Dear Me – August 2008

Dear Me,

Hei you! It’s me, you, yourself. I know you might be surprised with this little note. I am too, as it’s been a while since we wrote to each other.

I know there’re so many things going on with your life now, especially in the work department. I found out from your Facebook that you are wishing for 48 hours in a day? I also know that you are trying to spend this lovely weekend doing office work so you can catch up with many more works back in office tomorrow. That is too much!

Take a deep breath now, hear me out will ya?

I know you have been given a whole new responsibility at work, that you have committed to deliver whatever necessary to Big Kahuna, however little your resources are now. And that what makes you stay late almost every other night ever since you came back from Berlin business trip. You constantly travel to various project offices i.e. Port Klang, Central KL, JB, S’pore, etc, you reach home almost 10:00pm almost every night, you wake up at 5:30am every morning to beat the traffic jam? You are so damn tired, aren’t you? And that exactly what your body blatantly admitted last Friday. Remember, your shoulder cramped so bad your left arm refused to lift up, that you had to take emergency leave just to regain yourself.

Thank God your strength and your spirit is back to normal now, and that you are trying to put things in better perspectives, better balanced between corporate and personal life, enjoying what you love about your me-time i.e. going window-shopping and watching movies with Himself on Saturday; sitting back/relax on Sunday, enjoying good fiction books, blogging and blog-hopping and actually leaving trails/comments on those good blogs you have been stalking all these while instead of being only a ghost reader.

I know, you still hate doing housework no matter how hard you wish to be a weekend domestic goddess, you are not even an inch closer to become a semi-domestic goddess my dear.

Hei, when was the last time you saw how beautiful a sunset is? (I know you drive to work everyday while the sun is rising but I bet you don’t even realise that, do you?) Remember back in the 90s’ when you and your then boyfriend used to enjoy waiting up for sunsets at various beaches/seaside in California, and how you longed to ..ok..ok.. let’s just keep them to ourself What about sunsets in Pangkor Island that you and Himself love so much! Remember how you two enjoyed frolicking in sea while watching the sunsets? Haha! Everybody thought you two were honeymooners although you two have been married for more than 10 years now.

Ok.. ok.. I digress, but the point is that you have been so held up in your work, you don’t even remember how to enjoy small little pleasures in life i.e. walking through pasar malam enjoying the aromas of sate, ikan bakar, ayam percik that the smells will sure stick to your scarf and baju kurung even after you safely reach home. What about enjoying the stroll in the hypermarket at the spice section, where you can sniff the different aromas of paprika, cumin, coriander, nutmeg, ginger, black pepper, star anise, cardamon, cloves? Do you remember when your weekends were spent trying out producing different chicken flavours depending on the spices used. God, that was ages ago right?

I can go on and on reminding you about how you probably could sail through your life journey in a more smooth and organized manner, but I will let you do that yourself now. Yup, I know this note is getting too lengthy that I had expected, so before I bore you even further, just to remind you again to relook into your life journey and make adjustment wherever possible.

Till then.

Your BFF,

Yourself.