knackered

i've had such a long week. its unbelievable when people ask what i'm doing now and i say, oh im bumming, and yet be as exhausted as i am. strange but true.

i think i've clocked in at least a hundred hours of work this week. what?! you mean there are more than 100 hours per week? haha, shitzu. trust me, i wouldnt have known either.

i sent loo off at the airport on monday, after picking her at 4ish in the morning. then i had swimming at jurongwest which was quite the refresher i needed i guess. then camped back to back from monday to wednesday. and i trooped on down to get my hands dirty fixing regulators for our end of year maintenance. and then i was down at janices all the way till 4am in the morning prepping up for an LV tasting event she had the next day at 9am. all the chefs cooked till morning. i was totally gone by then. my back hurt, my stomach was painful from being so empty. i didnt even find the time to eat! and by 830 in the morning, i was back at the birdpark running a day tour till 330pm. met robert for lunch where we sat at simply bread profiling random people who walked in. funny. and i had to rush back to get changed to pick the parents up for pop's retirement service at the chinese annual conference in paya lebar chinese methodist church. which was SUCH a grand event. in fact, it was quite a tearjerker to see the dad all geared up in his doctorate gown getting crowned with his PHD hat by the Bishop of Singapore. i should dig up the pictures from my brother and have it blasted here. oh daddy.

anyway. that's thursday..only. i havent even mentioned how i was having a stomach flu by the end of the week. gah! i had another camp on friday and i practically talked through the night with xiaoyi catching up so by saturday, i was falling asleep at every chance i could, and least to say running to the toilet every moment i was awake. it was hilarious rushing the kids for a toilet break so many times during camp just because I HAD to go.. and taking gracie's expired antacid didnt help either. i got to the rambai for the DSAT Nitrox programme that chris was conducting and barely kept awake for the entire time. thank God it was merely basic concepts and formulas to plonk numbers into. i think i was still the freshest out of school, out of the lot. so it was easypeasy picking it up in my sleepy stupor. bagged with slumber or not, i aced the exam. no, i had a perfect score. haha. well done gloria, even chris' jaw dropped especially since he asked me to take the exam the following week when i was more awake. i got back and did some work while waiting for robert to get off work so we could catch up over wine and cheese and doritos again. funny how its the only time we get to whine to each other about the week since he lives just one door down. haha. i'm such a useless housemate.

finally, sunday. due to obvious reasons, i didnt wake up for church. not surprising though. ben called a million times because he was downstairs waiting for me to open up for the longest time ever. he needed a shower after prodding his boots in mud all morning at the site. i reckon shrek's shed's almost done. i was supposed to meet Aaron for our anti-sharking meeting and it strangely escalated into a combination of all my favourite people. haha. how odd. there was ben, and eugene, and robert. and aaron of course. haha, it was weird. but it was a good meeting. more on that when i actually get things on paper. then eugene and i met up with leslie for dinner and he pulled out some really interesting insiders info. hurhur. thats for me to know and for you to find out. rushed home for family time and had to rescue robert from his singlish date. haha.

yesterday and today was fix reg day. i'm almost thru the 10th one. which is good, but its such a downer to know that that's only the 1st stage we're talking about. argh, save me. camp tmr again.......... its becoming a cycle. it better pay off somehow......... or payoff for cambodia.. hur..