31 July 2012,
This date is going into history. In fact it could even turn into a story blot of a million bucks romantic screen play. The story of US.
What a beautiful Tuesday. I decided to dress up and follow my friends to RMIT, intentionally plan to surprise you and secretly hope to see you again, in person. So here I went, searching for a cupcake at 8 in the morning. Yeah, most of the cake shops would open around 10 plus. So it happened that Cupcake Catwalk became the only store that stocked cupcakes that early. We ran their and I was given several option. Actually, they were all interesting combinations, Apple base with whipped cream topping / Orange base with poppy seeds topping/ choco base with coffee on top. So I picked the Apple base and happily walked out of the store with the letter “W” – personal touch from me, hopefully could help to sweeten up his appetite >v<
***
The school was big, and the waiting part was like eternity. From 9 til 10 something, I was dragging from the lab to the cafeteria, to the convenient store, with the cupcake moving from this chiller to another. Luckily, emoji app was there to accompany me – a recommended time killer it is ;) So by the time I ran out of patience, I stood up from the sofa of Building 1, next to Shop&Go, ready to grab the god damn cupcake and finish on my own; I walked through the elevator. And don’t know what’s in me that made me turn my head to the left, just in time to see somebody looked a lot like him waiting for the lift. I must say a lot like him, and it was HIM, indeed (duh!!!) I stared at him twice, like I could not believe in my eyes anymore (damn, why twice?!) And he definitely saw me, but not sure if he could recognize me =)))) I was in such a loud dress, in bright blue color with white polka dot =)))) He was wearing the spectacles in his avatar lately; black pants and baseball tracksuit. (so cute :-“) And guess what, I just walked straight to the store, no looking back, too afraid to do it, all the way to the back wall!!! And regain my breath! When I calmed down, I was like, Sh!t, what just happened? Why was he there, he’s supposed to be at the other building, right? And why the right timing, why did I turn left, why he turned left too? How could it be that we met the eyes? That was a real turbulence!
But soon I was able to track my calmness. So I rushed to transfer the cutie cupcake to Shop & Go, texted him to go down and take it. He’s having a meeting! T_T So around 10-15 minutes like that I was walking up and down in the store, aimless. Soon, my patience was down again, and I followed An to the cafeteria in building 1. We sat there for a while, when she chit chat with some -god -know –who girl. 11h, time slowly flied, right at the moment I thought to give up and leave, he called! I was like, wait, was it him who really calling!? So I picked up, and he was asking where the cupcake was =))) How cute, I rushed back to Shop &Go (damn, why are the places located so far from each other >”<) When I was about to enter the shop, as I spotted his hair from far, I caught a glimpse of Nam. They were together!!
Damn, so I quickly covered myself behind a skinny tree nearby. Well, that’s the only tree in the grass field, outside of the shop!! Right when they turned around and almost saw me. Actually, I didn’t even know if they had seen me, my dress was super outstanding =___=. But as they were stepping out, I gotta move to another tree, which was across the walking path!!! Who cares !!
As they were talking about something fun (I bet the main character should be me Y_Y), I was constantly moving from this tree to another one along the road, even trembling myself (luckily nothing happen, or else I’d dig a hole and jump >”<) So by the time I reached the largest bush I could find, they were strolling down to the cafeteria. It’s humorous as the scene resembled Mission Impossible or some sort of Spy-inspired movies =))) I had no idea whether they knew what was going on, but it’d probably be a successful movie scene should it had a chance to be one. Heart pumping, close face-offs, you name it~
***
From that moment on, it seemed that peace came back to town. Not yet until I was wandering around the Sport hall, curiously pointing at those soccer players playing at the central stage. Right at the second I was looking at the very far left corner, and thinking to myself, how funny if those 2 guys sitting over there were them. Well, look twice again, THAT WERE ACTUALLY THEM!!! Now I really have admit, I don’t know what was happening then that there was a extrememly hight frequency of us to see each other in this 8 buildings area called RMIT!!! And why exactly at that time, that place, we met the eyes again!!!! Now this is getting really intriguing. An and I were rushing to the restroom and basically she tried to calm the crazy monkey with tons of butterflies in stomach- me – from jumping around, maniacally. I’m thrilled because this gotta mean something!!!
The best has yet to come, he texted me, asking whether I made or bought the cupcake. I was bushing around, until he revealed that the Cakewalk store was at the vicinity of his crib!!! Now that’s gold in the sands of info so far. Guess what, I pass by that road every single day! So there should be a super high chance, we could bump into each other again <3
This should be a wrap for today, I can sense that there would be a lot more to come ^^
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Before year of the Dragon
I met a dragon right before the year of the Dragon, now how crazy is that?
We first met at the Love Actually party and honestly, all the impressions i had about him is a guy who's good at mixing, and that's it, no further, no attention, just stop there. Soon then, we started to exchange a message or two on facebook, phone number, and today, a-date-out.
He, generally speaking, is just not my ideal type, but as I'm not ideal, why would I want to bother such luxury? It all began with a phone call at the middle of the night. A text came to ask how I was doing, curiosity killed the cat, my identification call took 40 minutes and resulted in a date out today. Frankly speaking, I don't expect anything, too many failure brought the fascination of finding the right one out of me. But I gave it a shot anyway. It turned out quite nice. We spent like 4 hours to talk and share thoughts, perspectives, advices and other no name stuffs. Standing tall and stick-liked, he's mature, easy going, open minded, with sensibility and great sense of humor. A good partner for never ending conversation of all kinds. We actually found a number of common interests, mostly in entertainment. Both love Barney in HIMYM, 500 days of Summer. He likes yellow and me going for navy. I am the first child when he has older bro and sis. Both enjoy studying abroad and in the end getting a job in here. He planned to live in NZ, well soon...
