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Thursday: After my morning BodyBalance class, I had my instructor Lin Li show me how to do the Backbend/Upward Bow Pose. Couldn’t do it without her supporting my back and pushing my head down. And it hurt like heck. Ah, I think I’ll stick to the Bridge Pose for now.

But I have an audition for the BodyBalance training at the end of this month at Fitness First, The Curve. What are the chances of me looking like a bloody fool with a class of people who have been stretching and contorting for years, and me, blundering around with this for only a few months?

I guess this is one way to keep my life entertaining…

2.
Jess and I had dinner yesterday; hadn’t seen her in awhile. She’s plenty stressed about work, especially her new manager, the very stereotype of the unreasonable power-hungry office demon who piles on the work on ya even though you are already up to your eyeballs in shit, who is jealous of your experience and good relationships with vendors, lecturers, students, etc. Yeah, like I said, one stressed-out friend coming right up.

Makes me wonder if I ever want to return to a nine-to-five career with the inevitable office politics and back-stabbing, the hard work with few returns and even fewer signs of appreciation. But this may just very well be reading too much into perceived patterns; I fall too easily into the trap of seeing things purely as I wish to see them.

What can ya do? Some people are just complete cunts. I’m pretty sure I have been one myself plenty of times. All that matters was that she got it off her chest and we had dinner. (Just the facts, sir, just the facts.)

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Later the same night, Henny persuaded me to join her on some corporate espionage: we had to infiltrate a local shopping complex and spy on their parking and security system. I won’t go into all the details but it sure wasn’t the way I had expected to spend my evening. Let’s just say it ain’t that easy to take photos of the ticket-vending machine when you are trying your best to keep a straight face with all the shoppers staring at you, curious curious.

She had locked herself out her room earlier, and maybe there is something to say, regarding security and irony, but I wouldn’t know.

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Tomorrow night: The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra with Nisa! This is the first time I’ll be attending a performance of the MPO and I’m rather excited about it. Time for a bit of culture in my life!