Viva la Diva :)

My new bookcase, HOME for my books & scores!!

I moved in on the 10th. Unpacked in 3 days, thanks to having very determined friends (in the form of Nell, Peter & Seeming n Sim) with one track-mind: help Janet unpack.

The clothes I gave up before I moved went to about three huge garbage bags, collected/bought/given/etc to several girl friends.

The packing experience started out bad, because I was extremely slow in the work, until I commissioned a troupe of very focused ladies to assist in the enormous task. The troupe made up of Nell n Zal. They worked fast, in just a few hours they helped me pack about 80% of my old flat.

Anyway, back to the present...I lost a bit of weight during my packing & moving period, leading into CNY.

Weigh myself this morning, it was 45.2kg. I happily announced to friends today at my first Yoga class that I'm going back to normal health. This evening at round midnight I stood on the weighing machine again, 44.1kg.

I was hoping that my appetite for cooking would come soon as I set up my new home/kitchen in my new pad - wrong. However I do have a much better stocked kitchen, however tiny it is, I have bread, peanut butter, cheese, eggs, pasta, sauces, soups in cans, herbs, instant noodles, chips, CNY cookies...but since my parents left for Taiping, I managed only made one proper meal - bean & eggs soup & Marmite rice.

Other meals consist of (so far) soft boiled eggs with toasts, egg sandwiches, instant noodles...peanut butter & bread, and junk food, with lots of Ribena.

Ok, I enjoy doing laundry in the extremely (obviously too huge for me) huge washing machine and hanging them to dry. So far I ran the machine by myself twice and both times an hour after I put the clothes out in the wet kitchen to dry, the stormed came, I just laughed.

Loving the new life on Mac. It's really a new life. Nuff said.

The Streamyx seems to actually work in the new location, I actually get to surf YouTube, and can view pictures on FB, blogs...etc. And I can blog with pictures!!

My parents seemed to enjoy the pad during their stay this CNY. It's big enough for everyone to have their comfort zone - my dad lounges around the hall, unsure of what to do, then he saunters to the pool downstairs to talk to strangers then to the lift lobby to look at the security guards, my mom pretty much `lounges' whole day in kitchen and about 10% of her stay here she spent in front of the TV (the only reason why we bought a TV), 5% she spent out shopping with us, my brother spends half the time in my guest room and the other half out in the city. Me? I was staying afloat during the CNY, I don't seem to function well in my own work where there's people around, must be too used to having nobody around when I work.

There was work to do during CNY, I had a number of new songs to tackle for a wedding gig during CNY. Singing with a 10-piece band is really, really, cool. I would really die for more gigs like that one.

Going out is another cool thing here, people usually frown at an address in Jalan Ipoh - a congested & noisy place to live in. I get to most places faster than my old address, with the various highways being very accessible from here.

There are of course things that I would bitch about, about this new pad...guess I'll do that in a separate post, on a later date Soon.

On the music agenda, which is also the work agenda - there are a few on-hand exciting little projects taking place.

So life is very good. Here, at Viva :)