhhh... (how abt a donation drive?)

anywayz, despite being so sick, he's still pretty smart and strong. we decided to sleep outside with him again coz it's easier for us to wake up and bring him out if he needs to poop. fell asleep right around 1am and 4am we woke up to an empty cushion (he sleeps on a similar cushion beside us) and found him not in the toilet but in the master bed room, on the bed, head on the pillow, sleeping. tamade! smartypants cheated us of our bed!! he decided to be all sweet and innocent and slept between our legs under the blanket until we woke up to find him back in the room again. but this time he didn't look too comfy. he was just at the edge of the bed, shivering.

poor boy puked abt 3 different places around the house. thank god there wasn't any poop!

waiting to go bring him to the doc soon. is this what it feels like to eventually become parents and be worried sick when your kid falls sick?? the man looks like he makes a great pet owner and dad but i'm wondering if i'm cut out for it. haha...

doc says he'll be alright in the immediate future (3-5days) but we're not sure if he can get well in time. we're just doing the best we can to make whatever time he has left comfy and painless. hope he'll hang in though, just wanna see him healthy and jumpy and noisy as he should be.

alrighty. i'm going for breakfast then off to the vet. such a detour to my initial plan for this trip. i just hope i get the job so i dun have to waste time looking for other interviews. time flies!! i'm gonna be bk in abt 2 weeks.

kinda like a glimpse into the future this is... isn't to bad, eh?

god sent

so peter and i were minding our own business thinking of whether we wanted to catch a movie or not and because it was cold, i didn't wanna go outside so we hung in the shopping complex a little while more when dear little timbre walked up to us. yes, in the middle of a shopping centre.

he was scrawny as heck lah... that poor boy, and we decided to feed it. but i guess because of the fact that we've been pet hunting for a while now and peter dreamt of a similar looking dog (think hush puppy) just the nite before, and he snuggled in nicely with me in the cab while taking it to a pet shop to ask wat the hell are we suppose to do with it, and after taking it to the vet and all that, we decided to keep it since it obviously wasn't anyone else's.

and i'm gonna be one of those irritating mums and go on and on talking about my boy ... so here's timbre!!!




actually i have a million more pictures but i gotta rotate them (yes pris) before i post them so.. ahem...

CUTE RITE?!~?!?~

i'm a happy mummy!!

nuaing a weekend away

i know i said that the weather was puuurfect during the first week, and honestly, that was it. right after i posted my previous bloggie, the freaking weather turned against me. some cold draft coming in from the north, they say. well, freaking froze the shit out of me. it started to drop to 15 degrees and thereafter 11degrees and not going above 15 degrees. but u see, before i got here, i asked my sis abt the weather and she said it was bearable.. ard 19 degrees and all so i specifically told my mum to take the winter jacket i had packed out of my cargo bag so that i can bring more stuff. tamade!!

okie.. anyways, things have been going pretty well here. my bodyclock went from being in US time to being NZ time. yes i actually fell asleep two nights in a row before 10am and got up at 6am. and it was a fri and sat nite. sigh... WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME!!!??!?~

oh well... interview went really well, 1.5hours. i'm keeping my fingers crossed. almost feels like i'm putting all my eggs in one basket but let's see how that goes. and i'll prolly be more aggressive in my jobsearch come next week.

been window shopping in pet shops here and i'm sooo in lurve with the kittens and puppies!!! i still want a husky but methinks we might get ourselves a pussy (ahem) if and when i do get a job and get more settled here. the cats are SOOOO cute!!!!!! sorry prissy la la n vina.

okie.. my batt's running out and i gotta catch a volleyball game (must lose weight!!!) in a bit (actually we're late)

miss u all lots!!!

1st week in taipei

hoookay! hallo peeps!! i finally get the chance to sit down, recollect my thoughts and type something.

almost 2 weeks (10 days) and flown by and i'm pretty settled in (holiday-wise) in taipei. the weather's been puurrfect so far, the shopping's been great so far and after sending my sister bk to sg tonight, i'm gonna start serious jobsearch. 

2008 has been pretty nice to me. 

black party came and went and was a blast coz methinks everyone went home buzzed. it's so nice when everyone there was ready to parrrteh... btw, i fell down at one point (i wonder why) and hurt my tail bone. went to see a doc after my sydney flight and he wanted to send me for an x-ray. unfortunately, i had a flight to catch within an hour so it's still pain pain now. *pouts*

my last flight to sydney on the airbus came and went and even though it was tiring as hell and nobody quite understood why i'd let myself go through that shit flight, methinks at least i can say, been there, done it. moving on to greater things... 

hitting the road, going through 3 airports in less than 24 hours came and went. boy i was so tired after sydney and on my way to taipei that i slept as soon as i got onboard then only woke up occasionally when i needed a drink.. or when the aircraft landed with a huge "dhish".

finally met my baby (who's sleeping beside me like a pig now) and the past week's been great just hanging out with him and my sister. good bonding time for all of us. 

met up with a coupla ex-colleagues last nite and partied a little with them. went for breakfast/supper at 5am and somehow the conversation always goes back to flights, passengers, work, colleagues and shitheads. i'm not part of that industry anymore and while it's nice to know what they're gossiping abt and have my own inputs, i realise, i'm really am glad i no longer have to go through all that shit. and having to walk from t3 to t2 and all? having to see sydney almost every month? i guess.. it's reallly no love lost there. 

the ones that i miss will always be able to come see me when they come to taipei. teeheehee...

let's keep our fingers crossed for what the future holds. 

in the meantime, methinks it's time to get some food and get my sis to the airport. 

tata!~

happy new f@%king 2008!!

as if in an attempt to spoil my new year, something HAS to screw up.

my cargo bag with all the new stuff i bought for the new year, my digicam with pics of my new year in frankfurt, my black handy bag and lv bag, my winter coat are all somewhere taking free plane rides while i'm stuck here in sg wondering where the hell it is.

it had to happen on my 2nd last flt.

hope it gets delivered back to me by this sat if not how to pack for taipei?

the countdown begins...

6 more days before meetin my baby.
5 more days before hitting the road.
3 more days before my very last flt.
2 more days before the 'black' party.

ahh.. i can't wait!!!

"i'm leaving on a jetplane.. don't know when i'll be back again.."