Colleague's recent interest in learning the piano has rekindled my enthusiasm for an instrument I was sorta made to learn, but never really mastered. So even though I have all the certs to show, skills are a far cry from what they ought to be! :) So today, on a nice stay-in Saturday afternoon, I decided to sit down to play... starting with The Secret piano score, which has lovely pieces. Think will take me at least a few months to play these songs well enough, but not a problem, since I have no target to meet; no exam to take. Looking back at all the piano lessons I've taken in the past, I also concluded that all I did in the past was more of "mechanistically" playing pieces to take exams. I've never really quite appreciated piano playing as an art itself... And though with long fingers that can reach more than an octave and thus some advantage in mastering the more challenging pieces; I've never been disciplined nor driven enough to practise very hard haha. But from now on, I shall aim to play for leisure from time to time... Though my technique is not quite there anymore, feel like I'm "feeling" the piano a little more so than I used to. Good thing that piano playing is a little like driving/cycling-- it's not really something you'll forget... just have to try picking it up again. else the money my parents invested in me to make me more 'cultured' would have totally gone down the drain :P

Also took a nice afternoon nap after roughing it out for 2 hrs or so at the piano. Sleeping is bliss :)

Though I've been doing quite a bit of admin/logistical stuff for this secretariat team I'm in... there are times where you get juicy bits of news first hand... which I guess is a tiny perk. Like, which ppl are nominated for what by who lah... etc etc. Then I this lowly small fry knows everything cos I collate everything haha. Ok, but then again some names remain 'just another name'... frequently names only become meaningful when you know who these ppl are; and given that i'm one barely 1.5-year-old staff out of some 4000-odd in HDB, actually quite a waste that such info was made available to me lah. hee. Digressing a bit, it's just like how a person is 'just another person' to you until you really get to know him/her well. Which totally reminds me of The Little Prince tale... how his rose was special, cos it was his rose that he watered; took care of blah blah.... Ok, back to my secretarial role-- I think it's unfortunate though that I am quite bad at multi-tasking. Having so many disruptive little things to do really makes me unable to concentrate on the real work I have to do... With my putting out fires everyday I end up accummulating more time bombs in my backyard...

I'm very sleepy and sleeping at 1am again but just feel like blogging and recording these thoughts before going to bed. Today was one of those slightly pek chek days in which I spent a good half of the day doing secretarial stuff and fretting over what those big bosses REALLY want/mean. And because diff ppl have diff interpretations of just one ambiguous note the VIP wrote, I wasted quite a bit of time doing unnecessary things. Shall always remind myself in future to CLARIFY and make sure this is what XXX wants before embarking on doing it. Though felt a bit like pulling hair out, was on the other hand very grateful to the good ppl in my unit, who were really supportive in helping me with my secretarial duties... It really makes a difference to have ppl 'fighting fires' with you ;) Think we have become seriously good at dealing with all sorts of insignificant-impact-yet-time-consuming work emergencies...

Had a busy day at work today but rewarded myself by 'playing' hard too, or rather, by indulging in treats :) Canele at Paragon has yummy Earl Grey ice-cream....! K, better turn in in view of long day tmr...