Reading again

Ever since it dawned on me that I have not read any book quite a while, I resolved to read something from my stock of books reckoning me on the shelves.

Am reading “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”. So far, am quite taken with it. Today, after picking up my stuff from the office, I decided to grab a Macdonald meal & just have it by the river so that I can read there. It feels great & really relaxing to be sitting my the river munching on my sandwich with the flow of tourists tickling by. It was easy to forget that this is the place I work. For a moment, I was caught and transported back to the afternoon where I was hanging by the playground in Paris, watching kids played, while reading my books & sharing my garlic sausage with this friendly elderly lady beside me. And I feel totally at bliss & happy. It is amazing how different I feel being there in the same place on a weekend vs a weekday. On a weekday, I will be all stressed and feeling lousy. Grrgh!

While shopping for a gift for U, I decided to get “Thank you for the memories” for myself. The title caught my eyes and I brought it cos it was the same author that wrote “P.S. i love u”. Love the show. I ended up leaving MPH with 4 books. Got “The Shack” for U. Think it may possibly be something she likes from the back cover. Hopefully, she does. Brought “Dewey” for P, thinking she definitely will love the cover and the cat story. That woman actually guess the title of the book & told me that she was on the verge of getting it for herself. So now, she is demanding that I hand out the gift in advance as she wants to read it immediately. Since I was on a roll with book-shopping, I decided to get “Marley & I”for the cousin since he loves dogs.

Was in Suntec for gym & passed by a book sales. Grabbed “The million dollar baby” for 6 bucks.

Not sure when I can finish reading at this rate but having books there waiting for me to read makes me feel great.

Maybe, I should be a librarian instead.

P.s. I am feeling kinda of guilty cos despite bringing work home, I neglect to look at it.

Plotting

I am plotting to drag my cousin and W along for Hossan’s upcoming performance. Cousin is fine with catching the performance. Have yet to ask fren. Hopefully, she can make it. Thinking it is unwise to be mentioning anything about trying to get anyone together. Don’t want them to feel awkward. So, it will just be a simple, “I am catching this performance. Want to go? My cousin/fren is also coming as well.” P said she is keen too. That is good. With the performance as the main agenda, nobody needs to feel awkward. I am just creating the opportunity for them to meet up. After that, it is up to them to hit it off or not.

There is a high probability that cousin may just yell at me when I finally confess my intention but that’s not stopping me. I think we are just dying to marry the other party off. I think my cousin truly needs a family of his own to make him feel complete. He is like my brother. I really hope to see him find someone who can make him as happy as E&J are. Someone who he can settle down with. Of course, I do not expect that he and W will definitely hit it off but no harm in creating opportunity to meet up. Anyway, even if nothing comes out of it. W can occasionally hang out with us too.

Friends of friends

I just realised that quite a few of my close frens’s childhood friends have birthdays that are really close to mine. Maybe this whole horoscope thingie does make some sense. Been hanging out quite alot with U recently. Was quite of surprised to realise how similar we are in some ways, even C has been telling me for years that I really remind her of her best pal when we first met and started hitting off. I really like A’s best pal too. We can hang out comfortably too. At least, we had fun teasing the hubby together.

Oh & we are celebrating U’s birthday today. This few weeks & the next few weeks are filled with birthdays & weddings. I will be happily feasting all the way to Christmas!