Whisperings

I am on holidays for two weeks starting today. We closed early and I am kissed and hugged out. I kissed so many and hugged so many, thank goodness not a single one on the lips this season. Hang on a minute; I did kiss some on the lips at the Christmas party couple of weeks ago. Now, don’t get excited, they were platonic smacks on the lips.

Then I walked around town swarming with shoppers and bumped into so many people, some that I haven’t seen in years and kissed and hugged them as well, wished them well for the New Year. Walked past a boutique with 50% off signs all over the floor and just couldn’t resist going in to check it out and walked out with a good haul of summer tops. I got side tracked here as well as in town.

Back to kissing -Most people here kiss on the lips (friends or people you know well) instead on the cheek, as we do in SL. It took me a decade and a half to get used to the idea of a peck on the lips (not smooching). I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. I don’t have any qualms about it now except at a big party. Let’s say someone had a B’day party for fifty people and if I am the last one to kiss the B’day girl/boy/man/woman I’d have kissed fifty one people. That is not a pleasant thought.

When I first migrated I always turned my face away not knowing the customs. Though I later learnt the custom I still turned my face away. I know some people were annoyed. Hell, I didn’t care, I just couldn’t do it. I once had a boss who always gave a kiss on the lips to every female after a party except me as I always turned my face away for a peck on the cheek. He he

What the heck, a few more hugs and kisses won’t wear me out so a hug and a kiss to each and every one of you. Have a well deserved break everyone.

Stay safe and happy!

I was so used to my routine of, work half the week and do coffee the rest. Then I worked full time for two months straight… though it put my old routine out of whack I got used to the new one and the blissful feeling that comes with extra funds hence didn’t mind the fact I did two full time jobs. You know the second job is the unpaid, thankless one at home.

Now the full time assignment over I am back to square one. I am pulling my hair with frustration. I could study something or better still, hope the person whose shoes I filled goes away permanently. Actually that is an ingenious idea come to think of it. Let’s see if I can apply the ‘secret’ theory and own the job and see if the wish is realised. Now, if my mother saw this she will be traumatized thinking how she could have brought up a fiend with wicked and sinful thoughts. Mother, if you are reading this (which I am positive you are not) please know I learned all bad things from others. You did a great job with me.You have to leave your humanity behind as you walk through your workplace doors. I know mother simply wouldn’t comprehend, still. She never worked outside the house and my father was his own boss in his own place so she didn’t hear work ‘ethics’ from him either. If I carry my usual benevolent self to work I’d be mush now, I’d be chewed alive. You either shed it at home while getting dressed for work or at the work door.    

Now, before a Miss/Mr. Goody Goody comes to lock horns with me, let me clarify something, this is not a coherent post. It is not been written at the most lucid times. It is just the drivel of a mind insanely bored owing to lack of work. Well there is always work if I care to see or look, I could dust, clean, sweep the outside… I could do all those monotonous things that leave a ringing vacuum in the brain then think about dinner too…..well, dinner part is taken care of…we are having hokkien noodles-easy to cook, children love it, wins all around for that one………

Enough with the drivel, I’ll go read the book loaned by a friend. I think it is something to do with uplifting the spirit or some such rubbish.