Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Notes to Self

1. Best way to get rid of Monday blues? Take leave. Face Tuesday with the consolation that Desperate Housewives is on at 9pm.

2. Pokka Ice Tea Mango is yummy!

3. The revenge of the Evil Chinese Pear has been exacted on my natural limp-walk. I must be limping more pronouncedly than usual, two colleagues have noted it this morning.

4. What’s with the whole South Asia euphemism? How hard can it be to say “Pakistan”?

5. The hook buckle thing on my pants has…dropped off. With no giant safety pin in sight, modesty necessitates creativity. Enter the humble handbag clip! Y'know, the black document clip that looks like a handbag with gigantically erect handles. Procedure: Clip embarrassingly parting pants together with clip. Once modesty is secured, remove visible “handle” from the handbag portion, resulting in camouflaged black handbag-clipped pants. So clever I could cry.

6. I have a sinecure! Amazing, the things you learn from Word of the Day.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Point 5: So clever I'm tempted to snag it and patent it. End of the year. Performance review time. I've not patented anything this year. :) So, can I? I don't know how it can be applicable to engineering tho :)

Anonymous said...

worried you may have "popped" your hipbone the way i did before.. or morespecifically, where the thighbone pops out of the hip socket...

wanna go see pagoh uncle this weekend?

Anonymous said...

I think they're not comfortable with acknowledging that there's more than one or two countries in 'South Asia'. Means they have to learn more about the different cultures.

Anonymous said...

It's great to be a sinecure with internet access! I was one back in my temp job days. I spent it all joinging online contests.

I won a computer.

BTW wasn't the contested Kashmir border affected too? I suppose it wasn't just Pakistan which was affected which is why they say South Asia instead of just Pakistan.

Anonymous said...

wow, a computer. jeles.

Bertha & Will - i think the main affected area is the Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir and not so much the Indian side. guess there'd be too much sensitivity issues to mind, if it were to be called the Kashmir Earthquake.

geekchic - share royalties! :) but ti think the handbag clip people would have something to say about that. especially to calling it a handbag clip. :D

snowie - no lah. more a muscle pull making my extra long leg go all wonky.

Anonymous said...

Eek You horrid horrid cow! I've been like checking your site for ever for updates and then suddenly when I give up, you come back and off load all these super posts. Grrr... Need to have some beef burgers tonite!

Anonymous said...

I'd like a sinecure.

Hmm, wait... my very recent 'previous' job was a little like that.

Anonymous said...

The South Asia bit? Surely for the illiterate, geographically challenged out there who don't know where in the world Pakistan is.

Paul