Monday Blues

Weekend at the parents was uneventful although I did get a bit of flack from my mum on the change in my eating habits. I had to assure her that I will not be doing it until I get sick but she knows how obsessive I can get about my weight that I don’t think that she was totally convinced. As long as I can prove to her that I’m trying to lose weight in a healthy way then she would be ok with it. She wasn’t too thrilled with the amount of time I spent at gym as well but I told her that it’s still new for me and there is the novelty factor to figure it. I guess mothers are just like that even when you’re already over 30 years old.

We have all our Raya kuih plans sorted out as well this weekend. As like previous years, I would be responsible for making the dodol and for buying the London Almond cookies. This year I’ve decided to try another source for the cookies as I’ve lost contact with the person who I used to buy them from. None of his numbers work anymore and usually he would have contacted me about my yearly order by now. I have to assume that he won’t be making them this year and I have to find someone else who makes them to buy from. As for the dodol, I’m thinking of making Dodol Pulut Hitam this year instead of the usual dodol partly to compare if there is any difference between the two types.

Got my alumni batik shirt back from the tailors with some minor items that I was not totally satisfied with. However, I could not blame the tailor totally for the oversight as the batik pattern the alumni uses was quite difficult to figure out what goes where without a diagram. Fortunately for me, the wrong pattern was only used on the sleeves which was still ok as long as the main body and back was according to spec. I also ended up buying 3 more long sleeve shirts for work even though I just bought 2 the week before puasa. It’s not that I have money to burn on clothes but I have not found a shirt that I can be comfortable in and long lasting at the same time. I think I finally found them this weekend and hopefully they would be the last that I buy for this year … at least until I find another reason to buy more.

Spent the whole day today installing anti-virus and software management applications on a server in China which crashed last weekend. Good thing that they didn’t bugged me about it when it happened or I would have been really ticked off for having to forego my weekend. The tasks were not that difficult to do but I do need to baby-sit the process all the way through. I still have to continue it tomorrow as I need to get some items completed by another group before I can proceed so I would have that to occupy my time at work this week.

Feeling a little bit under the weather today. I do hope I don’t get the flu especially during the fasting month. I am a really cranky person when I get the flu and not being able to self medicate during the day would make me even more crankier. I hope that I will feel better after sweating it out at the gym tonight.