Then we share our believes, our jobs, stress causes, family issues, a bit of relationship matters. Quite compatible, he seems caring, worry-free and understanding. We wrapped it up with a bowl of rice noodles in crab gravy.
There were laughs, and joys, and moments when we met the eyes.
This looks prospective but I can't tell if I am ready. I have moved on, but I don't know if I could trust my feelings again. I'm afraid that things will fall apart, that little happiness could hardly last long, afraid that high expectation comes with the risk of disappointment. Saying I want to live for the moment, but deep down feeling doubtful about the consequences. Wishing that I just leave all behind and get away from those silly sentiments, instead of facing the brick wall to be broken. Couldn't it be more lame that I'm secretly crying for a hero, though self-talking nobody else would save me but my own. Trying to be brave, just to realize how easily the mask could drop. Telling myself to resist the fantasy, yet unconsciously looking for the unreachable. Wondering if it is human's nature to be forever selfish and insecure ...
Enough with the dark, time to turn off the light. good night headaches...
We first met at the Love Actually party and honestly, all the impressions i had about him is a guy who's good at mixing, and that's it, no further, no attention, just stop there. Soon then, we started to exchange a message or two on facebook, phone number, and today, a-date-out.
He, generally speaking, is just not my ideal type, but as I'm not ideal, why would I want to bother such luxury? It all began with a phone call at the middle of the night. A text came to ask how I was doing, curiosity killed the cat, my identification call took 40 minutes and resulted in a date out today. Frankly speaking, I don't expect anything, too many failure brought the fascination of finding the right one out of me. But I gave it a shot anyway. It turned out quite nice. We spent like 4 hours to talk and share thoughts, perspectives, advices and other no name stuffs. Standing tall and stick-liked, he's mature, easy going, open minded, with sensibility and great sense of humor. A good partner for never ending conversation of all kinds. We actually found a number of common interests, mostly in entertainment. Both love Barney in HIMYM, 500 days of Summer. He likes yellow and me going for navy. I am the first child when he has older bro and sis. Both enjoy studying abroad and in the end getting a job in here. He planned to live in NZ, well soon...
Then we share our believes, our jobs, stress causes, family issues, a bit of relationship matters. Quite compatible, he seems caring, worry-free and understanding. We wrapped it up with a bowl of rice noodles in crab gravy.
There were laughs, and joys, and moments when we met the eyes.
This looks prospective but I can't tell if I am ready. I have moved on, but I don't know if I could trust my feelings again. I'm afraid that things will fall apart, that little happiness could hardly last long, afraid that high expectation comes with the risk of disappointment. Saying I want to live for the moment, but deep down feeling doubtful about the consequences. Wishing that I just leave all behind and get away from those silly sentiments, instead of facing the brick wall to be broken. Couldn't it be more lame that I'm secretly crying for a hero, though self-talking nobody else would save me but my own. Trying to be brave, just to realize how easily the mask could drop. Telling myself to resist the fantasy, yet unconsciously looking for the unreachable. Wondering if it is human's nature to be forever selfish and insecure ...
Enough with the dark, time to turn off the light. good night headaches...
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Love Actually Dec 2011
Back to a night in late 2011, Christmas Eve, that Love Actually party at one of my friends’ house.
I was there like, 2 hours before it began, and still most things were kinda undone. An unfamiliar face gave me a good first impression by helping me to bring my motorbike inside the front yard (grateful for that). Not until later, that I knew he was Jiang, lovely guy, just not for girls with fainted heart. I remember we were clearly assigned in groups, baking, decorating and miscellaneous team. However, the disorder in front of me didn’t really show that. There were several folks concentrating on handicraft, some tried to boss up and show up behind the stove – with attitude, and some were simply lost (like me). Well the hostess was not be blamed at, since she’s already gone wired with all the baking mess at every corner of the house. Actually I had a compassion with her mom. Tsk tsk…
Anyway, I didn’t let myself be neglected for too long, just role my sleeves up and get in some thing – anything. Like drawing cookies with melted chocolate, sounds good huh? Not as easy as it sounded. The chocolate was passed around through several amateur hands until it’s dripping onto the carpet, then people started to panic and jumped like monkeys! A quick-thinker got the idea of using lemon to clean it up (in order words, it’s ME). And so the lovely guy mentioned above and I did some kick-ass job of cleaning up the choco mess! Just a side kick, I was supposed to be in the baking team, but some how the little kitchen was congested with some Know-how ladies so I’d better just step out of their way.
Haflt an hour or so, the balloons arrived, surprisingly beautiful and festive-ful. And guess what, our lomo photos would be attached to each balloon to represent the presense of that person that night! Innovative, right? I know, and so soon enough, the whole ceiling was fool of red balloons!
