I was up early, hoping to do something more active than sitting around. Walking on the treadmill is NOT an option. Not when it gives me motion sickness. Eeeps. So I nurse a cup of coffee, looked out the window and sighed. The sun's gone into hiding and a drab grey marks the day.
I wanted to take the boat out today for a change of scenery from the boardrooms. The waters are not too choppy, and technically, I can still do it. But the miserable rain is a total dampener to any sort of enthusiasm that might have briefly flared. Gaaah. The weather forecast predicts rain for today till Tuesday. Goodness. Ooookaaay. Fine. Be like that!
Since it's the weekend, the work is minimal. The boss is rather pleased with some stuff I have completed, so he's going to let me off the hook till more issues come in next week. We had stayed up till 1am the other night to work on a rather fine speech. I continued on alone till 3am after that. Sleep was the last thing on my mind when the words are flowing from the fingertips.
Sydney is a pit stop on this trip. I should rest in preparation for the week ahead. I'm not too anxious to explore the city, having spent time here on vacation recently. Or rather when I'm on work trips, going out to 'play' is always looming in the horizon, but it's the last thing on my mind. I might as well stay in, turn on the laptop and catch up with everything online. And read a book that I've unconsciously picked out. How apt, in a way, a foreshadowing of history of a place and people I'm about to meet in another week. It kinda called to me among the rest sitting on the shelves. It's a beautiful leather bound classic that I've never gotten around to reading- Gabriel García Márquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'. The many characters will boggle my mind. I shall see if I can ignore that and just delve into its symbolism and magical realism.
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If you finish this one in 3 hours (and that's you reading slowly), I'm gonna declare you a non-human. Because it'll prove that you are a scanner.
That is a fantastic book - enjoy!
kikare + dawn: ladies, I finished that book in 3hrs. and that's reading slowly. HA. am happy to discuss finer points of the book. altho i confess i cannot remember all their friggin names. SO MANY DIFFERENT GENERATIONS! If this is turned into a tv series, i swear it's going to be like a taiwanese or filipino soap. or like General Hospital. In Spanish.
I am curious who would you be meeting that you are gleaning insights from this book?
and hmmm...somehow my comment in your earlier post never published. never mind.
happy you are enjoying your work trip :)
sinlady: Well, it's more of the background and history to the region i wish to understand more, nothing to do with the characters versus the people I'll meet, i believe.
comment didn't publish? Hmmm. silly blogspot.
SCANNER!! :P
You are amazing. I keep flipping back the pages to figure out the characters. -_-"
tuti: from years of practice having to do readings for tutorials.
hobomobo: i've a notebook next to me to scribble names or to google. kekekek.
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