the differences among us

are we all really any different?

are we who we think we are?

or are we jst trying a little bit too hard to fit in?

bumping into jeremy at boost after a very good game of tennis ytd,

made me think a lil bit more abt the differences among us.

as humans we are all looking to belong,

but it comes in different forms for each.

it amazed me how jeremy was so happy in his own little world of WAW,

n the first thing that crossed my mind was,

maybe he's jst lonely.

but as our conversations progressed,

i realised, he wasn't lonely,

he was happy.

he's found his passion in life.

he's found a place where he belonged.

unlike me,

i have yet to find the one thing that i'm willing to fight for,

the one thing im so passionate about that i will pursue it for the rest of my life,

the one thing that i can teach others about.

heck, it'll b years before i find sth im passionate abt,

i cant even commit to a hobby for more than a month!!!

well,

to each their own.

the (very dramatic, eventful) week in recap:

at work,

after having a very heated confrontation with my super,

i came bak the next day,

over a cup of coffee,

we had a very nice, surprisingly pleasant talk.

ever since,

it has never been better

and i actually look forward to work now.

i never realised hw interesting it was,

cos i was too busy hating her guts.

following the coffee talk,

she broke the news to me.

we have 13 mice!

well, that's great! the whole 2 weeks, we havent been able to do anyth cos there were no mice.

i was excited! things were looking up,

until....

mushira, here's wat u do.

press down on its neck to break its spine,

then cut its head at the neck so that we can take the brain out,

n cut a lil bit of its tail for genotyping.

so, my whole friday,

i broke, n chopped, 1 day old mice....

(al in d name of science)

speak of bad karma....

on the bright side,

a trip to rod laver on thurs was spectacular,

the game btw venus and carla "curly" navarro was to-die-for!!!

with interesting people cheering the players on,

and wonderful company,

the australian open was a true experience

filled with laughter and ooohhhsss and ahhhssss....

watched bride wars,

just to unwind from all d studying.

n ytd was cny eve,

had dinner w my dear, dear fren,

where i cooked my delicious fried rice,

n we headed out, in search of the lion dance,

cos we heard the drums when we were having dinner,

as we failed,

we continued walkin down swanston,

passing by buskers, who were soooo amazing,

i dnt think ive walked by buskers sooo good before in my 3 yrs ive been here,

somehow, we ended up at fed square,

where there were so many ppl seated in front of the wide screen,

they were showing d aus open,

n it was a match btw d aus gal n sum other,

so u can oni imagine the tension.

owh yea, there was also a really interesting, quirky, australian music band,

singing about rising interest rates, poop n environment....

go figure!

it's gettin a lil long now.

tata!