The preparation process was pushed up a little bit as the time was running short. Most of the food have been finished, but to be frank, they didn’t taste as good as they look, or may I say, they didn’t look apetizing at all… The cookies ended up plain and rockie (I mean it). Red velvet (or whatever they might call a simple choco cupcake!?) turned out to be super dried and hard. Conversely, mango tarts were like mushy purée on top of falling-apart pastry base. Tiramisu cups might have saved the day had they been a tart richer in flavour. Salad was like those washed and boiled veggies put on the plate, no seasoning, no flavouring, too less sauce on top of too much lettuce quickly bored people. The soup and appetizers lifted the spirit a bit, but again, cold food could never receive any exceptional compliments. Oh and I didn’t taste the savoury pastry at all as I thought it’s enough …
We had an exotice camellia with half-blooded features inherited from Vietnamese mom and Morrocan Dad. She’s gorgeous with simple dress-up and natural make-up! I admired and envied at the same time with her slender legs and transparent skin. Well you know, there’s always someone like those at some point of your life that makes you feel less confident in yourself and sets the new benchmark for future self-satisfaction…
The party commenced 1 hour and a half late. Gotta understand as there were only two dressing rooms for a bunch of, like 8 kittens? Some were lazy wall flowers with the least makeup possible, while some spent more than half a decade to pile up powder and waste other’s time.Meanwhile, the scene was awkward: Jiang and Meow butter up the Camelia and showed up their gross english. While the guys wondering aimlessly around the living room, hoping to find something more interesting to do rather than sitting there and putting up with the unbearable conversation of the threesome.Well, anyway the party started happily with us mingling, getting to know each other. We all would circle up with Jiang at the centre, did somes ice-breaker by introducing each other, and took group photos in freaky and fun styles =D.
Personally thinking, Dab and I were not in the best condition possible to even start any conversation, just some casual requests like drinks, borrowing this and that. That’s it, and I didn’t expect much though. We no longer had anything in common, all he did were being nonsense and mocking me; jumping into my throat at anytime to bring me down. But whatsoever, don’t really bother me much.
An became everybody’s muse, she’s nice and kind but somehow that’s the closest we can get. Two different words never collide together, just got it that way. ..
So the party slipped away as people talked in small groups. Nothing special until the great toast of the night, as a tradition in the movie “love actually”. We would turn on the theme song, bro Nghia – our bartender (forget Dab, his mouth is always bigger than his capacity) prepared a special drink for us where we all had to bang it hard in one shot to bring the bubble out and bottom up at once! Then we will exchange hugs and scream Merry Christmas to our heart content. All were recorded on camera and really brought me some excitement, like yay, my hug hunger has finally been subsided !
We got a little too over the top though, considered throwing all the cups in the air and clean up the mess on the floor afterwards, but it’s fun and warm up the atmostphere a lot. Next, dim the light, gather up and put your hands in the air, we were ready for the acoustic show. Meow was totally a super star of the night, not only was he so talented with all the instruments but also he was given the sexiest voice I’ve ever heard. So glad at last I gotta hear his voice in live… What a magical moment, when you know somebody’s melody could move your heart so tenderly…
The night was a not as expected (perhaps our expectation was just too high) yet it managed to be successful, I believe, In a spiritour way. We had each other company in a night where singlehood used to be about lonesome and eating ramen cups. The food was not the best but it’s perfectly prepared with our friends’ love and hard work. The decoration was ordinary but the ideas behind it were exceptionally great. We had fun, joy and new friendship. To me, it’s already enough for a merry christmas…
I was there like, 2 hours before it began, and still most things were kinda undone. An unfamiliar face gave me a good first impression by helping me to bring my motorbike inside the front yard (grateful for that). Not until later, that I knew he was Jiang, lovely guy, just not for girls with fainted heart. I remember we were clearly assigned in groups, baking, decorating and miscellaneous team. However, the disorder in front of me didn’t really show that. There were several folks concentrating on handicraft, some tried to boss up and show up behind the stove – with attitude, and some were simply lost (like me). Well the hostess was not be blamed at, since she’s already gone wired with all the baking mess at every corner of the house. Actually I had a compassion with her mom. Tsk tsk…
Anyway, I didn’t let myself be neglected for too long, just role my sleeves up and get in some thing – anything. Like drawing cookies with melted chocolate, sounds good huh? Not as easy as it sounded. The chocolate was passed around through several amateur hands until it’s dripping onto the carpet, then people started to panic and jumped like monkeys! A quick-thinker got the idea of using lemon to clean it up (in order words, it’s ME). And so the lovely guy mentioned above and I did some kick-ass job of cleaning up the choco mess! Just a side kick, I was supposed to be in the baking team, but some how the little kitchen was congested with some Know-how ladies so I’d better just step out of their way.
Haflt an hour or so, the balloons arrived, surprisingly beautiful and festive-ful. And guess what, our lomo photos would be attached to each balloon to represent the presense of that person that night! Innovative, right? I know, and so soon enough, the whole ceiling was fool of red balloons!
The preparation process was pushed up a little bit as the time was running short. Most of the food have been finished, but to be frank, they didn’t taste as good as they look, or may I say, they didn’t look apetizing at all… The cookies ended up plain and rockie (I mean it). Red velvet (or whatever they might call a simple choco cupcake!?) turned out to be super dried and hard. Conversely, mango tarts were like mushy purée on top of falling-apart pastry base. Tiramisu cups might have saved the day had they been a tart richer in flavour. Salad was like those washed and boiled veggies put on the plate, no seasoning, no flavouring, too less sauce on top of too much lettuce quickly bored people. The soup and appetizers lifted the spirit a bit, but again, cold food could never receive any exceptional compliments. Oh and I didn’t taste the savoury pastry at all as I thought it’s enough …
We had an exotice camellia with half-blooded features inherited from Vietnamese mom and Morrocan Dad. She’s gorgeous with simple dress-up and natural make-up! I admired and envied at the same time with her slender legs and transparent skin. Well you know, there’s always someone like those at some point of your life that makes you feel less confident in yourself and sets the new benchmark for future self-satisfaction…
The party commenced 1 hour and a half late. Gotta understand as there were only two dressing rooms for a bunch of, like 8 kittens? Some were lazy wall flowers with the least makeup possible, while some spent more than half a decade to pile up powder and waste other’s time.Meanwhile, the scene was awkward: Jiang and Meow butter up the Camelia and showed up their gross english. While the guys wondering aimlessly around the living room, hoping to find something more interesting to do rather than sitting there and putting up with the unbearable conversation of the threesome.Well, anyway the party started happily with us mingling, getting to know each other. We all would circle up with Jiang at the centre, did somes ice-breaker by introducing each other, and took group photos in freaky and fun styles =D.
