Mini makeover

i'll finally be getting my own room! and because we just got someone to give the walls in our rooms a fresh coat of paint; i can finally buy bedsheets i like when i move into the room maybe a month later. although the rooms are very chapalang now cos everyone wants his/her own color... but whatever lah. i can't stop rest of family from painting their room walls a color they want but i dun fancy very much... and then i can visit the new IKEA at Tampines and go furniture shopping for my own room! yay! dunno what prompted my parents to embark on a tiny house makeover... but i'm not complaining. house is currently very junky. everyone's junk is everywhere. many of my college books and coats are still tucked away in my suitcases cos there's no storage space in the wardrobes etc... hope to get a bookshelf and a new wardrobe... but i suppose furniture-buying will always burn big holes in the pocket... so i will have to spread this out and live within my means. but having your own room's a good start :)

Muslims and Alcohol

I get to interact a little more with our admin assistants (there are 3 of them, of which 2 are Malay) whenever officers are roped in to help with logistical/labor-intensive stuff from time to time. and so yest while sitting at the big work table with a few other officers and our 2 very chirpy malay colleagues, we somehow managed to talk about alcohol... and for the first time i discovered that muslims are not allowed to ingest alcohol! i'm so chi dun! i suppose if i were more observant, i would have noticed... but alas this has never crossed my mind. once again felt ashamed of my ignorance. i tried to recall instances of muslims drinking alcoholic drinks, but i couldn't really remb any... found it hard to believe cos alcohol's such a 'social' drink... and so if Muslims dun drink, or try not to... how does it affect say their social dealings with clients? so they cannot 'drown their sorrows'? so i asked with a look of disbelief, (very ironically, coming from a non-alcoholic like me) so... during festive seasons there's no alcohol? to which my colleague replied, no, they just drink soft drinks... she also added that they cannot even have rum in the cake! so she cannot eat tiramisu! etc etc. maybe this is a super bad reason to be relieved, but i'm quite thankful i have no religion-imposed diet restrictions... else i cannot eat tiramisu.. cannot eat my Dublin mudslide ice-cream... okok, but that's all besides the point.