I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Naturally Thinking
Well, successfully made my order today. I’m very pleased with myself. Although of course it works out to be quite a lot I’m getting this time, but i figure this will last me more than 6 months. I like the magazine too. Lots of great facts about aromatherapy.

Roger’s Wedding
So the bunch of us will be attending Roger’s wedding tomorrow. Wonder how he’s feeling right now. Though I don’t necessarily believe in marriage, I do keep a fair amount of respect for those who do take the plunge. I do genuinely feel happy for my married friends. I’d just like for them to stop asking me when I’m going to do it, because I’m sick of answering it honestly and getting that “you can’t be serious” face. I’m also sick of having to answer why I’d like to avoid it if I can.

Half pregnant?
My first vacation vocation was at a dentist. My dentist, actually. The dental office regularly hires young students to be dental assistants. The dental assistant is the person holding the suction tube while the dentist scales and blasts your teeth clean. She’s also likely the one who has to clean the room in the evening when the dentists call it a day, and after each patient leaves.

Anyway. The funniest truism I heard ever heard was from a dentist working there. I think it was a Dr Lee. He said, to illustrate that something either happened or didn’t, that it was like being pregnant. You’re either pregnant, or you’re not. You can’t be half pregnant.

At 18, that seemed to be like words so true and neatly put. I promptly stole the line and used it ever since. Of course there are few occasions where you’d actually have to whip it out and use it (I like to use lines like that sparingly. It lasts so much longer that way.) but in the course of my 3 years at the current workplace I remember instances where I’ve used it.

Today my boss said that very line. We either do it or we don’t. We can’t be half pregnant. Heh.

1. Aromatherapy Today
Am really into the whole aromatherapy thing now. I like walking into a room and smelling the lavender in the air.
I found a couple a nice sites with great uses, and more importantly, recipes.
1. Aromaweb
2. A World of Aromatherapy
3. Bird’s Aromatherapy site

Today was a boring lavender, lemon, geranium day in the office. Smells a bit like a spa.

I’m going to make a fairly large order on Naturally Thinking but right now I can’t get that damn shopping cart to work.

2. Dinner and a Movie
We went to Crystal Jade at Great World City for dinner tonight. They turned the Shanghainese Restaurant on the fourth floor into a noodle joint, and they serve really good Egg White Fish thing. I love that. It’s basically egg whites, cooked like scrabbled eggs, with fish and dried scallops. It’s served with an egg yolk on top. You eat it with pepper and vinegar and it’s just fantastic. I also like the noodles – the soup makes everything taste great. I had Xiao Long Bao too.

After dinner we went to watch Duplex. It stars Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore, and it was directed by Danny De Vito. Not one of my favourites, for sure.

3. Life at work
Had a meeting at work today, and saw how important it is to just shut up and listen. Of course, that tactic is less than impressive on a conference call. But people in general feel better when you don’t interrupt when they’re making their point, even if it’s just to say ‘yes, I know’. Maybe because it’s distracting, or maybe the person feels that you’re trivialising the point.

A separate incident highlighted the fact that dumb people tend to think your capacity to be consistent diminishes by the day. So if they called with a dumb request the day before, and you told them to bugger off, that perchance today when they call you, you might relent and entertain it. Why do people feel they have to find stuff to do when there isn’t any? Sounds extra-superfluous to me.

4. Shortened pants
I chopped up a cheap pair of jeans last night and wore it to work today. On average, each time I get my jeans altered I end up shortening it by about 4 inches. Last night I chopped it up mid-shin, and lopped off 8 inches or so. I think I’ll make a new pouch for my camera with the leftover denim.

5. Johnny Depp is the 2003′s Sexiest Man Alive
If he were dead, I doubt anyone would find him very sexy.

Nonetheless, I’m happy he won. He’s a kooky non-conformist, isn’t insecure about the way he looks, and therefore gets my stamp of approval. Mr Stench rules.

6. Having “u” and “i” next to each other on the keyboard…
is just plain inconvenient. Everytime I want to type one, I get the other. Its the same for D and F. Each time I want to type “d-u-c-k”, I end up with “d-i-c-k” or “f-u-c-k”.