Personally thinking, Dab and I were not in the best condition possible to even start any conversation, just some casual requests like drinks, borrowing this and that. That’s it, and I didn’t expect much though. We no longer had anything in common, all he did were being nonsense and mocking me; jumping into my throat at anytime to bring me down. But whatsoever, don’t really bother me much.
An became everybody’s muse, she’s nice and kind but somehow that’s the closest we can get. Two different words never collide together, just got it that way. ..
So the party slipped away as people talked in small groups. Nothing special until the great toast of the night, as a tradition in the movie “love actually”. We would turn on the theme song, bro Nghia – our bartender (forget Dab, his mouth is always bigger than his capacity) prepared a special drink for us where we all had to bang it hard in one shot to bring the bubble out and bottom up at once! Then we will exchange hugs and scream Merry Christmas to our heart content. All were recorded on camera and really brought me some excitement, like yay, my hug hunger has finally been subsided !
We got a little too over the top though, considered throwing all the cups in the air and clean up the mess on the floor afterwards, but it’s fun and warm up the atmostphere a lot. Next, dim the light, gather up and put your hands in the air, we were ready for the acoustic show. Meow was totally a super star of the night, not only was he so talented with all the instruments but also he was given the sexiest voice I’ve ever heard. So glad at last I gotta hear his voice in live… What a magical moment, when you know somebody’s melody could move your heart so tenderly…
The night was a not as expected (perhaps our expectation was just too high) yet it managed to be successful, I believe, In a spiritour way. We had each other company in a night where singlehood used to be about lonesome and eating ramen cups. The food was not the best but it’s perfectly prepared with our friends’ love and hard work. The decoration was ordinary but the ideas behind it were exceptionally great. We had fun, joy and new friendship. To me, it’s already enough for a merry christmas…
Monday, October 10, 2011
Crap
I swear if I could slam her face and shouted SHUT the F up! I would, coz I can hold it any longer
I dont know what she was doing anymore. She couldnt solve a single thing from the existing issues, only brought more oil to the heat! D. At first, I was fooled by her nice and kind cover, now I got it. What i can see everyday is her faking mask, lazy stalking around, killing time by reading magazines and other stuff, instead of helping us pick up the phone. This is really too much!!! Thanks to her kindness, my reputation is going down down down way too deep now. She made me look like an idiot in front of the whole team. I agree that I might be absent minded not seeing the match stick next to the cake. But hei, it's you who put it inside the cake box, and put the box cover on top of it. How was I supposed to know that its there in the first place? And then the training case, cant express how mad I was at the conference access, you were helping us by making it worse! We were having all the right pieces until you came and screwed them up. Now i looked like a shamefull piece of shit in the management's eyes! Damit, I just hate how the day started...
I dont know what she was doing anymore. She couldnt solve a single thing from the existing issues, only brought more oil to the heat! D. At first, I was fooled by her nice and kind cover, now I got it. What i can see everyday is her faking mask, lazy stalking around, killing time by reading magazines and other stuff, instead of helping us pick up the phone. This is really too much!!! Thanks to her kindness, my reputation is going down down down way too deep now. She made me look like an idiot in front of the whole team. I agree that I might be absent minded not seeing the match stick next to the cake. But hei, it's you who put it inside the cake box, and put the box cover on top of it. How was I supposed to know that its there in the first place? And then the training case, cant express how mad I was at the conference access, you were helping us by making it worse! We were having all the right pieces until you came and screwed them up. Now i looked like a shamefull piece of shit in the management's eyes! Damit, I just hate how the day started...
Sunday, October 2, 2011
02 October!!
A rare exciting Sunday it was which has not been around for as long as I could remember,though disguised with the grey gloomy sky in the morning as if a typhoon was coming. Nevertheless, the sun came and shone through the day, dry my clothes and fill my pot of happiness seamlessly!
I decided to make a call first to 2 important boys at the moment of my life. Hubby and Him. The conversation between Hubby and I was not as awkward as I thought, perhaps I exaggerated it. He seemed normal, everything seemed fine over there with him. I could tell he’s not over me yet, but he’s handling it quite well. Lots of works does a good thing to him, I guess. We managed to say goodbye without any arguments, something I havent seen for a while…
The entertainment part happened in the second call. Honestly, I got His number like days ago, but attempt of calling him was paid off. Nobody picked up or even bother calling back. So never mind, I didn’t wait at all. And this time it miraculously, somehow that he picked up and for the first time, I heard his real voice. How to put it, the initial impression wasn’t that good. His didn’t sound as good as Hubby’s. Or perhaps I was used to Hubby’s and trying to be difficult on him? Whatever, the talk kicked off a bit unusual. I was in control entirely, from the beginning to the very end. You know what was the funniest part, his actual response in a few early minutes was only :”Da, da”!!! That bursted me off, man!! But guess what, I hung up the call with a date in the evening, fruitful or not? Wait and see!
