The Letter C

My last post was about an item starting the letter C therefore I shall continue to write about stuff or ppl or anything that begins with the same letter.

I haven't been posting much lately as I was trying to complete all outstanding work matters with my boss (which require her signature) before she goes on her much needed vacation. Apart from that, I have been cracking my brain over a thought leadership paper which I have been assigned to write and complete before she returns. I''m fine with all the technical bits for the paper but have trouble figuring out how to write the introduction. Call it writer's block, maybe Kelana could give me a hand on this since he is such a prolific writer these days. My first few attempts was futile and saw me tossing a couple of crumpled-up papers with one-liners into the waste paper basket. I finally got my first paragraph written to my satisfaction but it took me almost 2 and a half hours to carve out what I wanted to say to grasp the readers attention. I'm still in the midst of writing out the next paragraph before I get onto the body of the paper which has all the technical stuff, charts and statistics. Hopefully, I will get this done before the Raya break.

On another note, we finally got our CAR last Monday and was zipping around town with master Jeremy hanging on for dear life *lol*. Anyway, Brain was busy with work the first 3 days last week and was rather tensed as it involves a lot of strategy, planning and swift execution - the situation reminded me of the famous "dawn raid" on the London Stock Exchange in 1981 of a certain Malaysian MNC. Even I was getting a little bit nervous for him...the waiting.... the anticipation.... the suspense was really killing me... In any case, the end result was he executed the plan succesfully and protected our "rice bowl". After that intense 3 days, he was off to Hanoi (again) for a regional meeting. While he was there I was zipping around town myself using the new car and I even got something from the Early Learning Centre at The Curve for Jeremy to fiddle with in his car seat. He is so CRAZY about CARS these days that he can utter the word 20 times in an hour. He will go Car, car, car, car at every vehicle that zoomed passed our car. I will strap him in the car seat and then clasp the above contraption to the seat. He absolutely loved it especially the steering wheel, the ignition key and the little horn in the middle. He was happily playing with this in the car when I went to collect Brain from LCCT on Saturday. Brain decided to cut the trip short as there wasn't much they could accomplish with typhoon Lekima creating havoc all around them.

But he did have an interesting story to tell me and I went like why didn't you $%#*@ get a picture for me? Brain as usual is not a celebrity hound unlike me! I will ga-ga over just about any gorgeous looking Hollywood hunk. They bumped into none other than the delicious looking COLIN FARRELL in Hanoi. This was the celebrity whose wallpaper and screensaver adorned my notebook before Jeremy made his grand entrance! I have just about watched most of his movies and my all time favourite is still The Recruit. Apparently he was on holiday there (with Typhoon Lekima lashing - dun think it turned out to be such a nice vacation after all for him) and Brain's colleagues were busy snapping photos with him (and not of him)! Bah humbug...

Anyway, I didn't know how to get to LCCT and Brain had this BRILLIANT idea that I should go and pick him up since now we have this.....

Unfortunately even it couldn't guide me to LCCT - the furthest it took me was KLIA and based on the system - LCCT doesn't exist on the planet!! And the directions on the signboards to LCCT were not exactly helpful, or accurate and confusing to say the least. Somehow, I managed to get there safely following the barrage of red taxis heading in the same direction. I must say that the airport was a hive of activity compared to KLIA.

I'll try to upload pictures of Jeremy during the Raya Break before we head off the Singapore for a short break during the following weekend where Brain has a 20th anniversary school reunion to attend with his 80 odd ex-school friends that include a certain person ( not exactly a celebrity) who acted along side Ewan McGregor in a little known movie about the Nick Leeson in before he found fame as Obi-wan. *lol*.