I left work feeling rather sian and demoralised yesterday, but two little sweeties at cell group chased the blues away... I've never been very popular with kids (cos I am usually unanimated and thus not so fun to play with perhaps) but for some weird reason these two little girls (Julia is 5+ i think and Judith ard 7) endeared themselves to me the whole night, as if I had known them since forever.

It all started off when the elder sister decided to come sit on the cushion on my lap... showing off her flowery rubber band and like a tiara-thingy to me... then soon after the little one also jumped on the bandwagon and suddenly 3 of us were like the best friends. They quickly pulled out their pre-sch class photos to show me; and asked me to guess the names of their classmates. As with most class photos, names of everyone in the picture were all displayed at the bottom, but Judith got genuinely thrilled/ surprised when I managed to "guess" her friends' names; and kept asking me "how you know them!". Hai, such innocence was indeed endearing.. :) Our friendship wore off a little as the night progressed; but towards the end of the session, they decided to friend me again. Judith tried to tie my hair unsuccessfully (naturally lah, her hair was the nice smooth silky sort) and accused me of not using any conditioner on mine.

I didn't know what to make of the whole episode (esp cos the kids have seen me before several times at church - just not at their house, and have never been particularly chummy with me at all)... It really felt quite therapeutic when the little sister quietly sat in my lap when everyone sat around in a circle to sing some songs -- though my feet later became temporarily achy as they were rarely sat on when in a cross-legged position :P Cannot explain why, but somehow under such circumstances you feel like you only bear to show the 'good/happy' side of yourself to them... [OK, perhaps I will feel less so if I hang around them everyday lah]

Perhaps I am less kid-disabled/averse than I think haha.

I had to buy 3 different farewell cards today... It was slightly problematic 'cos nice 'custom-made' farewell cards are pretty hard to find... compared to say birthday cards... I was debating whether to get this slightly quirky one which read:

YOU'RE LEAVING

[You have to imagine a drawing of an orange chicken standing beside a sausage that looks like a plaster]

May the Chicken of Happiness
and the Sausage of Prosperity
FOLLOW you wherever you go

Wasn't sure how the recipient of this card wld react so I lingered around in the store for some time wondering whether to get this or not. In the end I got it - it's for a guy anyways so he prob wun get too offended or upset even if he thinks it's weird lah.

On a random note, many ppl in office seem to be raving about Kungfu Panda 2... maybe I shld really go catch both KFP1 & 2.. ;)

Last Fri was my director's last day at Hsg Div :( Though I'm not particularly close to him, he's a really sincere and nice person. And I have after all worked under him for close to 2 years... so it was somewhat awww... when J & I went to say goodbye to him before leaving office on Fri... Quite a few Hsg Div "alumni" also turned up for his farewell lunch on Tues... somewhat indicative of how long he has actually been around! My last day was finally firmed up last week too. It should have been this week; but have been asked to stay around for a little while more. But come 18 Jul, I shall resume status as HDB staff proper :)

Quite a bit of the weekend was spent doing research for upcoming trip. Also snipped off some 5 cm of some split ends/spoilt locks yesterday... and hairdresser tried to change my parting. I find changing parting a very troublesome business... perhaps cos I've stuck to mine for the longest time, so it's pretty annoying/awkward when a certain part of your hair cannot fall the way it has always been the past xxx years... Hai, I suppose as with all things, the resistance is great at first... but after you get over the initial painful few weeks, then things turn for the better! Hopefully I persevere in this change hair-parting business cos it will be for the better... Meanwhile i have also attempted to do the little poofy fringe that's somehow quite popular now... but just cannot pull it off glamly leh, so it's pretty sad :( I have this secondary fringe of stray hairs that's particularly annoying.. Alright I shall stop blabbering but bad hair is unfortunately a daily affliction for me :(