When we are under pressure, we can choose to either ride it or crack under pressure. Today I chose to just ride it.
I don’t want to go into details but my habit of procrastinating have caused an avalanche of events to take place and swamp me all at once. Like the old saying: when it rains, it pours. So let that be a lesson to me.
But it can’t be all that bad because I was still able to leave my work place at no later than 6pm. AND I left work with a couple of new items to boot!
Firstly, my colleague gave me a stress “ball” in the shape of a star with a smiley face on it – he probably saw the stress on my face :P. Then my husband gave me a powder pink name card holder which he bought for no reason at all. And then tm gave my team members a mango fruit each (I know, it’s really bizarre!).
Oh yeah, how can I forget my subscription to Self magazine which arrived in the mail today? Yep, I subscribed to 12 issues of Self magazine three months ago for just RM11 per issue. Not bad eh? The same magazine costs around RM20 in the newsstand, so I really got myself a bargain!
What’s cool is that I was just talking about the magazine with my husband over dinner at a nearby restaurant. When I got home, there it was!
So, after a day full of drama, getting all those unexpected gifts felt truly like fruits of my labour (whatever!). *Sigh* I wish all stressful days end as sweetly as this one. Well, once can hope.
P/S: When I do go to Bandung one day, I won’t have to worry about having someone to show me around. Yesterday, I met up with an alumni member of this programme I attended in 2004 in Tmn Tun. She is an architect living in Bandung and she told me and the rest at the dinner to give her a ring if we were ever in Bandung. I’ll be sure to take her up on that offer.