I didn’t mention the actual time for my visit, just gave him a hint of late noon. And I got out of the house around 6, quite late I guess. Just wanted to make sure I look good, no play for first impression huh. Then I raced to the 27th of Nguyen Dinh Chieu. I was a bit confused with the exact location, thanks to the vendor woman who told me it’s Non La restaurant, which offered a la carte countryside food by the way. I was standing in front of the restaurant and turning around like an idiot while asking him on the phone where the hell he was. Amusing enough to be recognized first by him from not very afar: Bread and Roses bakery house!!! Ok, now the story began to be exciting, he waved at me when I got my bike there, and honestly, shame on me, I got quite a little starstrucked!! :) I mean oh c’mon, he’s cute as a M&M cookie, obviously, who can deny it. But the first thing crossed my mind was: Hold on, wasn’t this the place Yuu used to work before, could there be any behind the scene fun facts to be discovered? And bingo, we got tons!!! There were not really great co-lleagues ;) Later on, during a girl talk with Yuu, I found out he’s quite bossy at work and doesn’t really cooperate with other well. However, that part is later on, after I got home.
Right at that moment, all I saw was a cute shy guy sitting next to me and looking at me in the eyes as if he wanted to read every single word I was about to say. Now that’s really charming of him. Girls love attention, as always. And his deed of keeping his hands busy with pulling up and down the month promotion which cover the flower vase couldn’t be less adorable. It showed his nerves, and perhaps butterflies when he’s talking to me. Within minutes, it felt like we have known each other for a long time, and everything came naturally. He recommended items from the menu, I followed up accordingly. A few questions here and there, some jokes were thrown in, and yup, we kinda made everything happen to the best possible plot of a high rating rom-com. He seemed like a sweet and nice guy, with a damn lovable falsed tooth that enhanced his natural charm. The only thing held me back was his voice, it’s monotone and untrusted, but well, not really crucial in the beginning stage I guess. We’ll see how it goes.
It was a surprise to find out the owner of the place was Sis Uyen – who is our lovely pastry lady, has always support us for birthday cakes so far. She was the one who gave me his name the first time when I asked and the second time was his phone number. Both happened in the staff passage, could it be that accidentally? Man, now everything’s freakishly linked!!!! Wasn’t the world too small, so they said? All these occurrences kinda drove me nuts with the highest level of adrenaline in my vein now!!!! I just couldn’t stop thinking about how crazy and amazing life could be!!!
Leave that self-thought aside, we did have a good night, with a couple of side calls to Yuu to spice it up. You know, like I was doing some sort of adventurous mission and delivering signal back and forth to the central office. It’s so much fun, I love this stuff!!!
Poor the lovely guy, kept sit and stand to finish his job. I was a bit off with his attitude that nobody here can make noise with him spending a little time with his friend during working hour. Personally, I worried that it could be troublesome if someone reported this to his boss. But again, none of my business. He seemed friendly and frank too, we found out our homes were kinda near each other, somewhere around Phu Lam Park. Ok not bad. There were some side fun facts like he could drink up to 4 glasses of milk just in the morning or, how inconsistent the beverage station could be during peak hours!! We talked like for an hour or so and I left so that he could go back and continue with his pending works. Quite a gentleman for him to pay my bill, and I assumed I owed him a café back in coming days. I didn’t leave him the chance to say goodbye to me, coz I was scared I could lose my grip. So I’d better just vanish first. It’s a good night though!!!
I decided to make a call first to 2 important boys at the moment of my life. Hubby and Him. The conversation between Hubby and I was not as awkward as I thought, perhaps I exaggerated it. He seemed normal, everything seemed fine over there with him. I could tell he’s not over me yet, but he’s handling it quite well. Lots of works does a good thing to him, I guess. We managed to say goodbye without any arguments, something I havent seen for a while…
The entertainment part happened in the second call. Honestly, I got His number like days ago, but attempt of calling him was paid off. Nobody picked up or even bother calling back. So never mind, I didn’t wait at all. And this time it miraculously, somehow that he picked up and for the first time, I heard his real voice. How to put it, the initial impression wasn’t that good. His didn’t sound as good as Hubby’s. Or perhaps I was used to Hubby’s and trying to be difficult on him? Whatever, the talk kicked off a bit unusual. I was in control entirely, from the beginning to the very end. You know what was the funniest part, his actual response in a few early minutes was only :”Da, da”!!! That bursted me off, man!! But guess what, I hung up the call with a date in the evening, fruitful or not? Wait and see!
I didn’t mention the actual time for my visit, just gave him a hint of late noon. And I got out of the house around 6, quite late I guess. Just wanted to make sure I look good, no play for first impression huh. Then I raced to the 27th of Nguyen Dinh Chieu. I was a bit confused with the exact location, thanks to the vendor woman who told me it’s Non La restaurant, which offered a la carte countryside food by the way. I was standing in front of the restaurant and turning around like an idiot while asking him on the phone where the hell he was. Amusing enough to be recognized first by him from not very afar: Bread and Roses bakery house!!! Ok, now the story began to be exciting, he waved at me when I got my bike there, and honestly, shame on me, I got quite a little starstrucked!! :) I mean oh c’mon, he’s cute as a M&M cookie, obviously, who can deny it. But the first thing crossed my mind was: Hold on, wasn’t this the place Yuu used to work before, could there be any behind the scene fun facts to be discovered? And bingo, we got tons!!! There were not really great co-lleagues ;) Later on, during a girl talk with Yuu, I found out he’s quite bossy at work and doesn’t really cooperate with other well. However, that part is later on, after I got home.
