31 August, 2010

*890 - impulse buy

It's been a while since I've bought anything on impulse online--or bought anything online, or bought anything on impulse, really--when you're living penny by penny as a fresh graduate receiving a basic starting salary, you learn to count your blessings and live without the luxuries (at least, for a bit)!

We'll see how that impulse Amazon buy materializes; photos if successful :)

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It is about time I invested in a curtain of sorts. I have spent far too many days a-scrambling in my room, tearing off and throwing on clothing as quickly as I can, hoping that no one's peering into my room.

It didn't use to faze me, until the day I was sitting calmly on my bed, folding my freshly laundered undies, and looked up to see a dude in plain view from the opposite apartment sticking out of his window, smoking his cigarette, literally a couple of strides away from me. We both pretended to not notice each other for the next five minutes, but that was creepy enough.

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Sunday morning church was cosy and somewhat nostalgic of my AMK-MC days. Sunday afternoon dimsum comprised 3.5 dimsum-guzzling Asians and 3.5 wary non-Asians at the table (the half-Asian was both enthused and suspicious, I think, depending on the dish). Sunday evening was spent as pseudo-tourists (pseudo only in the sense that I live here, but I'm still very much a tourist in Boston), finding ourselves toasting in the sun on plastic reclining chairs that looked out onto the harbor, and then cooling off by running through fountains (far more timidly than the kids) and sipping ruby red sangrias by the street.



Oh, kids :)

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A vigorous, heated Power Vinyasa session followed immediately by a painful Pilates class left my muscles screeching; they asked, "You did beautifully! So, will you be returning next week, or did we scare you off?" and I assured them "I'll be back! :D" as I trembled my way out of the studio.

It did feel really good, I have to say.