Changes

OK.. So this is something I have not done in a long, long time. Have been procrastinating for the longest time after my last entry (well, technically I ‘am’ ‘busy’ with work and everything else). *Blek!

Just realized that it has been quite a while (9 months!) since my last entry. The realization only hit me when I noticed my link in tracychefswife with a sort of update timer attached to it. 9 months! Heck, in 9 months a baby is born! For me, 9 months meant so many things have changed.

. love .

The most prominent change that took place within this 9 months is that I am suddenly in a relationship again. Yes, yesterday is the 9 month marker Kit asked me to be his girl. *happy* Kit was actually my colleague from a different department, and though all this time I know of his existence, it didn’t strike me that I will be in a relationship with him. After all, I hold true to the fact that “office guys are non-touchable”. Either they are already taken, or that the organization frowns upon office romance. Seems where I am now, the office has the perfect environment for sudden love blooms and mine is one of the many. Funny, witty, very down-to-earth and simple, can get grumpy sometimes, these are only some of the words I can use to describe him. Oh, and he’s a big teddy bear for me (though he prefers to refer himself to an Ikea pillow, super soft and comfy). :P

His ‘appearance’ in my life was unplanned, unexpected, and undeniably surprising. Heck, and I thought all the guys in the office were taken already. Looks like he’s not! XD

. going places .

The 9 months that I have been with Kit are the best 9 months of my life being in a relationship. Other than the normal dating we do (e.g. hang out at the mall and watch movies), I have found a new passion for my car (yep, you read it right), a new found love for music and also for travel. Mei likes to warn me that once I have been bitten by the travelling bug, I’ll want to go back for more. You said it girl. XD

He and his close friend have a thing for bossa music and I found it quite a curious thing that a guy such as him can take a liking for audiophiles. Strange but true. He’s just an old romantic at heart.

He ushered me to the world of car clubs, of which he introduced me to like-minded new friends who share the same model of cars and I can say I am the proud member of one. I didn’t know that K-cars is such a hit and happening thing around (or maybe I was with the wrong crowd that didn’t dig such things). There are few female members in car clubs, since I know a lot of my girlfriends do not share such a passion and the car is suppose to be the transport from point A to point B. Oh, he’s the reigning ‘big head’ of one as well since he drives a ‘monster’. :P

My first trip away with him was up to Taiping, his hometown. Mum freaked cos I was going away on a holiday with a stranger, which I find annoying but endearing since she is very concerned about what will happen to me. She was more worried of me getting ‘kidnapped and raped’ since she don’t know who Kit is. Well, we did go finally (it was a double-date sort of trip with 2 couples) so it was not a ‘honeymoon’. Got the chance to get to know him better (including his quirks) through that first trip together.

Then it was going in a convoy with his club members to Kuala Kubu Baru & Frasers Hill, a surprise romantic dinner to Lookout Point in Ampang followed by a (bigger) surprise weekend getaway to Genting Highlands in the occasion of celebrating my birthday(!), another weekend away to visit my relatives in Singapore, and finally to Malacca on a retreat to the company holiday home with 2 other couples. Phew! Exhilarating, but I know there is more to come (he has been bugging me to go to Redang or Perhentian which will be our first island getaway).

I heart him! :D

. work .

It has been 3 years since I started out in this organization, and I am starting to feel like I’ve hit a plateau in my career. They say when you start to drag your feet to work, its either cos there is no more zest in what you were passionate about or that you just found your work plain boring. The reality is that you’re going to be stuck doing this for the rest of your life if you don’t work on getting off your bum and making a difference. My manager always ask me to “look back to when I first begun and see what was that spark that kept me going back for more”. I wonder if that spark is the will to learn which I am lacking now. Everyday I am firefighting and getting what the customer wants, but I am now wondering on whether this will work that if I am happy, the customers I am caring for will be happy. Does not help that my partner is not going to be around for very long. I cannot continue caring if I am not cared for myself. :(

Guess I won’t be thinking too much about this. I know changes are going to happen, and they are going to be pretty soon. I am just hanging in there, excited that I will be on a new ‘adventure’ in my career soon enough.