Right at that moment, all I saw was a cute shy guy sitting next to me and looking at me in the eyes as if he wanted to read every single word I was about to say. Now that’s really charming of him. Girls love attention, as always. And his deed of keeping his hands busy with pulling up and down the month promotion which cover the flower vase couldn’t be less adorable. It showed his nerves, and perhaps butterflies when he’s talking to me. Within minutes, it felt like we have known each other for a long time, and everything came naturally. He recommended items from the menu, I followed up accordingly. A few questions here and there, some jokes were thrown in, and yup, we kinda made everything happen to the best possible plot of a high rating rom-com. He seemed like a sweet and nice guy, with a damn lovable falsed tooth that enhanced his natural charm. The only thing held me back was his voice, it’s monotone and untrusted, but well, not really crucial in the beginning stage I guess. We’ll see how it goes.
It was a surprise to find out the owner of the place was Sis Uyen – who is our lovely pastry lady, has always support us for birthday cakes so far. She was the one who gave me his name the first time when I asked and the second time was his phone number. Both happened in the staff passage, could it be that accidentally? Man, now everything’s freakishly linked!!!! Wasn’t the world too small, so they said? All these occurrences kinda drove me nuts with the highest level of adrenaline in my vein now!!!! I just couldn’t stop thinking about how crazy and amazing life could be!!!
Leave that self-thought aside, we did have a good night, with a couple of side calls to Yuu to spice it up. You know, like I was doing some sort of adventurous mission and delivering signal back and forth to the central office. It’s so much fun, I love this stuff!!!
Poor the lovely guy, kept sit and stand to finish his job. I was a bit off with his attitude that nobody here can make noise with him spending a little time with his friend during working hour. Personally, I worried that it could be troublesome if someone reported this to his boss. But again, none of my business. He seemed friendly and frank too, we found out our homes were kinda near each other, somewhere around Phu Lam Park. Ok not bad. There were some side fun facts like he could drink up to 4 glasses of milk just in the morning or, how inconsistent the beverage station could be during peak hours!! We talked like for an hour or so and I left so that he could go back and continue with his pending works. Quite a gentleman for him to pay my bill, and I assumed I owed him a café back in coming days. I didn’t leave him the chance to say goodbye to me, coz I was scared I could lose my grip. So I’d better just vanish first. It’s a good night though!!!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
06/09/2011 - Yin & yang
Trust me, it’s not gonna be the most exciting day yet, but it was indeed one of the most memorable day, in my working life. Imagine it started with a huge embarrassment in the middle of morning briefing. I mistook a hotel tour from 06 Sep to 02 Sep, which was humiliating for sure!!! And worst of all, Ms Courtenay was there, I must have brought her down down down…
Well the rest of the day involved with all sorts of running. Nothing was exciting enough to heat up the day, until lunch time. Guess what, I was about to leave when I caught him at the line waiting for his food. Sometimes I really think it does tons of good just to lay back a bit here and there. At least it gave me opportunities to get what was least expected! He was cute, as ever. But hei, did I just receive a glance from him. Well, I couldn’t tell, but I felt something unusual in his smile, it’s brighter than usual, much much brighter and bigger. I didn’t pay that much attention. Things only heated up when I went down to pastry kitchen. Hollywood, believe or not, I was fully trapped in the goddamn scam of the pastry team. I should have got the hint when the team leader asked me to fill in the date of delivery of the cake. She had never asked me to do so!!! Where the haze could I get a pen. Oh yeah, another guy told me the source, which was a pen held conveniently on his arm!!!! Damn, and still I didn’t quite get what was going on. So the story went on, I wrote down the date, returned the pen. And that was when it reached climax!!! The whole pastry refused to take it, they kinda babeled altogether at the same time like: She’s gonna put it below her pillow and dream about him, or she’s gonna hold it tight day and night, or stuff like that. Man, I was in deep shit!!! I couldn’t find a way to help myself but standing there, watching my face turning into ketchup color. I was insisting to return the pen when somebody commented:” Need his phone number, he could give you!!!” Gosh, it’s like a whole world was laughing in my face!! And all I gotta do is to dig a whole and jump down, sitting there like forever!!!!
I didn’t quite remember the exit part. Like I ran away as fast as possible or something like that. Well, who cares anymore. I knew it!! I should have realized it the moment everything just started and could have reacted differently, instead of acting like an airhead, blushing red bean!! I could have just turned around after that mean joke, and casually said something like: “what, really, I can take this pen? That handsome guy must be really lucky today to have his pen belongs to this pretty girl” Oh never mind, what bugs me was the entire kitchen already knew my tip top secret, how should I face them the next time? Part of me wanna get his phone number, the other part argued that why must I take the first move? It’s so confusing, it’s so hard, I hate it most when things turned out this complicated!!!Ashhh
Later in the afternoon, there was Weekly Sales meeting followed up. Okay, now this was where the steam coming from. We were reviewing out T&Cs regarding event setups in our ballroom: How to prevent damage and communication methods among related departments in order to protect our properties and client’s interests. Some elaborate setups with huge backdrops like today’s Hennessy dinner could cost us greatly in terms of our in house interior as well as everybody’s general safety, since they covered the exit doors. Worst yet, there was also a concern about tearing down timing whether it’d be enough before the next morning’s meeting from another big group. So we kinda had a very constructive discussion with Director of F&B – Phillip and F&B Manager too. There were lots of questions and difficulty raised from the Events Sales team, like how we are going to explain to clients about all of these in house rules and regulations, how to ask them for compensation should there is a case arising. We were also introduced to the Client Event organized this 26 Sep to introduce potential clients with the sales department’s new members coming soon. The entire 2-hour-meeting was a real debate on fire. Never before had I seen so much statements and diverse points of view like such!! Really worth learning and understanding. Furthermore, Courtenay also informed us about the upcoming Smartselling 1 for us – all newcomers. So exciting, I cant wait for it!!!!
So end of the day, I was completely exhausted from overwhelming ups and downs of my emotional scales in all aspects of work life balance! But a jelly moon cake lying beautifully inside the kitchen was a nice touch to end the day. I was so eager to try it, just to realized it’s actually not as such a big deal as I thought. Perhaps my expectation was too high, or the cake just simply didn’t make any grade at all. Whatever, I’m still grateful to my 6th auntie-in-law, she’s just awesome in every way, so that my life could be better in some way or another~~
PS: Come to think about it now, the kind of feeling I had when I was tricked by the kitchen team, was rather like when I first met you. The similar blush, butterflies in stomach, and skipping a heart beat. And yeah, it happened at the kitchen too, to a kitchen member too. Why must it be so, dear? Like destiny or what, I didn’t mean to cheat on you or anything. Sometimes my minds just couldn’t keep my heart from following what it wants to do….
Well the rest of the day involved with all sorts of running. Nothing was exciting enough to heat up the day, until lunch time. Guess what, I was about to leave when I caught him at the line waiting for his food. Sometimes I really think it does tons of good just to lay back a bit here and there. At least it gave me opportunities to get what was least expected! He was cute, as ever. But hei, did I just receive a glance from him. Well, I couldn’t tell, but I felt something unusual in his smile, it’s brighter than usual, much much brighter and bigger. I didn’t pay that much attention. Things only heated up when I went down to pastry kitchen. Hollywood, believe or not, I was fully trapped in the goddamn scam of the pastry team. I should have got the hint when the team leader asked me to fill in the date of delivery of the cake. She had never asked me to do so!!! Where the haze could I get a pen. Oh yeah, another guy told me the source, which was a pen held conveniently on his arm!!!! Damn, and still I didn’t quite get what was going on. So the story went on, I wrote down the date, returned the pen. And that was when it reached climax!!! The whole pastry refused to take it, they kinda babeled altogether at the same time like: She’s gonna put it below her pillow and dream about him, or she’s gonna hold it tight day and night, or stuff like that. Man, I was in deep shit!!! I couldn’t find a way to help myself but standing there, watching my face turning into ketchup color. I was insisting to return the pen when somebody commented:” Need his phone number, he could give you!!!” Gosh, it’s like a whole world was laughing in my face!! And all I gotta do is to dig a whole and jump down, sitting there like forever!!!!
I didn’t quite remember the exit part. Like I ran away as fast as possible or something like that. Well, who cares anymore. I knew it!! I should have realized it the moment everything just started and could have reacted differently, instead of acting like an airhead, blushing red bean!! I could have just turned around after that mean joke, and casually said something like: “what, really, I can take this pen? That handsome guy must be really lucky today to have his pen belongs to this pretty girl” Oh never mind, what bugs me was the entire kitchen already knew my tip top secret, how should I face them the next time? Part of me wanna get his phone number, the other part argued that why must I take the first move? It’s so confusing, it’s so hard, I hate it most when things turned out this complicated!!!Ashhh
Later in the afternoon, there was Weekly Sales meeting followed up. Okay, now this was where the steam coming from. We were reviewing out T&Cs regarding event setups in our ballroom: How to prevent damage and communication methods among related departments in order to protect our properties and client’s interests. Some elaborate setups with huge backdrops like today’s Hennessy dinner could cost us greatly in terms of our in house interior as well as everybody’s general safety, since they covered the exit doors. Worst yet, there was also a concern about tearing down timing whether it’d be enough before the next morning’s meeting from another big group. So we kinda had a very constructive discussion with Director of F&B – Phillip and F&B Manager too. There were lots of questions and difficulty raised from the Events Sales team, like how we are going to explain to clients about all of these in house rules and regulations, how to ask them for compensation should there is a case arising. We were also introduced to the Client Event organized this 26 Sep to introduce potential clients with the sales department’s new members coming soon. The entire 2-hour-meeting was a real debate on fire. Never before had I seen so much statements and diverse points of view like such!! Really worth learning and understanding. Furthermore, Courtenay also informed us about the upcoming Smartselling 1 for us – all newcomers. So exciting, I cant wait for it!!!!
So end of the day, I was completely exhausted from overwhelming ups and downs of my emotional scales in all aspects of work life balance! But a jelly moon cake lying beautifully inside the kitchen was a nice touch to end the day. I was so eager to try it, just to realized it’s actually not as such a big deal as I thought. Perhaps my expectation was too high, or the cake just simply didn’t make any grade at all. Whatever, I’m still grateful to my 6th auntie-in-law, she’s just awesome in every way, so that my life could be better in some way or another~~
PS: Come to think about it now, the kind of feeling I had when I was tricked by the kitchen team, was rather like when I first met you. The similar blush, butterflies in stomach, and skipping a heart beat. And yeah, it happened at the kitchen too, to a kitchen member too. Why must it be so, dear? Like destiny or what, I didn’t mean to cheat on you or anything. Sometimes my minds just couldn’t keep my heart from following what it wants to do….
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Night before holidays begin
Yeah, to be precise, it's the 1st of September, right before our National day!!!
We were so excited, not merely for the public holiday itself but for the Karaoke Champion Night coming up. At the bottom line, it was organized to farewell Sis Hoa, who was going to leave us on the 5th to join Happy land with sis Linh. However, the fact that it has been a long time the whole team havent been to any KTV and this chance miraculously happened to cure that quest XD. And Ms Courtenay accepted the invitation too.
Work life has been awful and awesome at some points of time. One day, I was caught dead eating guest leftover buffet without permission and right at the public, well it's a shame on me. For yesterday morning, I screwed up the Revenue meeting report with my missing details here and there. It's all about carelessness, I feel bad though, for I have claimed myself a person who pays attention to details and now look at me. Worse yet, this week's sales meeting was a complete boiling point,the drama at peak occurred when we couldnt open Delphi programme in the New boardroom because it was not installed properly. All the way was my improper coordination. Yet Sis Nguyet and Sis Thanh were taking all the blames from the angry birk - Nghi. I was so mad at me, seriously. Coz it's already the third time and I must not afford to let it happen.
All the sadness aside, I have tons of lessons to learn by heart. The bright side of the days stay in those knickknacks that we had. We were well treated those days, fool was always around us, though we didnt ask for them that much. Food from the sales team in Danang, food from Hungry Ghost in Event services dept. Food we ordered out: yogurt, goi cuon and bánh da lợn. All were so yummy, I couldnt resist and yea, so many weights have been recklessly added too TT^TT.
let's go back to the KTV night. At first we met sis Linh, it's such a long time and still her figure was envious as usual, I wonder how... Ms Courtenay was like a spring momentum of the whole night. All the tunes didnt sound so right, but her spirit and unique way of singing them made those songs selected by her seemed like they were made to be sung by her. The atmosphere was exciting, energetic and crazily fun. A new member of the team was also introduced to us, Ms Thao-who will take over wholesale acc. And I was introduced, in shock, to another side of Diem - wild and sexy in a simple way. She's like, smoking hot, no frills, just thrills!Now i understood what made her qualified for the position, not anybody else....
So Courtenay and Nghi picked up some of the 90s, 80s songs that swear to God, I've never even heard of their names, but somehow they were magically familiar to us, so we could sing along with them. Sis Chau was like a super(ficial) star of the whole show with her dancing, expression and all. we loved it so much!!! She really deserved the title of PR leader, no doubt. Sis Thanh indeed had a brilliant voice that impressed us so much, totally opposite with her normal soft husky briefing voice. On the other hand, Truc - the fun girl, seemed to be shy and introvert all night long with not much singing nor dancing, just sit and chillax. Yet she's cute in her innocent outfit, which was somehow converse with her bubbly personality. Sis Nguyet make a duet performance with Courtenay in YMCA. It was so entertaining, we were literally rolling on the floor laughing :)))). Sadly though, she had to leave early for pending work at her office.
The rest of the night ran quiet slowdown after Courtenay made a move. We just gradually calmed down and ended the night jolly together.
In sum, the night was not too long, yet amazingly great. For a moment, we thought we were much closer than we used to be at work. The rest of the team could not make it, but we all know there will always be a next time for us, sooner later :D
We were so excited, not merely for the public holiday itself but for the Karaoke Champion Night coming up. At the bottom line, it was organized to farewell Sis Hoa, who was going to leave us on the 5th to join Happy land with sis Linh. However, the fact that it has been a long time the whole team havent been to any KTV and this chance miraculously happened to cure that quest XD. And Ms Courtenay accepted the invitation too.
Work life has been awful and awesome at some points of time. One day, I was caught dead eating guest leftover buffet without permission and right at the public, well it's a shame on me. For yesterday morning, I screwed up the Revenue meeting report with my missing details here and there. It's all about carelessness, I feel bad though, for I have claimed myself a person who pays attention to details and now look at me. Worse yet, this week's sales meeting was a complete boiling point,the drama at peak occurred when we couldnt open Delphi programme in the New boardroom because it was not installed properly. All the way was my improper coordination. Yet Sis Nguyet and Sis Thanh were taking all the blames from the angry birk - Nghi. I was so mad at me, seriously. Coz it's already the third time and I must not afford to let it happen.
All the sadness aside, I have tons of lessons to learn by heart. The bright side of the days stay in those knickknacks that we had. We were well treated those days, fool was always around us, though we didnt ask for them that much. Food from the sales team in Danang, food from Hungry Ghost in Event services dept. Food we ordered out: yogurt, goi cuon and bánh da lợn. All were so yummy, I couldnt resist and yea, so many weights have been recklessly added too TT^TT.
let's go back to the KTV night. At first we met sis Linh, it's such a long time and still her figure was envious as usual, I wonder how... Ms Courtenay was like a spring momentum of the whole night. All the tunes didnt sound so right, but her spirit and unique way of singing them made those songs selected by her seemed like they were made to be sung by her. The atmosphere was exciting, energetic and crazily fun. A new member of the team was also introduced to us, Ms Thao-who will take over wholesale acc. And I was introduced, in shock, to another side of Diem - wild and sexy in a simple way. She's like, smoking hot, no frills, just thrills!Now i understood what made her qualified for the position, not anybody else....
So Courtenay and Nghi picked up some of the 90s, 80s songs that swear to God, I've never even heard of their names, but somehow they were magically familiar to us, so we could sing along with them. Sis Chau was like a super(ficial) star of the whole show with her dancing, expression and all. we loved it so much!!! She really deserved the title of PR leader, no doubt. Sis Thanh indeed had a brilliant voice that impressed us so much, totally opposite with her normal soft husky briefing voice. On the other hand, Truc - the fun girl, seemed to be shy and introvert all night long with not much singing nor dancing, just sit and chillax. Yet she's cute in her innocent outfit, which was somehow converse with her bubbly personality. Sis Nguyet make a duet performance with Courtenay in YMCA. It was so entertaining, we were literally rolling on the floor laughing :)))). Sadly though, she had to leave early for pending work at her office.
The rest of the night ran quiet slowdown after Courtenay made a move. We just gradually calmed down and ended the night jolly together.
In sum, the night was not too long, yet amazingly great. For a moment, we thought we were much closer than we used to be at work. The rest of the team could not make it, but we all know there will always be a next time for us, sooner later :D
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